Colossus: The Forbin Project
This is the dawning of the Age of Colossus (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake).
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 23, 2004
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eric Braeden, Susan Clark & Gordon Pinsent | |
Performer: | William Schallert, Georg Stanford Brown, Willard Sage, Martin E. Brooks, Marion Ross, Leonid Rostoff & Alex Rodine | |
Directed by | Joseph Sargent | |
Edited by | Folmar Blangsted | |
Screenwriting by | James Bridges | |
Composition by | Michel Colombier | |
Produced by | Stanley Chase | |
Director of Photography: | Gene Polito |
Entertainment Reviews:
Will remind you just how much movies from the 1970s differ from the ones making their way to the megaplexes nowadays . . .
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Sci-Fi Movie Page
Rating: 4/5 --
Harrowing and truly gripping despite an obviously paltry budget.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Taut, well-made sci-fi thriller about a massive computer.
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TV Guide
After an excellent beginning, the craven script (based on DF Jones' novel Colossus) develops cold feet, injects some tiresome comic relief, and gradually begins to drag the whole thing down.
Time Out
A crisp, well-crafted movie that achieves its effects by calmly stating the facts, with the bare minimum of histrionics.
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SFX Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
The movie is full of marvelous, absurd dialogue.
New York Times
Above-average science fiction.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
We built a super computer with a mind of its own and now we must fight it for the world!
The ultimate computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When electronics genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defense of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate its sovereign borders.
But such a promising thought turns into a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally sophisticated computer and that these two "doomsday machines" have linked, sharing classified information and top secrets. Desperately, Forbin and his Soviet counterparts try to stop the all-knowing "monster" computers from seizing command of the world's nuclear missile stockpiles.
The ultimate computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When electronics genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defense of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate its sovereign borders.
But such a promising thought turns into a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally sophisticated computer and that these two "doomsday machines" have linked, sharing classified information and top secrets. Desperately, Forbin and his Soviet counterparts try to stop the all-knowing "monster" computers from seizing command of the world's nuclear missile stockpiles.
Product Description:
A U.S. Defense Department computer, named Colossus, develops a mind of its own and starts sharing classified information with its Russian counterpart, a computer called Guardian. A frighteninging believable thriller that was ahead of its time in 1970 and is still timely.
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Before "Terminator" & "Matrix", there was Colossus!
Movie Lover: Jeffery A Prince from
Skiatook., OK US -- November, 19, 2006
Ok, so this is a bit dated movie. But still it has a message that was used in other movies like "Terminator", "Matrix" and "War Games".
The movie has a definite point, how much control do we actually have? How far advanced will computers become before we lose control and what will happen? Watch the movie and find out. As Colossus said in the movie," You will learn that freedom is an illusion. And you will learn to love me." It won't disapoint.
I haven't seen this DVD yet, but I have seen the movie. The movie was adopted from the Book series "Colossus".
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- UPC: 025192620423
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