LoginBug: Movies in tv section
Ipanema
18 years, 1 month ago at Apr 8 5:22 - 
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tartan_skirt
18 years, 1 month ago at Apr 8 11:19 - Alas! That is where they shall stay. IMDB recently changed their made-for-TV movies to TV, so thats where they now reside here too.
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Tom
18 years, 1 month ago at Apr 8 17:45 - They are (TV) in imdb this makes sense for a lot of things like this documentary :
www.imdb.com/title/tt0460806/
but for other things which are full length movies but made for tv it is debatable but there is no way to distinguish between these types.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0460806/
but for other things which are full length movies but made for tv it is debatable but there is no way to distinguish between these types.
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Prelude
18 years ago at Apr 9 12:28 - www.listal.com/viewproduct/movies/12168
so why is Band of Brothers, clearly a mini-series and NOT a movie, listed under 'Movies' on here?
i know it can get confusing as heck trying to sort thru it all, but I am a little annoyed a lot of movies I had in my Movies section mysteriously jumped over to TV, along with all their tags, and its a pain to know where they are now. and IMDB is the source of this confusion, so the more listal distances itself from using their database, the better off we will be.
take this for example:
Stephen King's IT : www.listal.com/viewproduct/tv/12175
considered by IMDB as 'TV', therefore TV section on here
Stephen King's THE STAND : www.listal.com/viewproduct/movies/4260
considered by IMDB as 'Mini', therefor Movie section on here
I dont know the reasoning behind IMDB's labeling, but both of these are the exact same things: 4 part mini-series originally made-for-TV, but the way most of us have seen these is by DVD rent or purchase.
I propose two ideas to clean up this mess, which will keep going on because IMDB will keep changing their classification all the time, messing up our collections on here:
1. make certain ambiguous things, such as made-for-tv movies, mini-series, documentaries, or direct-to-video features, available in either MOVIES or TV sections, and let listal members choose which category they want them in.
2. make a new category for all the oddities, such as made-for-tv, direct-to-video,documentaries,tv specials (i.e. Rudolph RedNosed Reindeer), mini-series, shorts, DVD specials, etc. then, keep 'MOVIES' ONLY for full-length theatrically-released main features, and keep 'TV' ONLY for true TV series. And also change 'DVD' section, which is right now a bit odd since you can ONLY add movie dvds, allow them to add TV series DVDs, mini-series DVDs, etc.
I think 2 would be a good idea, since you clean up and split up all the areas, removing shorts and DVD specials such as Academy Awards from the 'Movies' section, removing all those mini-series and made-for-tv movies from TV section, but if someone wants a full catalog with ALL their DVDs, ranging from movie, tv series, mini-series, they can use the DVD section to lump them all in. But i'd settle for option 1 as well, to allow us to pick and choose where we want each item displayed.
so why is Band of Brothers, clearly a mini-series and NOT a movie, listed under 'Movies' on here?
i know it can get confusing as heck trying to sort thru it all, but I am a little annoyed a lot of movies I had in my Movies section mysteriously jumped over to TV, along with all their tags, and its a pain to know where they are now. and IMDB is the source of this confusion, so the more listal distances itself from using their database, the better off we will be.
take this for example:
Stephen King's IT : www.listal.com/viewproduct/tv/12175
considered by IMDB as 'TV', therefore TV section on here
Stephen King's THE STAND : www.listal.com/viewproduct/movies/4260
considered by IMDB as 'Mini', therefor Movie section on here
I dont know the reasoning behind IMDB's labeling, but both of these are the exact same things: 4 part mini-series originally made-for-TV, but the way most of us have seen these is by DVD rent or purchase.
I propose two ideas to clean up this mess, which will keep going on because IMDB will keep changing their classification all the time, messing up our collections on here:
1. make certain ambiguous things, such as made-for-tv movies, mini-series, documentaries, or direct-to-video features, available in either MOVIES or TV sections, and let listal members choose which category they want them in.
2. make a new category for all the oddities, such as made-for-tv, direct-to-video,documentaries,tv specials (i.e. Rudolph RedNosed Reindeer), mini-series, shorts, DVD specials, etc. then, keep 'MOVIES' ONLY for full-length theatrically-released main features, and keep 'TV' ONLY for true TV series. And also change 'DVD' section, which is right now a bit odd since you can ONLY add movie dvds, allow them to add TV series DVDs, mini-series DVDs, etc.
I think 2 would be a good idea, since you clean up and split up all the areas, removing shorts and DVD specials such as Academy Awards from the 'Movies' section, removing all those mini-series and made-for-tv movies from TV section, but if someone wants a full catalog with ALL their DVDs, ranging from movie, tv series, mini-series, they can use the DVD section to lump them all in. But i'd settle for option 1 as well, to allow us to pick and choose where we want each item displayed.