Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet!

[leia131]

Did you guys know that there's such a thing as the robot hall of fame? Well, there is.

I learned this in the process of reading the Wikipedia page on Forbidden Planet, which we watched tonight. That was, hands down, the most boring sci-fi movie I've ever seen. I mean, it's got spaceships, alien technology, science mumbo-jumbo, ray guns, monsters, hot girls, and a young Leslie Nielsen. What more can you ask for? And yet, 90% of the movie is the scientist guy nattering on about a meaningless backstory, aliens we never see, technology no one can use, and a plot that makes no damn sense. The other 10% is Neilsen and Anne Francis saying how in love they are, despite knowing each other for only two days, sexism, spacemen skeeving on Anne, and people making decisions for no apparent reason, to further the plot that makes no damn sense.

I struggle to see how this movie was so influential on sci fi as a genre, other than visually, but you can't deny that it was. *shrugs*



Answer to last Wednesday's song: Sweet Dreams, by Beyonce. No one guessed this.

Comments

[becofoz]

Science Fiction, Double Feature (whatever the song that opens the Rocky Horror Show is).

But...Castle and Beckett loved that movie (I hope you remember that episode of Castle)...

[leia131.livejournal.com]

I didn't, so I Googled up the scene... OMFG they were SO CUTE when they were pretending they weren't in love with each other. Bless.


And I have rarely liked any old movies, so it's probably me, lol.

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I've never seen that movie, but it doesn't sound terribly interesting from that. lol

[leia131.livejournal.com]

If it had been about 30 minutes shorter and 75% less stupid, there was some interesting stuff to be had.

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine watching it based on all those problems lol. xD

[tupelo-honey16.livejournal.com]

This movie is so remarkably stupid, visually appealing though. I watched a different old sci fi movie around the same time that made this look like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare did sci fi. I can't remember the name, but a journalist was a stowaway on a spaceship and they were going to trigger the end of the world by setting off a nuke in space.

[leia131.livejournal.com]

It's funny you should say that, because the plot is apparently based on The Tempest. Which I can see, but they needed a different approach.