Futureworld (1976). Westworld Side Story
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- #westworld #HBOWestworld #70smovies #70s
Stam Fine Reviews Futureworld, the 1976 sequel to the 1973 film, Westworld. Futureworld shows two journalists researching the Delos resort that was the site of the massacre at Westworld a few years earlier. Futureworld is a resort where you can ride in a rocket, go skiing on Mars, and sleep with robots. Directed by Richard T Heffron. Stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner. - Розваги
It's a good job that we have that "I'm not a robot" tick box to prevent this sort of thing from happening today
Robots surely could pick all of the pictures containg bicycles.
@@zeroman614 It's not about actually selecting the correct images but how you move your mouse and your previous search history etc
The bit where he tells the poker robot goodbye was heartbreaking
8:12 Greatest Movie Ending EVER . . .Peter Fonda flips the Middle Finger to the Bad Guy - What Great Screenwriting !
" Rock 'em, Sock 'em, F*** 'em Robots!"
😂 Awesome as usual, Stam!
nice!
It took a minute to realize I'd seen this a few years ago. But having grown up in the '80s it was a nice nostalgia trip with the look, sound, and feel of my first decade.
"In Futureworld, nothing can possiply go wrong...well, what do you know...that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong."
After the disaster of Westworld and its rogue robots they take a big chance.
PossIb-LIE.
I remember the newspaper ads to see this movie at theaters on 42nd street.
I have a memory of seeing this as a kid on TV, without having seen Westworld.
Futureworld is currently streaming on tubi.
I remember this movie coming out at the theatre I worked at in '76 but tbh, I needed to be reminded by this video, thanks!
4.06 Gotta love that guys enthusiasm for banging robots. Lol! I'm sure the Mechanicus from Warhammer 40k would approve.
Hi Stam, another good look through my dusty memory core and finding a gem of my youth. I saw this in the theaters in the 70's and was one of the first movies I taped on VHS when I get my new machine. Your observations and analysis are mostly spot-on, even if I hold a higher regard for this little movie than you do. That was a good point you made about how it was not a simple retread of the original, but rather makes it into a conspiracy thriller. Remember that conspiracy thrillers were all the rage at the time due to the zeitgeist of the moment (Watergate, et al). I appreciate the evolution of the concept from 'robots that went crazy in the park' to 'robots are now in charge of the park.' Thanks again for another great video and keep watching!
Another great one. Thanks ❤
"Westworld Side Story" - Outdid yourself on clever. Love it. The film itself...every time I watch it I hope it will be better than I remembered.
Realistic imitation of a bedspread! Nice😎
Guilty pleasure! Wonderful mid-70s kitsch!
Saw this when it came out and I was only 7. All I can remember was that shot of them skiing.... on Mars????
I appreciate it now more than I did then. By then I mean the days of video rentals or when I was home sick from school and it was on TV (possiblypart of double feature at drive-in). I was only 5 when it came out.
Saw this on Network tv, when I was young, visiting my Grandmother in the hospital (but not allowed to go up to her room). I think you nailed it pretty well. It has a tv movie look, comparable to The Six Million Dollar Man and Genesis II and similar level of actors in it. Blythe Danner was always a better actor than her daughter; but, wasn't exactly Meryl Streep, either. Peter was no Jane or his father and had been coasting on earlier successes, for a while. he had also done a car chase/counter culture film, Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry, which has more charm to it, but really wouldn't put in a really good performance until Ulee's Gold, where he essentially played his father and how cold he was with his kids.
There was also a tv movie around this time frame, called Earth II, with Gary Lockwood, that had a similar look to things, but is set on a space station, orbiting the Earth, which is a sovereign nation. I saw it as a kid and for a long time, had these two films confused, remembering parts from one and parts from the other, believing they were in the same film, until I was an adult and found Futureworld in a video store and rented it.
These videos are always great
"he's a little stiff but fortunately not in this scene". Well played Sir.
Unexpected. "A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one." - Chancellor McDermott Mulroney. I never ever expected to see a movie review of this 🎥 I saw in my early teens.
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
Crisswell predicts! 😂
Whatever else can be said about Futureworld, I did love Yul Brynner's gunslinger getting a cameo.
Thank you! This was really good fun.
The shot with the materializing samurai is a great example of the Rule of Cool overriding any coherence the movie might have had. What... the Delos conspiracy has working teleporters? Or some kind of Star Trek replicators that can materialize any object desired? Aren't large chunks of the plot unnecessary in that case? Shouldn't the movie be about *that*? But it's just this one shot and the detail is never mentioned again.
Some of the early CGI shots used in this movie were preexisting shorts made as experiments in the development of the techniques we take for granted today. The CGI hand that appears in some scenes is literally Ed Catmull's hand, digitized from the coordinates of a carefully measured plaster cast. Catmull went on to be a co-founder of Pixar and president of Walt Disney Animation.
(More generally, I never got the sense that the writers of "Futureworld" had a good handle on which of the details of Delos's imaginary lands were supposed to be "real" and what was just a Disney-park-style illusion. In "Westworld", the explanations of things didn't necessarily make sense, but the script at least seemed to be aware of where the boundaries were.)
I loved that movie..as kid. Maybe I would see it differently today.
Cheers Stam, this looks like a fun wee retro night in with the chums. Or the clones.
This bloody video cost me $240 when I "accidentally" lost/kept it when I rented it from my local video rental place
Was it worth the price?
@@neilchapman5145 yes and no. The lecture I copped off my mum at the age of 15 still makes me tremor.
BUT owning a movie like that in the age when you couldn't go buy ANYTHING but crap everyone else owned was special too me.
So yes it was definitely worth it 😁
Oh, the early days of HBO. That's where I first saw this movie.
The only thing I remember was the one finger salute at the end. Weird memory to retain after all these years
Haha I love your comedy narration! Very funny! Yes this movie was a pale effort compared to the original, but I remember liking it well enough as a lad.
This is the best American International production of the 70s. 10:24 - a snippet of CGI made by future Pixar artists. 10:44 - a snippet of images read from a human mind and shown on a monitor. Futureworld imagined taking a look inside the mind, so did Logan's Run but not as good.
Please do Michael Crichton's Looker (1981). Lots to unpick with that movie. It's not the easiest to track down right enough.
If anything, that movie is more relevant today than ever with CGI and AI approaching the point where replacing actors may become reality. The hypnosis/subliminal and world domination bit is still fiction, but I think it's clear you don't need those to quell the population and convince them of anything.
Good choice. I hope he talks about the glaring plot hole introduced in editing Looker. It makes no sense at all because one line was removed.
@@Livingdiceman it's a mess of a movie, but a fascinating mess.
Susan Dey was starkers. That made the film very watchable for teenage me.
Yul Brenner, yes. A dull brenner, never!
I'm going to have to find this to watch.
I love this movie. I think I saw it at Christmas, on ITV, around 1983/4?
I think the other problem with this movie is that the scenario is a bit too close to The Stepford Wives to feel original.
Well this was before my time but I dint know Westworld had more than one entry in film/TV before the HBO version.
The generally flat lighting makes it look cheap and televisual. Ed Catmuls early CGI hand seen here, was also in West World. The pixilated images representing Yul Brynner's POV in West World was a CGI effect. Strangely the faceless Clarke robot is quite moving...
I remember when I was a kid I had my first video recorder ( those were the days )
I recorderd this film on a late night showing and I enjoyed it
I saw this before Westworld
A park going wrong, now was that idea used again 😂
I watched this when I was 10 years old with my older brother, and I loved it. I watched it again last month (38 years later) and I thought it was total shit. Not a patch on the first film.
"Westworld side story" 😂 maybe your best title ever.
Futureworld was a great film!
very interesting review
How the hell have I never heard of this movie?
I absolutely hated the dream sequence in this and the fact that Fonder's character kept calling the Actresses character "socks"
I loved Stuart Margolin's appearance on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast where Gilbert repeatedly complimented him on being so professional at leering.
Gilbert's show is a treasure trove of ideas for forgotten series and films, btw.
Now you've done this, its time for Welcome To Blood City matey. Similar premise to Wetsworld and it's got Jack 'King of Overacting' Palance in it.
Apparently George Lucas had to change his approach to 3d chess game in Star Wars after seeing what they did in futureworld
That stop motion looked way more fun than the actors in here though! 😁
If they'd stuck with the robots going rogue, then Crichton wouldn't have bailed...
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I remember seeing this as part of a double-bill way back when but I cannot remember what the main feature was!
I think it was The People That Time Forgot!
I wonder if we can get the rumor going that the FutureWorld and Class of 1999 universes are linked because John P. Ryan appears in both as a robot character....
Never saw it; loved this - especially the wood chucking episode. ps Gwyneth's mum comes over as much more desirable than her daughter but then I haven't... [continued page 94]
Truth be told... I was never over impressed with either of these movies. Perhaps if I were more "of tge time" the idea would have carried me through but I grew up in the 80s where the trope was old hat. Both were just "okay" to me. I'd watch them if they were on tv but I'd never search them out.
Yeah, the movies weren't that good. I heard the TV show is way better.
I thought of "Westworld" as kind of an unusually entertaining B movie with some decent ideas in it, and "Futureworld" as badly logic-impaired, like they didn't 100% understand the movie they were making a sequel to. I do agree with Stam Fine that the conspiracy plot means they're at least doing something a bit different rather than just a rehash of the first one.
It's a shame they didn't create robot dinosaurs. They could have called it Jurassic World.
I've always figured Jurassic Park was basically just Crichton going back to the Westworld well, emphasizing the parts he was most interested in--the "hubristic technology runs amok at a theme park" angle, rather than anything specifically about artificial intelligence, robots or sex.
A flat sequel that's not terrible. It would be the best summer TV movie. Since everything on in the summer is terrible. I accidentally watched it thinking it was Westworld & couldn't figure out why everyone loved Westworld.
I am adding “Eromical” to my lexicon.
Soon, it will be a perfectly cromulent word.
I like this one better than Westworld.
Future 7 Days
That’s the mum from Meet the Parents!
That’s my big takeaway from this flick
This is off-topic, but Hurricane Beryl wouldn't happen to be your auntie, would she?
she does go by that nickname in the world of pro wrestling, but she's not a weather event, yet.
I'm still waiting for a Westworld / Futureworld / Samuraiworld video game in the same style as Fallout.
A wrinkle the recent TV series added was that they'd thought about it as a LARP structurally based on modern open-world video games, with NPCs that gave you missions, scheduled events, etc.
Bot Fiends Forever🤞
Peter Fonda looks just like Michael Creighton did in the mid 70s. Coincidence or sticking it to him?
Is it my imagination or did Stam go through a whole review without once mentioning Auntie Beryl?
This movie might have kind of sucked, but HBO’s Westwood was great.
Pop a bot on it!
a new one?!?!
I saw this garbage at the cinema back in '76. Not only did it feel like a made-for-TV movie, it was boring!
*NB:* Stam claims the un-special effects were good for 1976, forgetting that _The Six Million Dollar Man_ had already been out since 1974 which these effects bear an uncanny resemblance to.
We hoped they'd do Council Estate World next. Car chases burglars and so on.😅😅
It is a fun film, but pales in comparison to Westworld!
I think the mega blockbusters and inflation have skewed you're opinion of what is successful. Westworld cost $1.2 million to make and pulled down $10 million at the box office. A 9-1 return is usually considered VERY successful for most businesses and it's the same for movies no mater what year the film is made.
Yeah, that's definitely a big hit even if you factor in marketing.
12:37 Legotechnic ?
Westworld was good, fun. Futureworld was BORING.
This one is a guilty pleasure for sure. Still better scifi than Discovery...
I HOPE THIS MEANS 'SEXWORLD" IS NEXT ON THE DOCKET!!! 🤣
The actual science fiction here is the notion that Henry Fonda can act.
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel was a bigger disaster than Futureworld.
Robots might kill you, but at least they dont unionise.