Colossus - The Forbin Project
by Joseph Sargent
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Actor: Eric Braeden, Gordon Pinsent, Leonid Rostoff, Susan Clark, William SchallertDirector: Joseph Sargent
Brand: MCA
Cinematographer: Gene Polito
Editor: Folmar Blangsted
Producer: Stanley Chase
Writer: D.F. Jones
Writer: James Bridges
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Colossus - The Forbin Project
Movie Review: COLOSSUS IS THE MACK DADDY
Summary: 5 Stars
.....Forget Skynet ...forget HAL ...they are pygmies compared to COLOSSUS ...
.....COLOSSUS is a quiet but highly effective little film. It was poorly distributed in its time and never quite found the audience it should have. The film was made right after 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and, although based on a 1966 novel by D.F. Jones, it could almost be a feature-lenght extension of the scenes aboard The Discovery with HAL 9000 conspiring against the humans. It was one of the foremost of the 1970s films that took up the theme of machines and our technological systems having become so perfected that they end up deciding that they can run things better than we do. (See also The Andromeda Strain (1971), THX 1138 (1971), Westworld (1973).
.....Although probably the 1960s was the only point such a film as this could have ever been made. It is hard to think that such an incredible premise would ever suceed in the 1990s and beyond where the computer has become seamlessly intergrated into the everyday world. For a start not only does Forbin build a system that seemingly has no shut off switch, but he seals it off inside an impenetrable bunker ...and without, it appears, ever having turned it on or done any tests on it. Moreover, what seems almost impossible to believe, the military seems perfectly happy to turn over the running of the entirety of the US military complex to this untested machine. Not too surprisingly the machine starts exhibiting errors within moments of its operation ...yet the creator of this system has no means of being able to do anything about it. In a modern version Forbin would surely be regarded as the villian and lionized for his incompetence for designing such a system, however here he remains the hero of the show.
.....Nevertheless on its own terms it is really one of the most unassuming and perfect of all lesser-budgeted of films. It was directed by Joseph Sargent, a former director on TV series such as "The man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek and the Invaders". The script is a marvel of economy and Sargent directs with tight precision where absolutely nothing is out of place. The interplays between computer and creator are wonderful. In what must be the most ingenious tying in of a love interest in a SciFi film, Forbin explains to Colossus the need to have his mistress Clark every night of the week for his mental health, in fact using her to relay messages to the CIA, the computer's sarcastic reply is, "I asked need, not want." Although this scene has been cut from the butchered print that screens on the Sci-Fi Channel ...the ending has the machine triumphant, announcing to Forbin, "In time you will come to regard me with not only awe and respect but love." ...Forbin's response is, "Never! Never! ...
.....Eric Braeden is great in the part, as is Susan Clark who balances Braeden with a spry, charming wit.
.....This movie deserves to be preserved and is a must have for the serious collector.
Summary of Colossus - The Forbin Project
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 06/01/10
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
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