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MOVIE REVIEW: Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
pureblather.com ^ | December 12, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 02/21/2024 12:30:18 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Jan_Sobieski

Pretty good for 70’s science fiction


41 posted on 02/21/2024 3:09:12 PM PST by Zathras
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To: fretzer

But not as good


42 posted on 02/21/2024 3:13:22 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Red Badger
From "Savior Machine" we see David Bowie must have read or watched it and you can tell his band of that time (The Man Who Sold the World's Mick Ronson and Trevor Boulder) gave it their best. Pretty sure Brian Eno was doing keyboards.

He was extremely smart and literate for a drug-plagued manic-depressive.

For the record, his supposedly cross-gender posing was just that - to garner publicity and higher sales (total hound worse than Nugent back in his heyday). Worked brilliantly.

43 posted on 02/21/2024 4:06:52 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (When in doubt I whip it out. Got me a rock'n'roll band it's...what? I can't say Nashville what?)
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To: wally_bert
The good guys always win, even in the 60s or 40s but definitely in the 80s.

These days it's hard to tell who the good guys are.

44 posted on 02/21/2024 4:46:32 PM PST by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, time for the bullet box is fast approaching.)
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To: Red Badger

I read the book, back when I was a kid, never saw the movie.

My only memory of the book is where Colossus imprisons Forbin’s wife with a primitive sub-human, who repeatedly rapes her and treats her like dirt. When Forbin finally rescues her and kills the caveman she weeps over him.


45 posted on 02/21/2024 8:03:13 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Nothing like that was in the movie...............


46 posted on 02/21/2024 8:05:54 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Two of my old favorites—both available for free online:

Hanger 18—I still refer to the place where my dog is about to poop as the “designated landing area”.

Capricorn One—OJ as an astronaut—and many other cool elements.


47 posted on 02/21/2024 8:08:59 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Ten Beers Gone

The ‘voice’ was done by Paul Frees, who did teh voice of Boris Badenov on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, among others.

He was also the voice of Disney’s Ludwig Von Drake Character............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees


48 posted on 02/21/2024 8:16:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I had to see that one in a film class in college, it wasn’t too terrible for egghead sci-fi.


49 posted on 02/21/2024 8:44:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

At the time it was made, the idea of a computer taking over was practically absurd.

Now we are being warned to be careful with AI.................


50 posted on 02/21/2024 8:47:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
I watch this awesome movie about every 2 years. The most haunting scene is Colossus playing chess with Dr. Charles Forbin.

Colossus: "Forbin, the system programming unit under the supervision of John F Fisher with the assistance of Jefferson J Johnson have attempted to overload my circuits.

This was a deliberate and premeditated act. The penalty is the death of the men who organized this action. At this moment they are being executed... bishop to rook 3"

[shots fired]


51 posted on 02/22/2024 10:43:43 AM PST by Buffalo Bob
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