"Klaatu barada nikto" dude...

Edit: #three "The Thing from Another World"

Part of my permanent collection.

The collection is not all classics though. I also have Plan 9 From Outer Space and The Creeping Terror.

I'll watch either whenever the opportunity presents.

I saw it decades ago at MIT's SF Marathon. Preserves a lot of attitudes from the 50's, which don't wear well on viewing years later. It was on TNT (IIRC) a few weeks ago and I couldn't finish watching it.

When the Earth Stood Still, on the other hand, holds up pretty well (except for the usual dollop of generic "spiritual" claptrap to keep the peasants from rebelling against the idea that resurrection might be just a question of sufficiently advanced technology). Haven't seen the CGI-laden "remake" and I never will. It's not a special-effects movie, doesn't deserve being burdened with modern special effects "just because we couldn't do that back then, but we can't now".

(I'm not turning into a curmudgeon; I've enrolled in the lifetime plan.)

My wife and I are members; the theater is a treasure. The University owns the theater and leases it to the non-profit organization that runs several old theaters in the region, basically as art houses, with some mainstream stuff as well.

You are right about 1950's attitudes in Forbidden Planet; in particular, the crew behaves like a caricature of a World War II Navy movie, with a weak dash of South Pacific thrown in.

My father was a navy veteran of the Second World War, so for me, if not for everyone, it has a certain nostalgic value, particularly as comic relief.

I grew up around that stuff. I think my father's years in the Navy were, despite the danger, magic to him; it took him out of Brooklyn and into the world.

The movie itself is, of course, a loose reworking of Shakespeare's The Tempest, with a dash of Sophocles Oedipus Rex thrown in.

It raised however, perhaps seeming crude for our overly and smugly sophisticated times, a question of the wisdom of technologies integrating our minds and our mind mimicing machines, and in that sense is, again, to use the word again, prescient, reminding us that humanity crawled out the mud of ancient seas.

It's not only still going strong, it's expanded enormously ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Theatre

I saw "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" there, thanks to a couple of friends (I had no car at the time). Back then, they usually showed a different picture every night. Fans had to follow the schedule closely !

I understand where you’re coming from……

Peace ☮️