- March 10, 2006
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I'm interested to find out what the preference is amongst MovingPictures users on title naming when it comes to a movie series.
Use original imdb.com titles, such as for example Alien:
Alter title to make the group link more obvious with Roman numerals:
Or with decimal numbers:
PS: The Roman numerals should still use decimals in the sortby field, because otherwise you run into sort problems with 9 = IX, getting sorted before 5 = V.
The above example is actually a bad one, because each title already bears some reference to the original 'Alien' movie, and it would only be hard to find them if you have a lot of movies that also have the word 'Alien' in their title. However there are plenty of series, James Bond for example, where there is normally not a common grouping in the official title (AKA is a different story).
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Use original imdb.com titles, such as for example Alien:
- Alien (1979)
- Alien³ (1992)
- Alien: Resurrection (1997)
- Aliens (1986)
Alter title to make the group link more obvious with Roman numerals:
- Alien I: Alien (1979)
- Alien II: Aliens (1986)
- Alien III: Alien³ (1992)
- Alien IV: Resurrection (1997)
Or with decimal numbers:
- Alien 1: Alien (1979)
- Alien 2: Aliens (1986)
- Alien 3: Alien³ (1992)
- Alien 4: Resurrection (1997)
PS: The Roman numerals should still use decimals in the sortby field, because otherwise you run into sort problems with 9 = IX, getting sorted before 5 = V.
The above example is actually a bad one, because each title already bears some reference to the original 'Alien' movie, and it would only be hard to find them if you have a lot of movies that also have the word 'Alien' in their title. However there are plenty of series, James Bond for example, where there is normally not a common grouping in the official title (AKA is a different story).
Thank you for participating.