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What is the best classic sci-fi or horror movie form the 1950s or early 60s???
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 77918393:MV80MjAwMzUzXzc2Mzg5NDY0X0RGRDY4NUJF] The Hollywood left in the 1950s & 1960s seemed to devote themselves to an agenda of trying to kill America's fascination with science, engineering, & space exploration. Consequently, they only tended to greenlight badly written sci-fi scripts & give them "B" film budgets. Nearly all the sci-fi from the early 60s up until Star Wars were so awful, I have a hard time naming good ones. There certainly was a fiery love & fascination for the subject, but a real agenda to throw a wet blanket over it. The real tragedy of that is that there were a lot of amazing fiction books in the genre that have vanished into obscurity (read a lot of them as a kid). 2001: A Space Odyssey & Star Wars were the 2 first Sci-Fi flicks to finally get a decent budget. George Lucas got all kinds of concessions from the studio to license the brand & merchandise toys because the studio execs had begun to believe their own lies about Sci-Fi. Lucas cashed in big. Another one of the few good ones from back then is "The Day The Earth Stood Still," but you may like the remake with Keanu Reeves better. "The Blob" was another decent one. [/quote]
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I just watched Forbidden Planet for the first time and it was pretty damn good. There are a ton of classic sci-fi and horror movies on Tubi under the cult movie section that I still have to check out.
What would you recommend?
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