So why are people putting charts in REVERSE chrono order again?

MoviePropMaster2008 · #1 07-25-2009, 05:14 PM

I'm seeing a lot of boxes in reverse Chronological order, i.e. most recent first and then going backwards in time.

If there was some sort of consensus or VOTE by the other Mods, then I'm all for it.

BUT....

I made a point in the past that this doesn't make sense to me. When scholarly pages (and imfdb IS for movie/gun buffs and scholars in a way) mention the appearance of items (like the advent of the siege machine or gun powder) they START at the very FIRST appearance of that item. They don't start with the most recent and work backwards.

When car historians talk about the FORD MUSTANG, they don't list info about the latest model before they talk about the model's FIRST appearance on the car scene.

When I first made the Steyr AUG page, I noted that the first verifiable instance of seeing it in a movie/TV show was ~1983. Now I'm actively looking for ANY film BEFORE 1983 where it appears just to see if I can nail down the actual FIRST TIME that gun appears in cinema. I think THAT is more interesting than knowing what movies it appeared in .. THIS YEAR.

Just a question, which hasn't been addressed yet.

Thanks.

Gunmaster45 · #2 07-25-2009, 09:20 PM

Well the point is so people can find the newest most popular movies first, and then scroll down farther to find the older movies. You can still see what is documented as the first movie, it's just at the bottom of the list and not the top.

Vangelis · #3 07-26-2009, 04:05 AM

That doesn't seem particularly rational: the newest movies aren't always the most popular, for a start.

Gunmaster45 · #4 07-26-2009, 04:41 AM

I didn't think it up, I just do it because everyone else does.

Phoenixent · #5 07-26-2009, 09:13 AM

There was a consensus to put the latest movie at the top of the chart. It was even set up that way when originally laid out. If you look at the credits in IMDB the most recent film is at the top. That's the way it should be on all layouts.

When I get back Sunday I will bring it up and some other items to all the Admins as there is still as standardization issue.

MoviePropMaster2008 · #6 07-27-2009, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phoenixent

There was a consensus to put the latest movie at the top of the chart. It was even set up that way when originally laid out. If you look at the credits in IMDB the most recent film is at the top. That's the way it should be on all layouts.

The reason why IMDB does it is because IMDB is focus on the people, i.e. actors or crew, so people want to see what the latest thing they've done is. But when I research the history of an inanimate object like a CAR or a GUN, I don't often want to see the Latest thing it's been seen in. The research materials always starts at the chronological beginning and then moves forward.

That's the difference between living people and inanimate object. We all have an interest in 'What are they doing NOW?" when it comes to people's careers. Whereas I never ask the question "what is it doing now?" when I'm curious about the M1911A1......