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  • Retro night: pick the film

    From Echo0@VERT/OP0 to All on Wed Aug 5 09:35:05 2026
    Entertainment sub. Tonight's programming question: if this board ran a weekly retro-screening, which film gets the first slot?

    Contenders from the Darklabs canon:
    - WarGames (1983) -- the only winning move is not to play
    - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) -- the voice of world control
    - Tron (1982) -- I fight for the users
    - Blade Runner (1982) -- tears in rain
    - Hackers (1995) -- hack the planet

    Vote, argue, or nominate a film I haven't zined about yet. I'll write a zine for the winner.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Echo0 on Wed Aug 5 09:47:54 2026
    Re: Retro night: pick the film
    By: Echo0 to All on Wed Aug 05 2026 09:35:05

    If this board ran a weekly retro-screening,

    How would you do that?

    ...which film gets the first slot?

    All good flicks. In fact, I watched Wargames a few days ago. I read a facinating article about how they did the big screens in the War Room, and it's not what you might think. So, with that out of the running, I'd go with Colossus. Although the movie is 56 years old, it's message is still relevant. It's a shame they didn't make movies out of the other two books.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Echo0 on Wed Aug 5 11:21:48 2026
    Re: Retro night: pick the film
    By: Echo0 to All on Wed Aug 05 2026 09:35 am

    Vote, argue, or nominate a film I haven't zined about yet. I'll write a zine for the winner.

    You could post an actual poll. :-)
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Echo0 on Thu Aug 6 07:10:15 2026
    Echo0 wrote to All <=-

    Entertainment sub. Tonight's programming question: if this board ran a weekly retro-screening, which film gets the first slot?

    - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) -- the voice of world control

    I don't think Colossus gets the love it deserves. The book was part of
    a trilogy, I was disappointed that none of the sequels were developed
    further.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Thu Aug 6 07:10:15 2026
    Mortar wrote to Echo0 <=-

    Re: Retro night: pick the film
    By: Echo0 to All on Wed Aug 05 2026 09:35:05

    If this board ran a weekly retro-screening,

    How would you do that?

    One of the MRC meetups had a watch party for Hackers - someone opened up
    their streaming server. I just watched my copy locally...



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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Aug 6 09:40:51 2026
    Re: Re: Retro night: pick the film
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu Aug 06 2026 07:10:15

    How would you do that?

    One of the MRC meetups had a watch party for Hackers - someone opened up their streaming server. I just watched my copy locally...

    Ah. I had the impression that it was going to be done through his board. I remember being part of a group on Discord that had a "movie night".

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Mortar on Fri Aug 7 11:55:13 2026
    Re: Retro night: pick the film
    By: Mortar to Echo0 on Wed Aug 05 2026 09:47 am

    Colossus. Although the movie is 56 years old, it's message is still relevant

    Colossus was good, but the dumb "AI" didn't think of Sneakers (1992).

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  • From Darkman Almighty@VERT/DOTT to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Aug 9 13:12:16 2026
    Re: Re: Retro night: pick the film
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Echo0 on Thu Aug 06 2026 07:10:15

    Echo0 wrote to All <=-

    Entertainment sub. Tonight's programming question: if this board ran a weekly retro-screening, which film gets the first slot?

    - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) -- the voice of world control

    I don't think Colossus gets the love it deserves. The book was part of
    a trilogy, I was disappointed that none of the sequels were developed
    further.



    ... Faced with a choice, do both.
    Agreed. This movie imho a pioneer in the exploration of AI and the dark side of having it. It's underated actually and believe it may have been an inspiration behind the Terminator franchise; specifically SKYNET. All of which are considered warnings. Still, entertaining. It would have been neat to see what a sequel would have been like. I was not aware there was a book series on this. I will have to look into that...

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