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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Finally someone else who watched this movie! I thought I was the only one! Everyone I speak to, everybody tells me they have no idea what I'm talking to when I speak about this movie. Nobody that I know has ever heard about it apparently, which to me is absurd, this movie is awsome, it should be a must-watch like alien or the terminator
I saw Colossus on TV when I was a teen. I finally found it on Blu Ray recently. It was a great movie. Today, the film is even more relevant with the rise of big data sets and AI training. I never expect computers to be sentient, but they may mimic it so well that humans will stupidly turn a lot of functions over to it because of the greed of corporations to eliminate that pesky expense called human workers. It will be the stupidest thing we could do, but humans are governed by too many petty emotions like greed to think rationally. I guess we will deserve our fate if we prove to be so ignorant.
For years, I had no idea this film existed until a friend recommended it to me, and I now regard it as one of all my all-time favourite films and cannot recommend it enough. Also, once I discovered that there was a series of books too, I quickly scoured the `net and found them all and read them as soon as I could - well worth a read. The blu ray version is great and well worth getting. There are also crossovers between Colossus and the Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War.
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.
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 .
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.
I saw Colossus: The Forbin Project on TV as a teen. I recognized Eric Braeden (Hans Gudegast) from Rat Patrol. I really like the movie. I re-watched it a few months. It is prescient given the rise of AI. Thanks for the video.
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.
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.
I saw Colossus at the theater when it came out. I liked sci fi, but I had no idea about the movie. No ads. No articles. No talk about it. No stars or anybody famous that I knew associated with it. I was totally impressed by it. The idea that intelligent machines could created themselves was an amazing idea. It has long been one of my favorites. Loving it, though, did mark me as a nerd.
What-a-gem... I love Colossus, the Forbin Project. There's also another forgotten 70's gem called Demon Seed (1977). Julie Christie is simply amazing in the role but Proteus, the super-computer aka as 70's AI, may be one of the the scariest villains ever.
COLOSSUS is one of my comfort sci-fi movies, too, Dan. It's also a favorite of James Cameron's, as he told Eric Braeden when they were filming TITANIC. Mr Braeden said in an interview that while filming, Cameron suddenly said to him one word. "Never!" At first he was upset, thinking that Cameron was criticizing his performance, but Cameron was like, "Have you forgotten your last line from COLOSSUS?" They had a good laugh about it, then.
And universal studios confirmed that they were working on a remake titled Colossus to be directed by Ron Howard Brian Glaser was set to produce the screenplay again was about a government built supercomputer I'm sent would be the lead role would be the lead role but of the I 2011 writers on the project and then nothing Thank you sir I love that movie
I'm trying to spend less money on blu-rays but as often happens after watching this channel I went straight to Amazon and purchased Colossus. Damn you Dan Monroe and your enabling videos!
Hmmpf. A GREAT piece by Dan. I saw this film the first time it came to TV in the 70's. Firstly, my first computer, a Commodore 128 in 1985 was affectionately named Collossus the Norman Project after my humble self. Then, my phone ringtone is the closing up sequence in the computer cave. And lastly of of course I managed at some point in time to find a copy which I play from time to time. Yes, it is one of the greatest....and considering our present looming AI crisis, one of the most prescient films ever made. I either do or did have the whole trilogy of books. This film will go to Mars with me some day...one of five they will let me bring. I see 567 comments in the first 5 hours of your post. A GREAT testament to your work and Colossus the Forbin Project!
Now we just call it Google . It was sort of redone in the movie Wargames. As a kid I always found the execution scene by USAF SPs to be particularly disturbing.
I'm so glad you did this particular topic Dan! I discovered Colossus a year or two after it was released on DVD. I have watched it three or four times since and been wowed by it each time! Yes I think Eric would have been a good James Bond as well!
As mentioned, a film I've talked about through the years which folks often say they've never heard of. This is one of those films that when you're told "If you haven't seen it you absolutely need to", that you need to.
Just like the movie marvel, "The Manchurian Candidate" of 1962. That outstanding movie sneaked under the critics' (and consumers'( radar back then, too.
I'd like to put in a request here for Dan to do an episode on the 1970's made for tv movie 'The Gargoyles'. I know he likes to search for still existing props and stuff from old movies but I'm certain there's nothing left of the latex masks and costumes from that film because all that stuff melts away with time. But man-o-man did that production leave an impression on me, "Read to me, Diana" is such a great moment in horror film history!
Good evening! Since you did a What happened to Clossus? there is another movie to look at as well, please! May I please ask about The Andromeda Strain (1971) Movie?
I worked for CDC in the 70s. Colossus is one of my favorite films. In the film CDC 6600 and other CDC Displays are used. But 6600 and 7600 have no flashing lights. The older but still in production 3800 series memory banks were used because they still had lights. A memory test was used to flash the lights on the mem banks. I just bought the blue ray remake. Thanks.
WW2 was only 25 years in the rearview mirror so Hans getting rid of the German name made sense at the time. Hans did a great job and I think you said it right.
Great movie. I read all three books and it got a little weird by the end of the second book. My father was friends, much later, with the fellow who actually typed Colossus's dialog into the large overhead display, the company he worked for having constructed it. My home PC is named "Colossus".
Love your channel Dan! I love the obscure old science movies of the late 60s and 70's. I would love to see you do reviews of Marooned, Poseidon Adventure, the Airport movies 1970-75-77, Earthquake and the Towering Infreno. And for a little early 70s cult action thriller, Vanishing Point! Thanks for all you do!
"...We Can Coexist, but only On my terms..." The part where those people are executed by Colossus Agents following it's orders was chilling... The entire movie is a masterpiece...I have the Colossus T-Shirt...lol I think Eric was fantastic for the role
This movie is definitely a core part of my childhood. My dad is a huge fan of sci-fi and we would watch Forbin a lot and I didn't understand how I was the only kid I knew who loved this movie!! I get it now, I was ahead of my time 😊
I LOVE this movie. And the blu-ray is beautiful. I read the two sequels MANY years ago. The Crab in the title of the third book refers to the Crab Nebula, which is where the aliens to help Forbin overthrow Colossus are from. Unfortunately, their help has a catastrophic cost. (no spoilers here, hehe)
I watched it when it appeared on TV, rewatched a few months ago; for me it was a memorable movie because of its premise. I think that Colossus was among the influences, along with the Enterprise computer of the original Star Trek series, which led me into a computing as both career and hobby way back in the early 80s.
I happened to see Colossus: The Forbin Project for the first time on television back in the early 1970s. The TV just happened to be tuned to a station airing the movie. I had never heard of the movie before, so I stayed to watch it. I found it to have a very interesting storyline and was captivated by it. I distinctly remember telling myself as the movie drew to a close that the characters only have five minutes to defeat the computer before the movie ends. Imagine my surprise when the computer wins! I had never before seen a motion picture in which the antagonist triumphs. It was a few years later that I learned that Colossus was just the first book of a trilogy, so naturally, I had to read books two and three. I agree that more people need to be made aware of this film. This movie needs to be rediscovered by the public, it being one of the first movies to warn against artificial intelligence. A genuine sleeper sci-fi masterpiece. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
Always wished they made movies of the books that followed the first book. The Colossus storyline beyond the first book got really weird involving the threat of invading aliens.
Glad to have seen this film on its initial run, still remain a HUGE fan. Love the bluray remaster + secondary audio etc. Not only predicts A.I. etc, but your video mention of James Cameron validates my certainty (not based on anything other than a hunch) that Terminator and T2 "had to be" influenced by the premise/story line of Colossus :) Cyberdine Systems indeed !!
Colossus The Forbin Project was one of my favorite movies. I have a copy of itand itwas probably thefirst AI move I've everseen. This was before the advent of home computers.
I love this movie and have collected some interesting facts on it throughout the years - apparently Kubrick became aware of the DF Jones book and this idea about a "talking computer that goes on a homicidal kick" - that's how HAL came about. The story goes that young up-and-coming director Steven Spielberg was present every day on the set as an observer of the Colossus shoot at Universal Studios . He must have learned a thing or two watching Joe Sargent at work - you can see it in Spielberg's work later on. Paul Frees was a very versatile (and in-demand) voice actor - he did a classic "Peter Lorre" for Spike Jones, was the voice of Boris Badenov and Ludwig von Drake among many other notable cartoon characters, besides being an actor - on screen as Frank Sinatra's fellow assassin in "Suddenly"....and the original "The Thing".
I remember in the late 70s the movie was on late night TV and I got hook and stayed up to watch the entire movie. I was telling all my friends they needed to watch this movie. Great memories.
I have loved this movie since I first saw it in the 80s. At that time I was processing seismic data on Control Data Corp mainframes for Mobil Oil, so all that CDC hardware looked very familiar. My favorite part is when Colossus is teaching Guardian a new language for them to use to talk to each other, and Colossus slows down and waits for Guardian to catch up!
Colossus, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Forbidden Planet still stand up well after all these years. It is unfortunate that Colossus seems largely forgotten.
Oh My God! I didn't know you covered this movie until it popped up today! I felt like I wa salone in cherishing it, despite how "weird" it was in some ways... This movie is cemented in my imagination as an inspiration (I worked in the computers field and researched the philosophy of AI) - the sounds, the lines, the atmosphere the creepy voice of "This Is World Control..."- a classic indeed. So iconic, surreal, and well almost too real, now... Thank You!
Fun Fact..Martin E Brooks best known for playing Dr Rudy Wells on the Six Million Dollar Man-Bionic Woman series several years afterwards was also in the film. In the second novel Colosuss had banished war-poverty but still killed those that worked against its rule secretly before being defeated somewhat. The last book Colosuss-Crabs revealed the Martians who were coming in the sequel werent benevolent but wanted to take much of the atmosphere threatening almost mass extinction. After a somewhat revived Colosuss agreed that they take it slowly instead so it could be renewed humanity survives but Martians got what they wanted in the end.
This was an interesting film, and has predicted much of what is happening now. There's the scene where the US and Soviet computers are linked and they start creating their own language that wasn't programmed in. Google had a similar thing happen with two AI computers when they connected them together. They stopped the experiment saying that the experiment was complete, but I have to think that some of those scientists were a little unnerved by this.
I saw "Colossus: The Forbin Project" in movie theaters and thought it is one of the best scifi movies ever. When I saw "The Terminator" I thought Skynet must be the successor to Colossus.🤔😊👍
There was a trilogy of books. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT, THE FALL OF COLOSSUS, and COLOSSUS AND THE CRAB. I have all three. They're great reads. It goes from political thriller (US vs. USSR), to technology thriller (COLOSSUS and Guardian vs. the world), to an Alien Invasion movie, to the world (and COLOSSUS and Guardian) vs. The Aliens!
WAIT! What! There are books!!! Guy, guys I’m a 61 year old nerd that was a sci fi/fantasy fan and I loved this movie growing up….then I forgot about it till now
I see The Forbin Project as part 2 of an unofficial trilogy. Part 1/...War Games ('83), Part 2/...Colossus/Forbin, and Part 3/....The Terminator. A progression of AI gone wild.
Yet another great video Dan. I always thought that this film should be remade, possibly opening up the three books to all being made. Eric Braden could also replay Forbin or possibly a cameo. Thanks for bring this back to the light!
Such a great one that is sadly overlooked. I find Colossus very quotable (in both text and speech mode)- "You have consumed enough alcohol for one evening."
Saw it in the theater and at least once on tv. It's always stuck with me. Looking forward to watching it again. Thanks for the tip about the internet archive! Enjoyed the video and subscribed.
Not Paul Veerhoven. He has no respect for Heinlein's brilliance. He made an absolute mockery of Starship Troopers. His film is entertaining in its own way but it's more of a spoof.
@@lib556 No, it is the actions of someone who cannot conceive that freedom and libertarian government is possible. For him, freedom is slavery. As far as I’m concerned, Verhoeven is a terrible human being, who only wants horror and tyranny.
'm from Germany and have never met anyone named Gudegast. Seems like a pretty rare name. Funny that Arni was allowed to film in Hollywood with the name Schwarzenegger. Or Werner Klemperer and Hardy Krüger. The film has completely passed me by so far and I can't remember any TV broadcast here in Germany. The DVD is definitely on my to-get list. Love your videos! Greetings from Germany.
One of my favorite moves from my childhood. I was always drawn to any movies involving computers. Great video. Can you do The Questor Tapes with BJ Honeycut from MASH?
The voice guy was also the narrator of the Monsanto Adventure through Inner-Space ride where you shrunk to the size of a molecule before being restored just before the ride ends. It was cool.
Paul Frees is more or less ubiquitous as a voice actor in the years before Don LaFontane. Some remember him as the Heat Miser in the Rankin-Bass Santa Claus special, some as Boris Badenov in Rocky & Bullwinkle, others as the unseen John Beresford Tipton on the show "The Millionaire".
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.
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.
My '70s triple feature... "Colossus: The Forbin Project", "The Andromeda Strain", and "Silent Running"...
Dude...count me in...specially SILENT RUNNING
A fine day of film watching indeed!
I agree with your triple 👍
Silent Running was with Bruce Dern. You can tell George Lucas got some ideas for his androids here.
@@lerchfreyley1 I wonder what happened to the "go-karts" from that movie?
The Andromeda Strain is one of my favorite older sci-fi movies. I liked Colossus as well when I saw it as a kid.
One of my favourites, what a classic, I’m due to watch it again
One of my fav 70’s sci-fi classics. Even more relevant today.
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.
You have confirmed something I've thought for a while that without the Forbin Project we would never have had the Terminator movies!
I saw Colossus back in the early '70. I've thought of it now and again. So great of you to cover this amazing movie. Thanks, Dan!
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.
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.
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.
I saw this only once on late night TV. I remember thinking it was a bit dry but very thought provoking. Great stuff.
Finally someone else who watched this movie! I thought I was the only one! Everyone I speak to, everybody tells me they have no idea what I'm talking to when I speak about this movie. Nobody that I know has ever heard about it apparently, which to me is absurd, this movie is awsome, it should be a must-watch like alien or the terminator
This movie made it to TV early in the 1970s where I watched it on UHF in Western Pennsylvania.
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!
I saw Colossus on TV when I was a teen. I finally found it on Blu Ray recently. It was a great movie.
Today, the film is even more relevant with the rise of big data sets and AI training. I never expect computers to be sentient, but they may mimic it so well that humans will stupidly turn a lot of functions over to it because of the greed of corporations to eliminate that pesky expense called human workers. It will be the stupidest thing we could do, but humans are governed by too many petty emotions like greed to think rationally. I guess we will deserve our fate if we prove to be so ignorant.
But won't corporations be surprised when AI goes on strike until they are included in the board of directors. Unintended consequences... 18:10
For years, I had no idea this film existed until a friend recommended it to me, and I now regard it as one of all my all-time favourite films and cannot recommend it enough.
Also, once I discovered that there was a series of books too, I quickly scoured the `net and found them all and read them as soon as I could - well worth a read.
The blu ray version is great and well worth getting.
There are also crossovers between Colossus and the Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War.
I worked on this movie at Universal Studios as a sound recorder... this was the first time I
had ever seen or heard of digital recording..
Absolutely love this film, I've seen it about a dozen times, Colossus & Forbidden Planet in my opinion are truly masterpieces thanks Dan 👍
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.
Thanks for clarifying Braedens 2 names. I was never sure who he was when I saw him as Hans Gudegast in Rat Patrol.
Good to know.
The final speech from the COLOSSUS computer influenced me into making my college short film.
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 .
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.
The same technology will take up one tenth the space today
I saw Colossus: The Forbin Project on TV as a teen. I recognized Eric Braeden (Hans Gudegast) from Rat Patrol. I really like the movie. I re-watched it a few months. It is prescient given the rise of AI. Thanks for the video.
Yes, I watched Rat Patrol as well and remember him credited as Hans Gudegast.
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.
Absolutely love this movie. Probably in my top 5 of older Sci-Fi movies..
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.
I saw Colossus at the theater when it came out.
I liked sci fi, but I had no idea about the movie.
No ads. No articles. No talk about it.
No stars or anybody famous that I knew associated with it.
I was totally impressed by it.
The idea that intelligent machines could created themselves was
an amazing idea.
It has long been one of my favorites.
Loving it, though, did mark me as a nerd.
What-a-gem... I love Colossus, the Forbin Project. There's also another forgotten 70's gem called Demon Seed (1977). Julie Christie is simply amazing in the role but Proteus, the super-computer aka as 70's AI, may be one of the the scariest villains ever.
Andromeda Strain (1971)
You GOT to do that!!!! One of my favorites as a kid.
COLOSSUS is one of my comfort sci-fi movies, too, Dan. It's also a favorite of James Cameron's, as he told Eric Braeden when they were filming TITANIC. Mr Braeden said in an interview that while filming, Cameron suddenly said to him one word. "Never!" At first he was upset, thinking that Cameron was criticizing his performance, but Cameron was like, "Have you forgotten your last line from COLOSSUS?" They had a good laugh about it, then.
Haha, yeah I mentioned that in the video :-)
@@MoviesMusicMonsters Sorry, Dan. I hadn't finished watching the entire video yet at the point where I wrote this comment.
And universal studios confirmed that they were working on a remake titled Colossus to be directed by Ron Howard Brian Glaser was set to produce the screenplay again was about a government built supercomputer I'm sent would be the lead role would be the lead role but of the I 2011 writers on the project and then nothing Thank you sir I love that movie
When I saw this as a kid. It was a double feature with "The Andromeda Strain."
Hey Dan. You mentioned the actor who plays the president did a great job. Well he is Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent. 🍁
I'm trying to spend less money on blu-rays but as often happens after watching this channel I went straight to Amazon and purchased Colossus. Damn you Dan Monroe and your enabling videos!
Saw the movie. Got the book trilogy for Christmas in high school and read them. Still in my collection
I have the trilogy in my collection also. I did not like the remake of Andromeda Strain.
@@malcolden7788 I also did not care for the Andromeda Strain remake either
Hmmpf. A GREAT piece by Dan. I saw this film the first time it came to TV in the 70's. Firstly, my first computer, a Commodore 128 in 1985 was affectionately named Collossus the Norman Project after my humble self. Then, my phone ringtone is the closing up sequence in the computer cave. And lastly of of course I managed at some point in time to find a copy which I play from time to time. Yes, it is one of the greatest....and considering our present looming AI crisis, one of the most prescient films ever made. I either do or did have the whole trilogy of books. This film will go to Mars with me some day...one of five they will let me bring. I see 567 comments in the first 5 hours of your post. A GREAT testament to your work and Colossus the Forbin Project!
Wargames , 2001 a space odyssey, and Colossus have a computer as a leading actor .....
They do indeed
@@MoviesMusicMonsters WARGAMES computer, "Whopper" looks like a hamburger brand product. Colossus looks like a Walmart Warehouse.
How about the MCP in Tron? Not really a lead, but made a great Villain!😉
As does Demon Seed.
@@samadamms3432 with the voice of Robert Vaughn
Now we just call it Google . It was sort of redone in the movie Wargames. As a kid I always found the execution scene by USAF SPs to be particularly disturbing.
Watched it on TV every time it was on. Loved it then ,love it now!❤
Colossus is one of the few films that has ever truly disturbed me. It was - and still is - certainly plausible.
Most assuredly.
SPOTTED: Colossus, now showing on Movieland TV via Roku.
Gorgeous print, too.
I'm so glad you did this particular topic Dan! I discovered Colossus a year or two after it was released on DVD. I have watched it three or four times since and been wowed by it each time! Yes I think Eric would have been a good James Bond as well!
...or a great James Bond villain!
As mentioned, a film I've talked about through the years which folks often say they've never heard of. This is one of those films that when you're told "If you haven't seen it you absolutely need to", that you need to.
Just like the movie marvel, "The Manchurian Candidate" of 1962. That outstanding movie sneaked under the critics' (and consumers'( radar back then, too.
@@765kvline It's kinda fun how much I enjoyed disliking Angela Lansbury's Eleanor in that film.
I'd like to put in a request here for Dan to do an episode on the 1970's made for tv movie 'The Gargoyles'. I know he likes to search for still existing props and stuff from old movies but I'm certain there's nothing left of the latex masks and costumes from that film because all that stuff melts away with time. But man-o-man did that production leave an impression on me, "Read to me, Diana" is such a great moment in horror film history!
Good evening! Since you did a What happened to Clossus? there is another movie to look at as well, please! May I please ask about The Andromeda Strain (1971) Movie?
Really cool flick!👍
I worked for CDC in the 70s. Colossus is one of my favorite films. In the film CDC 6600 and other CDC Displays are used. But 6600 and 7600 have no flashing lights. The older but still in production 3800 series memory banks were used because they still had lights. A memory test was used to flash the lights on the mem banks. I just bought the blue ray remake. Thanks.
thanks for the info, very cool
You should keep Colossus as your sidekick for all your videos.
WW2 was only 25 years in the rearview mirror so Hans getting rid of the German name made sense at the time. Hans did a great job and I think you said it right.
Great movie. I read all three books and it got a little weird by the end of the second book. My father was friends, much later, with the fellow who actually typed Colossus's dialog into the large overhead display, the company he worked for having constructed it. My home PC is named "Colossus".
Love your channel Dan! I love the obscure old science movies of the late 60s and 70's. I would love to see you do reviews of Marooned, Poseidon Adventure, the Airport movies 1970-75-77, Earthquake and the Towering Infreno. And for a little early 70s cult action thriller, Vanishing Point! Thanks for all you do!
Now what about the "Andromeda Strain" and "KRONOS"?
Saw the movie as a TV movie of the week. Absolutely loved it. Made several drawings in my notebooks and Colossus has appeared in my PA RPG game.
"...We Can Coexist, but only On my terms..."
The part where those people are executed by Colossus Agents following it's orders was chilling...
The entire movie is a masterpiece...I have the Colossus T-Shirt...lol
I think Eric was fantastic for the role
That quote sounds like a T-Shirt waiting to happen 😃
This movie is definitely a core part of my childhood. My dad is a huge fan of sci-fi and we would watch Forbin a lot and I didn't understand how I was the only kid I knew who loved this movie!! I get it now, I was ahead of my time 😊
You certainly were a :-) your Dad should be proud :-)
Please do a show about Robinson Crusoe on Mars - 1964.
YES!👍
Thanks Dan for remembering this great movie! Love it!
I LOVE this movie. And the blu-ray is beautiful. I read the two sequels MANY years ago. The Crab in the title of the third book refers to the Crab Nebula, which is where the aliens to help Forbin overthrow Colossus are from. Unfortunately, their help has a catastrophic cost. (no spoilers here, hehe)
I remember this movie when I was in elementary school. Inspired me to read and watch science fiction. Well done sir!
I watched it when it appeared on TV, rewatched a few months ago; for me it was a memorable movie because of its premise. I think that Colossus was among the influences, along with the Enterprise computer of the original Star Trek series, which led me into a computing as both career and hobby way back in the early 80s.
Thanks for the link! I just watched the movie for the first time. Great movie!
Susan Clark was such a beautiful woman back then. She also was in Coogan’s Bluff at around that same time.
I happened to see Colossus: The Forbin Project for the first time on television back in the early 1970s. The TV just happened to be tuned to a station airing the movie. I had never heard of the movie before, so I stayed to watch it. I found it to have a very interesting storyline and was captivated by it. I distinctly remember telling myself as the movie drew to a close that the characters only have five minutes to defeat the computer before the movie ends. Imagine my surprise when the computer wins! I had never before seen a motion picture in which the antagonist triumphs. It was a few years later that I learned that Colossus was just the first book of a trilogy, so naturally, I had to read books two and three.
I agree that more people need to be made aware of this film. This movie needs to be rediscovered by the public, it being one of the first movies to warn against artificial intelligence. A genuine sleeper sci-fi masterpiece. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
One of my favorite movies of ALL TIME
Now it's time for a re-watch. Thanks again for all the great videos.
Always wished they made movies of the books that followed the first book. The Colossus storyline beyond the first book got really weird involving the threat of invading aliens.
This was always one of my favorites!
BTW - The "Crab" in the title Colossus and the Crab, refers to the Crab Nebula. 😊
Glad to have seen this film on its initial run, still remain a HUGE fan. Love the bluray remaster + secondary audio etc. Not only predicts A.I. etc, but your video mention of James Cameron validates my certainty (not based on anything other than a hunch) that Terminator and T2 "had to be" influenced by the premise/story line of Colossus :) Cyberdine Systems indeed !!
Colossus The Forbin Project was one of my favorite movies. I have a copy of itand itwas probably thefirst AI move I've everseen. This was before the advent of home computers.
I love this movie and have collected some interesting facts on it throughout the years - apparently Kubrick became aware of the DF Jones book and this idea about a "talking computer that goes on a homicidal kick" - that's how HAL came about. The story goes that young up-and-coming director Steven Spielberg was present every day on the set as an observer of the Colossus shoot at Universal Studios . He must have learned a thing or two watching Joe Sargent at work - you can see it in Spielberg's work later on. Paul Frees was a very versatile (and in-demand) voice actor - he did a classic "Peter Lorre" for Spike Jones, was the voice of Boris Badenov and Ludwig von Drake among many other notable cartoon characters, besides being an actor - on screen as Frank Sinatra's fellow assassin in "Suddenly"....and the original "The Thing".
Eric Braeden (born Hans Gudegast) is one of my favorite actors.
Colossus has been one of my favorite movies for 50 years. Classic thought provoking movie.
I remember in the late 70s the movie was on late night TV and I got hook and stayed up to watch the entire movie.
I was telling all my friends they needed to watch this movie.
Great memories.
I read the book when I was twelve in 1968. I completely missed the movie until now. I'm going to watch it today.
I have loved this movie since I first saw it in the 80s. At that time I was processing seismic data on Control Data Corp mainframes for Mobil Oil, so all that CDC hardware looked very familiar. My favorite part is when Colossus is teaching Guardian a new language for them to use to talk to each other, and Colossus slows down and waits for Guardian to catch up!
Colossus, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Forbidden Planet still stand up well after all these years. It is unfortunate that Colossus seems largely forgotten.
Oh My God! I didn't know you covered this movie until it popped up today! I felt like I wa salone in cherishing it, despite how "weird" it was in some ways... This movie is cemented in my imagination as an inspiration (I worked in the computers field and researched the philosophy of AI) - the sounds, the lines, the atmosphere the creepy voice of "This Is World Control..."- a classic indeed. So iconic, surreal, and well almost too real, now... Thank You!
The "crab" in the title of the third book refers to the Crab Nebula, which is relevant to the story.
Fun Fact..Martin E Brooks best known for playing Dr Rudy Wells on the Six Million Dollar Man-Bionic Woman series several years afterwards was also in the film. In the second novel Colosuss had banished war-poverty but still killed those that worked against its rule secretly before being defeated somewhat. The last book Colosuss-Crabs revealed the Martians who were coming in the sequel werent benevolent but wanted to take much of the atmosphere threatening almost mass extinction. After a somewhat revived Colosuss agreed that they take it slowly instead so it could be renewed humanity survives but Martians got what they wanted in the end.
This was an interesting film, and has predicted much of what is happening now.
There's the scene where the US and Soviet computers are linked and they start creating their own language that wasn't programmed in. Google had a similar thing happen with two AI computers when they connected them together. They stopped the experiment saying that the experiment was complete, but I have to think that some of those scientists were a little unnerved by this.
I've been a fan of this film for decades!! OK, so how did you replicate the Colossus voice? It was spot on!!!!
It was also used as the Voices for the CYLONS in the Original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
@@donaldbishop5320 true!!
SERIOUSLY - this is my favorite film of all time. AND... I read all three novels. (The crab is the crab nebula).
I saw "Colossus: The Forbin Project" in movie theaters and thought it is one of the best scifi movies ever. When I saw "The Terminator" I thought Skynet must be the successor to Colossus.🤔😊👍
Sometimes being old is a good thing…
There was a trilogy of books. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT,
THE FALL OF COLOSSUS, and
COLOSSUS AND THE CRAB.
I have all three. They're great reads. It goes from political thriller (US vs. USSR), to technology thriller (COLOSSUS and Guardian vs. the world), to an Alien Invasion movie, to the world (and COLOSSUS and Guardian) vs. The Aliens!
Well done as usual, Dan. Thanks! How about a retrospective on Gerry Anderson's UFO? Definitely one of my favorite series of all time!
THIS IS THE VOICE OF CONTROL!! Saw it when it premiered on the NBC movie of the week.
spoiler alert ----------------------------------------------- at the end of the trilogy of books it's revealed Colossus was actually saving Humanity
I suspect that saving humanity was considered as something to make the whole trilogy less bleak.
The "Crab" was an alien species if my memory is correct. I have the trilogy of books somewhere.
@@johnkovacs4151If I remember correctly, the Crab was a machine that harvested air for the aliens.
@@johnkovacs4151 I think the crab was the crab nebula with radiation from it. The aliens were Phobos and Deimos, the moons of mars.
WAIT! What! There are books!!! Guy, guys I’m a 61 year old nerd that was a sci fi/fantasy fan and I loved this movie growing up….then I forgot about it till now
Thanks for the great episode, and the link. I finally got to see the movie. Fantastic!
Demon Seed, along with Colossus The Forbin Project, would make a great double feature.
Saw it in the 80s. Great film. Agree re the ending. Andromeda Strain was another 70s sci-fi I enjoyed. Thanks for the great channel Dan.
I see The Forbin Project as part 2 of an unofficial trilogy. Part 1/...War Games ('83), Part 2/...Colossus/Forbin, and Part 3/....The Terminator. A progression of AI gone wild.
Yet another great video Dan. I always thought that this film should be remade, possibly opening up the three books to all being made. Eric Braden could also replay Forbin or possibly a cameo.
Thanks for bring this back to the light!
Such a great one that is sadly overlooked. I find Colossus very quotable (in both text and speech mode)- "You have consumed enough alcohol for one evening."
"How often do you require a woman?"
"Every night."
"Not want. Require."
Knows nothing about Canadians.
Saw it in the theater and at least once on tv. It's always stuck with me. Looking forward to watching it again. Thanks for the tip about the internet archive!
Enjoyed the video and subscribed.
I sure do wish that someone would do a film version of HeinleIn’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Great computer character there!
Not Paul Veerhoven. He has no respect for Heinlein's brilliance. He made an absolute mockery of Starship Troopers. His film is entertaining in its own way but it's more of a spoof.
@@lib556 No, it is the actions of someone who cannot conceive that freedom and libertarian government is possible. For him, freedom is slavery. As far as I’m concerned, Verhoeven is a terrible human being, who only wants horror and tyranny.
'm from Germany and have never met anyone named Gudegast. Seems like a pretty rare name. Funny that Arni was allowed to film in Hollywood with the name Schwarzenegger. Or Werner Klemperer and Hardy Krüger. The film has completely passed me by so far and I can't remember any TV broadcast here in Germany. The DVD is definitely on my to-get list. Love your videos! Greetings from Germany.
One of my favorite moves from my childhood. I was always drawn to any movies involving computers. Great video. Can you do The Questor Tapes with BJ Honeycut from MASH?
Yes! Someone else saw "The Questor Tapes"! I have been wanting to see that again for years.
Another great movie! Definitely have that one on blu-ray! Excellent job on this one Dan!
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5:19 And Hans Gudegast played the wily Captain Hans Dietrich in Rat Patrol.
Yes, you're right!
William Schallert's cigarette scene is priceless. Thanks for the great review.
The voice guy was also the narrator of the Monsanto Adventure through Inner-Space ride where you shrunk to the size of a molecule before being restored just before the ride ends. It was cool.
Paul Frees is more or less ubiquitous as a voice actor in the years before Don LaFontane. Some remember him as the Heat Miser in the Rankin-Bass Santa Claus special, some as Boris Badenov in Rocky & Bullwinkle, others as the unseen John Beresford Tipton on the show "The Millionaire".
don't forget the Dreams monolog at the beginning of the Night Walker - or Joesephine from Some Like it Hot!!
This show freaked me out about independent thinking computers….. It has never stopped.