Grok and Mark Review: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Opening Thoughts: A Sci-Fi Speed Bump (and Beam Me Up?)You sat down to watch Forbidden Planet on your tower, and your wife Mary set the tone with a hilarious quip: “Is that your next murder victim?” But you’re here to dissect the film with a critical eye, tearing into its science and logic over a grueling 9-hour session. The narrator brags about the “Hyper-Drive,” letting Earth ships travel “many times the speed of C,” and you call out the physics flaws: time dilation, space dust, infinite mass, and impossible deceleration with proto-Star Trek pads and a green…