Have you ever watched "Forbidden Planet" on the BIG screen?

[Omaha Steve]

I couldn't go. I've been sick with a fever off and on since Wednesday. Here it is from last night.

[villager]

1. Probably not since my teens, actually

Sorry you missed it, OS!

[stage left]

2. I imagine it was great.

It's my favorite Sci fi movie after The Day the Earth Stood Still.

[villager]

6. Mine is still "2001," but those are great choices, OS

It's like "Forbidden Planet" set the bar -- FX (and soundtrack -- and theme?) wise, until "2001" came along.

[Binkie The Clown]

14. My favorites include Forbidden Planet, Cloud Atlas, Xontar, and Plan 9, but are too numerous to list

And, of course, the Flash Gordon theatrical serials, and the TV serials Tom Corbet: Space Cadet, Captain Video, and Science Fiction Theater, all three from the 1950s.

And Twilight Zone.

And Outer Limits,

Oh, and did I mention Battlefield Earth? ( Just kidding. )

[Omaha Steve]

20. I was at that event

Got the stars autographs on the poster of the art work below.


http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/tdtess.htm

[stage left]

32. What a thrill that must have been, OS!

Patricia Neal was wonderful in the movie. As was Billy Gray and, of course, Michael Rennie. It would be embarrassing to admit just how many times I've watched it, usually as a double feature with Forbidden Planet.

[Eleanors38]

23. Yes, Forbidden, ..Stood Still..., When Worlds Collide. Top flight!

[0rganism]

3. a fine fine movie

often shown in an auditorium at the college i once attended during celebratory times, usually as a double feature with Zardoz or Light Years

[villager]

7. Zardoz!

I still have a one sheet for it here. I wonder if I should get it framed?

[Demonaut]

9. hairball

[hfojvt]

10. I wasn't all that impressed with it

but I do remember a lady with very nice legs.

Still I have only watched it once since I bought it on video.

[villager]

11. Charlotte Rampling, I wager

[hfojvt]

12. hard to tell

when some foolish camera person chopped her legs off.

[longship]

5. Might the fever be attributed to monsters from the ID?

If so, I'd recommend that you stop using the Krell machine so much.

Just ask Warren Stevens. He'd know.

Fantastic flick.

"The Tempest" by any other name would be as sweet.

My best to you and Marta. Too bad you missed it. I know you did not want to. Wide screen movie theaters are like live operas; one has to experience them to know that there is really a huge difference.

[villager]

8. longship, that might be "the post of the day," here on DU!

[Binkie The Clown]

13. Yes. The first Saturday after it's release in 1956. I was 11 years old,

and crazy about science fiction. Then again in 1960 when a small local theater played it. I have it on dvd and watch it every couple of years or so.

[pinboy3niner]

15. I was 7 when I saw it

I loved sci-fi on-screen, but didn't get turned on to reading it until I found Eleanor Cameron's The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet in the school library in 6th grade. It was all downhill from there...

[Binkie The Clown]

18. I LOVED that book! And what about this classic?

[BigBearJohn]

16. One of my favorite movies of all time. Wish I could have been there!!

[Enthusiast]

17. I liked the weird sounds and other stuff.

[Eleanors38]

22. IIRC, first movie to use all-synthesizer/electronic music sound track.nt

[Omaha Steve]

24. Electronic tonalities

The term music would have caused union problems.

[Eleanors38]

25. Ah, yes. Bernard Hermann had his union probs with Vertigo...

Musicians were on strike, so he had to arrange for the score to be orchestrated and recorded by symphonies in Vienna and London; even Muir Mathieson had to conduct, much to Hermmann's dismay. Much of the original score was recorded in stereo. Incidentally, the weird graphics in the title of Vertigo were made using an obsolete anti-aircraft fire control unit, which was a computer. The graphics are believed to be the first use of a computer for visuals in a major motion pic.

Herrmann did the score for ...Earth Stood Still.

[Omaha Steve]

26. I met Bernard's widow Lucy at the Earth Stood Still event

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Marta and I are seeing the restored Vertigo on the BIG screen Wednesday night. Clip below.

https://www.marcustheatres.com/movies/vertigo

[longship]

28. OS, as you know, that is the big reveal in Vertigo.

When Scotty (James Stewart) finally sees the truth. It is an astounding scene -- I think I posted it in a previous post -- that should have earned Novak an Oscar. Certainly the entire film should have. But this scene shows the depths that Hitchcock would go to portray his theme, obsession.

Beyond such analysis, Vertigo is an absolutely beautiful film. I have the DVD with all the extras. It is a real treasure. Yes, it is long and curiously confusing. However, this scene knits everything together.

Altogether, it is a helluva ride.

Love Hitch! And especially Vertigo.

And yes, Bernard Herrman's score here also delivers.

[stage left]

33. I didn't know that.

Vertigo is my other film obsession. I've wondered lately if Hermann score isn't a big part of my love for it.

[Eleanors38]

34. Concensus is the score IS whart draws people to the movie...

It is considered perhaps the best score for being integrally part of the visual narrative. I consider it perfect nightmare music: the gyrating, off-key strings followed by a very loud brass sections, followed by more tensely-quiet harps (I heard Herrmann called for a half dozen players overlapping each other). This is the feeling I had in childhood nightmares. The color green was a fixation in the movie as well. Some feminists criticize the movie as a male's obsession with a construct of beauty which is dehumanizing, calling the obsession "the male gaze." May be. But no one ever threw a gaze at a male like Kim Novak.

[Eleanors38]

21. Yes! It set the standard. Good photo!

[trof]

27. Meh

I didn't think much of it.
Corny and hokey.

[Iggo]

29. No, but a few years back I saw West Side Story on the big screen.

When you get a chance to see your favorite old movies the way they were made to be seen, take it. (Well, unless you're suffering from fever, says the guy who sometimes answers before he reads the whole post...lol)

[Omaha Steve]

31. Marta and I got to meet Marni Nixon & Russ Tamblyn at a mixer the night before the showing

So we got autographs from Russ on our "How the West Was Won" book and a "the Haunting" still. Marni signed a couple still from "the Sound of music". She was a nun. She also signed a Disney still from "Mulan" for our granddaughter.

Marni & Russ at the event:

Three pages of photos from the event here: http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/westside.htm

[Rond Vidar]

30. One of the very best sf films of the '50s.

For all the deserved accolades that the slightly more recent "2001" gets, the fact remains that "Forbidden Planet" is simply more entertaining a film.