I don’t really care about lists. There’s so much “genre” lists or “watched 2024” that I started to just not care anymore (ignore it and it’ll go away ). Yeah, there’s cool ones like award winners, or actual thematic lists, but I can do without those. I’m not actually using/browsing those lists except that one time when the discover page was introduced actually whoops.
I do like the collaborative list feature!! I think I might’ve suggested it even, but at least was excited about it.
I made one (private!!! because one man’s treasure is another man’s trash, and let’s not forget that) for me and my sister. Of movies we could watch together.
Of course, soon after she lived with her then-boyfriend, now-husband, and she has like no time for me and watching movies together anymore. But it came in handy last friday when she came over and we watched Pitch Perfect 3 together!
I imported a couple personal lists from Letterboxd using Konsesus Pro to sync the first time, then I disconnected the link to Konsesus and now I manually update my Trakt lists to match my lists on Letterboxd.
One list is of movies that I have on physical discs and the other is a list of movies that I have in Plex. Why don’t I just use the Collection feature in Trakt? Well, I do, and I keep it synced with Plex using the scrobbler. But I don’t use it for movies that I own on disc because I haven’t found an easy way to ID those in Trakt to use as a filter (I could tag them but that would have to be done manually which would be tedious). And I don’t rely solely on my Trakt Collection for a list of movies that I have on Plex because there are a few movies which do not match up between Plex and Trakt.
Yeah, that’s what they wanted… since they were asking for something automatically (New Movie Releases), you get all or nothing
And if that’s what they want, there’s already a calendar.
If they want a list of specific New Movie Releases, that’s of course fine. But they gotta put in the work of adding movies to a list, nothing automatic about it
I use them as lists of movies I want to watch/rewatch but I also split them into separate genre lists to easily find something depending on what mood I’m in.
I use so many lists for different reasons, watchlist is just a general watchlist for things that don’t fit into anything more spcific (or do and they are added to both).
“Movies to rewatch”
“Current year Radar” - Things I’m interested in for current year upcoming
“Current year catch up” - Things interested for current year that I’ve not gotten to yet.
“Weekly Challenge shortlist” - A weekly themed movie challenge I participate in, I add things to a shortlist when I find things that fit the theme (reset each week).
Two bucket list watchlists, one of the best movies of all time, and one of the worst movies of all time.
I also create my top 12 new movies/shows of previous year at the end of each year (private list, shared with friends)
My Top 100 movies list
My Top 50 shows list
Cinefix Top 100 list - A Youtube channel is slowly doing their top 100 movies and I’m making a list to keep track as it fills out.
“Current year cinema trips” - To keep track of how many movies I see in cinemas (reset each year)
“Props and collections list” - List of all the shows/movies I own props from
“Mini projects list” - For ideas I might have like watch all of a certain actors movies or watch all movies with a certain theme from year x-y
“Next year and beyond list” - For things I’m interested in but are not due for release this year or are only in planning/early phases.
Things often go from one of my watchlists/rewatch lists/project lists to my weekly challenge list, also things from my top 100 movies list might also be on my “movies to rewatch list” and similar scenarios.
I frequenlty use other peoples lists for ideas especially for my weekly challenges, albeit the search functionality for lists isn’t the best.
I am aware of the collab feature, but it’s not something I’ve ever needed to use but I can see situations where it might be of use.
Things I plan to watch go on my watchlist, ever since I joined in 2013. For the last two years I have been trying to work on more specific lists, such as:
Comedies and dramas with multiple acting Emmy nominations (ranked by number of noms)
Award season lists, with shows and movies to watch out for
“Challenge” lists, like movies from different countries or a horror movie for every day of October
I think lists are a very interesting feature to have, but they feel very “polluted” in here, with lots of “2024 releases” and whatnot lists, instead of “best of 70’s sci-fi” or “biggest oscar snubs”. I’d say this stems from two things: (1) lists being public by default; (2) lack of a list discovery page/feed/algorithm. Yes, I do know the Discover tab has featured lists, but it is still limited.
I’d suggest something similar to what already happens inside each title’s page: the most liked public lists featuring that item are shown first. But instead of back tracking from the title’s page to the list, I think it would be interesting to see a tab of popular/trending/most saved lists and being able to find new shows and movies just by browsing list titles.
). Yeah, there’s cool ones like award winners, or actual thematic lists, but I can do without those. I’m not actually using/browsing those lists except that one time when the discover page was introduced actually whoops.
