Forbidden Planet (1956)

The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Story (1955-1959) (138 movies items)

"Released on March 15, 1956"

Cinematic Firsts (212 movies items)

" *First science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation *First to be set entirely on another planet in interstellar space, far away from Earth. *First film to use an entirely electronic musical score, which was courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron"

“(OK) A rare gem of early space opera, wonderfull 'earthly' settings in space, good argument; poor cast for a great production, but Pidgeon is excellent” read more

My Top 199 Favorite Sci-Fi Movies... Of Like, Ever (199 movies items)

" Back when William Shakespeare first wrote "The Tempest", would the most celebrated writer in the literary world have ever imagined that it would some day be adapted onto the big screen as a futuristic science fiction tale featuring one of the most iconic robots in entertainment history? As Hamlet once said, ""That it should come to this!". - (Act I, Scene II). And yeah, I know that I probably should've used a quote from The Tempest instead, but the only one I can remember from that story is th"

1001 Movies ... my own version (1950's) (100 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I think it is rather difficult to judge this movie. Indeed, it is around 60 years old and after watching 100s of more modern SF features like '2001: A Space Odissey ', 'Prometheus' or 'Interstellar' which had access to some more advanced technology and some much bigger budgets, the whole thing now looks pretty cheesy. On top of that, from the moment you see Leslie Nielsen showing up on the screen, you expect him to crack up some stupid jokes every 5 minutes. And yet, we sh"

1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I think it is rather difficult to judge this movie. Indeed, it is around 60 years old and after watching 100s of more modern SF features like '2001: A Space Odissey ', 'Prometheus' or 'Interstellar' which had access to some more advanced technology and some much bigger budgets, the whole thing now looks pretty cheesy. On top of that, from the moment you see Leslie Nielsen showing up on the screen, you expect him to crack up some stupid jokes every 5 minutes. And yet, we sh"

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" First Viewing Viewing Date: September 29th Via: iTunes Store Plot: A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret harboured by one of them. Rating: 7.5/10"

Slant's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (100 movies items)

"A riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Forbidden Planet is one of the great sci-fi stories about the relation of humans to their thinking machines. When Commander J.J. Adams’s (Leslie Nielsen) starship lands on the barren planet of Altair IV to investigate what became of a colony established there 20 years earlier, he and his crew are met by its sole survivors: Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon); his beautiful daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis); and their robot, Robby, a construct more advanced than e"