Talk:Science fiction film

Skip to table of contents

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Science fiction film article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1: 730 days

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 19, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed

Film

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Film. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines.FilmWikipedia:WikiProject FilmTemplate:WikiProject Filmfilm articles

Science Fiction Top‑importance

	Speculative fiction portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Science Fiction, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of science fiction on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Science FictionWikipedia:WikiProject Science FictionTemplate:WikiProject Science Fictionscience fiction articles
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Daily pageviews of this article

A graph should have been displayed here but graphs are temporarily disabled. Until they are enabled again, visit the interactive graph at pageviews.wmcloud.org

References to use

Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.

Hogan, David J, ed. (2006). Science Fiction America: Essays on SF Cinema. McFarland. ISBN 0786421495.

Science fiction on television

Some parts of the current article may be merged/synchronised with Science fiction on television. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Science fiction film in the 1950s

If the 1950s is the golden age do science fiction film (and it is) then why doesn't have it's own heading rather than being subsumed with the 1930s and 1940s? 107.221.229.121 (talk)

"Early films" are often not very early

Early films often used alien life forms as a threat or peril to the human race, where the invaders were frequently fictional representations of actual military or political threats on Earth as observed in films such as Mars Attacks!, Starship Troopers, the Alien series, the Predator series, and The Chronicles of Riddick series.

The oldest of those movies is 1979; the latest is a franchise that started in 2000. Those hardly count as early films about alien invaders. This is followed by a list of "early films" where aliens are benign or beneficial, which range from 1975 to 2009.

I think there might be something relevant to be said about the history of depictions of alien life in SF film, but as written, the article doesn't even come close.

Also, as with the previous section, this entire section appears to be uncited original research, and largely incorrect. (For example, Avatar isn't about benign aliens any more than Starship Troopers is.) --157.131.170.189 (talk) 00:35, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 April 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. It would be best to group together all articles which use "science fiction" as an adjective and nominate it this way, to maintain internal consistency within the group. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Science fiction film → Science-fiction film – compound modifier UpdateNerd (talk) 08:13, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:44, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, a good faith suggestion but this one seems fine as is and aligns with all of the other Science Fiction pages. The Science Fiction article doesn't include the dash, nor does the {{Scififilmlist}} template of the List pages or its entries-by-decade. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:12, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm not sure if we have guidance from a MOS about this? We do have box-office bomb and list of biggest box-office bombs. A quick search engine test shows both "science fiction film" and "science-fiction film" being used by reliable sources. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 01:11, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A change like this would have to be a universal change of all Science Fiction pages and links (see Science fiction#See also for some of Wikipedia's usage). The term, as used on Wikipedia, is sans dash. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.