Group movies

Hey,
I am new to AppleTV and have a new ATV2. I see how you can easily group TV shows togeather, but not movies.
For example, I have multiple James Bond movies, Batman movies, etc. Rather than seeing a list of every single movie that I have, is there any way with the ATV2 to be able to have Batman and James Bond to function more like a folder like it does with TV shows?
From what I have seen on the Internet, it looks as if this function does not exist and the only work arounds are marking everything as a TV show (from an organization standpoint this is counter productive); or, to make custom genres, creating a 'Star Wars' genre, and one for James Bond, etc however this removes the ability to have normal genres.
Thanks for any help!
Austin

That is amazingly frustrating. Obviously they were able to get grouping systems to work with TV shows, so why not with movies? Is the idea that no movie will ever have a <insert movie> 2, 3 or more?
From what I have been reading, I am almost tempted to return my ATV2 and find an origonal. It seems like everybody got punished for getting the newer one. Every time I read about them, there seems to be a laundry list of features the origonal one had that the current one does not.
I guess dropping everything into TV shows is not such a big deal, it just bothers me to have everything there when movies are not TV shows. This results in the problem of having to explain how your devices work to every single person that ever happens to use it. Being simple, obvious, and intuitive are some of the features that brought me, and I am sure many others to Apple. It is usually worth paying a bit more for these luxuries. I would never have bought a Logitech Harmony remote if I had to explain how to use it to every single person that ever wanted to watch TV at my place.
While TV shows are not my main collection, I fully understand and agree with the frustration of not being able to put them into a single group. Why is the idea of a folder so complicated? isnt this understood down to the file allocation table level? Maybe this is the result of depending on iTunes far too much. If the ATV2 could just use a standard connection like SMB or DLNA, not only could I organize everything in folders the way I want to, but I would be able to stream from my NAS and not be absolutely forced into streaming from my desktop, which is the primary reason I bought my NAS is so I wouldnt have to.
It is already enough of a pain that I have to convert every single movie that I have since nobody can agree on what file types they want to support playing. Now i have to have 2 folders, one for the PS3 and one for the ATV2, creating 2x as much data as needed. If they dropped this iTunes requirement, we would be able to use 3rd party apps to convert on the fly.
...sorry about the rant, I think i feel better now lol

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