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Do you arrange movie titles starting with an "A" as A?

posted 5 years ago by actionkamen (23176)
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Or omitted the "a" and arrange according to the first letter of the second word?

I always put "the" at the end so that my movie collections sorted by the second word instead (e.g., LEGO Movie, The) would be in L and not T, but keep A in front (e.g., A Separation) so that it would still be in A and not S.

Wikipedia uses BOTH (so everything duplicates) in their list of films.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films:_A

What do you prefer?

[–] lud (5930) 5 years ago

It's better with an A.
For example, A Clockwork Orange certainly sound better than Clockwork Orange.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

I think so too. While "Last King of Scotland, The" is okay "Clockwork Orange, A" looks awkward.

[–] IrinaOma (648) 5 years ago

I arrange by genre only

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

But genre is fuzzy. How to arrange genre defiying movies? Like the recent Korean film Parasite for example... is it comedy? Or thriller? Or anything else?

[–] IrinaOma (648) 5 years ago

I didn't buy the recent Korean film Parasite, so....

Every film has its MAIN genre and then come a few sub-genres

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

That was just an example.

[–] IrinaOma (648) 5 years ago

That's OK. I've never had any problems or confusion with my personal arrangement by genres.