MOVIE REVIEW: Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

pureblather.com ^ | December 12, 2023 | Staff

[Red Badger]

AI gone Full Dictator Ping!..............

We have been warned.

2001: A Space Odyssey, DUNE, The Foundation.................

[Jan_Sobieski]

Do you recommend?

[Tell It Right]

A lot of the tech people involved in developing it are asking for some government guidelines and regulation,

Translation: Government cronies hate competition. They hope the regulations limit competitors...for our safety you know.

[JonPreston]

Where is this available?

[midwest_hiker]

I remember watching this on TV back in the day. The main character also played Victor Newman on the soap, The Young and the Restless.
I always remember the ending scene.

[DallasBiff]

Marion Cunnigham from Happy Days, is in that movie.

Good movie, very prophetic, also Victor from "the Young and Restless" is in the movie.

[Fledermaus]

Seen it. Victor Newman! LOL

Wasn’t it made for TV? It looked that way.

It was okay.

Same actor, Braeden (real name Von Something listed in Rat Patrol) killed Cornelius and Zira in the third Planet of the Apes.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One of my top 3 favorite movies of all time.

[wally_bert]

He was the main villain on Rat Patrol.

I have the soundtrack around.

[Fledermaus]

It’s cheesey.

[Red Badger]

I highly recommend it.

It was ‘disturbing’ when it came out, but because it had no stars in the cast (at that time), it was relegated to ‘B’ movie status.

The star of the movie playing Dr. Forbin, Eric Braeden, has played Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless for over 40 years.

It also has a young Marion Ross (Mom Cunningham on Happy Days) and Susan Clark who has been in many movies over the years.

But they were relatively unknowns at the time.............

[Fungi]

Great movie and easily available online.

[Red Badger]

Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0003JAOO0?tag=bravesoftwa04-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It will show up in places like “Pluto TV” et al but currently...DVD/Bluray only.

[Red Badger]

And Susan Clark, the mom on “Webster”, and many other great characters............

[Jan_Sobieski]

👍

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I downloaded it from Internet Archive.

I was too young to have watched it in theaters, but I find I like these older movies. They can be cheesy, but it can be fun to also see how the ”greats” we may have been raised with were not actually so original.

I hope this is not too big of a spoiler, but in this movie, Colossus is eventually given a voice. Not being the age of computers, the voice is one of those vibrators that smokers who had tracheotomies, or whatever, often used. I thought it was sufficiently menacing in delivering the quoted speech.

[rllngrk33]

I remember the movie, I think there was a sequel or part of the plot was that it found out about a similar Russian project. It forced a connection to the Russian project under threat of nuking a big city if it didn’t happen.

[Macho MAGA Man]

(He was the main villain on Rat Patrol.)

Sergeant Sam Troy (Christopher George) always got the upper hand in the end though.