I had a TV in my room when I was 13 and I couldn't sleep one summer night, so I turned on the TV at 2 am, and Westworld was starting. I watched it start to finish and it was the greatest movie I had ever seen at the time.
I actually think the ending chase is the best part. It's so stark and quiet. The style of that sequence had a massive influence on what I find aesthetically pleasing, along with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Flight of the Navigator.
A nice touch to the movie was having Yul Brynner''s wardrobe mirror that of his character in magnificent seven. It adds an extra layer of "this can't be real" to the movie.
Always loved this flick. Great idea and enjoyable. The sound of Yul Bryners boots clicking on the ground will forever be associated for me with impending menace. Way more fun than the show...which just disappeared up its own arse.
Westworld is a favorite. I didn't get to see it until it came to TV. My sister saw it at the theater and I remember her coming home and talking about it. Some years later I caught it when it came to Saturday night at the movies and absolutely loved it. One night while driving home, these guys on talk radio mentioned that Yul Brynner was the 1st Terminator.
The ending chase always reminds me of Terminator, right down to the scene of Brenner walking down the hallway with the interspersed lights over head. There’s a similar scene in the factory in Terminator as the robot walks down the hallway in the factory. Also, like in west world, the robot is hard to kill. Thinking about it… I feel west world was a larger influence on Terminator then I even realized.
The ending chase is great the pace was just right. There is a bodycount as gunslinger does kill and it’s really cold too with no emotion which shows why Richard’s Benjamin character is running for his life.
One thing I have a question about. Brolin's character stated that in Westworld the guns have sensors which prevent you from shooting a human. However, how in Medieval World or Roman World do you prevent a guest from stabbing another guest with a sword?
Blunt edges, but when they become sentient, given their physical superiority the robots might slice a human with a pipe. On the reverse, robots could "act" being cut by a blunt weapon accordingly.
Apparently not. The movie had a lot of flaws like that, but I grew up with it shown on TV chopped up with commercials so you didn't notice these details so much, like how they flew there on a very futuristic aircraft while wearing big 197O's shirt collars and the computers were still analog reel to reel tape machines like the 1960's.
Great work again Stam Fine. 'Westworld' strikes me as one of those movies where it's the concept and the inherent issues it raises far outreach the product itself. In this age of AI and human-like robots, I can imagine it will very likely be viewed through a further prism of relevance.
Saw this in the 70s as a kid; loved it. Major fan of Westerns and Sci fi and and time travel and fish out of water scenarios, so this movie was like a dream come true. I was blown away by the special FX and actually didn't mind it slowing for the chase, since it made it scarier for me. But I had hoped we'd get to see a bit more of the other "worlds" (though not any less if the wild west). Really hoped for a sequel that would show those (but boy what a sequel) or even a Saturday cartoon. But not a single comic, coloring book or toy?! And that ending, though I dont recall it, made feel like it just suddenly stopped and no wrap up. Another fun video, thanks.
How would YOU have improved the suspensfull chase at the end? the revelation to Benjamin, of the reality of it all, in the dungeon like labs, the clever wax museum type scene when the robots finally wear down (also so many figures together confusing Yul Brynner's vision and computer brain), the advice about using acid, for his eyes, also that Brolin is not the only human to be killed by Brynner, demonstrating he IS NOT going to stop.
I met Michael Crichton once in Berlin when he showed a computer game he was designing. I remember how he stood out among the guests, he was a very tall man, easily 6 and a half foot.
Absolutely love this movie, I saw it when it first came out as a kid at a drive in, still watch it every year. Great concept, the HBO series is terrible.
I'm sorry, but the chase scene is magnificent suspense. There's a part where gunslinger walks into an alleyway and comes out riding a horse- except the time elapsed is way too soon for such an action to have happened. Very dissonant and disturbing psychological cue that we're witnessing a machine.
The real genius here is that the computer graphic display was mentioned as damaged, which, in the writer's mind, would account for technology changing over time. If the display is damaged, then that accounts for how primitive the display is.
Your take is wrong, but I can see how you arrived at that. This is how the androids were intended to see by the resort scientists. The reason the vision display looks so primitive is because it's the firt time in cinematic history that CGI was used in major motion picture. It cost the movie studio 70,000 dollars a second to create.
I'm amazed you missed the major point of how this movie is one of the first places where the concept of computer viruses was addressed and the potential/implications of such things.
As an 8 year old in '73, Yul gave me nightmares. In '73 this movie was one of the best si fy of its time. Now a cult classic, and I have collected all of Yul movies along with John Wayne.
Still an ingenious film compared to boring movie themes of today. It may have seemed cheesy with special effects, but it was great to me! Yul at his best!
I completely forgot about The Bionic Woman v. The Fembots...Thank you! ua-cam.com/video/clPPxk3ZV2w/v-deo.html That grimace Lindsey Wagner makes after biatchslapping that Fembot's face off is funny now, but I'm sure as a 10-12 y/o kid was as horrified by this scene as much as The Gunman's melty face in the Westworld movie.
People don't seem to want to see the parallels, between WESTWORLD, ROBOCOP and even THE TERMINATOR, here is the sci fi template for how to make science fiction action thrillers, as surely as- STAR WARS & ALIEN, Re-invented cinema in later years.
It was great watching the source material for the show, but definitely slow and simple in comparison. Yul carried the film for me. Oh, funny! Rewatching the stepford wives was next on my watch list 😝
THIS was the best Westworld story out of all the stories, including that 'meh' one that came out on HBO. I didn't even finish the first season of it. I got too bored with it. Some stories are just best told in a few hours.
After a rewatch, I've decided that this movie is much better than I remember. A nice change from all the rubber-man CGI we see today. Ironically, this was the first feature film to use that technology.
The movie is so much better than the TV show it's unreal. And I thought the first season (only the first) of the show was phenomenal, it's just the following seasons wasted that so bad. James Cameron once said Yul Brynner's character in Westworld was a big influence on Terminator. The image of him coldly stalking people along corridors, it's easy to see what he meant.
i agree. i enjoyed the tv series first season, but even then it felt like there was less of a plan for the story and plot, and more that they were making it up on the spot and didn't know where to go with it. Anthony Hopkins character does a lot of non sensical things in it for one. but it still reached a satisfying conclusion (first season).
He's is beaten, he's not, he's beaten, he's not, he's finally beaten. Where have I heard that before? Oh, right, Terminator. Terminattor got a lot from Westworld.
I really enjoyed the film but was gutted to find out that it hadn't been developed from a Crichton book (like Jurassic Park) as I find the books a lot more fleshed out and a fascinating read, something which wasn't possible with Westworld.
Luved this movie as a kid... disagree with you about the last half of the film... think there's plenty of action... Crichton effectively ratchets up the tension which is sold completely by Brynner's chilling performance and Benjamin's fear.
being old and having seen this in the 70's when it was released, I think the film is far superior to the HBO series which became tedious in fairly quick order.
Love when they advertise " was it worth a $1000 a day?" Yeah right even in 1973 a $1k a day would be way too cheap. A large hotel suite or a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel would have cost more than a grand a night back then. Something like Westworld would be a minimum of a million dollars a day if not more. This would be a place for the super mega rich only. Even Space X at $300k a ride would be chump change in comparison to blasting robots with guns and such.
I thought was a pretty good movie. The scene when he is in the huge dining hall in medieval world and the King and Queen robots are just staring was so creepy to me.
The original Terminator raised the bar considerably for plausible-looking robot innards, but I still remember how much the inside of the gunslinger's head creeped me out when I saw this movie as a kid. That funnel-shaped oval thing behind the mouth is particularly grotesque. I never noticed until now that the prop implies there are actuators in the face - there are two wiring harnesses running to them, although we never get to see them. It doesn't really make a lot of sense from an engineer's perspective, but it's still pretty creepy.
helo stamfine Michael Crichton is a "Visionary" an Analog seer predicting a digital future a superlative Creator master of Worlds which can be enliven retold re-imagined so rich yet concise is his prose
It was great when I was a kid. Then I saw it years later as an adult and yeah, it kind of sucked. Great idea, but not well made at all. I still think so much more could be done with it. It needs to be made into a 90-minute movie and not some HBO concept series. It's a great premise that doesn't have to be another Jurassic Park with robots.
And now, some actual facts: ''During World War II Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer and commentator for the US Office of War Information, broadcasting to occupied France. He also worked for the Voice of America, broadcasting in Russian to the Soviet Union during WWII. At the same time, during the war years, he studied acting in Connecticut with the Russian actor Michael Chekhov, and also worked as a truck driver and stage hand for Chekhov's theatre company.''
Yul Brynner smiling evilly with golden android eyes still looks chilling to this day.
Quite true.
they said they gave him chrome contact lenzes... nice...
I had a TV in my room when I was 13 and I couldn't sleep one summer night, so I turned on the TV at 2 am, and Westworld was starting. I watched it start to finish and it was the greatest movie I had ever seen at the time.
I actually think the ending chase is the best part. It's so stark and quiet. The style of that sequence had a massive influence on what I find aesthetically pleasing, along with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Flight of the Navigator.
I saw that movie at the drive-in as a kid. The chase scared the heck out of me!
Stam Fine is a clown, this was an absolutely brilliant, and highly influential movie for its time.
It’s very memorable and gripping,no doubt.
Yul Brynner: The OG Terminator.
This movie, the Buck Rogers episode with Jamie lee Curtis, and the outer limits seem to be the basis for the Terminator.
@@MrCornrowz Check out 'Cyborg 2087' from 1966 - it's literally the exact plot of 'The Terminator'.
@@MrCornrowzDon't forget Saturn 3 with Farrah Fawcet
I watched on TV when I was a child, at the end of 70's. Amazing
I did, too.
@@reving19 me too!
Terrific film, outstanding entertainment to watch. Watched it so many times on the TV.
My dad took me to see this at the cinema as a birthday treat. I was 11. Unforgettable.
Cheers
Yul Brynner: The blueprint to James Cameron's Terminator. OG baby.
A nice touch to the movie was having Yul Brynner''s wardrobe mirror that of his character in magnificent seven. It adds an extra layer of "this can't be real" to the movie.
Always loved this flick. Great idea and enjoyable. The sound of Yul Bryners boots clicking on the ground will forever be associated for me with impending menace. Way more fun than the show...which just disappeared up its own arse.
This channel is criminally under appreciated, that view count should have three more zeroes after it, and I don't mean after a decimal point.
Westworld is a favorite. I didn't get to see it until it came to TV. My sister saw it at the theater and I remember her coming home and talking about it. Some years later I caught it when it came to Saturday night at the movies and absolutely loved it. One night while driving home, these guys on talk radio mentioned that Yul Brynner was the 1st Terminator.
The ending chase always reminds me of Terminator, right down to the scene of Brenner walking down the hallway with the interspersed lights over head. There’s a similar scene in the factory in Terminator as the robot walks down the hallway in the factory. Also, like in west world, the robot is hard to kill.
Thinking about it… I feel west world was a larger influence on Terminator then I even realized.
You are correct. It was a inspiration for James Cameron Terminator...
Brynner totally nailed that strut along the sidewalk.
Very true.
Saw Westworld When It First Came Out. Love Yul Brynner, As The Gunslinger. Perfectly Cast. Terrific Movie. RIP Yul.
And James Cameron said he created the Terminator after seeing it during a feverish nightmare...
I remember 1973 as a year of great movie releases that I still enjoy to this day.
When you were there in that year watching this movie nothing was better.
The ending chase is great the pace was just right. There is a bodycount as gunslinger does kill and it’s really cold too with no emotion which shows why Richard’s Benjamin character is running for his life.
One thing I have a question about. Brolin's character stated that in Westworld the guns have sensors which prevent you from shooting a human. However, how in Medieval World or Roman World do you prevent a guest from stabbing another guest with a sword?
Blunt edges, but when they become sentient, given their physical superiority the robots might slice a human with a pipe.
On the reverse, robots could "act" being cut by a blunt weapon accordingly.
Some of those fair maidens fell by the pork sword methinks
More sensors
Apparently not. The movie had a lot of flaws like that, but I grew up with it shown on TV chopped up with commercials so you didn't notice these details so much, like how they flew there on a very futuristic aircraft while wearing big 197O's shirt collars and the computers were still analog reel to reel tape machines like the 1960's.
And who gets to clean out the hooker fem-bots at the end of the week? '😨' (Perhaps they have a power hose with a special nozzle...) 😰
Saw it as a kid when it was new. Thought Yul B was scary as hell. On first viewing of the original Terminator it reminded me of Westworld.
I've always enjoyed this movie. Saw it as a teen and it's always been a go-to.
Great work again Stam Fine.
'Westworld' strikes me as one of those movies where it's the concept and the inherent issues it raises far outreach the product itself. In this age of AI and human-like robots, I can imagine it will very likely be viewed through a further prism of relevance.
It is such a great and memorable film!
" Which, I'm told, is a location rather than a specific act. "
Mate, that's the best line I've heard all week. Keep 'em coming!
Saw this in the 70s as a kid; loved it. Major fan of Westerns and Sci fi and and time travel and fish out of water scenarios, so this movie was like a dream come true. I was blown away by the special FX and actually didn't mind it slowing for the chase, since it made it scarier for me. But I had hoped we'd get to see a bit more of the other "worlds" (though not any less if the wild west). Really hoped for a sequel that would show those (but boy what a sequel) or even a Saturday cartoon. But not a single comic, coloring book or toy?! And that ending, though I dont recall it, made feel like it just suddenly stopped and no wrap up. Another fun video, thanks.
There was a sequel called Futureworld that had guests become astronauts.
Without _Westworld,_ we might never have gotten _The Terminator._
Of course not. Westworld is the father of and inspiration behind the Terminator, Jurassic Park, Halloween and FNAF franchises
The pixilated effect for the IR vision was invented tech for this movie.
It's the very first use of CGI in any movie.
That's quite a historical feat, imo.
Incidentally, it cost the studio 70,000 dollars a second. 😮
How would YOU have improved the suspensfull chase at the end?
the revelation to Benjamin, of the reality of it all, in the dungeon like labs, the clever wax museum type scene when the robots finally wear down (also so many figures together confusing Yul Brynner's vision and computer brain), the advice about using acid, for his eyes, also that Brolin is not the only human to be killed by Brynner, demonstrating he IS NOT going to stop.
That ending chase was brilliant.
Stam Fine absolutely has no clue what he's talking about.
I met Michael Crichton once in Berlin when he showed a computer game he was designing. I remember how he stood out among the guests, he was a very tall man, easily 6 and a half foot.
It was great, and Brynner is the real first Terminator.
The _idea_ of this then-groundbreaking film is arguably more impressive than the _execution_ thereof.
I still think that *Coma* (1978) is Mike Crichton's best '70s movie - it's a really great suspenseful hospital Horror/Thriller imo, super creepy
Still think it was a great movie! A lot of tension and excitement❤
I love the last hour. Tension at its best.
For some reason I was expecting something at the end. I was not eggspecting that.
Absolutely love this movie, I saw it when it first came out as a kid at a drive in, still watch it every year. Great concept, the HBO series is terrible.
A Westworld double bill awaiting me when I get home from work? Awesome!! Thank Mr Stam Fine!!
I'm sorry, but the chase scene is magnificent suspense. There's a part where gunslinger walks into an alleyway and comes out riding a horse- except the time elapsed is way too soon for such an action to have happened. Very dissonant and disturbing psychological cue that we're witnessing a machine.
this film is much better than you're letting on - a great idea done serviceably with a small budget
The real genius here is that the computer graphic display was mentioned as damaged, which, in the writer's mind, would account for technology changing over time. If the display is damaged, then that accounts for how primitive the display is.
Your take is wrong, but I can see how you arrived at that.
This is how the androids were intended to see by the resort scientists.
The reason the vision display looks so primitive is because it's the firt time in cinematic history that CGI was used in major motion picture. It cost the movie studio 70,000 dollars a second to create.
I'm amazed you missed the major point of how this movie is one of the first places where the concept of computer viruses was addressed and the potential/implications of such things.
Stam Fine missed A LOT of major points with this movie.
His takes were incredibly lazy & half-assed.
You get extra credit for The Twilight Zone Uncle Simon reference.
You can take the piss but this is a classic and terrified me a a small kid 😂
Superb as always. Thank you.
I saw the movie when I was 11 and the chase still gives me sweaty palms to this day!
I was terrified by the end chase as a young kid watching on TV ...
These early 70s movies were so good
As an 8 year old in '73, Yul gave me nightmares. In '73 this movie was one of the best si fy of its time. Now a cult classic, and I have collected all of Yul movies along with John Wayne.
Still an ingenious film compared to boring movie themes of today. It may have seemed cheesy with special effects, but it was great to me! Yul at his best!
Oh the movie where James Brolin looks exactly like Christian Bale.
I literally had to look 2x to make sure I was looking at James Brolin and not Christian Bale😁
Josh brolin has a brother from another mother, (Christian bale) 🤣
I completely forgot about The Bionic Woman v. The Fembots...Thank you!
ua-cam.com/video/clPPxk3ZV2w/v-deo.html
That grimace Lindsey Wagner makes after biatchslapping that Fembot's face off is funny now, but I'm sure as a 10-12 y/o kid was as horrified by this scene as much as The Gunman's melty face in the Westworld movie.
People don't seem to want to see the parallels, between WESTWORLD, ROBOCOP and even THE TERMINATOR, here is the sci fi template for how to make science fiction action thrillers, as surely as- STAR WARS & ALIEN, Re-invented cinema in later years.
It was great watching the source material for the show, but definitely slow and simple in comparison. Yul carried the film for me.
Oh, funny! Rewatching the stepford wives was next on my watch list 😝
Yul Brynner makes me need an adult and I am 34 years old.
THIS was the best Westworld story out of all the stories, including that 'meh' one that came out on HBO. I didn't even finish the first season of it. I got too bored with it. Some stories are just best told in a few hours.
he wrote so many good story line.....the forbin project was his on top of my list.
best intro gag ever
After a rewatch, I've decided that this movie is much better than I remember. A nice change from all the rubber-man CGI we see today. Ironically, this was the first feature film to use that technology.
Richard Benjamin was also in love at first bite. You should do that movie.
01:37 Yeah, its all about banging robots! LOL
😁😂👍
oh, DUDE! Stam you should do a video on some Red Dwarf!
The movie is so much better than the TV show it's unreal. And I thought the first season (only the first) of the show was phenomenal, it's just the following seasons wasted that so bad.
James Cameron once said Yul Brynner's character in Westworld was a big influence on Terminator. The image of him coldly stalking people along corridors, it's easy to see what he meant.
i agree. i enjoyed the tv series first season, but even then it felt like there was less of a plan for the story and plot, and more that they were making it up on the spot and didn't know where to go with it. Anthony Hopkins character does a lot of non sensical things in it for one. but it still reached a satisfying conclusion (first season).
He's is beaten, he's not, he's beaten, he's not, he's finally beaten.
Where have I heard that before? Oh, right, Terminator. Terminattor got a lot from Westworld.
Imagine if Kubrick directs this 😊
I really enjoyed the film but was gutted to find out that it hadn't been developed from a Crichton book (like Jurassic Park) as I find the books a lot more fleshed out and a fascinating read, something which wasn't possible with Westworld.
I saw it as a litle child on TV and couldn't sleep that night.
A few days later there was TheMagnificentSeven...🥶
Love this film. The only thing I ever asked was why did the robots have normal guns? Risk assessment n all that.
9:43 .. what was that ? an apple mobile phone..!
Luved this movie as a kid... disagree with you about the last half of the film... think there's plenty of action... Crichton effectively ratchets up the tension which is sold completely by Brynner's chilling performance and Benjamin's fear.
being old and having seen this in the 70's when it was released, I think the film is far superior to the HBO series which became tedious in fairly quick order.
Still love this film; will never watch "Future World" as it is so bad.
I liked this movie a lot as a teen
Love when they advertise " was it worth a $1000 a day?" Yeah right even in 1973 a $1k a day would be way too cheap. A large hotel suite or a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel would have cost more than a grand a night back then. Something like Westworld would be a minimum of a million dollars a day if not more. This would be a place for the super mega rich only. Even Space X at $300k a ride would be chump change in comparison to blasting robots with guns and such.
Every time I see that actor I think of the TV show Quark. (ooh, review that, if you can find anywhere that screens it, it's kind of obscure).
I love not having to watch all of these movies.
I thought was a pretty good movie. The scene when he is in the huge dining hall in medieval world and the King and Queen robots are just staring was so creepy to me.
03:20 5 huge ashtrays on one table!? How much smoking are they doing there?
The original Terminator raised the bar considerably for plausible-looking robot innards, but I still remember how much the inside of the gunslinger's head creeped me out when I saw this movie as a kid. That funnel-shaped oval thing behind the mouth is particularly grotesque. I never noticed until now that the prop implies there are actuators in the face - there are two wiring harnesses running to them, although we never get to see them. It doesn't really make a lot of sense from an engineer's perspective, but it's still pretty creepy.
Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man had a prop leg or arm in the intro, I can’t remember which that was cool and creepy to me.
Classic film
Alan Oppenheimer Being All Pre Skeletor.
@ 10:31 *THANK YOU*
Loved season 1 and then..... *WTF?!?*
If the air runs out in the control room, then open up the fire escape door to get some air.
helo stamfine Michael Crichton is a "Visionary" an Analog seer predicting a digital future a superlative Creator master of Worlds which can be enliven retold re-imagined so rich yet concise is his prose
They did NOT have flat screen cellphones during those times , you guys added that on in this video clip I know 🤣
Funny how the concept of having sex with robots never tires.
Something in that for all of us.
It's not very clear in your review, but does this film feature people banging robots?
This scenario isn't far away........
The recent WestWorld was really great but then they released series two . . .
Runaway was good too
1:19 Flat screen imagined in 1973 became reality in 1997.
josh Brolin character was he a Robot . was he bothering you '' hes not gonna bother uuuu again ...lol
I feel like this is a film I caught most of on BBC 2 late on a Friday while channel hopping. Looks alright
You are like the Clive James of youtubers
Very obviously they are more conserned with losing money than with people's lives (again much like in ROBOCOP the board room scene)
It was great when I was a kid. Then I saw it years later as an adult and yeah, it kind of sucked. Great idea, but not well made at all. I still think so much more could be done with it. It needs to be made into a 90-minute movie and not some HBO concept series. It's a great premise that doesn't have to be another Jurassic Park with robots.
Dont 4 Get Snek He was a Big Part of this success
I just watched this and it was good
Yul Brynner.. The first TERMINATOR.
Brynner was an OSS officer in WWII. He assassinated several key German generals, then dropped into Japan to kidnap Tojo.
And now, some actual facts:
''During World War II Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer and commentator for the US Office of War Information, broadcasting to occupied France. He also worked for the Voice of America, broadcasting in Russian to the Soviet Union during WWII. At the same time, during the war years, he studied acting in Connecticut with the Russian actor Michael Chekhov, and also worked as a truck driver and stage hand for Chekhov's theatre company.''