Posted on 05/27/2024 8:25:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I think that’s a “feature”.
One of my favorite Sci-Fi movies. Neat how they used the Computer font in the credits to add to the aura.
Novels.
It's pretty old now, I saw it in a film class in college, and I'd not previously heard of it.
I have no idea what that meant
help? TIA
Does the tracking info start at the “ref” every time?
Blake Masters Rewriting ‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ Remake
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni13012179/
Coincidence or not: on the same day that we learn Universal has passed on the Dark Tower adaptation that Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer were trying to make at Imagine Entertainment, we get word that another old Imagine project at Universal has new life through a new screenwriter. Years ago the company got the rights to remake the 1968 (released in ‘70) tech thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project — a sort of ‘computer develops sentience’ thriller that paved the way for War Games and other films — but for a very long time it has seemed basically dormant. Now it is back. Blake Masters (Law and Order: La) will pen a new take on the film in which “a genius creates a supercomputer put in charge of independently regulating the national defense of the United States. It’s soon discovered the Russians have created a similar computer, and both machines...
See full article at Slash Film
Generally yes, particularly on amazon links.
Thanks!
Don’t want to give too much away but ever seen “The Patty Duke Show”? The guy who plays her character’s father is in the movie and a bad thing eventually happens to him.
Oh. Didn’t realize the connection. I have the movie - somewhere - I think I still have it (lost a lot of stuff)
Was he one of the guys meeting when the helicopter landed and......?
Oh him. Maybe he was at the missile site?
I’ll have to watch it again.
Yes, after “REF” or after the “?” mark in the URL is tracking info..
Awesome. Appreciate the info.
Yes
William Schallert
I remember that scene
Colossus was not amused
AI just needs to know that we control the plug.
Well, there are other people in the chain before the weapons are launched. They may or may not go along. There have been many stories and movies about that possibility. A good short one is the opening scene of “War Games” (1983).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6aCpS0-yls
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