How do you organize your collection?

[K_Williamson42]

ABC order, with the exception of sets that come with different names: example: Rambo first blood is supposed to be under First blood, but I put it under R with the rest of the movies

[Riff Magnum]

A-Z by title of the movie. Any other way seems silly.

[jlee24219]

I'm glad this post came up, I was wondering what everyone else did

[RYJAPE21]

Alphabetical.

[singhcr]

I have them sorted alphabetically for the most part but sequels go together (Dark Knight and Batman Begins would be sorted under "Batman") and the 007 movies would be under "J" although for some reason I decided to leave Casino Royale by itself instead of including it with the other 007 movies.

[danman227460]

I keep mine A-Z except for my steelbooks and die hard collection.

[Beta Man]

by case size.

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Alphabetical for the most part, I do have all 4 James Bond movies together under J and I think that's the only exception.

I do the same except I have them under 007 and then I go A-Z by title.

[volcanopele]

Originally Posted by Rblu-Dblu

I have my blurays organized by run time. Shortest movies in the front and longer movies and box sets in the back. Then when I want to watch a movie but I only have 1 hour and 47 minutes to watch it in, I know what my options are.

I remember when I used to do that. It was a good system, until I had over 150 movies and it just got cumbersome to sort them that way. Nowadays, I sort my DVD and Blu-ray movies together in a 5-shelf bookshelf alphabetically (though movie series are stored together in order of release, like the James bond movies, with the two box sets at the end, Matrix, star wars, Lord of the rings). TV shows are sorted separately, because well, I lack for shelf space (I keep saying I will get a new bookshelf, but I never do). There really is no method to my sorting of the TV shows beyond keeping each individual series together and in order. You can see in my HT Gallery how I have these set up.

[koontz1973]

Blu's A to Z as I only have a few.

DVD's by genre, then A to Z.

All sequels together. Bond, Resident Evil etc.

[Siri]

Alphabetically, with numbers being first

[JOHN MFN D.]

I sort mine by ISBN number, but I'm thinking about doing a Library of Congress sorting for fun.

[LeonardMcGill]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

A-Z by title of the movie. Any other way seems silly.

Yea. Once I tried to link them by actors. I got about 35 films deep before I got stuck. lol And that took almost a day

[AFightingPanda]

Color, I have my dvds set up in a section arranged so that the colors blend into the other cases, hot colors together, cool colors together, black cases together, white cases together, same thing is happening with my blu's on their own shelf. Of course I am an OCD professional artist....

[Shapiro]

I got mine alphabetically in 2 rowes, one row for those I still have to watch and one for the ones I've watched.

[Aussie Blu]

A-Z regardless if it is or has a sequel.

[cosomotion]

this is how my organization breaks down..

1. Genre
2. by Director (chronologically)
3. roughly by year
4. Box shape (digibook, boxset)

I've been thinking about going the alphabetic route lately since the amount of movies is getting out of hand.

So maybe one weekend I'll re-arrange them by

1.Genre
2.Alphabetically

I like them being grouped by genre so that when I want to watch a comedy I can look at my comedies and when I want something else I go to that section.

[Fabio13]

I have an easy system thats difficult to comprehend for a lot of people.

First of all, I sort out the movies that belong together (Batman Begins, Gotham Knight, The Dark Knight, Batman)
After that I sort them by subgenre (Superhero, comicbook, Zombie, Buddy action comedy).
Then I sort the subgenres after the genres they cross over (Superhero = Action, adventure and Sci-Fi).
Then, if it is possible, I try to par movies from the same director (Kubrick/Burton/Tarantino...)
Last I try to sort out my favorite movies in front of the next genre.

Just an example:

Dawn of the Dead - Evil Dead - Shoot´em up - Sin City - The Dark Knight - Transformers - Pirates of the Caribbean and so on...

[Michael1989]

I put mine on a shelf. Simples.

[Kryptonic]

Boxset/special cases. Bond in chronological order. And the rest in alphabetical order.