WESTWORLD - Michael Crichton - " Where Nothing Can Go Wrong" (1973)

Tonight we've got a Saturday Night Special classic from 1973 called...

WESTWORLD! 
"Westworld" was created and directed by the brilliant Michael (Andromeda Strain) Crichton, and that has a whole lot to do with why it's so good!

I liked "Westworld" when I saw it in 1973, and I enjoyed it again when I watched it a couple of days ago! What I didn't like was that right before I started to write this, my computers, two of them, started acting just like the computers in the movie, and that would translate as totally fucked up!! There's no better way to describe it! Luckily, here at the house, nobody has got killed yet!

"The vacation of the future." Couldn't we all use one of those?

Just a couple of guys getting away for a couple of days in Fantasy Land! James (Way Way Out) Brolin and Richard Benjamin play a great pair of buddies!!

What fun it's going to be to relive the olde west for real!

The bad guys are all robots, and if they give you any crap, you just dust them. The whole thing is supposed to be safe and harmless! Guns won't fire at a warm target like a human!

And besides killing bad guys, there are other advantages to living in the olde west!

So, really, at this point, do you care if she's a whoreborg or not?

At the end of each day's events, the robots are taken back to the laboratory and patched up so they can get right back to work again, even the animals that were involved!

Behind the scenes, these guys are running the show! It's the same guys that are watching you right now!

So everything is cool and groovy in "Westworld," and then piece by piece, the whole thing comes tumbling down, like this robot rattler who suddenly bites for real!

Things over in Medieval World aren't going that swell either!

What the heck? He.....shot me!

And the chase is on...............!!!
Yul Brynner is The King of Badass for more than one reason!!

Steve Franken has a small but memorable role as a fleeing technician! Steve was not only Chatsworth Osborne Jr. in "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," but he was also Cardinal Colbert in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons," among a horde of other things!

That's a fine looking steed they got for Yul Brynner to ride!

So, like the best way to deal with guys like this and/or the mummy, is to just set their asses on fire!!

Aw, She....ittt! That didn't work either!!

I had a great little sound clip for you from the brilliant mind of the composer Fred Karlin, but the computers just didn't want it to happen, and it was a good one, so may they all burn in Computer Hell! It's filling up fast, better reserve your seat today because the future is now, the future is here!!

8 REASONS WHY "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" (1960) IS THE BEST WESTERN MOVIE OF ALL TIME!

 Here's eight reasons why "The Magnificent Seven" is my favourite western movie of all time, just like "Forbidden Planet" will always be my favourite Sci-Fi flick no matter how many "Star Wars" and "Star Treks" there are! Everybody has an opinion, and you might think that "Brokeback Mountain" is the best cowboy movie ever, but for me, it's "The Magnificent Seven!!!!!!!"

 The first reason is because it's based on the classic tale as written and directed by Akira Kurosawa,
"Shichinin No Samurai," also known as.....

"The Seven Samurai!"

 

"These are the guys, the Seven Samurai," aka.....

"The Magnificent Seven," and even though they have flaws, this is truly a  magnificent group of guys on more than one level! This is Hollywood at it's finest! 

And, so, no more screwing around, here they are.....

 the other seven reasons!

 Yul (The King And I, The Ten Commandments, Westworld) Brynner as

Chris Larabee Adams!

 

 Steve (The Blob, Wanted: Dead Or Alive, The Great Escape) McQueen as

Vin Tanner!! 

Charles (House Of Wax, Man With A Camera, Death Wish) Bronson) as

Bernardo O'Reilly!!!

Robert (Teenage Cave Man, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Starship Invasions) Vaughn as

Lee!!!!

 James (The Twilight Zone, Our Man Flint, Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round) as

Britt!!!!!

 I just did a search, and I can't really believe it, but Netflix doesn't have even one film to offer that has James Coburn in it! That is truly appalling!!

 Brad (Asphalt Jungle, Between Heaven And Hell, 13 Fighting Men) Dexter as

HARRY LUCK!

Last but by far not least, is the cool German actor Horst (La Noia, The Catamount Killing, Fuga Dal Paradiso) Buchholz as

Chico!!!!!!!

A new version of "The Magnificent Seven" came out three days ago, and I just found out about it three minutes ago since I don't keep up with current affairs, but I just watched the trailer a few minutes ago on the IMDB, and I'm sure a whole lot of people are going to go apeshit for it, but all I can say is Good Luck! A group of talent like this only happens once in a lifetime!

THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR / Warner Bros. - 1975

Here's one from 1975 starring the King himself, Yul Brynner. The storyline goes like this... Only a few people still live in New York in 2012 and are organized in gangs. One of them is led by Baron (Max von Sydow), another one by Carrot (William Smith), they are constantly at war with each other.

The future is a grim and stark place in the year 2012. That reminds me, things got this bad by 2012, but, Larry Buchanan's IN THE YEAR 2889, which takes place like 900 years from now, freakin' everything you see is from the sixties!!.. Carrumba!

Yul plays Carson, friend to the oppressed, he's his own man and belongs to no gang.

Baron convinces Carson to join his people, the kinder, more gentler gang.

Nice shot of the absolute clutter in this corner of the city.

This guy gets thrown off a building into a fiery pit by Carrot's men, what a way to go!

Here's a cool shot of the reflection in this gal's window as she freaks out about something.

Carrot's dudes are trying to kill off Baron's men and want Carson, who has disappeared into the depths of the city.

They track down Carson in the subway tunnel and the fight begins. After Carson kills all of Carrot's men, he has to face carrot and his metal bolo ball attached to a cord!

The cord gets wrapped around Carson's hand, he drags Carrot to an old elevator shaft and forces to hold on for dear life as he dangles there. He cannot reach him with his swinging ax and has to come up with Plan B. So, he chops his own hand off!!

Carrot gets whut he deserves and falls to his death!.. Hooray!! Be back tomorrow for more, y'all...