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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=G-MANN,2525]Why is that so many English movie titles on this site are not written the correct way, with capital letters? In English the titles of things like films and books are spelled out with capital letters at the beginning of each word, except for connecting words like "the", "and" and "on". For example, a certain film should be spelled "The Door in the Floor" not "the door in the floor". I understand that many people on this site are from European countries and English might not be your first language (although most of you speak good English) and this rule might not apply in languages like French, but I am a stickler for good grammar and punctation and I really don't have the time (though I do have quite a bit of time on my hands these days) to go through the entire database and correct everything. The best thing to do is check the correct spelling on Imdb. I'm sorry I'm acting like an English teacher but it's a little thing that bothers me, especially on films I like. :D[/quote]
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Alexander

Quote From: antp

Actually in French I think they are all good...

I found some that were all uppercase and quite a few with English titles, even though they were French films. There might be some more of that sort hiding, as I did not look at those with correct capitalisation.

antp

Actually in French I think they are all good, as French does not require much uppercase letters :grin:

There may be few accents missing, but I corrected most of them some time ago.
The TV movie/serie type was added lately, and I could only find those that had "(TV)" in their title, so the others will have to be corrected when we find them.
I agree for the use of " / " for multiples titles, that's also what I used.

Alexander

I finished the English titles, plus a few others.

A native speaker should have a look at the French and other language films and, if possible, add translated titles.

I noticed quite a few TV movies and TV series that were labelled as movie. I corrected those were I changed the spelling. Again something to be checked for all the films.

If for the translation two titles are available, e.g. different titles for US and UK, I used ' / ' (blank dash blank). The komma, that was frequently used, can be misinterpreted, as kommas are part of some titles.

Alexander

Done. You can still search for 'James Bond'. :smile:

Alexander

I'll do it that way!

antp

I am not sure to remember what has been said about that, but I also remember a discussion.
I would say the following then:
- as original title, it is better to keep the one that is used as main title on IMDB
- as English title, we can put the alternative title from IMDB, which is probably the one with "Ian Femming's" in some cases.
- it is nice to be able to do a search on "James Bond", but for that reason we could maybe add "- James Bond" at the end of the English title?

Alexander

Finished are:
Beginning to L
Q to End

There is a small problem with the James Bond movies. They were never called 'James Bond: ...'. The older ones could get the extra title 'Ian Fleming's ...', but else we should use the main title. I know there was a discussion about that (which I didn't follow), therefore I want to discuss it first.

antp

No

Or I do not remember it

Alexander

Now I am amazed!
I wasn't really refering to the film... :wink:

http://www.international.hamburg.de/artikel.do?ok=18338&uk=21353&cid=6370288
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeperbahn

Never heard of it?

antp

1954 is too old for me :whistle: