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Re: best decade for Sci-fi films?

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:35:31 -0500, Alric Knebel <alric@[cableone.net]>
wrote:

>I didn't care much for FORBIDDEN PLANET either.  I mean, I can see how 
>it was a quantum leap forward in intention, but it just doesn't engage 
>me on all levels.

That's a more honest and thoughtful assessment than the OP's.  I think
Forbidden Planet was the first really good effects-driven SF movie I had
ever seen.  That shot on the landing of the power center is just
unforgettable.  Forbidden Planet would have a place in history, even if that
shot was all it had.  All of the effects - save, perhaps, the space ship -
are intelligently staged.  There isn't a hint of camp winking at the
audience, or "we don't have any money so pretend this pie plate is a space
ship"  - anywhere in this movie.  A quantum leap forward, indeed ..


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