Talk:Fantasy film

message: I dispute that "The Green Mile" is not an example of a fantasy film. John Coffey's unique abiliites aside, the film and story as a whole just don't belong in this catagory. If there is no opposition, I will remove it.---Jackel 21:45, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Becasue sci-fi, fantasy, and horror are closely related genres, and buddy comedies are not closely related to fantasy. Rick Norwood 14:00, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Older topics

message: Good edit, Fairsing. Rick Norwood 20:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, there's some more to do cleanup-wise but basically the info in the article was solid to begin with.  I'll probably put a little more work into the History section.  Fairsing 22:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fairsing edit 

message: should we merge or separate the lists from Fantasy film and List of Fantasy films? I mean I was racking my head trying to think of all the films they were missing, then I noticed the list link at the bottom, and wondered why we were trying to start a list of movies on this page. Or am I missing some sort of more specific point? Vom 07:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Historically, the article Fantasy film listed only the most important fantasy films, and the article List of fantasy films tried to list all of them.  However, as time went on, more and more fantasy films were added to the list here.  My inclination is to 1) prune the list here and 2) put at the top of the list a "main article, list of fantasy films" tag.  But I don't want to start a big fuss over which films are major and which films are minor. Rick Norwood 12:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Vom, you raise a very good point.  I think I agree with Rick Norwood.  There might indeed be some fuss about which are major and which are minor, but of course this happens all the time in Wikipedia, and the process of generating consensus around this is, well, part of the process.  So, I'd agree that many of the films listed here in the 1980s and onwards should be moved to the List article and just the most notable ones kept here.  Fairsing 13:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: According to the article "Bambi, for example, is not fantasy, nor is 1995's Toy Story,"
Um, why not? How are talking animals or talking, animate, sentient toys not fantasy? They both sound pretty supernatural to me.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Web wonder (talk • contribs) 21:27, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bambi and Toy Story 

message: Dear users/participants of Wikipedia
I have recently added links at the Wikipedia horror film, science fiction film and fantasy film pages which refer to the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film", an international bibliography of the secondary literature on fantastic film focusing on horror, science fiction, fantasy and experimental film. The administrator User_talk:Ckatz has deleted these links several times arguing that Wikipedia is not a compilation of links, that a link to the "Bibliography of Fantastic film is advertisement/spam and violates the rules of Wikipedia, and that I am not allowed to promote a site which I'm involved in as an author. A strange argumentation: not the quality of a linked site matters, but the author/contributor. Finally Ckatz commended me to find another editor to set a link to my bibliography. That suits me fine because I think (as I told the administrator previously) that it should be the decision of the Wikipedia users and not of a single person wether a link to a free scholary bibliography on the topic of the related Wikipedia article is relevant or not.
So, following the suggestion of Ckatz, I request You, the users of Wikipedia interested in fantastic film, to check out the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film" and decide by yourself wether it is relevant for a Wikipedia link or not. If yes, please feel free to ad a link to my Bibliography by your own.
If You want to send me a message You can use the discussion page of my Wiki username User_talk:Athenaion or email directly to Holger.Schnell@gmx.net.
I have copied this text to the discussion site of the horror, science fiction and fantasy articles of the English Wikipedia. You can also find it at my own Athenaion discussion site. Thanks for Your attention.
--Athenaion (talk) 10:14, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film" 

message: Call me really picky, but I think it's silly to have Burton's 2010 'Alice in Wonderland' as THE example of fantasy films for this article.
1. It is very recent. Smells like marketing to me.
2. It's not a classic, and is thus very non-iconic.
3. It wasn't widely liked.
4. It is not a historically significant piece of filmography.
In its place, I suggest using something older and more universally recognized, such as the 1939 'The Wizard of Oz'. Or even Peter Jackson's "The Fellowship of The Ring".
5176shutt (talk) 16:08, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Alice in Wonderland'?  

message: Maximilianklein (talk) 23:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: WorldCat Genres

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message: This article gives good explaination about the difficulty of who to define fantasy film. It raises many examples to support the viewpoint. It might be better if adding some estimates and opinions from audiences and may be some critics. And can talk about what influence does this genre of film gives to the society.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:5B06:7900:144A:7E4D:4D03:736E (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  fantasy film  

message: I've semi-protected this article, because after yet another notification about a link being made to Lists of prehistoric animals I took a look at the edit history and saw basically an entire page of slow(ish) motion edit warring. I have no opinion on the merits of the dispute (I've not even looked at it, and have no intention of doing so) but all parties need to stop reverting and discuss changes. When that is resolved any admin should feel free to remove the protection without consulting me. Thryduulf (talk) 18:49, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a laundry list of 'Prevalent elements' in the lead. A series of IPs keep growing it longer and longer. It doesn't belong in the lead at all, so I've been removing it. MrOllie (talk) 18:56, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection