Books2Movies Club discussion

Which websites do you use when looking for movies?

Here in the club it's preferable to link the movies to Internet Movie Database , because it is well laid-out for users (I think) and has so much information about movies, casts and crews. Message boards are also interesting, although I tend not to participate in them. However, trailers tend to freeze, at least on my computer they do (YouTube is much much better for them), and user reviews are not so visible.

The other sites I use are: FilmCrave and SeenTh.at - but the former is more for personal use and does not offer much data about movies and people, while the latter is still in beta phase, and I am not sure how it will look like in the end.

Do you prefer some other movie databases? What do you think of those mentioned above? Feel free to share your suggestions and opinions here :)

I love the IDBM.com ( the internet movie database) I review all of my trailers from there but.. the trailers do tend to freeze up... nonetheless.... t's very comprehensive...

other databases are not so comprehensive....

Yes, that's why I like it so much. There is so much interesting information to be found there, and easily accessible.

Been using IMDB.com for years since at least highschool for anything and everything lol

I use:


Wikipedia really ;)
IMDB
Rotten Tomatoes

I love IMDB.

But I'm loving SeenTh.at as a version of "Goodreads for movies"! (So I can log the ones I've seen, review them, rate them, and list them.)

@Zeljka - I found you on SeenTh.at! (Ooh; that sounds stalker-ish, sorry.)

Hope you don't mind if I'm following you. I'm 'jkmfilms'.

I use wikipedia ocassionally, if I'm wanting more information on a series or something. But for film my bible is IMDB. I go to it all the time when an actor in a show or film looks familiar and I want to know what else I've seen them in, etc.

Jim wrote: "@Zeljka - I found you on SeenTh.at! (Ooh; ..."

Haha - I knew I should have been more imaginative with the username ;)

Yes, I like these sections for personal use, however I miss many data from IMDB, so do not go there so often. I guess I'll need more time to get used to it :)

Zeljka wrote: "Jim wrote: "@Zeljka - I found you on SeenTh.at! (Ooh; ..."

Haha - I knew I should have been more imaginative with the username ;)

Yes, I like these sections for personal use, however I miss many..."

SeenTh.at has a long way to go as a database (it uses The Movie Database, which I had a to add a few movies to myself) - so I don't recommend it for use as a database. I use it for more social networking - to rate my movies, log them, connect with other people (much like I use Goodreads).

Speaking of databases, is there a good one anywhere that lists all (or nearly all) books and short stories that have been adapted to film? I have found a few lists, but most are just "the top 100" or something like that. Is there a comprehensive database anywhere? I guess I could look at wikipedia, but that sounds like it would be too extensive for that.

Alana wrote: "Speaking of databases, is there a good one anywhere that lists all (or nearly all) books and short stories that have been adapted to film? I have found a few lists, but most are just "the top 100" ..."

I was looking for the same thing, too, but without much success :(

To make my life a bit easier, I have made my own list, that I expand every time I stumble upon something. It's already quite big, 1800+ books, but is definitely not even near completion.

Alana wrote: "Speaking of databases, is there a good one anywhere that lists all (or nearly all) books and short stories that have been adapted to film? I have found a few lists, but most are just "the top 100" ..."

I did some research this morning - the only most thorough databases I found were on IMDB here:

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&q=B...

The only problem is that the lists aren't very readable, as they include literally everything. Sorting them in some way helps a bit, but not very much...