How do you sort your movies?

TV - Separate, Alpha by title.
Movies - Alpha by title, but series grouped together. Hobbit and LOTR are all in one group, for instance, under H. LOTR comes after Hobbit just like OT comes after PT.
Format - Mixed. Used to separate Blu at first but have so many of each now there’s not much point.
Criterion - I think I have one (Rushmore?) so not an issue.

Interesting thread idea, even if you didn’t ask first. 😉

JEDIT: You didn’t ask about fanedits. For replacements (like Matrix sequels) my favorite versions replace the original in the original case on the shelf. The original discs go in storage in a spindle. Other fanedits (like additional Matrix sequels that aren’t my favorite, or njvc’s Pulp Empire that can’t replace the original) go in a spindle but in an easily accessible location that isn’t the main movie/tv shelving.

Used to do alphabetical by title (with series grouped together). When I started getting blu-rays they were separate and organized pretty loosely, mostly by director.

I just moved so most of my movies are either in storage and/or at my parents, so I only have about two shelves worth right now. I’ve just been doing straight up chronological, blu-rays and DVDs together. I kinda like it.

They’re all mixed together madly. Some by label, some by studio, some by genre, some by director, then chronologically, and others by loosely being related to one another (Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and Alien/Aliens being a part of the “80s Sci-fi franchises” section).

Physical:

DVDs, Blu-Rays, and the two UHD Blu-Rays I have are all mixed together. Video games are separate, and those are further separated by console (PS3 vs PS4 - if the PS4 was backwards compatible I’d mix them the way my movies are).

Alphabetical by title, including TV shows. Series are grouped together, alphabetized based on the “series title” (that is, the Bond movies are under “J” for “James Bond,” the Hobbit and LOTR movies are under “M” for “Middle-Earth,” and then you have your “standard” ones like the Bourne movies under “B”).

Digital:

I rip all my movies and put them on KDLinks HD720 media player (with a 6TB HDD inside). Movies and TV shows are in separate folders.

Movies in a series are labeled like this:

Marvel (01) (Iron Man)

Or:

Star Wars (04) (A New Hope)

That way the series all stay together. Remakes have the year in parentheses, and anything that isn’t the original theatrical cut has that in parentheses as well - so, “Blade Runner” is now “Blade Runner (01) (Blade Runner) (Final Cut)”.

TV shows are broken down into season folders within the series folder, with the year of each season being in front. Movies that are part of a TV show’s continuity are in the show’s folder within its own folder. So X-Files, for instance, goes:

1997-98 - Season 5
1998 - Fight the Future
1998-99 - Season 6

And so on.

I use numbers instead of years for the season folders if necessary (like my Clone Wars folder, which is in chronological order rather than broadcast order).

I think that’s about it…

Randomly.

In piles. Sometimes with leftover food on/ between them.

Some stacked on the player, some stacked on top of the neat row on the shelf.

Some in the corner gathering dust.

Most of them are in cases. And most of those are in the correct cases.

Sometimes I write short limericks on post-it notes and put those in the cases instead of the disc. Mostly as a joke to the people who borrow my movies. They love it.

Oh, and I keep tv series separate of course, I am a bit of a neat freak after all.

^I think the thread can safely be closed, nothing will top that.

Yeah but dahmaged said it so does it really count?

Possessed said:

Yeah but dahmaged said it so does it really count?

Oh yeah I didn’t even notice that.

Thread can remain open.

Alphabetical by title, generally. Titles beginning with numbers are before “A”. Series are together and in order. So, all of the Bond films are next to each other in release order instead of all over the place and The Road Warrior is next to Mad Max instead of under “R”. When the name of the series is different from the name of the first film, I put it under the series name, so the LOTR films are under “L”, not “F”, and the aforementioned Bond films are under “J” for James Bond and not “D” for Dr. No. For Star Wars, I’ve got official releases first, so it’s the GOUT DVDs, then the PT blu-rays, then the OT blu-rays, then the Despecialized blu-rays, then the Holiday Special. For Star Trek, I’ve got the TOS movie blu-ray set, then the Wrath of Khan remasterd blu-ray, then the 2009 Abrams film. I’ve got all of my Criterion discs on their own shelf organized by spine number.

suspiciouscoffee said:

joefavs said:

I’ve got all of my Criterion discs on their own shelf organized by spine number.

How many Criterion titles do you have? I have 7 (well, 9 because one’s a trilogy set), which I didn’t feel was enough to justify segregating them from the rest of my movies.

I’ve got 22. I only decided to put them on their own shelf about a month ago when the six I ordered from that Barnes & Noble sale arrived.

joefavs said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

joefavs said:

I’ve got all of my Criterion discs on their own shelf organized by spine number.

How many Criterion titles do you have? I have 7 (well, 9 because one’s a trilogy set), which I didn’t feel was enough to justify segregating them from the rest of my movies.

I’ve got 22. I only decided to put them on their own shelf about a month ago when the six I ordered from that Barnes & Noble sale arrived.

Damn I’m slacking with 5 (or 6 if you count The Rock). There’s a lot that I want to get though.