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Westworld: The first film with CGI (and its source code)
- anotherhue 3y agoThe (useless) sequel has a similar claim for 3d imaging. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureworld https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureworld
- smackeyacky 3y agoIt's not entirely useless - sure Peter Fonda can't act and neither can Blythe Danner but she sure is pretty to look at and does an adorable act with a pair of glasses. I mean, it's in the "so bad it's good" category of films where the original Westworld seems to take itself far too seriously considering the premise. The sequel also has the classic lines: "I smell heathen scum!" "You smell yourself sir!"
- anotherhue 3y agoIt's available on prime video if anyone is curious: https://www.amazon.com/Futureworld-Peter-Fonda/dp/B000IZ7YH4 https://www.amazon.com/Futureworld-Peter-Fonda/dp/B000IZ7YH4 I did like the Houston airport monorail sections I suppose...
- jacquesm 3y agoWestworld is an amazing little movie for another reason for me: it worked so well on the tension arc during the whole movie from the first minute to the last it just keeps on cranking it up bit by bit. Those footsteps...
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoIt really was a Terminator precursor.
- jacquesm 3y agoIndeed, some of the Terminator scenes (even in II) are ripped straight from Westworld.
- jncfhnb 3y agoGreat film. There’s a scene early on where they explain how the guns work. It’s thermal based I think. So if the gun is pointing at something warm like a human body it won’t shoot, meaning you can shoot anyone and it will only fire if they’re not actually a human being. I was astonished to find this was not a plot point later on.
- Andrex 3y agoThat explanation should have been in the show, it was my biggest question of the first season (in a show designed to beg questions).
- orev 3y agoThe show is loosely based on the movie, and there’s no reason to think that’s how it worked in the show. In the show, it’s pretty easy to conclude that a lot of that type of stuff was controlled by an AI advanced enough to “just know the difference” between the humans and the hosts. But it was never explained, and that’s fine because leaving stuff like that as a mystery is a big part of storytelling. Or, they wanted to avoid having a bunch of scenes with characters spewing technological gobbledygook like Star Trek.
- mcbishop 3y ago> an AI advanced enough to “just know the difference” I think the issue would be guests accidentally shooting other guests.
- jncfhnb 3y agoI think he meant ai in the gun. The original movie androids appeared to just have normal guns lol.
- Valgrim 3y agoAt some point in the show William gets shot at, it hurts but it doesn't break the skin, so somehow the bullets have a variable speed controlled by computers. There's also a short scene in the show where two humans are talking. One of them takes his knife out in an intimidating way and in a split second the closest host just takes the sharp part of the knife in his hand and put it in the table, so even melee weapons can't hurt real humans.
- brcmthrowaway 3y agoHow does the movie compare to the show?
- iknowstuff 3y agoThe show was much better. At last season 1, which was a masterclass
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah season 1 was a masterpiece. Too bad that didn't keep up that quality.
- solumunus 3y agoSeason 1: this is the best show I’ve ever seen, can’t wait for more. Season 2: watched the first two episodes and completely gave up.
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- Shorel 3y agoSeason 2: It doesn't look like anything to me.
- yreg 3y agoI have watched it (the movie) after the first season of the show and I don't regret it.
- eddieroger 3y agoThey're two different things from two different eras of storytelling, technology and production values. I would suggest trying to enjoy them separately, because it's really hard to compare them. It was cool to watch and look for inspiration in to the show, but at best those are homages, not threads.
- actionfromafar 3y agoIt’s way better than I thought it would be and it seems like it must have influenced Terminator for instance.
- dtgriscom 3y agoDark red text on black background: why?
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoReader view seems to work.
- Finnucane 3y agoClearly the author just wants you to click on the videos and doesn’t care if you can actually read the text.
- jgrahamc 3y agoI've changed it to white for easier reading.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoA link in the article purports to go to a 1973 issues of American Cinematographer. Sadly the link is broken, the domain having closed up shop years ago. I persisted though and found the issue of the magazine [1], FWIW. Maybe the site is sketchy? I don't know. Since I was into Super-8 film making when I was a teen I definitely enjoyed seeing the ads for all the high end film gear and flat-bed editors from 1973 that I could only dream of. [1] https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ac/ac197311/index.php#/p/38 https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ac/ac197311/index.php#/p/38
- jgrahamc 3y agoI've changed the link to an archived version of the relevant pages.
- bitwize 3y agoNeat. It kind of reminds me of how the "neutral zone" in Yars' Revenge is made up from the game's own machine code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HSjJU562e8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HSjJU562e8
- cjohnson318 3y agoI was born in the mid-eighties, but apparently I saw a scene from this movie before or during kindergarten, and it's haunted/intrigued me ever since. It was when they were taking the robots apart in the lab with the black floors and ceilings. I had zero context or explanation for what was going on, and yeah, it stuck with me. Glad I can finally stop thinking about this.
- nektro 3y agooh woah I had no idea Westworld (2016) was based on previous work!