should i watch this ??
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
no
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/cab-passing-woman-in-times-square-at-night-high-res-stock-photography/121343866
― Number None, Thursday, December 8, 2016 1:19 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Link isn't working for me
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, December 8, 2016 2:03 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
does it not look like anything to you
― goole, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
it's just this picture of nothingness, kind of like the blank spot I feel in my heart since family was killed by bandits
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
TY g∞n
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
np
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
http://68.media.tumblr.com/790f39707dc7122bccc7b147b987af49/tumblr_oex78fUzrd1tj2c2mo1_1280.pnghttp://media.gettyimages.com/photos/cab-passing-woman-in-times-square-at-night-picture-id121343866
― slam dunk, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
some days it's good to read the last few posts before you do that
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
so sad that woman killed herself though
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
rip too fine to live
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
We've blasted through the first...7, I think? episodes over the last several days. Very engrossing as entertainment while, I fear, maybe pretty dumb in its plotting and world building (I guess we'll see how things ultimately shake out). Mostly, I'm greatly enjoying it as a show that follows a couple of androids on their journey toward self-awareness (Wood and Newton are fantastic), and the rest is mostly post-L O S T window dressing.
― The Pleasure Principal (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
people who are still watching this or plan to do shouldn't read this thread because it's spoilers all over the place !
regarding the soundtrack, I really like the Radiohead's "exit music" instrumental version. I like it more than Radiohead's version, actually, which has never been a favourite.It has a morricone feeling, it's dark and moving and fits perfectly with the final scene, which somehow might be my favourite moment of the whole season !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link
So the consensus here is that this was bad? You guys are weird. I thought the ending was pretty satisfying. This mostly worked for me as a developmental psychology narrative with a side of shooting + boobies.
― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
It was fine. By the end I was sort of wishing this whole season had just been a preamble/prologue movie a la the BSG "pilot" (which wasn't very good, but saved them a ton of exposition time and let them get straight to the point with the first proper episode)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 16 December 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
I got a good reality cross-check when my previous manager at work walked by my desk last week and exclaimed, "Have you seen Westworld? Wasn't that great?"
― mh 😏, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
WW is the new MBDTF
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
I made the mistake of briefly chiming in when people were discussing this in my office and now I have a coworker emailing me theories they found.
― Evan, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
I don't even know what there is to really theorize about at this point, beyond like 'what are the other Worlds?'. Most of the big questions were resolved.
― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I didn't read the email so I'm not really sure what it was a theory of exactly, at this point.
― Evan, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
do the robots fuck each other when no guests are around
― mh 😏, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Do the robots have hollowed-out control rooms inside their heads that are operated by tinier robots?
― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Is Westworld itself actually a giant robot?
― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 December 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
is westworld just dumb or what??
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
we've seen them do this!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 17 December 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
yeah man but we were watching it. fourth wall
― mh 😏, Saturday, 17 December 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
fifth wall, the robot wall
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
hmm yeah
― mh 😏, Saturday, 17 December 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
If two robots fuck in an amusement park with no one there to see them....
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 17 December 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
Do androids ream electric sheep?
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Saturday, 17 December 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
applause
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
So I just finished ep 7 (the big Ford/Bernard revelation) and it was really bad, like either the writing dropped off a cliff or the change in focus of the showmade it harder to ignore the bad writing and just roll with the exploration and weird shit. Is this worth 3 more hours? I found the first 5 episodes fun as hell even if it was all kind of dumb. Does it become fun to watch again or am i in for nothing but boring people having ponderous conversations about the important themes of the robot sex playground?
― JoeStork, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
the apex of the show for me was when the bird lands on Maeve's finger and then CLIFFHANGER; couldn't wait to see what happened next and i shoulda just stopped there.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
iow the latter, not the former
Pretty much what I expected
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
This series needed a bit of humor. It's all so dire and sad. It kind of reminded me of the last couple years of Battlestar Galactica meets Red Shoes Diaries.
Best episode was #4 when the Maeve realized she was 'living in a dream'. It's the only episode that I thought worked on it's own. She was really the only character that was all that interesting as everyone else is so flat and reserved.
For TV scifi, it is pretty middling. It has to be considered a disappointment considering the budget.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
Got around to watching the film today. Hadn't realised it was directed by Crichton, knew he wrote it.That's got some flaws in it a bit similar to the tv show. AI in a mobile humanoid with the contemporary technology. When even the robot head is half hollow anyway.Robots shut down over night but guests still wake up next to them in the morning.It's an interesting idea but a bit of a bmovie.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
Saw the movie for the first time tonight. Other than the chase, which was typically four times longer than it needed to be, thought it was pretty good. Inspired casting with Brynner. Didn't think it took itself too seriously--some droll humour throughout--but it got its dystopian premise across in an interesting way, and maybe it was prophetic with the idea of computers infecting other computers, I don't know (were computer viruses common knowledge in 1973?). Spent the whole film trying to figure out where I knew this guy from:
http://www.cinemorgue2.com/alanoppenheimer1.jpg
Alan Oppenheimer: it was the Helter Skelter TV movie I was thinking of, but he also appears to have been in every single TV series made from about 1968-1980.
They played Futureworld right after, but I just wasn't going to last.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 03:46 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_(program) - 1971.
Colossus & Guardian decided to take all this shit over together back in 1966, though they cooperated as a pair.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 03:51 (seven years ago) link
Thanks. Figured Chrichton took it from somewhere...Maybe the movie was one of the first mainstream treatments?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link
what did you think of the "reaction guy" shots? the one who is a token meek person but wakes up next to the sex worker robot and breaks the fourth wall with his "oh, golly!" expression?
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link
You mean Dick Van Patten? I didn't give that any thought...I did like it when he played tough-guy sheriff and then fumbled with the door.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
hah, was it him? I thought it was some ridiculousness you wouldn't see in a purportedly serious film but was very of its time
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link
Finally watched this & enjoyed it overall. I think it made a good show of seeming smarter than it was at the beginning and maybe that's where the disappointment lies for some ppl? The level of bored over-it hatred itt doesn’t surprise me because lol ILX …but I think maybe y’all don’t watch nearly enough actual bad scifi.
Took a little while to hook me in though, maybe 3 or 4 episodes. For a while it just felt like well-dressed inscrutable people wandering around answering questions with questions. And like, I love Jeffrey Wright and he always brings 100% but at the same time, someone else observed elsewhere that he’s always “ACTING!” and I do find that mildly distracting. I got used to him but it took a while.
But I loved Dolores & Maeve, and I loved Ed Harris’s man in black. Dude shows up in every movie like he’s been that person his whole life. From the moment he showed up I bought 100% that he’s a badass villain cowboy yep yep no question. He’s the best.
I think the saddest part about revealing that MiB was William for me was remembering him talking about what he did to Maeve and Maeve-bot's daughter, just because he could...realizing just how far he'd strayed from the Dolores-loving white-hat he started out as.
I liked the tapestry of the way the various ‘mysteries’ were constructed, where things were revealed and stories remade and retold and then unmade and retold, it made for good watching imo. And I had no idea there were 3 timelines so now I have to go back and figure all of that out O_o
Mr Veg had tried a couple of times to show me the original Westworld movie when we were first married but I always fell asleep, so now I’m motivated to watch and stay awake :D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 April 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
I watched the movie & it was dope
But
Whoever decided not to make Brolin the hero instead of Dollar Store Randy fromThe Village People (ie not EVEN as handsome) wtf
Like wtf
I mean i get it he's city af and can barely ride a horse but fuckin Brolin has more charisma in his fkn cigarillo than that dude
And the robots just fall apart around him, he doesn even do anything
Srsly hate that guy
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 04:21 (seven years ago) link
I loved Ed Harris’s man in black. Dude shows up in every movie like he’s been that person his whole life. From the moment he showed up I bought 100% that he’s a badass villain cowboy yep yep no question. He’s the best.
otm
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 06:57 (seven years ago) link
TBF, it isn't a difficult role: just play cold and robotic. The crows nests do most of the work. I'll still remember him better as God in The Truman Show.
― Sanpaku, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Yeah so Netflix recently urped up the 2015 movie VICE, starring Bruce Willis. I started watching it in a fit of extreme boredom and and and....
1. It's about an artificial paradise created by a wealthy corporation.
2. Rich people can go in there and do whatever they want.
3. News flash! It's mostly sex, violence, and violent sex.
4. It is staffed by androids whose flesh and blood are realistic. Guests can kill them, fuck them, fuck + kill them, or kill + fuck them.
5. The androids' memories are routinely wiped so they can be sent back into a neverending loop of pre-scripted action.
6. Not all is as it seems, and some people are skeptical about whether it is a harmless playground.
7. The rich company that runs this enterprise is so economically powerful that outside authorities are reluctant to question its affairs.
8. One of the hawtt female androids has been brutally "killed."
9. When she's being repaired to return to service, she WAKES UP ON THE OPERATING TABLE. I know, right? Can you believe it?
10. The technician repairing her is freaked out, but is also kind of intrigued. Another technician is cavalier and attempts to dissuade technician #1 from caring about "their" feelings.
11. Though her memory has ostensibly been wiped, she - get this - HAS FLASHBACKS to the previous traumatic episode.
It is at that point that I turned off the movie but I'll give you three guesses about what it reminded me of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(2015_film)
― kajagoogoo's kazooist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 June 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
what can go worng?
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/15/disney-is-opening-an-immersive-star-wars-hotel-where-each-guest-gets-a-storyline
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
if i can't kill goofy, dnw
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 17 July 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
season 2 is upon us. first ep happened.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 23 April 2018 06:29 (five years ago) link