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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
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The War of the Worlds/Forbidden Planet: The two greatest 50s B movies ever made, these movies have a colour and a retro-futurist beauty that modern, squarish concrete "futuristic" styles can't hope to equal. Plus they both do justice to their classic source material, even while they veer wildy from their sources in most respects.
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Permit me to point out that "Forbidden Planet" was not a B movie. It was a big budget (for the time) production by a major studio (MGM) and featured special effects that were the current state of the art.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/07/103029.php
http://www.answers.com/topic/forbidden-planet
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