What Happened to COLOSSUS The Forbin Project?

Published 2024-05-22

All Comments (21)
  • My '70s triple feature... "Colossus: The Forbin Project", "The Andromeda Strain", and "Silent Running"...
  • @tpresto9862
    As mentioned, Eric Braeden's former stage name was Hans Gudegast. As Hans Gudegast, he was a very popular TV character actor in the 1960s. He was in several Mission Impossible episodes and played the main German villain in the TV show "The Rat Patrol" about a band of allied commandos in WWII Northern Africa.
  • Colossus: The Forbin Project is an OUTSTANDING movie. It's been one of my favorites for decades. The casting and acting are superb, the sets featuring what were then millions of dollars of state of the art computers from CDC are awesome and the story is solid and fairly realistic. The ending is the best part. So unlike most other movies.
  • @MrDonXX
    One of my favorite movies that none of my friends would watch. Being in I.T. for over 40 years and nearing retirement I've seen so many changes in this industry but this theme has never changed and now with A.I. we are getting ever so close to its reality.
  • @racookster
    Excellent, intelligent film. "The Voice of World Control" scared the hell out of me as a kid. That kind of computer voice is clichéd now, but I had never heard anything as chilling when I was twelve. Ironically, the stuff that made this movie feel authentic in the early 'seventies, like the real computer equipment and that frightening mechanical voice, make it feel dated now.
  • Saw the movie. Got the book trilogy for Christmas in high school and read them. Still in my collection
  • @WUZLE
    The Andromeda Strain is one of my favorite older sci-fi movies. I liked Colossus as well when I saw it as a kid.
  • As a lifelong Sfi-Fi movie buff (77 years old), I really love your show. Getting all of these nitpicky trivia details about movies that I've Loved all my life is a real treat. Thank you very much for producing this channel.
  • @jimamizzi1
    One of my favourites, what a classic, I’m due to watch it again
  • @SmokingJacket
    I saw this only once on late night TV. I remember thinking it was a bit dry but very thought provoking. Great stuff.
  • @brianskirk
    One of my fav 70’s sci-fi classics. Even more relevant today.
  • Hey Dan. You mentioned the actor who plays the president did a great job. Well he is Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent. 🍁
  • @JoeHusosky
    Saw this in the late 70's either on a creature feature or an HBO type channel, caused me to change my ambitions from nuclear enginering to computer programming. I have owned this movie on VHS, Laser Disk and DVD, I just loved this thing. Glad to see other do too.
  • @lio_convoy714
    Thank you, I had never heard of this movie before today. I have it coming in the mail and will watch it over the long weekend.
  • @user-rt9zq8rs9k
    Back when TV stations were mire independent and leas corporate-owned our local stations played movies on the weekends . This movie was one of the movies I saw on a weekend .
  • @obsoletebutneat
    The direction on this movie is terrific, and the sound is trememdous-- the computer's voice, the mechanical sounds, sound effects and the musical soundtrack all work together to provide a huge driving force to the whole film.
  • @seannewman1235
    Really appreciate this research, The Forbin Project is one of my favorite films. The ending terrified me as a child, and I still catch it whenever I can.
  • @Caveman57
    Colossus was a favorite movie of mine for decades. I've been wanting to get it into my movie collection for years. Great episode, Dan!
  • @arrjay2410
    One of the best things about Collosus was that it didn't have a lot of futuristic technology. It was all contemporary to the time making it all the more chilling.
  • @rrsjr
    The "crab" in the title of the third book refers to the Crab Nebula, which is relevant to the story.