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Removed "One of the more criminally underrated films in the world." I happen to agree, but assertions like this at least need to have a justification in order to be NPOV. arj 13:44, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I think anyone who saw the movie agrees with the deep 60-ish feel everything has -- including the Giant in its Attack mode. Maybe it's just the POV of a tonza brazilian guys, but everyone here agrees the Giant is surely martian.
What we present as proof is its visuals and 'energy guns', commonly associated to them in Atomic Horror movies of the time. The firing pods at the end of its 'tentacles' coming from his back are just screaming that. I think it worths a mention, even if only in this talk page.
I noticed that Hogarth and Dash from The Incredibles look very simmilar. This is probably because both movies were directed by Brad Bird. Should this be mentioned in the article?
Reference to the deer "cruelly killed for sport." I changed that to "killed by hunters." We don't know their motivation, and the kill appears to be clean, competent, during hunting season and with the expectation of eating it. "Cruel" is opinion and not relevant. The robot would be upset with any death.Mzmadmike 14:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I've removed this partial statement: "(as he cannot control his weapons and they are contrary to his developing identity)" This is a perfectly valid interpretation, and is probably right to some extent, but it's still speculation. No reason is outright stated in the movie, but "save Hogarth and the town" is a much more obvious motivation. Unless the writer says this was part of his reasoning, or some new footage comes out where someone says it, it doesn't fit.192.88.124.201 (talk) 16:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Man, This was an awesome movie. They really should make a sequel. Fatandlazy11 22:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Am I the only one who noticed that there was A LOT of cursing in this movie? --Jnelson09 02:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know if/what kind of audio effects were applied to Vin Diesel's lines? I always wondered if he provided the metallic tones or if that was audio engineering. 128.113.148.163 17:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
you are not smartmy sir — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.91.150.165 (talk) 21:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't like the fact that this article refers to the Giant as an "it" and not "he". That really irks me. Are there any repercussions (sp?) for replacing all "it"s with "he"s in relation to the Giant? -dogman15 05:11, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Hogar says "him,not it" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.153.119.112 (talk) 15:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Wildroot 23:14, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
The Iron Giant is a very well written article, with plenty of illustrations. However, the article has less refs than I would have liked, but not enough to fail the article (I almost did fail this article). Congratulations to all who contributed to this article! RC-0722 (talk) 00:15, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey, thanks man! I still intend to use those references listed above. Don't worry. Wildroot (talk) 22:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think the further reading section listing Ted Hughes books is relevant to the article. It may be an animated movie, but it was based on the book by Ted Hughes originally. I would like the section put back again. Stellar (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 07:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Is all that business about a negative review really important or significant? It's from a no account editor from an obscure website (rank 360,106 on Alexa), and it's just plain obnoxious. It doesn't fit the article or add anything useful, and seems like a personal plug. I'm planning to remove it. Thoughts?24.226.20.41 (talk) 07:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
When I started work on this article I couldn't really find any other logical negative articles from some looser of TheMovieBoy.com As Wikipedia, we should included different perspectives, however I look back and wouldn't mind if someone deleted it. It was really the only negative review I could find, it's just the fact that this film is so good I guess, I don't know. Wildroot (talk) 15:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
The studio that released this film is "Warner Bros.", not "Warner Brothers". The studio does not spell out the name in any of its official documentation, on its website, etc.
Also, there is very little information on the actual production of the film (not even a listing of the head animators). Until I added it, there wasn't even a mention of Warner Bros. Animation, which is akin to not mentioning Pixar in an article about Toy Story. This would need to be addressed if the article is to move beyond good status. --FuriousFreddy (talk) 17:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
The DMOZ search template, and by implication all DMOZ search links, is being considered for deletion because it violates WP:ELNO #9. Anyone interested in discussing the fate of Open Directory Project (DMOZ) search links is invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Dmoz2. Qazin (talk) 05:34, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
When the General ordered the nuclear submarine to target the Giant, the coodrinates given were 44.50177 -67.71972 (Google Maps) --80.222.196.205 (talk) 13:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I remember that Cartoon Network would run 24-hour-marathons of this movie once each year, at least until 2003. I think this should be noted. 71.48.76.59 (talk) 02:59, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
A lot of the cited links are dead. For example only the first link is the reference for not less than 9 quotes, this is a serious problem for the whole article! --93.135.61.111 (talk) 05:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
A confusing sentence, stating that three U.S. congressman were enlisted to advertise for the movie is sourced to citation 15, which is a dead link that I cannot find. --64.19.13.218 (talk) 08:37, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
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It feels like the article just leaves off at this point. Was this change successful? How much did it make on video? --173.58.183.29 (talk) 01:38, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
It seems that perhaps the 2007 Transformers movie is kind of a fusion of this film with the existing Transformers idea. And this film was probably to some extent influenced by Transformers -- they can't of been totally unaware of the 1986 movie and successful TV series? I'd really like to read some discussion of that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.148.53.46 (talk) 23:40, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
In the lead section, it says that the genre of the film is a "science fiction fantasy action film." I think two genres in the lead section are enough to be used in the lead section. Rather than getting involved in an edit war over this GA, I am taking the WP:BRD route and opening a discussion here. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:30, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
you meant is science fiction fantasy action drama film -dewy60
I cahnged it back to Scienece fiction-fantasy-action film, because that is what it is. - Dpm12
The 09:22, 27 February 2016 68.13.155.55 version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand an existing article.--Wing (talk) 16:02, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
The film absolutely does not specify that the final scene of the Giant is at any particular locale. Who is adding that glacier-in-Iceland claim, and what evidence are you claiming for it?
This non-evidenced claims was made by anon IP 89.160.238.252 on Sept. 11, 2017. --Tenebrae (talk) 23:35, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Is there any connection to the '60s cartoon Gigantor? If yes (or no) should it mentioned in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcsew2k (talk • contribs) 04:05, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
In the section, "Signature Edition," I have added information about The Art of The Iron Giant book which released coinciding with the new version of the film. [1] Timothymably (talk) 20:00, 5 October 2019 (UTC) October 5, 2019
I have also purposed an added sentence for the Legacy section in which I include cited information about controversy surrounding Ready Player One which included the Iron Giant in a battle sequence. [2] Timothymably (talk) 20:04, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
References
An article from a site called BombReport.com was added claiming the budget was as low as $48 million.[3] (It seems [the change] was first made by User:Websurfer246.) It is difficult to know if this source is reliable.
The other sources put the budget at $70 million [4] to $80 million. The-Numbers.com puts the budget at $50 million [5].
None of these sources include any claims or explanations that these figures were "including prints and advertising" or based on any kind of tax breaks or rebates.
Template:Infobox film says not to cherry pick budget figures, and without reliable sources strong enough to discredit any of these numbers we should list a range. -- 109.78.248.150 (talk) 00:44, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
It is unclear to me why User:Grandpallama wants to restore unnecessary details about Quest for Camelot to the introduction of this article. It was only recently added by an anonymous ipv6 editor, only a few weeks and not many edits ago.
I was merely restoring the long standing WP:STATUSQUO and although I was tired and made a mistake in my edit summary when I first reverted the change, I repeated my revert because it was not an improvement. It is still is WP:UNDUE and unnecessary to explain those details at such length in the intro, in an already overlylong and unwieldy sentence. MOS:LEAD The intro is supposed to summarize the article. -- 109.79.74.4 (talk) 05:54, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
an anonymous ipv6 editor, given that the entire third paragraph of the lede covers the unexpectedly strong critical performance of the film in light of its most recent predecessor and the expectations that lay around that. The edit adds in a grand total of six words that clarify and provide context for the rest of the paragraph, and fully a third of the article covers the unexpected critical success of the film and the way in which expectations and marketing hurt it during its original release, so it's hardly undue, nor is it covering anything
at length. Your initial reversion was based upon a complete misunderstanding of the text, yes, but an argument about the text being undue or not adhering to guidelines for a film lede doesn't hold much water here. Grandpallama (talk) 13:45, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
the details of why the other film failed are irrelevant to the Iron GiantReally? Both the 'Animation' and 'Marketing' sections of this very article disagree with that claim, and your assertion that it's "clearly unnecessary" simply doesn't work. The recency of the addition and the fact that it came from an IP are irrelevant; the fact that this small addition to the lede is, in fact, a significant issue that is covered throughout the body of the article isn't something that you've addressed. At this point, I'm beginning to think you're just annoyed your initial, completely erroneous, reversion was disputed. Grandpallama (talk) 17:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
I have a good question: How or where is Hogarth confirmed to be 9 years old? According to the back of a DVD I used to have as a child, Hogarth is 11.--Sstanford2 (talk) 02:33, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
In case my following edit is disputed, I am not convinced the film was released on the same date worldwide. I remember it showing in cinemas in the United Kingdom in January 2000 when I first saw the film and it was on home video there that summer. According to a Google search, possibly quoting the Internet Movie Database, The Iron Giant was released in the UK on 17 December 1999. It is also worth remembering that many American films were released in the UK months later than in the United States at the time including the early Pixar films. Tk420 (talk) 11:12, 20 September 2021 (UTC)