Better classic Sci-Fi movie?

[arcadian]

1956


or

1951

[AsahinaKimi]

1. WHAT IS it with Robots

stealing fainting girls? yikes...

[Deja Q]

3. Well, I once wandered into a website that does show women preferring machines...

:yoiks:

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Yes women liking machines...

Not the other way around! Its like they are standing there saying.. "What do you want me to do with this??"

[arcadian]

6. Another theme seems to be the planet Saturn.

Rings around a planet = sci-fi movie.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. "I dare ya.."

"TRY and hold me!!"

[arcadian]

10. 'This Island Earth' has an alien bugman holding a passed out woman.

:D

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Just for once

I would like to see a robot holding a guy like that... will never happen. will it?

[Deja Q]

2. Which one has NOT been remade yet?

:D

[Blue-Jay]

5. I have Forbidden Planet saved on the TIVO.

I love both movies, so I'm going to vote BOTH.

[arcadian]

7. I voted for Forbidden Planet.

I just like it better. They go off of Earth and it's more Star Trekky.

[LostInAnomie]

9. Forbidden Planet was a more original idea for a movie.

That and the fact that it was actually interesting. Things happened in it. It wasn't just some alien dude that looked like a human giving morality speeches and a big robot standing around.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Except it is based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

I guess if you are going to steal a plot, steal from the very best.

[LostInAnomie]

13. At least it wasn't another "You've gone too far, mankind! Change your ways!" turd.

Back then, that was the plot of about every other sci-fi movie to come out.

[Ikonoklast]

14. The films with that type of story line can be directly related to the

unleashing of nuclear weapons on the world.

There was a real and pervasive fear of global nuclear war throughout the fifties and sixties, so this meme was a common one in movies of that time.

[LostInAnomie]

16. Yeah, but that doesn't make it interesting or original.

Especially when the most interesting thing in the movie (Gort) doesn't do shit.

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. I dug Robby the Robot.

[nytemare]

17. Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MHNvOVl8Y