First of all, I'd like to say thanks once again Nostra for all your tireless efforts in making such a terrific piece of software, and to you, Rick and others for being so helpful here on the boards.
I'm noticing something with the IMDb import plugin (and it may be an across-the-board plugin issue, I don't know), regarding punctuation. Specifically, PVD seems to ignore titles listed on IMDb with certain types of punctuation (returning another version of the title instead), and even when the punctuation matches both in PVD and IMDb, it can't seem to find the right title.
Examples:
I had the Beatles movie
"Help!" listed in my database, and ran the IMDb import plugin. Even though the way I had written the title in PVD exactly matched the way it was listed on IMDb (with exclamation point at the end), it did not return the proper title as an option -- instead, it gave me the two choices of
"Call for Help" (1998) and
A Cry for Help 2 (2002). If I enter the title in PVD simply as
"Help",
without the exclamation point at the end, then the IMDb plugin does return the Beatles film, along with several dozen other choices.
When running the
IMDb import plugin on the PVD title of
"And Justice For All" (spelled that exact way in the database), it does not even return the option to choose, but instead retrieves a Michael Moore documentary (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207965/) by that name, instead of the Al Pacino title, which IMDb spells with an ellipsis (three dots) at the beginning of the title. But here's the crazy part -- I actually had written the title in PVD the way I remembered it, with the ellipsis --
"...And Justice For All" -- but again, the Al Pacino movie was not returned as an option; instead this 2012 title was automatically retrieved:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1988529/. Needless to say, this was throwing me, as I was sure I had the title right, so I opened up my browser and searched IMDb directly. Turns out they have the title spelled not only with the leading ellipsis, but with an extra period at the end, like
"...And Justice for All.". Now, I'd not seen it spelled that way, but the IMDb import plugin should have returned the correct title as an option, nonetheless. So it was being confused both by the periods at the beginning and the period at the end.
Seems that perhaps it needs to be told to ignore punctuation, both outgoing and incoming, yes?
(P.S. I am running the latest beta version of PVD, and the latest version of the IMDb import plugin.)