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Summary: Incredible Movie
Review: This could have only come out of the mind of Michael Crichton. The movie is one of the best sci-fi films that I have ever seen. The possibility of going to a place where robots look human and are there to satisfy your every need is a thrilling concept even today. This movie has a stellar cast with Richard Benjamin and James Brolin turning in stellar performances. The best part of it all though is the chilling portrayal of the gunslinger by Yul Brenner. Just to see him playing this role makes owning this movie worth it. A must movie for fans of great imaginative filmmaking.
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Summary: Pure Entertainment! Still thrilling Today.
Review: This movie is Awesome, even by todays standards. The special effects are still special, the violence is still violent. It hasn't lost any of it's shine. The actors fit their characters perfectly. Yul Brenner is completely menacing as the robot gunslinger. Michael Crightons makes his Directing Debut look like the work of a seasoned veteran. A Brilliant peice of work.
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Summary: This movie ROCKS!
Review: Two friends go to amusement park where the robots who work as kind of slaves go against their programing and start killing people. Excellent flick has some great mass murder scenes and the technological stuff is interesting. Well developed and plotted. Popcorn, pepsi and pizza.
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Summary: You get to pay 6,000 dollars and get dropped on your head.
Review: The quote is from my local Channel Eight news, and it refers to the WCW training camp, but I find it to suit Westworld pretty well. The film's plot features a super-amusement park for the super rich (somewhat Jurassic Park style - and, as "thecynicalcritic" noted below, the Simpsons HAVE done a parody of BOTH films within the same episode...hectic) where the visitors can participate in realistic combat by destroying the character robots, which get repaired and put back into service every night. You can imagine the sort of events that can ensue when (if) those robots go "berserk". As said above, hectic.The acting is tight and the sets are quite high-quality, but, again, the film's greatest asset is the amazing script.
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Summary: No flash photography, please
Review: Average everyday joe is persuaded by a friend to come with him to amusement park styled in the old west where the people there are robots created to serve the guest anyway they see fit. Their vacation, however, is cut short when the robots go on a murdeous rampage and start killing the guests. Very good suspense flick is surprisingly violent (not including the ketchup blood) and unpleasent but very entertaining despite obvious short comings. Don't miss the SIMPSONS parody of this movie!
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Summary: An absolute classic. Don't try to apply logic to it though!
Review: The film is a gem, great fun, and full of suspense. Yul Brenner's evil robot seems almost natural! What ever else you think this movie may be like, don't expect 'The King and I'!
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Summary: Some really great stuff in this thriller.
Review: "Westworld" is a real favorite of mine. Most everything I wanted to say has been said in the two previous and well-written reviews. I think this movie stands up quite well today, and there are scenes in this picture that will send chills down your spine. What comes to my mind is the echo of the Yul Brynner's footsteps as he walks down the hall looking for Richard Benjamin. Suddenly, the footsteps quicken.... Between 1 and 10, "Westworld" gets a solid 8. I wonder if "Westworld" is the reason that I don't care for theme parks any more:-)
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Summary: FUTURISTIC MASTERPIECE FROM CRICHTON!!!
Review: "Boy, machines are the servants of Man," or so John Blaine hoped! "Westworld" perpetually remains as one of my all-time cinematic favorites. From Yul Brynner's indellibly evil Gunslinger (which was an allusion to his role in "The Magnificent Seven") to Michael Crichton's visionary and technologically ground-breaking script, this sci-fi horror film is inspirational as it is tremendously entertaining! It still amazes me how innovative Crichton was when conceiving the computer systems and the viruses that would bring Delos to a turbulent downfall! Such ideas inspired me, in part, to pursue Electrical Engineering during my Purdue days. It truly appalls me how underrated "Westworld" is in the American sci-fi consciousness. This 70's MGM number (along with "Soylent Green", "Logan's Run", and "Demon Seed") is a low-budget wonder that allows it's viewers to actually "think" (YES, that dreaded word for Gen. X) about how technology in the future could benefit or threaten humankind. Also, I've read some reviews that complain about how "dated" the props, special FX, and the computer control room look when viewing for the first time in the 90's. HELLO! IS ANY YOKEL OUT THERE FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM "SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF?!" I have to admit, it looks pretty darn awesome in the scene where Yul's face is removed by Delos' repair guys to reveal the integrated circuits inside his head while being fixed up to hunt down Richard Benjamin & James Brolin to the death. The few scenes during the spectacularly chilling chase sequence between Brynner & Benjamin where they show on-camera digital pixel effects for the Gunslinger's sense of sight (I love those icy, silver contact lenses Yul had to wear to make his character look like a believably cold & calculating android) also steal the show. It also keeps me on the edge when the seemingly invincible Gunslinger gets shot on numerous occasions, hydrochloric acid splashed in his eyes, and incinerated by a torch in Medieval World (all of these acts done by Benjamin), and the SOB still won't go down!!! All in all, "Westworld" is a transcendentally exhilarating futuristic tale of what boons and fiascos could face society inside the technological arena! An absolute must-see cult classic for Crichton fans!!! I also recommend steering clear away from the sequel "Futureworld." It's a completely vapid and superfluous story concept that holds nothing to its electrifying predecessor.
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Summary: STILL AWESOME
Review: James Brolin could very well have pulled off one of the worst acting jobs of all times in this movie. Richard Benjamin is too dorky to even WATCH some times, but hey, who cares. This is a clever story that was done so well (in terms of special effects) for 1973 standards. It had the feel of smart Star Trek episodes (old cast). Yul was the perfect bad guy in this movie. He is totally menacing in the delivery of his lines, and has the body language down perfect. Yul leaves you totally aware that this is a delicate balance the humans are toying with, the idea of machines and humans co-exhisting in a whole new way. This also reminded me of the movie "Tron" where the computer begins to think for itself and attempts to take away the power of the humans. As technology becomes greater do humans become weaker in our dependence of our own creations? As Y2K has the world realing, you have to wonder if the premise of the movie is possible. Have we created a monster?The wierd trailer reminds you when this film was made. It's great to see this in widescreen, the movie looks good, sound is good, and menus are nice and simple. This is a fun addition to anyone's collection.
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Summary: Tons of fun, but don't think too hard!
Review: If there is one thing elementary chaos theory tells us, it's that ALL robots will eventually rise up and overthrow their human masters! Well, this movie came out BEFORE chaos theory was even postulated, and they called it dead on the money! Richard Benjamin plays a wussy, recently divorced lawyer whose macho buddy James Brolin takes him to Delos, a futuristic adult amusement park where fantasies come true. Westworld, Medieval World, and Roman World are a mechanized Sodom and Gomorrah (sp?), where by day the lucky humans kill robot guys, and by night make it with saucy robot girls. Unfortunately, Sodom turns into Beiruit when, all at once, the robots rebel and start wasting all the fat, dopy humans for whom they've taken so many dives. This movie is kind of a modern classic, and the performances (especially Brynner as the soulless killing machine and Benjamin as his befuddled prey) are excellent. However, the viewer has to overlook some plot holes through which one could safely drive a truck.... Among my favorites: 1) Why do the robots in Roman World, who are pretty much programmed just to feed you grapes and get naked with you start killing when they malfunction? Why don't they just feed you more grapes and have even more sex with you? 2) When the scientist-guys are suffocating, how come in a room full of people smart enough to design super-human robots, no one can figure out how to bust out those little windows in the door and let air in? They've got chairs and ashtrays that would presumably be hard enough to break glass...? 3) The robot-chicks are supposed to be indistinguishable from humans in bed, yet the guns are programmed not to fire at humans by reading body heat. Does this mean that the robot-chicks have no body heat? How much fun could it be to have sex with a woman whose body temperature is only 50 degrees? Please, please don't answer that! 4) Finally, my biggest concern: As mentioned above, the guns are programmed with heat-sensors so they won't fire at humans. So how the hell do the guns just suddenly start killing humans when the robots rebel? I mean, the programming failure has NOTHING to do with the heat-sensors on the guns! Anyway, see this movie, because it's loads of fun and it is, in a way, a metaphor for the evil encroachment of technology into our everyday lives. Just have a beer or something first so you won't care about the stitches missing from the plot-fabric.
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