This topic has probably been discussed before, but I haven't come across it and am just curious how everyone else does it. I have several friends who do it several different ways (and all think their way is best, of course). Some go by the studio that released it, some simply go alphabetical by movie title, but I can't stand looking at, say, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and PDL all spread apart. My method is alphabetical by director, and within that, chronologial. For instance, Kurosawa in the Ks... Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Ran, etc.
mine's close to yours: first by directors I have 2+ movies of, and the order is determined by how much I like them. Within that, it's chronological. Then after that I have random movies by country, chronological. Then there's a music section and an animation section. And I've started a comedy section simply because I ran out of room on my main shelf.
So you can see how this all leads to a lot of reorganizing.
My DVDs are organized only slightly better than my life, which is to say, somewhat haphazardly.
I have the following groupings, in no particular order:
1. Documentaries
2. Anime/fantasy/children's all together in lump in one section
3. Favorite directors (PTA, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Soderbergh, Crowe)
4. Guilty pleasures
5. Absolute favorite films of the past 15-20 years that don't fit neatly in an above category
6. A large chronological grouping of great films that didn't already go elsewhere
7. Python & related
8. TV
9. Horror
10. Miscellaneous/unsorted (too large an area for my liking)
Ugggh, I'm really not sorted well at all. Maybe it's time for a revamping.
I think the next subset I'm going to break into its own section is Westerns. Or maybe foreign films.
Alphabetical left to right. The only director who I have enough films to clump together would be PTA, so I don't mind that they're separate on the shelf. It kinda balances things out. Though it is kind of funny seeing Boogie Nights next to Blood Simple, Punch-Drunk Love next to Pulp Fiction, Magnolia next to Monsters, Inc., and Hard Eight sandwiched between Fight Club and HeartBreakers.
I have them organized by year.
I do it by director, with each film in alphabetical order. And if someone screws with that, I get pissed. Except that now all my shelf space is taken up, and I've taken to sort of cramming new DVDs in wherever I can fit them. I need a new shelf.
Also, a lot of my friends buy used DVDs at various stores that sell them in plain white rental cases. I cannot handle this -- I have to have the DVDs in their appropriate cases. This is also why I have to buy music, rather than download it -- I want the CD case and the insert and the whole package. I'm obsessive about that kinda thing.
Cinephile,
I tried that once, and just got pissed seeing films by the same director spread apart. So then I tried listing them (get this) chronologicly by the director's date of birth! I'm a fucking geek!
That turned out to be too much work (every time you by a dvd from a new director, you have to look up his fucking birthday), I decided that even I'm not that devoted.
Quote from: GhostboyI'm obsessive about that kinda thing.
Speaking of which, I'm obsessive with spending shit loads of cash on DVDs each year. Yeah, its depressing and fulfilling at the same time.
chaos :x
Quote from: Onomatopoeiabetween Fight Club and HeartBreakers.
haha you have heartbreakers. I have that movie to and people always give me flack for it. I think its pretty entertaing and it JLH most provocative performance to date. So fuck everyone else.
I really enjoyed it until it kept dragging out the ending three or four times. But Liotta is class. Especially when he's carrying Sigorney down that super-long hallway.... I was pissing myself.
i have mine by criterion, then random. But the few i have with those shitty latch cases, i have together.
alphabetical. numbers at the beginning, boxsets at the end.
love your avatar. Bill and Ted rock
Criterion by number first, then the rest are set in no particular order. I used to be really picky and keep them in order of when i bought them but i tossed out that a while back ago.
alphy
but i had my vhs collection by director (because when i got all the kubricks it pissed me off to see them all over the place). maybe i should put them by director. i dont know
I switch it up every now and again, but most of the time, there are two groups...
1) DVDs whose extra features have not yet been fully explored. In alphabetical order
2) DVDs whose extra features have been completely exhausted. In alphabetical as well.
I used to set it up with the one I saw most recently at the end and the one that it's been the longest at the front etc...
Quote from: RegularKarateI switch it up every now and again, but most of the time, there are two groups...
1) DVDs whose extra features have not yet been fully explored. In alphabetical order
1) DVDs whose extra features have been completely exhausted. In alphabetical as well.
I used to set it up with the one I saw most recently at the end and the one that it's been the longest at the front etc...
Oooh, I like that idea. I need some easier way to identify what I still have to work through.
i have 2 rows, the one in back is my semi-neglected row. the row of great movies (i don't inetenitonally buy bad ones... usually) what I mean is Clockwork Orange and Royal Tenenbaums are in front, wheras Jay and Silent Bob and Identity are in the back row.
I try to make the ones I haven't fully explored (or watched for that matter) stand out so I indeed do later on.
*By director against one wall and around the tv (titles done alphabetically)
*Criterion (alphabetically)
*Two dvd stands catagorized by drama, action, horror/suspense and comedy (alphabetically)
*One book case with box sets, classics and animation (however they fit)
mine are pretty much scattered about my room
Quote from: ewardmine are pretty much scattered about my room
:shock: How can you do that and not go insane?
it makes it look like i have more than i do, which is nice.
plus, i'm a seventeen year old slob. it'll get better.
Quote from: ewardplus, i'm a seventeen year old slob. it'll get better.
Actually, I got messier as I got older, so you might be in trouble. ... College ain't exactly the place to learn organizational and cleaning skills.
I do, however, treasure my DVDs enough to organize them. Kind of like I treasured my baseball cards as a kid.
Quote from: MacGuffin*By director against one wall and around the tv (titles done alphabetically)
*Criterion (alphabetically)
*Two dvd stands catagorized by drama, action, horror/suspense and comedy (alphabetically)
*One book case with box sets, classics and animation (however they fit)
.... :shock: damn Mac who many you got? (roughly)
i organize them alpha. then get lazy..then alpha ......repeat.....
I organize them alphabetical. The DVDs of my favourite directors' films (Peter Jackson, PTA, David Fincher) are standing of course next to each other in chronological order.
Alphabetical and grouped by director.