[nadelius]

(1) if I cannot play a Smart Playlist of only movies through LazyTV, are the developers of LazyTV willing to consider adding that feature? (2) if LazyTV will never support this, is there any way I could code Kodi to start every movie in a Smart Playlist at a random start point like LazyTV does?

It sounds like you want a specific addon to do what you want. That would be a great beginner project for someone.

Head over to the Addon Requests sub-forum, someone might build it for you.

I think this might be even simpler than that. I have been using smart playlists with very specific settings to generate random movie playlists. Some were based on genre (like comedy or western) others were based on Studios (like Disney). I used rules such as "not played in the last 6 months" and limited the playlist to an acceptable number of movies (from 1 to unlimited). The only development needed would be for the Kodi devs to simplify the smartplaylist menu for noobs. (That, and they need to include an option to PLAY the media in a smart playlist, not just show it.)

*note: I have an edit for the favorites list to play smartplaylists, but I have sadly lost my cheat sheet on it. It had something to do with changing a line that says to open the playlist, to tell Kodi to play the media from the list. If I figure it out again, I'll be sure to share it somehow.*

However... this does raise an issue that could be really cool for LazyTV. People like using LazyTV as a personalized TV station... kinda like PTVL but without the long wait to build channels (some of us have shamefully large libraries) ... the only thing missing to make me give up on PTVL is if LazyTV had more selective options for including movies in a LazyTV playlist.

For instance, I have a clone that I call "Bazinga" ... it's full of nerdy TV shows that I can't live without; Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, etc... if I could not only allow movies to be played, but also limit those movies to genres, studios, or even to individual selection.
(yes, I would take the time to select every individual Scifi/Fantasy movie in my collection as a candidate, If it would make the random playlist even more awesome)

This would be kind of like the manual selection in LazyTV for tv shows... but for movies.