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Trivia should be movie connections?
Over the last few years, a ton a trivia items should probably be listed under Movie Connections, or are so trivial as to not warrant posting. On every movie staring a handful of name actors, we get several separate items of the pattern, "actor X and actor Y have both acted in Z genre."
Usually, though not always, the genre is "comic book" movies. Half of all the movies made in the last decade are based on comic books, we don't need to list every time a member of the cast has done one prior. We also get a ton of "actor X and actor Y previously worked together in Z movie." While it is trivia, it seems a bit too trivial. We might as well list when actors have been in color films.
Can we either condense these many items into one piece on the trivia page, or move them to the movie connections page?
Usually, though not always, the genre is "comic book" movies. Half of all the movies made in the last decade are based on comic books, we don't need to list every time a member of the cast has done one prior. We also get a ton of "actor X and actor Y previously worked together in Z movie." While it is trivia, it seems a bit too trivial. We might as well list when actors have been in color films.
Can we either condense these many items into one piece on the trivia page, or move them to the movie connections page?
MykolaYeriomin
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Well, if enough people find these trivia items useful there's no reason to delete them, also some could use better formatting and condensing such into a single trivia piece seems like a really good idea. Also, sometimes I find trivia about actors who had numerous roles in comic book adaptations quite interesting as with actors like Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans it is already easy to forget as both has more then 10 comic book adaptations from drastically different source material.
As for movie connections: the fact that two actors were in some other movie together is not a proper movie connection.
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For instance: tt6128300 is a reboot of tt0081856. So, the references are not only in the episode titles referring to quotes (not only one, but three times "Nothing but Trouble" was said in the original series:
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Who is in charge to decide which episode the quote was taken from? Probably the producer of the reboot. But: Once there is one reference in IMDb the others will be just ignored.
How to tell trivia from reference? For instance: nm0273623 clipping the hair of nm2566697 in tt0567413 refers to the tt0567568 / tt0567413 continuity goof when nm2566697 suddenly wears fringes.
Tried to contribute both: trivia (first, of course), then connection. Both were ignored ages ago.
Tried all: How to create a link to an actor, a film, or an epsode like above? Since the forum was deleted, there is no "preview" option in IMDb to see whether or how markers work out.
I can make letters bold and italic, can underline
and/orslash them. It's OK. Who needs colours?Who needs links?I need to know how to handle IMDb data in text. Watch above.
Why ain't THAT in the FAQs, and if, why THAT HIDDEN? Better: WHY ain't LINKING to a character, person or movie/episode an option while contributing to IMDb? Nowadays, it's a hindrance to know a connection, because there's no way to use the connection.
All updates have the green background.
Shouldn't it rather read "Our data-editors aren't quite ready for your updates." Because, of course, after what's left after some miserable data-routine, some underpayed clerks don't care about nerd trivia. They don't even read it. It's "beyond their control". Who's first to name the movie is first to be data-editor.
I might marry him.
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