Review – Forbidden Planet

This film has got to have one of the all-time most annoying soundtracks (the score, rather than featuring what we in the 20th century understand as music, instead sounds like a lot of electric noise doubtless generated by a Theremin). Sound problems notwithstanding, this is one of the best science fiction movies ever made. How many other sci-fi pictures can boast effects that were decades ahead of their time (a lot of it still holds up fairly well), interesting characters, and an underlying philosophical debate about the nature of consciousness? Worth seeing