Pretty good summary of the movie. Although there are just snippets of the Soviet Premier, he looks like Putin, it's uncanny.
To: DallasBiff
I saw that in the theater when it came out. I was amazed at the wonderful special effects.
2 posted on
01/24/2023 12:26:29 PM PST by
dljordan
To: DallasBiff
3 posted on
01/24/2023 12:28:39 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: DallasBiff
4 posted on
01/24/2023 12:31:55 PM PST by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: DallasBiff
One of my favorite movies. The way the computer manipulates the people trying to stop it is really devious. HAL 9000 had nothing on Colossus when it came to cold calculating evil.
5 posted on
01/24/2023 12:35:27 PM PST by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: DallasBiff
In Science Fiction computers tend towards the bad side for dramatic purposes.
6 posted on
01/24/2023 12:35:50 PM PST by
xp38
To: DallasBiff
Stuck the title of this thread into one of those AI art generators and this came out..
8 posted on
01/24/2023 12:45:32 PM PST by
Bobalu
(Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
To: DallasBiff
Eric Braeden, the lead, is a survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff sinking in 1945.
9 posted on
01/24/2023 12:47:25 PM PST by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: All
To: DallasBiff
Ah yes, the old “We have to hop into the sack to fool the computer” trick.
12 posted on
01/24/2023 12:54:13 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: DallasBiff
Saw the movie and loved it and what a wonderful world that would be!
To: DallasBiff
thought this was a babylon bee headline
14 posted on
01/24/2023 1:10:17 PM PST by
wafflehouse
("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
To: DallasBiff
Great movie and book. I use a screenshot of the consoles of Colossus and Guardian showing them establishing communication as one of my Zoom backgrounds. Like someone said earlier here, the effects—visual and sound—were great.
15 posted on
01/24/2023 1:19:30 PM PST by
Dahoser
(I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
To: DallasBiff
In contrast to God enabling man to make negative choices, vs. coercive control, though that choices have consequences is not to be avoided.
16 posted on
01/24/2023 1:49:34 PM PST by
daniel1212
(Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
To: DallasBiff
I had forgotten that Webster’s mother was in “Colossus, The Forbin Project.”
17 posted on
01/24/2023 2:15:40 PM PST by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: DallasBiff
Now or son, AI around the world can pull this off.
18 posted on
01/24/2023 2:33:36 PM PST by
BillT
(If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
To: DallasBiff
I read all 3 of the books, which were pretty good. Never saw the movie.
Did the movie include the part where Colossus imprisons Forbin’s young wife with a brutish, primitive cave man who, well, treats her like a cave man would? That’s my main memory of the books, which I read probably 40 years ago. Feminists would scream about the outcome of that little experiment.
21 posted on
01/24/2023 7:40:26 PM PST by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
To: DallasBiff
Colossus, The Forbin Project is an excellent movie and it still holds up as superior to most sci-fi movies today.I suggest you find it and watch it.
To: DallasBiff
A great movie. Production and direction are excellent as well as cast.
23 posted on
02/11/2023 6:38:14 PM PST by
Fungi
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