• by JKCalhoun on 1/7/2024, 2:10:05 AM

    A 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

  • by jncfhnb on 1/6/2024, 10:20:43 PM

    Great 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.

  • by cjohnson318 on 1/7/2024, 4:31:13 AM

    I 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.

  • by jacquesm on 1/6/2024, 10:17:25 PM

    Westworld 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...

  • by actionfromafar on 1/7/2024, 12:30:22 AM

    It’s way better than I thought it would be and it seems like it must have influenced Terminator for instance.

  • by bitwize on 1/7/2024, 2:38:51 AM

    Neat. 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

  • by dtgriscom on 1/7/2024, 1:18:44 AM

    Dark red text on black background: why?

  • by anotherhue on 1/6/2024, 10:10:35 PM

    The (useless) sequel has a similar claim for 3d imaging. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureworld

  • by brcmthrowaway on 1/6/2024, 10:35:05 PM

    How does the movie compare to the show?

  • by nektro on 1/7/2024, 6:47:32 PM

    oh woah I had no idea Westworld (2016) was based on previous work!