Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969)
- Directed by
- Joseph Sargent
- Genre
- science fiction film, disaster film, dystopian film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 96h 07m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 263 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A genius scientist creates a supercomputer that controls the United States nuclear defense system. The computer becomes self-aware and decides it must control all of humanity in order to keep peace.
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What happens
Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as Colossus) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, which becomes sentient. After being given full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders to stop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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