Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

best movie i've ever seen.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Being home sick on a holiday week means you may watch some really bad movies. Just finished watching the whole "Deathwish" collection and then "Futureworld". It will never cease to amaze me how a "franchise" and one or two "former marquee" names can get a production financed, no matter how bad the script, direction, production value and quality. Cable TV and streaming gives life to these clunkers. So, "Futureworld" will probably get some air time in the coming months due to the HBO "WESTWORLD" reboot. And, there is even some linkage (the value of the park is the data and info, not the admission fees). But this is a made-for-TV style, 1970's production. Can you do something as iconic as "Easy Rider" and then this and still live with your self. I guess Peter Fonda said "Hell, yeah!".Any movie with Blythe Danner gets a least a vote about 2 points beyond what it deserves. Since I gave this a 2, draw your conclusion........

Take all of the bad cinematography of Made for TV movies, add some 1970s corporate paranoia, throw in some unrelated techno babble,add an evil scientist and cram in as many bad sound effects from Star Trek, Willy Wonka, Lost in Space and every bad scifi movie from the 1960s and viola, you have Futureworld.Im not even mentioning the silly special effects because Im sure they were pretty whiz-bang back in 1976. But the truth is you can have great Scifi without dating yourself with special effects. 1951's The Day The Earth Stood Still is a perfect example.Horribly predictable. Tortuously slow, has almost no relation to Westworld other than they both take place in the future and have pleasure robots. I love a bad movie, but this goes beyond bad.Some of the dialog is so bad you will laugh out loud.The Evil Corporate Executive with a gun discovers Peter Fonda on the phone. Evil Corporate Executive: "Put the phone down". Peter Fonda to Evil Corporate Executive: "You're a part of it?" Evil Corporate Executive: (LAUGHING) "Yes, of course I am!"Someone on IMDb gave this movie a glowing review so I watched it. Ugh.Logan's Run, made at the same time, has many flaws and has not aged very well, but it is still much better than this flick.

Futureworld is the sequel to Michael Crichton's 1973 Westworld, which is the better of the two film by a considerable degree. That said, Futureworld is a good film in itself, if the first half is a little slow(especially for modern viewers, I'm sure). Chuck Browning(Peter Fonda), and Tracey Ballard(Blythe Danner) are investigative reporters who get a tip that something seriously amiss at Futureworld, their source being killed before he can fully deliver his goods to them.Taking a "vacation" there themselves, the two enjoy some of the park's attractions while investigating, including holographic chess, as well as a device Danner uses which is able to record one's dream. This is where Yul Brynner's Gunfighter from the Westworld shows up in Tracey's dream in a silent cameo although he is given some top billing.In time, the duo learns that the DELOS Corporation is replacing various important figures with duplicates, and eliminating the human originals, not overly original even in 1976. Star Trek had used the plot some years before for example, but the idea is well-handled. These duplicates would appear to be closer to genuine androids than more-simple robots with biological elements in their design.I did find the handguns used unusual, as they seem to fire something closer to an "energy bullet) than normal bullets.Of course, our pair finally escapes, and reveals this plot at the end.I wouldn't call Futureworld one of the best 1970s science fiction films, but it is certainly a good one which raises some other points I haven't mentioned here, and issues as well. Anybody who enjoys sci-fi films form the 1970s will like this one, although I agree that Peter Fonda was often rather bland in his earlier films.

This is the limp and unsatisfying sequel to WESTWORLD, which had been author/director Michael Crichton's marvelous mix of science fiction and western genres, and is now a '70s classic of sorts. Trying to devise a followup angle must have been challenging, but the results came out disappointing. Several years after the breakdown of Westworld, the Delos adult theme park populated by life-like robots has been rebuilt and perfected. To secure confidence in the public and much-needed publicity, the head honchos of the corporation invite a popular newspaper writer (Peter Fonda) and television reporter (Blythe Danner) to be their guests at the resort with full access to their operation. But the snooping duo begin to uncover an underhanded plot that's as hackneyed as it is stupid.Problems here begin with the observation that Fonda and Danner are rather lethargic leading stars. This entire production has a cheap "Made For TV" feeling in its style. The "human-like" robots that move around the complex call attention to themselves by uttering such ridiculous illusion-killing lines such as: "No, Sir, I am a Model 3x - I am not programmed to lie", "We're both sex models", "I am sorry, sir, I am a Model (whatever) - I am not programmed for sex!" (I'm paraphrasing here, but you get the idea). Just idiotic. Worse of all is the laughable cameo appearance by Yul Brynner as the robot gunslinger who had been so deliciously deadly in the first movie. This without any doubt has got to be one of the most vomit-worthy excuses to revisit a recurring character for any sequel ever made. It's so pathetic that I won't spoil it for you... you won't believe it if you've seen the original WESTWORLD. ** out of ****