# Questions about "Forbidden Planet"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-forbidden-planet/694013 "2014-07-25T11:33:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-forbidden-planet/694013/21 "2014-08-01T03:53:50Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Seriously, I chose the name tongue in cheek.
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> Read the original novel of _This Island Earth_ by Raymond F. Jones. It’s not great, but it’s a helluva lot better than the movie (which was almost contemporary with FP). They threw away most of the book (and don’t even explain the title), and even manage to screw up the part they DID taker from the book - the building of the Interociter.
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> One of my fantasies is remaking This Island Earth more faithfully (and intelligently). But I suspect there’s no market for it. There certainly isn’t, if the current appearance of _Sharknado II: The Second One_ is any indication.

Don’t know if you’ve ever seen it but the [Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000:_The_Movie) used _This Island Earth_ as its ‘experiment’. They had great fun with the word ‘interociter’!!

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