I agree with most of your list: I really liked Colossus, the Forbin Project and Andromeda Strain. I try to talk movies on IMDB, but somehow I also end up fighting with a Bush-Basher or America-Basher no matter what the film is! I mean, we could be discussing the relative merits of Disney's Pochantos vs. the sequel, and someone will come up with an anti-American, anti-Bush tie-in.
By the way, when I first saw TDTESS, I was kind of young and didn't get it, but I clearly remember my grandmother being frustrated by the hypocrisy of the planets Klaatu represented--"curb your agression, you savage humans, or our robots will rip you a new one?"
Take care. It was fun.
Thanks, I enjoyed the chat. It is hard to talk movies on the net, politics always comes in and many artistically inclined people are kneejerk libs, so what can ya do?