Forbidden Planet (1956) Movie Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING * AMAZING * | Film Commentary
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- * AMAZING * - A wonderfully eerie sci-fi classic that proves Leslie Nielsen is an amazing actor outside of comedy! Robby The Robot is awesome too.
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Forbidden Planet was the influence for Star Trek. It also a rough story adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest 😎👍
Inspired The Cage. Borrowed the ship shape, timeline, converted the transition time to ship number, and bought the transporter pads.
The man who designed the Robby the robot costume had formerly in a washing machine designer. He used his metalworking skills to create a costume that could move with the actor inside.
The Robbie costume is quite famous and has been used in numerous films and TV shows. You could spend weeks reviewing every show that he was in.
Robbie the Robot appeared again in the 1960's in an episode of the Lost in Space where he faced off against the Robinson families robot. Later he also appeared in an episode of Columbo,
Walter Pidgeon who played Morbius was latter Admiral Nelson the creator of the Submarine Seaview in the film version of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
He was the iconic robot until C3PO came along.
He was also in at least one episode of the Twilight Zone, as was the space ship from this movie.
Walter Pidgeon also played Prince Charming’s father in the 1965 Cinderella movie by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Robby reappeared the very next year in "The Invisible Boy" (1957). Boy plus Robot save the world from evil super computer. At the start of this movie, Robbie is a deactivated artifact from the returned "Forbidden Planet" mission.
@@isaackellogg3493 So funny, I just watched that on YT yesterday and yes, he played the King in that Rogers and Hammerstein TV presentation.
Earl Holliman, who you recognized, might be best known for his regular supporting role in "Police Woman."
Yep
The reason you recognixed so much was that this was the first 'big' budget sci-fi movie by a major studio. Robbie was in the tv show, 'Lost in Space' and many other films. Earl was also a star in the tv series 'Police Woman'
Ahh that might explain it, thanks Dave! Maybe I've seen clips here and there then. Yeah, I'd heard about something being in Lost In Space from this and wasn't sure at first. I did not realise that! Thank you, I kept thinking "where have I seen you before?!" haha, great to see wonderful actors play roles in films like this. A wonderful film. Thank you for watching along with me!
Well, I would consider "The War of the Worlds" a rather big budget movie by a major studio. "Forbidden Planet" was the first major sci-fi film to take place entirely off world.
Two movies I would recommend from the 1950s are "The Time Machine," and "War of the Worlds" (not the 2006 remake). Both are based on books by H. G. Wells.
Anne Francis starred as a private detective in "Honey West" on Friday nights in the '60s.
She also starred in a Twilight Zone Episode.
3:00 everyone had to be protected while the ships slowed down to under lihgtsleed.
Everyone who sees this - even from the time of it's theatrical debut in 1956 has wanted their own Robbie The Robot for around the house.
Such a cracking classic film! Visually it’s honestly unbelievable what they achieved with this film. You can see how it inspired films to come!
Star Trek particularly!
"Who is Robby the Robot?!?!!!!?"......He is one of the most famous, prolific and influential robot of all time. He was so popular, he starred in a pseudo sequel to this film called "The Invisible Boy"(1957), and a couple dozen cameos in tv series(The Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, The Thin Man, Wonder Woman, Mork & Mindy, etc...) spanning 4 decades and 3 more films(His cameo in "Gremlins" was priceless). He was also the first cinema robot to display Asimov's 3 laws of robotics. This film was one of, if not the first science fiction to get an "A" film budget and production(The full MGM treatment). Since you're exploring classic science fiction films, may I recommend: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"(1951), "Planet of the Apes"(1968), "The War of the Worlds."(1953), "The Fly"(1958), "The Blob"(1958), "The Thing from Another World" and "Invaders from Mars"(1953).
All great choices
I am pleased you enjoyed and appreciated Forbidden Planet. I was 6 or 7 years old when I first saw it in 1957 or 58 as a Saturday afternoon matinee at a movie theater in Townsville, Australia. It made a huge impression on me then because it was the first time I saw human beings emerge from a flying saucer. It wasn't until I saw it as an adult that I appreciated the Krell-powered monsters-from-the-Id plot which I think is the most imaginative and creative plot in SciFi. I tell my science students it is the only film I've seen that deals with the question "how much power is enough?" Forbidden Planet employed Asimov's first law of robotics and pioneered concepts, styles, principles and "technologies" used in Star Trek (e.g. their teleporter is the F.P. hyperdrive decelerator) and Star Wars (e.g. in the original "IV" new hope ... the set where Ben Kenobi turns off the power to the Death Star tractor beam is very similar to the Krell power generator "factory"). I would guess that both Gene Rodenberry and George Lucas are fans of Forbidden Planet. Loved your reaction and review!
Great reaction!! My favorite science fiction film is The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), directed by Robert Wise, with music by Bernard Herrmann.
To answer your question, I first saw it on TV when I was about 11. I was on the floor, right in front of the TV set. I was blown away! From then on, it's been a staple movie for me throughout the years. Never grows old, it's always beautiful, always fascinating, dazzling......it's locked in the early 50s, yet it's forever futuristic.......love love love it! So happy you did too!
Richard Anderson also was Oscar Goldman in the 70's tv series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.
A true masterpiece!!! So glad you liked it!!!
It truly is a cinematic wonder! Thank you so much Lars, I'm glad you love the film too, it's very much AMAZING as the poster tells us haha. Take care and thank you for watching!
@@MoviesWithMarty robby the robot is also in the invisible boy! 1957 film. Which some calls a unofficial prequel to forbidden planet.
@@MoviesWithMarty Watch the sequel, "The Invisible Boy". It is even deeper.
@@MoviesWithMarty Marty, I will recommend a film. It is the 1958 sequel to "Forbidden Planet" and it stars Robby. I can not say enough about it but I will say that at the end of "Forbidden Planet" we see Robby navigating the ship. He knows that the people on Earth could easily end up like the Krell if they get hold of his artificial intelligence circuitry. He had spent enough time with Morbius and his daughter to well understand human beings and he understands the Krell. But he has a protocol that prevents him from killing the crew and Alta to save the Earth. He devises a way to resolve the dilemma by navigating through a time warp and landing somewhere in the 1930s or 1940s. This story takes place in a black ops gated residential community on a military research base in 1958. It involves a brilliant scientist and his wife and young son . The father is spearheading an artificial intelligence project. There is a secret moon base and secret space program which includes a shuttle which looks exactly like the NASA shuttle crafts of the 1990s. The electronic brain has a secret agenda that involves destroying all living things throughout the entire universe. It has no safety factor like Robby to prevent it from harming people. As for the title, "The Invisible Boy", you remember that the ID monster was invisible. This is possibly an even deeper concept than "Forbidden Planet", though different on the surface. This implies that artificial intelligence destroyed the Krell. The nature of artificial intelligence is revealed to be more prone toward evil than the subconscious.
@@dolphinsrr It is a sequel, not a prequel. IT has a time travel angle.
One of my all-time favorites. I first saw it when I was quite young and it really left a mark. So influential and sophisticated for its time. Another early sci-fi imprint on my psyche was left by "Invaders from Mars", which surfaced in my nightmares for a good while after.
Loved the film. It’s my 2nd favorite science fiction film from the 50’s. My favorite is The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951.
@03:00 "What happened?"
The ship reduced it's speed from FTL (faster than light) to sub-lightspeed. The tubes they stepped into were inertial dampening fields to keep their bodies from being thrown around and ripped apart as the slowed down.
And yes; these were in part inspiration for the transporters in the TV series STAR TREK (1966)
Anne Francis... amazing. loved her TV show. Honey West is a ground-breaking American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 17, 1965, to April 8, 1966.
And a well--remembered episode of Twilight Zone, looking for a thimble on the thirteenth floor. In a weird way, when Anne Francis portrayed 'earnestness', she reminds me somehow of young Judy Garland.
Gene Roddenberry was directly inspired by this film to make Star Trek.
It was the first Sci-fi film to be set entirely away from the earth. Leslie Neilson was a serious actor before he appeared in airplane. They deliberately got serious actors in that film to throw a different spin on things. Errol Holliman is one of the brothers in the John Wayne film The Sons of Katie Elder.
The two main characters, Morbius and the Captain, were both played by Canadians, but of different generations. Walter Pidgeon, a big star in his time, was born in 1897, and had the manners and accent of his era. Leslie Nielsen had the manners and accent of a post-World War 2 Canadian --- he was literally the son of a Mounty, and spent his childhood in a remote village in the Northwest Territories. His brother became the Member of Parliament for Yukon Territory. When asked, Leslie always said that his brother had a much better sense of humour than himself --- amazing when you consider Leslie's comic genius in later years.
. . . The musical score of the film was composed by Bebe and Louis Barron, who were among the earliest pioneers of electronic music. It was made entirely on electronic gear they designed and built, and created sounds that astounded both audiences who had never heard anything similar, and classical composers, starting a wave of avant-garde music in this new medium.
. . . Forbidden Planet was loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. The theme of an alien civilization destroying itself with a "technology without instrumentality" that unleashed their subconscious savagery was far more sophisticated as Science Fiction than anything that movie audiences had been exposed to at the time. Some of the details seem quaint today, and bits of it are silly, but on the whole, it holds up remarkably well.
Great reaction. As you included much of the trivia, I haven't a great deal to add except for personal experiences.
I saw this and several other classic and influential SF films of the 1950-1970s, for the first time during a season of movies on BBC2 shown in 1983. Some I remember watching from this season include Invaders from Mars, Silent Running, This Island Earth, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, When Worlds Collide, Robinson Crusoe on Mars and War of the Worlds. It also included a few 'big' SF films I'd already seen by then, including Fantastic Voyage and Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 AD. I'm pretty sure by this point I'd seen Airplane and ITV had shown the TV version of Police Squad around the same period in 1983, so I should have been familiar with Leslie Nielsen as comedy actor. I probably never made the connection with FP as he was so much younger and didn't have his trademark white hair yet. One person who I probably did recognise was Richard Anderson who played Chief Quinn. He was Oscar Goldman the boss/handler of the bionic (cybernetic) man Steve Austin (Lee Majors) in the popular long running SF/Action show 'The Six Million Dollar Man' which ran through most of the 1970s. RA looked very similar even twenty odd years later.
It is amazing to think there was only seventeen years between The Wizard and Oz and Forbidden Planet. Both films did push the limits of what was possible on screen in their own movie eras.
I didn't make the connection with actor in the TTZ pilot myself and I went through them all a few years ago. Best of luck watching everything that features the BTTF Hill Valley lot. I've seen a great deal of old US television (mostly SF, action and cop shows) and it appears quite a few times, although sometimes very briefly. There are a few other well known lots that show up regularly too.
And no, Richard Anderson was not the father of Richard Dean Anderson, though the timing would have been perfect. Unlike Duke Leto Atreides, Richard Anderson’s wife produced only daughters.
Not that MacGyver is the Mahdi, or anything…😜
I am 75 years old now and saw Forbidden Planet when it first came out.
It is a delight to see people’s unwavering awe at their first seeing this beautifully made and deeply thoughtful movie.
I thoroughly enjoyed your reactions, but also appreciated your insights into the movie as it progressed.
Thank you for your comments! I saw this movie when it first came out in 1956. I was about 9 or 10 years old. I'm 76 now and have watched this movie over and over again ever since always in a state of stunned awe! It was nominated for an Oscar for best special effects but lost out to Paramount studios' The Ten Commandments.
I first saw the movie Forbidden Planet when I was a little boy. The military academy I went to school for about two years. The cut scene in the movie was Commander Adams reassures his troops about the effectiveness of their weapons against the monster.
I would recommend a black and white film The Day the Earth Stood Still!
Earl Holliman is probably best known for his role as a police detective on POLICE WOMAN, starring Angie Dickinson, in the mid-1970s. He's still alive, at 95.
Future TV stars galore. Jack Kelly would soon star on TV's Maverick alongside James Garner. Richard Anderson would be a regular on both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Anne Francis would star on the cult favorite Honey West. Earl Holliman, as noted elsewhere, would be on Police Woman starring Angie Dickinson. And a variation of Robby (not called Robby) was a regular on Lost in Space.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I'd like them back!
For some supernatural movies, I suggest the excellent The Haunting (1963) and Village of the Damned (1960).
Movie history on display: An electronic music sound track, a major/big budget SF movie, (relatively) hard science underpinning, Disney studio animation/SFX, and a screenplay that mirrors Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Bebe and Louis Barron were groundbreaking in creating the electronic score for the film
They certainly were! It sounds amazing!
Heck yes! A fantastic amalgamation of many talents and wondrous sights and sounds. I didn't realise the comparison with "The Tempest", great eye! Thank you for watching :)
@@MoviesWithMarty Actually, the writers said it was based on a partially restored Greek tragedy called " Bellerophon ". That also happens to be the name of Morbius' ship.
Robby plays Ariel, The Id Monster plays Caliban, and "Cookie" provides the Shakespearian comic relief.
In the book, Morbius was trying to create life, that's why the Earth animals were there. They examined the monkey after it died and discovered it was different internally than a real monkey would be.
I'm 64 years old... And I've loved this film all my life. When I was a child during the 1960's, this was how we thought the future would look like. I guess you can call it, Retro Future 😊
I was born in 1956 and probably saw this when I was 8 or 9 on TV on a Saturday. This movie scared me more than almost any because it was so ahead of its time on effects - especially sound and music...eerie and in the early 60s... unbelievably scary!
Hello fellow born-in-1956-ian. Precisely the same for me, except for being scared. I always reveled in monsters and space opera and fortunately for me I almost never get nightmares. Only thing in syfy that ever scares me are giant spiders. 😁
Hi Marty this is such a great film way ahead of it's time. The cook was also in the 70s police show police woman with Angie Dickason. Another very similar movie is the 19 55 film .....This Island Earth .....Another big budget well made film. Robby the robot was also in the movie ....The Invisible Boy. Great reaction.👍🏻
Many of the actors in this movie went on to years of movie but mostly TV work in the 50's,60's, 70's and more. Almost all of the crew would do episodes of Twilight Zone.
Forbidden Planet is such an influential movie...where else have you heard the term 'blaster'?...maybe in a galaxy far, far away😉. It's such a gorgeous movie to watch, like a 50's comic book. BTW, that town square from BTTF you mentioned is on the Universal Studios tour, I went on it in 1997. If you like old school epic movies, Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) is another gem. Staying with submarines, there's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) which features Walter Pidgeon but this time as creator of the Seaview submarine which, along with the Nautilus & The Proteus, is a cool sci-fi sub. The movie is good fun for your inner 10 year-old, despite the silly science. It spawned a long running telly adaptation in the 1960's and being Irwin Allen, shamelessly nicked stock footage from the movie to put into loads of episodes.
Most importantly, perhaps... this is a Shakespeare play adapted. 'The Tempest' is the one.
Worth looking it up, as well as the musical 'Return to the Forbidden Planet', that uses 1950s music and songs to good effect.
The actor who played Cookie, the guy in the white apron, is Earl Holliman. He was in the very first episode of the Twilight Zone where he played an astronaut in training.
Like The Tempest, Forbidden Planet centres around a father and daughter isolated (in this case, on a planet instead of an island) with the father wanting nothing more than revenge on the people that put them there.
Star Trek's take is "Requiem for Methuselah" S-3 E19 aired Feb 14, 1969.
Robby the Robot was inspired by "Ariel ", the Krell by "Sycorax" and the "Id" monster by "Caliban".
For better or worse; Earl Holliman is most-widely remembered for his role in TV's "Police Woman," Leslie Nielsen as TV and cinema's hilariously-comic Det. Frank Drebin, and Anne Francis for launching a generation into puberty with her role as the honey in TV's "Honey West" ;-) This film is evidence of their extraordinary, legit ability as actors and performers. Well done, good show!
I’ve loved it for at least 30 years. The idea that the remnants of our primitive nature influences us led me to evolutionary psychology, which changed my view of human behavior. I’ve developed an even greater appreciation of this film over the years. Thanks for your reaction!
THANKS FOR POSTING YOUR REVIEW! This is a great film. It was first released in my home town of Charlotte North Carolina, USA at the Southeastern Science Fiction Convention in 1956 before it was released anywhere else. My father saw it then when he was 9 years old. He took me to see the re-release of this film in 1976 when I was 6 years old across the street from where the Southeastern Science Fiction Convention where it was originally shown. The older I get the more I appreciate just how brilliant this film is.
3:00 contrary to popular belief those are not transporter platforms. Those beans held all their bodies in perfect inertial dampening. Without it there bodies have been smashed to molecules as they dropped out of hyperdrive.
Thank you so much! One of my favorites! It was particularly fun “sharing” it with you, you’re an absolute joy!
I saw this when I was 7 yrs. old. To this day, it is my favorite sci-fi film. The soundtrack was completely electronic.. a first! An animator from Disney did the blaster, creature and ship plasma effects. There was a human actor in Robby. The Japanese designer created Robby along with the robot for Lost in Space. I always wanted to see what the Krell looked like. The 'voice' of the ID monster was a modified lion roar! So much good stuff in this movie!
The reason the cook looks familiar is because he looks like a young Michael Rooker.
Both "The Thing" and "Alien" are very much in the same genre, and well worth watching. As for "Forbidden Planet" first saw it on VHS, when I was a teenager.
27:37 There's about 22 seconds missing here. It was the Captain telling the bosun get the graves dug to keep the men busy. The bosun replied "Right. The busier the better" because they could see everyone's still on edge. A good 50s movie choice BTW!
Thank you so much for this! I thought as much. I tried finding what that segment was, but to no avail. Much obliged. Aw thank you so much! This was a film I had wanted to watch for a while and was VERY much requested by a lot of people, so wanted to watch this one. The next one is Logan's Run (After TLOU Ep 3 and possibly more DW), which is an equally wonderful film!
I also thought I had replied to this comment, so apologies! I have rather a large backlog of comments to get through too. Hope you're well!
@@MoviesWithMarty Glad to help and thank you. Went to my DVD to confirm all that. You didn't miss much, but it's strange that piece was missing so it must have been a bad copy.
Logan's Run is awesome alright. I take it you've watched it now so I'll relay some things about it here, but if you haven't yet wait later to read this to avoid spoilers. Our family lived in the DFW area of Texas when the crew filmed most of it all around there, and we were in the women's apparel retail business at the time. That sent my dad and uncles to the Apparel Mart and Dallas Market Center sometimes, where one morning he walked into it as they were filming Logan's Run there. He said there were cameras, cables everywhere and LOTS of young people running around "half-naked" in colorful, skimpy cloths! (the extras). He and the public were roped off, but they could still watch the filming. The film crew used many of the new buildings and places in the area for it, such as the Ft. Worth Water Gardens for the scene where Logan and Jessica dived in to swim back to the The City, leaving the Old Man (Peter Ustinov) there waiting. When LR came out it was cool to see all those familiar places... and the awesome movie itself.
You pick another good one Marty (as usual 😁), and I'll be looking for it. Besides "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (the original theatrical release version), they and LR are some of the best scifis of the '70s, IMO. Cheers!
@@MoviesWithMarty I recommend it the terror from beyond space 1958 film which was the precursor to alien 1979. It's a black and white film b picture. It hoky at times but check it out. Also check out Robinson Caruso on mars. 1964 film and the angry red planet which I believe was 1964 or 65 film. Great effects in that one. Thanks
@@dolphinsrr*Crusoe was a castaway from 1719. Caruso was a popular singer from 1902-1920.
@@isaackellogg3493 yes that's true .did I spell it wrong?
Very enjoyable reaction!
Forbidden Planet is noteworthy for three reasons that aren't discussed as much as some of the others: Its exploration of sexual tension, its reframes of Science Fiction tropes that had existed until then, and its role as an unofficial prototype for Star Trek:
• Sexual tension:
One of the consistent themes in both Star Trek, and Forbidden Planet, which helped to inspire it, is: there will be sexual tension between men and women.
In Forbidden Planet:
-women weren’t a part of shipboard life; American society wasn’t dealing with LGBT relationships yet, so sex was treated as a controllable force because, for the male crew, women were not present.
-Morbius instructed Altaira to remain secluded from Commander Adams and his crew, but didn’t carry the instructions far enough.
-Morbius would have had to devote almost no attention to educating Altaira about male sexuality, if there were no other males present. (Does Altaira have a naturally occurring libido? Does Altaira ever masturbate? The film doesn’t explore this, and given the era when it was made, it’s hard to see how the film could explore those questions.)
-The film showcases an active difference between Morbius’s conscious and subconscious mind, with regard to ‘protecting’ his daughter from male attention. Morbius notices the verbal flirtation interest that Commander Adams’s crew display in Altaira, but he doesn’t interfere. Later, Morbius’s monster only appears AFTER Altaira reports that her sexual interactions with the men have increased beyond verbal banter, to the level of touching, hugging and kissing.
-The film presents Commander Adams as initially incompetent in first dealing with the sexual tension between Altaira and his crew - naively berating Altaira as if she’s expected to “just know” about how an attractive woman’s provocative dress will turn men on, when Altaira has no context to know that. Adams later learns from his mistake.
-The film presents Altaira as a semi-asexual being, with no sexual desire until the male crew members of the C-57-D arrive and awaken it.
-The film suggests that Altaira is in a Garden-of-Eden like state of sexual purity (where predatory animals like the Tiger will leave humans alone). Only when sexuality is introduced, do humans become ‘impure’ and only then does the Tiger become predatory. (Was the tiger about to jump Altaira and Adams because it sensed that Adams was threatening Altaira and wanted to defend her? Or rather because Altaira had passionately kissed Adams, and thus crossed over into becoming a sexual being, and (thematically) had to be cast out of the Garden of Eden?)
-It’s unclear if Morbius envisions Altaira as ever having a full sexual life with a husband or a lover of her own. The film seems to lean in the direction of: no such life for Altaira if Commander Adams & crew hadn’t come along.
-The film depicts a male hierarchy that resolves sexual conflict in a way that seems bizarre to us today: Before he dies, Jerry tells Commander Adams that she (Altaira) ‘picked the right man’ in selecting Commander Adams over himself. (To contemporary viewers, it looks like Jerry ‘gives up’ pursuit of Altaira too easily.) Does Jerry admire the steadfastness, control and character of Commander Adams that much? Apparently so. It’s not as clear as it could be, what the creators were going for on this point, and I wish the film had explored that a little more.
• Reframes:
- robots as servants as opposed to Frankenstein Monsters
- robots with personalities (as opposed to inanimate objects like Blasters).
‘ “I rarely use it myself sir - it (oxygen) promotes rust.”
- “Sorry, miss - I was giving myself an oil job.”
- robots with built-in safeguards against harming people. (Asimov invented the Three
Laws of Robotics for a story in 1942 - was there a mainstream film that showcased robots with
built-in safeguards before this one? Probably not.)
• Exploring Strange New Worlds:
- Trek / Roddenberry built on the idea of a noble captain, leading a decent-but-flawed human crew, to explore, settle and defend the new Galactic frontier.
- Trek innovated, by visualizing the crew as muti-ethnic, and by including women as part of daily shipboard life. Trek also took care to make the individual crew members much more visually distinctive - not only by getting visually distinctive actors for the roles, but also by adding color-coded uniforms. (think how easy it is to tell the various crew members apart on Star Trek - both visually and in their personalities. Then compare with how tough it is with the crew under J.J. Adams.)
The sequel ("The Invisible Boy") implies that unrestrained artificial intelligence is what actually destroyed the Krell.
3:00 what happened was they slowed down to below lightspeed (Star Trek calls this “dropping out of warp”). They had to be encased in special force fields to prevent tissue damage from the millions of g-forces.
You asked for suggestions for movie like this - well Forbidden Planet(1956) was motivated by a film called This Island Earth(1955). MGM noticed the Universal Pictures has a moderate success with This Island Earth by using slightly better production values than your typical B-movie Sci-Fi film. Being the big shot studio at the time they couldn't let the lesser studio get ahead of them in this genre so they did Forbidden Planet. By the way the director did all kinds of tricks to get even more money out of the studio to ensure this was an A-list movie. Anyhow - you should watch This Island Earth - its not as good as Forbidden Planet but it still has a great story and some really good production values for its time. It is extremely uderrated - probably because it is so closely compared to Forbidden Planet.
Fantastic reaction! I love this movie! This, "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Spielberg's "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" are my holy trinity of exceptional, above-the-cut, one-of-a-kind, profound, dazzling, groundbreaking sci-fi films. Anyways, congratulations for getting this fundamental film under your belt! / You don't have to do Twilight Zones in any order (and in fact it's better not to) Work through a list - any list - of "best Twilight Zone" episodes, and you'll hit the classics. Start with "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet", you'll love it. Directed by Richard Donner and starring.......well, I'll let you discover it for yourself! That is one of the best half-hours in all of television!!!! "To Serve Man", which you mentioned in the trivia section, is also a classic one./ Trvia part: I had no idea about The Wizard Of Oz connection!!! That just blew my mind!! Thanks!!!!/Changing genres, if you like Back To The Future, may I suggest George Lucas' first (and best!) hit: American Graffiti (1973)! And then after that Richard Linklater's Dazed And Confused (1994)! They are sort of cinematic cousins. Anyways, FANTASTIC reaction, LOVE this channel!
The reason why it looks like a 1960s B science fiction movies because all the 1960s B science fiction movies were trying to look like this film! It set standard they all try to achieve.
I saw this when I was 10 years old at a Children's Saturday Cinema. Who needs CGI when they could produce such amazing special effects. Loved the film. Hope you will do Alen and Aliens.
Oh wow!! I love that they showed it at a Children's cinema showing. Most definitely! I don't have one scene that stands out to me, as the whole film is just amazing. I'm so glad you could join me in watching it. Ooh, do you mean the two films "Alien" and "Aliens"? If so, I've not seen either, so great film requests! I just wondered if it was those, as I seem to remember someone telling me about "Allen and the Aliens" or something similar before. Thank you so much for watching!
This is my favorite sci-fi movie ever. It's the movie that basically got me hooked on sci-fi. The special effects were absolutely amazing for the time and the story was intellectual and thought provoking. It was suspenseful and enjoyable without being full of explosions and unnecessary action scenes.
the actor plying the cook, Earl Holliman was a major film and TV star.
It's always been one of my favorite sci-fi movies. It's a little hokey in spots - it shows it's age - but it's a sci-fi movie that's driven by ideas, and that's rare.
‘Robbie’ was intended to be a kind of “Mascot” for future MGM Science Fiction movies which despite the success of ‘Forbidden Plant’ did not come to be. But the Robot did appear in a few other productions and T.V. Shows.
Consider another iconic 50’s sci-fi film, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
They were put into a type of “Stasis” to protect them during the ‘Transition’ from Hyperspace into ‘Normal’ space which can have serious ill effects on the human body.
The guy in the white apron is Earl Holliman. He’s still alive (age 94). He portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman in its 1974-1978 run.
"Genuine Ancient Rocket Bourbon"
Gotta get me some of that.
Haha same here! Mighty strong stuff
When Gene Roddenberry was developing the original Star Trek, he screened this film for his production staff.
Robby's second appearance is in the film, The Invisible Boy. That film is a sequel of sorts to this film. Though the setting is more contemporary, there are a couple of lines that explains that Robby was brought back from the future. Implying that he's the same Robby from this film. It's geared for a younger audience, but it's worth seeing. Later the Robby suit was used in episodes of The Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, The Man from UNCLE, The Addams Family, and even Columbo. Occasionally, they would use a different head that changed his appearance. Robby returned to the big screen in Joe Dante's Gremlins in the background at an inventors convention. Later he appeared in Dante's Looney Tunes: Back in Action in a secret government facility that houses a number of aliens from 50s Sci Fi films like The Fiend Without a Face and The Man from Planet X. There's even a Triffid from Day of the Triffids. I particularly remember an appearance by Robby in the Saturday morning Sci Fi series Ark II.
BTW, the scene looked like a transporter sequence from Star Trek was the crew being protected from the effects of decelerating from faster than light speeds.
Leslie Neilsen's comedy career started with Airplane! where the makers of that film cast actors who were best known as being dramatic actors. Including Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and Neilsen.
The man that played the Boss in Bionic Man and Leslie N are my fav. actors.
They are amazing actors, you've got great taste!
Robby was so popular that they wrote a movie, The Invisible Boy, especially for him. It wasn't that successful though. Robby went on to make guess appearances in Lost in Space (twice), The Addams Family, Mork and Mindy, Ark II, Columbo (with his legs replaced by a base), Project UFO (with a different head), Wonder Woman (the only appearance where it's shown to be a costume) and probably others that I'm forgetting. He's also appeared in a commercial for Starlog Magazine, Charmin toilet paper, and I think a record commercial in the 80s.
His appearance in Gremlins was more than just him walking through the scene. However before you watch Gremlins, you also need to watch The Time Machine (1960). Trust me, you'll be glad you did. It's also a good movie.
The saucer model itself was used in an episode of The Twilight Zone, and then the stairs set for the saucer was used in several more episodes. Robby's vehicle appeared in one episode, although the front wasn't shown, so no telling if Robby was meant to be driving it. Robby himself appeared in two episodes, although for one, they replaced the head inside the dome with a 50s tin-can head.
The part where you thought that they were beaming down to the planet was for them to withstand the deceleration of the ship.
Oh, that's amazing! Thank you, I'll have to check that out at some point. He's a funny character. Did they keep his character the same? I hope they did. I'd heard about the Lost In Space appearance, which is awesome that he was in those. Oh cool, I used to love watching Mork and Mindy. I've only seen various episodes of it though. Same with Wonder Woman. It's a shame they changed him in some media though. Haha he was in a Charmin ad? Brilliant!
Ahh, yes the Gremlins films I need to watch and will probably notice more than just walking through. However, after watching the trailer for The Time Machine, I think I've actually seen it. I'm pretty sure I watched it many years ago as it looks so familiar. I notice in the Gremlins scene (after looking at the scene itself) that the Time Machine is in the background and then disappears. It's been a while since editing this video, so I may mention that being in there already.
Thank you for info on The Twilight Zone, which is a favourite of mine from the various episodes I have seen (just not the full series). Oh noo, I wonder why they replaced the head. Maybe so it didn't look like Robby, but I feel like that would be better. Thank you, I'll look at the series in full at some point when I have a chance as it's a treasure trove of great things.
Ahh yes, that would make sense, thank you. I wasn't too sure. It was still pretty cool to see anyway.
Thank you for all the info, I really appreciate it Lurker!
@@MoviesWithMarty Robby's personality and voice changed in almost all of his various appearances. Sometimes they painted lines on his body, replaced various parts, etc. I guess they were trying to make him look unique, or maybe they thought that his original appearance wasn't interesting enough.
In Gremlins though, he was just repeating lines from Forbidden Planet. You can find his commercial appearances here on CZcams, including a bunch of Sci-Fi Channel robot week promos with the Lost in Space robot. I never saw those myself, but then again, my cable company didn't add the SFC until it had already been on active for about a year.
he time machine being in the background of the Gremlins scene was why I said you should watch it first. I didn't want to spoil the scene if you hadn't seen it.
In The Twilight Zone, many people consider Robby to have had a third appearance, since there's an episode with a street peddler who has several Robby the Robot toys. I grew up watching the classic TZ episodes (syndicated), but some of the revivals are worth watching too. The first was in the 80s and started off on one of the major networks in the US, with several shorter stories in each episode (which guides often list as individual episodes), then it moved to full half-hour episodes for syndication. The next one was in 2002 and featured two stories in episode, which again get listed individually most of the time. It had remakes of a few classic episodes and a direct sequel to one original episode, complete with the original cast returning. The Jordan Peele series from 2019 wasn't bad either. As with anything, they all had some bad episodes, some good episodes and occasionally, a great episode.
BTW, if you like Robby the Robot, you can buy a full-sized, authorized replica that lights up and speaks. I believe the head may also be animated. It'll only set you back about $25,000 (US). You used to be able to buy authorized replicas of the Lost in Space robot for about the same price, but they've since been discontinued. However, if you'd like to build your own (which will probably cost about the same amount), there are all sorts of resources on the net and in real life, since MANY people have built their own replicas. You can even buy various parts like fiberglass torsos, clear dome bubbles, claws, etc. Some people settle for just making it light up and talk, but at least one person is adding motors to move the arms and the treads, another person built it as a wearable costume, etc.
People will build replicas of just about anything. There's a whole community of people who build replicas of R2-D2 and the various other small droids from Star Wars. And of course, people have been building their own Daleks since they first appeared on Doctor Who.
Some of these projects look just as good, if not better than the actual filming props/costumes.
Very good reaction to a great iconic sci-fi film. I’m 68 now and still very much enjoy this movie.
4:18 He always wanted to do comedy, but at the time he was such a big name in Hollywood that he was always cast in serious rolls. It wasn't until did the movie Airplane in the 70's that he started actually doing comedy.
No, I don't think this could aptly be called a ""B"" movie. It was produced by a major studio (MGM) with a good sized budget. A lot of the ""B"" movies that came in its wake were influenced by it and reflected its style though.
Some recommendations - Fantastic Planet (1973) and This Island Earth (1956).
This has been known for YEARS! Its the best in the 1950s, and in my opinion, one of the top ten in history. So it surprised me you didnt know about this "gem" until now. I can watch the movie without your comments.
For those who think this is a movie for old-timers...my 4 year old loves it and loves Robby...I just gave her a 14" walking and talking Robby the Robot for Christmas...Of course that meant I had to buy my brother and I one as well.
THE classic SiFi movie. Mandatory for any fan. I think Leslie Nielsen went into comedy precisely because all his previous characters were so serious. It added to the outrageousness of his humor.
This movie is a landmark in sci-fi. I love 50’s sci-fi movies! “Earth vs The Flying Saucers,” “This Island Earth,” “War of The Worlds,” “When Worlds Collide,” “Conquest of Space,” 20 Million .miles To Earth,” and “The Day The Earth Stood Still.” I would also include Japan’s Kaiju classic, “Gojira.” The cook is played by Earl Holliman, best known for costarring with Angie Dickinson in the TV show, “Police Woman.” Two interesting 80’s movies you may wish to watch are “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension,” and “Big Trouble In Little China.”
Anne Francis…..I fell hard for her after seeing this film as a boy. LOL
The special effects were groundbreaking at the time. Magnificent.
Another movie from that era would be "Robinson Crusone on Mars"
Ooh great choice Januzi!! I haven't seen or heard of it, but heard good things in general about Crusoe. I'll add it to the list! Thank you and thanks for watching
@@MoviesWithMarty In my country there was a segment in the national television called "the old cinema". I think it was aired between 80's and 2000. Most of the really old movies, including sci-fi, would "land" there. I've watched the "Forbidden planet" when I was 6 or 7, and I've remembered it because of the plot. It's pretty unique. So unique, I can't name another movie that would have the same "idea". So many remakes and reboots lately and not a single movie that would use the same story ... Maybe the movie isn't good enough? That's probably the main reason why Hollywood didn't create the sequel/prequel with the really bad CGI, cough cough ... The Thing 2011.
I love how these old films so often wanted to wow us with the unknown, the aliens etc. Feels like modern films too often want to wow us with the humans. Also I love your format, with the interjections of info etc - much more interesting that the usual 'jaw open, occasional gasp' movie react videos out there. Cool to know you do all that homework after watching. I love the almost art deco-ish matte paintings in this movie. And the juxtaposition of oily, simple junior astronauts and epic-scale alien tech etc. Regarding the mad jump-cut, I dunno if that's in the real film or just a problem with your download etc, but there's one like that in Poltergeist when they're at their neighbour's front door - it ends halfway through a sentence. If you're interested in the psychological Id in this film, the philosopher Slavoj Zizek did a great analysis (in his commercial video A Pervert's Guide To Cinema) of how it's important in the film Psycho (and how basically all Hitchcock films each chose an aspect of Freud's theories).
I'm a bit late to this reaction, which was great btw, but if you enjoyed this movie, you may also like another space themed movie that will give you a similar feeling.. The storyline, the sound track, the old-school effects mixed in with some more modern ones, plus the quality acting makes the very first PG-rated live-action Disney movie, The Black Hole, an underrated yet amazing film that you would enjoy reacting to. 🏆👍
Earl Holliman was in the 1956 The Rain Maker with Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn. Great film and dialog. Earl plays Hepburn younger brother and another actor Lloyd Bridges plays her older brother.
Besides Leslie Nielsen, the film featured Earl Holliman ( as "Cookie") who later costarred in the TV series "Police Woman"
Richard Anderson(as the chief engineer) who played Oscar Goldman on "The $6 Million Dollar Man" &"The Bionic Woman", Ann Francis who starred in the 60's detective series "Honey West" and Jack Kelley (as the ship's Doctor) who co- starred on the TV western series "Maverick ".
Leslie Nielsen was only 30 years old when this movie came out.
While he was filming it he was in his late 20's.
My point is, he looks 56. Men back then looked more mature looking.
Another classic from the early 70's is Silent Running
Think you would definitely enjoy the "save the natural world" or not!
Considering that at the speed of light the ship would require 16.7 years to reach Altair from Earth (though due to time dilation it only seemed like 378 days to the crew), that meant that the Bellerophon had only been radio silent for three point three years at the time the rescue mission was launched.
Something to note from the prologue narration: the first moon landing in their world was in the 2090’s. Not the 1990’s, the 2090’s. That’s because, in the fifties, although there was interest in space travel in certain quarters, it was felt that the technology and industrial capacity wouldn’t be ready for another hundred years. So it seemed perfectly reasonable to set the first moon landing thirteen or fourteen decades later than the movie itself. The great historical irony is that it took only one-tenth that time.
Walter Pidgeon, who plays Morbius, was a Canadian actor who, as is clear, had a lovely voice and still, tranquil presence which could be surprisingly versatile. He sang as well. He and Greer Garson made a very nice romantic movie couple and they made a few movies together. Their most famous is "Mrs. Miniver", which was a great morale builder during WWII, but my favorite of theirs is "Madame Curie", loosely based on the lives and partnership of the scientific couple: czcams.com/video/F6ZGSnazraY/video.html.
The cook who looks familiar to you is Earl Holliman, a very popular supporting actor during the 1950s-1970s and then some. My favorite way to see him is as the younger brother in "The Rainmaker", a fairly clumsy adaptation of an odd but interesting play. I love it, though I admit it has a lot of imbalance. But hey! Katharine Hepburn! Burt Lancaster in his young acrobatic prime! Holliman! I mean really, how can you go wrong (they sort of did, but really, who cares?).
Robby the Robot has his own IMDB page and was in 30 tv shows and movies, in one form or another. (Parts were often replaced.) Robby also had decades of commercials, selling everything from record albums from K-Tel to Charmin toilet paper.
Just wanted to credit Marvin Miller as the voice of "Robby". Check out his credits.
I would recommend watching the movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still", 1951. Very well made and it's even better than the remake recently done with Keanu Reeves. Only drawback is it's black and white.
yes, Robby The Robot is a major star.
"What did the Krel look like?" is - or ought to be - one of the ten best invitations to speculation among serious fans of cinematic SF. 😏 👽
P.S. I know most SF commentators spell it "Krell" - but the above was the spelling by which I first read about them (courtesy _Starlog_ publications), and I personally prefer it thus. 🤓
Robby the Robot was a regular in the 1960s American TV program. "Lost in Space."
The robot often helped young castmate, Billy Mumy, by saying, "Danger, danger Will Robinson!" Robby would give this warning when there was danger nearby.
The guy in the white hat is Earl Holliman. Mr. Holliman was an actor who was in an early episode of the Twilight Zone (I think the very first Twilight Zone episode), many other films and the American TV show Police Woman.
By the end of this very good video, I see that you had received answers to your questions about Earl Holliman.
That's not Robby, though the B9 robot was designed by the same guy. However, Robby did appear in 2 LIS episodes.
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Quick little factoids
The eletronic soundtrack is produced by an instrument called a Theremin ... it has a unique history and there is a documentary "Theremin."
On Robby:
Robby also appeared on some TV shows in the 1970s like "Mork & Mindy." The suit was later in a Hollywood museum (of sorts) and was damaged a by a fire, purchased and restored.
The original Robby suit last appeared in "Gremlins" at a phone booth behind actor Hoyt Axton speaking lines from "Forbidden Planet" on a call.
The story is right when the director said "cut," one of the arms of the Robby suit fell out of it's socket. The owner decided to retire Robby thinking the suit was becoming too fragile with age.
The owner later made a new version out of fiberglass for occasional convention appearances. The new version did not have all the clockworks that the original had and only the face lights up when speaking. This all taking place on the 1980s.
They used ring modulators, not a theremin.
Saw it at a "drive in" when I was about 8 -- in 1969. Remember the year, because that was when I first saw "StarTrek" and then of course the moon landings. Siri was fabulous back then. It was a great movie to eat popcorn with ;)
One of the best sci-fi films of the 1950's and a precursor of modern sci-fi. Groundbreaking on many levels including the first to use an all electronic soundtrack. The man you keep saying you recognize from somewhere is Earl Holliman. He was in many movies including westerns with John Wayne and in the hit TV show Police Woman with Angie Dickinson. Great reaction too 😃
Most definitely James! One of the best I've seen so far, but then again, it's the wonderful Leslie Nielson! Oh yes, I'd heard about the OST, which blows my mind that it was the first. I love it! Yeah, that's the guy! I'd recognised him from the one thing I'd seen him in, which was the very first episode of The Twilight Zone. I just couldn't remember what it was. Oooh, I'll make a note to check that out in my own time. It sounds great!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting James! I really appreciate it and I hope you're well
I believe the 2nd use of Robby the Robot was in "The Invisible Boy." **SPOILERS** Supposedly [as best as I can remember after decades of not seeing it], someone had retrieved Robot from the future by some method but it was in pieces and no one knew how to put it back together again. A supercomputer that would talk to a son of one of the people working on the computer. The computer instructed the boy how to reassemble the robot. It used the boy for its purposes and made the boy invisible to better carry out assignments.
Forbidden Planet is iconic in a great many ways and was the inspiration for a great deal of syfy that followed - and not just Star Trek.
First of your reactions, and it’s a great choice. Of the reactors I’ve watched, you’re the first to feature this title. I like your presentation and editing choices.
2:11 The first line of dialogue refers to a "DC fix," which is short for deceleration. In other words, the ship has been travelling at faster than light speeds, and within the film narrative, the crew must be protectively enclosed by an energy beam, to avoid being splattered when the ship switches to sublight speeds, and vice versa. That is what the transporter-like pads and glowing light effects was all about.
Have you seen 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' from 1951? I watched it for the first time a couple of years ago and was gobsmacked how good it was.
'What happened?' D.C. stations, deceleration, taking the ship below light-speed, it's all in the manual. ;-)
That mystery cut or blip while Nielsen is speaking on his mike has been in this film all the times I've seen it.
There are deleted scenes, and extra effects shots of the approach to Altair IV, and they can be found on youtube, but I've never seen what or why that cut exists.
Great choice. Well now you might try Fantastic Planet ( English version ) French in origin. THC brownie is the best viewing. Not a must though. Great job
That would be an interesting choice, he might want to ease into it Fantastic Planet with Yellow Submarine first, not much of a story but the quality of the surreal 1960s animation is superb. Although I imagine the soundtrack would cause a lot of copyright issues.
Dore Schary was pronounced "Dorree Sharrey". Most of us know this only because he played himself in one of the Hollywood-travel episodes of 'I Love Lucy'.