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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorJimmy S
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It's from a cheap compilation of Troma's film

and it's the only one that isn't too bad in it (of course, the fact it isn't a Troma production help). I wrote "not too bad" and not "good".

Garden of the Dead
At a remote prison work camp, the prisoners have taken a liking to getting high on toxic fumes. However, when the prisoners die during an attempted escape, the warden soon discovers these once dangerous criminals are now even more unstable living-dead criminals. Thus, the labor camp is transformed into THE GARDEN OF THE DEAD and it's time for the harvest!

edit : the synopsis really made the film sounds more exciting that it really is
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Buttcrack?!  Would be one nominee of the most insane movie titles.     
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I got it for Unspeakable, but the precence of juvenile humour (the kind my 7 year old nephews find funny) in a film that doesn't need this had as results that I never end watching it.

Buttcrack is really annoying, I'm sure I ain't the only who wanted to kill the big overacting fat guy the first time he was on the screen
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Buttcrack is really annoying, I'm sure I ain't the only who wanted to kill the big overacting fat guy the first time he was on the screen


I can only remember bits and pieces from Buttcrack now. I still have it on that Troma Triple B-Header DVD though.
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I recently have been trying to add a DVD Collection Box Set of  Harry Potter "Years 1-5" to the list... 
Im not kidding..  there is a LOT of daang actors in these two films.  Sheesh.  You thought Star Wars was bad?  Good God

And I got 3 more to go!   

Well I'm gonna enter them anyway my way..  they can reject them or not.  Least I got the dang images scanned for all of them now!  (Woohoo!)

No more blank spots to stare at!  :D


I don't own any of the Potter films .. but aren't they 'individually by each film'  in Invelos data already?
Some one else ( besides IMDB) took the trouble and time to do all the cast and crew,.,. and the scores of others here at Invelos  double checked that data against the running film credits and verified that as correct and they were then Each  approved.
Occasionally we might got the odd name that when checked with CLT has further been improvised and edited as a further Check involved again many others who checked that data and approved that. So with all this said  "Why oh why sit and type in a lot of unaccredited data that was not voted and approved on within our hallowed halls here??"
If you buy a 5 or 6 edition set of Harry Potter films they have many individually approved single sets that you can 'add' those credits over to the new Set as long you say in your notes that you used approved so and so # upc set and it will be approved if your data is correct ..
If you like to participate in a new release that needs a major upgrade to its crew and cast do a little at a time., i.e if a major film has 12 main characters and '55 odd' cast of characters do the main for now and eventually ( it may take weeks or months)  until others or your self will fill in the gaps ,same for the crew Major parts only and don't worry about who did hair and makeup and sound editing..

The reasons of course for NO  IMDB data mining is-  Invelos does not have license in hand ( as does Amazon and others) and they (Amazon) can literally lift these credits an data for their own sales .. Invelos Profiler is an Independent company that  Profile DVD's not Movies as does IMDB . With that we need independent contributors who are not 'anonymous to others' &  all of your work and sweat  can easily be found and traced back to what contribution you- yourself did for Profiler ..

Makes for a happy atmosphere here when  you get to know and trust your fellow alumni here ...
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I myself just re-audited the cast and crew of each of the Harry Potter films, so don't you dare screw it up with IMDB data.
My one wish for the DVD Profiler online database: Ban or remove the disc-level profiles of TV season sets. It completely screws up/inflates the CLT.
FACT: Imdb is WRONG 70% of the time! Misspelled cast, incomplete cast, wrong cast/crew roles. So for those who want DVD Profiler to be "as perfect as Imdb", good luck with that.
Stop adding UNIT crew! They're invalid credits. Stop it!
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I have to go with your thread title here OP, I guess you did really mess up!

If you don't like the rules, fine, if you do it locally your way, fine, but to knowingly break the rules and violate the terms of service, not fine. Sorry dude   



Ok let me CLARIFY my previous post I made a while back.  Im not intending on breaking ANY rules understand?  So no need for a bunch of thumbs down.

Im trying to say Im just gonna keep my own local database now and lock it now that I understand better how it works.  ( I may even sit down one day and manually enter them just to see how long it takes)

I can understand the arguements against my suggestion about using "IMDB" after reading they charge a sum of cash for its use... (really?  would they bill you for it?)

However,  to be fair, I have noticed quite a bit of "actor" profiles that other people have submitted which were downloaded to my database...  which DOES include  "uncredited" cast members in the list.

Guess what?  real movies DON'T credit  "uncredited" actors.

FOR EXAMPLE: 
I have: "SAW" (first one) Widescreen version

In the profile at the bottom of the actor list it lists a man named:
Hans Raith and who he plays is "Detective (uncredited)

Hmmmmm 

I popped in my dvd and went straight to the end credits and sure enough..  NO Hans Raith listed.

Doesn't that submission now become invalid?

A lot of submissions lately I've seen with "uncredited actors" should now all be invalid.

It seems they didn't follow the rules and used a 3rd party database and/or submitted their own local version trying to sneak it in.

  To top this off...  I got Saw (again)  with a box set (two disc box set  of Saw VI and the first one)  and the actor list is slightly different.  Granted,  it was a re-release and maybe some adjustments were made to the list, however, the same "Hans Raith" is NOT listed on that profile or its end credits either.

  I have noticed several films lately that have 0 actors listed...  (no one entered them)...  This seems to be a growing trend lately...

Yet I want you all to know that I have learned that I can lock my own database and will do so for certain "large productions" like Harry Potter in the future  (whereas there are a lot of actors and crew) and I will not submit something which I didn't get from seeing it on screen.

So you can all stop taking turns telling me the same thing over and over.


However, sadly I should point out that this does ruin the spirit of a dvd collection database because certain situations arise in some films where actors appear uncredited (yet they are IN the dang film and you see them or hear their voice)  i.e Jamie Lee Curtis who appears in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch twice in two different roles (voices) and is uncredited for both.  There are many films I got with actors that do something like that and simply will not make it to the profiler unless its added manually of course and kept "local". 

  Furthermore,  I have run into some older 1970's films which are just now making it to DVD which DO NOT even list who the actor plays in the film.  Granted, if you know the actor by face you can watch the film and figure out who plays who..  but then comes a whole pile of problems which can include issues like who they really played or how their name is spelled.  (did he play "Barry or Berry"?)

I cant remember off hand which film but to illustrate a small example I was watching an old 1970's horror film of my brother's which must have had only 8-9 people in it and most of them are people I never even saw before except for maybe one guy.  All the names seemed unrecognizable and when we went to figure out who this one actor played by watching the end of the film credits it simply listed the actor's names and not who they played. 
Going back and trying to catch the name of the guy he was playing as we realized that complicating the matter was the fact there were two "George's" in the movie both of whom never gave a clue to anything distinguising  (such as a last name) and I sat there thinking of my profiler.. and how lovely of an adventure it would be to enter a cast list by watching the dvd.

The only way we sorted it out was to go to IMDB and saw a list of who played who.
Turns out I had that actor in a couple of my films which were in my database list so I did recognize him in the end, but the point I'm trying to make is it would have become literaly impossible to enter that movie into this database without some 3rd party site like IMDB for guidance.

And by the way,  to correct someone earlier in this thread...  IMDB doesn't just take random submissions from just any ole user.  You got to be assocated with the picture in some way.  My brother has made 1 film back in 2009 with Lance Nichols and it [i]still[/] has yet to appear in his profile and their reasoning was that it had to be shown in public or be officially released in some way.
Yet strangely, if you notice this rule is bent sometimes since we can see some actor's "unreleased" or "in production" works which haven't even started filming.
I'm guessing it's because the film is with a smaller company that was doing its first feature film and they want to be sure its not a random or false submission.  (major motion picture companies have a bit more clout apparently)

Widescreenforever wrote
[quote]I don't own any of the Potter films .. but aren't they 'individually by each film'  in Invelos data already?[/quote]

  That's almost exactly the same thing as I tried to do with using IMDB.  If my submission was considered a "cheat"  than that should be too.  Why?  Because some re-releases or packaged dvd's MIGHT very well contain actors who were not previously credited in the first release.
(for reference see the Saw dvd which was bundled with Saw VI[/i], its different slightly from the original Widescreen Saw movie dvd both in the database and both dvd's I compared.  There is at least one additional person listed and a name change addition.)

If you holler at someone for want to bend a rule over the strain of a long cast/crew list,  don't ask them to bend the rule another way by lifting the same cast list off of the very first release.  Guess what?  That first dvd release is going to have the most errors and uncredits.
Rereleases have sometimes listed people which were not credited in the initial release.
Sometimes actors who get more famous later in their careers end up right on the front cover of a film they did 15 years ago yet only had a bit part which initially went uncredited in that first release.

  In closeing:

AddictedtoDVD said...

[quote]What concerns me is he said...

Quoting Multiview:

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Well I'm gonna enter them anyway my way..  they can reject them or not.  Least I got the dang images scanned for all of them now!  (Woohoo!)

No more blank spots to stare at!  :D


See the sentence I put in bold. Unless I am reading it wrong it seems he is going to continue to use imdb and continue to submit to our database. 

You know the rules now... but still going to do it your way and leave it up to the system to approve or not? 

Our CLT results will be getting even worse by any that slips in! 

You do realize you can always submit before doing cast.crew... and then lock your cast and crew locally to have your imdb data in place locally.[/quote]

Okay.. this was already echoed before you posted that.  Let me clarify so you understand.

I am NOT going to continue submitting the same profile over and over.  I only tried ONCE.  Got it?

This goes to you all. 

I wrote this thread a long time ago and came back and saw some outright flames tonite and I dont think I deserved them.  Demonizing someone, especially a lowly newbie that I was then, isn't warranted. 
I didn't fully understand the program at the time I wrote that post..  I thought, the program would automatically try and send a submission everytime I ran it. 
For a long time I stopped running it...  then one day I sat down and dived into it a little bit.  I understand it a bit better than before.

Anyhows, I'm going to go watch another movie.  Later
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I can understand the arguements against my suggestion about using "IMDB" after reading they charge a sum of cash for its use... (really?  would they bill you for it?)

They do charge for it.  Would they bill Ken, probably not, but this is his program and he has stated that he will honor their ToS, so that is the end of that.
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However,  to be fair, I have noticed quite a bit of "actor" profiles that other people have submitted which were downloaded to my database...  which DOES include  "uncredited" cast members in the list.

I hate to spoil a good rant, but the rules allow for uncredited cast...

"Uncredited actors may be listed in alphabetical order following all credited actors. Use the "Uncredited" checkbox to indicate these. Uncredited actors are not required entries."

...so, no, the addition of uncredited cast does not invalidate the profile.
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To top this off...  I got Saw (again)  with a box set (two disc box set  of Saw VI and the first one)  and the actor list is slightly different.  Granted,  it was a re-release and maybe some adjustments were made to the list, however, the same "Hans Raith" is NOT listed on that profile or its end credits either.

This can happen when someone makes a mistake or submits data that is wrong.  Mistakes happen.  As for the uncredited actor, since they are not required, they don't always get added.
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Furthermore,  I have run into some older 1970's films which are just now making it to DVD which DO NOT even list who the actor plays in the film.  Granted, if you know the actor by face you can watch the film and figure out who plays who..  but then comes a whole pile of problems which can include issues like who they really played or how their name is spelled.  (did he play "Barry or Berry"?)

***SNIP***

The only way we sorted it out was to go to IMDB and saw a list of who played who.
Turns out I had that actor in a couple of my films which were in my database list so I did recognize him in the end, but the point I'm trying to make is it would have become literaly impossible to enter that movie into this database without some 3rd party site like IMDB for guidance.

This situation is also covered by the rules...

"If an actor is credited by name but does not have an associated role, you may use the film itself, or another source to identify the role. However, mass copy from a third party commercial database which violates their stated usage license is not allowed."

So, yes, you can use a third party source in certain situations.
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And by the way,  to correct someone earlier in this thread...  IMDB doesn't just take random submissions from just any ole user.

Actually, they do.  This page will help if you decide you want to contribute to their database.
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You got to be assocated with the picture in some way.

No, you don't.  We have members here who also contribute to IMDb and have nothing to do with any picture in any way.
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[quote]I don't own any of the Potter films .. but aren't they 'individually by each film'  in Invelos data already?[/quote]

  That's almost exactly the same thing as I tried to do with using IMDB.  If my submission was considered a "cheat"  than that should be too.

Your contribution wasn't considered a 'cheat', it was simply against the rules which require that you copy the credits from the actual film.  The reason it is allowed to copy data from another profile, of the same film, is because the data you are copying is Profiler data.  It doesn't belong to a third pary database.
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I would like to respond to the misstatement that "IMDB doesn't just take random submissions from just any ole user.  You got to be assocated with the picture in some way."

This is simply not true.  I, myself, have submitted numerous changes (that have been accepted) to the IMDB database because of incorrect data, and I have no direct association with the film industry.  The assumption that IMDB data is any more accurate than the invelos DB simply because they're a larger operation is based on a faulty premise.  Both databases are community-driven.  I would submit that the DVDProfiler users are more concerned about data accuracy and quality (sometimes to a fault), and that by having a comparatively smaller community, we have a much better opportunity to debate the quality or accuracy of data.

Is the system perfect? Absolutely not.  But I'll go to DVDProfiler to cross-reference an actor first, and IMDB second every time.
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I would submit that the DVDProfiler users are more concerned about data accuracy and quality.


I have quite the opposite feeling. Dvdprofiler contributors are concerned about applying blindly rules and do not care at all about accuracy. For example, I never saw in IMDb a French actor's accented name mispelled, though 90% of them have in Dvdprofiler a non-linking variant that do not exist in real movie world.

Conformity to rules leads to accuracy only when rules are correctly designed. When rules ask for introducing errors in the database and are followed by contributors, I hardly consider those contributors are concerned by data accuracy. The only correct way to manage this problem is to refuse contributing data when rules ask to enter them with errors, until rules are changed. Particularly, I never saw  IMDb asking for adding spelling mistakes in its database, while Invelos does.
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I would like to respond to the misstatement that "IMDB doesn't just take random submissions from just any ole user.  You got to be assocated with the picture in some way."

This is simply not true.  I, myself, have submitted numerous changes (that have been accepted) to the IMDB database because of incorrect data, and I have no direct association with the film industry.

Seconded! I have so far only submitted to Goofs, namely to remove false ones, but they too got accepted.

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Just got one question to the TheMadMartian  on the topic of "uncredited actors"  such as the above mentioned guy in the Saw movie.  Hans Raith

If that guy's name did NOT appear anywhere in the credits of either the original release (which I have) and the included release that comes with Saw VI (which I also have) where oh where is the source for "uncredited" actors?

I'm just curious.
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... where oh where is the source for "uncredited" actors?

I'm just curious.


You have to recognize them in the movie.

Edit: Always forget this is not in the rules, but at contributing an uncredited actor, you get this message:
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This contribution contains uncredited cast entries. Please submit uncredited cast only if:

  • You have personally identified the cast by viewing the film 

  • -OR- The cast is copied from a previously accepted profile with documented uncredited cast

  • Be sure to specify the source in your contribution notes
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    For (uncredited) actors. I would look to as many sources as I could find to support such an inclusion, I don't know the name or the face, perhaps he is mentioned in a commentary or some supplemental material relative to the DVD. That would be good enough in and of itself but if I had to rely on externakl sources, I would provide at least two that were not related in any way. The reason I stress not related is because a lot of websites pull their own "data" from others, so if you provide a source of IMDb (fior eaxample) and X website, which also uses IMDb for its data then you have only provided one source in realiity.
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    where oh where is the source for "uncredited" actors?

    Where-ever you can find them 
    E.g. I found prove in the commentary and trivia-track of my "Hot Fuzz" DVD that Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett (among others) are visible on screen. Or if they are clearly recognizable on screen, a time-index would be of help to check it.

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    Wow, what a thread. Just have also a question. Today I found a DVD existing in the database but twice front cover and bad, to small, no Overview, no Cast and Crew. So I made the cover scans from front and back and the Overview and entered only the Director of the film, big mentioned on the back as: Regie: Martin Curland. Now I get a no vote from a user telling:  DPI: Crew not from credits. How can this user know that just the Director is not taken from credits? In my contribution I told:

    Added second part of Overview text missing from cover, added Martin Curland as Director, added new coverscans because front was much too small (bad on iPad) and back was missing.

    It is a bit frustrating to get no votes when you do a nice overview and the scans to get the contribution better and then only because I entered the Director's name that is mentioned everywhere get a no vote. This way the database does not get fast better and better I find?

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