Forbidden Planet (1956)
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
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There’s a Joe Dante-like kick to many of the subsequent sequences: a comic book store strewn with pop-cultural detritus from Forbidden Planet to Planet of the Apes to Star Wars is the site of a bull-in-a-china-shop showdown between Casey and two laser-toting androids.
The utopia of Tomorrowland is based on the attraction in Anaheim and recalls the work of Jules Verne and Sixties cartoon The Jetsons , and some of the machines we meet are essentially hi-tech versions of Forbidden Planet ’s Robby the Robot.
Worse, director Paul W.S. Anderson isn't immune to pilfering concepts or shots from Aliens, Forbidden Planet, George A. Romero's Living Dead epics, The Relic and even his own Event Horizon while screen-adapting a video game franchise.
Incredibly, it suggests a cartoon remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still that might have been made in 1957a sensation promoted by the Forbidden Planet poster that Hogarth has in his bedroom, the cleverly incorporated period ad he watches on TV, and the invented "duck and cover" civil defense cartoon shown in school.
The notion of encountering alien civilizations was most recently done in "Contact," using the ocean floor as a staging area is straight out of "The Abyss," and even the film's key plot device is yet another reworking of a scenario that 1956's "Forbidden Planet" pioneered.
As expressed in "Sphere," his idea of science fiction is ripping off the monsters-from-the-id gimmick from "Forbidden Planet" and ending up with a little sermon about how man is not yet ready to be trusted with advanced knowledge.
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All this makes the film feel overlong and leaves the story — a twist on “Forbidden Planet,” with Ego as an all-consuming force — feeling stretched.
Morbius, the foreboding scientist stranded on a distant planet, played by Walter Pidgeon in the 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet .
It’s a concept that has been brought to the screen before - in films that range from Forbidden Planet to The Babadook - and it’s going to remain a potent one for many years to come.
This movie’s fluid, forlorn sense of identity most recalls “Moon,” with a dash of “Forbidden Planet” thrown in.
A chaotic run-in with a cave troll, for instance, leads instantly into the approach of a phalanx of Orcs, who retreat to make way for an enormous, horrifying Balrog (a distant but discernible progeny of the Id Monster in 1956's Forbidden Planet).
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As far back as 1927 with “Metropolis,” in 1951 with “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and in 1956 with “Forbidden Planet,” human-influenced A.I. beings have been go-to tools for sci-fi productions.
…like the ID monster of Altair IV in Forbidden Planet, the Backrooms offer a cathartic environment that lets loose inner demons.