Science Fiction movie

[CarmenG@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/04 5:29:33 PM, dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se writes:

<< >>>My original exact English was "Krelian oil". The Krel were the
>>> long-dead former inhabitants of the planet Altair 4 visited by the
United
>>> Planets Cruiser C57D in the greatest SF movie of all time.

And what movie is that, pray tell? I obviously haven't seen it :( >>

Forbidden Planet is the movie, and I show it to my English classes after we 
read/act out Shakespeare's The Tempest. The movie is not as well-known as it 
should be, or people would recognize all of the ideas that Star Trek took from 
it. (Well, Forbidden Planet took ideas from Shakespeare, after all.) The 
special effects, state-of-the-art for the time, were done by none other than the 
Disney company--animators, I'd guess, although I don't have my facts in front of 
me right now.
Alas, I read last year that the movie was being remade. However, I also heard 
that Robbie the Robot (the Ariel character) would not be redesigned. Can we 
at least get Leslie Nielson to play Morbius?