54321... BOOM

and they fucked-off in space, back to Earth

#monsterdon

I didn't want to say anything but the Lite Brite dial room is a little Killer Klown.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon They couldn't kill off Robbie he was too cool.

This is what ten to the literal power of infinity can do. It can heat up metal. #monsterdon

"Well Doc, this is the only other Earthlike planet anywhere near Earth but sure, blow it up......"

#Monsterdon

We did see Robbie carrying a fainting body, but it was the doctor, not Alta.

#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Every planet has a self destruct button

#Monsterdon

Lol, wondering if this is how Elon ends?

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Morbius is a cross between Darth Vader, Elon, and Overprotective Dad.

#Monsterdon

So the Id monster is drawing all the power it needs from the giant machine, which is the inspiration for Babylon 5's great machine, and it is using that power to melt through the super Krell door.

Doctor M realizes that the captain is right that the Id monster is caused by him, and the captain draws his phaser. Doctor M asks the captain to kill him, because the Id monster (his evil alter-ego is at the door), but the captain doesn't shoot him.

#monsterdon

Hah, "Lost" definitely stole the bit about seeing an enormous monster approaching by the trees it knocks over during its approach.

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They were too early to know not to shoot monsters with energy beams #Monsterdon

Imagine hooking up our Internet to a planet full of replicator technology, no wonder the Krell destroyed themselves...

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and just like Elon, Mobius' daughter disowns him...

#Monsterdon

MONSTERS FROM THE ID!

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I hadn't realized that relationship had progressed beyond kissing for the sake of scientific appraisal. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I know this is par for the course but what does Alta even LIKE about this guy

or "Emergency cancellation Archimedes"

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He just wants to play. It's not Id's fault it's stronger than King Kong and denser than plutonium.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Holy fuck these effects are good, and love the gauges going haywire in the background in the next scene

#Monsterdon

MONSTER STOMP

Yikes, this invisible monster thingy is racking up quite the body count in this sequence. 😬

#monsterdon

@brooke I mean, it was so effective the first time, why not try it a second? 😆

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Laser hosepipe, just stand there and hold it

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These perimeter defence guns, despite being crewed, definitely make me think they inspired the sentry guns in Aliens.

...a-a-a-and there is the ominous "something is approaching" alert. And the gun batteries are on auto! Yep, definitely inspired the sentry gun sequence. It's so cool seeing all the familiar things this movie inspired!!

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Aww crap I missed Fornidden Planet "That's solid Krell metal.18?" thick" #Monsterdon 26" thick?

#monsterdon Watch the laser beams, you will see something very cool.

"A good technician...."

"A good epitaph for any man."

Really ?

#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Ok, so I had sex with the robot. We were drunk it's not a big deal

#Monsterdon

Hey #Monsterdon folks - very cool trivia thread here by @JoeWynne on today's film #ForbiddenPlanet.

https://mstdn.plus/@JoeWynne/114571464791289472

Does it take more than five minutes to get stiff? That will be the drinking...

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#Monsterdon *doc reconstructs the animal from the footprint*

I thought i was going to have to resign to the antagonist just being horny, thank god there is a monster #monsterdon

This would be awesome on a big screen #Monsterdon

It's great how Cookie thinks there's anything he could do for Robbie that Robbie couldn't do for himself

#Monsterdon #TheForbiddenPlanet

@Cherizilla True. I was thinking that watching these older films really helps to learn a bit more about film history and evolution.

The benefits of #Monsterdon!

That is some absolutely fabulous matte painting work. #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

We get it Morbius. You’ve got Krell whose-it’s and what’s-it galore.

#monsterdon

We all know IQ testing is worthless, right?

#monsterdon

the script may be terrible but these sets are so cool

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"And this is where Darth Vader fought Obi-Wan." #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

"Look down there. Don't be afraid."

"...Christ, is that Palpatine down there?"

#Monsterdon

they had evolved beyond osha

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Philology for the win! #Monsterdon

Both the captain and the doctor have implausibly high IQs (like 160 and 180), maybe everyone is a super genius in the future or has read a lot of the magic D&D tomes that make you smarter when you read them.

Anyway, the doctor won't let the captain use blender because he's too dumb and it might explode his brain, the doctor explaining that having his brain exploded was how the captain of his spaceship died, but he was slightly smarter so he survived.

#monsterdon

I bet those prongs go in the krell's sex organs and he's got this thing very wrong

#Monsterdon

This Krell library device here in the laboratory is absolutely a microfiche reader! Love it.

#monsterdon

All of this set design is incredible.

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

...Wait, so Altarians were featured on It Conquered the World

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Doctor M takes the astronauts on a further tour of Krell artifacts, showing them their impenetrable armor door and also an alien laboratory which contains a table screen that reveals all of the Krell's knowledge. The doctor explains that he's translated some of it and used the knowledge to make the robot.

Also, we don't have a picture of the Krell but I guess they can fit through the doors and I guess they had big heads.

#monsterdon

The doorways are unique design where anyone of any height can split their skull open

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Hugging and kissing bring about the fall from grace. Basically, she just ate the forbidden fruit. Innocence is lost. Now she has no choice but to become a housewife.

#monsterdon

Consider a door, boys.

Now use it.

#Monsterdon

Being accused of crimes triggers the Doctor's exposition mode, and he explains the Cursed Backstory of this planet! It used to have aliens called the Krell, and they visited earth and borrowed some of our tigers and monkeys and other animals. But for some reason they vanished 200 centuries ago, and even their cities have vanished, but they left a nice EP of some electronic noises which the doctor plays with his salt shaker jukebox.

#monsterdon

"What's a bathing suit?"
"Nothing. Forget I mentioned it."
#monsterdon

no regrets killing her pet cat
no tears shed, v. superficial
#monsterdon

The Naked Blaster 2 1/2: The Smell Of Burnt Tiger Fur

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@TerryHancock Worldbuilding matters, something most Monsterdon movies get hilariously wrong

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This suspicion conversation is followed by a Nude Swimming Scene... which I guess is technically a translucent dress swimming scene with the daughter. After she gets out she changes by a bush and flirts with one of the spacemen, maybe the captain, I'm having trouble telling them apart because they all dress alike. Anyway, they kiss, but their kissing is interrupted by a Tiger attack!

Then the spaceman evaporates the tiger with a ray gun! RIP kitty. You were vaporized too soon.

#monsterdon

And that’s Oscar from The Six Million Dollar Man, right? With the copper coil? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I dressed boring so men would take me seriously -- Alta

Monkey! More movies should have a random monkey scene.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit peeping #Monsterdon

I think she has a webbed butt

#monsterdon

Wow! There's implied nudity in a 1956 movie.

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Back at the glass house, the robot is lasering a monkey to deter it from stealing fruit, reminding me that no one has explained why the crashed spaceship had a monkey on it. The spacemen arrive and voice suspicion of the doctor (or maybe the robot) for the sabotage, but are unsure how either of them could sneak into the saucer to break their machine.

#monsterdon

he’s gonna regret metooing his crew, aint he?

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

I don't think that "aye aye sir" was sincere

#Monsterdon #TheForbiddenPlanet

Anyway, in response to the sabotage of something, a space mechanic is ordered to fix the part and the captain orders tighter security around the saucer.

#monsterdon

"Alright it's impossible, just how long will it take?"

Some Captain Kirk style command there...

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so Alta is half way to barefoot and pregnant? why dafuck she ain’t got shoes?

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"Sorry miss I was giving myself an oil job."
Is that a euphamism?
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

oh, Skipper, you are such a disappointing incel piece a shit

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Well this Alta / Commander kissing montage is certainly on the same general level of excruciating awkwardness as the real thing.

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lieutenant is a scum bucket, isn’t he?

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"is that all there is to it?" burn. #monsterdon

@foolishowl I was thinking maybe that the Bellerophon was a private civilian ship and the flying saucer we see is a military ship, or at least a government ship, but that was just my inference.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon A klystron is a real thing, btw..

"You'll get it not later than tomorrow noon" fried a circuit in my brain. #monsterdon

the lieutenant is a snitch

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

"This is Commander Horndog, Lieutenant Shagsalot, and Sergeant Lustbucket"

#monsterdon

No, seriously. We're good here. Y'all earthlings can fuck right off.

QUICKLY! And close the Forbidden space door on your way out.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I'm hoping the movie ends with Robby and Alta killing everyone

"I've so terribly wanted to meet a young man, and now three at once!"

😳

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#monsterdon The two end ones are unbelievable. You're telling us..

@thegiddystitcher That sound design cooked that whole stop motion take. That WAS cool. #monsterdon

@Taweret I agree the doctor's glass house seems like mid century modernism but elevated to its ultimate conclusion and then given a strangely 1970s-ish color scheme?

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That shutter effect was satisfying as heck #monsterdon

You also have the largest porn collection in this sector

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Always giving machines a gender....

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A replicator! #Monsterdon

@Lazarou Yeah. This was the Star Wars of the late 50's. SFX wise. #monsterdon

Joking aside that is one fine damn model.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Anyway, while our saucer is zooming around, we get a hail from the Planet, a Doctor Morbius who can somehow detect the saucer and warns them that they shouldn't land because doom or whatever. Since the doctor's name starts with an M, and he's not the Morpheus from the matrix, the audience should suspect that we have met the Malevolent Master (of Evil) for this Movie.

Anyway, the saucer people ignore this warning and decide to land.

#monsterdon

I love how the special effects here are leagues ahead of the other fare from this time....

Quality movie!

#Monsterdon

It’s MORBIN’ TIME!

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i'm sorry, MORBIUS? #monsterdon

We learn the mission of this spaceship via a succinct briefing by the captain, which is to investigate reports of another spaceship that crashed on the earthlike planet Altair IV some years ago.

We get some very nice and actually rather modern effect shots as it approaches the planet. The space cook complains that this planet doesn't have beer or women on it; we know he is the space cook because he is dressed in a navy battleship cook outfit as opposed to a gray padded suit.

#monsterdon

Wait, Altair is blue, not red!

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

LESLIE! and why is his voice so high?
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"Everyone strap down for the electronics solo...."

#Monsterdon