Category talk:Science fiction films

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Please Create some Sub-Categories to organise this category better. It is very large. helohe 20:38, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

How about science fiction films by year? Shawnc 20:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Science fiction films by year or decade is an obvious solution that solves the problem permanently. As the production of science fiction films is unlikely to cease in the near future any categorization by topic is bound to become very large again. On the other hand categorization by topic may be much more interesting and could be sub-partitioned by time when this becomes a necessity.

Here are some ideas for sub categories:

Utopian / Dystopian (there is already Category:Dystopian films)
Supernatural / Soft Science / Hard Science
Alternate Universe / Future Earth / Space Travel / Alien Contact
Social Criticism
Military Conflict
Time Travel (there is already Category:Time_travel_films)
Virtual Reality
Science Fiction Thriller
Humoristic Science Fiction (there is already Category:Comedy_science_fiction_films)

There is also Category:Submarine_fiction, which contains some SF films. Maybe it would be useful to define intersections of categories as independent categories (Science Fiction / Comedy films) instead of Category:Comedy_science_fiction_films. An intersection could then be a sub-category to both categories.

This would be following Help:Category#Some_general_guidelines:

Categories are mainly used to browse through similar articles. Make decisions about the structure of categories and subcategories that make it easy for users to browse through similar articles.

~~I will check Wikipedia talk:Categorization for discussions relating to this issue. --Fasten 15:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)~~

[edit] James Bond films

Since 8 out of 23 James Bond films are in this category, would it be safe to say that James Bond films are in general science fiction? Also, since most James Bond films have a plethora of gadgets that verge of sceince fiction tech, all of them could be considered science fiction. So, we could just add Category:Science fiction films to the Category:James Bond films, and remove the Science fiction category from those films. Lady Aleena 09:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)