Best SciFi ever?
Todd S: What is the greatest SciFi film?
Star Wars, 2001, or are you going to claim another one of your lame-ass, lunatic, obscure picks?
(1956).
The story was loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with Walter Pidegon as Morbius/ Prospero, who discovers the ancient records of the advanced Krell civilization on this brave new world. Morbius uses their technology to multiply his brainpower many times over, but in doing so, he also increases and releases the suppressed evils from his subconscious. His Id Monster takes on a huge, hideous physical form and then begins a rampage of death and destruction. Morbius fights desperately to control his id. He is a good scientist with a noble quest. The human race can benefited greatly from this method of increasing intelligence, but only if they can first come to grips with, and then conquer the basic animal instincts deep within each subconscious. The message seemed clear… to ignore and/or suppress the id can only make it grow to such gigantic proportions that it will finally explode with an uncontrolled fury.
One must remember that the oldest Boomers were only ten years old when this complex film premiered. Kids were accustomed to lightweight eye-candy with conventional monsters, the bomb and world destruction, and before the end credits they knew that the good guys would always win… or, at least Boomers thought that was true before viewing Forbidden Planet. The film raised a lot of disturbing questions that the usual sources (school, church, TV and parents) were unwilling or unable to answer. Did George Washington have evils in his id? How about Jimmy Dodd? Gene Autry? Ike? The Pope? How about us Boomers… did we have evils in our ids? After all, little girls and boys began playing doctor about this time. Some of the oldest Boomers felt strange, new urges. Talking about such feelings was absolutely taboo in 50’s society, so many kids began to think they were misfits, freaks and definitely sicko. That opinion changed when they found out that Morbius, too, had monsters in his id.
In those early days of television only two men really understood the tremendous potential for mass persuasion by the medium. Unfortunately, those two pioneers, Trickie Dickie Nixon and Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, had id monsters galore. READ MORE
Well intentioned Americans overcome by dark monsters in their Id
Counterclockwise from upper right: Robbie the Robot, Morbius, Nixon and McCarthy with commie microfilm, Elvis, POW hero John McCain, Ford, Nixon, Bush, Sr, Reagan…
George W Bush: image too small to post. Irrelevant…
FOLLOWUP from Todd: So, you admit that Forbidden Planet ripped off Shakespeare’s The Tempest!
And, Lucas Ripped off The Hidden Fortress even more for his Star War flicks.
2nd Place: Kubrick vs Lucus. Are you kidding me? George is a whore. He wants to sell you toys.
Dr Strangelove and Paths of Glory are on my Top Ten Best Flicks List.
2001: Top 5 SciFi…just below Dark Star
Published by Greg at 03:58 AM on February 22, 2003