WestWorld: ...Where nothing can possibly go worng!

http://www.misterposter.com/test/images/dettaglio/F085d-FUTUREWORLD2000ANNINELFUTURO-2F.jpg

but still, these are awesome.

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i can't seem to find futureworld on DVD anywhere (it isn't available on Netflix).

anyway, i wonder if crichton's death means that there won't be a remake after all -- the original is a fun little movie. the obvious comparison would be to jurassic park, but i wonder if westworld also had some influence on the terminator (to wit, the relentless robot that can't be stopped absent a malfunction) or even the nightmare on elm street series (yul brynner with his melting face and on fire seems very freddy krueger-esque).

Amazed this hasn't been remade yet. Happy it hasn't but seems like a surefire property for a cgi happy retread.

Just now remembering exactly how postmodern this movie is.

http://decider.com/2015/09/30/hbo-westworld-graphic-sex-scenes

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i can't seem to find futureworld on DVD anywhere (it isn't available on Netflix).

it was on (perhaps only UK) Netflix at least for a little bit. i must admit though I couldn't finish it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127862/

Sex World! Go on a spree.
Sex World! Come here with me.
All you desire, we have for hire;
You'll turn to fire, we guarantee.

Sex World! Do what you will.
Sex World! You'll have your fill.
Give us your trust; climb on our bus;
Leave the loving to us, so great it will be.

Sex World! Let's make a date.
Sex World! Don't hesitate.
You'll find your love, below or above,
At Sex World, my God! Just wait and see...

Futureworld currently available as a Region 2 DVD in Fopp for £3

who the hell was demanding an HBO series of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX3u0IlBBO4

Who's ready? I'm ready. The casting is so overcooked, this has nowhere to go but sideways. I can't imagine it being good.

Also, great chance to plug Artificial intelligence still has some way to go - the thread that will still be here when it stops being true

the cast means i'll def check out the first few episodes

im a big fan of jeffrey wright recently

I rewatched the film a few months ago, it is not "great."

i did like how Dick van Patten has maybe the 5th-biggest role, and perhaps 10-12 lines of dialogue

Yul is awesome obviously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Z__wbpDa4

yeah, I feel like there's almost no way this isn't incredibly stupid

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someone told me ed brubaker is a writer on this... true?

looks like it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Episodes

I've enjoyed Vincenzo Natali's tv directing work, so the episode that credits Brubaker as primary writer and him as director sounds promising

I think they may have broken some kind of record for Idiot Plot in a television series - only 40 minutes in and you have a dude interrupting his boss to say "Isn't this a Bad Idea?"
Followed by the schtick villain played by Ed Harris doing schtick and then uh

Oh maybe next week they'll use string arrangements of songs that have the color "blue" or "white!"

Anyway, I think I can dig it, even if it does turn out that Jeffrey Wright and/or Sidse Knudsen turn out to be robots, which btw I'm just calling that now
If they DO run with the color-by-song-title arranged-for-faux-period-instruments idea, I think I'll actually end up liking it even more

helped by the fact that I was expecting a hot mess, I enjoyed that. I wonder if it was the pilot or the subsequent episodes that HBO had to retool?

the review I read that said it was kind of formless for four episodes... what kind of narrative devices and exposition are these people looking for?

already starting to get the suspicion that stockpiling all your decommissioned androids in the basement, when the glitchy oldest models have been known to just "wake up," might not be the best idea

imo Anthony Hopkins is the surprise android out there in the world, and the original creator is in cold storage or dead somewhere

watching the original film, a couple of funny moments. The scientists / engineers around a table.. "in some cases the robots have been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work." ?! WHAT

James Brolin looks like Patrick Bateman

Yul Brynner so creepy

http://i.imgur.com/EDCBW3B.jpg
1880s American Psycho

"check all the snake central mechanisms during tonight's repair period."

this is about like sex robots in the old west or something right

I think post-LOST sci-fi television really needs to quit it with the obvious tvtropes.com twist-begging garbage. I want to like this show, but we're being set up for:

* There's a DELOS globe in the sub-basement. Delos destinations! So the old west is just one, hmm hmm wonder what else is out there

* None of the "guests" have any home life that we get to see - nobody really doing a departure from future NYC, nobody changing into their period wardrobe, etc. OMG IS IT EVEN ON EARTH? IS ANYONE oh oh oh oh

* Wait up folks what if they're ALL ROBOTS?

I desperately hope there's no pan away to space, no obvious reveal that Jeffrey Wright is really an android, or god forbid some bullshit about how Ed Harris is an antihero (as opposed to the other obvious non-twist that he's the human version of Yul Brenner's Gunslinger because SCRIPT - FLIPPED!)

There's a lot to be said for Mad Men pulling the Dick Whitman reveal early and then moving on from it. But that was a show ostensibly about a real period and with real events to serve as milestones for the characters. SF/near-future TV needs to try harder to be like The Expanse or even, yeah, Firefly, and get away from stunts altogether. The audience is too ready for it and that makes it impossible to enjoy.

And by "the audience" I mean me and by "impossible to enjoy" I mean I have fun watching it but the way I watch it is thoroughly tainted by an unruly compulsion to decipher the entire production as if it were some kind of goddamn cryptic crossword and I blame M. Night Shyamalan & Chuck Palahniuk for everything. People with five syllable names wtf

You are making me not want to watch this

I should get paid

The Simpsons parodied this book/movie when the family visited the Duff beer theme park. If you liked that episode, you might also like this movie. /amazon.comrecommends

the last scene was telegraphed throughout the entire first episode but was still satisfying

I see the only book was a novelization; it was an original screenplay by Crichton in '73. He has nothing directly to do with this series, right?

well, he's dead

haha

i don't keep track, i assume it was some horrible theme-park mishap

longer version would be that Abrams mentioned having talked to Crichton 20 years ago or so about remaking it as a movie but nothing came of it

I think he got some sort of weird climate change-related cancer, of which he did not believe

What I've read (spoilers?) said that in the first 4 eps provided to critics, there is no robot rampage/human death toll. The question the review raised is how a theme park robot rampage can sustain a series, let alone a second season.

season two is when the robot virus makes it to eastworld

i watched last night and was entertained.

tomboto's Lost reference above seems apt. i watched Lost. all of it. i groaned many times. in some ways it was really predictable and in others just completely nonsensical. sometimes it was a really fucking awesome show. i ordered pizza with friends and watched it together when new episodes came out and tolerated the one friend in the group who was way waaaaaay into Lost.

let's just hope westworld doesn't end up putting out the equivalent of a Jack's Tattoo episode, though

eastworld is the set of cheers

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=115066

I was wondering the same! I like this has gotten agreeably weird and I've given myself permission -- the show seems to have given me permission -- to not really care who anyone actually "is" at this point or what they're doing, it's all vibes

I haven't watched any of this season and don't know if I will but I feel that's the logical path for the show to take after the last season, where motivations for actions were impossible to decipher. I started enjoying the Hannibal TV show much more when it was obvious it wasn't going to make logical sense

Deep cut for the LOST heads:

Remember that show, and the character Michael who had such classic lines as "where's my boy?" and "WAAAAALT" and "I need to find my son!" (good lord did the writers do him dirty)

Well, in this show, Caleb is constantly worried about his wife and daughter. That daughter, in the many years later timeline, is played by Aurora Perrineau, the daughter of Harold Perrineau, who played Michael on LOST.

Such pretentious dreck! It is not even, exactly, a TV show at this point. Just a canvas against which familiar actors wander around trying to get their mouths around terrible lines and pronouncing them in ways that doesn't even sound like English as spoken by humans. Which I guess it is mostly in fact not supposed to be. I really have a sensation that they made a show for no one to watch for algorithmic reasons I can't understand.

that season finale was uh, not good

I’m not even gonna try to defend last night’s episode.

Kinda hoping Season 5 doesn’t happen after that, I’ve had enough.

i stopped after season 3 and was considering going back, this news is making me reconsider

Felt like an end but most media outlets seem to think there'll be one more final season xp

i stopped watching in s1 did they fuck any robots yet

yeah does seem to like itself a bit much dunnit.
But i did get through to the end.
Looks like Tessa Thompson had the right idea. & elegantly crushing one's own memory ball might be teh correct response to the prospect of another series.
But maybe they need to explain this one

I mean, if they do another season I’ll watch it with low expectations.

It would be cool if a noted author wrote a novelization of the whole series, fixing the various narrative problems and making it better, deeper, more fleshed out.

The whole concept is interesting, but it’s just so clunky and ridiculous in execution and ins and outs - a blockbuster, prestige cable series as envisioned by philosophers, theologians, set designers, stylists, executives, and effects people.

They needed someone in the writer’s room, a veteran of other shows, to be kind of an audience advocate and tell out, “hey, what the fuuuuuck” and head off some basic narrative bullshit that this show happily wandered through routinely.

A lot of my fascination with WW after the great S1 has been wondering how it has continued to exist at all.

There were a lot of things I found interesting about this season, and I might have been more harsh on the ending than necessary, but overall it was kind of a mess and the leaving a bunch of plot threads to the finale was probably not the best choice.

This season has been a roller coaster and I haven't even watched it yet - just read people's reactions

Did end up watching season 4, half because of the more positive reactions to the earlier episodes, half out of curiosity. Liked it more than I thought I would, my favorite season since the first. Found it much easier to understand what characters were trying to do and why than before, and it had a better-plotted story than the last season. Same strengths as before too: cool visuals/vibe/ideas even if they don't cohere. Decent series finale if it doesn't get another season. Lisa Joy is trying to push for the next one being the last tho

I liked how the end of this season went full anime. It got so bad that it wrapped around to good again.

This season, the characters repeated a few old catchphrases but otherwise everyone was playing a new character.

I’m actually relieved.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-cancels-westworld-1235255955/amp/

I didn’t even realize they’d done a 4th season

Maybe for the best, good chance it'd just be another half-baked season

is there any reason to watch the last season of this?

Not really. Started out ok but got progressively worse as it went on.

^^ otm

Was considering a rewatch of the first season but, uh, apparently Max also wiped this show.

I can't remember another show that started out so highly regarded and crashed so spectacularly.

I have season one on DVD, which, you know … that’s the best season.

(Season two has moments.)

jimbeaux OTM

Jon, check your local library.

The last season of this kind of feels like it was a dream I had

Last season would have been great to close out the series if they had a more cohesive and concise plot structure and tied up all the loose ends, but alas. Another show getting dragged well past its plot due date that can't compensate for the intrigue and mystery of season 1 once the scope expands. Season 2 felt like it dragged and so did season 3. Could have been so much better.

Here's hoping Severence doesn't fall into the same trap!