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Truly Dreadful Film
Megamind
To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Matylda Swan
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
sablair
In the mind of an eight-year old boy,in the summer of 1956, this was the perfect film. Later, when I learned that the screenwriters had pirated the plot from Bill Shakespeare, I found myself a bit disappointed, though in retrospect, it did not diminish the sweetness of the memories. Campy? Yes. A bit kitsch? Of course. Entertaining? Most definitely. Set aside 95 minutes on a summer's eve and prepare to enjoy yourself, and when you get to Altair IV, say hello to Robby for me.
Tweetienator
A real nice classic piece here - Forbidden Planet is sci-fi pulp fiction forged into a movie, on top we get Leslie "Naked Gun" Nielsen in his very young days.
Like the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and The War of the Worlds (1953), Forbidden Planet is a real iconic sci-fi flick of the 50s.
mike48128
The "flux" scene is very early on, and the crew has to stand under a display which looks very similar to Star Trek's transporter. They are turned inside out and back again and it is very startling. It is "panned to the side" and not shown in even my official MGM DVD copy. While the movie is fascinating and even humorous (Robbie the Robot) the electronic music is somewhat cloying and annoying at times. Note the unintentionally funny final scene in the film when Leslie Nelsen almost "cracks up" as he hugs our beautiful heroine, Anne Francis. Amazing animation that is so precise that it appears as moving mattes. Yes, Disney Studios did it (with supervision) "credited" to them. The "ID monster" terrified me when I saw this film as a child at an "MGM Kiddie Matinee" on a really big screen. According to the script, even the tiger is an" illusion" powered by Dr. Morbius' mind. The monster materializes only once (that I remember) while "caught" in a beam of light. Obviously, Gene Roddenberry "borrowed" several ideas for his "Star Trek" series decades later.
Grumpy
The pure, essential essence of 1950's-era science fiction. It's primitive in a way--but you have to accept that. It's not like they had decades of science fiction film tropes to refer to so none of the slow kids would get lost. They also didn't have a million and one expert science fiction writers to call upon to write the script. They had to settle for what they had, but it was wonderful. In order to appreciate this film you have to stop judging it and comparing it to other films from other times. It is the best of its type for its time, and then it is also a wonderful, almost accidental masterpiece. Robbie the Robot is the first GOOD movie robot. The space ship is the first GOOD movie space ship. The story is the first (and almost the last) GOOD movie space story. You may not understand the story the first time through. Don't be a jerk and blame the script. You missed something. Watch it again. Then, finally, after you understand what is going on ("my poor Krell") and you're no longer gagging on the stupid sexual innuendo (yes, it's dumb, get over it) you can really sit back and enjoy one of life's true intellectual pleasures. The strange story of how one may live a life of the mind, and nothing else, inspired by a long- dead civilization and their hideous technology. Forbidden Planet. Father of Star Trek.
