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Airplane 1 and 2.

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21 minutes ago, overspeed3 said:

 

BTW, In the PC world, I don't think Airplane could be made today...

And that’s why it’s so good

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When Forbidden Planet was released I was 12 years old. The theater in the town where I lived changed movies every Thursday and Monday. Forbidden planet was shown from Thursday to Sunday...and I went to every one of them. Robbie was my hero. I have the DVD and still watch it from time-to-time.........Doug

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17 hours ago, fs4fun said:

Surely you can't be serious

Don't call me "Surely"!  Whoops....somebody already said that!

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9 hours ago, Chock said:

Forbidden Planet (1956)

That movie literally scared the daylights of me and my fellow 6 year old mates, as we all so believed it was all true................in those halcyon days🙃

And it(original topic) starred my All Time basketball hero, Lew Alcindor. The nights I stayed awake listening to  faint AFN commentaries on the NBA

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20 hours ago, W2DR said:

When Forbidden Planet was released I was 12 years old. 

I had nightmares for several years after watching Forbidden Planet...

Other post-apocalyptic movies from those days such as "On the Beach"  and "Fail Safe" added to my nightmares as well.

There was one other post-apocalyptic movie that centered on a family in Florida who were survivors of a nuclear attack but I cannot remember the title now, and I can't locate it via Google either.

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I was pretty young the first time my parents let me watch this, little did they know that this movie would be the first time I saw a topless woman 😆

It’s a classic movie (and not just for the reason mentioned above), I recently read this interesting article on the making of the movie:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/25/how-we-made-airplane-the-movie

I honestly can’t remember much about Airplane 2...I’ll have to go look it up.

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7 hours ago, n4gix said:

...post-apocalyptic movie that centered on a family in Florida who were survivors of a nuclear attack ...

After almost an hour of fruitless, yet interesting internet surfing, I too failed to find the movie you refer to... 😖

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20 hours ago, HighBypass said:

After almost an hour of fruitless, yet interesting internet surfing, I too failed to find the movie you refer to... 😖

I thought sure that it would appear in the Wiki under that category of movies from the 50's and 60's. I'm fairly sure it was B&W, and the ending was predictably tragic as all involved succumbed to radiation poisoning.

I'll keep looking for it.

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I know I've seen this movie. I've looked on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to no avail. It must be out there somewhere...............Doug

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11 minutes ago, W2DR said:

I know I've seen this movie. I've looked on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to no avail. It must be out there somewhere...............Doug

One would think it would be. I've found a few I haven't seen before (two of them from England), but not this one.

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As others have said it wouldn't be allowed today. That's why I love the 80s so much. PC is killing us.

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