Colossus: The Forbin Project
Science Fiction Film Podcast (2019)
LSG Media
4.7 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Episode Rundown
- 00:29 - Manipulating work subordinates with tragedy
- 03:02 - Uncle Dean
- 07:05 - The original AI takeover plot
- 08:39 - 1970s science fiction flicks
- 18:42 - Kickin' it in the shade with presidential whores
- 19:52 - Overvaluing a machine's lack of emotion
- 21:48 - Information versus knowledge - a deep cut
- 28:58 - Where is the public outcry for such a crazy proposal?
- 31:06 - The paradox of fallible beings creating infallible beings
- 37:35 - Mo' money mo' problems and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fu*k
- 43:00 - The scale of the Colossus set piece
- 46:58 - Eric Braeden's portrayal of Dr. Forbin
- 52:03 - Colossus is single and looking to mingle
- 55:39 - Facebook AI creates its own language
- 58:06 - Google Eyeballs and the future of marketing
- 1:06:48 - The only penalty is death
- 1:11:54 - The machine versions of Mickey and Mallory Knox
- 1:16:39 - It's not a phone it's a computer that can make calls
- 1:21:39 - The abusive and controlling computer spouse
- 1:24:19 - Exploiting the Colossus blind spot for human relationships
- 1:32:15 - Colossus the porn director
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Science Fiction Film Podcast by LSG Media. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Dean. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Matthew. |
| 0:14.6 | And on this week's episode, we bring you Colossus, the Forbin Project from 1970, directed by Joseph Sargent. |
| 0:28.9 | Man, do you think Dr. Forbin, at one point in this movie, just thought to himself, |
| 0:36.1 | I fucked up. |
| 0:37.5 | We're not going to win. The presidents really thinks we're going to win up. We're not going to win. |
| 0:38.8 | The presidents really thinks we're going to win, but we're not going to win. |
| 0:42.4 | And I'm not sure what to do, but I definitely want to fuck Cleo Markham. |
| 0:48.2 | So I'm going to figure out a way. |
| 0:49.9 | All is lost, but... |
| 0:51.5 | All is lost, but here's a plan. |
| 0:54.1 | We will pass, and, you know, that hits the old, unsuspecting whirlwind romance buttons of a woman, right? |
| 1:03.5 | It was the end of the world, it felt like. |
| 1:05.4 | It was the end of the world, and I've always admired him from afar, but, oh, I just, you can't in the workplace. And, well, you know, now look at it. This opportunity we have here. Everybody else is like, oh, what are we going to do? He's just standing there, arms crossed all serious. And they're like, well, Forbin's definitely taking this seriously and thinking about what to do next. And he's like, I wonder if I can convince her to put on laundry. |
| 1:28.8 | I wonder. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, no, yes, I'm definitely thinking about solutions to this problem. |
| 1:34.7 | Yes. |
| 1:35.7 | It's funny that he has to convince the computer all these different things |
| 1:41.3 | in a couple of hilarious scenes in this episode. I'm sure we're going to |
| 1:45.5 | talk about. But Colossus, the Forbidden Project. So first things first, I thought it was called, |
| 1:52.5 | when the request was sent to me, I thought it was called Colossus the Forbidden Project. |
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