Number each movie in a series

[PennyDuck]

Adding a number next to movies in a series
(e.g. Jurassic Park [1], Lost World [2], Jurassic Park III [3], Jurassic World [4] etc)

This would be super helpful for movies that aren’t numbered (e.g. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl [1], Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest [2] etc). Even more so for longer series like James Bond or Star Trek.

While collections are great for grouping movie series together, and some movie posters have numbers (e.g. ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ ‘2’ on the poster), it’d be great to have a standardised way of numbering movies in a series.

This could be a small number overlayed on the bottom right of a poster, or next to the release year, etc. This would also allow users to pick any poster art they like while maintaining a sense of where the movie sits in the series.

This would probably need an extra line in the movie general metadata, so users can add in the number the movie is in the series.

E.g:

[FordGuy61]

You can edit the Sort Title and Collection to achieve what you propose.

For example, with Star Wars, change the Sort Title to Star Wars 1, Star Wars 2, etc. You can use Star Wars 3.1 & 3.2 to slide Solo and Rogue One into the correct place in the timeline if desired.

For many movie franchises, what is “best” or “desirable” is open to interpretation.

With Star Trek do you include the original, STNG, & Kelvin movies in the same sequence or start over for each.

With James Bond, do you include the non-Eon movies Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983)? And don’t forget the 1954 Climax! episode of Casino Royale.

With the aforementioned Star Wars, do you include Solo and Rogue One?

[tomenendal]

And it is not just which movies you select to be grouped together. There are instances (mostly with TV shows, though) where there are multiple ways to order them, e.g. by release date by chronological order, etc. Miraculous is a good example on how complex this can get.

[PennyDuck]

Yep this is what I’m currently doing.

This feature would help answer your question re Star Wars Solo etc, as you could number the mainline series, without numbering the spin-offs.

Or, you could number the spin-offs separately to the main series.

Or, you could number the spin-offs to where they fit chronologically.

[tom80H]

So… how should that work for items in multiple collections?
Let’s say I’m looking at Iron Man 3 (which is already conveniently numbered). The movie is in my Iron Man collection but also a MCU collection.

I have a feeling, this will get very confusing for users.

[PennyDuck]

Fair point.

I see this a way of numbering the movie in the series. So Iron Man 3 [3].

That way, you can have your custom order in an MCU collection while retaining a label to tell you where it originally fell in the series.

Alternatively, it could be an option to hide the numbers when viewing a collection.

[kahilzinger]

Agree, use the sort title when you edit. I am going through that right now with adding my content from my old server to my new server. Here is an example:

And then if you have remakes of the film, I have added a (year) to it.

Then, when you have remakes, don’t forget that collections blank:

[PennyDuck]

Yeah I currently use the order number, but that leaves the number of the movie hidden. This suggestion is for making the movie’s number in a series more visual. E.g: