Tearing this move apart.
It was made in 1956. NOT today. Most of you expect highly scientific writing or non sexist writing.
Give it up and just enjoy the freaking movie. Geez.
For the time period, as we look back, it was a great feat in science fiction movie making and you all need to just relax in my not so humble opinion.
And overall it still holds up today.
They who give up liberty to
obtain a temporary safety deserve
neither liberty or safety
The people bitching about it should not be allowed to "boost their IQ" with Krell tech. Definitely not.
share This movie is a classic and it will live forever. This film along with "The War of the Worlds" and "the Day the Earth stood still" are timeless classics.
This movie reminded me of Space exploration.
TWotW was about how easy It would be for aliens to come and destroy us.
TDtESS it was about an alien coming to warn us, and warning us about how badly we were treating the planet and making nukes and killing the planet we need to stop doing it.
True and great messages as well.
Like I said,,,they are classics and even Lucas and Spielberg have said it was a great influence on them.
They who give up liberty to
obtain a temporary safety deserve
neither liberty or safety
Not to mention Gene Roddenberry!!!!
shareOutstanding 60 year old film which is still compelling viewing. A real classic!🐭
shareNo matter what you say or how you look at it is a cheesy movie and was so back in the 50's as well. It's hardly a great film, nor is it deserving of the praise it receives, it's very much on par with Plan 9 as far as quality goes ;P
shareThese are the remarks of someone who either knows little about motion-picture history, or is deliberately trolling us. But I'll take the bait.
Forbidden Planet isn't particularly well-acted or directed, and the script has a few wince-inducing moments. But it's a reasonably serious story about whether man has the right to tamper in God's realm.
Forbidden Planet appears to be the first serious color, big-budget science-fiction film. I saw it at the age of nine when it premiered. Sure, I was impressed. But in the following 60 years, I've seen thousands of films and TV shows. If Forbidden Planet were a dog, I think I'd have figured it out by now, for roughly the same reasons Niles and Frasier Crane eventually decided that the 1812 Overture wasn't great music.
Cheesy? You don't know what cheesy is. Even by modern standards, the special effects hold up, and that's saying a lot for a 60-year-old film. It also has a unique "musical" score that deservedly received a special Oscar.
I like you. The rotoscoping (FX) were done by an animator on loan from Disney.
I would argue that it IS rather well written and directed, personally.
Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen especially, I think, give outstanding performances.
Dear Jackass: You do know that this movie is based on William Shakespeare's "Tempest," right? Oh, you don't? You don't even know the play, which is still being produced after centuries, or who Shakespeare, known as "the Bard of Avon," is? Do you know what "the Id," a term coined by Sigmund Freud, means, as in "monsters from the Id"? These are rhetorical questions. You are too fucking stupid to enjoy this classic.
shareI'm sorry, but this is either top level trolling, or you're outright blind.
To anyone who knows even the slightest bit about film or film history, this movie is highly regarded as a hugely influential and pioneering piece of science fiction. If there had been no Forbidden Planet, there likely would have been no Star Trek.
And trying to claim its on par with Plan 9 is........yeah.
This is a great science fiction film, with effects way beyond the norm for that time, and that still hold up well. And anybody who gets triggered by the crewmen's normal heterosexual response to Anne Francis in her skimpy outfits is just immature.
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I always say that films like this were made in an era when men were men and women were glad of it.