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In reply to the discussion: movies you'll watch over and over [View all]Jeebo
(2,025 posts)Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly, When Worlds Collide, This Island Earth. Also a much more recent one, The Martian. The Martian is on the movie channels on cable TV all the time, and whenever it comes on, I can't not watch it. I must have seen it dozens of times by now. Every time I eat a baked potato, I think of Mark Watney. I read the novel too, a year or two before the movie came out.
Forbidden Planet is, in my humble opinion, the best science fiction movie ever made. The artifacts of the Krell civilization, the way the humans in the movie interact with those artifacts, the mystery of the destructive force loose on the planet ... it's one of the most intelligent science fiction movies ever made.
-- Ron