Just watched Forbidden Planet

[Cdr MacDuff]

I just watched Forbidden Planet for the first time. Even now its still a great sci-fi story. Its a very intelligent storyline. I like the suspence and mystery. It got good pacing. I think for the time the special effects are absolutely incredible. Roddenberry have claimed to have been influenced by this movie when he created Star Trek. Its easy to see the influences. Frankly, I thought the movie would be much more cheesy than this, like most movie of that time period, and beyond, that I saw. I like how the human spaceship looks like those fake UFO space saucer that some people claim to have see in the sky. I don't even think this movie need a remake. Its fine at it is, and wouldn't benefit that much with better special effects or actualisation of the storyline like some other old movie can sometimes. Definitely a classic.

Similarity with Trek: The beaming, the loose military of the group, the scanning, the hails, the analysis of the planet surface, the intelligence of the captain (partly transferred to Spock in Trek), the mini-skirt . I don't know if I miss anything.

Is there a movie before this which reassemble Forbidden Planet?

 

[Lynx]

A funny coincident because I watched that movie some months ago. It was aired in the middle of the night on some obscure channel I got and I taped it because I've heard about it and wanted to watch it.

It was a very good movie, not as outdated as I expected it to be. I liked the story and everything about it and I can see how it has inspired Roddenberry.

Wasn't it some episode in some of the different Trek series where Altair IV was mentioned?

 

[judge alba]

i'm sure in twok there was a line saying something likethis is the kobyashi maru something out of altair Iv or something

 

[Xerxes1979]

Leslie Nielsen completely flushed his reputation away. To think he went from Forbidden Planet to Scary Movie.

I am not against comedies per say, Airplane was great but I certainly don't find a lot a rewatch value in the Naked Gun movies.

 

[Mysterion]

Wasn't it some episode in some of the different Trek series where Altair IV was mentioned?

In Amok Time the Enterprise is suppossed to be going to Altair VI for some sort of diplomatic ceremony, IIRC.

As for Forbidden Planet - a stand-out gem of the SF genre. It is striking how this movie still doesn't look too dated over 50 years after it was released. Awhile back there was some talk of a remake. Personally, I don't want to see a remake, this movie is just fine as-is.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Really, Nielsen's work in comedy was in most ways the pinnacle of his career.

Forbidden Planet is a wonderful movie. I really like it better than I do Star Trek in general. And yeah, most of Trek is a pretty obvious lift.

The great thing about remakes is that everyone's free to either enjoy or ignore them. I wouldn't mind seeing this remade or expanded upon - I already own the original in several home formats.

 

[ITL]

Any movie that has a scene where a robot makes a shitload of whiskey for a cook who then drinks some and declares it to be "Smooth, too!" in a comical fashion is alright by me.

 

[SFRabid]

Good soundtrack. I have it on CD.

 

[Jedi Marso]

This movie did 'Trek' better than most actual Trek.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Really, Nielsen's work in comedy was in most ways the pinnacle of his career.

Forbidden Planet is a wonderful movie. I really like it better than I do Star Trek in general. And yeah, most of Trek is a pretty obvious lift.

The great thing about remakes is that everyone's free to either enjoy or ignore them. I wouldn't mind seeing this remade or expanded upon - I already own the original in several home formats.

I wouldn't mind seeing a remake to this either, actually.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Really, Nielsen's work in comedy was in most ways the pinnacle of his career.

I think it was Airplane! that did it. Before that, he'd been known for serious drama. That film nailed his reputation for comedy genius. And he did it by playing it totally straight, too...that was the funny part, that he was so serious with rampant hilarity going on around him. This was also the point of Police Squad!, but unfortunately the subsequent Naked Gun movies really ruined that bit (Frank Drebin was not supposed to be comic!).

Although Nielsen was pretty funny in Forbidden Planet as well..."...oh, get out of here before I have you run out of here under guard. And I'll put more guards on the guards!"

 

[Therin of Andor]

Apart from the Captain/First Officer/Doctor triumvirate inspiring script dynamics, the trapezoidal-doorway Krell designs definitely seem to have influenced the look of the alien sets, such as in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" Were the Krell the "Old Ones" referred to by Ruk? Cool!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Anyone who says the best Star Trek film is Galaxy Quest should be strapped down and shown this and Master & Commander on a double bill. If that person still says its GQ, than he or she should be airlocked.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

"Master And Commander" is good, but "Galaxy Quest" is better because it's a comedy. There are whole dimensions to Trek - its cheesiness, yeah, but also the whole fandom thing - that no solemn treatment of the thing can ever do justice to.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Apart from the Captain/First Officer/Doctor triumvirate inspiring script dynamics, the trapezoidal-doorway Krell designs definitely seem to have influenced the look of the alien sets, such as in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" Were the Krell the "Old Ones" referred to by Ruk? Cool!

And of course there have been a few *characters* named Krell in Trek over the years.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I guess I should watch Master and Commander again someday, I totally did not get a Trek vibe at all the first time around.

 

[Mysterion]

I guess I should watch Master and Commander again someday, I totally did not get a Trek vibe at all the first time around.

Watch the interaction between Russell Crowe's character and the ship's doctor. Very much Kirk/Spock mixed with Kirk/McCoy.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

I can't believe this thread got to post #18 before someone used the words "Shakespeare" and "Tempest". Come on people! I expect more of you!

 

[Orac]

If memory serves a United Earth Government was mentioned in Forbidden Planet which probably influenced Roddenberry too..

 

[Maurice]

The Krell doorways are more directly duplicated in the Talosian tunnels in "The Cage" and re-used as the entrance to the lithium cracking station in "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

Pay attention to the very first lines spoken by crewmembers in Forbidden Planet, as one reports, "Ship on course, sir. We'll reach DC point at seventeen oh one" (1701).