Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

The future kind of sucks. (432 movies items)

"Reason why the future sucks: Thinking that war can be prevented, a computer is given the ability to practically control missies. Does not compute. Year it takes place: Not too far off distant future "

RS: 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s (50 movies items)

"Fourteen years before The Terminator (and only two years after HAL refused to open the pod door), there was another, lesser-known tale of a supercomputer seizing control of the world and trying to eradicate humanity. Smug engineer Dr. Charles A. Forbin, who convinces the U.S. Defense Department to let his “Colossus” control the country’s nuclear arsenal, then watches in horror as his creation goes over his head and starts communicating with the Soviet’s own electronic brain. Scientific c"

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"Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970) "

My Movie Diary 2017 (217 movies items)

" 2 May. A defense computer's A.I. goes rogue and threatens the world with nuclear missiles. Quite suspenseful even when it is a talky picture and that everything happens inside a war room for almost the entirety of the story. "