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Westworld was a great movie in its time. Kind of a forgotten classic. I’ll have find it on Netflix.

Robert "Goat" Beveridge's avatarPopcorn for Breakfast

Westworld (Michael Crichton, 1973)

[originally posted 7Mar2001]

Does the world really need another technology-gone-mad movie? When the question can be asked (and fill in any type of genre after “another” and any type of media for “movie”), the answer is usually “no.” And thus Westworld seemed destined to fade into quiet and well-deserved oblivion even before its release. The second directorial project from author and well-known doomsayer Michael Crichton (the first being the forgettable Pursuit) wasn’t going to do anything to enhance the man’s budding movie career, said critics.

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