This is an excellent site to come to if you'd like to see what movies are playing but you don't want your movie-going experience to be tainted by reading critic reviews. When I check out movies to watch, I almost always read the critic reviews. Some movies are awesome even if the critics don't agree. If I read a bad review, it'll spoil the experience for me. This site makes me long for the days when I was a kid and would choose which movies I saw based on how excited I got after watching a movie review. I suggest emphasizing this great trait: No reviews, no spoilers, pure theater experience.
Site looks clean. But I'm not sure about the random aspect of the trailers. For one, it doesn't tell me which trailer is playing so I have to wait until I see enough of the trailer to determine if I've seen it (or the whole movie) before I can skip it. Other than that, nice work.
Our thinking was to emulate the experience of watching previews in the theaters. You don't know anything about the movie, making it more intriguing. That's why we chose not to fade in the title until the last 15 seconds of the trailer.
I can respect that thinking. But one of the beauties of the Internet is having more control over consumption than in real world situations. I've sat in a theater many times wishing I had a "skip" button. Not because I hate trailers... I like them. But I only need to see most of them one time. :)
It looks good. It feels like a home theater. Great job emulating the theater experience.
I agree. I'd like to see a title. There ought to be a way for users to know if they know about the movie already. Or if they've gone through the queue and want to go back to re-watch a specific trailer, there should be some sort of identifying marker to come back to.
We built MovieDip over the last few days as a way to easily watch movie trailers. We have a lot of ideas of what we'd like to continue to build, but wanted to ship it quick and get some feedback.