To boldly go where no film fans have gone before (I sincerely hope)

Two posts in a day; don't get shocked...

Even the casual observer may have noticed that Kevin and I are both somewhat in the geeky end of the spectrum. We also are both terribly indecisive, to the extent that we suffer wrenching agonies each day trying to decide what to have for dinner. Trying to settle on an occasional film to watch is almost as bad.

Short of equipping ourselves with one of those intelligent fridges that tells you when you're running out of stuff and can also suggest a dinner choice, I don't think there's a quick fix for the dinner option. However, I envisaged a partial solution to get us through the nightmare of picking a film!

The answer, of course, is a database of every film we have on DVD or on tape. We can then select films based on genre, running time and IMDB rating, with the possibility for including personal ratings and the date we last saw it (so we can exclude films we've seen in the last year, for example).

You know, at this point I think we're verging on "nerdy".

Today, with the aid of a Python wrapper for IMDb, I set about reading in film titles from my .txt file in order to query IMDb and store the results in a database.

One of the films Kevin has is a William Shatner film called "Shooting Stars", bought at Tesco for 97p. Now, far be it from me to denigrate the acting talents of Mr Shatner, or the quality of any non-Star-Trek movies he may have appeared in over the years, but the fact is that this movie uniquely broke my script.

It was the only movie with no rating...

Edit: It has since been brought to my attention that the movie cannot be found on IMDb under the title "Shooting Stars", since the official title is in fact "Shoot Or Be Shot", with a rating of 5.1. But that's not nearly as funny.