Movie Genie
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0
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When you open Movie Genie, the app immediately opens the search screen - this is the kind of thing that I applaud developers for, it's the simple things that help with speed that makes the great apps great. So right on opening the app you type in the movie your searching for, pick it from the list of search results, and start checking out the interface to IMDB. Instead of everything being in one long list, Movie Genie separates the movie details into "Details" and "Cast & Crew". The "Details" section contains the usual quick stuff: release date, genre, plot, etc. Also certain things are able to be clicked, like Trivia and Goofs, so that you can go to a longer page for each of these features. "Cast & Crew" is obviously where you would find the director, screenwriter, other people important to the film, and the cast.
Other than search, at the bottom are two other features that I think are great ideas: history and favorites. Each movie and actor has a star next the the IMDB logo on their pages. If you click these they add them to your favorites list (they add to the list REALLY fast). That way if there is a certain movie or actor that you're constantly looking up, you have them on a list for easy access (thinking about speed again, applause). The history feature is self-explanatory, you can check out pages previously viewed - most recent on top.
Problems, Wishes, and Misses
Problems. Not a single bug or problem was found when I used this app.
Wishes. A lot of my wishes are promised in upcoming updates, see the list below. My favorites include trailers for the movies and landscape use. Here's a small feature suggestion: save favorites to the iPhone so that they load even faster, I'm sure the amount of space this would take wouldn't be much.
Misses. Everything in the app was fairly useful, nothing was without a point.
If you check out the app on iTunes, you can see that the developer is promising quite a few cool features in the update: display photos related to a title or person, better TV series support, trailers, full awards list, user reviews (Rotten Tomatoes, etc), and landscape use.
If you use IMDB a lot then this app is well worth $1.99. I'm going to start using it even when I'm already browsing the internet on my computer, the app is faster than going to the IMDB website.