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Forbiden Planet Movie, Thoughts and Questions on there Universe.

Why a Linguist?
Why did they have Daniel in SG 1? because there are many different languages out there, and you need to talk to others. So say they find an alien species ( this time the Krell) He/she would work to read the language. So as a science vessel, that would be very important, but also useless if they don't find anything for them to study.

They weren't expecting to meet anybody there, plus the Krell had been dead for (I wanna say) a million years.
 
My opinion is what is important to the story should be there, what is unimportant should not. Pretty simple really.

The look of the Kreel were unimportant, and a current try to mine them to sell movie tickets will fall flat.

Because now you know what's gonna sell, what isn't? Wow! They could use a guy like you in Hollywood! Why don't you send them your resume?
 
And you are the one acting like a two year old because someone disagrees with you, instead of just ignoring posts that disagree with you.

Yes, I suppose that you've been told that often enough so that now you say it first to make it look like you thought of it yourself.
 
For all, we know we didn't get a visual on the Krell because they ran over budget...

What we got must have cost a fortune already.

Sometimes things are better because there are limitations set on them in what they can do. I would point to the original The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek as examples.
 
Sometimes things are better because there are limitations set on them in what they can do. I would point to the original The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek as examples.

How do you know that they are better?

Do you think The Ten Commandments (1956) would have been better with a smaller budget?
 
How do you know that they are better?

Do you think The Ten Commandments would have been better with a smaller budget?

All one has to do is watch the modern variations of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone to know the originals with the limitations of the time and budget were simply better and more imaginative.

As far as The Ten Commandments go, if we’re talking about the film, is an over bloated mess.
 
In my experience, more often than not, throwing gobs of money at a project usually leads to a poor product.
 
All one has to do is watch the modern variations of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone to know the originals with the limitations of the time and budget were simply better and more imaginative.

As far as The Ten Commandments go, if we’re talking about the film, is an over bloated mess.

Four of the modern variations lasted longer than TOS already. If you're measuring in terms of success they are all better than the original.
 
Or maybe they used robots. After all, Morbius who wasn't even a physicist (I think he was a linguist, which is odd, what would a linguist do in an expedition like this?) built Robbie after having had his IQ enhanced by the machine. So we can surmise that the Krell knew a lot about how to make robots. So it would make sense if these robots would be the ones using these shuttles.
If he wasn't a linguist - he probably wouldn't have been able to decipher the Krell's writing system to gain more insight into how to operate their technology - and lead to his 'brain boost'- that then allowed him to further decipher and make use of aspects of Krell science.
 
If he wasn't a linguist - he probably wouldn't have been able to decipher the Krell's writing system to gain more insight into how to operate their technology - and lead to his 'brain boost'- that then allowed him to further decipher and make use of aspects of Krell science.

I disagree. If he was able to decipher their language it was because of his IQ boost and nothing else. The doctor (I forget his name) before he died of a brain overload, knew everything that Morbius had vainly tried to learn for decades because he reached the top of the... IQ measuring thing...
 
Sometimes things are better because there are limitations set on them in what they can do. I would point to the original The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek as examples.
I think one of the ultimate examples of this is Jaws. Originally they were supposed to show the shark all throughout the movie, but they had trouble getting Bruce (the shark) to work, so what we got in the final movie was all they were able to do. Even Stephen Spielberg himself has admitted that what they ended up with, was better than what was originally planned.
 
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