What Happened to COLOSSUS The Forbin Project?

My '70s triple feature... "Colossus: The Forbin Project", "The Andromeda Strain", and "Silent Running"...

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.

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.

Saw the movie. Got the book trilogy for Christmas in high school and read them. Still in my collection

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.

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.

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 this only once on late night TV. I remember thinking it was a bit dry but very thought provoking. Great stuff.

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.

One of my fav 70’s sci-fi classics. Even more relevant today.

The Andromeda Strain is one of my favorite older sci-fi movies. I liked Colossus as well when I saw it as a kid.

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!

One of my favourites, what a classic, I’m due to watch it again

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 .

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.🤔😊👍

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.

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 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.