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Summary: 1973 Terminator
Review: As all 70s films this is dated but the story has aged well. Look at what most people do with their summer vacations and you see what I mean. If you haven't been to Disney Land or World you may not appreciate it quite as much. Westworld is a part of a theme park with parks of other time periods as well. The tourist go to the park and get to put on costumes and pretend to be in the "Old West". Many inhabitants are robots controlled by the park to make the experience more realistic. When the snakes and bad guys turn lethal the rollercoaster ride begins with no clue as to who will live and who will die. Yul Brynner is the "Terminator" before Arnold Schwarzenegger came along. Everyone should see this at least once. This is a good movie to buy for any SciFi or Western collector.
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Summary: Exciting, inspiration for The Terminator & Jurassic Park!
Review: Michael Chricton's science fiction film, about the debut of a futuristic theme park with "Terminator"-like consequences, was an obvious source of inspiration for such films as James Cameron's The Terminator, Jurassic Park, and others. You will see the similarities!Contemporary viewers will have to consciencely suspend disbelief as the film was made many, many years ago and features dated special effects techniques. However, the idea, the story and the way they are executed by director Chricton create a marvelous classic of science fiction cinema. A MUST view for any sci-fi fan!
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Summary: Sloppy with your drink-Get this boy a bib- He needs his mama
Review: Great movie even better on DVD. Transfer looks good and is still as thrilling as ever. Do yourself a favor and seek out the MGM DVD release. It comes in a plactic keepcase, has 8 pages of very interesting liner notes/behind the scenes facts, and the original trailer. Westworld, "where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong..."
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Summary: A film that is different.
Review: Michael Crichton tried his hand at directing in this movie that stars Yul Bryner and Richard Benjamin as a western style amusetment park full of humanoid robots malfunctions and the guests became targets in a shooting gallery. Better story and acting then the Terminator films.
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Summary: First-rate
Review: Okay, so the premise of this film is deeply flawed. This is the flaw: there is no reason for the robots to have bullets in their guns! That is why I give this 4 instead of 5 stars. But I'm willing to overlook that flaw to enjoy what is a great sci fi thriller. Michael Crichton directed this film and the great thriller COMA. He's a better director than most full time directors. Let's hope he gets behind the camera again soon.
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Summary: Watch it for Yul Brynner's performance
Review: Good points: Yul Brynner does an excellent job as the menacing, devil-eyed gunslinger. He's so much better than the other actors, you want him onscreen as much as possible, even though he's a villain. The film has an interesting concept, even today. It's watchable all the way through, if you turn your mind down to low gear. Bad points: Calling a film "watchable" is far from saying it's good. This one is not. Richard Benjamin is just not a very good actor, never has been, especially in lead roles. James Brolin doesn't have much to do, but he's weak anyway. Most everyone else is playing robots, and they act like it. The scientists in the film are cardboard cliches of "geeks with white lab coats". Dick Van Patten has a small part as in several 'comedy relief' scenes, which are so bad they're almost unwatchable. The film is amateurishly made and directed (though not ridiculously so), and gets worse as it goes along. There are large lapses in logic and believability. It has very little rewatchability - you see it once and move on quickly. But none of that matters too much, because this type of film is not meant to be "Citizen Kane". In fact, it's somewhat similar to "Terminator", another mindless movie, though much better made. "Westworld" is a mildly pleasurable way to spend 90 minutes, but you might feel like you've had too much cotton candy when it's over. The DVD has no special features except the trailer, but the widescreen transfer and soundtrack are fine. This is better rented than owned. You won't be returning to it very much unless you're really desperate.
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Summary: SUSPENSEFUL!!
Review: I saw Westworld at a theatre when I was 7 years old (my parents didn't know!!) It scared the ... out of me back then because of the visuals (robots taking their faces off ect.) When I saw Westworld a few years ago it was just as scary because of the suspense factor(the special effects are kind of cheezy by today's standards) If you watch Westworld for the entertainment value and look past all the shortcomings in special effects- it is very entertaining and suspenseful. Westworld is a very good story with an ending that will keep you on the edge of your seat biting your fingernails!! Glad to see it out on DVD!!
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Summary: "Well, Danggone! Even th' Blood Looks Real Here, Hunny..."
Review: ....another one of my guilty pleasures. No need for deep analysis here, but if you need one, check out Umberto Eco's book "Travels in Hyperreality"--on sale now at Amazon.com. Favorite scene--when the aminatronic Yul Brenner repairs itself. Yowserz!
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Summary: Robots Gone Bad!
Review: Yul Brynner, James Brolin, and Richard Benjamin star in this outstanding Sci-Fi piece by genre uberlord Michael Crichton ("Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain") about DELOS, a futuristic theme park where you can spend a week in Medieval World, Roman World, or Westworld, living as the folks from those periods did, including much rape, murder, and various other saucy vacation mayhem. Yul, in a role that obviously inspired Arnold's Terminator character, decides that being the guy (or robot in this case) who always loses the gunfight, ain't really the way to go, and sets off on a gunslinging rampage through ALL of the various period worlds, this time with a REAL gun shooting REAL bullets, where he now always WINS! Pic actually spawned a nifty sequel starring Gwenny Paltrow's mom, Blythe Danner, called "Futureworld."
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Summary: Pretty hokey by today's standards
Review: "Westworld" scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid. My how things have changed. I saw it again recently and laughed at how hokey it is. Sure, its a great sci-fi concept (imagine a place where you could live out your fantasies with androids attending to your every whim), but the filmakers didn't have much of a budget to really pull it off. Actually, this would be a good movie for Hollywood to remake as a summertime blockbuster with a $100 million dollar or so budget. Yul Brynner probably enjoyed hamming it up as the gunfighter in this film, but the movie itself has not aged well at all.
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