Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet (1956)

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Corrected entry: While Adams is wearing the plastic educator machine's sensors on his forehead, he reaches for the creation lever. Morbius stops him and the sensors are suddenly retracted from his head.

Phoenix

Correction: Morbius moves the unit away as he stops the commander from using the intelligence booster. For this reason, in the next shot it appears retracted.

Noman

Corrected entry: Just before his death, Dr. Morbius tells Cmdr. Adams that they must be 100 million miles away in 24 hours to be safe. By my calculations, they'd have to travel at 4,166,666 MPH to get that far away in the time allowed. Kinda makes light speed seem like child's play.

Correction: Well, while your calculations are entirely reasonable, your knowledge appears to be somewhat lacking. That's less than one percent of the speed of light, which tops out at a remarkable 671 million miles per hour.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Robby insists that the crew wear seatbelts when they get on the transport for the first time, but when they arrive at Morbius' dwelling, none of them are wearing seat belts.

Phoenix

Correction: When they arrive at the residence, you can see them unbuckle their seatbelts, except for the middle passenger that had no seat.

Corrected entry: When Commander Addams is asked to fire his baster at the Krell lab door, he notices that the spot he shot at isn't even warm. If it drinks up energy that rapidly "like a sponge" as Morbius puts it, the commander's hand would have gotten instant frostbite as his body heat would have been absorbed as well.

Correction: This is just silly. It's a fictional material on another planet. There is no way to know how it behaves.

Corrected entry: When the id monster is melting the protective door and parts of the molten door starts to fall to the floor, you can see a person through the resulting holes who is moving around and presumably pushing parts of the door to make them fall through. This happens about 5-10 minutes from the end of the film.

Correction: I have watched this scene several times and at no point is a person visible through the hole.

Factual error: At the end of the movie the cast is counting down to the explosion of the Krell furnaces. They reach zero and the furnaces explode. They see the light from the explosion just it happens. But they are 100 million miles out by then. The light would have taken over 8 minutes, about as long as light from the sun takes to reach earth, to reach the ship.

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Trivia: To save money, many of the set backdrops in this film were recycled from The Wizard of Oz. This is most obvious in Morbius' garden.

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Question: With such an advanced ship and a crew of highly trained specialists, why would they need the services of a human cook? Wouldn't an automated chef do the same work and save the resources required for such an unnecessary position?

Answer: This is a lightweight, unsophisticated 1950s sci-fi movie with little thought to scientific accuracy. Space travel wasn't possible at this time and most people had little knowledge of what that would entail. Screenwriters just "improvised." The movie was meant as pure entertainment with a humor-infused plot. The "cook" is just a comic-relief character.

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