American & Russian Supercomputers Become Friends, Impose World Peace By Nuking Cities(summary of the movie "Colossus, The Forbin Project"

Colossus, The Forbin Project ^ | 1970 | Movietella

[DallasBiff]

1970 science fiction thriller film starring Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert.

Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners

[DallasBiff]

Pretty good summary of the movie. Although there are just snippets of the Soviet Premier, he looks like Putin, it's uncanny.

[dljordan]

I saw that in the theater when it came out. I was amazed at the wonderful special effects.

[Secret Agent Man]

Good movie.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Ping

[noiseman]

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.

[xp38]

In Science Fiction computers tend towards the bad side for dramatic purposes.

[spankalib]

In Science Fiction computers tend towards the bad side for dramatic purposes.

Except in 'Moon is a Harsh Mistress'...

pretty much a fave.

[Bobalu]

Stuck the title of this thread into one of those AI art generators and this came out..

[pierrem15]

Eric Braeden, the lead, is a survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff sinking in 1945.

[wally_bert]

Score was very good as well.

[escapefromboston]

Underrated movie

[BenLurkin]

Ah yes, the old “We have to hop into the sack to fool the computer” trick.

[dpetty121263]

Saw the movie and loved it and what a wonderful world that would be!

[wafflehouse]

thought this was a babylon bee headline

[Dahoser]

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.

[daniel1212]

In contrast to God enabling man to make negative choices, vs. coercive control, though that choices have consequences is not to be avoided.

[higgmeister]

I had forgotten that Webster’s mother was in “Colossus, The Forbin Project.”

[BillT]

Now or son, AI around the world can pull this off.

[njslim]

Braeden, under his real name Hans Georg Gundegast, played Hauptman Dietrich on the series RAT PATROL

[pierrem15]

Braeden, under his real name Hans Georg Gundegast, played Hauptman Dietrich on the series RAT PATROL

Yup. That's the first role I remember him in as a kid.