@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.

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

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@ohiofi If the Space Ship is rockin'....

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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#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

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

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

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

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

Wow. This got real creepy real fast

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"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..

Instant Bechdel fail

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@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.
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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.

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

Quality movie!

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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.

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Wait, Altair is blue, not red!

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

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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

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Great sound from the first moment! #Monsterdon

@moira @tankgrrl It might also be that Doctor M had suppressed the memory of the self-destruct switch until his breakdown at the very end revealed that knowledge to him; he might have suppressed his own memory of the Id monsters in the same manner.

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#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!

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@klu9 @strangefour lol, it would have to be something like that I reckon!

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@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! 👍

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@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!!

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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.

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And call himself "Bob"

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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb6OckmgLUc

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@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!!)

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"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? That’s like 9 minutes of lag with light traveling 186,000 miles per second.

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@tankgrrl The top part seems to be the standard robot of the 50s shell, but the bottom definitely was completely different.

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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"

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#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?

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Mighty Morbin Mental Monsters

Pompous White Nationalist Morbius does deserve to be killed by his own id monster though....

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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: “y’all need Jesus”
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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

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But Robbie can't kill your Id doc....Three Laws!

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"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.

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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.

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The krell forgot one thing... The Power of Love! #monsterdon

Monsters from the Id! Look out for Jung!

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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.

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"Maybe we can reason with him"

"You mean blast him?"

"yeah"
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Kill them all, invisible ape-lion-thing!

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poor robby, he's not paid enough for this. #monsterdon

I AM MONITORED TO INSURE QUALITY AND FOR TRAINING PURPOSES

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@jonny They need to go grind against some invisible giant nightmare sloths first, clearly.

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"three billion electron volts" so, half a nanojoule?

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What is “solid nuclear material”?

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a griffin?

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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.

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Ok some of the concept art and illustrations I've seen for Dune borrow this scene. Friggin amazing. #Monsterdon

Love how they’re 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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