Westworld
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
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- Cast:
- Yul Brynner , Richard Benjamin , James Brolin , Norman Bartold , Alan Oppenheimer , Victoria Shaw , Dick Van Patten
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i must have seen a different film!!
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Absolutely Fantastic
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
This movie is silly. I realize people admire it for what is started, as do I, but the film itself is just goofy. Watching a robotic cowboy slowly walk around trying to kill somebody isn't exactly a the peak of filmmaking achievement.Even though it is silly, however, if you don't think about it, it can be a decently fun time. Richard Benjamin and James Brolin play protagonists with just enough personality to get you to care for them. Yul Brynner is the precursor to the Terminator, a cold and calculating killing machine who will stop at nothing. Again, his cowboy outfit makes him hard to take seriously sometimes, but if you ignore that, it works fairly well.The first half of the film is somewhat dull as we see our two main characters explore the resort and its many offerings. I call it dull because this mostly consists of them drinking at various saloons and getting into an occasional fight. This all builds into a nearly silent final act featuring Brynner's animatronic killer hunting Benjamin down. As stated before, don't think about it, and it's kind of fun.All in all, this movie was fairly revolutionary for its time. But now that we have the privilege of seeing movies that took concepts introduced here and improved upon them, it makes this particular film less impressive by comparison. It's not bad, necessarily, just don't expect a masterpiece of cinema.
Pretty cheesy by today's standards. Maybe cheesy by 1973 standards too. While I was alive and watching movies in '73 I don't watch them anymore so it's hard to compare. That said, despite possibly the worst musical score of any movie I've ever seen something led me to watch it all the way through. Possibly that I'm simultaneously sitting at my desk cleaning out my email or maybe there's more here than I'm willing to admit. Give it a try but don't expect the dialogue to get any better, the acting any more convincing, or the music, especially the music, to get any less annoying as it progresses.
Story follows many characters that have decided to arrive in amusement park Delos and there are offered to choose which world will they go in. Mainly we are focused onto Peter and John that are in West World, but there are some scenes from Medieval World. Movie introduces us into everything with very shortly and explains a lot and then as hosts start to malfunction with higher rate things get really interesting. As John and Peter enjoy themselves, on the other side everybody at Delos is trying to figure out what is going on and how should they react and couple of bad decisions have caused everything to fall apart. Problem with malfunctioning was that host were not able to be controlled and that could be connected with explanation that was given to us before, how other androids are creating androids and how they do not understand everything. Then it got wild as androids started to kill everybody and people are desperate, on the other hand John and Peter encounter Gunslinger again and this time John dies and now Peter in shock is on run for his life. After a pretty nice chase and a lot of tense scenes he managed to get into facility of Delos and discover horrifying truth that everybody is gone. There are some issues with the movie like too many information about everything and how things in Delos works, such as we are never shown where they put androids only where they repair them and some other plot holes that should be filled to our better understanding of the world. Main focus of the movie is on "rebelion" of machines and how they tend to control everything eventually killing everybody and showing how humans are not as advanced as they are with the control room scene where they got locked and didn't manage to escape which led to their deaths. Benjamin, Brolin and Brynner totally stole the whole show with some pretty nice scenes. 3/4
I came across this film completely by accident. I was searching through Amazon, found Westworld, thought the description was good, so I watched it. I had never heard of it and didn't realise it was a 70's film. At first I though it was very retro then realised it was in fact produced in 1973. I like 70's stuff so I gave it a chance.First off I have to state that its wrong to criticise old films based on contemporary standards but you could write a dissertation on how the 70's imagined the future. Its comical in so many ways and so bad in others. As a piece of entertainment its OK. I watched the whole film but was more stuck by the imagination of a future more than the actual story. The story itself is 'middle of the road' but at the time I imagine it was original and captured the imagination of a generation. I watched it, was entertained, but laughed more at how bad it was rather than being enthralled by a piece of movie magic.I first judged the film right at the beginning where a TV reporter is talking to people getting off the plane that are just returning from Westworld (Dalos). One guy bragged that he had killed 6 people (" I think they were people" he told the reporter). The next person the reporter spoke to was overly excited having just been to Romanworld "The Men!, the men!" she exclaimed. It quite clear straight away that this is a sex park for depraved pervs. Nothing more than sex tourism for the rich. Plus you get to 'kill without committing murder'. Who in their right mind wants to go to park so they can experience the 'thrill' of murder? This is not something I would pay to experience.It goes downhill from there. The two protagonists then check into their hotel in Westworld and come to realise the Western world they have come to experience includes authentic digs. They sleep in old beds with old sheets, drink old drinks with absolutely no modern comforts. I don't know why someone would pay $1000 a day for bed bugs and malnutrition just for the privilege of sex and murder. This pretty much sums up the whole film. The 'dead' robots are cleaned up every night, while the guest are asleep, and repaired. This strikes me as an extremely expensive way of doing things. Plus the engineer at the park says "These androids were designed by computers so we don't really know how they work" Wow, great! unleash a load of highly sophisticated machines with weapons amongst a load of fee paying guests.What made me laugh the most is when Peter sleeps with the robot prostitute. He is all timid and shy and afterwards thinks hes a stallion. It was a ROBOT PROSTITUTE! Not much conquest to speak of but we was very proud of himself. Because of this he then embraces the experience and come out of his shell.Peter does ask the question 'How is it that we have real guns?' where he is then informed that the guns don't fire at warm targets. These must be non-ricochet bullets then (geeze!). When the robot snake bites John, and the park engineers start to realise things are going wrong, do they close the Park? No, just bring the snake in so we can take a look at it. Health and Safety just doesn't exist in the 70's (kinda why I like it).When the situation worsens then park engineers shutdown the power to the park all it does is shutdown the engineers computers. We discover all the robots have batteries!! Plus, somehow, shutting down the power only locked the engineers in their control room, with no oxygen. Seriously! come on.I would love to continue poking holes in this but this is too long already.Overall, a laugh but not great.