I store mine in order of purchase, with the only exception being that i put sequals together even if bought at different times.

you could still sort alphabetically and make a similar exception for related movies. You could even change the sort title in dvd profiler for your bond movies to be Bond 01, Bond 02, etc

-Agrare

I store them primarily by genre (as far as it is clearly identifiable), within that usually alphabetically - and occasionally by director (e.g. all Hitchcocks and all Kubricks' are together) and/or by main actor(s) (e.g. all Chaplins are together - and I also have some actor boxsets). The remainder (the ones without a genre that stands out) are sorted alphabetically.

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I store mine in whatever order they happened to get placed on the shelf.  Think of playing darts blindfolded...

Shelf? Sounds like quite a lot of work. Have you considered a pile in the corner of the room?

I sort by genre and packaging

shelves for series/box-sets:
- SciFi series (e.g. star gate, star trek, galactica etc.)
- comedy (m.a.s.h., monk, home improvement...)
- drama (sopranos, six feet under, rome...)
- crime (c.s.i., bones, 24...)
etc.

Single movies:
- war
- action and suspense
- sci fi
- horror
- drama

etc.

...and yes, I very often have to resort...

I'm still looking for the ultimate storage solution! 

I sort by decade and within those alphabetically. Digipacks are stored seperately as are all boxsets. I also have a special shelf for the Disney dvds and another rack for two special dvd series by Fox here in Germany.

Quoting Agrare:

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I store mine in order of purchase, with the only exception being that i put sequals together even if bought at different times.

you could still sort alphabetically and make a similar exception for related movies. You could even change the sort title in dvd profiler for your bond movies to be Bond 01, Bond 02, etc

-Agrare

That's the system I use

I sort by genre, and then alphabetically,

My Box sets are on top of the shelves that hold my collection, they don't fit in the selves anyway, when i have a TV Series that's complete, i treat them as a box set, and move them to the top of my selves

And when i have a movie that has a sequel, i'll put them all together when the first one of them comes up alphabetically, it's much easier to find a movie, cause i search by genre mostly, and also, if at some time down the road i may have to move shelves or add shelves, i can just move a genre group to another room without rearranging everything,
ofcourse those of you that have kids, they should have selves just for there movies, cause like most of us, I have a lot of films that i would never let a 7yr old watch, and the only sort rule I have for them is that the DVD gets back in it's case and in their shelf

bugger.......