Talk:History of science fiction films

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"Except for Star Trek and Star Wars films, the only films set off Earth that appeared in the first half of the 2000s were the poorly received Mission to Mars and Serenity, a continuation of Joss Whedon's tv series Firefly."

As I came to this, Serenity had not even been released, just under a month from hitting theatres - so how accurate is it to say that it's been poorly received? Since I haven't been following reports and updates of the film, I'm going to leave that to someone else to sort out. --Bacteria 12:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fantasy Films Before the 1980s

I disagree with the respondent's rather incredible claim that there were almost no fantasy films before the 1980s that weren't horror. What about:- the various versions of The Thief of Bagdad (1924 and 1940), Disney's various ventures into feature-length animation, Ray Harryhausen's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Dr Dolittle (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) to name but a handful of titles that immediately come to mind. Certainly the point made that there was a convergence between sf and fantasy in the 1980s is a pertinent one.

[edit] Titles

I notice a correspondent has recently specifically created an edit to list Star Wars as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and 2010 as 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Star Wars was only retitled Episode IV: A New Hope in re-release, but not in the original version. Similarly 2010 is only known as 2010 on the screen title, the only place the subtitle The Year We Make Contact appears in on the film's poster. Maybe we could come to some sort of consensus on what the correct title should be could be reached? My feeling is that the title that appears on screen and the one that appears in the original release should be the official title.

--203.118.131.65 10:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC)