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

On 5/4/2025 2:46 PM, Nyssa wrote:

anim8rfsk wrote:
 

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

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

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

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I watched:
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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.

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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!!

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There’s sequel books nobody has ever touched either.
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https://vintagebookseller.myshopify.com/cdn/shop/products/Book0034_18c97384-156f-4919-80e0-3998524c51f7.jpg?v=1423417068
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https://postmarkedfromthestars.com/cdn/shop/products/image_f9644b0a-dec1-4ed2-918b-09dde3b851a2_1200x1200.jpg?v=1639095055
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I've got both of the sequel books and read them ages ago.
Neither live up to the first book.
 Signals from the Crab Nebula? And they're gonna help knock out
the supercomputers?
 Nope, not buying it.
 

Thanks for reminding me to look up the two stories.  The summaries on Wiki are interesting.  Had they filmed the two sequel books, it was have been way more sci-fi than the first movie.

Nyssa, who thought it was too far out (pun intended)