My "Highest Rated" stars list is filled with stunt people and costumed little persons. My "Highest Rated" directors list is heavy with animators from yesteryear, most of whose works I've never seen.

With all due respect to the above persons, most of them have made these lists because I've given one or two high ratings to a specific work or two, but ~not~ to their collected ~body~ of works — leaving my list rather uninformative for my liking.

I realize you also have a "Most Watched" setting — but then I'm just left with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg — who are probably close to being ~everyone's~ "Most Watched" [and they certainly aren't my favorites].

Might the "Highest Rated" be measured in a way where the stars and directors are weighed by our interest in their ~collective~ works? For example, if you give "Fantastia" 5 stars — but it's the only film you've seen from that creator's exhaustive list of films — he won't appear as your "Highest Rated" director?

I certainly prefer P.T. Anderson to Ben Sharpsteen[?], and I certainly prefer Ryan Gosling to June Christopher[?], but these lists give no reflection to that.

A year plus later, I'm just discovering that you added "Related Films," i.e. Collections. Thanks for that! (FYI: I think I've missed seeing them because I rarely scroll down below the recent/popular reviews. Might be worth moving that one row of Related Films above the Reviews. Food for thought.)

Now that we have Collections, I'd love to browse them. At minimum, I'd like the ability to browse all Collections you're tracking. Ideally, I'd love the ability to sort descending that Collections browsing page by average rating of the films comprising said collections. So if the 8 harry potter movies have an average rating 3.8, show me that number and have that collection appear higher on the list than the Mission Impossible collection, which has a 3.2 avg for its 6 films.

Lastly, am I correct that you're pulling Collection data from TheMovieDB? Does this mean that you're not maintaining your own info? I've noticed a few questionable gaps, e.g. Rogue One is not related to any films. You would think "A Star Wars Story" would be related to Star Wars, no? Same goes for Marvel movies like Doctor Strange. It's not related to anything. Seems like it should be related to other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I guess the issue there is a film potentially belonging to multiple collection. Winter Soldier would then have to belong to the Captain America collection as well as the MCU collection. Fun challenges to work through though. (Can you tell I'm a software developer?)

Bottom line: thanks for adding Collections! :)

I think it would be fun to see some stats on the list pages (in addition to the percentage watched). In particular, it would be really cool to see either a ratings spread for how I've rated the movies I've watched on a given list, and/or an average rating. That way, I could compare, for example, how much I agree with the Sight and Sound list vs. the AFI list, or how much I liked movies in 2010 vs. 2012. Director/Actor stats like the ones on the stats pages could also be fun, as well as info about repeat watches, most popular, highest rated, etc.

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 date the rating date or give the option to remove a timestamp on the ratings? it is very bothersome.

At the bottom of every film page is a feature called 'popular lists', which shows us user-created lists that include the film in question. Nice idea, but it's boring. The problems is that so many users have created mega-lists of hundreds or thousands of films, which means that every list in 'popular lists' is called something like "The 5000 best films ever made", or "Every film that ever got nominated for an Oscar in any category" or "Every film beginning with 'B'".

This is boring because the films in these lists are not closely related to the actual film on the page - they're too broad. So you don't learn anything interesting. What the 'popular lists' feature should do is connect you to lists of films that are similar in some way, so that you can learn about other films that you might like to see. For example, if you are on the "O Brother Where art Thou" page, it would be more interesting if the lists were more specific things like 'Films about bluegrass music', 'Films about prison breaks', or 'Films based on The Odyssey'. This would make browsing the site much more interesting.

One way to do this would be to restrict the lists that can appear as 'popular lists' to those with only a small number of films in them, e.g. 50. This will block out the ridiculous mega-lists and only include the more specific ones. Which would be much less boring.