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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-03 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 10:23:02 -0700
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On 5/4/25 9:21 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 5/4/2025 8:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>
>> 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!!