[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Forbidden Planet (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/15/2013 4:00:46 PM EDT
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A young Anne Francis.
Yummy. On TCM right now. 2000 EDT. Hasn't started yet, they are doing the prologue. |
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One thing I really like about the old spaceship movies is that the crews are composed of the stereotype WW2 bomber/ground crewmen. There's always a marginally sane lady-killer commander, a sincere but inept second-in-command, a bunch of clueless drones for the bulk of the crew, and always, always a moronic cook, usually found with his cap bill curled up like the WW2 ground crews had. In this one we have good old Earl Holliman as the doofus cook always looking for a classic enlisted man's entertainment - booze. And dames if available. The worst ones are the "Spaceship X And The Amazon Women Of Venus" kind of thing. In those every crewman chews the scenery trying to get at the dames. Good times.  |
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I approve of this movie! As well as "This Island Earth"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BN-u_liYJkAh yes, Faith Domergue. 
Liked her in "It Came From Beneath the Sea". |
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The invisible (almost) Id monster vs. the dismounted laser cannon was a great scene, loved it. The ship's stairs getting crushed under it's weight as it snuck aboard, the vast machine, and the melting control room door were great effects.
Battle with the Id monster Star Trek owes a hell of a lot to this movie. There are more than a few similarities. |
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Quoted: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now. A good serious actor until he went all Frank Dreben and became a comedy genius god. Her: Is this a bust or what? Det Drebin: Yes, it's very nice, but that's not why we're here. . . bud-dum DUM! |
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The invisible (almost) Id monster vs. the dismounted laser cannon was a great scene, loved it. The ship's stairs getting crushed under it's weight as it snuck aboard, the vast machine, and the melting control room door were great effects. Battle with the Id monster Star Trek owes a hell of a lot to this movie. There are more than a few similarities. 
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Quoted: When I saw that film in the theater as a kid I distinctly remember wondering why those guys decided to run up to the monster and keep shooting it with an ineffective weapon. Yeah lets get a few feet closer; that will do it. That was also the s-s-s-l-l-o-o-o-o-w-w-e-e-s-s-s-t-t-t speed of light ray gun beams I've ever seen, even slower that the ray guns on the Battlestar Galactica and Cylon fighters. You know, the beams that miss behind the enemy fighters because the pilots didn't lead them enough.  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Great movie. You can see where George Lucas got most of his ideas. Lots of sci-fi ideas can be traced back to FB. Notice the members of the crew who left the ship to go check things out? The Captain, his First Officer and the Doctor. Well, since FB is a callback to The Tempest by Shakespeare, it's a pretty long stretch of story telling. Someday, I want to be rich enough to go out and buy Robbie the Robot from William Malone. |
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Interesting info and videos with the some of the movie props
http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2011/07/forbidden-planet.html |
My dad got this movie on LaserDisc way back, ya that's right, laserdisk.  Anyway, really enjoyed it as a kid, might just watch it again since I haven't seen it in a while. I too loved the battle scene where the monster is in the fence, the crushed stairs, and the burning doors. Those scenes really stuck with me, I always liked contemplating how strong those doors were supposed to be and how hot the monster got the door, I spent a lot of time day dreaming up until...college.
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I have the movie on Blu-Ray. It was the first Blu-Ray movie I watched. I explained to my wife that Forbidden Planet was the quintessential movie for the modern Science Fiction genre; she watched it with me and really liked it.
(no pictures of wife due to opsec/persec). |
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It is not often that a "Sci-Fi" movie becomes a timeless classic (usually they quickly become very dated and cheesy) but like the original Star Wars, Forbidden Planet makes the cut.
I remember seeing it for the first time on late night TV in the 1970s. I had nightmares for a week 
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