Forbidden Planet, of course. Although some people say that was just Star Trek before Star Trek.
2001.
Planet of the Apes -- the first movie at the very least.
By the way, a note regarding the print fiction of Andre Norton: bmull cited her in the category of "juvie" works. Remember, though, that some of the best "juvie" stuff of the Fifties and Sixties might be considered too grittily mature for today's kids. Norton has a scene in Star Guard where the protagonist must mercy-kill a fellow soldier -- with the dagger all Terran soldiers carry specifically and solely for that purpose. And then there's the passage in which he discovers that breaking an enemy's neck with his rifle sling as a garrote makes him feel queasy in a way that practicing the move on a mannequin in training didn't....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
2001.
Planet of the Apes -- the first movie at the very least.
By the way, a note regarding the print fiction of Andre Norton: bmull cited her in the category of "juvie" works. Remember, though, that some of the best "juvie" stuff of the Fifties and Sixties might be considered too grittily mature for today's kids. Norton has a scene in Star Guard where the protagonist must mercy-kill a fellow soldier -- with the dagger all Terran soldiers carry specifically and solely for that purpose. And then there's the passage in which he discovers that breaking an enemy's neck with his rifle sling as a garrote makes him feel queasy in a way that practicing the move on a mannequin in training didn't....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.