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Futureworld - 1976 - Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Japanese B2 Posters
I liked the part with the robots.
A fairly generic 70’s sci-fi, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Much like Westworld, it was a better concept than an actual movie. Definitely lacking in action, and quite a lot of scenes were just meaningless filler. For example: there was a whole thing about a guy sneaking a camera into the park. At least three scenes were centred on this, but then it had nothing to do with anything and they just sort of stopped mentioning it.
One of the most prominent scenes in the movie was a dream sequence with Yul Brynner reprising his role from Westworld… sort of. Not only was it completely pointless, but it didn’t even feel like it was from the same movie. It stood out like a sore thumb and I guess was included solely so they could attach his name to the sequel. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn it was test-footage from an earlier, scrapped Westworld sequel, or that Brynner would only agree to be in one scene so they just made something up at random.
The robots in the movie constantly remind the park guests that they’re robots, which kind of defeats the purpose of making them look exactly like people. At many points the robots are shown sitting at computers doing menial tasks 24 hours a day, as though they couldn’t have just programmed the computers to do those tasks.
While the robots never went rogue or became sentient, there was a single shot that implied one of the robots had emotions and was sad. Then they cut away from it and it never came up again, so I’m not quite sure what purpose that served. I suppose if they had gone down that route then it wouldn’t have stood apart so much from the original, but considering the first movie under-explored its concepts too, I feel like there was still interesting ground left uncovered.
It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad either. If you have any interest in the franchise or you’re a fan of 70’s sci-fi, it’s worth seeing, otherwise give this one a miss.
