Differentiate Movies and Short Films?

Aug 12, 2015 4:10 PM

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As it is right now, both short films and feature length films are marked as "Movie". I really think that movies shorter than 40 minutes (since that seems to be the most common distinction between the two) short be called "Short Film" or "Short" instead of "Movie".

It just feels weird having Shizuku (which I just finished and added to my list) lumped together with all the Ghibli and Kon movies and so forth. :P

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Aug 12, 2015 4:57 PM

kuchitsu

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Yeah, I think this would be nice. Like manga has one-shots...

Aug 12, 2015 7:15 PM

traed

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It's redundant when the runtime length is already listed. If anything it would be better if there were search options where you can search for series by episode length min and max episodes and movies by runtime min and max minutes/hours

Aug 12, 2015 8:42 PM

TripleSRank

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I wouldn't mind the differentiation. Calling short films "movies" does feel a bit odd.

Aug 12, 2015 9:12 PM

Shaka

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I agree with this

Aug 13, 2015 3:24 AM

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traed said:
It's redundant when the runtime length is already listed. If anything it would be better if there were search options where you can search for series by episode length min and max episodes and movies by runtime min and max minutes/hours

Sure, you can see that when viewing the movie's specific page, but when viewing someones anime list, they are all sorted as "Movie". That makes it unnecessarily hard to find new feature length films to watch when viewing other people's lists, having to check every movie you don't know about to see wheter it's one and a half hour long or five minutes.

Aug 13, 2015 3:29 AM

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well, If I watched Titanic, or Schindler's list, which has longer airtime than usual 130mins, it must be considered as long films.

Movies are movies.

kuchitsu said:
Like manga has one-shots...

Oneshots are mangas that doesnt have any chapters, which considered as 0-chaptered-mangas.

All films that has no episode and aired in movie theatres are considered movies!!

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Aug 13, 2015 3:48 AM

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Monstrum said:
well, If I watched Titanic, or Schindler's list, which has longer airtime than usual 130mins, it must be considered as long films.

Movies are movies.

I can't find anything official about movies longer than 130 minutes needing to be categorized differently from other feature length films.

However short films, or shorts, is something that gets treated very differently from feature length stuff in terms of marketing, awards, producing and public recognition.

Aug 13, 2015 5:08 AM

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FaZe_JOAOAA said:
I agree with this

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Sep 16, 2015 1:29 PM

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ReReDead

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Any comments on this from some administrator/staff of MAL?

Sep 16, 2015 3:47 PM

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Koby

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Mar 27, 2017 3:55 AM

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ReReDead

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Bump, once again.

Mar 27, 2017 5:18 AM

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Cnon

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yeah this would be really helpful I don't wanna see short anime in search results they don't have duration filter too.

Mar 28, 2017 11:54 AM

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There is an official definition that movies shorter than 40 minutes are short films. They do indeed get different awards and are somewhat classified as different things.

Mar 28, 2017 4:24 PM

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Cnon

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zombie_pegasus said:
There is an official definition that movies shorter than 40 minutes are short films. They do indeed get different awards and are somewhat classified as different things.

we need a filter for standalone ovas too. I know this was suggested before but noone didn't really care.

Mar 28, 2017 5:33 PM

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karambia

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Yeah, I'm agree with this

Also the like one said above, under 40 minutes in length already considered as short and I supposed it applied internationally, followed the standardization popular in north america and UK.

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Sep 5, 2019 8:56 AM

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I still want this.

Jan 22, 1:35 PM

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I noticed that Specials have been divided into TV Specials, Specials, CM and what not. If this is possible, I want to once again suggest that films and short films get the same type of treatment.

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