Fun Fact (that everyone who's seen this already knows but some people might not): The pixelated android vision was the very first use of CGI in a feature length film.
I've also heard it took hours to do a few seconds of that robot vision. This was after the process was worked on as the original method would have been extremely expensive and taken too long.
It was pretty clever using Yul Brynner at the time, he was an icon of the western genre so to bring him back as a killer robot version of his character was a cool twist
If I were in Westworld, I would just be a crazy person from the future. I'd show up in Westworld dressed in my normal clothes and pretend I traveled back in time. I'd go from person to person asking in a panic, "What year is this?!" lol
I love 1850s-90s fashion (ACTUAL fashion, not hollywood's idea of what people really wore in the time period) and I hate 2022 fashion so I'd defo not be in modern-day clothes
I read somewhere the both John Carpenter and James Cameron used Yul Brynner's performance in this movie as a model for how Michael Myers and the Terminator would move and behave though i'm not sure how accurate that story is.
Don't know about the Terminator, which was based on Michael Myers, but I don't know if Myers was. I've never heard that one. But, I'd like to if there's an article or interview that states this
@@rustincohle2135 Thank you. If you happen to have a link or title, I'd appreciate it. But, if not, I'll just try to find it. But, again, either way, thank you
“Crichton’s got a fascination for theme parks that go wrong!” Jurassic Park’s book was more about chaos theory, but in 1973, Walt Disney World had just opened two years before, and “Oo, robot pirates!” was still considered a major technologically big deal. Nowadays, though: “Was Galactic Starcruiser worth a thousand dollars a day?” 😂
Despite how far technology has come, I still think Yul Brynner is the most menacing robot...I especially like the silent scenes where all you hear is the footsteps coming down the hall...I still love this movie
I really enjoyed this film. Did you watch "Fantastic Voyage" yet, with Donald Pleasance and Raquel Welch? That was a very original sci-fi concept movie. It came out in the 60's. It's surprising that no one ever came out with a remake or sequel.
My folks had taken me to Walt Disney World in 1972 and I loved it, then when I first saw this on TV was convinced that West World was a new park and this was just an advertisement for it like The Wonderful World of Disney had for their park. At first I was saying when can we go to West World, and then I was saying nevermind. Mom could not convince me it was just a movie. She even went so far as to say that the main robot was played by Yul Brenner....and actor, and I said that they just used Yul Brenner as a mold to make the robot. She gave up at that point in trying to convince me. :D
One of my favourite sci-fi movies from that amazing 60s-70s run. Along with the original Rollerball, another favourite from this era and one you should watch, Westworld seemed to be on every other Saturday afternoon. Amazing concepts in both films. Yul Brenner awesome. Great choice, great reaction.
Guys, you're missing the really big key here. This was a directed by Michael Crichton who wrote Jurassic Park, Sphere. The Andromeda Strain pick anything he's directed or written the majority it comes out outstanding. Very well done for the '70s. Remember when it came out it was the hot ticket
I love in the recent TV series there's a little nod to Yul Brenners gunman, in that in the corner of one of the underground control rooms there's a figure covered in plastic that looks just like him.
Brynner's Gunslinger android is designed in a sort of meta reference for the audience wearing the exact costume of his character from The Magnificent Seven.
Funny, I just watched James Brolin in Capricorn One (again), on the weekend...he never seems to be too far away from the next rattlesnake...with mixed results... Anyway, glad you got to this one!
I think the only “the future is gonna kinda suck” movie that hasn’t already been mentioned previously in the comments is Death Race 2000 (original ‘70s version of course). Not necessarily a “sci-fi” per se, but a real hoot of a weird ‘70s dystopian flick, with a very young Sly Stallone AND David Carradine (Bill from Kill Bill). Also, Scanners is pretty close to the genre as well, with a young Michael Ironside.
This was one of a number of films I enjoyed with my grandfather that I was probably too young for at the time...had at least one nightmare about the Cowboy. Great movie.
Ah, the "original terminator". Such a great movie and definitely a sci-fi classic. The 70's had some great sci-fi movies, I hope you guys will watch other lesser known movies like 'Demon Seed', 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Capricorn One'.
Cool movie. This is one of those that I barely missed as a kid because I was too young to see it when it came out but I was exactly the right age for Star Wars when it came out four years later. So, the point is that it took me a long time to get around to seeing, but when I finally did, I was glad I had. It's an intriguing film, a bit dry and sterile, but still tense and exciting.
I was actually there at the beginning. I watched it on screen at the theater. It was pretty good and interesting when it first came out. Then years later people consider it to be foolish and nonsensical. And then later as science and technology caught up, it didn’t seem so stupid anymore. And then Westworld came out. If we survive the next hundred years, this will become reality.
I think an aspect that deserves a mention is the time period the movie was made and tastes in movies before than and around that time in the early 1970s. For almost 30 years at that point one of, if not the, most popular genres of film were westerns. Ule Brenner, the gun fighter in Westworld, was a popular western actor and lent the whole concept credibility. The other is that in terms of people's fantasy of what to do it was a bit more what an adult, particularly men, would want to do in 1973. I do think Chrichton has re-visited the well a couple of times with some of his books resembling one another in partial conception...
Westworld and Jurassic Park were both written by Michael Chrichton. He spent a lot of time exploring the theme of our technology getting away from us in unexpected and catastrophic ways.
Your ratings were totally on the money, even in the context of 1973. It's a good, fun movie, that's what it was. 1973 was a great year for movies so even in the context of 1973, 7 is what most people would have given it.
Yeah, I don't know why people are so down on '7s'. I'd say 7 - a good fun time. 8 - Very good, re-watch time and again. 9 - Classic, genre-busting/defining stuff. 10 - Changed my life.
The fact that the Gunslinger continued to pursue Peter even after his gun ceased functioning made him even more frightening...if it catches him, the mind reels as to what it will do to him. And it *did* almost catch him...when the movie jump-scares us with the burnt Gunslinger, we see that, for the first time, it actually got close enough to touch him.
I was born in 1976 and saw this movie when was still in kindergarten. Maybe it was because it was the first non-children's movie I watched, but it left a huge impression on me and often works its way into my dreams. I haven't seen the TV show. When I first watched Terminator and Predator, I thought: "this reminds me of Westworld".
I'm hoping you guys keep "digging" into the 70ies ear "dystopian" SciFi movies like this one, THX 1138, Silent Running, One boy and his dog, Phase IV, The Andromeda Strain, etc (avoid Tarkovski's Solaris. Great movie, but a looonnggg one). Great first reaction.
Classic. I agree, the concept is stronger than the execution. Plot drags a bit, but the effects were top notch. The TV series gets worse with every season. They seem to have no idea for an overarching engaging story.
Yul Brynner is the OG Terminator! I saw this movie in 2003 on the now defunct UPN network, and had no idea author Michael Crichton wrote and directed the film! I saw this movie on Friday in TCM, Turner Classic Movies. In 1993, him and Steven Spielberg would give us a different kind of theme park experience gone wrong: JURASSIC PARK.
That’s a good, fair score from you both. I love this movie, as well as those other late 60s/early 70s American sci-fi movies like Planet Of The Apes, or The Andromeda Strain. Where it was all about these big concepts. But yes, the tv show has greatly expanded upon the original idea.
@@TTM9691 The sequels were fun too. My favorite was Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, about the ape rebellion. It's really visually striking, with the brutalist concrete landscape and the colored uniforms the apes wear.
Loved this movie back in the day, along with Logan's Run (the one with Michael York.) Check out Soylent Green. Those were my scifi trifecta when i was growing up.
Loved this reaction, especially the 'hands' gag. Hugely fun film I've loved since I was a kid, but I'd say your '7' is on the money. Favourite thing? The executive who says, "But no one's been killed. Everything's fine," when told that the robots are malfunctioning. Trope defining hilarity right there. Also, please spare a thought viewers for the poor schmucks who have to clean the robots every night. Eurch.
It's worth noting how ahead of its time this was- the first known computer virus was designed in 1982, almost a decade after this movie came out. The idea of a "sickness" that could spread between computers may be very elementary for us today, but it had never happened in the real world at the time this was written.
I thought the first season of the show was great, but the showrunners started dragging the plot out more and more, making it boring and tedious as they added layer upon unnecessary layer to an already convoluted plot. It would have been more interesting to me if each season had focused on a different themed region of the park instead of just revolving around Dolores and Maeve. It had a lot of potential that, unfortunately, went completely untapped, and it killed the show for me.
The biggest thing that we can't know is when the writers have an ending or not. "The good place" writers clearly had an ending in mind from the start of the show. Play executed their story and then they ended it. More often though it's like the show "Lost". They have a good High concept for show but they have no idea what they're going to do in season 2 or 3. And they have no idea of the overall story they're trying to tell. They have one good season and then after that they're just making it up as they go along.
I think Westworld seasons 1 thru 3 tell a complete story. Each season progresses the mystery of what the park is actually *for.* By the end, we know. (And it's truly warped!) When one of you commented you love disfunctional amusement parks, I immediately thought of a novel that you might enjoy! I googled it to be sure I gave the right title. Imagine the near future, when terrorists take control of a high-tech theme park... "Lethal Velocity", by Lincoln Child. (Previously published as "Utopia.") It's an enjoyable read! (Actually, I hope it's made into a miniseries, some day!)
If you guys like science fiction, you should definitely watch the first ever Michael Crichton film, The Andromeda Strain. It's very procedural, very sciencey, but also very gripping, with a simple but strong visual style.
Appreciate that you take the time to consider the age of the film and are fair about rating it for the time it was released not present day, sort of like grading on a curve. It’s amazing to think this will be 50 years old next year. Trivia: The woman running the “ladies of the evening” house is Majel Barret, wife to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Plot Hole (maybe): The explanation of how the guns are made safe was very logical and believable but I could never understand how that was supposed to translate to the swords in Medieval World. You can program the robots to not hit or stab a human but unlike the guns you can’t program the swords to not stab or cut if one human accidentally goes after another.
I also could never understand how they could control such a thing as 'ricochets' or bullets punching through a wall and hitting someone on the other side. I imagine the Delos Resort has some very interesting waiver forms.
I recommend films to you two I don't recommend anywhere else, I think everyone has their own style and tastes of reacting to stuff. I always think the 1963 film 'Billy Liar' would be a fun watch for you both, i could imagine Shaun directing a remake with Tom as Billy haha.
I didn't even know there was a film. Thanks for educating me. It terms of my Westworld fantasy, it would definitely be a saloon fight. Just the idea of letting loose and smashing a chair on someone's back or throwing a few punches around or even smashing a bottle on someone"s head, that sounds so cathartic and satisfying.
Carpenter based Michael Myers on the slow moving stalking robot gunslinger. "I have a cheap answer for you. I saw Westworld, the original movie, and Yul Brynner's character was this unkillable robot," Carpenter admitted of his inspiration. “I thought, 'That is a really cool character.' That's how I came up with it, but it evolved - it wasn't exactly Yul Brynner."
Shaun scare pranks Tom that was funny. It was a creepy film that stuck with me a long time thinking bout what would one do in that situation since seeing it in the 70's
The gunslinger is actor Yule Brenner based on the actual movie character from The Magnificent Seven, starring the actual Yule Brenner. Just a little tidbit I thought you might be interested in... ;)
Yul brenner was a hero in The Magnificent Seven turned villain in this movie. Similar to Henry Fonda being a hero in every movie he made except Once upon time in the West. Cool
And yet another actor I'm smitten with...Yul Brynner...he's sooooooo AMAZING!! (the bald gunslinging robot) Some great movies he's in are: The Ten Commandments (1956) - Yes, it's a religious movie, but it's one of the greatest movies ever made...in my opinion. I'm not a churchgoer...but I do like to watch this movie at least once a year. Futureworld (1976) - Is the sequel to Westworld...YUP, there is a sequel!! The Magnificent Seven (1960) - A "magnificent" western with a HUGE cast of stars...Yul being one, of course, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and more. The King And I (1956) - A musical and based in turn on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became a school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. ~Dawne
I find it interesting how the movie depicts the machines being designed by computers and not knowing exactly how they work. I’m an AI programmer and we actually have the same issue today with advanced AI. We create training data and run it through neural networks but the final output, something we call an AI model, is a program that we don’t fully understand. There are too many variables for a human to keep track of in their head so in essence, like Westworld, we’re relying on the machine to design the final program and in some cases it could be converted into an ASIC which is physical hardware. This means we have actual circuit boards that are both exclusively designed and understood only by computer programs.
Such a great film. There's also a largely forgotten sequel called Futureworld (1976). It's not as well regarded, but still worth a watch in my opinion. As for the TV series, I've not watched past season 1 either, but I've been told season 2 is alright and season 3 is pretty bad.
This was the first feature film to ever use CGI effects. Not for much, granted...just to create the "android vision" sequences...but it was still a milestone.
The tv show is just so amazing, i loved all the seasons of it. In my top 10 shows I've ever seen. It's definitely worth watching the rest of the seasons
7 is fair score especially watching first time after the new series and other movies. I think I watched it on tv before I had even seen the terminator movies so it was really unique and scary back then. Great movie.
I really enjoyed your reaction, thx guys. The first time I watched this movie it freaked me out. On recent watching, a few years ago, after seeing a lot more movies in between, I thought it didn’t stack up. Understandably because it was a 70’s movie, and movie making had progressed so much over previous years. I haven’t watched the new series based on this movie, but I might give it go when I’m ready for a new show.
It didnt focus on the philosophical side because the idea of AI was still too far off in the future in 1973. The recent tv show took on the philisophical because we are so close to making it real AND it had much longer time to tell a story.
One last thing to say on this, it NEVER was an original book/novel Criton had intended a book but found it worked better as a screen play & so that is what he wrote it as. Both TERMINATOR and ROBOCOP owe so much to this film, (which weather it can be seen or not is a black sci fi political comedy) there are swipes at the john Wayne westerns of the 50 (Brolin's character is called John Blane) I also like the patronising, humouring sales rep at the beginning saying "have we got a vacation for you" in the beginning & end, the equivalent of "I'd buy that for a dollar" said in ROBOCOP. For political sci fi I'D also recommend - 1977s DEMON SEED & the classic German film METROPOLIS
I agree, if you hadn't seen the show and had no expectations, you would have liked this movie even more. If you like robot/fembot sci-fi/horror, another one to definitely check out: "The Stepford Wives" (1975). I don't want to give any spoilers though, better to go in blind. "Rollerball", "The Stepford Wives" and "Planet Of The Apes", all three of those you'd do great reactions for. I like "Westworld", it's a good movie. I haven't seen the TV show, but I'm intrigued, it's a good idea to expand on. Better than the sequel for "Westworld" which was called "Futureworld", I'm sure.
I can clear that plot point up, EVERYTHING was automatically controlled even the lab doors(much like in J. PARK where once the park programming went of line the paddocks opened) another dig at over reliance on technology also the fail safe on the gun failed once the robot malfunctioned it became an ordinary gun (hope I don't sound patronising) on the break downs this was also the 1st film ever to have for seen computer viruses as many have pointed out. I thought the use of labyrynth dungeon like tunnels worked well everything looking the same like some underground maze, especially the reveal to Bengamin that this was the reality, that wasnt a game anymore, like when Brolin as shot
You guys should at least check out the first season of HBO's Westworld to see where Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy took the basic concept of this movie and stretched it to a whole other level.
In a television version there is more time, to get into the phyche of it all, WEST WORLD 1973 had NO competition where as now there's always something rival to compare something with. Also when I look at this state of the Art tv series it says there are...3 writer's, which means pooling ideas, where as Criton wrote & Directed his film himself (incidently unlike J. PARK there was never a book) this was written as a screen play only, for what ever reason he thought a novel version wouldnt work.
Yul Brenner in this movie is basically the original Terminator. I love this movie.
Yeah!!
He was the inspiration for the unkillability of Michael Myers.
Yep
Arnold Schwarzenegger has publicly stated that he based his performance of the Terminator on Yul Brynner's Gunslinger in Westworld.
@@patrickginther8527 Nice work. I was just about to come here and inform them about that one.
Fun Fact (that everyone who's seen this already knows but some people might not):
The pixelated android vision was the very first use of CGI in a feature length film.
I've also heard it took hours to do a few seconds of that robot vision. This was after the process was worked on as the original method would have been extremely expensive and taken too long.
that was fun
The code you see on the control room screens is actually the source code for the robot vision effect
It was pretty clever using Yul Brynner at the time, he was an icon of the western genre so to bring him back as a killer robot version of his character was a cool twist
I remember dreaming up an early 90's remake but wanted Sharon Stone for the gunslinger reprising her role from The Quick and The Dead.
The Gunslinger's appearance was inspired by Yul Brynner's portrayal of "Chris Adams" in the film The Magnificent Seven.
based on Seven Samurai
Which itself was influenced by Kurosawa's viewing of the Westerns of John Ford.
And Brynner came back as the Gunslinger in the sequel Futureworld (1976).
We definitely need to see more reactions to Magnificent Seven, one of the greatest westerns of all time.
If I were in Westworld, I would just be a crazy person from the future. I'd show up in Westworld dressed in my normal clothes and pretend I traveled back in time. I'd go from person to person asking in a panic, "What year is this?!" lol
LMFAO
I love 1850s-90s fashion (ACTUAL fashion, not hollywood's idea of what people really wore in the time period) and I hate 2022 fashion so I'd defo not be in modern-day clothes
I read somewhere the both John Carpenter and James Cameron used Yul Brynner's performance in this movie as a model for how Michael Myers and the Terminator would move and behave though i'm not sure how accurate that story is.
Arnold has said that he based his performance as Terminator on Yul Brynner.
Don't know about the Terminator, which was based on Michael Myers, but I don't know if Myers was. I've never heard that one. But, I'd like to if there's an article or interview that states this
@@LA_HA Arnold and James Cameron have said it in semi-recent interviews.
@@rustincohle2135 Thank you. If you happen to have a link or title, I'd appreciate it. But, if not, I'll just try to find it. But, again, either way, thank you
@@LA_HA This is the 2016 interview where Arnold talks about "Westworld" and "Terminator":
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Please do The Stepford Wives 1975. The 70s were so twisted and dark about the future. Yay!!!
“Crichton’s got a fascination for theme parks that go wrong!” Jurassic Park’s book was more about chaos theory, but in 1973, Walt Disney World had just opened two years before, and “Oo, robot pirates!” was still considered a major technologically big deal.
Nowadays, though: “Was Galactic Starcruiser worth a thousand dollars a day?” 😂
Despite how far technology has come, I still think Yul Brynner is the most menacing robot...I especially like the silent scenes where all you hear is the footsteps coming down the hall...I still love this movie
I really enjoyed this film. Did you watch "Fantastic Voyage" yet, with Donald Pleasance and Raquel Welch? That was a very original sci-fi concept movie. It came out in the 60's. It's surprising that no one ever came out with a remake or sequel.
Inner Space goes into the same territory though.
Fantastic Voyage is a great film!
That was a good one as well.
@@Frozen_Smoke1972 Innerspace (1987) is a must watch, great '80s comedy.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 I'm genuinely surprised none of the usual reaction channels have reacted to Innerspace yet.
My folks had taken me to Walt Disney World in 1972 and I loved it, then when I first saw this on TV was convinced that West World was a new park and this was just an advertisement for it like The Wonderful World of Disney had for their park. At first I was saying when can we go to West World, and then I was saying nevermind. Mom could not convince me it was just a movie. She even went so far as to say that the main robot was played by Yul Brenner....and actor, and I said that they just used Yul Brenner as a mold to make the robot. She gave up at that point in trying to convince me. :D
One of my favourite sci-fi movies from that amazing 60s-70s run. Along with the original Rollerball, another favourite from this era and one you should watch, Westworld seemed to be on every other Saturday afternoon. Amazing concepts in both films. Yul Brenner awesome. Great choice, great reaction.
I love it
Rollerball is another favorite of mine.
Brenner was so intimidating that, even as I watched him sing and dance in "The King and I", I kept expecting the bastard to suddenly pull a gun!
Guys, you're missing the really big key here. This was a directed by Michael Crichton who wrote Jurassic Park, Sphere. The Andromeda Strain pick anything he's directed or written the majority it comes out outstanding. Very well done for the '70s. Remember when it came out it was the hot ticket
you didnt hear them mention Jurassic Park a few times?
@@shaggjones4854 I didn't know if they knew Crichton wrote and direct a lot of that stuff
You need to watch Escape from New York with Kurt Russell. Amazing syfi. Snake Pliskin is a true bad ass. It was from 1980.
Definitely one of Carpenter's finest films.
I love in the recent TV series there's a little nod to Yul Brenners gunman, in that in the corner of one of the underground control rooms there's a figure covered in plastic that looks just like him.
This, it's sequel and Logan's Run were the three movies everyone would wait for every year on tv before VCRs.
I never really liked Future World all that much but Westworld & Logan Run - most definitely
Brynner's Gunslinger android is designed in a sort of meta reference for the audience wearing the exact costume of his character from The Magnificent Seven.
Funny, I just watched James Brolin in Capricorn One (again), on the weekend...he never seems to be too far away from the next rattlesnake...with mixed results...
Anyway, glad you got to this one!
Capricorn One is alot of fun.
And closer to reality than many people think...🚀
Is anyone else old enough to remember the Yul Brynner anti-smoking ad? He recorded it when he knew he was dying of lung cancer.
I think the only “the future is gonna kinda suck” movie that hasn’t already been mentioned previously in the comments is Death Race 2000 (original ‘70s version of course).
Not necessarily a “sci-fi” per se, but a real hoot of a weird ‘70s dystopian flick, with a very young Sly Stallone AND David Carradine (Bill from Kill Bill).
Also, Scanners is pretty close to the genre as well, with a young Michael Ironside.
If you liked James Brolin, he is the main star in "Capricorn One". Another 70's movie about the faking of the moon landings.
GREAT FILM!
_Logan's Run_ (1976) - if you dig _Westworld,_ this classic is one for the list.
Ahhhh, I love _Logan’s Run._ It’s camp but that’s what makes it so fun. I laugh out loud every time I watch it.
This was one of a number of films I enjoyed with my grandfather that I was probably too young for at the time...had at least one nightmare about the Cowboy.
Great movie.
Cowboy? Or... Gunslinger? haha
"have WE got a vacation for you"
"Nothing can go wrong" (but it did)
"I'd buy that for a dollar"
Ah, the "original terminator". Such a great movie and definitely a sci-fi classic.
The 70's had some great sci-fi movies, I hope you guys will watch other lesser known movies like 'Demon Seed', 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Capricorn One'.
Good recs, particularly Demon Seed which seems almost forgotten now.
I wonder if Spielberg's Duel would fall into that category too.
@@ThreadBomb What is sci-fi about it? It was shot as if it were a supernatural thriller though. I wouldn't mind seeing the guys react to that one.
RIP, Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters Twins and Stripes. He passed away last night at the age of 75.
Yul was a god of cinema. Definitely someone who chooses the right job.
Cool movie. This is one of those that I barely missed as a kid because I was too young to see it when it came out but I was exactly the right age for Star Wars when it came out four years later. So, the point is that it took me a long time to get around to seeing, but when I finally did, I was glad I had. It's an intriguing film, a bit dry and sterile, but still tense and exciting.
I was actually there at the beginning. I watched it on screen at the theater. It was pretty good and interesting when it first came out. Then years later people consider it to be foolish and nonsensical. And then later as science and technology caught up, it didn’t seem so stupid anymore. And then Westworld came out. If we survive the next hundred years, this will become reality.
I think an aspect that deserves a mention is the time period the movie was made and tastes in movies before than and around that time in the early 1970s. For almost 30 years at that point one of, if not the, most popular genres of film were westerns. Ule Brenner, the gun fighter in Westworld, was a popular western actor and lent the whole concept credibility. The other is that in terms of people's fantasy of what to do it was a bit more what an adult, particularly men, would want to do in 1973. I do think Chrichton has re-visited the well a couple of times with some of his books resembling one another in partial conception...
Westworld and Jurassic Park were both written by Michael Chrichton. He spent a lot of time exploring the theme of our technology getting away from us in unexpected and catastrophic ways.
I also love his Coma (1978), another brilliant film.
The HBO show is pretty damn great. Would be interesting if you reacted to some of it. It expands on the movie in every way possible.
Your ratings were totally on the money, even in the context of 1973. It's a good, fun movie, that's what it was. 1973 was a great year for movies so even in the context of 1973, 7 is what most people would have given it.
Yeah, I don't know why people are so down on '7s'. I'd say 7 - a good fun time. 8 - Very good, re-watch time and again. 9 - Classic, genre-busting/defining stuff. 10 - Changed my life.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures It's just that some people are unable to reassess the things they loved as children.
The fact that the Gunslinger continued to pursue Peter even after his gun ceased functioning made him even more frightening...if it catches him, the mind reels as to what it will do to him.
And it *did* almost catch him...when the movie jump-scares us with the burnt Gunslinger, we see that, for the first time, it actually got close enough to touch him.
I was born in 1976 and saw this movie when was still in kindergarten. Maybe it was because it was the first non-children's movie I watched, but it left a huge impression on me and often works its way into my dreams. I haven't seen the TV show. When I first watched Terminator and Predator, I thought: "this reminds me of Westworld".
Fun fact: James Cameron was heavily inspired by this film and wrote "The Terminator"
Westworld. Where Nothing Can Go Worng.
I'm hoping you guys keep "digging" into the 70ies ear "dystopian" SciFi movies like this one, THX 1138, Silent Running, One boy and his dog, Phase IV, The Andromeda Strain, etc (avoid Tarkovski's Solaris. Great movie, but a looonnggg one). Great first reaction.
A Boy and His Dog is classic.
@Gerald H YES YES YES and The Omega Man!
I'll be dead in the ground before I stop recommending the sixties sci-fi 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire' also.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures Quick ! Before it turns into a documentary ;-)
'Crack in the World' is also an interesting one about the pitfalls of trying to find unlimited energy.
Classic. I agree, the concept is stronger than the execution. Plot drags a bit, but the effects were top notch. The TV series gets worse with every season. They seem to have no idea for an overarching engaging story.
Yul Brynner is the OG Terminator!
I saw this movie in 2003 on the now defunct UPN network, and had no idea author Michael Crichton wrote and directed the film! I saw this movie on Friday in TCM, Turner Classic Movies.
In 1993, him and Steven Spielberg would give us a different kind of theme park experience gone wrong:
JURASSIC PARK.
That’s a good, fair score from you both. I love this movie, as well as those other late 60s/early 70s American sci-fi movies like Planet Of The Apes, or The Andromeda Strain. Where it was all about these big concepts. But yes, the tv show has greatly expanded upon the original idea.
Both of those are great movies and "Planet Of The Apes" in particular makes for a fantastic reaction video, every one I've seen.
@@TTM9691 The sequels were fun too. My favorite was Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, about the ape rebellion. It's really visually striking, with the brutalist concrete landscape and the colored uniforms the apes wear.
@@ThreadBomb The sequels sucked. People and their insipid sequels. I like greatness, not cash-ins.
Loved this movie back in the day, along with Logan's Run (the one with Michael York.) Check out Soylent Green. Those were my scifi trifecta when i was growing up.
And for more Charlton Heston there's The Omega Man (1971), a great film too.
Loved this reaction, especially the 'hands' gag. Hugely fun film I've loved since I was a kid, but I'd say your '7' is on the money. Favourite thing? The executive who says, "But no one's been killed. Everything's fine," when told that the robots are malfunctioning. Trope defining hilarity right there. Also, please spare a thought viewers for the poor schmucks who have to clean the robots every night. Eurch.
I recommend the sequel “FutureWorld” Yul Bryner returns
It's worth noting how ahead of its time this was- the first known computer virus was designed in 1982, almost a decade after this movie came out. The idea of a "sickness" that could spread between computers may be very elementary for us today, but it had never happened in the real world at the time this was written.
Saw at the theater as a kid we all giggled like he south park kids when the saloon girl’s eyes opened, thanks guys this movie and book are awesome!
I love Michael Crichton as a director. Lost count how many times I've watched this one, Coma (1978) and Looker (1981).
Loved it when I was young,I remember my brother telling me it was robots like humans and I was so excited to see it:)
I thought the first season of the show was great, but the showrunners started dragging the plot out more and more, making it boring and tedious as they added layer upon unnecessary layer to an already convoluted plot. It would have been more interesting to me if each season had focused on a different themed region of the park instead of just revolving around Dolores and Maeve. It had a lot of potential that, unfortunately, went completely untapped, and it killed the show for me.
The biggest thing that we can't know is when the writers have an ending or not.
"The good place" writers clearly had an ending in mind from the start of the show. Play executed their story and then they ended it.
More often though it's like the show "Lost". They have a good High concept for show but they have no idea what they're going to do in season 2 or 3. And they have no idea of the overall story they're trying to tell. They have one good season and then after that they're just making it up as they go along.
One of my faves as a kid.Pretty Brutal for a PG rating back then. I;d like to see you guys do Capricorn One or Andromeda Strain at some point.
Capricorn One was great fun. I’d love to see them react to that one.
This movie rules. This and Rollerball make a great "70s Speculative Sci-Fi Future" double feature.
I think Westworld seasons 1 thru 3 tell a complete story. Each season progresses the mystery of what the park is actually *for.* By the end, we know. (And it's truly warped!)
When one of you commented you love disfunctional amusement parks, I immediately thought of a novel that you might enjoy! I googled it to be sure I gave the right title.
Imagine the near future, when terrorists take control of a high-tech theme park...
"Lethal Velocity", by Lincoln Child. (Previously published as "Utopia.")
It's an enjoyable read! (Actually, I hope it's made into a miniseries, some day!)
My mom referred to Crichton's work as "Science goes 'Whoops!'"
If you guys like science fiction, you should definitely watch the first ever Michael Crichton film, The Andromeda Strain. It's very procedural, very sciencey, but also very gripping, with a simple but strong visual style.
I like to see you guys react to Futureworld (1976) which is a sequel to Westworld (1973).
Appreciate that you take the time to consider the age of the film and are fair about rating it for the time it was released not present day, sort of like grading on a curve. It’s amazing to think this will be 50 years old next year.
Trivia: The woman running the “ladies of the evening” house is Majel Barret, wife to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Plot Hole (maybe): The explanation of how the guns are made safe was very logical and believable but I could never understand how that was supposed to translate to the swords in Medieval World. You can program the robots to not hit or stab a human but unlike the guns you can’t program the swords to not stab or cut if one human accidentally goes after another.
I also could never understand how they could control such a thing as 'ricochets' or bullets punching through a wall and hitting someone on the other side. I imagine the Delos Resort has some very interesting waiver forms.
A childhood favourite of mine. Nice choice and reaction.
The head scientist on West world Alan Oppenheimer was the voice of Skeletor ;)
If I were in such a place,I'd be in the brothel the whole time.I'm not proud.
3rd season of west world when Aaron paul in introduced.. some of the best TV out there.. hell no ALL of the 3rd season is just AMAZING.
Fun fact James Brolin, who is married to Barbra Streisand is the father of actor Josh Brolin.
I recommend films to you two I don't recommend anywhere else, I think everyone has their own style and tastes of reacting to stuff. I always think the 1963 film 'Billy Liar' would be a fun watch for you both, i could imagine Shaun directing a remake with Tom as Billy haha.
West world was written and directed by Michael Crichton who also wrote Jurassic Park
They're just having a wild time! A wild west time! A wild Westworld time!
I didn't even know there was a film. Thanks for educating me. It terms of my Westworld fantasy, it would definitely be a saloon fight. Just the idea of letting loose and smashing a chair on someone's back or throwing a few punches around or even smashing a bottle on someone"s head, that sounds so cathartic and satisfying.
Of course it has a Jurassic Park vibe.Both were based on books by the same author!!
Yeah that’s why I said it 😂
This remains one of my dad's favorate films, and it's still quite a fun one i feel. good reveiw!
7:18 that technician who is talking is also the voice of Falcor in The Neverending Story
Carpenter based Michael Myers on the slow moving stalking robot gunslinger.
"I have a cheap answer for you. I saw Westworld, the original movie, and Yul Brynner's character was this unkillable robot," Carpenter admitted of his inspiration. “I thought, 'That is a really cool character.' That's how I came up with it, but it evolved - it wasn't exactly Yul Brynner."
Shaun scare pranks Tom that was funny. It was a creepy film that stuck with me a long time thinking bout what would one do in that situation since seeing it in the 70's
The gunslinger is actor Yule Brenner based on the actual movie character from The Magnificent Seven, starring the actual Yule Brenner. Just a little tidbit I thought you might be interested in... ;)
You should do "Rollerball" 1975 fellas. Still one of my favorites of the era/genre. James Caan and John Houseman, check it out.
"Rollerball" is GREAT, and makes for a great reaction video! Did you see Reel Reviews With Jen's reaction for it? It's really great!
@@TTM9691 No, I have never watched that channel. Will check it out, thanks
@@blanewilliams5960 Here you go, Blane! ua-cam.com/video/AVDce43rllM/v-deo.html Enjoy! She's a great reactor.
That one guy looks just like Christian Bale!!! Thought it was him lol
Yul brenner was a hero in The Magnificent Seven turned villain in this movie. Similar to Henry Fonda being a hero in every movie he made except Once upon time in the West. Cool
And yet another actor I'm smitten with...Yul Brynner...he's sooooooo AMAZING!! (the bald gunslinging robot)
Some great movies he's in are:
The Ten Commandments (1956) - Yes, it's a religious movie, but it's one of the greatest movies ever made...in my opinion. I'm not a churchgoer...but I do like to watch this movie at least once a year.
Futureworld (1976) - Is the sequel to Westworld...YUP, there is a sequel!!
The Magnificent Seven (1960) - A "magnificent" western with a HUGE cast of stars...Yul being one, of course, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and more.
The King And I (1956) - A musical and based in turn on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became a school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s.
~Dawne
Was pleasantly surprised to see your channel represented on Popcorn in Bed awards show, keep up the good show chaps.
I find it interesting how the movie depicts the machines being designed by computers and not knowing exactly how they work. I’m an AI programmer and we actually have the same issue today with advanced AI. We create training data and run it through neural networks but the final output, something we call an AI model, is a program that we don’t fully understand. There are too many variables for a human to keep track of in their head so in essence, like Westworld, we’re relying on the machine to design the final program and in some cases it could be converted into an ASIC which is physical hardware. This means we have actual circuit boards that are both exclusively designed and understood only by computer programs.
The director and the writer is Michael Crichton, the guy who wrote Jurassic Park. Probably why you had the same vibes from this movie.
The music score for this film is awesome.
Such a great film. There's also a largely forgotten sequel called Futureworld (1976). It's not as well regarded, but still worth a watch in my opinion.
As for the TV series, I've not watched past season 1 either, but I've been told season 2 is alright and season 3 is pretty bad.
Even more forgotten is the Beyond Westworld TV Series from 1980.
This was the first feature film to ever use CGI effects. Not for much, granted...just to create the "android vision" sequences...but it was still a milestone.
The tv show is just so amazing, i loved all the seasons of it. In my top 10 shows I've ever seen. It's definitely worth watching the rest of the seasons
I love Yul brynner in this role, I was very young when I first saw this and it made a huge impression on me,grat film .
You can't compare a 1973 movie to a 2016 TV series you have to judge it on it's own merit and keep in mind time it was made.
You can compare if it’s based on the exact same concept 😊
The sequel "Future World" is just as good!
7 is fair score especially watching first time after the new series and other movies. I think I watched it on tv before I had even seen the terminator movies so it was really unique and scary back then. Great movie.
I really enjoyed your reaction, thx guys.
The first time I watched this movie it freaked me out. On recent watching, a few years ago, after seeing a lot more movies in between, I thought it didn’t stack up. Understandably because it was a 70’s movie, and movie making had progressed so much over previous years.
I haven’t watched the new series based on this movie, but I might give it go when I’m ready for a new show.
Well...written and directed by Michael Crichton who wrote Jurassic Park. Hence the similarity :-)
Me: “She’s a robot.”
Them: “She’s a robot.”
John Carpenter was inspired by the Gunslinger character to create Michael Myers persona of being an unstoppable killer 😎👍
It didnt focus on the philosophical side because the idea of AI was still too far off in the future in 1973. The recent tv show took on the philisophical because we are so close to making it real AND it had much longer time to tell a story.
One last thing to say on this, it NEVER was an original book/novel Criton had intended a book but found it worked better as a screen play & so that is what he wrote it as.
Both TERMINATOR and ROBOCOP owe so much to this film, (which weather it can be seen or not is a black sci fi political comedy) there are swipes at the john Wayne westerns of the 50 (Brolin's character is called John Blane) I also like the patronising, humouring sales rep at the beginning saying "have we got a vacation for you" in the beginning & end, the equivalent of "I'd buy that for a dollar" said in ROBOCOP.
For political sci fi I'D also recommend - 1977s DEMON SEED & the classic German film METROPOLIS
Your audio for the movie on this one was really quiet. I had the volume up and when you both screamed at one scene it nearly blew my eardrums 😂
I agree, if you hadn't seen the show and had no expectations, you would have liked this movie even more. If you like robot/fembot sci-fi/horror, another one to definitely check out: "The Stepford Wives" (1975). I don't want to give any spoilers though, better to go in blind. "Rollerball", "The Stepford Wives" and "Planet Of The Apes", all three of those you'd do great reactions for. I like "Westworld", it's a good movie. I haven't seen the TV show, but I'm intrigued, it's a good idea to expand on. Better than the sequel for "Westworld" which was called "Futureworld", I'm sure.
I can clear that plot point up,
EVERYTHING was automatically controlled even the lab doors(much like in J. PARK where once the park programming went of line the paddocks opened) another dig at over reliance on technology also the fail safe on the gun failed once the robot malfunctioned it became an ordinary gun (hope I don't sound patronising) on the break downs this was also the 1st film ever to have for seen computer viruses as many have pointed out.
I thought the use of labyrynth dungeon like tunnels worked well everything looking the same like some underground maze, especially the reveal to Bengamin that this was the reality, that wasnt a game anymore, like when Brolin as shot
They must have a high insurance premium on these parks
You guys should at least check out the first season of HBO's Westworld to see where Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy took the basic concept of this movie and stretched it to a whole other level.
The only major flaw in this movie was the robots weren't given the same guns as the guests.
In a television version there is more time, to get into the phyche of it all, WEST WORLD 1973 had NO competition where as now there's always something rival to compare something with. Also when I look at this state of the Art tv series it says there are...3 writer's, which means pooling ideas, where as Criton wrote & Directed his film himself (incidently unlike J. PARK there was never a book) this was written as a screen play only, for what ever reason he thought a novel version wouldnt work.
Love the Show as well the old Movies.
“Draw.”