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HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:48 am
by williamwan
Team Spirit (2000)
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=engPoster name : Female coach and male player
Neglected Youth (1994)
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=engPoster name : Drowning
Both movies credit tally with the poster.
Can anyone confirm and update?
Re: HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:10 pm
by dleedlee
Re: HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:20 am
by williamwan
I agree that there are many names to a movie.
The question is how shd we choose which name to be used as the title and which as alias.
To the uninitated, it wd be confusing to see movie title different from the poster title.
Since it does not matter which titles to use, as everyone is technically correct, I propose we use the poster title
so that viewer do not mistaken us as having made a mistake.
Re: HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:39 pm
by calros
There are different titles because there are different posters. Maybe we can change a title by the poster and later we found another poster with the other title. What must we do then? The better option is "the most common title is main title".
Re: HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:56 am
by williamwan
Agreed. But how to determine which is the most common title? Also, are we posting more than 1 poster on the main page?
Perhap we shd used the title released in the country of origin.
Re: HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:10 pm
by calros
Sometimes the country of origin releases several titles for the same movie. Yes, in the main page of HKMDB appear all the no-landscape posters of a movie although they are not the "main poster" of each entry. How can we determine the most common title of a movie?: Searching them with Google.
Re: HKMDB movie name differ from poster movie name

Posted:
Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:17 pm
by dleedlee
I've added links to Variety reviews for both films. WW's titles seem more appropriate in these two cases. In general, I don't think main titles necessarily should be consistent with a particular poster in our db. It may happen to be just one that was available or not watermarked. There are two many reasons a poster does not match a title, especially if the source is unknown or not indicated.