So he was *definitely* responsible for their deaths got it.

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good programming instincts: letting the program crash indefinitely as a safety mechanism #monsterdon

Captain Neilsen doesn't care for this demonstration, Morb.

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1950s Atomic Rocket house, robot butler, food replicators....this is the Future we were promised!

Household disintegrator too! What could go wrong with that?! Yeah!

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I'm not trying to belittle the fry cook's importance to the crew and its morale, but did he need to come on the away mission? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I love how they have to know if the robot is a boy or a girl before they can follow it.

It's a ROBUT .WHO CARES.

only a gringo would think it not rude to tell someone who came a million miles to save them to turn back. rude.

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

We get more super nice effects shots where the saucer lands and the crew descends via a stairway, then decide to gawk at the green sky and a dust devil. But the dust devil turns out to be a robot driving a goofy looking minimalist space car. He ambles out to meet them and bows congenially, announcing that he is a robot butler named Robby who has maxed out his duolingo score and will take them to meet the doctor via the silly car.

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i want a robot with an adding machine head

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These matte paintings set the bar for decades! #Monsterdon

This is pretty great so far but those uniforms definitely make them look like the baddies. Never seen it before though, so maybe they are! #Monsterdon

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🙊 FORBIDDEN TRIVIA 🪐

@Cherizilla likes robots and Leslie Nielson.

This movie is both Nielson's and Robby the Robot's film debut!

#ForbiddenPlanet

no environmental suits needed, the sheer amount of hair grease in this room will create a protective bubble around us the second we step out of this ship. #monsterdon

We are introduced to the inside of the flying saucer, which is crewed entirely by white dudes in padded gray costumes. The flying saucer is a cool set, the centerpiece of which is a crystal globe. Their mission is to go to Altair for some reason, and when they arrive they have to step in these force field chambers to shield themselves from the deceleration.

As they arrive we get a cool effect scene where they show the planet eclipsing the sun.

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Almost forgot #Monsterdon
Tonight is one of my favorite old scifi movies: Forbidden Planet
I'm 4 minutes behind!

@RobynGoodfellow #Monsterdon

This movie starts with a flying saucer zooming around, and a voiceover explains the history of the world. We land on the moon in the last decade of the 21st century and then later invent a hyperdrive and travel faster than light through deep space. So far we're ahead of schedule on the moon thing, but alas, no hyperdrives.

We then are introduced to our first character, who is a spaceship. She's a flying saucer doing a deep space things, but like... a human flying saucer.

#monsterdon

Oh no, did we accidentally pick a good movie? Somebody put _work_ into these costumes and sets, and the focus pulling is suspiciously competent!

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#monsterdon #forbiddenplanet

"...with no way to turn it off."

Morbius: "Turn that disc and push that lever."

('blow up' is still 'off'')

@littlemiao Yeah, I pretty much just gave up on telling the difference between most of them.

I'm also very bad at telling identically-dressed male characters in 50s movies apart. #monsterdon

@littlemiao I blame the military haircuts. #Monsterdon

@paco And the moral of the story is, don't connect your mind to the Mind Reading Machine while it's connected to the Instant Gratification Machine^tm. #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet #KrellNo

@jammerb @moira
Robby the Robot returned to Earth, He adopted the name "Bob" to be more relatable to Earthlings. Infused with all the knowledge of the Krell, he tried to share this incredible technology. Humanity was not ready, and they rejected him. Tale as old as time.
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@JoeWynne @Taweret @Cherizilla "From the sublime to the ridiculous..."

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@paco Same. I'm really glad I saw this.

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"we brought back a magical robot from a frontier world and it devoured the Solar System, that'll show those fuckers..." - the Cook

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Question: is there a science fiction movie from the past 70 years that hasn't been inspired by Forbidden Planet?

I suspect the answer is "not any worth watching"

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Well alright! Thanks, #Monsterdon ! Damn good time, that was!

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #ForbiddenPlanet, from 1956, was the basis for so much sci-fi to come, including,

and so they fucked off into space

ty for joining, everyone!!

#Monsterdon

54321... BOOM

and they fucked-off in space, back to Earth

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@neonbubble The real monsters are the men who treat Alta that way. #monsterdon

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

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#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......"

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

#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

Every planet has a self destruct button

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Lol, wondering if this is how Elon ends?

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

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

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MONSTER STOMP

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

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

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Monster fight scene! These special effects are amazing!

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Laser hosepipe, just stand there and hold it

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Soldier's weapons look like caulk guns. #monsterdon

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.

Ain’t no laws against tree sloth claws

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"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

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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*

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I love how Mobius is all "shit, it's happening again"

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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

space bigfoot!

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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

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.

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#Monsterdon do not let the others use the toy. they will make naked alta

Dr. Morbius is always finding an excuse to slip "IQ of 183" into conversation

#Monsterdon

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

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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

does this story about Krell count as monologuing?

#monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

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

#monsterdon

Consider a door, boys.

Now use it.

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

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KItty!! #monsterdon

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.

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

I think she has a webbed butt

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