Talk:Face/Off

message: "The first challenge one confronts with Face/Off is the curious, I might even say misplaced, 'forward slash' in its title. Are 'Face' and 'Off' separate talents that the title has on its résumé? Is there a choice between 'face' and 'off' that we, or one of the movie's characters, are asked to make? Perhaps 'Off' is a computer file extension of the program 'Face.' The slash is even more confounding given the dizzying array of character and punctuation marks one has to choose from. Was Face%Off considered and rejected and, if so, why? How did the slash win out over the altogether more approachable * character, or even the ^? I find it most likely that the slash was a later accretion by an ambitious promotions person trying to make a name for herself. 'I'm the one who put the slash in Face/Off!' one can almost hear her bragging, completely oblivous to the soupy haze of confusion she created."
:—Michael J. Nelson, Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, pp. 45-46
Actually it is very simple, Woo put the slash in the title after others said that the movie may get confused for a hockey movie. "Dylan Porter"
:Faces got slashed off, so it's a Face Slash-off  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Forward slash

message: The line "possibly the best chase scene ever filmed" strikes me as this authors opinion.  If it's not simply a case of someone praising something he or she likes, can we see a source here, please?
--Ryl 09:22, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Ryl, but not with Michael J. Nelson as the / is clearly present in the movie poster on the article. That one line has caused someone to put a NPOV dispute sign over an otherwise pretty good article. Dessydes 05:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Agreed and reworded. I've taken off the NPOV template, but I haven't gone over the article with a fine-toothed comb. --Grocer 12:31, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: Throughout, Archer is referred to as Archer. Troy starts off being referred to as such, but then the article switches between Castor and Troy, in a slightly confusing way. Wouldn't it be better to refer to the character as Troy all the way through, like Archer? 212.108.17.165 14:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castor/Troy 

message: Whoever wrote the original article removed a brief critical comment I added about a week ago.  At first, I was astounded to find my comment deleted summarily; however, when I reread the original article, I realized that it is not really a disinterested, informative, professional article, but rather a puff piece masquerading as an article, possibly by someone connected with "Face/Off" and its continued financial success who saw my comment as a threat to that success.  I note that a special DVD version of "Face/Off" is scheduled for release this year.  While I understand that there's always a bit of an author's self-interest lurking in all articles, the article for this movie (I can't bring myself to call it a film) is steeped in unwarranted praise.  Indeed, "Face/Off" has so much wrong with it from an artistic standpoint that my criticism was modest compared to what an intelligent, educated, experienced moviegoer could write.Cavan 16:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased review masquerading as disinterested article 

message: In the DVD releases, for some bizarre reason the bits with the switch blade are edited out. It is perplexing why you can show someone without a face, a serrated knife being jabbed into someones thigh, a child being shot, many men being shot and falling to their death, drug taking and an undercover FBI agent sucking on a drug dealers tongue, but, you can't show a switch knife!? Maybe this should be added here by someone else as I wont be able to do it from a non bias view. Maybe it isn't important... (thats what the FCC want you to think so they can continue their arbitrary and unwarranted censorship, I mean for christ sakes, its a DVD, if I buy it I want to watch it, what the hell are they doing disrupting the flow of the movie by arbitrarily taking parts out!?)
If u mean him giving the girl a switch blade, that is on the region 2 dvd I have.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Addistheman (talk • contribs) 20:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Censorship

message: Someone edit it into paragraphs. It's a solid block of text.--Viridistalk|contributions 18:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done a complete rewrite. Noclip 14:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breaking up Plot 

message: :Image:Face-Off (Movie Poster).jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Face-Off (Movie Poster).jpg

message: I'm really in two minds about passing this one. Some small issues at first: the lead makes no mention about the plot, and I don't like cast names in the plot. The big issue here is the production section is tiny: I'll give you the benefit of a week to fatten it up. Alientraveller 09:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA on hold 

message: Can we get a cleanup on this? Do we really even need this section?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.114.50.187 (talk) 21:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Goofs

message: a cast section is needed for this article, less it face deletion!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.24.88 (talk) 18:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a Cast section 

message: That needs to be changed. Jamie recieves a butterfly knife (or a balisong) from Castor. When I attempted to edit that, it was imediately changed back to the incorect switchblade.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.130.16.104 (talk) 16:23, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: my apologies. I undid my reversion. Thingg⊕⊗ 16:24, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Switchblade

message: has this page been vandalised? Its full of incomplete sentences and random names of characters and actors, which make following the complex plot virtually impossible. Unfortunately its some years since I saw this movie and I'm not familiar enough with the plot to fix the article. Can someone fix it?The Yowser (talk) 09:37, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: This page is a complete mess

message: This film is spy-fi,not science fiction.That's why let's call this film spy-fi.  Bendybit 09:04, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent changes