― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not what you think I amI'm the king of SiamI've got a bald headMy name is Yul BrynnerAnd I am a famous movie star
Perhaps you saw me in WestworldI acted like a robotic cowboyIt was my best roleI can not deny I Felt right home deep insideThat electronic carcass
You're such monumental slimeLet the punishment fit the crimeTie it to a chairThe house music will blareAnd turn your ears intoA medicinal jelly
Stay inside on Christmas DayAnd make believe that you are my candy caneYou said, "I'm not that type,No I'm not sweet, and I'm not overripe
Bob Dylan sang in"Its alright mama im only bleeding": "Everything from toy guns that spark to flesh colored Christs that glow in the darkIts easy to see we got in too far and not much is really sacred."
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.ukquad.com/futureworld.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.misterposter.com/test/images/dettaglio/F085d-FUTUREWORLD2000ANNINELFUTURO-2F.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
but still, these are awesome.
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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).
― Eisbär (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazed this hasn't been remade yet. Happy it hasn't but seems like a surefire property for a cgi happy retread.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Just now remembering exactly how postmodern this movie is.
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://decider.com/2015/09/30/hbo-westworld-graphic-sex-scenes
This document serves to inform you that this project will require you to be fully nude and/or witness others fully nude and participate in graphic sexual situations. By accepting this Project assignment, you may be required to do any of the following: appear fully nude; wear a pubic hair patch; perform genital-to-genital touching; have your genitals painted; simulate oral sex with hand-to-genital touching; contort to form a table-like shape while being fully nude; pose on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back; ride on someone’s back while you are both fully nude; and other assorted acts the Project may require. The Project will also include language and sexual situations that some may consider personally objectionable or uncomfortable.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
it was on (perhaps only UK) Netflix at least for a little bit. i must admit though I couldn't finish it.
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
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...
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...
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
Futureworld currently available as a Region 2 DVD in Fopp for £3
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 1 October 2015 13:30 (eight years ago) link
who the hell was demanding an HBO series of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX3u0IlBBO4
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 June 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
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
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 5 September 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
the cast means i'll def check out the first few episodes
im a big fan of jeffrey wright recently
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 September 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
I rewatched the film a few months ago, it is not "great."
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 September 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
i did like how Dick van Patten has maybe the 5th-biggest role, and perhaps 10-12 lines of dialogue
Yul is awesome obviously
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 September 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link
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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― Number None, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
someone told me ed brubaker is a writer on this... true?
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
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
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
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
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 October 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
Oh maybe next week they'll use string arrangements of songs that have the color "blue" or "white!"
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 October 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
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 nowIf 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
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 October 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
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?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 October 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 3 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
imo Anthony Hopkins is the surprise android out there in the world, and the original creator is in cold storage or dead somewhere
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Monday, 3 October 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
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
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EDCBW3B.jpg1880s American Psycho
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
"check all the snake central mechanisms during tonight's repair period."
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
this is about like sex robots in the old west or something right
― Treeship, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
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
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
You are making me not want to watch this
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
I should get paid
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link
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
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
the last scene was telegraphed throughout the entire first episode but was still satisfying
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
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?
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
well, he's dead
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
haha
i don't keep track, i assume it was some horrible theme-park mishap
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
I expressed somewhat positive thoughts halfway through season 3 upthread, but by the end, even I wasn't really enjoying it. It's become such a dumb show. I'm surprised they renewed for S4 after S3 was universally hated but maybe they made the decision early
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
This show was terrible, a more expensive version of some random SyFy series shot in Vancouver, but what kept me watching is the bizarre way the show clearly thinks of itself as good, and in some ways it instantiates the themes it clumsily keeps expositing; it is an artificial product built to provide cheap, repetitive pleasures that is slowly coming to concede it is not the real thing― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, December 28, 2020 10:00 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, December 28, 2020 10:00 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
I stand by this judgment as an explanation of why I sat through all of the dire s3 and will do it again for s4
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:33 (two years ago) link
^^^
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
Anyone still watching?
First episode was..ok?
And possibly all in the same timeline? Although I guess 'Christina's' world could be distinct?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
I thought it was a decent first episode. I've pretty much completely forgotten what happened last season and I'm sure that's probably for the best.
From what I could tell, it's same timeline, 8 years down the road, and confirmed in an article that ERW is now playing a completely new character unconnected to Dolores (or at least that's what they are telling the press at this point)
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
It’s getting really good. It’s such a relief to not regret sticking around for this season.
I would love a webisode where they show us what Stubbs did to kill time while waiting for X years while waiting for Bernard to wake up. Maybe a montage of Stubbs playing solitaire, doing push-ups, battling raiders, reading “War & Peace,” etc.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 18 July 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link
Are there enough people watching this to care about spoiler tags here?
― mh, Monday, 18 July 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 04:04 (one year ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 05:55 (one year ago) link
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.
― mh, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 August 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
that season finale was uh, not good
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 15 August 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
i stopped after season 3 and was considering going back, this news is making me reconsider
― akm, Monday, 15 August 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
Felt like an end but most media outlets seem to think there'll be one more final season xp
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 07:33 (one year ago) link
i stopped watching in s1 did they fuck any robots yet
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 07:51 (one year ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:28 (one year ago) link
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.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link
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.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link
A lot of my fascination with WW after the great S1 has been wondering how it has continued to exist at all.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 11:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
This season has been a roller coaster and I haven't even watched it yet - just read people's reactions
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 08:58 (one year ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 05:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 10 September 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
I’m actually relieved.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-cancels-westworld-1235255955/amp/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
I didn’t even realize they’d done a 4th season
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
Maybe for the best, good chance it'd just be another half-baked season
― Vinnie, Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
is there any reason to watch the last season of this?
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
Not really. Started out ok but got progressively worse as it went on.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 5 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
^^ otm
Was considering a rewatch of the first season but, uh, apparently Max also wiped this show.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 June 2023 17:06 (ten months ago) link
I can't remember another show that started out so highly regarded and crashed so spectacularly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 29 June 2023 17:46 (ten months ago) link
I have season one on DVD, which, you know … that’s the best season.
(Season two has moments.)
jimbeaux OTM
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 June 2023 18:28 (ten months ago) link
Jon, check your local library.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 June 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link
The last season of this kind of feels like it was a dream I had
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 30 June 2023 04:05 (ten months ago) link
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!
― octobeard, Friday, 30 June 2023 20:53 (ten months ago) link