These are the posts for the month of January in the year 2007 of the common era.
What if they come in through the back door or the bathroom window like that infamous Beatles song?
If you ever had a stoner roommate whose friends dropped over, ate your food and talked for hours and hours about totally mundane shit that seemed deeply profound to them at the time, then you’ve already seen most of this movie.
I’m just an actor with a gun who’s lost his motivation.
Remember the good old days when an extended edition of a Peter Jackson film added texture and depth to an already impressive work? It seems like it was just a couple years ago. Oh, right, it was just a couple of years ago.
Hypnotic illusions don’t tear people apart.
Seeing Forbidden Planet today is like meeting an old friend’s great-grandfather and seeing the family resemblance. Sort of a gold standard for the science fiction genre during the fifties, this film has its DNA in much of what we’ve seen since in film and on television, particularly the original Star Trek. From fifty years later, however, the movie is also a wonderfully nostalgic mix of forward thinking and amusingly dated social mores.
