Futureworld (1976). Westworld Side Story

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Futureworld (1976). Westworld Side Story

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Stam Fine Reviews Futureworld, the 1976 sequel to the 1973 film, Westworld. Futureworld shows two journalists researching the Delos resort that was the site of the massacre at Westworld a few years earlier. Futureworld is a resort where you can ride in a rocket, go skiing on Mars, and sleep with robots. Directed by Richard T Heffron. Stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner.

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@andrewwitty6116 Ай бұрын

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

@zeroman614 Ай бұрын

Robots surely could pick all of the pictures containg bicycles.

@rebbekahcannons9805 Ай бұрын

@@zeroman614 It's not about actually selecting the correct images but how you move your mouse and your previous search history etc

@supermanprime6758 Ай бұрын

The bit where he tells the poker robot goodbye was heartbreaking

@btk1243 Ай бұрын

8:12 Greatest Movie Ending EVER . . .Peter Fonda flips the Middle Finger to the Bad Guy - What Great Screenwriting !

@Dzztzt Ай бұрын

Futureworld is currently streaming on tubi.

@ricardocantoral7672 Ай бұрын

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

@StamFine Ай бұрын

nice!

@TheDukeofMadness Ай бұрын

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

@duncancurtis5108 Ай бұрын

After the disaster of Westworld and its rogue robots they take a big chance.

@Derpy1969 Ай бұрын

PossIb-LIE.

@catsupchutney Ай бұрын

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

@johnobrien8773 Ай бұрын

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.

@madmat6467 Ай бұрын

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!

@daverage4729 Ай бұрын

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

@GrandAdmThrawn Ай бұрын

Another great one. Thanks ❤

@hardyboy1959 Ай бұрын

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!

@jeffnettleton3858 Ай бұрын

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.

@lorenclarke7815 Ай бұрын

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.

@bensneb360 Ай бұрын

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

@RighteousBrother Ай бұрын

Crisswell predicts! 😂

@michaelcarbone6101 Ай бұрын

Realistic imitation of a bedspread! Nice😎

@Bawookles Ай бұрын

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

@ScuzzMB Ай бұрын

"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.

@STEVEC66 Ай бұрын

"he's a little stiff but fortunately not in this scene". Well played Sir.

@StruStru2k Ай бұрын

These videos are always great

@acrovader Ай бұрын

Guilty pleasure! Wonderful mid-70s kitsch!

@MattMcIrvin Ай бұрын

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.

@MattMcIrvin Ай бұрын

(More generally, I never got the sense that the writers of "Futureworld" had a good handle on which of the details of Delos's imaginary lands were supposed to be "real" and what was just a Disney-park-style illusion. In "Westworld", the explanations of things didn't necessarily make sense, but the script at least seemed to be aware of where the boundaries were.)

@jameswalker5796 Ай бұрын

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

@debbierussell1495 Ай бұрын

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

@carlrood4457 Ай бұрын

If anything, that movie is more relevant today than ever with CGI and AI approaching the point where replacing actors may become reality. The hypnosis/subliminal and world domination bit is still fiction, but I think it's clear you don't need those to quell the population and convince them of anything.

@Livingdiceman Ай бұрын

Good choice. I hope he talks about the glaring plot hole introduced in editing Looker. It makes no sense at all because one line was removed.

@debbierussell1495 Ай бұрын

@@Livingdiceman it's a mess of a movie, but a fascinating mess.

@KJ-of6lf Ай бұрын

Susan Dey was starkers. That made the film very watchable for teenage me.

@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882 Ай бұрын

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.

@philcrowley Ай бұрын

Thank you! This was really good fun.

@AllanGildea Ай бұрын

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

@lancebaylis3169 29 күн бұрын

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

@Flippin-mad Ай бұрын

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

@neilchapman5145 Ай бұрын

Was it worth the price?

@Flippin-mad Ай бұрын

@@neilchapman5145 yes and no. The lecture I copped off my mum at the age of 15 still makes me tremor. BUT owning a movie like that in the age when you couldn't go buy ANYTHING but crap everyone else owned was special too me. So yes it was definitely worth it 😁

@SwissTanuki Ай бұрын

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

@nutherefurlong Ай бұрын

The only thing I remember was the one finger salute at the end. Weird memory to retain after all these years

@carlrood4457 Ай бұрын

Oh, the early days of HBO. That's where I first saw this movie.

@nevillevonschlaffenberg7998 Ай бұрын

Yul Brenner, yes. A dull brenner, never!

@ptonpc Ай бұрын

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

@darahdoyle3176 Ай бұрын

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.

@jasonblalock4429 Ай бұрын

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

@agl1138 Ай бұрын

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

@rickriffel6246 Ай бұрын

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.

@Alkeeros Ай бұрын

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

@portland-182 Ай бұрын

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...

@jw4499 Ай бұрын

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 😂

@dmontes133 Ай бұрын

Futureworld was a great film!

@rongray655 Ай бұрын

How the hell have I never heard of this movie?

@jimjam51075 Ай бұрын

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.

@2157AF Ай бұрын

very interesting review

@shinyphil87 Ай бұрын

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.

@TheThirdThomas Ай бұрын

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

@thedtvdigest4142 Ай бұрын

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

@thedtvdigest4142 Ай бұрын

I think it was The People That Time Forgot!

@neiltaylor6645 Ай бұрын

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

@kaitlyn__L Ай бұрын

That stop motion looked way more fun than the actors in here though! 😁

@martinsear5470 Ай бұрын

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.

@stephenevans6070 Ай бұрын

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

@davefb Ай бұрын

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

@briansays2286 Ай бұрын

Descent Film⚡

@goodcitizen477 Ай бұрын

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....

@TimothyCollins Ай бұрын

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.

@ricardocantoral7672 Ай бұрын

Yeah, the movies weren't that good. I heard the TV show is way better.

@MattMcIrvin Ай бұрын

I thought of "Westworld" as kind of an unusually entertaining B movie with some decent ideas in it, and "Futureworld" as badly logic-impaired, like they didn't 100% understand the movie they were making a sequel to. I do agree with Stam Fine that the conspiracy plot means they're at least doing something a bit different rather than just a rehash of the first one.

@SubTroppo Ай бұрын

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]

@zeroman614 Ай бұрын

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

@thebaccathatchews Ай бұрын

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

@MattMcIrvin Ай бұрын

I've always figured Jurassic Park was basically just Crichton going back to the Westworld well, emphasizing the parts he was most interested in--the "hubristic technology runs amok at a theme park" angle, rather than anything specifically about artificial intelligence, robots or sex.

@l.a.gothro3999 Ай бұрын

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

@StamFine Ай бұрын

she does go by that nickname in the world of pro wrestling, but she's not a weather event, yet.

@Derpy1969 Ай бұрын

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

@RKingis Ай бұрын

I like this one better than Westworld.

@torchwood00 Ай бұрын

Future 7 Days

@rubberneckinc.8937 Ай бұрын

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.

@Derpy1969 Ай бұрын

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

@TheBeird Ай бұрын

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

@safebox36 Ай бұрын

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

@MattMcIrvin Ай бұрын

A wrinkle the recent TV series added was that they'd thought about it as a LARP structurally based on modern open-world video games, with NPCs that gave you missions, scheduled events, etc.

@deathlokprime2645 Ай бұрын

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

@Drew791 Ай бұрын

Bot Fiends Forever🤞

@tim2024-df5fu Ай бұрын

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.

@ricardocantoral7672 Ай бұрын

Yeah, that's definitely a big hit even if you factor in marketing.

@RedCatHabitat Ай бұрын

a new one?!?!

@beatrixwickson8477 Ай бұрын

Pop a bot on it!

@davebooshty299 Ай бұрын

12:37 Legotechnic ?

@SmartCookie2022 Ай бұрын

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.