Forbidden Planet 's 50th Anniversary

[trekgeezer]

Forbidden Planet was released in March 1956. I will never forget how awestruck  I was as a youngster the first time I saw the great machine of the Krell and learned what an id was.

This is the movie that inspired Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and no telling how many other film makers. (How many of you missed the nod Joss Whedon gave Forbidden Planet in "Serenity"?)

The effects are the most outstanding of their day and still look good today.

This is one of the great classics of Science Fiction.


Check out this nice article about the film.

[The Burgomaster]

This is definitely among my top 5 or 6 favorite sci-fi movies of all time.  It's hard to believe that it is already 50 years old.

[Ash]

Oh hell yeah!

All those guys shooting lasers at that unseen monster.
Forbidden Planet freaked me out when I was a kid.
I remember saying out loud, "C'mon, kill it!  Kill it!"

It still is a bit eerie after all these years.

I think I may just have to pick it up on DVD.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

In college I saw a seminar that took "Forbidden Planet" and did a slide show showing how it's design and ideas influenced later sci fi.  It was absolutely facscinating.

-Ed

[Flangepart]

Class.
Pure class all the way, baby.
Man, i wish i had a Robby the robot of my own....(Sigh)...but you know how the feds are about that...

[plan9superfan]

Say, did you know that this movie is based on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?