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DVD Forbidden Planet
This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make this movie as fresh, imaginative, and fun as it was when first released.
An excellent and timeless sci-fi flick! I remember watching this movie as a child and it freaked me out so bad I couldn't watch the whole thing. Seeing it again as an adult, it still creeped me a little! The sets and special effects are good, even by today's standards, so they must have been considered outstanding in it's day. The message of the movie is also still very relevant for our society, warning us against allowing our lower natures (the Id) to control our passions.
Light years ahead.... :)
Sheer brilliance. The story, ideas and impressive special effects hold up incredibly well today. Forbidden Planet is an influential and still incredibly enjoyable, and quite philsophical, film from a decade that produced a tonne of crap.
I hope there will be a 50th Anniversary edition next year.
I won't repeat what others have said, but I just want to point out that we're nearing the half-century anniversary for possibly the most influential sci-fi movie ever made, and one of the first movies to go on DVD way back in the 1990's when DVDs first appeared.
Certainly there's some extra "bonus stuff" out there that could be had. A documentary could be done on how the influence of FB has reverberated through sci-fi history for fifty years, right down to the excellent new cult-classic-to-be Serenity.
Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis are still around and could be interviewed.
A hallmark of the science fiction genre as well as a wry commentary on the political climate of the 1950s, The Day the Earth Stood Still is a sci-fi movie less concerned with special effects than with a social parable. A spacecraft lands in Washington, D.C., carrying a humanoid messenger from another world (Michael Rennie) imparting a warning to the people of Earth to cease their violent behavior. But panic ensues as the messenger lands and is shot by a nervous soldier. His large robot companion destroys the Capitol as the messenger escapes the confines of the hospital. He moves in with a family as a boarder and blends into society to observe the full range of the human experience. Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) not only provides one of the most recognizable icons of... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 04 March 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After the success of 1950's Destination Moon and 1951's When Worlds Collide, visionary producer George Pal brought the classic H.G. Wells story of a Martian invasion to the big screen, and it instantly became a science fiction classic and winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson play the hero and heroine roles that were de rigueur for movies like this in the '50s, and their encounter with one of the Martians is as creepy... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Barry - Ann Robinson - Les Tremayne Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 01 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence for Alien among countless others). The special effects may be dated, but this brilliantly rational-sounding film has held up wonderfully in all other regards, including some starkly effective location work in the high Arizona desert, a genuinely inspired sound design guaranteed to bring on the creepy-crawlies, and an unexpectedly dry sense of humor (mainly personified by Grade-A egghead scientist Edmund Gwenn). This is essential viewing for all those who consider themselves science fiction or horror fans. Heroic hardcase James Arness previously played for the other team as the titular character in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): James Whitmore - Edmund Gwenn Director(s): Gordon Douglas DVD Release Date: Released the 06 August 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After scoring popular hits with When Worlds Collide and The War of the Worlds, special-effects pioneer George Pal returned to the visionary fiction of H.G. Wells to produce and direct this science-fiction classic from 1960. Wells's imaginative tale of time travel was published in 1895 and the movie is set in approximately the same period with Rod Taylor as a scientist whose magnificent time machine allows him to leap backward and forward in the annals of history. His adventures take him far into the future, where a meek and ineffectual race known as the Eloi have been forced to hide from the brutally monstrous Morlocks. As Taylor tests his daring invention, Oscar-winning special effects show us what the scientist sees: a cavalcade of sights and sounds as he races through... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Rod Taylor Director(s): George Pal DVD Release Date: Released the 03 October 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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