List more actors per title

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List more actors per title

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While I strongly dislike the new layout of the movie pages, there's one change I'm increasingly wanting to see:

Criticker should allow for perhaps just a few more than 12 actors to be listed in the cast. There are some movies where the omissions are exceptionally glaring, and the recent "Oppenheimer" is one of them. The cast contains Gary Oldman - in a small role, granted, but it seems noteworthy. Also Macon Blair, who isn't as significant an actor, but plays an important enough character to warrant inclusion.

There were many cases in the past when I was trying to glean my own average ratings and such, and I was frustrated to find that an actor I was looking at didn't have one of their titles listed (because there was no room for her on that title's page).

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Re: List more actors per title

Post by mpowell »

Thanks for the suggestion! This is one we definitely plan on implementing, and is one of the main ways the new format will really help by providing us more space.

It's already up on our list of enhancements :)

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Re: List more actors per title

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Glad to hear it! I'm not averse to layout changes, I just hope to see something more condensed and practical as before.

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Re: List more actors per title

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Ideally how this would work is that you'd split between "Lead" and "Supporting"

Lead-role actors in series should have more influence in a shows similar-to than if they were a supporting actor.

Guest actors should be reserved for episodes only.

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Bumping in hopes of getting additional actors... even 3 more would make a big difference.

Edit: PLEASE also enable having more directors per film. There are some titles that are anthologies of shorts by 7 different directors, all equally important - but only 4 names are currently allowed.

2nd edit: Weirdly, I have run into anthology titles that do have 7 directors listed:
https://www.criticker.com/film/LAmore-in-citta/
However, the current UI does not allow adding/editing more than 4 directors in a title.

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Re: List more actors per title

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Any news on this?

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