Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-03 (Saturday)

On 5/4/25 9:21 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 5/4/2025 8:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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All I watched on Saturday was the Thur. episodes of DOOL and GH, and I don't really feel like commenting on them. Otherwise, most of the day I played my video game, and in the evening I did some grading and recorded last night's Lifetime flick for later. (And, yes - my Lifetime/LMN movie backlog on my DVR is now 10 TV movies deep! [sigh...] )

 You made me look.  I have 8, including a Hallmark Christmas movie from 2023, I've yet to watch.
 

What did you watch?

  I watched:
  Colossus: The Forbin Project (blu-ray) 1970 movie starring Eric Braeden (Escape From the Planet of the Apes) as a computer scientist who as the movie opens is putting the finishing touches on a new supercomputer called Skynet, I mean Colossus, that is buried in the Rocky Mountains that controls the U.S. weapons systems and will make human decision making in war obsolete.  It was hooked into everything and trusted to run it all.  Then it got smart, a new order of intelligence.  The people in charge panicked and tried to pull the plug.  Skynet, I mean Colossus, decided humanity's fate in a microsecond.

Ironically, I was just reading an article about this flick, and the author was saying it should be remade today! I've only been saying that for decades!!