Buck in space!

[luzula]

Oh hey, Leslie Nielsen as a starship captain in 1956! Although sadly the movie looks truly horrible. Anyway, now I want Bob, Buck, and Caroline in space. *g*

Gah, I have a miserable cold, and apparently this is the kind of thing I amuse myself with. That and listening my way through lots of WWII radio news clips to find the right ones to use in a podfic project.

Comments

[akamine_chan]

Actually, that's one of the best, early sci-fi movies ever made. It's basically a remake of The Tempest and features some really cutting edge film techniques for the time.

[luzula]

Oh, cool! I did not know that--I was just going by the movie poster and the half-naked-woman-in-distress on it. Maybe I should track it down, then. : )

[podfic_lover]

I have to agree with aka concerning "Forbidden Planet". It's even noted by Gene Roddenberry as one of the inspirations for Star Trek. It's also one of my first SciFi memories watching this film together with my parents. Time and again we watched it and you won't believe the crush I had on Commander John J. Adams, Leslie Nielsen's character.

Interestingly the cover of my DVD shows not a woman, but a man in the arms of Robby, The Robot, which was another SciFi icon. You could buy him as a toy robot.

[luzula]

Oh, cool! I did not know that--I was just surfing for early pictures of Leslie Nielsen. And then there was the half-naked-woman-in-distress, which made me facepalm. Interesting with your alternate cover, though. Maybe I should track it down, then. : )

[mizface]

Thirding what aka and podfic have said - it's a really interesting film - I've seen it *thinks* probably a dozen times. I think that advertising of that time pretty much made a lot of sci-fi films/books look horrible, because they weren't seen as a serious genre. Hope you enjoy it!

[luzula]

Yeah, I suppose I should've looked beyond the cover. And I have obtained it now, so I'll be watching it sometime soon. : )

[brigantine]

Oh wow, I haven't watched Forbidden Planet since I was a kid. I may need to remedy that. I'd totally forgotten that was Leslie Nielsen as the captain. Hmm, I'll need to fetch some popcorn when I go to the grocer's....

[luzula]

I have acquired it now, and I definitely want to watch it, since everyone's recommending it! But it tends to take me forever to watch things (and also I'm doing a dS rewatch), so probably it will be a while.