This looks fantastic, and they apparently have a full plotline planned out rather than a vague premiss and then making it up if it proves successful after the first half season.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuS5huqOND4[/video]

Shame that the oatmeal meme still seams to apply 😥

Yup looking forward to it! Finally got round to watching the movie a few weeks ago, darker than expected and pretty forward thinking for 1973!

Westworld and The Magnificent 7… mybworld is crumbling

Westworld and The Magnificent 7… mybworld is crumbling

The original’s still exist & don’t forget the original Magnificent 7 is a remake…

I do like the look of this take on Westworld, I didn’t realise Michael Crichton wrote & directed the original film, or that he died in 2008

Now TV ? You can get Sky Atlantic on there.

magnificent 7 was good I thought, seen it at the pictures on friday.

[video]https://youtu.be/2E_P90oTKa0[/video]

I watched the original Westworld last night, it’s aged but still good.

The original’s still exist & don’t forget the original Magnificent 7 is a remake…

Jurassic Park is Westworld but with dinosaurs.

Blimey – that’s some cast!
I’ll be giving that a go.

Thandie Newton is it which is as good a recommendation as I need.

Yup looking forward to it! Finally got round to watching the movie a few weeks ago, darker than expected and pretty forward

Yes, it’s a great piece of sci-fi. The thing is, “proper” sci-fi is about the concept more so than characters or even plot, and rarely needs more than a shortish film or novel. If they are stretching this out to one (or more likely multiple) seasons however good it is it’s just going to be a soap opera. Personally I’d rather watch something original but that seems sadly lacking at the moment given the frankly ludicrous number of reboots happening right now!

I need something to bridge the gap betwixt now and which hour Game of Thrones shall sally forth.

Yul Brynner as the gunslinger is f*****g nails.
Fact.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dooa7uzRjEI[/video]

By God!
That can’t be unseen!

Looks pretty interesting tbh. The backlash against remakes/reboots/reimaginings is pretty funny sometimes. “How dare you be inspired by this thing I like!”

The original’s still exist & don’t forget the original Magnificent 7 is a remake…

Yes but the original Magnificent 7 is a great film a truely great film. The new one is just trading on the name to gain an audience.

I’m still waiting for them to reimagine Westworld as a Cornish fishing village, where visitors can do anything they like as long as its spending 2 hours per day trying to find a parking space, paying over the odds at any local restaurant and queueing to empty the caravans toilet septic tank.

Yul Brynner walking down a corridor, his face fading in and out of the blackness, still remember that.

It looks promising.
Btw – I had Sonic Boom Boy on 12″red vinyl. 😀

Will be watching tonight. Looking forward to it!

Black Hole Sun in a salon bar stylee = Win!

I saw the original Westworld.

Well I think it might have been called Sexworld.

I think you can guess the rest 🙂

Looking forward to this tonight.

If you don’t have Sky NowTV is actually very good value for £7 a month or whatever it is. You’ll get Walking Dead in a few weeks too, plus loads of ‘boxsets’ on demand.

I watched it last night in the way suggested by the Oatmeal cartoon.

It.

Was.

Flippin’.

Ace!

Utterly intriguing and a great first episode.

If you don’t have Sky NowTV is actually very good value for £7 a month or whatever it is. You’ll get Walking Dead in a few weeks too, plus loads of ‘boxsets’ on demand.

Don’t pay £7 a month, buy a voucher from Argos – it works out more like £4 a month then, if you buy 3 or 4 months up front.

edit

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3179440.htm

this one is £5 a month, but they’ve had it cheaper before.

Love the original….

[video]https://youtu.be/LcL3eP0Hfy4[/video]

The new series seems to be more about the robot’s perspective and how they feel about being exploited. So these robots are more ‘aware’ than the original 1973 film robots seemed to be.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3179440.htm

this one is £5 a month, but they’ve had it cheaper before.

Does that pass work online for streaming (don’t have a TV)?

The new series seems to be more about the robot’s perspective and how they feel about being exploited. So these robots are more ‘aware’ than the original 1973 film robots seemed to be.

Watched the original last night, still holds up pretty well, must check out Futureworld the sequel now.
And the new series it’s had a rave review on den of geek.

SPOILER AHEAD
Looked the way the machines became self aware, but what happened to all of the ones in Roman world that got a bit stabby?

Does that pass work online for streaming (don’t have a TV)?

yes, it’s just a pass code you apply to your account.

You just keep applying the codes just before the old one expires, so they’ll never take any money out by DD. Sometimes it even works out cheaper to by the NOW TV box along with the voucher.

Original film is an absolute classic, even if dated. Noted for being written and directed by Michael Crichton and a forerunner to Jurassic Park with the same “theme park goes wrong” kind of story.

I’m not so concerned about a TV remake. I would be if it was a film and just the same plot. The film plot is fairly simple. Robot theme park goes wrong and then it’s just a load of cool Yul Brynner in an endless unstoppable chase, which is what makes it good. Works in a film, but repetitive in a TV series. I’m hoping what they’ve done here is take the basic premise of the robots go mad and add a load of depth to that.

Will it just be ‘Westworld’ though? In the film it’s just one of the theme park zones. Plus there was the more forgettable sequel Futureworld.

Black Hole Sun in a salon bar stylee = Win!

Thank you! I knew the tune but couldn’t remember what it was.
A good opening episode that presented the players, robots and gaming team in a way to draw me in for ep.2
Ed Harris is scary.

Yes, good pilot, although Humans impressed me more.

Can’t wait, Magnificent 7 was Steve McQueens breakout role, not a lot of people know that, best Western Movie ever… until Clint came along with the spaghetti.

So did I read there that Ed Harris is playing the Yul Brynner ‘Chris’ reprisal role and they become self aware a la ‘Humans’ ?

So 64k question, you finally get to own a synth, the Gemma Chan character, would you?

And how soon after you fired her up. 😉

couple of minutes?

So 64k question, you finally get to own a synth, the Gemma Chan character, would you?

Until something dropped off one of us

is this an old person thing, as I’ve never heard of Westworld?

deadkenny: Noted for being written and directed by Michael Crichton and a forerunner to Jurassic Park with the same “theme park goes wrong” kind of story.

Did Michael Crichton once have a traumatising experience in Disneyland? He has some issues with theme parks 🙂

Black Hole Sun in a salon bar stylee = Win!

Thank you! I knew the tune but couldn’t remember what it was.
Blatently obvious way to signal things were about to go pear-shaped, but quite fun.

So, is Ed Harris a player or a host?

is this an old person thing, as I’ve never heard of Westworld?

You’re just not into your classic Sci-fi. Same era as Logan’s run etc

More of a Logan’s Run reference, but sums up 70s Sci-Fi (not counting Star Wars) 😀

[video]https://youtu.be/49IcrH4Bhq0[/video]

More of a Logan’s Run reference, but sums up 70s Sci-Fi (not counting Star Wars)

Actually with the clones, etc also pretty similar to Futureworld (the crap Westworld sequel)