Do you catalogue your movies?

[The Burgomaster]

I have made various attempts to organize catalogues of my movie collection.

My dream would be to have a binder with a separate page for each movie. Each page would have:

1. A color copy of the original theatrical poster for the movie (or, more likely, a color copy of the DVD cover art)

2. A short synopsis of the movie

3. Vital statistics (year of release, running time, MPAA rating, etc.)

The closest I ever came was creating an alphabetical listing of movies in Excel. I don't even have this anymore because I left it on my computer at my last job.

How do you catalogue your collection?

[Brother Ragnarok]

I wish.  My movies aren't even on a shelf, they're just in piles on the floor and in boxes, again on the floor.  I have some shelving I got from a closeout at a local video store, I just don't have a place to put it yet.

Brother R

[Scott0]

I ran out of shelving, so now they are in 20 high stacks all over the place. All my Mst3k episodes took up most of my shelf space. I keep those in order, cause I use those a lot either for dubbing or trading. Everything else is in quite a mismatch. And I would love to have a hard copy of the list of my movies. But too much work!!

Scottie

[systemcr4sh]

I've had alphebetical lists of my movie collection But I always lose them or am too lazy to update them when I make a new purchase. I'm sure there are programs that let you do all this easily, I wonder if there are some that you enter the title and it is connected to the IMDB. that would be pretty cool.

[J Perk]

I was just thiking about re doing this to my movies (vhs and dvd) this morning.  Everytime I try something pops up and I have to start over.  I once had a binder that just listed the tapes I had and everything on them (tapes were even numbered)  but then i became lazy half way through and just forgot about it.  I guess I'll have a hobby for thissummer in my spare time now

[Scabies]

Yeah-

Go to this web site and setup your list.

It's easy, free, and cool as s**t.

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/

[jmc]

All I really do is divide between stuff I frequently watch and want easy access to and stuff that I will probably only dig out once in a blue moon--I keep those in a closet or something.

[Wycked Nick]

um dude you have way to much time on your hands why do you need to catalog your movies

[Brian Ringler]

I used to use dvd profiler for my dvd's but have gotten lazy since buying and selling many discs over the last couple months.  It is a nice program though and suggest it to anyone looking to organize their dvds.

[Scabies]

Actually if you go to that website I posted above, it's very easy.

Just do the search for the movie you own and then move it "Owned"

I work on a PC on day long, so for me I have all the time in the world.

[Scabies]

this is my list:

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=scabies

[The Burgomaster]

Scabies wrote:

> this is my list:
>
> http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=scabies

Thanks! I started listing mine today. I just need to find the time to get them all in there now!

[Mr_Vindictive]

My film collection is pretty disorganized.

I have all of my special edition DVDs on a shelf together.  

I have certain directors grouped togther as well (I.E. Romero, Raimi, etc)

I also have all of my cardboard DVD cases grouped together on the same shelf.  I hate those damn cases....


I need to take a day and actually organize my collection.  Maybe someday.

[The Burgomaster]

PHYSICALLY, my movies are very well organized. I have a series of large bookcases that I bought at Wal-Mart several years ago. My DVDs are arranged on the shelves alphabetically, by title (regardless of genre, director, etc.)

My problem is that my big screen television, surround sound system, and all my DVDs are in my "party room." I have a 24 x 20 finished room in my basement with wall-to-wall carpeting, a small bar, 2 pub tables, a love seat,, a recliner, and framed pictures of THE SOPRANOS, GOODFELLAS, THE GODFATHER, FRANK SINATRA, THE RAT PACK, etc. on the walls. The bookcases are also along one wall. My problem is that I wanted to give the room "atmosphere" like a bar, so I installed red lights in the ceiling. This makes it hard to see anything. When people want to find a movie, they really need to squint to read the titles on the spines of the DVDs.

I figured that if I had a catalogue that they could look through, it would be much easier. That's why I'd like to have a color picture of either the original theatrical poster or the DVD box cover, plus a short synopsis of each movie. It would be easier than straining their eyes to read the DVD boxes. The ones on the bottom shelves ar almost impossible to read unless you kneel down or lie on the floor. I keep a flashlight handy for such occasions . . .

[Bernie]

This is as far as we've gotten in organization:

2 shelves:  MSTs

1 shelf:  "Bad" movies/animation

1 shelf:  "Good" movies

1 Shelf:  Music videos

And a box of "TV videos" -- Star Treks, Pythons, miscellaneous stuff taped off the TV

And we're overflowing every damn shelf.  It's one of the reasons I look forward to our gradual changeover to DVD -- save some damn space!