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Once again, James you clearly fail to understand the obvious here. The list under discussion does not appear in association with ANY kind of CAST data. It is in fact segregated from the Cast data and listed within the CREW data. You are making the presumption that YOU (tim and others) understand exactly what that means, and further that YOU, who had absolutely ZERO input into the film in ANY WAY understand precisely what the filmmakers intent was. I beg to differ with you , and if you really believe that to be true, that is incredibly arrogant. I have made a suggestion, NOT that you look up a time code for everyone on the list *and I would like to thank Paul for distorting what I said), but ONLY ONE, just ONE. You are uynwiilling to do so, therefore yourt entire argument is completely bogus., because you possess no knowledge which allows you to come to the conclusion you have, what is factual knowledge...is that the data in question falls within the CREW data NOT the Cast data. I am open, I am reasonable, find ONE, ONLY ONE.

I had to laugh at Paul's post. Oh it's too hard!!!!         No data will be entered. Her's the difference, Paul, I am intersetde in accurate data, NOT which someone ASSUMES to be correct. If that means I have to find a timecode to back something, so be it, I have done it before and if i ever decide to Contribute will gladly do so in the future, because the data I provide and always have I strive to be accurate for YOU and every other user, anything less quite frankly is garbage, which will not be allowed into my database and should not be allowed in the ONLINE either. Have I made typos, oh hell yes, I am all too human, but the occasional typos aside, when you get data from me you can be assured by my notes that that the data is accurate.
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Once again, James you clearly fail to understand the obvious here. The list under discussion does not appear in association with ANY kind of CAST data. It is in fact segregated from the Cast data and listed within the CREW data. You are making the presumption that YOU (tim and others) understand exactly what that means, and further that YOU, who had absolutely ZERO input into the film in ANY WAY understand precisely what the filmmakers intent was. I beg to differ with you , and if you really believe that to be true, that is incredibly arrogant. I have made a suggestion, NOT that you look up a time code for everyone on the list *and I would like to thank Paul for distorting what I said), but ONLY ONE, just ONE. You are uynwiilling to do so, therefore yourt entire argument is completely bogus., because you possess no knowledge which allows you to come to the conclusion you have, what is factual knowledge...is that the data in question falls within the CREW data NOT the Cast data. I am open, I am reasonable, find ONE, ONLY ONE.

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It's not that I am unwilling. I am unable as I do not own this film.

I'm not arguing for the sake of this single film. I'm arguing for the sake of the system. I don't want this one example to force us to have to prove that cast credits are cast credits for the wide possibilities that are out there from what I've seen in film credits or to force us to prove that credited cast members are actually in the film.

These are not crew credits in the middle of crew credits. These are cast credits in the middle of crew credits. Their position in the credits does not make them crew since there are no crew roles listed. The role that's in the credits is an on-screen role. That makes it cast.

We have never had to prove actual credits. We've recorded them at face value. Let's not go down this road of casting doubt on what words have always meant ("special appearance by" is a common cast credit as I've mentioned previously) or we will be faced with dealing with arguing over whether Clive Revill's credit in Star Wars is still a cast credit or not, since he is no longer in the film. Is this where you want to go? If the credits are not the credits, then all scenarios becomes negotiable. If you redefine "special appearance by" to no longer stand as a cast role and you give the option for it to be a crew role based on it's placement in the end credits, then everything can be redefined.
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I had to laugh at Paul's post. Oh it's too hard!!!!         No data will be entered. Her's the difference, Paul, I am intersetde in accurate data, NOT which someone ASSUMES to be correct. If that means I have to find a timecode to back something, so be it, I have done it before and if i ever decide to Contribute will gladly do so in the future, because the data I provide and always have I strive to be accurate for YOU and every other user, anything less quite frankly is garbage, which will not be allowed into my database and should not be allowed in the ONLINE either. Have I made typos, oh hell yes, I am all too human, but the occasional typos aside, when you get data from me you can be assured by my notes that that the data is accurate.

Give me Clive Revill's timecode in The Empire Strikes Back...the nifty new version. If you can't, then let's be accurate and remove his credit since it's no longer a cast credit.
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Like I said, James, how do YOU know whether they are Crew credits or not, you have no level of knowledge to determine that, other than your own AASSUMPTION. Again, the data is NOT within the Cast data, it IS within the CREW data. That is the FACT. Anystatement to the contrary is pure supposition based on NOTHING. If someone can provide a time code for just ONE of the people in that list then... we have evidence which I would say reasonably applies to ALL the members of the list, just ONE. By you standard the Special Appearances by Musician are also Cast Roles which is patently untrue, each of these credits must be looked at within the context of its own data set. Not by a supposition which has been invented. I will offer that probably the best place to find any of these people would be the bowling alley sequence at the end of the film, but without any kind of evidence there is absolutely no way that you ( nor any of the others) make any sense whatsoever. The current evidence simply does NOT support the claim. Unless you or someone else can also provide some evidence that they performed some work on this film and thus have special knowledge, but that I am CERTAIN cannot be provided.

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I had to laugh at Paul's post. Oh it's too hard!!!!         No data will be entered. Her's the difference, Paul, I am intersetde in accurate data, NOT which someone ASSUMES to be correct. If that means I have to find a timecode to back something, so be it, I have done it before and if i ever decide to Contribute will gladly do so in the future, because the data I provide and always have I strive to be accurate for YOU and every other user, anything less quite frankly is garbage, which will not be allowed into my database and should not be allowed in the ONLINE either. Have I made typos, oh hell yes, I am all too human, but the occasional typos aside, when you get data from me you can be assured by my notes that that the data is accurate.

Give me Clive Revill's timecode in The Empire Strikes Back...the nifty new version. If you can't, then let's be accurate and remove his credit since it's no longer a cast credit.


That may well be a valid comment, James. Off hand, I don't know, but it is also an attempt at misdirection to avoid dealing with the FACTS of THIS film.

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Like I said, James, how do YOU know whether they are Crew credits or not, you have no level of knowledge to determine that, other than your own AASSUMPTION. Again, the data is NOT within the Cast data, it IS within the CREW data. That is the FACT. Anystatement to the contrary is pure supposition based on NOTHING. If someone can provide a time code for just ONE of the people in that list then... we have evidence which I would say reasonably applies to ALL the members of the list, just ONE. By you standard the Special Appearances by Musician are also Cast Roles which is patently untrue, each of these credits must be looked at within the context of its own data set. Not by a supposition which has been invented. I will offer that probably the best place to find any of these people would be the bowling alley sequence at the end of the film, but without any kind of evidence there is absolutely no way that you ( nor any of the others) make any sense whatsoever. The current evidence simply does NOT support the claim. Unless you or someone else can also provide some evidence that they performed some work on this film and thus have special knowledge, but that I am CERTAIN cannot be provided.

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"Special appearance by" is a cast role. "Appears Courtesy of [record company name]" is a crew role. No one has offered any evidence that "Special appearance by" has ever been used in any manner other than cast yet you are prepared to exclude these credits unless someone can prove they're correct.

Actual film credits have to be proven to be real in order to be contributed? What happened to recording the credits as you see them and then contributing them, errors and all?

Is a "Special appearance by" credit on a single screen between cast and crew credits a cast role or a crew role? Do I have to prove it as cast in order to contribute it?

Taken at face value, a "Special appearance by" credit, by virtue of the fact that all occurrences have heretofore been known to refer to cast, should be entered as cast. That's not an assumption. That's basic methodology.

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I had to laugh at Paul's post. Oh it's too hard!!!!         No data will be entered. Her's the difference, Paul, I am intersetde in accurate data, NOT which someone ASSUMES to be correct. If that means I have to find a timecode to back something, so be it, I have done it before and if i ever decide to Contribute will gladly do so in the future, because the data I provide and always have I strive to be accurate for YOU and every other user, anything less quite frankly is garbage, which will not be allowed into my database and should not be allowed in the ONLINE either. Have I made typos, oh hell yes, I am all too human, but the occasional typos aside, when you get data from me you can be assured by my notes that that the data is accurate.

Give me Clive Revill's timecode in The Empire Strikes Back...the nifty new version. If you can't, then let's be accurate and remove his credit since it's no longer a cast credit.


That may well be a valid comment, James. Off hand, I don't know, but it is also an attempt at misdirection to avoid dealing with the FACTS of THIS film.

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It's not an attempt at misdirection but rather an attempt (using an admittedly far-reaching extrapolation) to bring us out of the minute details of this one film to look at the big picture and how the decision here impacts how we do things elsewhere.

If the credits are no longer the credits, then Pandora's box is opened.

The argument here is that placement of credits can redefine whether they are cast or crew. The argument redefines a known cast credit ("Special appearance by") to possibly be a crew role, even though no evidence has been brought forward to show that this cast credit has ever been used in any film in any way other than as a cast role.

That is a hugely dangerous precedent.
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You are once again pesenting evidence which you can't support. You are offering YOUR interpretation of Special Appearances by, but since you have no involvement in the production of this film, nor were youu one of the principals involved in its production, it is only YOUR interpretation. And you continue to totally ignore the FACT that the data is included with the CREW data NOT the Cast data. Based on your lack of ANY kind of first hnd knowledge, I am not overly interested in your interpretation...unless you can, as I have suggested provide evidence for ONE member of that list, ONE, ANY ONE. I have facts you have supposition with no basis in reality, I'll take facts, until someone can provide some real evidence to the support the supposition. You can't know what the filmmakers meant by Special Apearance by, you can make presumptions and quite frankly, you are in all probability correct, but that is not good enoiugh. The FACTS are still the FACTS, the data is CREW data NOT Cast data.

I am amazed at your continual spinning to support a flawed position that is not supportable. Just give me evidence on any ONE name from that list, One and only ONE, that is not unreasonable. Otherwise the data belongs to the Crew and is not includable without fully open credits.

You are the one opening Pandora's box by claiming thatb the credits are no longer the credits, or that you have mystical abilities to determine something which you cannot KNOW. The data falls within the Crew data, not the Cast, I am not pretending to believe that i know more than I do, I know for an ABSOLUTE fact where this data falls in the list, and IF we had open crew data we could list them just as we see them. If anyone is trying desperately to open Pandora's box, my driend it is you, claiming to know something which you do not KNOW, while ignoring REAL FACTS.


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I was just checking out my new Blu-ray of The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has a section called Cast, followed by a bunch of Crew, followed by a section called Character Voices, followed by more Crew.

So should I remove the (voice) roles from The Nightmare Before Christmas profile since they aren't in the cast list? I can't prove that any of the voices are in the film. It could be that "Character Voices" is a crew role pertaining to perhaps sound technicians who recorded the character voices. I can't be sure. I wouldn't want to assume. 
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Once again, James you clearly fail to understand the obvious here. The list under discussion does not appear in association with ANY kind of CAST data. It is in fact segregated from the Cast data and listed within the CREW data.

It is very common for the end credits to take the form of; major crew, major cast, minor crew, minor cast (extras).
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You are making the presumption that YOU (tim and others) understand exactly what that means, and further that YOU, who had absolutely ZERO input into the film in ANY WAY understand precisely what the filmmakers intent was. I beg to differ with you , and if you really believe that to be true, that is incredibly arrogant. I have made a suggestion, NOT that you look up a time code for everyone on the list *and I would like to thank Paul for distorting what I said), but ONLY ONE, just ONE.

As I was quoting "goblinsdoitall", this is a very strange claim, or are you claiming that "goblinsdoitall" is your sock-puppet?
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You are uynwiilling to do so, therefore yourt entire argument is completely bogus., because you possess no knowledge which allows you to come to the conclusion you have, what is factual knowledge...is that the data in question falls within the CREW data NOT the Cast data. I am open, I am reasonable, find ONE, ONLY ONE.

I had to laugh at Paul's post. Oh it's too hard!!!!         No data will be entered. Her's the difference, Paul, I am intersetde in accurate data, NOT which someone ASSUMES to be correct. If that means I have to find a timecode to back something, so be it, I have done it before and if i ever decide to Contribute will gladly do so in the future, because the data I provide and always have I strive to be accurate for YOU and every other user, anything less quite frankly is garbage, which will not be allowed into my database and should not be allowed in the ONLINE either.

At this point you do not contribute to the database, so your level of "accuracy" does not enter into it. I and many others enter data by the rules and contribute it to the main database. We are what makes DVDProfiler a usable product for most users. If the rules get to the point that we all are forced to stop contributing data to the system, DVDProfiler will die.
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Have I made typos, oh hell yes, I am all too human, but the occasional typos aside, when you get data from me you can be assured by my notes that that the data is accurate.

Once again, you don't contribute it, so its "accuracy" has no meaning.

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You can't know, with respect to this film, whether what you state is correct either, paul. You simply want to disagree, which is normal. I don't appreciate you insuting any of my friends, and if somebody were to insult you i would take exception to that as well, paul.

Stop ignoring the FACTS and stop complaining about how hard it is, I just can't do it. If you are unwilling to document just one from the list, then you have NO ARGUMENT and the data is CREW plain and simple. And any other comment is completely and utterly irrelevant. I have gotten used to the obfuscation used by yourself and others, but the facts are the facts, and you have provided NOTHING to say otherwise. Were 99% of my library including Kingpin, not packed up and in storage, in preparation for a move (at some point in the future), I would be trying to document this myself, because I am neither to lazy to do so, nor will i cry about how hard it is, which is apparently true of yourself and others, you have said so yourself, paul.

I am not interested in further BS, I am only interested in some documentation for ONE member from that list.

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The location of the credits does not make them crew. The fact that the credit is "special appearances by" is a visual credit by definition. They're on-screen. This credit is used for people who appear on-screen. It's not been shown by anyone here that this credit has ever been used for a crew member in any film. Ever.


I wouldn't go so far as to say ever, but I will say I have never seen it and it wouldn't make any sense...grammatically.

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No. That does not follow my argument. "First Assistant Director" is a crew credit. There are not innumerous reasons why these people might be credited as special appearance. There's one: on-screen. If you can show that "special appearances by" (not to be confused with "appears courtesy of") has ever been used for anything other than an on-screen credit, you might have something to argue.


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You can't know, with respect to this film, whether what you state is correct either, paul. You simply want to disagree, which is normal. I don't appreciate you insuting any of my friends, and if somebody were to insult you i would take exception to that as well, paul.

What the hell are you talking about? I did not insult anyone. You claimed I misquoted you, but I was quoting someone else. I just asked you if you were claiming to be that other person.
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Stop ignoring the FACTS and stop complaining about how hard it is, I just can't do it. If you are unwilling to document just one from the list, then you have NO ARGUMENT and the data is CREW plain and simple. And any other comment is completely and utterly irrelevant. I have gotten used to the obfuscation used by yourself and others, but the facts are the facts, and you have provided NOTHING to say otherwise. Were 99% of my library including Kingpin, not packed up and in storage, in preparation for a move (at some point in the future), I would be trying to document this myself, because I am neither to lazy to do so, nor will i cry about how hard it is, which is apparently true of yourself and others, you have said so yourself, paul.

I am not interested in further BS, I am only interested in some documentation for ONE member from that list.

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It does not need documentation. We enter cast as we see them in the credits. "Special Appearances By" is a cast credit NOT a crew credit.

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One more time, Paul. FACT, the data is NOT a part of ANY cast data, it is part of the CREW data, do you understand this yet. I don't really care what you THINK you know or even what your basis is. The other FACT is that you, like Ja,mes have absolutely no basis with wehich to pretend that you KNOW that the filmmakers intended that as cast data, I have offered a way to determine that is based on ONLY a SINGLE member of the list. So untill you or someone else decides to document ONE person, I am not interested in your over active imagination, and should I see a Contribution without documentation then I will be forced to vote NO absolutely. I want a database that has a basis in REALITY and thus accuracy not someone's adled brain who imagines that they have the ability to divine what the filmmakers intent is.

You seem to be willing to accept almost anything as long as you can provide adequate spin  to support your claim, there is more than enough garbage listed elsewhere on the internet. We have seen the results of users who make up data to suit themselves in other places. Let's try and make this something better shall we, that is my goal and always has been. And since you decided tro refer to my not Contributing any longer, (1) I don't see much of anything from you either and you can credit yourself a being ONE of the reasons I don't, one of several, and it is a shame that a few bad apples have spoiled it for everybody.

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[...] I'm not arguing for the sake of this single film. I'm arguing for the sake of the system. I don't want this one example to force us to have to prove that cast credits are cast credits for the wide possibilities that are out there from what I've seen in film credits or to force us to prove that credited cast members are actually in the film.

OK, then we are talking of two different things, I was trying to answer Gigas question and give reasons why this special case should not be entered without further documentation.
You were talking about "special appearances" in general. And "in general" you are totally correct, it's just this special case that makes an exception.

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These are not crew credits in the middle of crew credits. These are cast credits in the middle of crew credits. Their position in the credits does not make them crew since there are no crew roles listed. The role that's in the credits is an on-screen role. That makes it cast.[...]

Did I miss something here?
There aren't any roles given, all we have is a vague description of an "appearance", which you like to interpret as an on-screen appearance.
And going back to my example of the "First Assistant Director" what makes you so sure that in a movie like "Get Shorty" the "FAD" may not also be a cast credit?
It's the positioning of this special credit.
It will be positionend where?
Correct, in the crew-section and not in the cast section.
Where exactly is the difference between an assumed on screen appearance of the "FAD" and an assumed on screen appearance of these "special appearances"? Remember obviously all of them are only known for crew-jobs!
So if you could give me only one plausible reason why someone should list on-screen "special appearances" in the middle of the crew section and not at the end of the cast section, where it would be expected, I'd give in. But plausible and case-specific please.

EDIT: I think I found a hint supporting the actual "on-screen-appearance", Paula Gregg seems to have two mentionings within the credits. One within the craftsmen-section and the "special appearance".
The same goes for Michael K. Budge who is supposed to be credited as "On Set Dresser".
Could someone who owns this movie please verify that?
It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?


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This is getting silly. What else than be seen on screen would special appearance mean? Do they only specially appear on the set behind the camera or only by name in the credits? If this were the case then the people who made the credits either were mentally insane or they were just trying to be funny in an already very funny movie. I'm sure none of these is the case.
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The words "special appearance" in film are not ambigious.  This is a non-issue.  Credit them as cast and be done with it. 

As for the film makers "intention"... I seriously doubt any film maker anywhere, EVER intend to seperate the credits into "cast data" or "crew data".  That's a DVDProfiler distinction, not one that film makers have hugged to their bosom.  If the credits indicate the person appeared in the film, then they're cast.
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