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Summary: great sci-fi
Review: back in 1973, hi tech sci fi , was beginning to show up on the screen on a regular basis, although a few weak moments are in the film, this sci0-fi gem is a must for collectors.
i would imagine, a up dated version would be great and a re make would generate a new fan base, perhaps, tom berringer
as the cowboy-bad guy...a.k.a. yul brynners role...
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Summary: Loved this one Guys
Review: For those who have not visited Delos, please remember when this movie was made. The special effects are long in the tooth from todays ultra modern effects labratory's quality.Delos is the entertainment resort of tommorrow. Perhaps ideas for Star Trek's Data character came from here. Robots inhabit 3 different "Worlds" of entertainment for tired and weary businessmen and women. Westworld is where Yul Brenner is, and this is the Wild West. Very cool ! You can shoot and drink and even fool around with pleasure robots and no one actually gets hurt. If you try to shoot at another guest your gun will not work. Medieval World is for those who want to be knights and kings, and looks fun with all its handmaidens. Roman World is the height of decadent behavior. Now with all this good fun, what could possibly go wrong ? Watch this movie and you will check all your friends hands for little circles to see if they are real or not ! They made a sequal of this one for those who do not know called Futureworld, which features a more sinister plot of copying people in positions of power and replacing them with robots. Westworld is much more honest and just tryin to give the people clean good fun. Too bad no one told the robots ! A fun movie to watch, remember its age though so your not disappointed by outdated special effects and those awful polyester clothing styles of the 70's. Elliot Gould very much in his normal role and character, if your a fan of his, he is the star of the movie who unravels what went wrong.
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Summary: Westworld where nothing can go worng....
Review: Shot with a paltry budget of roughly a million dollars, Michael Crichton's Westworld echoes many of the themes that would appear in later, far more successful novels and films (Jurassic Park, Congo). Although shot on a slim budget, the film manages to overcome the thin production values by effective use of the MGM western sets and backlot. The film deals with a Crichton constant theme---technology outpacing humanity's ability to deal with the moral implications. Disaster usually results because of a lack of understanding or overconfidence on the part of the scientist. Our two heroes played by James Brolin and Richard Benjamin travel to Delos--a Disneyland for adults. The amusement park is stocked with robots that allow a guest to experience the old west, Rome at the height of its power and the middle ages. Brolin and Benjamin select Westworld. There they experience the old west by participating in saloon fights, fighting bank robbers and killing rival gunslingers. The main gunsligher is played by Yul Brynner is a marvelous take off of his main character from The Magnificent Seven. The machines begin to malfunction injuring guests and putting both Brolin and Benjamin in harm's way as The Gunslinger hunts them down because he lost one too many gunfights. Science is powerless to stop the machines as they run wild. The direction is solid and well paced. The writing sharp and witty. Crichton was the first writer/director to introduce the concept of a computer virus destroying the programming of computers and machines. Remember, this was in 1973 prior to the widespread use of computers. Despite the fact that Crichton had to cut a major sequence from the film (and didn't even get to script or direct the opening "commerical" as there was a writer's guild strike going on at the time), Westworld is both entertaining and a great cautionary tale. In many respects, the lack of budget has prevented the film from aging--there aren't any attempts to build any futuristic vehicles (beyond the hovercraft seen briefly at the beginning). The DVD is presented in both standard and widescreen. The transfer is crisp and sharp looking with few analog artifacts (i.e., dust, dirt and scratches). It's a pity that the presentation is so bare bones as this film could benefit from a running commentary from director Crichton or actors Brolin and Benjamin. The only extra is the original theatrical trailer. Westworld could have also benefited from a gallery of the promotional materials for the film and any existing outtakes. The colors are vibrant and the photography imaginative. Both Brolin and Benjamin give believable, strong performances. Brynner, though, is the gem here. His robot Gunslinger commands the screen whenever he's around. While the audience does root for the two main characters, it's the robotic anti-hero that proves the most compelling presence. So visit Westworld and stay for awhile. Just don't overstay your welcome or you might get a visit from a certain Gunslinger with a grudge....
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Summary: Root for the robots to take out the guests at "Westworld"
Review: "Westworld" was Michael Crichton's first theatrical film as a director and it sounds a theme that is found in many of his novels and films, to wit, the mistake of humanity relying on machines rather on themselves (e.g., "The Andromeda Strain," "The Terminal Man," "Jurassic Park"). However, the film starts off at the other end of the spectrum as two best buds, Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) and John Blaine James Brolin), head for Delos, an "amusement" part where all of the people and animals are robots. The amusements are strictly oriented towards the male of the species, who get to choose between Roman World, Medieval World, and Westworld. Peter and John pick the last one, obviously, and spend their days out-drawing the local robot gunslinger (Yul Brynner) and "seducing" the gals at the saloon. Clearly this is just the concept of home appliances taken to a new level, all in the name of harmless recreation. Then, of course, something goes terribly wrong. You really do not want to get more into the technological explanation for why the robots turn on their human masters, because one of the commonplaces of these sort of stories is that those who tamper with nature or create some other afforntery to human dignitiy through technology are always smart enough to do something like create robots (or clone dinosaurs) but still stupid enough not to build in simple safeguards (ask me how to build a safe Jurassic Park someday). The motivation for our willing suspension of disbelief for this logic of this film comes not from our understanding of robotics, but rather from the glint in Yul Brynner's eye when the rules for the game are suddenly changed in his favor. "Westworld" is not really a horror film because our sympathies are never really with Peter and John, who have shown disdain for the robots in their conquests both on the streets and in the bedrooms of Westworld. Early on there is some nothing of what fun it would be like to be a "real" cowboy, Roman or knight, but these two clowns are making a lot less of an attempt to be a real cowboy than the guys in "City Slickers." By the time Yul Brynner has become faster on the draw, the tawdry male fantasies of the two male visitors have made them less than human in other eyes. Not that Westworld is the real West, which Crichton makes clear by having Yul Brynner dressed just like his character in the classic Hollywood Western "The Magnificent Seven," but Peter and John clearly have no respect for anything beyond their bloated self-concepts. Crichton's direction is certainly competent, and the chase sequence creates some nice suspense (especailly since we are not really rooting for the humans by this point). Brynner's performance is mesmerizing, especially once he gets that gleam in his eyes and goes after the boys (think of him as the "Terminator" of his generation). Three years after "Westworld" a tacky sequel, "Futureworld" was produced, retreading the original in a different setting. "Westworld" was one of the biggest science fiction box office successes in the dark days before "Star Wars," which is even more impressing considering the film was made for a little more than $1 million.
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Summary: Captivating.
Review: Great movie. It make you wonder about technology being too perfect and selfconscious. Overall: EXCELLENT.
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Summary: Disneyland it ain't...
Review: "Westworld" is Michael Crichton's first foray into the theme-park-as-hell genre which he followed up more successfully in "Jurassic Park", but it's a very good film on its own. Here we have James Brolin and Richard Benjamin, two bored yuppies, starting their holiday in Delos, billed as the ultimate theme park, "where nothing can go wrong". Yeah, right. Customers pay through their noses to spend a vacation in one of three areas of the park: Romanworld, Medievalworld, and Westworld, where they can live out their fantasies and it's fun for all. Brolin and Benjamin choose Westworld (what American boy has never played cowboy at some time in his childhood?) and for a few days they have the time of their lives shooting up bad guys, starting barfights, and drawing a bead on deadly rattlesnakes. But it's all harmless fun and games -- everything's computerized, the bad guys, the ladies of easy virtue, even the rattlesnakes; and there's a state-of-the-art computer lab to keep everything running smoothly. Nothing to worry about... ...until the computers develop a virus that sends them off into a learning curve that screws everything up. The first hint that something might be amiss happens over in Medievalworld, when a robot harlot decides she is tired of being a sex object and smacks a customer across the face when he tries to seduce her. Meanwhile, back in Westworld, the bad-guy-in-black robot challenges Brolin and Benjamin to a gunfight, but instead of being shot dead as he is every night, the bad guy decides to turn the tables. Oh boy, maybe it's time to cut this vacation short... but that's easier said than done when all of the robots have gone berserk and start whacking not only the customers, but their programmers as well. Murphy's Law has proved itself once again with a vengeance. Is there any way out of this mess? See for yourself. Brolin and Benjamin are fairly good in their respective roles, nothing to write home about; but what makes this movie special is Yul Brynner's terrific portrayal of the bad-guy-in-black; a soulless robot with the dead eyes of a killer. The special effects are interesting in that they show us how far special effects have come since this movie was made; this was strictly a low-budget film, but it's a lot of fun for all that. It's pure Crichtonian escapism.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I loved this movie when I first saw it on TV. I love it today. It will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Summary: This is a real let down film.
Review: This uneven film from director Michael Crichton explored some 20 years before Jurassic Park, people fighting for their lives in a park where robots go haywire. Low budget production values and a no brainer ending make this film very laughable.
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Summary: Disneyland Does DeSade
Review: The ads for its initial release read, "Westworld: Where Nothing Can Possibly Go Worng..." And that sums the movie up, pretty well. Yuppies James Brolin and Richard Benjamin decide to shell out the mega-cost for a week's vacation at Delos, the world's most elaborate amusement park, indulging themselves in the total environment of the old west in Westworld - guests can also choose to live their fantasies in Romanworld or Mediaevalworld - where everyone they come across (who isn't a guest) is a robot. The robots are programmed to act like human beings, and are indistinguishable from them. Yul Brynner, the robot gunslinger, regularly gets shot-up by the guests at the bar, and is as regularly patched-up again in the robot repair shop - his guns, like the rest of the robots' armaments, are unable to fire at a living target, a safeguard built into the devices for the guests' guaranteed safety. Until the day, for whatever reason, Brynner's gunslinger robot beats the safety device, shoots Brolin dead, and goes on an unstoppable murderous rampage across the desert after Benjamin... This movie is mostly just mindless theme park entertainment itself, until the last twenty minutes - but the buildup has a lot of humor in it, and the final payoff is really intense. From the time Brynner guns down Brolin, you couldn't force yourself to run to the bathroom if you had to. The musical score is alternately as western as you could ever hope to hear, and frighteningly, relentlessly mechanistic. The film is gorgeously shot, well-acted and -directed. Ironically, screenwriter Michael Crichton proved to be pretty prophetic with his theme park idea, even becoming involved in them himself - and more or less continued the same "theme" with his later Jurassic Park series.
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Summary: Yul Brynner is great
Review: This is a good scifi movie. Ofcourse there is logic problems. But generally it is good. The screenplay is written by MichealChricton. The story is about an adult amusement park that consist of Westworld, Romanworld, and Midevialworld. The guests are serviced by robots. Everyone is safe until things start to breakdown, Much like Chritcton's Later Jurrasic Park. Yul Brynner is perfect as the determined maniacal gunslinger.
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