Forbidden Planet

[ER]

THEE greatest sci-fi movie of the 1950s, contender for greatest sci-fi film of all time, somewhere on my short list for greatest motion picture ever made. Debate/discuss/declare the truth of my opinion?

[RCMerchant]

Eh- it's ok. I like the robot and the music.

[RCMerchant]

My favorite sci-fi film of the 1950's would have to be INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
That movie gets better every time I see it.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Regarded as one of the more intelligent science fiction films of that time. With Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis.

With, what I think is a suprisingly number of recognziable faces among the crew, including Leslie Nielsen, who is making only his 2nd film appearance, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman, and James Drury.

Loosely based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest."

And Robby the Robot was immensely popular among kids of that time.

[Svengoolie 3]

 Forbidden planet was an awesome movie for itcs day and fairly serious science fiction. It acknowledged  that "rocketship" would not be useful for interstellar travel and had "hyper drive", which was apparently a rough ride to enter or leave.

Robby was an intelligent design, not just a walking boiler. The parts  in his made sense. He had a gyroscope to maintain balance, vertical and horizontal scanners to see with, crystal plates to recorve sound vibrations to hear with,  relays to access memory and logic circuits to think with,  etc.

The movie was based on shakespeare's play "the tempest" with morbius playing prospero.

I thought I was a very courageous movie to make at the time. The line "Morbius, we're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion! "

I mean wow!  That was a ballsy line for the 50's. It essentially implied religion may be a human invited nation to deal with our all too real inner deamons from our Id,  and not the literal truth. In the 50's when you he anti commie hysteria,  the McCarthy hearings,  etc,  making a statement like that  took real guts

Everything abut this movie was truly  wonderful. The krell machine,  tho simple animation,  gave a sense of awesome scale that I didn't see again until star trek the motion picture.

This definitely deserves the title of one of the world's best movies.

BTW ER,  if you like intelligent SF movies I have a few recommendations .

Quatermass and the pit. Known in america as 5 million years to earth,  this was an intelligent SF horror movie I can't recommend enough.

Ikarie XB1 is an eastern European 60's SF movie that has at times been compared to 2001.itcs not an action movie but deal with an interstellar journey at subkght speeds.  How do people survive it,  keep sane, live for years on a ship knowing their familes are aging back on earth due to time dilation, etc.


Planet Bur.  Another eastern bloc SF movie.  Somewhat intelligent actually. Little heavy on the soviet propaganda tho. Might not be your thing.   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planeta_Bur

[Allhallowsday]

FORBIDDEN PLANET is a true Science Fiction story in the classic sense.  Most wane towards Horror (when they're good) and some have no "science" at all.  

My favorite sci-fi film of the 1950's would have to be INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
That movie gets better every time I see it.

It was just on TCM and I agree; it gets better each time.  


And speaking of Horror, my favorite sci-fi movie of the 1950s would be the super creepy ROGER CORMAN movie: NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)

http://youtu.be/-CqAszIdbcQ

[Svengoolie 3]

Again the science in it was amazing for the day. When the communication officer is talking about reaching earth from
Altair 4 he talks about using the ships engine to short circuit the continuum on a parsec level. He was basically suggesting making a wormhole to send a message thru as the writers knew radio would take years to reach earth .

They also established the idea of the possible in science fiction, like when the captain asked about an invisible being that  cannot be disintegrated by atomic fission and the doctor says "No,  that's impossible. " Then they realize it must have  been constantly regenerated from micro second to microsencond.

The fact the creature's foot made no sense in any evolutionary model combining traits of various types of creatures that were  incompatible.

Sure it had issues but the good outweighs the bad.