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Excuse me but exactly which tome of Wiki law does it violate to observe the physical characteristics of the space vampire?
I feel that reducing Matilda to a brief comment about her breasts is an insult to female space vampires everywhere. Wikipedia needn't stoop that low, in my opinion. C d h ( talk) 21:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Lol! Good Response... I Own the DVD of "Life-force" and enjoy it for its Fortean relevance as well as the admittedly dazzling charms of Matilda May. But I think the film is too often under-rated. It has a suitably morbid tone, and ramps up competing blends of creepy eroticism. Most of the actors try to do well with rather poorly constructed Expository dialog. One REAL weakness is the rather clumsy puppet work with the Life-Drained liches that the victims become. Also Steve Railsback is ALWAYS so strange that I just end up watching to see what odd thing he will do next. Mentioning Matilda Mays "Boobulance" in the text is just stating the obvious as well as being tacky & Lame. For descriptive wiki text it's an easy "FAIL!" Just reference nudity at the most & leave it at that. 71.6.81.62 ( talk) 02:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)mbd 71.6.81.62 ( talk) 02:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC) 7:21pm, 2 July 2009
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 23:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
"The three vampires escape from confinement and proportionally transform most of London's population into zombies." What does "proportionally" mean in this sentence? (It's in the Plot section.) DavidCh0 ( talk) 10:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Do not know if this should be added to this page or to the page for the film Runaway Train (film). However the main title music Henry Mancini wrote for this film was re-used as the backing for the Runaway Train trailer. IMHO it actually works better in that role as the music seems better suited for swashbuckling action adventure. Graham1973 ( talk) 09:45, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
From these two sections alone, the article seems to be a reasonable addition to Wikipedia and the remainder is worth editing. My focus was on Wikifying, concision and encyclopedic tone. --Soulparadox 10:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
This article would be helped by a "Critical Reception" section, which is common for most movie articles. Expressing opinions by reviewers, and aggregate sites such as Rotten Tomatoes. Also, I could not find any source for additional revenue streams that would be accrued from movie rentals/video sales, although I would expect there to be some (I believe Waterworld was a huge money loser, until you factored in video sales, and then it's revenues made it into a money-maker). -- Despayre tête-à-tête 17:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
NinjaRobotPirate, if you are wondering why I made this edit, which you reverted, the answer is simply that I believe readers would expect "science fiction" to link to an article on science fiction as a genre rather than to one on science fiction films. So, the general link is more appropriate. FreeKnowledgeCreator ( talk) 03:23, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
With regards to this edit, I've reverted for essentially the same reasoning as TheOldJacobite did - the section refers to the novel, not the film. It's not enough to say that what is relevant to the novel is relevant to the film - in this instance sources need to be found and used that state theat the film contains the same Lovecraftian overtones as the novel does.
You cannot use the argument of "The novel is Lovecraft, the film is based inspired by the novel, ergo the film is Lovecraft as well." - that's the very definition of
synthesis
And for what it's worth, I don't consider the film to have Lovecraft elements in it at all, it's a straight forward Sci-fi vampire flick. the film shares elements of the novel without doubt, but differs in so many important parts that different references are required for the film. Chaheel Riens ( talk) 10:39, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
I made a bunch of changes to the article, so I figured I'd explain them in a little more detail here than is possible in an edit summary. The actors' names are already listed above, below, and beside the plot; it's highly redundant to list them in a fourth place. As such, there's consensus at WT:FILM not to list actors' names in plot summaries, but I don't have a URL handy to link this consensus. I'd have to go look for it in the archives.
When I clicked on the "mixed reviews" citations, it turns out the source says it received negative reviews. In the lead, this was further softened to "mixed-to-positive". I changed both to what the source says – negative reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes score is fairly positive, but we can't synthesize from those reviews that there was a critical reappraisal. I personally like the film and think there likely was a critical appraisal, but that's immaterial to what we write in a Wikipedia article. I did a quick Google search for it, but it didn't turn up anything I could immediately cite as proof there was a reappraisal. It's definitely something to think about for article improvement, though.
Another thing I changed was the film's nation of origin. Previously, it was labeled as an American film, and someone changed this to American-British. BFI says it's British, however. I also checked Variety, but they don't mention the nationality. AFI doesn't have it listed. So, I cited BFI and called it British. There was definitely American involvement, but we'd need a source to call it an American film, especially given what BFI says. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 19:58, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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this movie has a certain visual style that should be acknowledged if only to not seem oblivious. Where have I seen a media impact header? 136.34.176.115 ( talk) 02:47, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
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Excuse me but exactly which tome of Wiki law does it violate to observe the physical characteristics of the space vampire?
I feel that reducing Matilda to a brief comment about her breasts is an insult to female space vampires everywhere. Wikipedia needn't stoop that low, in my opinion. C d h ( talk) 21:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Lol! Good Response... I Own the DVD of "Life-force" and enjoy it for its Fortean relevance as well as the admittedly dazzling charms of Matilda May. But I think the film is too often under-rated. It has a suitably morbid tone, and ramps up competing blends of creepy eroticism. Most of the actors try to do well with rather poorly constructed Expository dialog. One REAL weakness is the rather clumsy puppet work with the Life-Drained liches that the victims become. Also Steve Railsback is ALWAYS so strange that I just end up watching to see what odd thing he will do next. Mentioning Matilda Mays "Boobulance" in the text is just stating the obvious as well as being tacky & Lame. For descriptive wiki text it's an easy "FAIL!" Just reference nudity at the most & leave it at that. 71.6.81.62 ( talk) 02:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)mbd 71.6.81.62 ( talk) 02:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC) 7:21pm, 2 July 2009
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 23:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
"The three vampires escape from confinement and proportionally transform most of London's population into zombies." What does "proportionally" mean in this sentence? (It's in the Plot section.) DavidCh0 ( talk) 10:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Do not know if this should be added to this page or to the page for the film Runaway Train (film). However the main title music Henry Mancini wrote for this film was re-used as the backing for the Runaway Train trailer. IMHO it actually works better in that role as the music seems better suited for swashbuckling action adventure. Graham1973 ( talk) 09:45, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
From these two sections alone, the article seems to be a reasonable addition to Wikipedia and the remainder is worth editing. My focus was on Wikifying, concision and encyclopedic tone. --Soulparadox 10:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
This article would be helped by a "Critical Reception" section, which is common for most movie articles. Expressing opinions by reviewers, and aggregate sites such as Rotten Tomatoes. Also, I could not find any source for additional revenue streams that would be accrued from movie rentals/video sales, although I would expect there to be some (I believe Waterworld was a huge money loser, until you factored in video sales, and then it's revenues made it into a money-maker). -- Despayre tête-à-tête 17:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
NinjaRobotPirate, if you are wondering why I made this edit, which you reverted, the answer is simply that I believe readers would expect "science fiction" to link to an article on science fiction as a genre rather than to one on science fiction films. So, the general link is more appropriate. FreeKnowledgeCreator ( talk) 03:23, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
With regards to this edit, I've reverted for essentially the same reasoning as TheOldJacobite did - the section refers to the novel, not the film. It's not enough to say that what is relevant to the novel is relevant to the film - in this instance sources need to be found and used that state theat the film contains the same Lovecraftian overtones as the novel does.
You cannot use the argument of "The novel is Lovecraft, the film is based inspired by the novel, ergo the film is Lovecraft as well." - that's the very definition of
synthesis
And for what it's worth, I don't consider the film to have Lovecraft elements in it at all, it's a straight forward Sci-fi vampire flick. the film shares elements of the novel without doubt, but differs in so many important parts that different references are required for the film. Chaheel Riens ( talk) 10:39, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
I made a bunch of changes to the article, so I figured I'd explain them in a little more detail here than is possible in an edit summary. The actors' names are already listed above, below, and beside the plot; it's highly redundant to list them in a fourth place. As such, there's consensus at WT:FILM not to list actors' names in plot summaries, but I don't have a URL handy to link this consensus. I'd have to go look for it in the archives.
When I clicked on the "mixed reviews" citations, it turns out the source says it received negative reviews. In the lead, this was further softened to "mixed-to-positive". I changed both to what the source says – negative reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes score is fairly positive, but we can't synthesize from those reviews that there was a critical reappraisal. I personally like the film and think there likely was a critical appraisal, but that's immaterial to what we write in a Wikipedia article. I did a quick Google search for it, but it didn't turn up anything I could immediately cite as proof there was a reappraisal. It's definitely something to think about for article improvement, though.
Another thing I changed was the film's nation of origin. Previously, it was labeled as an American film, and someone changed this to American-British. BFI says it's British, however. I also checked Variety, but they don't mention the nationality. AFI doesn't have it listed. So, I cited BFI and called it British. There was definitely American involvement, but we'd need a source to call it an American film, especially given what BFI says. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 19:58, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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this movie has a certain visual style that should be acknowledged if only to not seem oblivious. Where have I seen a media impact header? 136.34.176.115 ( talk) 02:47, 11 August 2023 (UTC)