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1. The creature was made from images of the MGM lion

2. Morbius was killed by his ID

3. I Just Want to Say Good Luck Were all counting on you

4. Plan 9 frm outer space was ahead of the effects of the time and while it is commonly thought they used painted plates or hubcaps the real answer is as follows "The film's "iconic" flying saucers have been variously identified as paper plates or hubcaps. But according to the documentary Flying Saucers Over Hollywood, The Plan 9 Companion (1992), they were actually a recognizable plastic model kit, first issued in 1952 by toy manufacturer Paul Lindberg's Lindberg Line model kit company: this was the first science fiction plastic model kit produced (product #517). Roughly matching the era's popular image of UFOs, the saucer model was disk-shaped with a clear dome on top. Under the kit dome was a little green alien pilot. This pilot figure was not used in the film. Its multiple flying saucers were painted metallic silver, including the domes. Two slightly modified versions of the Lindberg kit are used in Plan 9's UFO scenes"

5. Morbius stayed behind because he died.

6. Wow! Wow! Wow!
   In my 70 years of enjoying this film, I never once thought deeply enough to notice the connection between the Krell doorways and the shape of the Id monster. My goodness, you give me hope for humanity's future intelligence levels after too long being in despair about it.

7. Forbidden Planet is important Sci-Fi movie worth watching, but its also unfortunately a very misogynistic. This (doesn't) mean I dislike the movie overall. It's very impressive in other ways. Robby the robot is awesome.
   That being said the film has faced significant modern criticism for its dated and toxic depiction of gender. The film's treatment of Altaira (played by Anne Francis), the sole woman on the planet, reflects mid-1950s patriarchal attitudes through a lens that many contemporary viewers find uncomfortably hostile and regressive. It was 1956, but sadly even in 2026 there are many ignorant selfish right winger men/MAGA government actively working to oppress civil rights/freedoms. Especially the rights of women. and take the US backwards. Anyone supporting that is a facist and need psychiatric treatment.
   As for the movies key elements of Misogyny.
   Victim Blaming: When a crew member corners and attempts to force himself on Altaira, Commander Adams berates her instead of punishing the aggressor properly, claiming she deserved it for dressing attractively in an environment of isolated men. Victim blaming is still very real in 2026.
   -Entitlement and Harassment: The male space crew treats Altaira as a public commodity or prize, using aggressive advances while she remains completely naive to earthly customs and consent due to her isolated upbringing.
   Condescending Authority: Commander Adams routinely bullies, yells at, and patronizes Altaira, treating her agency as secondary to male control and discipline.
   Subconscious Possessiveness: The psychological "id monster" itself stems from Dr. Morbius’s deep, repressed jealousy and subconscious desire to control his daughter's sexuality and keep her isolated from other men.

8. This movie introduced the first electronic generated tones. It was created by a husband and wife team.

9. Morbious died just after showing them how to self destruct.

10. My gosh, you got it, the ID, ego and super ego. I am 77 years old. I had to study “ transactional analysis “ while in my masters program. I thought no one today would understand the ID, etc. you, young lady, are very impressive.

11. I have watched 4 of these reviews. You have interpreted everything with the most intelligence so far. You guessed everything very accurately. Everyone else had no clue. The one exception was at the beginning. The “transporters”. They explained, but no paid attention. The so called “transporters “ were shields from the lightspeed deceleration.

12. This is about the tenth “Forbidden Planet” review I have seen posted today. I wonder why?

13. Anne Francis had her own television show, "Honey West" private detective. She had a pet Ocelot.

14. Warren Stevens from this movie played "Rojan" in the Star Trek episode "By Any Other Name."
    Also, the Robbie the Robot prop was also used in a Columbo episode later "Mind over Mayhem."
    And Anne Francis appeared in two Columbo episodes "Short Fuse" (1972) and "A Stitch in Crime" (1973). In the latter, Leonard Nimoy was the bad guy, Dr. Mayfield.

15. As I've said elsewhere, even as a huge fan of this film, I only found out in the last few years that a sequel was actually made. In 1957, the film 'The Invisible Boy' was released, and while at first it seems like there is no connection between the two, eventually we find out how that connection exists.

    Sadly, the film is nowhere near as good as 'Forbidden Planet', except perhaps, at the end, where it deals with AI in a way that is creepily prescient of where we are today. I would recommend watching it for that reason alone.

16. The technology possessed by the Krell, is in fact, the ultimate expression of All Technology- To Impose one's Desire and Will on the external world. Interestingly, it is the technological analogue to a 'Wish' in Magic. Again- The Imposition of one's own Will on the World.

    While I doubt such a machine does, or even could, actually exist, I do know for a fact that those high up in the Occult World of Hollywood love to 'Mock the Normies' with things that they know exist, but we Schlubs are not privy to. So, while 'Wish Machines' probably don't exist, Tech so advanced it seems like Magic, very likely do.

17. The film is one of 'The Greats' and while many consider '2001: A Space Odyssey' to be superior, I find this infinitely more re-watchable.

18. The tiger attack represents the loss of innocence

19. On Jules Verne movies – "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" are standouts. You should watch these before "The Mysterious Island".

    "Master of the World", not so much. There's also the silent "From the Earth to the Moon, and. A Trip Around It", but it's pretty primitive. I don't know if there's a more recent version.

20. At 1:30 and 4:55, whaaat?!?! Comparing this movie with 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' is like comparing a Rolls Royce with a tricycle! That's downright insulting! There IS no comparison.

    At 5:50, "I thought he was part of the vehicle." Yes, he was.

    At 8:45, the most logical explanation is that some of the Bellerophon's crew must have discovered the Krell lab (maybe with Morbius or maybe without), then rode the shuttlecar into the Great Machine. But, being a philologist, it became Morbius's duty to learn their language. He then learned enough to use their plastic educator to expand his mind, then, using the lab, he constructed Robby. Then (maybe after most of the crew had been killed), Morbius used Robby to construct his house, making sure that his "office" was positioned right next to the Krell hallway leading to the lab.

    At 21:20, Altaira wasn't angry at Commander Adams anymore. It's just the opposite. Farman's advances didn't impress her but Adams' anger at her after Farman left stirred her emotions and now she sees Adams as a challenge. She now wants to get to know him better.

    At 25:20, yes, he did cut him off. Doc Ostrow felt that he had to do that. He was smart enough to see the direction that the Commander's comment was taking and he wanted to save him the embarrassment of accidentally insulting Morbius and triggering his anger.

    At 28:10, that Krell shuttlecar wasn't taking them to a spaceship. It was taking them in the opposite direction – deep underground to a corner of the Great Machine.

    At 28:50, "Those rails don't seem super useful." No, not for humans, they're not. But they would have been useful if the Krell were very flat creatures with most of their body mass within two feet of the ground and only their heads extending on stalks four or five feet above their bodies. This arrangement would also match those triangular door arches.

    At 42:00, "Maybe they could destroy the machine." Destroy a 20x20x20-mile machine? I really doubt it.

    At 48:45, Morbius didn't escape with the others because he was already dead and there was no time for a proper burial. Also, remember that a trip back to Earth would have taken another year or so and there was no time to construct a crypt onboard the C-57-D to contain his body for that length of time. So, they had no choice but to leave him on the planet. And the same must have been true for poor Doc Ostrow.

    At 49:05, no, the id monster could not have followed him. While Morbius's subconscious had been boosted by the plastic educator, creating a link between him and the Great Machine, it was the Great Machine that gave the id monster its existence. So, if Morbius had been able to escape with the C-57-D's crew, the id monster could not have gone with him. At least, not for very far. Interesting idea, though.

21. Forbidden Planet opened the door for shows like Star Trek. It introduced the idea of FTL without bothering to explain how ;). The idea of a fleet of ships travelling the stars like any other fleet on patrol. And the intricate introduction of the actual villain… It did a lot- others did some of it first, but Forbidden Planet did it all at once and made it work with the tech available at the time. Star Trek arrived only 10 years later.

22. It's still wild to me that the same man yelling at Morbius so furiously about the monsters from the id is the same man who, three decades later would declare "of course I'm serious…and don't call me Shirley."

23. A real classic of a sci-fi movie, you can see the Star Trek in it, Gene Roddenberry must have been taking notes.
    I love the creature effects in this, made by actually drawing on the physical film cells, its very mad scientist without the mad scientist realising he was the mad scientist.

24. Why the tiger attacked both of them was that the tiger thought that the captain or Skipper was attacking her so the tiger was defending Altura.

25. It reminds me of Destination Moon (1950) which Robert Heinlein helped produce and helped keep it as technically accurate as it could be.
    Really that's just my way to re-mention Robert Heinlein, and try to get you reading his books and stories. His stories are all filled with wonderfully fleshed out characters, complex ideas, and new inventions described clearly, so people could actually make them.
    Also, He's part of the Big Three, 2 of which you've already enjoyed reading and watching (Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are the other two.)
    Any book of his is great, but I'd recommend one of 2 short story collections. The Past Through Tomorrow or The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (also known as 6 X Heinlein)
    Once you've read what he can do with 20 pages, you too will want to read his giant novels.
    Anyway, all that being said, great vid 🙂

26. This movie is absolutely insane for 1956.

27. "… Anne Francis stars in … Forbidden Planet …ah oh uh ohhh uh uh oh … to the late night, double feature picture show … I wanna go-o-o" – I bet you would love The Rocky Horror Picture Show

28. I see you're watching Babylon 5, just wait until you get to the two part episode "A Voice In the Wilderness".

29. "We'll reach DC point at seventeen oh one." A-ha! The creators of Star Trek put in that little salute to Forbidden Planet, "NCC-1701."

30. Original story was by Jack Rabin and Irving Block, who owned a special effects shop and had an interesting way of drumming new business. They'd come up with a clever low budget special effects then pitch a story using it to B-movie studios. They made several 1950s B-movies this way including Unknown World, War Of The Satellites, and Atomic Submarine. They came up with an idea for a movie inhabited by invisible monsters and their agent pitched it to MGM knowing the studio wanted to jump on the sci-fi bandwagon. MGM bought them out and produced the film entirely onn their own.

31. Both the mid 1960's TV show The Time Tunnel and the mid 1990's TV show Babylon 5 occasionally showed similarly MASSIVE power plant architecture that seemed obviously inspired by the Krell underground systems.

32. The monster didn't look like a Krell. It looked like a nightmare monster dreamed up in Morbius's subconscious mind.

33. The reason Robby went haywire when ordered to kill the monster was that he understood that the only way to kill it was to kill Morbius, which his programming made impossible.

34. One of my favourite films AND a Xenogears shout out:)

35. Perhaps the most amazing fact about FP is that it's star, was in two films that redefined their genres.

    Forbidden Planet was the first sci-fi film to be taken seriously as a project by the studio. And Airplane! (1980) Redefined comedy for at least 20 years, and it's impact does continue today (albeit at a less frantic level than the 80s and 90s).

    That's a damn fine epitaph for any man.

36. Gattaca is a fantastic scifi film. Some other 1950s classics definitely worth a watch are Them, War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Time Machine. The Maze Runner trilogy is also incredibly good and much deeper than most realize. If you like horror at all, The Shining and The Haunting of HIll House are must sees. Hill House is a 10-part series for tv.