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Don't allow users to rate/add to "watched" movies that haven't even come out yet.
Movies like the 2017 Star Wars one. No one on Letterboxd has seen it, it's not even finished, they are filming it now and it's just annoying with people marking it as "watched" and giving out high grades to it.
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Search your watched films
The Watched Films page doesn't have a search box...and I wish it did. It would make it awesome.
I want to be able to go to my watched films page and type in, "genre:horror" and see a list of all the horror films I've seen, so I can actually answer the question, "what's the best horror movie you've ever seen?"
I want to be able to type in, "of the dead" and see all the films I've seen that have "of the dead" in their title.
I want to be able to type in "year:1959" to find out what movies…
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Default rating = most recent date logged
I'm slowly adding 20 years' worth of film logs, working backward from the present. This makes the most sense for various reasons (in that it's gonna take me close to a year to finish at my pace of a month per day), but it causes a rating problem.
Example: I saw MARGARET a third time and my rating went up from 4 to 4.5. That got logged first. Working back to last September when I saw it the other two times, I accurately logged those ratings as 4. But right now your default rating seems to be whatever the most…
18 votesWe love your dedication! (If you have these in a spreadsheet we could try importing them for you.)
I suspect you’re right in terms of which doary entry rating hould be considered the most recent one. We’ll look into it.
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Reorder films logged on the same day
On the same day, I might watch film x and then film y, in that order. However, if I log film y first, the order in my diary will have them as y and then x, even though I watched x first. I think it would be a convenient feature to be able to reorganise the order of films logged under a given date in the diary view.
For example, I have found evidence that I watched a film on a day in 2015 that I forgot to log at the time. There was another film I logged on that…
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Sort list of people by...(# of films watched, # of reviews, name, region, etc)
On the "People" page, just make it so we can sort the overall list of people by the # of films they've watched or reviewed, maybe the region of the world they are in (once that is more integrated into the site), etc. When I go to the people page I keep seeing the same set of "popular" users and it kind of becomes a feedback loop that prevents me from finding other users to follow except randomly through reviews/comments.
(The best way to sort people by would be a "% compatibility" option, if that is ever built on the…
17 votesGreat ideas, should be easy to add (aside from compatibility which is likely to be slightly more complex :).
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Link to Wikipedia article of the film
How about adding a link to the Wikipedia article of a film, perhaps next to the iTunes and Amazon links on the left?
It happens so often that you want to read additional info, more than is available on IMDb or TMDb, and most of the people head to Wikipedia for this, I think. So providing a link would come in handy there.16 votesThe best we could offer is probably a search based on film name/year, but this would be pretty accurate for most films.
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Click your username at the top of the page to take you to your profile.
I realise that the link to my profile appears when I hover, but it is an extra step…
16 votesThis was the original way it was built but with the slight delay when opening the menu, it seemed more confusing to support this. We’ll re-evaluate.
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Advanced search
Long-time Filmtipset.se user, now migrated to Letterboxd. What I miss more than anything else is an advanced search option. I use this very frequently to set up different lists. For example, thrillers produced in France between 1960 and 1964, documentaries produced in Sweden between 1930 and 1945 or short films produced in the US between 2000 and 2015. You get my point.
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Most watched movies in a year
When you guys are compiling the 2014 Year in Review you should have a most watched films in a year section for the member who watched the most movies this year.
14 votesMight do. This often turns out to be joke/comedy accounts and suchlike, but maybe we can find out a way to make it legit.
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UK Release Dates
Is there any way to introduce a feature where you choose what country you're based in and the system then displays release date info for THAT country rather than automatically using the US or earliest date?
So I'd choose my country as U.K and then the release date for, say, 'Inside Llewyn Davis' would appear as 2014, not 2013.
This would be a massive help as the best alternative I've found to personalising release dates is starting a private list and tagging every single film individually with its UK release date.
13 votesThis is not an immediate priority for a couple of reasons: a) the TMDb data for non US-territories is fairly patchy, meaning a lot of films would effectively have no release date if we allowed switching to, for example, UK dates and b) this would affect the cacheability of parts of the site in a way that complicates our model.
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Enter Date Manually in Field
Rather than having to use the date picker, would it be possible to type the date in the field?
13 votesGood suggestion. It’s funny, for a long time that field only accepted type input, but the date picker has removed that ability. We’ll take a look at this. (Note, you can click the month/year button to quickly find other months/years.)
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Collapse similar activities
A heavy percentage of my Activity tab space is used up by people who go on review-liking binges or watchlisting binges. If, say, all the movies one person watchlisted that day were collapsed into a simple "Lucy added 18 movies to her watchlist. Expand", the tab would be easier to browse and I'd feel encouraged to add more friends, as I could genuinely keep up with their film habits.
The diary and discovery features of Letterboxd are appreciated, but ultimately it's a social network and if I can't socialize properly then I won't be making much use of it.
13 votesWe’re considering possible approaches to this.
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fix rank by average rating to put films with no rating last and add a minimum number of ratings option.
For example, when you go to http://letterboxd.com/films/decade/1980s/genre/horror/by/rating/, you'll notice that after a few pages, there are films with no views or ratings that are still showing up before some movies with thousands of views. It would also be nice if, when sorting by rating, there was an option to filter out films with below a certain number of ratings or views so that movies with only a couple of high ratings aren't showing up so high.
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Sort (Film) By Date Viewed
I know that doesn't completely work as some don't enter dates - but for those of us who are adding films "from the past" - the "date added" isn't very relevant.
I'd rather have the option to sort by "Date Watched" to be primary sort and then any without dates to be at bottom (sorted secondarily by date added). Just a thought.
12 votesYou can sort your Diary view by this order. Under consideration to add elsewhere.
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Option to Sort by Number of Fans
Sort by Number of Fans, movies with a lot of fans are usually good and worthy of watching. Fans = number of people who put it in their favourite.
12 votesGood suggestion, cheers.
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Favourite films as rated by my friends
- Favourite films as rated by my friends / all members
- Dropdown menu: Sorted by Year, Decade, all TimeLater you can include to search/sort by Genre, Country etc...
Rateyourmusic.com got this feature and i think its pretty cool and helpfull.
In your 2012 Review Page you already posted the highest (and lowest) rated Films of the Year, so i hope you also like this idea as a full feature.11 votesWe do have a popularity view with friends: http://letterboxd.com/films/popular/with/friends/ — this is sorted by the amount of activity on films rather than average rating, which we’re considering adding.
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voting on lists
Allow lists to double as polls, where if you set it so, users can vote for the order on lists.
11 votesNice idea :)
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Fix the Time-Stamping of Rating Date
Sometimes I go to see a film in the theater that goes beyond midnight or I watch a film at home that goes beyond midnight. Then, when I write up my review I am able to back date the review date to the day during which I began the film. Thats cool.
However, when you rate the film it will time-stamp it as the day during which you completed it and not allow you to back date it. then, your review date and rating date do not match.
can you please fix this? can you find a way to back…
11 votesThanks for these examples. Where specifically do you then check for/see the out-of-sync dates?
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Stop people reviewing and liking films that haven't been released yet
Seeing this a lot of these at the moment. People using an upcoming film's page to review its trailer or to say something like "THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME EEEEEEEEEEK!" or some such thing.
9 votesThis is tricky: there are legitimate ways in which you can see a film prior to its release date (previews, test screenings, festivals, etc). We have considered adding an arbitrary window prior to a film’s release date in which you can record a watch of the film, but we need to be careful as this can encourage users to alter release dates on TMDb in order to circumvent such a measure.
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Create a search engine that can find common movies between multiple actors or crew
I want to type in multiple actors and see what films they have been in together. Or see how many times a director collaborated with the same actor.
9 votesWe’d love to offer an advanced search of this type at some point, yes!
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