[ And Forbidden Planet made Star Trek possible. ]
Thats also true.. That movie made the genre..
Amazing with what they had to work with...
Even now its almost believable..
Any thats not seen it... should...
I saw Forbidden Planet again recently, and it is just a wonderful movie—I use that description intentionally. The music (which was made by creating circuits and recording what happened when electricity was sent through them—what you hear is the sound of the circuits “dying” as they burn out), art direction, script, effects—everything is meant to create that ‘sense of wonder’ that attracts some of us to SF as kids.
Few SF movies really tap into this and it’s a shame. So many SF movies are just action movies in space, when they could be so much more.
Yes, si much better than the other stuff they were making in the ‘50s. and I say them all. I was a great fan of Galaxy Magazine. Not until “2001 Space Odyessey” did they make a movie up to that standards of that writing. Loved that episode of Deep Space 9, where the actors without makeup played writers in a mag like it.
Leslie Nielsen did indeed rock.
Flash Gordon made it all possible starting in the 1930s.