Colossus is one of my all time favorites the computer requiring the “lab assistant”/wife to undress is one of my first titillating memories. I was like 12 at the time.

truly an unappreciated classic.

I never saw it in the theatres. I saw it on HBO or something in the early 80′s.

Given that computers can do things now that they never dreamed computers can do I wonder how they’re going to spin it.

Hopefully it won’t be schlock. The original, was a commentary from a bygone era about the real possibility of what might come to pass.

Nowdays, the Hollywood brain trust, which has been devoid of an original concept for many years, will just recycle an old obscure premise into something that typically amounts to a pale shadow of the original.

We shall see.

Actually the author of the book did write a sequel “The Fall of Colossus”. Not as good as the first but not bad either. The movie was very well done and I would love to find it on DVD with extras.

Robert: I’d imagine they’ll wait to ride on the coat-tails of this remake.

I’ve seen the movie about 10 times and read all three books. It’s one of my favorite stories/movies. The monologue at the end of the is awesome, to the say the least. If they capture that feeling then the remake will rock (though maybe not to the masses).

The 2nd and 3rd books weren’t as good mainly b/c it dragged Martians into the picture (I’m pretty sure they were from Mars and not the Crab nebula). But it was a cool story nonetheless, b/c (WARNING SPOILER AHEAD) the humans were trying to overthrow Colossus, not realizing that Colossus was actually their only hope of stopping the aliens. Oh, the irony! So maybe a movie with that story wouldn’t be so bad actually –if done well.

I enjoyed the movie—but, it was so British, making reference to the Eddington theory of the expanding universe etc.

I also spent years wondering what “finite absolutes” were–ultimately inspiring me to read
books on early 20th century mathematical logic.

I hope the New movie does more than show calculus integral tables as advanced math.

The dynamic programming scene–where the computers try to find a com path between them was
great.
Penny

” A new language, an intersystem language, that only these two machines can understand.”

for a similar genre but an even better (if dated) book – look up

The Adolescence of P1

good stuff.