#Monsterdon Okay Alta should have been called Artemis
and then she should turn one of the horndogs into a deer and let... well you can read how that myth ends
Okay, so the fancy glass space house also comes with a garden that somehow has deer in it, and the space daughter can use an ultrasonic whistle to summon them. She then uses it to summon a tiger to play with it. So far no one has asked why this house on an alien planet includes a garden with deer and a tiger.
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My young oversexed daughter
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By feminine touches of course he means the disintegration disposal ray. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon are.... are they gonna imply Morb is fucking Robby?
Where did the fruit in the bowl come from?
So he was *definitely* responsible for their deaths got it.
good programming instincts: letting the program crash indefinitely as a safety mechanism #monsterdon
Captain Neilsen doesn't care for this demonstration, Morb.
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!
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.
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.
i want a robot with an adding machine head
#monsterdon The absolutely fantastic Robby the Robot, everyone..
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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@Cherizilla likes robots and Leslie Nielson.
This movie is both Nielson's and Robby the Robot's film debut!
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.
For a captain, he's running around checking stuff a lot. Kirk would just sit there in his big boy chair.
Almost forgot #Monsterdon
Tonight is one of my favorite old scifi movies: Forbidden Planet
I'm 4 minutes behind!
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.
"...with no way to turn it off."
Morbius: "Turn that disc and push that lever."
('blow up' is still 'off'')
@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.
#monsterdon #forbiddenplanet
@JoeWynne @Taweret @Cherizilla "From the sublime to the ridiculous..."
@paco Same. I'm really glad I saw this.
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"
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,
Every wibbly wobbly space sound imaginable!Reverse polarity!The amazing Robby the Robot!Space zoo!60 gallons of booze!Space Jazz!Invisible subconscious brain monster!Big planet go boom!
I didn't want to say anything but the Lite Brite dial room is a little Killer Klown.
#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......"
We did see Robbie carrying a fainting body, but it was the doctor, not Alta.
Every planet has a self destruct button
Lol, wondering if this is how Elon ends?
Morbius is a cross between Darth Vader, Elon, and Overprotective Dad.
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.
Hah, "Lost" definitely stole the bit about seeing an enormous monster approaching by the trees it knocks over during its approach.
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...
and just like Elon, Mobius' daughter disowns him...
MONSTERS FROM THE ID!
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"
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
MONSTER STOMP
Yikes, this invisible monster thingy is racking up quite the body count in this sequence. π¬
@brooke I mean, it was so effective the first time, why not try it a second? π
Monster fight scene! These special effects are amazing!
Laser hosepipe, just stand there and hold it
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!!
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.
Ainβt no laws against tree sloth claws
Ok, so I had sex with the robot. We were drunk it's not a big deal
Hey #Monsterdon folks - very cool trivia thread here by @JoeWynne on today's film #ForbiddenPlanet.
Does it take more than five minutes to get stiff? That will be the drinking...
#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
space bigfoot!
It's great how Cookie thinks there's anything he could do for Robbie that Robbie couldn't do for himself
@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. Youβve got Krell whose-itβs and whatβs-it galore.
We all know IQ testing is worthless, right?
the script may be terrible but these sets are so cool
"And this is where Darth Vader fought Obi-Wan." #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
they had evolved beyond osha
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 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
I bet those prongs go in the krell's sex organs and he's got this thing very wrong
This Krell library device here in the laboratory is absolutely a microfiche reader! Love it.
All of this set design is incredible.
...Wait, so Altarians were featured on It Conquered the World
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.
The doorways are unique design where anyone of any height can split their skull open
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.
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.
"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
KItty!! #monsterdon