fun fact this movie is the first appearance of robbie the robot, a very high-concept "prop" that went on to be used in other movies, and the tv show lost in space
#ForbiddenPlanet reveals at a majestic pace the truth at the heart of every #Monsterdon : the true monster is ourselves. The eerie sounds, the music, the sets, the matte paintings, the effects combine to set a bar not surpassed for years after the movie's release. While the portrayal of the men interacting with the ONE WOMAN hasn't aged well, Alta herself navigated that rough terrain with confidence and poise.
Well done, all!
They nuked it from orbit!
@klu9 @strangefour lol, it would have to be something like that I reckon!
@Lazarou Yes! Horrible movie with actually good female characters. And a real alien.
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I dunno who thought that was a bad movie in the poll, but this has always been a classic! Thanks for picking it! π
@SordidAmok I would live in that house, easily. #Monsterdon
So glad I finally watched this ur-scifi masterpiece! The cinematography and sets were stunning!
(Could have done without some of the disturbing 50s shit, but I understand that cinema reflects the times.)
Thanks, @Taweret, for hosting!!
To all of you that voted for this, I am grateful. Thank you. Those were fantastic visual effects. Bechdel didn't get a word in, so plot and story need some modernising. But the visuals were outstanding. And, honestly, for Monsterdon this was some actual acting.
Always love the visuals in that one and the concept of the Monsters From The Id is one of my favorites. You just have to power through all that 50's sexism. All y'all in the US enjoy the day off tomorrow. Thanks for @Taweret for hosting. #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
For those tuning in late, the compressed version
@JoeWynne @paco that was a delightful effect #Monsterdon
And that's a wreck! The remaining crew fuck off into space, the dreadful monster fucks off into a thermonuclear planetary-scale explosion that definitely included at least some sea, and Altaira returns with the crew to an Earth hopefully better off for the lessons she brings with her.
That was great!! Thank you for organizing this, @Taweret! This was a real treat. (And there definitely was a monster!!)
"we had to destroy the planet in order to save it" #monsterdon
Did he account for how long it would take for the light from the explosion to reach them at 100 million miles out? Thatβs like 9 minutes of lag with light traveling 186,000 miles per second.
@tankgrrl The top part seems to be the standard robot of the 50s shell, but the bottom definitely was completely different.
Robby's legs are painted cardboard because he couldn't actually sit like that.
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"Now let's watch your dad blow up"
#monsterdon Someone has reached post-coital clarity... and now comes the awkward afterglow.
"Son. Turn that disk" Uptown Funk starts playing. #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
In the next scene, we're back in our initial character, the spaceship, with the daughter. We turn on our viewscreen and watch Altair IV explode, then comfort the daughter who is sad that her father died and her home planet exploded. Which is understandable.
The captain monologues that in a million years humans will reach the same point the Krell did and probably make the same mistake of making a giant machine that will kill them with Id monsters. Maybe, who knows?
Mighty Morbin Mental Monsters
Pompous White Nationalist Morbius does deserve to be killed by his own id monster though....
Instead, Doctor M throws himself toward the monster and tries to sacrifice himself; this lucidity or perhaps altriustic attempt at self sacrifice seems to disable the monster. He tells the captain to turn a disc and trigger the self destruct for the massive machine; he then tells the captain and the daughter to run away and get 100 million miles away from the planet before it explodes.
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"You sent your secret Id out there to murder them!"
Leslie Nielsen: βyβall need Jesusβ
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#Monsterdon they shot at the door in the earlier scene to set this up -- wait for it!
Checkov's safety program
But Robbie can't kill your Id doc....Three Laws!
"You fool! How could a guy named Morbius be a monster!?" #monsterdon
Woah... really not much sympathy for the dead Doc. Here's a guy you don't want doing your eulogy.
does dr morb sleep in that fake bowtie outfit? #monsterdon
He didn't even get to the machine. Robby bopped him one for finding his oiljob...materials.
The krell forgot one thing... The Power of Love! #monsterdon
Monsters from the Id! Look out for Jung!
Back at the house, I think we asked Doctor M to leave because there's a dangerous monster here but he doesn't want to go... I missed part of this so I'm not quite sure.
The astronaut doctor then disappears, but is carried back in an incapacitated state by Robby and lowered to a couch. He has a burn on his skull because he used the alien brain machine to reveal dark secrets.
Kill them all, invisible ape-lion-thing!
I AM MONITORED TO INSURE QUALITY AND FOR TRAINING PURPOSES
@jonny They need to go grind against some invisible giant nightmare sloths first, clearly.
"three billion electron volts" so, half a nanojoule?
What is βsolid nuclear materialβ?
a griffin?
the best part is the way the monster picked up the people and enveloped them in its energy. from an sfx standpoint I mean. it was _dang_ good.
Love how theyβre barely aiming
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@CactuarJoe We have Monster Sign!
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Stay on target...
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I warned you that your cook would try to fuck my robot.
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I wanna ride around in robbie's lil cart tho
The next night, the crew are intensifying their fortifications, bringing out square field guns that shoot lasers and testing them; not sure why they had so many of those things in their cargo holds.
I kind of like the design for the goofy field guns... I think they might have inspired the dish-shaped laser turrets the Rebel soldiers were using to futilely shoot imperial walkers in the Empire Strikes Back.
Funk to funky. We know Major Tom's a junky. #Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
Doctor M rides up on the spacecar to tell the Captain that the pattern on the Bellerophon (his ship) is repeating and that he warned them to stay away, but he doesn't explain why he thinks this or what happened, other than he had a premonition. This makes the captain suspicious.
βSmooth, too!β #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Very cool evolution discussion.
Bending the metal stairs? Oh lawd he comin' #Monsterdon
lol "I may in time to time dispense the technology to Earth...."
How very White of you Dr Mobius
Okay, the footprint effect is cool
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@Violinknitter I always joke about that! But these infinitely amazing aliens actually put a few in.
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Invisible space yeti makes an appearance (in a manner of speaking)
Back at the saucer, a sort of force field parameter has been set up. The cook is goofing around and then finds that Robby has dutifully replicated 480 bottles of Kansas City bourbon for him, enough to threaten the sobriety streaks of every astronaut on the saucer.
"I should have asked for cocaine!" - Cook
The cook has an IQ of 230, but he peaked too early....
I'm guessing the whole machine is a power plant or a factory or something? It looks very austere, except for the goofy glowing machines, but it at least has safety railings which are oddly rare in science fiction.
I guess its powered by a whole bunch of nuclear reactors, or maybe fusion reactors, because I think they said "thermonuclear"? Anyway, Doctor M gives them a tour.
You know you want to pee on the alien electric fence
Prepare your minds for some sweet prog rock, gentlemen.
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weird the aliens would use miles
DECIMALS! The metric system was invented by aliens!
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The astronauts ask Doctor M what has powered all these weird alien gadgets for the past 200 centuries, so he gives them a further tour of the facility, which has its own little pod train installed and also a walkway over a gargantuan ventilation shaft; the whole alien machine has 780 levels and there are 400 other shafts and the machine is like 20 miles on a side and has been self-repairing for the past 200 centuries.
I, too, am a low-grade moron.
Don't say "racial energies"
#Monsterdon :bing: Krell Instrumentality Project Evangelion
can we not use the phrase "racial energies?"
"a commanding officer doesn't need brains" KILLED HIM #monsterdon
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and now they're debunking the validity of IQ testing very good
Krell is next door to Krull
#Monsterdon holorecorder
Any moving image means a thing is alive.
#monsterdon 3D printing.. a Krell technology..
One of the spacemen remarks that this is an amazing find that should be reported, but the other astronaut interrupts him to change the subject and ask what another device is; Doctor M explains that its some kind of testing device for the Krell childs that also does an IQ test because Intelligence attributes are a thing in this RPG universe. The IQ test also has blender installed and lets the Doctor call up an image of his daughter.
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"Huge logical alphabet"?? Nononononono if you're a logician you want the smallest logical alphabet kiddo
#Monsterdon I hope he's telling them this exposition to trap them in a room and kill them
why my man shooting Jingle Bells at it #Monsterdon
Her tiger familiar. Agh! #Monsterdon
It was the Lady or the Tiger.
Those triangular supports in the rear of Dr. Morbius's study look _very much_ like the triangular window struts common in Imperial starships in the Star Wars universe.
What was Leslie Nielsen's implication? That the tiger was in love with her and jealous because she was kissing a man?
a slab of cheese with a gun
WHO KILLED THE KITTY
BAD CHEESE MAN! BAD CHEESE!
#Monsterdon okay let's be fair: why would she need to know how to interact with men as a romantic prospect when she's just got her father and a robot to hang out with???????
"You won't have to see me any more!" Alta stabs their eyes out
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Did Robby the Robot just take a blaster to that fruit-stealing capuchin!? That hardly seems necessary.
About Dr. Morbius's impenetrable study, from Robby:
"This is the only door."
Surely that's a violation of the fire code? No wonder a bunch of people on this planet died!
we'll call you when it's morbin' time
βSpace pay.β I have nothing to add here. #Monsterdon
"Joe do you hear something?"
"Like what?"
"Like the soundtrack. It's freaky man."
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet
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Is this a space saxaphone?
It really is her fault for being so young and dressing a way
An 'oil job', you say.
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Robbie: Again?!