Suggestion Mods/Adm: Pre-Order Section - can we get the movies listed by release date

[doctorsteve]

To me Coming Soon is more of a near-future (as in go to the store in a week or two and buy it on release day), and Preorders are "These are up on Amazon or whatever, so you can put your order in now and they will ship to you when it's released in two months".

I've often tried skimming through the Apocalist thread before to spot newly announced movies, but the damn thing is so choked up all the time - I stopped bothering.

Granted - if Coming Soon incorporated both near-future releases AND newly available Preorders - you'd have a really good look at the schedule for the next couple months, but then folks would still want to be able to see the NEWest additions, and to be able to tell which are available for preorder.

Leaving the sections separate, listed by release date, with a little note to make it easy to see when a NEW addition has been made to the pre-order list - I feel is the way to go.

All I'm suggesting is to list the Pre-orders by release date also (for distant- future clarity) and just note recent additions to the list with the word NEW. (very eye-catching).

Yes? No?

All I can see in the Pre-order section now is a jumble of movies, and all I can assume is that the top-most ones were added the most recently. I think the suggestion I made would do 2 things:

1) Give clarity to the down-the line release schedule.
2) Let readers easily see when something NEW has been added to the slate.

I think this would enhance the home page, and make slogging through the Apocalist unnecessary (especially since it - more often than not - doesn't appear in the top threads listed on the Home page).

Does my suggestion really sound THAT kooky?

Doc