The ID monster - is it fair to critique the creature design all these years later?
First of off. Yes I admire and love Forbidden Planet for expanding my mind and ID, but now many years later as an adult I watched it again and was disappointed by the creature design.
I am wondering at the time of release, if an adult watched this - does the ID creature look like a Disney cartoon character (they did actually get a Disney animator to draw it)? To me it looks like a bulldog. Why not make it more malevolent looking?
To me it was only so impactful and scary because I was a child, and the sound effects were so freaky and you could only see it because of the blast outlines of the force field or energy weapons. But it looked too much like a cartoon to be taken too seriously.