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Summary: Great classic SCI-FI
Review: While it shows it's age, this is a great SCI-FI movie. For being a pre-CGI flick, the animation of the 'Monster from the ID' is excellent. This show has many of the elements later used in STARTREK. . .
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Summary: Best SF film of a generation
Review: I saw this as an original release in Atlanta, GA in 1956 and had nightmares for weeks. It has had such a powerful effect on later SF movies and series that its worth to the genre is beyond calculation. A definitely "must see" for SF fans. Powerful visuals and special effects!
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Summary: fantastic dialoge
Review: The story line follows typical science fiction plot. Weird world, wierd creatures let alone mankind,,,,,,
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Summary: Outstanding - Especially since it dates from 1956!
Review: A classic sci-fi piece. The special effects are outstanding and the 1956-style concepts of the future still hold up. This movie proves that Leslie Neilsen was a serious actor - once. The widescreen version is head and shoulders above the 'pan&scan' version that you grew up seeing on TV. The matte-painted backdrops and scene composition in the widescreen are outstanding and lost from the earlier versions available. A must see on DVD for any sci-fi fan.
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Summary: This is the movie that made Star Trek possible.
Review: This is what Science Fiction is all about. In fact this my favorite SCiFi movie ever. The state of the art may have improved but you won't get a better storyline. I have yet to find a more menacing evil than ones own subconscious. Funny how you don't need a lot of special effects when the story is interesting and fun to watch.
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Summary: THE CORNERSTONE OF MODERN DAY SCI-FI
Review: It would be difficult even in todays hi-tech fx to come even close to this incredible and believable 43 year old masterpiece which also helped to launch at least 5 major actors careers. As I replay this film over and over again. it would be a travesty not to own this great video transfer on DVD. If an attempt to recreate this film is even remotely considered, I would have to say that in thiscase, there should be very little deviation from the original story line. It will take years before people really understand the foresight this flick has had on tomorrows movies!
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Summary: Superb
Review: I just loved this thing. I cannot think of a movie that is so sci-fi and so well acted and directed. This movie bristles with good writing, good directing, good acting and superb editing. There is so much that later sci-fi has taken from this movie that it would take too much time to name. But let me name just a few: Outer Limits (the original of course), the original Star Trek; Space 1999; Lost in Space; Bab 5; I can go on and on. This is one of those very very few things that inspires and legitimizes new genres in books, music and film - just happens to be sci-fi for this film.Can't say enough about this masterpiece. G'day
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Summary: Number two on my top 10 sci-fi list.
Review: There's something so science-fiction perfect to the central idea of this one, which is so subtly and so expertly pulled off. Imagine--a monster you can't see, and that you definitely can't stop--because it's...I won't give it away, sorry. I will say that Shakespeare would've approved.
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Summary: Impressive early Sci-Fi
Review: I saw this at a revival showing, in the theater, and it was awesome! The special effects, the electronic music, the intelligent concepts, the dynamic characters, it's a classic! And definitately way ahead of its time. Besides, who could beat scantily clad Anne Francis and a very young pre-Drebin Lesley Nielson???
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Summary: Shakespeare's "The Tempest" set in space
Review: Others may argue but to me the two big movies of 1956 were The Ten Commandments, and Forbidden Planet. Now while Ten Commandments is certainly a great movie, I don't think it had anywhere near the influence on subsequent films that Forbidden Planet did. Forbidden Planet is essentially a Shakespearean play, The Tempest, set on a distant planet and in the far future. And that's what I liked best about the movie--it made relevant for me an ancient play that I had never really understood. Several elements of the movie influenced modern science-fiction films. The first was the use of serious, state-of-the-art, special effects to create major characters in the movie. There's a robot who plays a pivotal character, and there's the evil creature that's born of alien technology and human frailty. And there's a willingness to deal with serious subjects like the nature of the human subconcious, jealousy, the will to survive. The characters are real, and well-acted. Though for folks used to seeing Leslie Nielsen in comedic roles it may take some getting used to in this serious role. All around a well-crafted, thoughtful, and influential piece of cinema. Highly recommended. END
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