The movie was good but you can’t beat the series. I watched the movie to see how it all started.
The forerunner for the 2016 TV Series. For it's time (pre-CGI, early years of the genre, in the same era of Star Trek the TV show - 66-69) the acting, the pace, the budget were all common fare,. A 7 (good) out of 10) in it's time. Michael Crichton's premise, however, was brilliant and I'm glad it was unearthed in an age of TV (2016) that could do it justice, I only wish he'd lived to see it, he died in 2008.
If your a REAL sci-fi fan, watch it. You won't be disappointed!
It is a good movie, you have to put it in the context of its timeframe. We often measure those old movies against the ones in the present and that is never a fair assessment. Sure, from todays viewpoint this looks bad but believe me when I say I have seen it as a boy and it creeped me out. And that the story had potential was proven decades later when they made the TV show.
Great, specially knowing it's made in the 70's cause the visual effects are really good for that time. I've watched two seasons of Westworld the serie and that's why I'm here, and it really amazes me how someone could imagine something like this 50 years ago, I mean, the serie is still totally crazy and futuristic for today, but in the 70's? It's just great.
But well, I also have to say that I haven't really enjoy the ending... so simple, it could be much more ambitious.
nope.
i don't understand the high rating even for a 70s movie, This was boring nothing was happening for 80 minutes and in the last ten just the guy was running all the time. The most furious part is the plot in imdb "A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park". Yeah, this happens for 8 minutes on the end!
Come on, few years later star wars came out, couldn't they do a better film with more plot than a cheesecake
This is a very good film that, unfortunately, is now horrifically dated. It looks and sounds awful (although a remastered version is available on DVD which may have addressed this), and the acting is low-rate even for the time, apart from Yul Brynner's excellent Gunslinger.
Written and directed by Michael Crichton, Westworld revolves around the concept of a distant-future amusement resort. Spending their time in one of three fully-functional, authentic sets, guests are free to live out their life-long fantasies as a wild west cowboy, medieval knight or indulgent Roman elite while a convincing, lifelike cyborg supporting cast absorbs punishment and boosts egos. The big selling points are that anything goes and nobody gets hurt, but when a park-wide malfunction grants free will to the robots, those guarantees are immediately called into question.
It's a fun premise, on par with some of the era's better sci-fi concepts, but spends too much time dilly-dallying and vainly soaking up the atmosphere when it should be advancing the plot. That gives the impression that, like so many Philip Dick properties, it doesn't really know what to do with itself after the ground rules are established. Crichton's work in the director's chair leaves a lot to be desired, but he doesn't get much help from the film's hammy, made-for-TV special effects. Most of that can be attributed to the age of the picture, but it's tough to take the drama seriously when folks bleed neon red. Yul Brynner turns in some quality work as the ruthless, stone-faced lead cyborg, but the rest of the cast is droll, vanilla and forgettable. Too much frosting, not enough cake.
The author odf Jurasic park test the idea of "special park". The gunfighter was the "father" of Terminator
Good classic, but lacks a proper ending.
The Terminator meets a western meets Jurassic Park without the dinosaurs. The beginning slightly hints that things will probably go wrong.
However the darker still might come without you ready for it. There’s a goofy comical bar fight and before you know it the robots are out of control.
What makes it like Jurassic Park is that it starts with the ooh and ahh, then there’s running and screaming.
Not a bad movie by any means. World building is phenomenal, but I didn't feel too attached to the characters. The pacing was kinda slow. I feel like if presented slightly differently this could easily be 9/10. Still worth the watch though.
I believe that in the catalog the film should be from the year 1973 and not 2021, I believe it could be a mistake.
I know this is not a popular opinion, but I like this film a lot more than the series. While the series gets up its own butt regarding the nature of what a human is, this movie drives forward with a straight thriller with a relentless pursuer chase and an interesting tale of where amusement in the future could go. Think about it. This movie kind of predicts cosplay and role playing adventures with a little escape room mixed in. The main story smacks a little of Jaws with the "we need to keep the tourist dollars" subplot. Enjoy it for what it accomplishes.
The concept alone is enough to make this a must-see for scifi fans of any kind. The execution is limited both by the time period it was made and the time restrictions movies have in general. The concept better lends itself to the series format, so I'm forever glad this went the way of television. The series based on this movie took everything the movie did and expanded on it while also improving on it so do yourself a favor: after you watch this, go start the series from HBO ASAP.
Wow, I did not realize the series was based on this movie. And it's not just the plot, the entire first season has so many of the exact same reveals. Watching one will likely spoil the other. I would say that you should watch the series before this, since it's quite a bit better.
That is not to say this movie isn't good. It's up there with many of the best movies from the 70s. It's just a little dated and it fits in a weird genre that doesn't appeal to a lot of people. Sure, Firefly is a well-liked Sci-Fi Western, but it never did well commercially. The genre is too high brow for Western fans and too "Earth-y" and plausible for Sci-Fi fans.
If you fit into that niche, you will find a great film here. There's tons of world building in a short 85 minutes. A lot of the emphasis is immersing you in the world instead of relying on plot points. In fact, to the modern viewer it might seem mundane since a lot of the computer related fiction is very accurate. It is quite impressive considering this came out when a PC was a glorified typewriter.
Michael Crichton wrote this before Jurassic Park, and it has a similar idea behind it. Amazing theme park where machines help guests explore their fantasies. Machines are too complex to be understood and are unmanageable by humans. Machines run wild and kill guests. Replace machines with dinosaurs; cash check at bank.
For the sake of being a completionist, I checked this movie out from the library to compare it to the television series of Westworld. It was clearly dated, but also and more importantly, the pacing seemed off.
"Disneyland bütün simulakr düzenlerinin içiçe geçmiş olduğu kusursuz bir modeldir. disneyland herşeyden önce, korsanlar, geleceğin dünyası vb. şeylerden oluşan bir illüzyon ve fantazm oyunudur. bu düşsel evren kendine düşen görevi başarıyla yerine getirmektedir. aslında kalabalıkları buraya çeken şey, çelişkileri ve güzellikleriyle gerçek amerika'nın minyatürleştirilmiş toplumsal bir mikrokosmosuna benziyor olması, ve alınan kollektif (dini denilebilecek türden) keyiftir. aracınızı otoparka bıraktıktan sonra içeride kuruğa giriyor ve sonunda dışarıya yapayalnız ve kendi halinize terkedilmiş olarak çıkıyorsunuz. bu düşsel evrendeki tek olağanüstü şey içerideki kalabalıktan yayılan sıcaklık ve sevecenliğin yanı sıra insana pekçok değişik duygu yaşatan bol miktarda oyun ve oyuncağın varlığıdır. bir konsantrasyon kampına benzeyen otoparkla içerideki kalabalık arasında tam bir tezatlık vardır. bir başka deyişle içerideki binbir oyuncak insanları bir nehir misali oradan oraya sürüklerken, dışarı çıkan insan yalnızlığa (oyuncağına) arabasına doğru ilerlemek zorunda kalmaktadır.
disneyland'daki düşsellik ne gerçektir ne de sahte. burası gerçeğe özgü bir düşselliği, gerçeğe simetrik bir şekilde yeniden dönüştürebilmek amacıyla tasarlanmış bir caydırma (ikna) makinesidir. bu çocuksu düşselliğe özgü sefalet ve yozlaşmışlığın nedeni de zaten budur. bu evrene çocuksu bir görünüm verilmek istenmesinin nedeni, yetişkinlere özgü "gerçek" ve başka bir evren bulunduğu düşüncesini onaylatma arzusudur. disneyland bir çocuksuluğun gerçek anlamda her yere hakim olduğunu gizleyebilmek için yetişkinlerinde buraya gelerek çocuklaşmalarına olanak tanımak gerçekte çocuk olmadıklarına inandırma amacıyla kurulmuş bir evrendir."
-Jean Baudrillard
In the start it was a fun sci-fi idea and even had humor. I enjoyed it for a while. The middle drags as you're waiting in a boring westworld and other worlds for the inevitable part of robots going bad. During this waiting period nothing interesting happens. There is also a lot of unrealised sci-fi potential in all of this. At the end is a slow chase, even by 70's standards. Maybe in its day it had more impact but it's dated bad.
It's not a terrible movie either.
The man-machine typical confrontation in a theme park.
Shout by SimonVIP OG 12BlockedParent2012-04-05T08:10:59Z
I absolutely loved this film as a kid. I must've watched it a dozen times. It was often on late night when I got in from the pub as a teenager too and i'd always watch what was left. Yul Brynner is great as the gunslinger and I love those scenes with the echo of his shoes tapping ominously as he stalks emotionlessly down the facilities corridors.