The Movie Database Support

Hi, I'm new here so thanks for having me.
There are a couple of things that I'm not a huge fan of so far... Might just be that I need an adjustment period after moving over from IMDb, but thought I'd post them as it would be great to see some of these improved.

  1. When viewing Movies in many of the locations on the site, such as my 'Rated' Movies or the 'Top Rated' Movies, I'm not able to easily see the rating that I've given the Movie.
    I would prefer to be able to see my rating next to the overall rating of the Movie.
    The only way I seem to be able to view my rating is by selecting the Movie to view the dedicated page for that particular Movie. Even on the dedicated page, I'm required to expand the 'star' field to view my rating; it would be nice to see this next to the 'User Score' as well.

  2. Lists seem difficult (maybe impossible?) to filter.
    Viewing a list such as the 'Top Rated' Movies, I would like to be able to apply some basic filters, such as excluding Movies under a certain number of total votes (user ratings) or view entries from the year 2000 onwards.
    The reason I find this noticeable on this site, where I did not on IMDb is the fact that a Movie like 'Your Name (2016)' is top of the 'Top Rated' Movies list, most likely because it has a relatively low number of total votes.

  3. The format of dates is inconsistent across the site.
    This one seems minor, but is a pain!
    Despite my country being 'United Kingdom', I see dates in the following forms:
    02/24/2017 - For the release of 'Logan (2017)' when viewed on the 'Upcoming' Movies page
    2016-12-14 - For the release of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)' when viewed on my Movie 'Ratings' page
    December 16, 2016 - (Rogue One again) On the dedicated Movie page under the 'Movie Data' section. None of these dates are correct for my selected region, but what is awkward is the lack of consistency in different places on the site.

  4. There doesn't appear to be a direct way to access your 'Rated' Movies or your 'Watchlists'.
    It would be nice to have direct access from the header to these lists.

  5. There is some (relatively) key information missing from the dedicated Movie pages.
    I can see from the 'edit' screens that information like the production studio is present and correct. However this doesn't seem to be visible anywhere on the main page, not even under the 'Movie Data' section.
    For example, 'Moana (2016)' does not mention 'Disney' anywhere on the dedicated page from what I can see... if you ignore the fact that you can see Disney in the URL for the Movie's 'Homepage', but of course this isn't selectable anyway.

  6. TV Shows appearing in Movie lists!
    For example, 'Band of Brothers (2001)' appears of the first page of the 'Top Rated' Movies list.
    Not sure what else to say here, but TV shows shouldn't be coming up in movie lists; these should be totally separate.

Thanks for listening to me rant. I look forward to making use of the site.

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Thanks for the feedback. Since most of it is design and/or usability issues that only Travis can answer, I'll leave that to him.

I can give an answer for the final issue though.

TV Shows appearing in Movie lists!

We have had all mini-series content allowed in the movie section as one of our notable exceptions for TV-content within the movie section. That exception is going to end later this year. An August date has been set so third party sites can have time to prepare how to handle the situation. So you have to be patient about this for six more months.

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