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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
That was a cool movie. My fav was 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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I've never been able to sit through an entire viewing of
2001: A Space Odyssey without nodding off, even when I was young! It has great special effects, but the dialog and action seems to just drag on and on.
Forbidden Planet is the opposite as it had lackluster special effects but it had great dialog and set the bar for future SciFi movies and TV shows with its technology devices. Star Trek used the portable communicator idea, Lost in Space had a robot similar to Robbie, and several use the idea of intelligent dialog, especially Star Trek. Now a days SciFi movies and TV shows concentrate on CGI special effects and fail to have any meaningful dialog or plot.
Forbidden Planet was ahead of its time for the 1950s. In the 1950s most of the SciFi movies were so bad, and actually stupid, that I laugh when I watch them now.