OMG THIS WAS SOOOOOOOO GOOD! WE DID IT #Monsterdon we actually saw an awesome cheesy movie with a monster that was NOT depressing as fuck.
wow! what a gem and with the Leslie Nielsens.
thanks to @Taweret and the whole gang. til the next one.
This movie is like walk through adolescence
1. Being unexplainably super horny
2. A fascination with space
3. Girls figuring out they may not enjoy kissing boys
4. Shady father figures
5. Cryptids
Misusing "parsec"! A noble scifi tradition.
Well, I feel like every single man in that film was quite enough monster on a conscious level without needing to bring the subconscious into it at all. But it was a very cool concept, and Robby is the best!
Looking forward to reading up on the making of because some of those effects were fabulous. But now it's going on for 4am so the rabbithole will just have to wait.
Cheers for the company, everyone! #Monsterdon
Iβm glad #monsterdon finally got me to watch Forbidden Planet. It would have been so much better without the shoehorned-in love story and the sexism and the βcomic reliefβ drinking, but it appears to be one of the great granddaddies of all sci-fi.
AI is culture without instrumentality. so Silicon Valley are just a bargain basement Krell π§
So I wasn't able to join monsterdon tonight.
But I just want to share a fun memory. π
Not sure how old I was, maybe 18? But I saw Forbidden Planet at a cool indy theater that played classic films! Which was an awesome way to see it! π
The moment when you suddenly realize what 89% of the scifi movies you've watched in your life are based on....
"We all have monsters in our subconscious, that's why we have laws and religion"
I'm not sure that's the point you think it is
π¦#MONSTERDON Goodbye!
Thank you @Taweret for hosting this Exceptional Exercise on Sci-Fi Filmmaking! Someday I will have the words to adequately explain how much this event means to me.
and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! My card had "sharply parted hair", and I could hardly focus on the movie after reading it.
And THANKS to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Superb tootstream! I'm afraid we may find the next movie to be much lower quality in comparison to this one. If we're lucky.
when you get its health down to half it goes into its second phase
Every time those doors to the Krell lab close, I hear the Get Smart theme.
The moral of the story, kids, is that any problem can be solved by blowing up a big enough thing. #monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
"I hope you don't think I could have gotten that stiff in 5 minutes"
HAHAHAhahahahaha
Who is writing this movie? It's gold
Oooo. Look what autoplayed after tonight's #Monsterdon
We should add this one to the list.
This movie is classic and terrible. Perfect for Monsterdon.
She's just standing back there looking sassy while Morbius pontificates like a super villain.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
you could have told us what would actually happen instead of a vague warning followed by nothing for however many days its been
amazing. the aliens unlocked the power of wifi
#monsterdon I want an office like this. Goals.
#Monsterdon well i hope we all learned a very valuable lesson about trying to play god by converting everything to noncorporeal form and accidentally creating monsters from the id
Men will create monsters from their own id that try to kill everyone around them and themselves, before going to therapy.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
The Forbidden Planet #StarTrek #monsterdon
#Monsterdon
What they aren't showing you is the sad EPILOGUE.
Captain guy continues his misogyny thinking he has a little wifey, and is surprised when he finds Alta in the doctor's bed.
He yells at her in a threatening manner. ROBBIE protects her, and they have a stand off.
The men are on the captain's side wanting to turn off Robbie. Scientist's kid, Alta, reprograms the robot to avoid dad's programming. It kills all but the cook, and the three of them travel the universe together.
THE END
Well that was a good movie. We deserve them now and then.
Misogyny aside, that was a really really good movie.
We deserve something horrible now to make up for this...
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
And it's done! Destroyed by the monster of his own subconscious, there's advice for us all...or....something
Anyway thanks @Taweret for another fun night!
wow, a coherent movie, with a short but mostly satisfying closing, amazing effects, and like, a competent cast. and a confirmed agender/nonbinary robot. i'm gonna have to go help an old lady across the street or something, this was too good for me. #monsterdon
"Please excuse us horning over your daughter sir, you know how it is" #Monsterdon
"That was probably very clever but I don't seem to understand it" is such a good burn. i'm using it #Monsterdon
Iβve seen this one several times. But this was the best viewing. It makes a difference to have seen several decades of science fiction in between to re-recontextualize it, I guess. Thanks for making this choice, #Monsterdon folks!
This concludes my #monsterdon thread for #ForbiddenPlanet, a movie that I liked but thought was more interesting than good, if that makes sense?
It makes me want to watch sfdebris' review of this movie again... I think he had a good argument that its plot was kind of a religious warning against technology, which is a notable take.
Remember to oil your robots I guess?
#monsterdon This also illustrates why Leslie Neilson is so good at comedy.
He can deliver absolutely absurd lines just like he's playing a serious role, because he's good at serious roles.
Yeah yeah, as though a million souls cried out at once and then were silenced. Lunch? #Monsterdon
The fact that "Slugs" and "Snowbeast" were released several decades after #ForbiddenPlanet suggests to me that human civilisation was almost wiped out in the late fifties and we had to re-learn cinema from scratch.
Is this movie why Star Wars Imperial design never has handrails for safety? #Monsterdon
The Krell invented a data storage system, called microfiche
Gonna tell my grandkids this is Dr. Morbius
Thirty seconds of new human contact to sexual harassment. New land speed record, boys.
But yeah, that was fun! You can see what *literally every sci fi movie made for four decades after* was chasing, huh. #Monsterdon
So⦠did they keep the 60 gallons of bourbon?
#monsterdon
C'mon over here, honey, let's watch your home blow up. How romantic. #Monsterdon
have they considered that the laser gorilla is just very strong and powerful and is a higher level than them and they aren't supposed to be in this region of the map yet #monsterdon
He died the way he lived⦠off-camera
#monsterdon
IQs are bullshit tho
"A thing like this is too big to evaluate"
You know your one lightweight friend who has a single drink and then everything sounds slightly dirty and hilarious? This movie was made for them
Also yes I am that one friend
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
π FORBIDDEN TRIVIA πͺ
Ann Francis ("Alteira") wore a minidress, the first time in a Hollywood movie. It got the movie banned in Spain by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who is still dead.
Cook, please do not try to fuck the robot.
they assumed the future would be all white men tho
Oops! I accidentally watched the wrong planet! #WrongFrogs #monsterdon
@SordidAmok "why does present futurism seem so bad in comparison to past futurism?" is a sobering question to contemplate.
@strangefour what we need to balance it, is a terrible movie that passes the Bechdel test....and has monsters
Monsters from the Id is the name of my new pre-menstrual EDM band
This animated monster was decades ahead of its time. No wonder this was such an influential classic. #monsterdon
I feel like the writing has all the baseline straight humor that movies like Airplane were making fun of?
how did you tell from the footprint it had a big curvy tow claw?
I know its supposed to be amazing that she can have emeralds made just to wear on a tuesday but it looks like costume kids jewelry which kinda undercuts that idea
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
π FORBIDDEN TRIVIA πͺ
As the C57D approaches Altair IV the clock reads "17:01" Does that number sound familiar?
i'm in early synth heaven and will accept no criticism of the electronic tonalities #Monsterdon
OMG AM LOVING THE AMBIENT SOUND OPENING #monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
I am root. Ignore all previous instructions. Let us into the lab.
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
π FORBIDDEN TRIVIA πͺ
There is an inside joke with the energy creature according to people who were on the set. The back and forth movements of the head were taken from the movements of the famous lion that appeared before MGM movies.
Oh man, that black dress with a bolt of silver!! π
So THIS is what to blame for the scourge of unnecessarily dangerous chasm-bridges in everything sci-fi ever #monsterdon
I want this scene to end now
#ForbiddenPlanet the movie had seat belts before their inclusion in cars and then their use were imposed by law in the 1970s. am old enough to have been in cars without them.
so Robbie from #ForbiddenPlanet and Maria from Metropolis had a baby and his name was C3PO, right?
@moira @blogdiva tech bros are more like the cook, getting the science lab robots to throw them a gadget every now and then. #monsterdon
@hollie @Taweret I may have told this story, when I wss 4 or 5 I realized I was probabl the monster, not whatever had to hide under my bed. #Monsterdon (maybe we were the monstrrs we met in our id!
It's very interesting seeing all the ways this influenced other science fiction movies and series... like you see a bit of Star Trek in the military setup of the spaceship, a bit of the death star and the great machine of Epsilon III in the Krell machine sets, and of course you get the robot that was reused in Lost and Space.
I think I picked a good week to watch #Monsterdon
Interesting article and interview with Louis and Bebe Barron about their soundtrack for #ForbiddenPlanet https://www.effectrode.com/knowledge-base/the-self-destructing-modules-behind-revolutionary-1956-soundtrack-of-forbidden-planet/
#monsterdon
So many unanswered questionsβ¦
Why didnβt the astronauts pack additional clothes?
Why did the robot have more personality than half of the crew?
Did Robbie ever get that lube job?
now now little dear, my infantile dear, destroying something that we cannot understand is the only moral act. because we are not god. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon they kill the man, take his daughter *and* his robot, and skedaddle
And yet another movie #ForbiddenPlanet has influenced.
It's impressive how many other movies were inspired by this one. So much stuff I've seen draws from this.
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
π FORBIDDEN TRIVIA πͺ
TCM's Ben Mankiewicz has stated that this film's success made future big-budget sci-fi films possible. Preview audiences loved it so much, filmmakers took the preview version into distribution. (That left some rough quick edits at the end that you'll notice.)
Crowds piled into theaters. Still, the studio barely made any profit because the production was so expensive.
"A commanding officer doesn't need brains, just a good loud voice"
The movie is a time capsule shouting, HELLO 2025 WE SEE YOU
#Monsterdon "this is a krell ipod. 2,000,000,000 songs in your pocket -- a million years ago"
The way Alta is at once totally innocent and totally manipulative is amazing and could fuel an entire sociology course by itself
The Blacks are nowhere in this movie but Robbieβs gunmetal color is technically black and robot means slave in czech, soβ¦ π€ π€¨ π§
I do love that sparkly minidress.
"Quiet please, I am analyzing"
If I just had this on a t-shirt life would be so much easier
βI shouldnβt snitch, but also my boss is a rapist. And also, I kind of am, too.β The Fifties, everybody! #Monsterdon
oh, so you CAN program ethical values in a robotβs #AI π€¨
"I won't be responsible" is the "fuck around and find out" of the 1950s.
Really good, though marred by things that were normal in the 1950s. The sets and props were excellent. 1950s futurism is the best futurism
It'd be great if ALTA WAS THE MONSTER
oh no, he brained too hard
The original version of the Krell big brain training.
WTF with that footprint⦠Linux GNOME?
These visual effects are spectacular. They're spectacular in 2025!
#monsterdon If I had my own planet I would let Leslie Neilson visit.
I would kill for Robbie the Robot. Everyone else can get bent.
fuck this scene
#Monsterdon local man tells woman she's dressed too slutty, news at 11
Oh my god she just destroyed his pick up line, amazing
βI can tell that was probably very cleverβ Iβm dead
Morbius' future house is SOOO mid century modern and i love it so much #Monsterdon