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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 542528" data-attributes="member: 52082">Series ordering is a very personal thing. What about Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Temple of Doom? Where should these be classified on the list? Should they all by under &quot;I&quot; for Indiana Jones? Or should they each be in their proper ordering? What about the Alien series? Is AVP: Alien vs. Predator an official part of that series? Should it be considered a sequel to Predator? Or should AVP and AVP2 be treated as their own series? Or what about Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty? These movies are technically related but I wouldn't call the later a sequel to the former really. And when I was looking for Evan Almighty I would definitely look for it under &quot;E&quot; which makes it difficult to group them.My point is none of these questions have a &quot;right&quot; answer. Tastes vary wildly on most of these things and many cases there just isn't a good answer to where things should be placed when trying to group by series. And this doesn't even touch on the fact that the majority of websites have little alternate title data and zero series data. Yes some exists on some websites like IMDb, but many many Moving Pictures users do not use this data source. So this means that auto grouping like this would not even work for a large percentage of users.I am not saying we will not look into this, we plan to investigate and implement movie grouping in the near future (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=229" target="_blank">currently scheduled for 1.2</a>). Automatic grouping I think will be pretty tough to do though...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 542528, member: 52082"] Series ordering is a very personal thing. What about Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Temple of Doom? Where should these be classified on the list? Should they all by under "I" for Indiana Jones? Or should they each be in their proper ordering? What about the Alien series? Is AVP: Alien vs. Predator an official part of that series? Should it be considered a sequel to Predator? Or should AVP and AVP2 be treated as their own series? Or what about Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty? These movies are technically related but I wouldn't call the later a sequel to the former really. And when I was looking for Evan Almighty I would definitely look for it under "E" which makes it difficult to group them. My point is none of these questions have a "right" answer. Tastes vary wildly on most of these things and many cases there just isn't a good answer to where things should be placed when trying to group by series. And this doesn't even touch on the fact that the majority of websites have little alternate title data and zero series data. Yes some exists on some websites like IMDb, but many many Moving Pictures users do not use this data source. So this means that auto grouping like this would not even work for a large percentage of users. I am not saying we will not look into this, we plan to investigate and implement movie grouping in the near future ([URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=229"]currently scheduled for 1.2[/URL]). [I]Automatic[/I] grouping I think will be pretty tough to do though... [/QUOTE]

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