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Colossus: The Forbin project

Don't cheat and look it up Smack

What year was it released?
Did you see it when it was released?
Who were the 2 main stars (1 male and 1 female)?
What other female actress starred who should be well known?
What was the plot?
Do you have the video tape?

Yes, I saw it first run. Margie and I saw it at a drive-in (well, most of it anyway Wink

). It was the main attraction and the Andromeda Strain was the 'B' rated movie!

Extra Credit:
Who starred in the Andromeda Strain?
What was it about?

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:02 pm

To be honest, I've never seen the movie. Although, The Andromeda Strain was my first exposure to one of my all time favorite authors, Michael Chrichton. I've been addicted to his books since, and in most cases, I feel the book was better than the movie.

registered · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:03 pm

Never heard of it. Laughing

Client Joined: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 649 Location: UK

Never heard of either of them rofl

I must get out more Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:01 pm

I've never seen it, nor know when it came out. But I remember talking about how War Games was a cheeky remake of it.

So I'll assume its about a super smart computer and our defense system somehow Smile

Cult films I've seen:
Reefer Madness
Freaks
This is Spinal Tap
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (my all time fav cult film)
A Clockwork Orange
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Evil Dead - Evil Dead II (a remake of the first, not really a sequel)
Army of Darkness (the best of all three movies)
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now

Involved Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 252 Location: OKC, OK

i'm bad with names, so I would have to cheat on that at a guess I would say 1974, ok cheated and checked I'm wrong.
I remember on the Six Million Dollor Man they used footage from Andormeda Strain.

To Webby. "This is my boom stick! Shop smart, shop S-Mart!". You listed a movie I hav't seen, I wonder who is killing her now. Now I got to look that up and find it.......went looking for it on imdb and found something better, It's a short but ya gotta love the title

I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (1993)

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:28 pm

Big Trouble in Little China.
The Stunt Man.

I am the king of b movies! Well the jester at least.
What I am working up to in nuke is to start a movie site, for little know or seen moves.

BTW I don't have it on tape but I got a forbin t-shirt, got it at a Sci-Fi con years ago.
I like the movie but didn't really want to own it as it is a bit depresing.

Good line from Forbin
Colossus (text on display screen): "HOW MANY NIGHTS A WEEK DO YOU REQUIRE SEX?" Forbin: "Every night." Colossus: "NOT WANT. REQUIRE." Forbin: "Four times."

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:11 pm

Yes, that's definitely a good line! I watch that movie about every two months or so. I just love it! Hackers and AntiTrust usually every other month. Spy Game, at least once a month if not more.

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:39 am

Raven wrote:

Now you will show you geekiness and/or age!

Colossus: The Forbin project

Never heard of it.....was it black and white or was it actually made in color? Wink

One of my favorite "cult classics" was the more recent "Office Space" Wink

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:19 am

Saw Office Space and while the first 1/2 hour or so it was funny (the Memo thing), I felt the rest was very disappointing.

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:01 am

Tao_Man wrote:

To Webby. "This is my boom stick! Shop smart, shop S-Mart!". You listed a movie I hav't seen, I wonder who is killing her now. Now I got to look that up and find it.......went looking for it on imdb and found something better, It's a short but ya gotta love the title

you didn't quote the whole thing Very Happy

"See this? *This* is my *boom stick*! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. *You got that*?"

I wonder who is killing her now - 1976.

This is a review of the movie ... no way I could write it better then this Smile

Oliver (Dishy), a greedy self-indulgent sleaze has just run out of luck; he has just been caught after stealing $250,000 from his father-in-law's company. After he's fired, he is told that he can have the charges dropped if he pays back the money in 30 days - which he doesn't have. To make matters worse, his rich wife has not only had the servants stop talking to him, but has announced she is cutting him off and discussing divorce with her lawyer, even though her lawyer at the costume party that night (while dressed as a rat) tells her, "Divorce could put a serious strain on your marriage." Oliver tried desperately to raise the money, even going as far as to put his collection of paintings for sale. He only gets an offer of $25,000 - for the picture frames.

Depressed, Oliver spends the next afternoon at a movie revival house, watching the old Ronald Reason movie Die Die My Pet (listen to the dialogue of the movie carefully). An idea starts to form in his head while watching the movie, but first he asks the cashier what happens to the Ronald Reason character in the movie. After being told that he kills his wife, collects the insurance, and becomes governor of California, Oliver has a brainstorm - he'll get an insurance policy on his wife, and have her murdered! So he goes to the "No Fault Insurance" company, and gets a two-week policy. However, there's a condition that his wife must have a medical examination before getting the policy, so Oliver tells the insurance man that his wife must be examined "in a way that she doesn't know that she's being examined." This leads to a hilarious scene when later, the visiting doctor (played by Pat Morita) somehow manages to examine her in this way.

Oliver gets the policy, and then goes to the most disreputable bar in town to find a hit man, finding a bumbling Gene Wilder clone named Bobo. At first, Bobo is reluctant ("Taking someone's life without their permission? I can't do that!"), but then the lure of $20,000 finally wins him over. Shortly after, the insurance company calls Oliver saying they need another physical - the first doctor was found to be a fraud after they discovering he didn't know how to use a thermometer ("These things do happen," assures the insurance man.) With a currently invalid policy, Oliver races to Bobo to stop the hit, only to find that Bobo hired someone to do the job for him...who then hired someone to do the job for him...who then hired someone to do the job for him...eventually leading to a mad race by everyone involved to Las Vegas to find and stop the last hired hit man.

The madcap race in the second half of the movie obviously got some inspiration from It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, though here the direction is on meeting and interacting with really kooky characters, including an East Indian symphony conductor, a doctor at a fat farm, a bricklayer, and an Italian soldier. With these characters, and others in the movie, Dishy does a great job with these interactions with his fast-talking, half-truths and lies - anything to get what he wants! The movie also gets humor with a number of great sight gags, such as when Oliver and his companions have to wear some ludicrous "fat suits" in order to sneak into the fat farm. And there's a tip of the hat to the old "Road Runner" cartoons with the assassin (unseen except for his shoes and hands), who makes multiple attempts on the life of Oliver's wife, but with all of his attempts failing and usually backfiring into his face.

There are some problems with the movie. The second half, though funny, is undoubtedly weaker than the hilarious first half. Part of that problem comes with an extended segment at a hospital, with Oliver and his companions there for reasons not entirely clear. And the segment is simply too long to start with. And the sometimes cartoonish humor goes too far at times. One gag has Bobo being beaten up offscreen, and then appearing immediately back onscreen with white "x" bandages on his face to indicate his injuries. Also, some segments were not carefully edited enough, which may cause viewers to grab their remote control to rewind and replay what they've just seen, like I had to do several times.

Despite these problems, I laughed out loud a lot more times than most comedies I've ever seen. The screenwriter, Mickey Rose, formerly worked with Woody Allen (when he used to be funny), and Rose obviously learned a lot from his former partner. He also showed with this movie that he could be a talented gag man on his own. Though the only other comic movie that he made was the 1981 Student Bodies, which I understand has a cult following. It's too back Rose disappeared from movies, because I think with a little more work and polish, he might have been as well known as Woody Allen is today - and for more positive things than negative.

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