*WESTWORLD* really freaked me out!! First Time Watching MOVIE REACTION

[@jenmurrayxo]

Which world would you vacation to? 1970's Playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5drsQGfFSKqYoo0ai-nUbTQq Western Playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5doFNPAVpvMK4x_0goHHNGHs

[@Thewingkongexchange]

Whichever would NOT involve sh*tting in a trench or pot. For a grand per day, I want good sanitation.

[@JamesLaumand-l5d]

Employ of the month

[@mr.a8315]

@@jenmurrayxo It'd be Westworld for me. 🐴🤠

[@icgeorge]

it was Lwaxana Troi. and The voice of Enterprise computers

[@jessiechen279]

And now you can watch the newer Tv show version, starring Anthony Hopkins!......You prob wouldnt get it uploaded to 'tube' But i'd highly recommend giving it a watch... p.s. If you want a great romance movie for feb have a look at 'The Secretary' from 2002

[@Thewingkongexchange]

Yul Byrnner is absolutely perfect in this - he's essentially the proto-Terminator.

[@mr.a8315]

@@Thewingkongexchange Absolutely.

[@b4k4survivor]

Yes, before the T100 & T1000, there was the Gunslinger

[@kevinkuenn5733]

Schwarzenegger has said that he modeled his performance in The Terminator off of Yul Brenner's in this.

[@mikealvarez2322]

Exactly what I was thinking when Jen started the movie. I saw it when it first came out. My late wife thought computers would eventually be able to think on their own and manufacture their own kind 😂 silly woman. She died in 1990 so never heard of A.I. She also believed that computers would help us solve many health issues. She was an occupational therapist and worked with severely wounded soldiers returning from Vietnam. Premenopausal breast cancer ran in her family, killing more than 10 women on her mother's side. She and her family were studied by Sloan Kettering.

[@bfdidc6604]

@@b4k4survivor Al

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I always loved it that the Gunslinger robot was Yul Brynner playing an android version of his character Chris from The Magnificent Seven movie.

[@danishskiwarehouse]

I think I read somewhere that he wore the same clothes in both, which is a nice touch if true

[@anonymes2884]

Well, it's riffing on that anyway. Chris was slow to anger and not vindictive though - he wouldn't pick a fight in a bar (he's a good guy basically, despite the black hat :). (and yep, same outfit though i'd be surprised if it's _literally_ the same clothes)

[@neneshubby]

Yul Brynner was a massive movie star in the 50’s and 60’s. His charisma was off the charts. You can’t take your eyes off him when he’s onscreen

[@jkbrown5496]

Crichton wrote 'The Andromeda Strain" (1971). It is the classic infectious organism from outer space movie. Capt. Morton: [code phrase] There's a fire, sir.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Great movie

[@halscipo]

What kind of fire?

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

​@@halscipoThe name of the big underground research lab specifically for dealing with organisms brought back to earth is Wildfire.The code phrase is to tell the assigned team of scientists that they have been 'activated'.

[@RunnerInc]

He wrote the book the movie was based on

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

@@RunnerInc Another favourite book by Chrichton..'though the movie adaptation altered quite a bit..is Congo.I found it a fun read.

[@jppcasey]

Yul Brynner is the bad robot cowboy. He's in The Ten Commandments and the original Magnificent Seven. Great actor.

[@RunnerInc]

King and I

[@dinosaurjc]

@@RunnerIncking and I is a great film to react too

[@dunbarf2413]

Yul Brynner would have been spot on perfect casting for Namor the Submariner had they made MARVEL movies in his time. He could've done a slightly rougher variation of his character from the King and I.

[@jeffthompson9622]

Alan Oppenheimer(the chief supervisor) is very familiar to those of us who watched "The Six Million Dollar Man."

[@Bat-Twenty-Two]

And Filmation's He-Man cartoon.

[@robertravare3992]

I was wondering if that was him.

[@donaldcampbell6661]

And one of his colleagues, the tech who was snacking just before everything went haywire, is Jared Martin who played a guy from the future in the miniseries Fantastic Journey. That series also has that distinctive ‘70s sci-fi feel.

[@anonymes2884]

Dr Wells ! Knew I knew him. Still around as it turns out (94 years young, so I guess he's one of those actors, like Wilford Brimley, that played older from a fairly early age - he's only about 43 in this !?). Also, apparently a distant cousin of the _other_ Oppenheimer.

[@johnnydoe6325]

@@Bat-Twenty-Two Silence you boob 🤣

[@zzzkoszzz]

8:41 Yes that is Majel Barret (Lwaxana Troi STNG) * I should have mentioned she was married to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, from 1969 until his death in 1991.

[@rangersmith4652]

And Nurse Chapel. And the voice of the Enterprise computer.

[@shannonmullins5097]

One of the actors in the bar scene had a role in the Star Trek episode where Spock, McCoy, Kirk, Scotty and Checkov get sent back to the gunfight at ok corral.

[@wolviespartan]

@@rangersmith4652 and Number 1 in the Original pilot.

[@Joe-jz1rn]

the guy from the hotel is the barkeeper in tos spectre of the gun

[@xander66644]

She played Nurse Chapel in Star Trek : Original Series.

[@kermitlacock5930]

Another 1970s movie based on a Creighton novel is "The Andromeda Strain". A good race against time story.

[@atticstattic]

The source material for _Westworld_ was Creighton's script.

[@Kamenari37]

Hats off to Yul Brynner. My dad showed me this movie when I was a kid and it terrified me. 99% of that fear was due to Yul's performance as the Gunslinger. To this day whenever I see his face on something I get paranoid. Dude scared me for life.

[@doc0815martens]

I think I was 8 or 9 years old (early 80ies) when I saw the movie for the first time and I was also terrified. 😦😉

[@anonymes2884]

Funnily enough, it took me a while to see him as the bad guy in this as a kid because i'd seen "The Magnificent Seven" multiple times beforehand (this role is essentially riffing on his role in that as a _heroic_ gunslinger, who wears exactly the same outfit).

[@Kamenari37]

@@anonymes2884 I had not seen him in anything up to that point. I did eventually see Magnificent 7 as an adult, but only after I'd already seen the movie that had inspired it Seven Samurai several times. I think it was the eyes and the unrelenting nature he had.Movies were a tossup in my house. Some things I got to see that I probably shouldn't have, while other movies considered classics were just not brought up. I saw T2 several times before seeing the original, and for w/e reason my parents let me watch Aliens when I was like 7.

[@glenngalloway6191]

Jen: "You had me at sensual, relaxed morality." The actor is Dick Van Patten, from "Eight is Enough". He's also been in a bunch of Mel Brooks movies.

[@bfdidc6604]

I mainly remember him from High Anxiety.

[@garycameron8167]

And "Space Balls"!

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Men in Tights

[@jimclayson]

Yeah, I watched "Eight is Enough" back in the day. It's one of the first shows I remember watching as a kid, and a couple years after "Eight is Enough" ended, we had Tommy (Willie Aames) and Nicholas (Adam Rich, RIP) as the voices of Hank and Presto on the animated "Dungeons & Dragons" show. 👍

[@Rotionu]

"Your name is Mervin?" "Shut up! Shut up!" "OK...Mervin."

[@allyourmoney]

Yul Brynner's physical acting choices in this are outstanding. The way that he took a stereotypical "cowboy" walk & just kept repeating that stride, like a machine.

[@LockeDemosthenes2]

Fun fact, Michael Chrighton first got the idea for West World when he was riding Pirates of the Carribean at Disneyland and he saw animatronics for the first time. I don't know if it was an intentional reference to this, but it's funny that in the film version of Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum says "but when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists".

[@Nasty-Canasta]

"You say something boy?" Now you need to see James Brolin in "The Car"

[@angelohernandez6060]

Yeah! Great movie! The Car was one of my favorites of the 70s.

[@shainewhite2781]

This was the very first movie to use CGI for the Robot Gunslinger's POV, which was amazing and way ahead of its time.

[@DaveF.]

Astonishingly Vertigo uses computer graphics in it's title sequence (but not the movie itself). World + dog seems to think it's either ST:IV or Star Wars that first used CGI.

[@martensjd]

@@shainewhite2781 Interesting. I thought that the first two films to use significant CGI were "The Last Starfighter" and "Tron." Depends I guess non the definition of "significant."

[@vincegamer]

This is the first movie to use CGI in the story. Vertigo was the first to use it, but only in the title sequence

[@Hackspear214]

That’s not quite true. This was not the first film to use CGI as it is commonly defined, it was the first film to use digitized images, i.e. an image that has been converted into a digital format, allowing it to be stored and processed by computer systems. That’s not the same thing as CGI. CGI describes images generated from *scratch* - ‘digitized image’ describes images generated from *real-world* images. For the movie, computer software processed the film recording of a POV shot of real actors and generated what is seen in the film. From the Wiki: Westworld was the first feature film to use digital image processing. Crichton originally went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena but after learning that two minutes of animation would take nine months and cost $200,000, he contacted … John Whitney Jr. who digitally processed motion picture photography at Information International, Inc. to appear pixelized to portray the Gunslinger android's point of view.

[@johnclawed]

It's digitally pixelated, not generated.

[@socalpaul487]

"Westworld" - "We can insure their safety. Everything's fine." "Jaws" - "But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time."

[@MartinBeerbom]

Miss Carrie is Majel Barrett. Also known as Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. Yep, she's Number One, Christine Chapel, the voice of the 1701-D computer and Lwaxana Troi.

[@eblackadder3]

The voice of all Enterprise computers.

[@vincegamer]

​@@eblackadder3in the normal universe. In the mirror universe (Mirror Mirror) the computer had a male voice.

[@joshfacio9379]

She did all the tng era computer voices

[@vodrake]

I strongly recommend the first season of the Westworld tv show.

[@ianbunn8982]

Yes. But stop at the first season

[@nth_to_see_here]

@@ianbunn8982 Second season is as strong as the first in my opinion. There are some great philosophical concepts in there, it's just more purposefully chaotic the way it's told so need more attention than the first season. I think the potential is wasted in the 3rd and 4th season.

[@thebigdentist251]

@@nth_to_see_here Totally agree with both of you. The first season works perfectly as a self-contained updated expansion of the original movie. The second season starts to ask more questions about the nature of being and mortality; the horrifying James Delos (4th) episode is worth the price of admission alone. Unfortunately the confusing time jumps started to put a lot of people off. I can see what they were trying to do with seasons 3 & 4, but by that point there were simply no relatable characters left, including Dolores. Should have been two seasons in the park, then one outside and done. The mistake was dragging the whole thing out way too long and completely losing focus.

[@nth_to_see_here]

@ Good points. I was really excited to go outside the park in S3, so overall I liked the idea, but I think the potential here was wasted. I agree about the no relatable characters given what they did with them. And then, S4 seemed like they were trying to bring back that mindf*ck vibe where you don't (speaking vaguely) know what's what, but it was stripped from emotions, the characters where so far from the ones we knew in S1 and S2. It was hard to get invested in the stakes.

[@ianbunn8982]

​@@nth_to_see_here I'll have to give the second season another run out. Think just how different it was threw me off first time round

[@matthewneufeld8854]

This is why I love Jen. Not afraid to watch classic sci-fi and able to enjoy them as well. Jen, HBO did amazing series of West world.

[@smavtmb2196]

Yes definitely watch the HBO WestWorld series.

[@JaguarDave54]

70’s SciFi - Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Dark Star, Silent Running, Rollerball, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Andromeda Strain (also by Crichton), A Boy & His Dog, The Land That Time Forgot.😊

[@ianrhodes6928]

@@JaguarDave54 there is a certain something about 70s sci-fi made before Star Wars blasted in and changed the whole genre.

[@cduensingiii]

Yes, yes, yes, to all of these.

[@michaelg2529]

Did you notice, almost all 1970s sci fi envisions a dystopian future. I agree with @ianrhodes6928, Star Wars seemed to have changed the Hollywood mindset that sci fi meant "bleak future."

[@waterbeauty85]

Great movies, but I'd be especially excited to see a reaction to "A Boy and His Dog."

[@jodonnell64]

Absolutely yes, to all of the above.

[@ciphernine7824]

Yul Brynner as the original cybernetic Gunslinger - when he says, "draw," with that slight smile and those menacing silvery eyes - chilling.

[@Dillpicks95]

This movie is a classic, I’m so happy that you finally reacted to it 🔥. The special effects still hold up and Yul Brynner was fantastic as the gunslinger, his character terrified me as a kid.

[@nicktechnubyte1184]

Before there was Terminator and Jurassic Park, there was West World!

[@danishskiwarehouse]

Don’t forget ‘Total Recall’. And possibly a little ‘The Predator’. It’s such a seminal movie!

[@CharlieCanfield]

i think a poster and ad for this film said "Westworld, where nothing can go wrong... go wrong... go wrong..." perfectly tempting and chilling.

[@happymethehappyone8300]

Another iconic MUST SEE Classic,, "Soylent Green" (1973)

[@ricklee5845]

I agree, though I doubt many on here have seen it. I think it needs a remake with different actors of course and using modern technology.

[@waymanallen]

Roman World was filmed at the estate of Harold Lloyd. He was a huge silent film star. He had one of the most beautiful estates in California.

[@cliffchristie5865]

One of the interesting things about Brolin's character is that in this fantasy version of the present (1973), he's already become jaded and cynical about the experience. It's supposed to be relatively new, but his attitude is, "been there, done that". The kind of person that's never really satisfied with any experience, and that's still a real thing.

[@garycameron8167]

"The Andromeda Strain" (1971) is a must, directed by Robert Wise - who directed "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979.

[@JJ_W]

He also directed _The Sound of Music_ .

[@gswithen]

There was a sequel called Futureworld. Michael Crichton directed Runaway and Coma. He also wrote The Andromeda Strain. Another good similar film to that was The Satan Bug. The Westworld tv series is worth a watch too.

[@garycameron8167]

"The Satan Bug" is pretty good - not quite as good as "The Andromeda Strain" (IMO) - but it did have a small part for a certain Scottish starship engineer.

[@Keyboardje]

I hate the ending of the Westworld tv show.

[@alexlella8771]

Michael Crichton directed the film of one of his non-SF books, "The Great Train Robbery." It's a historical caper in Victorian England.

[@Dularr]

Silent Running. A big influence on the idea that audiences could care for robots.

[@angelohernandez6060]

Great film starring Laura Dern's (Jurrasic Park) father Bruce Dern. Just have to mute it when that damn hippie song by Joan Biez plays! I do everytime.

[@greenmonsterprod]

And an inspiration for MST3K.

[@bigneon_glitter]

More intense '70s Sci-Fi classics you'd like: • _Colossus: The Forbin Project_ (1970) • _The Andromeda Strain_ (1971) - another Michael Crichton book adaptation, directed by Robert Wise _(Star Trek: The Motion Picture)!_

[@martensjd]

Andromeda Strain is good. Colossus the Forbin Project is excellent.

[@adammakesstuffup]

@@martensjd The algorithm says that Colossus the Forbin Project is required viewing.

[@martensjd]

@ As I said, excellent film.

[@shainewhite2781]

YES!! SUCH A GOOD SCI FI AS ACTION THRILLER! Yul Brynner, the gunslinger robot, is wearing the exact same outfit from the western The Magnificent Seven. His last film appearance was Futureworld in 1976. They released BEYOND WESTWORLD in 1980 on TV as well as the 2016-2022 HBO reboot.

[@MartinBeerbom]

Thanks to the tight budget. A lot of costumes were taken from earlier productions. And Brynner desperately needed money and agreed to a rather low salary for a guy of his stardom.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

Jen, Capricorn One is another 70s Sci-fi that you will absolutely love!

[@TerryNationB7]

Now I want to load up the soundtrack for Capricorn one on youtube to listen to.

[@deborahcornell171]

I'm waiting for someone to react to 1969's "Marooned". Great space nail-biter.✨️

[@fronkykoko]

I think he also did 'Coma' based on a novel by Robin Cook. Quite a creepy hospital thriller...

[@williamblakehall5566]

I will always remember a poster for this, which very specifically read, "Welcome to WestWorld, where nothing can possibly go worng ... "

[@FilmBuff54]

Yul Brynner was most famous for playing the King of Siam in “The King and I” but he also played the lead character in “The Magnificent Seven,” and the Pharaoh in “The Ten Commandments.” He died of lung cancer at a relatively young age, and did a very influential Public Service Announcement telling people not to smoke prior to his death.

[@randallshaw9609]

" Don't let the machines design other machines." We've been doing this for decades now. The main issue we're about to confront is having intelligent machines design other intelligent machines. That's when the real fun will begin.

[@toodlescae]

The one of the 2 guys that gets killed is James Brolin..Josh Brolin's father.

[@seanodonnell8001]

Fun Easter Egg if you watch the modern TV series of this, in the background of a scene there is a replica done up to look like Yul Brynner does in this movie. There is a subtle vibe that this movie took place before the series occurs, so it's fun having watched this beforehand, even though the writers say they're separate.

[@sempervigilo7961]

I think in the first episode they refer to this disaster and that they are just now reopening the park?

[@seanodonnell8001]

@sempervigilo7961 the incident they referred to is the incident with Arnold Weber. The parks been reopened for quite some time. They just had to do a massive rebuild. We are however meant to think that the movie incident took place due to the writing style and visuals.

[@MidlifeCrisisMedia]

Michael Crichton also directed Coma, Looker, and my personal fave... Runaway!

[@Robbyrool]

Runaway is a must see classic. The bullet pov was amazing. I seem to remember Looker was great too. And i think coma was big. Didn’t realize Crichton directed so many. Thought he was a book writer and others directed his stories.

[@BlackstarBSP]

Another vote for Runaway (1984)! You’ll get to see the lead singer of the band “KISS” Gene Simmons as a bad guy! 😅

[@MidlifeCrisisMedia]

@@Robbyrool Crichton was trying to branch out in the 70s and 80s. When Runaway bombed he refocused on writing books and screenplays.

[@incredibleadventures1027]

@@MidlifeCrisisMedia runaway is awful

[@sidneysometimes2520]

03:14 - Dick Van Patten the dad from Eight Is Enough

[@jimmorrish6771]

apparently the black outfit yul brynner wore in westworld is the same one he wore in the magnificent seven

[@klarch]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1978

[@luckyskittles8976]

Fun fact Richard Benjamin is married to Paula Prentiss, she was in the 1975 movie "Stepford Wives" 1975 a fun creepy movie.

[@r.d.hargrave8159]

Also, 😂😂🤣🤣 at Jen inserting that almost subliminal “subscribe” blurb right after the “Sensual relaxed morality? I guess I’d be going there.”

[@paulhammond6978]

It's pretty advanced that this film was talking about the concept of a "computer virus" back there in the 70s, way before even the concept of a PC was a thing.

[@markhamstra1083]

IBM introduced the concept of a personal computer in 1959, and this movie was released in the middle of the first generation of microcomputers (mostly based on the Intel 8008). The first computer virus was written in the 1960s.

[@paulhammond6978]

@@markhamstra1083 And the prize for the best "well, actually" goes to....

[@waynezimmerman1950]

@@markhamstra1083 Dad was hired as a systems engineer/team manager for RCA in 1975, coming out of the Cold War where he was a USAF intelligence officer using computers to keep tabs on the Russians and Red Chinese. We had some pretty cool tech he brought home from work. Of course in those days you had to really work at programming.

[@markhamstra1083]

@@waynezimmerman1950 I remember.

[@waynezimmerman1950]

@ I also have a worn copy of Westworld: the script; which I nabbed off a merch table at some convention long forgotten. I had thought it was a novelization but no. Still there's a nifty forward by Crichton which he talks about the fun times creating a movie masterpiece on a very limited budget.

[@LeadPhalanx-zv6wx]

That cowboy robot that was shot and you asked rightly so if they would give him back the same face while in repairs well that guy was a huge star in his day so for that alone in this case they would give him back his face his name was Yul Brynner (pronounced Brenner).

[@LordVolkov]

Yes! There is a sequel - Futureworld, not as good as the original but keeps exploring similar themes.

[@robertbunting3117]

I saw this when I was like 6-7, scared the hell out of me.

[@ldkinbote]

Same for me, but I would add, "...and I still LOVED it!" A lot of sci-fi when I was a kid was also scary, which was part of the appeal.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Hi from Kentucky. You're the Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, McGarrigle Sisters and Anne Murray of Canadian movie reactors. I stand on guard for all y'all. Tariffs be damned. Or at least, darned. Kentucky stands with Canada.

[@garycameron8167]

"There's no way for things to go wrong" - just like the holodeck on Star Trek! Nothing ever goes wrong there!

[@lmarq5759]

If I recall correctly this is one of the earliest depictions of a "computer virus," the first actual virus was developed 2 years earlier in 71 but because it wasn't malicious they never associated it as a "machine disease." Michael Crichton was a genius in his own right. The HBO series based on the film expands many of the concepts in the film (to varying degrees of success) but overall I also enjoyed the series. Many viewers had issues with some of the style of narrative that was used but I think most of it worked but sadly we'll probably never see the conclusion. Thanks for reacting to this! If you want to see Michael Crichton predict even more freaky shit you should watch "Looker" (1981) which he also wrote and directed. 1:40 Me too lol me too

[@anthonyjamesvasquez]

0:09 Right! Think of it as the precursor to Jurassic Park. 0:58 It's more like he liked to give cautionary tales regarding corporate greed and the advancements made in science and technology. 1:38 He also created "ER" based on his own experiences as a med student.

[@Thane36425]

A flaw with their gun system was misses and stray rounds. Those could be lethal to bystanders for some distance, or behind a window or wall. Some kind of simulated round, with the heat system, would be better, and less wear on the robots. You would also think that there would be some kind of marker on the robots. Maybe a mark near the eyes like R. Dorothy in the anime "Big O", or a certain eye color.

[@anonymes2884]

Yeah, it doesn't _really_ work on that level. Aside from anything else, the bar fight involved multiple humans, any one of whom could, accidentally or otherwise, hurt another. Just gotta go with it though, they do enough for us to suspend disbelief IMO.

[@MartinBeerbom]

First time movie footage had been digitized, for the gunslinger's POV shots. Crichton had read about that in magazines, but all the FX shops he talked to didn't know what he was talking about. In the end, he got a university's computer department to do it.

[@incredibleadventures1027]

"Spared no expense!" -achievement unlocked-

[@pillarobert]

Jen, you ar the BEST reaction film person!!!!!!! You are so funny and calming that I love your voice and comments!!

[@MartinBeerbom]

Yul Brynner got his cornea burned by burning wadding from a blank and couldn't wear contacts for some time. And Brolin was really bitten by a rattlesnake. It was milked just before, so he got no venom, but the damn snake missed the padded part of his arm where it should strike. (They did had medics and anti-venom on call.)

[@waterbeauty85]

That reminds me that Bruce Lee got bitten by a milked cobra while filming "Enter the Dragon."

[@Britcarjunkie]

Brolin seems to have run-ins with rattlesnakes! There's the scene in Capricorn One, where he encounters one in a cave...

[@rollmops7948]

Yul Brynner (1920-1985) was born in Russia. He was very cultivated and could speak English, Russian, Japanese, Hebrew, yiddish, Hungarian, french (perfectly) and more other languages. (he said 11 in total).

[@twinshark429]

I'm so happy my mother made me watch these films as a child. Yul Brynner died before I was born and because of this film and his amazing performance, I watched The King and I and loved it! Then I watched the remake, Anna and the King, and I loved THAT! All because of Brynner's performance in this film.

[@anonymes2884]

This is riffing on his performance in "The Magnificent Seven", another great role for him.

[@Inaflap]

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!

[@Bat-Twenty-Two]

As a kid it freaked me out to see Yul Brynner playing the villain after seeing his Westerns.

[@happymethehappyone8300]

Thanks Jen,, I always love your reactions. ❤

[@EdwardPearse]

Michael Crichton's directorial debut was a movie called The Great Train Robbery (also based off his novel) starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. And yes the Madam in the bordello is Majel Barrett who played Lwaxana Troi in Next Gen.

[@AlBQuirky]

Michael Crichton was quite an author who had a few books turned into movies. The 13th Warrior immediately comes to my mind, a movie about Norse mythology meeting an Arabic Prince. Antonio Bandaras stars. Crichton's book was called "Eaters of the Dead", I think.

[@TorontoJon]

5:12 That older actor with the horn-rimmed glasses is Dick Van Patten best-known for the family drama TV series 'Eight is Enough' that ran from 1977 to 1981, but before that, he had small parts in various movies including 'Westworld' (1973), 'Soylent Green' (1973), and later in two Mel Brooks movies, 'High Anxiety' (1977) and 'Spaceballs' (1987).

[@chrisinfiesto835]

Charlton Heston in “The Omega Man”. In my opinion, the most plausible version of Matheson’s tale. You won’t be disappointed! 💯🤙🏽

[@anonymes2884]

Doesn't "get" the ending IMO (the Vincent Price version is closer in that respect) but viewed as a film rather than an adaptation of the novel it's fine.

[@brianm7185]

Michael Chricton also directed the 1980 movie Looker. That one doesn't get alot of reactions but is good

[@Aphasial]

Yep, a huge number of concepts in technology were first explored here, and you can see reverberations from the story in media still even decades later. This was the first reference to a "computer virus" as a concept, and anyone involved with technology always has "tech going awry" in the back of their mind thanks to this.

[@DaveF.]

It's very much Crichton's go-to theme from his novels - complexity vs entropy in human made systems - it's the same theme in many of his works from The Andromeda Strain through to Jurassic Park. I prefer Andromeda Strain to this movie a bit myself, but they're both good.

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

I loved your reaction to this brilliant film, Jen, your reaction was excellent. This film was ground-breaking at the time, without this there wouldn't have been films like 'The Terminator' it was so instrumental and influencential for what followed in Sci-Fi. By the way, you were right, Jen, that was, Majel Barrett of Star Trek the Original Series and Star Trek TNG fame, well spotted. 🙂

[@e.d.2096]

I was wondering if Jen would react to this. Of course Andromeda Strain should be on the menu! Hi Adam 👋

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

@@e.d.2096 Hi Eric, This is one of the films which I sent her as a Birthday present last year so, I'm glad that she made use of it. It's an excellent and important Sci-Fi film. I agree with you about, "The Andromeda Strain" another excellent film which I think that, Jen, would love.

[@georgekaplan6451]

Across town from me there used to be a travel agent called Westworld Travel... Fortunately their slogan wasn't "have we got a holiday for you..."

[@shainewhite2781]

Quentin Tarantino was going to direct a 2012 remake to the 1973 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Robot Gunslinger, but it was cancelled as Schwarzenegger was Governor of California. The 2012 remake turned into the HBO series instead.

[@kerry-j4m]

So glad that film didn't happen,Tarantino would've found some way to use the-N-word in the movie.I don't understand his obsession with using that word so much tho. I haven't seen the tv series tho,may buy the first season on dvd and if I like it,may buy other seasons too.

[@cashflowhustles]

​@kerry-j4m TV series is EXCELLENT! Check it out. There are several seasons but the series begins to go downward in quality towards the end of it's run.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

I'm glad that didn't happen cos (a)not a fan of Arnold (b)I don't believe in remaking every movie (c)not a fan of Arnold.

[@shainewhite2781]

Yul Brynner was paid $75,000 ($393,000 today) after he had signed the contract to play the Robot Gunslinger.

[@nintendianajones64]

The Simpsons did a fantastic parody of this movie with Itchy and Scratch Land.

[@johnh1824]

We've run out of bort license plates😂

[@nintendianajones64]

​@@johnh1824Welcome to Itchy and Scratchy land where nothing can possibLIE go wrong!

[@OldMan_PJ]

If you have ever heard the song "One Night In Bangkok" you now know who Yul Brynner is.

[@ParsonNathaniel]

Yay! CHESS reference!

[@ParsonNathaniel]

But you should also know, the reason he is mentioned in "One Night in Bangkok" is because he was in THE KING AND I, which is set in Bangkok.

[@Lone-wolf-1982]

Very cool Jen. I am so happy you watched this movie. It was one of my favorite sci-fi movies as a kid. You would like Soylent Green or Omega Man.

[@michaelhodge6779]

First season of the HBO show is top 5 best tv seasons of all time

[@mr.a8315]

Great reaction, classic influential sci fi. A massive influence on The Terminator obviously. 5:31 "Vodka martini, twist of lemon." 😂 For slo-mo shoot outs; Sam Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch' (1969), it's Reservoir Dogs on horses. Further 70s sci-fi; - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - The Medusa Touch (1978) - The Boys from Brazil (1978) Set in the 70s, wanted Nazi war criminals plot the launch of The Fourth Reich. Based on the novel by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby, etc.)

[@waterbeauty85]

My favorite on your list is "The Wild Bunch," but I'm dying to see someone finally react to "The Boys From Brazil."

[@mr.a8315]

@@waterbeauty85 Great taste! :D The Wild Bunch was so massively influential on future action movies, it practically invented the slo-mo shoot out / death scene trope... which is still used all over the place today. I'm *bursting* for Jen to do The Boys from Brazil, it's such a good pulp fiction thriller. Superb soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. I have the 1970s vinyl pressing of the soundtrack and the front cover has been personally autographed by the movie's 3 leads; Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck and James Mason. It came from the estate of Clark Gesner (a famous autograph collector).

[@ldkinbote]

@@mr.a8315 The Boys from Brazil was one of my favorite movies growing up. That and "Marathon Man."

[@mr.a8315]

@@ldkinbote Def, they are a superb thriller double bill with WWII connections. 👍👍

[@waterbeauty85]

3:25 Jen saying "And then a T-rex just comes in" (which made me think "Because 1800's America was full of dinosaurs") remains me of "Kung Fury" (2015) when Barbariana saves Kung Fury from a laser eyed dinosaur and tells him that he's landed in "the Viking age," and he says "That explains the laser raptor."

[@garycameron8167]

I seem to remember a 1950s B-movie with cowboys and dinosaurs.

[@deanthemachine8879]

Someone else suggested Colossus: The Forbin Project from 1970 and I couldn’t agree more. I watched it for the first time last year and was really impressed by the ideas it was exploring

[@RetroClassic66]

6:14 Yul Brynner as the Gunslinger refers back to Brynner’s role as gunfighter Chris Adams in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) and its sequels RETURN OF THE SEVEN (1966), GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1969), and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RIDE! (1972).

[@steverussell1965]

Brynner was only in Magnificent 7 and Return. Guns was Lee Van Cleef and Ride was George Kennedy as far as I recall

[@RetroClassic66]

@ Yeah, you’re right. I tried to edit my comment before to correct that error, but for some reason the software didn’t want to cooperate with me.

[@sauronbagginsd8032]

One of my favourite small details is when the technicians are fixing up the Gunslingers sight and gun skill meaning when everything goes wrong, he’s even more deadly

[@buidseach]

You can see where they got the inspiration for The Terminator :)

[@Hackspear214]

Jen, did you ever read the Logan’s Run book? I’ve never read a book like that before. It’s written in such a distinct style - it’s amazing. It’s also pretty short so it’s a quick read. Well worth your time.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Someone sent it to me!

[@juandesalgado]

"Don't let the machines design other machines, oh no..." A couple of days ago, OpenAI's Sam Altman gave an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") interview on reddit. He was asked: "Do you think recursive self improvement would be a gradual process or a hard takeoff?" He replied: "I personally think a fast takeoff is more plausible than I thought a couple of years ago. Probably time to write something about this..." So.. "oh no" it's gonna be.

[@hinesmaster99]

Father of Thanos is young in this movie.

[@JosephPomerleau-c4d]

Oh God Bless you Jen, I have hoped and wanted more people to watch Westworld. I love this movie so much, it's so great. Thank you, thank you.

[@AndyBodkin]

It didn't occur to me until just now hearing Jen point it out. Crichton loves theme parks haha. Im a huge fan and have read all his books. But didn't connect that haha

[@SlamminGraham]

1970s Sci-Fi: A Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, Flash Gordon, The Stepford Wives, Kingdom of the Spiders, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the Andromeda Strain

[@swanronson173]

This movie has the status of a true classic by virtue of The Simpsons parodying/paying homage in the episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land", with some Jurassic Park references included too.

[@kurtb8474]

Making the legendary Yul Brynner the main threat in this movie is epic. He was a legend by this time. He played Ramses in The Ten Commandments. He also played in The Magnificent Seven.

[@flippinLOFI]

An interesting film Michael Crichton directed was Runaway (1984) with Tom Selleck. Future Police, acid spitting Robots and a crazy-eyed Gene Simmons.

[@zenarcher9633]

Not forgetting a young Kirstie Alley.

[@illustrated__human]

a timeless classic that never goes out of date.

[@ryanricchio9832]

That wasDick Van Patten. The Dad on eight is enough. He was also in a couple of mEl brooks movies “hey abbot”!

[@enriquez3692]

Oh Wow, how did you stumble on this lol, now you need to watch the HBO West World one of the best TV Shows of all time.... Love you Jen

[@toob1979]

The early seasons were good. I read there was a wildfire that burned the Wild West sets and they were too expensive to rebuild. The writers had to completely rewrite the story arc to accommodate this change, and the narrative fell apart. Around the end of the show, the writer's strike happened, which gave HBO a reason to cancel _Westworld,_ even though there were a lot of plot threads left hanging.

[@EvHervey]

Dick Van Patten (The Banker/Sheriff) was King Roland in Spaceballs, and the Abbot in Men in Tights

[@ziggystardog]

Also the dad in Eight is Enough

[@mwflanagan1]

The actor you recognized from the ‘70s was Dick Van Patten, who played father in Eight Is Enough. Thanks for this one, Jen.

[@Coinsaver-q5u]

"I wonder if the robots sleep with each other ... " Hmmmm. I've seen this movie a dozen times and never wondered that. You put some interesting ideas in my cranium!

[@markmoore236]

The Star Trek episode Shore leave was similar in that an android killed Bones,

[@munroborisenko7278]

Also it was back in 1973, and I feel like this movie invented what I call "pixel vision". The robot sees in a low resolution of blocks (pixels). Computers back then had no graphics at all.