Futureworld (1976). Westworld Side Story 

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

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 !

"In Futureworld, nothing can possiply go wrong...well, what do you know...that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong."

I remember the newspaper ads to see this movie at theaters on 42nd street.

Futureworld is currently streaming on tubi.

" Rock 'em, Sock 'em, F*** 'em Robots!" 😂 Awesome as usual, Stam!

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!

4.06 Gotta love that guys enthusiasm for banging robots. Lol! I'm sure the Mechanicus from Warhammer 40k would approve.

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.

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.

Saw this when it came out and I was only 7. All I can remember was that shot of them skiing.... on Mars????

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!

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Another great one. Thanks ❤

Realistic imitation of a bedspread! Nice😎

Guilty pleasure! Wonderful mid-70s kitsch!

"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.

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.

I have a memory of seeing this as a kid on TV, without having seen Westworld.

These videos are always great

Please do Michael Crichton's Looker (1981). Lots to unpick with that movie. It's not the easiest to track down right enough.

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.

"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.

Cheers Stam, this looks like a fun wee retro night in with the chums. Or the clones.

Thank you! This was really good fun.

This bloody video cost me $240 when I "accidentally" lost/kept it when I rented it from my local video rental place

Whatever else can be said about Futureworld, I did love Yul Brynner's gunslinger getting a cameo.

I loved that movie..as kid. Maybe I would see it differently today.

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

I think the other problem with this movie is that the scenario is a bit too close to The Stepford Wives to feel original.

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.

I love this movie. I think I saw it at Christmas, on ITV, around 1983/4?

Yul Brenner, yes. A dull brenner, never!

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...

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.

Well this was before my time but I dint know Westworld had more than one entry in film/TV before the HBO version.

How the hell have I never heard of this movie?

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.

I'm going to have to find this to watch.

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 😂

"Westworld side story" 😂 maybe your best title ever.

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.

I remember seeing this as part of a double-bill way back when but I cannot remember what the main feature was!

Futureworld was a great film!

very interesting review

I absolutely hated the dream sequence in this and the fact that Fonder's character kept calling the Actresses character "socks"

Apparently George Lucas had to change his approach to 3d chess game in Star Wars after seeing what they did in futureworld

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.

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.

If they'd stuck with the robots going rogue, then Crichton wouldn't have bailed...

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....

I am adding “Eromical” to my lexicon. Soon, it will be a perfectly cromulent word.

Descent Film⚡

It's a shame they didn't create robot dinosaurs. They could have called it Jurassic World.

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]

This is off-topic, but Hurricane Beryl wouldn't happen to be your auntie, would she?

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.

Peter Fonda looks just like Michael Creighton did in the mid 70s. Coincidence or sticking it to him?

This movie might have kind of sucked, but HBO’s Westwood was great.

That’s the mum from Meet the Parents! That’s my big takeaway from this flick

I like this one better than Westworld.

Future 7 Days

I'm still waiting for a Westworld / Futureworld / Samuraiworld video game in the same style as Fallout.

Is it my imagination or did Stam go through a whole review without once mentioning Auntie Beryl?

Bot Fiends Forever🤞

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.

Pop a bot on it!

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.

a new one?!?!

It is a fun film, but pales in comparison to Westworld!

We hoped they'd do Council Estate World next. Car chases burglars and so on.😅😅

Westworld was good, fun. Futureworld was BORING.

12:37 Legotechnic ?

This one is a guilty pleasure for sure. Still better scifi than Discovery...

The actual science fiction here is the notion that Henry Fonda can act.

I HOPE THIS MEANS 'SEXWORLD" IS NEXT ON THE DOCKET!!! 🤣

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel was a bigger disaster than Futureworld.

Robots might kill you, but at least they dont unionise.