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
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.
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
@@LA_HA This is the 2016 interview where Arnold talks about "Westworld" and "Terminator": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rf6gO6jxcXA.html
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 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.
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.
“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?” 😂
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 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.
For some crazy reason my young parents took me to see this in the theater. I was five. When the villains face came off I apparently screamed bloody murder. A completely understandable reaction in my opinion. Don't need to be a child psychologist to understand that.
I was in a daycare center when I was 9 because both parents worked and they took us to see this. They pulled us out near the end though as they feared it was too much. I was not happy as I'd been loving it. Fortunately my twelve years older brother took me to see the whole thing that weekend and I really liked it.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Fun Fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger used the Robot portrayal of Yule Brenner to base his physical movement of the Terminator robot. SO it's funny to hear you guys refer to the Westworld robot going rouge as acting like a Terminator.
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.
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.
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
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 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...
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'.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 stopped watching WestWorld after season 2. It was completely nonsensical. First season is great though. BTW guys what happened to James Bond? Are we getting any more?
I'm not the biggest fan of this flick. I only watched originally to see Yul Brynner's performance. But to rate it based (partially?) on how a decades later TV show handled the same issues is absurd. In 1973, the issues of artificial intelligence hadn't developed and seemed as threatening as today. Not withstanding that, the ratings are about right based strictly on what the film is trying to do.
My 2 cents - It's really unfair to compare a movie to the first season of a TV series, because the TV series has, like, ten times the amount of time to develop the story and characters. How on earth can one expect the movie to be as good at exploring the concept, characters and plot with those odds? Then add the fact that the TV series had the advantage of more than 4 decades of advancement in technology and development in filming techniques and you really cannot compare them at all. So I really think that Shaun's method of including how it holds up and how it compares is completely unfair. It’s like comparing a Smart TV to an old, monophonic radio and expecting the radio to be as good. But, like, that’s just my opinion, man. Still really enjoy your content, thank you.
This is a unique Crichton film because the movie wasn't based on any of his books; Crichton's original screenplay was published in book form at the same time the movie was released.
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 used to have an old celebrity bio book from the early 60s or late 50s. It said that no one really knew where yul Brynner was from, or if that was even his real name. He told different stories about his past. Mystery Man ☮️
When the rumours were leaking out about a reboot I instantly thought Vin Diesel acting as a kind of robotic riddick for the malfunctioning gun slinger robot.... Even his voice is perfect....very similar to yul Brynner. I grew up watching this film.... It was the subtle motions in yuls acting that sold him being a robot! Another Michael critchon film I would like to see rebooted it 'Runaway' it's a very down to earth view on malfunctioning everyday robots.
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.
First season of Westworld was one of the best seasons of television I've ever watched. Another Western you boys will absolutely love is DEADWOOD (perhaps you've already seen it?) 3 seasons and a movie. One of my favourites.
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.
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The scene where we see through the robot's eyes is really the first use of CGI we have ever seen in film. It was only 2D, but the process to achieve it with the limitations of computer technology at the time was really groundbreaking. I remember there was a video on YT about it, but forgot what it's called.
Getting trapped in the control room with no emergency release to get out In Case of an Emergency. Thats bad design work. No Fire Axes. Where's Cal-osha when you need them.
This SHOULD Have been remade as a big screen cinema film, & why not? EVERYTHING else has been remade or re-imagined. (very badly in recent history) Done properly lightening could strike twice, but it would take a very talented arty Director such as Paul Verhoeven, or David Cronenberg to really make it work, especially after the success of the recent television series, I'm surprised that it never happened.
What did you guys watch for Pride Month? Do you HAVE Pride Month in Great Britain or the United Kingdom or England or EndOfTheWorldTurnLeft? Of course you do. You're British. Being British and gay is redundant.. SORRY! JUST KIDDING! HONEST! ...
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.
Now that you have the great Westworld under your belts what about Deliverance? French Connection?: Cabaret? Westworld...Fun movie. Big inspiration to James Cameron. All of THEM influenced by the1951 original THE THING,, which provided the template for ALL scifi-Horror Suspence movies that were made after 1951.
Yes, the guns failed just like all the robots and the mainframe. I saw this film in the theater when I was 12. It blew people's minds. You can't compare a modern film to a vintage film. Westworld HBO was terrible because unlike the film, I had no connection to the characters. This film is really about man's desires creates a forbidden area which he should not go. Just because something can be engineered it doesn't mean you should build it. Like the A Bomb.
If you haven't already seen it, please react to another Josh Brolin film THE CAR. I've seen it at least five times, very fun show. Compared to Christine's possessed car movie, I MUCH prefer The Car. Sounds a silly movie but it draws you in, intense, really a very good show!
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.
How about some older SF&Fantasy that's actually quality? King Kong (1933) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Miranda (1948) Harvey (1950) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) The Thing From Another World (1951) The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Forbidden Planet (1956) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) The Time Machine (1960) Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Planet of the Apes (1968) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) Happy Accidents (2000) The Man from Earth (2007)
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
