{"id":3999,"date":"2011-05-15T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/colossus-the-forbin-project-1-star\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T16:54:00","slug":"colossus-the-forbin-project-1-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/colossus-the-forbin-project-1-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossus: The Forbin Project (1 star)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" title=\"Colossus: The Forbin Project Poster\" alt=\"Colossus: The Forbin Project Poster\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjA3NjYzMzcwOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODc3MTcyMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR4,0,214,317_.jpg\" height=\"317\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>I was 15 when I first saw this. The best part of seeing it again was its portrayal of computers, especially all those wide greenbar printouts we were still using in 1980. And if a supercomputer were to design its own voice, I hope it would not choose such a gawd-awful mechanical sound. Hal\u2019s voice was soo much better.<\/p>\n<p>The strangest thing about this movie is not only its quaint take on sex.&#160; Weirder, I remember an elaborate scene that is gone or imagined or from another movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064177\/\">Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) &#8211; IMDb<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064177\/\">Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 15 when I first saw this. The best part of seeing it again was its portrayal of computers, especially all those wide greenbar printouts we were still using in 1980. And if a supercomputer were to design its own voice, I hope it would not choose such a gawd-awful mechanical sound. Hal\u2019s voice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/colossus-the-forbin-project-1-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colossus: The Forbin Project (1 star)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}