Who Remembers The Movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project"?

[huntertrw]

Who here remembers the 1970 science fiction movie titled "Colossus: The Forbin Project"? This is one of my favorites of that genre, and stars Eric Braeden (formerly of The Rat Patrol, and still starring today as Victor Newman in the soap opera The Young and the Restless) as Charles Forbin, the creator and builder of a sentient supercomputer that is put in control of the United States' nuclear arsenal as a means of preventing war. Unfortunately, Colossus turns on him when it discovers that the Russians have created and enabled a similar computer named Guardian. The two computers join forces in an attempt to take over the world.

Will they be successful or can man defeat the machines? It's an interesting question, especially today given the rapid advances in artificial intelligence.

Here's the trailer:

Incidentally, the voice of Colossus was acted by none other than Paul Frees, who also did the voices of Boris Badenov and Inspector Fenwick from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, among many, many others.

 

[xrundog]

I did see that movie. They really had only the very slightest idea. Didn’t they? If the tech geeks actually release a fully developed AI into the wild, we’ll be back to living in the 19th century before we know it. Assuming we live through it.

 

[bullet08]

Don't remember the movie, but remember that guy playing bunch of Nazis x)

 

[brian64]

It's looking more like we're on a Terminator trajectory with the ongoing developments in killer robots.

 

[DesertDan]

Being a sci-fi fan, I have seen this movie a few times.

 

[kcghost]

I saw the movie when it came out. I can't say I was favorably impressed with it. I guess it bothered me that a guy would create a thing such as this and not know any way to "kill" the machine.

 

[renfield]

By coincidence I just watched it 2 weeks ago. The older sci-fi predicting the effects and evolution of computing is always interesting.

 

[Pipke]

Watched it as a child. I was already a sci-fi fan and really liked it. I'm disappointed that it is hard to find. Haven't found a legal way to stream it.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

I remember about it, but I never bothered to go to the theater to see it.

 

[huntertrw]

I'm disappointed that it is hard to find.

This offers an explanation as to why...