Of all of Bob Hopes comedies, sans Crosby, this has got to be the best. A movie you can watch not twice, but a hundred times,( as I probably have ) The classic "beer drinking scene" with "Hugo"! Virginia Mayo......... Walter Slezak.....Walter Brennan, Try as they may...Hollywood can't do any better, no filth, no bathroom jokes, what a challenge it must have been in those day's to bring you a film that did not need to rely on that. Watch and enjoy with your kids or along with the guy's and some beer, it's timeless. A true 10......
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Forbidden Planet
(1956)
as much fun now as 40 years ago!
11 July 1999
One of the first movies I ever saw, and on a 25 inch color tv no less back in 1963 or so, I sat right up close like they tell you not to and as soon as that spaceship landed on Altair, I was hooked! Some one had bought a bucket of fried chicken and we sat there in the dark, cool basement and watched one of the best sci-fi movies ever made!
You can't compare it to all the techno-crap they have now, although the special effects still stand-up very well. You've got to be a kid again for this movie. The tour of the Krell lab is amazing, as is Ann Francis! I remember how frightened I was when the monster starts coming through the walls, totally unstopable!
A testament to what Hollywood can do when they have a real story. Use your imagination, be a kid again, turn down the lights, get real close and......pass the chicken!
You can't compare it to all the techno-crap they have now, although the special effects still stand-up very well. You've got to be a kid again for this movie. The tour of the Krell lab is amazing, as is Ann Francis! I remember how frightened I was when the monster starts coming through the walls, totally unstopable!
A testament to what Hollywood can do when they have a real story. Use your imagination, be a kid again, turn down the lights, get real close and......pass the chicken!
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