On 5/13/2022 11:09 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>>>> Westworld (blu-ray) 1973 sci-fi movie written and directed by Michael
>>>>>>>>>> Crichton. Yul Brynner stars as a T-800 that sets out to terminate
>>>>>>>>>> guests at a futuristic amusement park. I was surprised when I saw this
>>>>>>>>>> on my shelf. I'm not really a fan of this movie, but I think I bought
>>>>>>>>>> it when the TV series started a few years ago so I could revisit the
>>>>>>>>>> original movie first. But for the TV series I doubt it would have ever
>>>>>>>>>> occurred to me to buy this movie.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've always liked it even if there are hunks of it that make no sense
>>>>>>>>> whatsoever.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How do the cold robots possibly work? The hookers must be pretty
>>>>>>>>> unpleasant. And the outside animals are probably just as warm as the
>>>>>>>>> humans.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So many plot holes, so little time...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Medieval world and Roman world just always seemed too similar to have
>>>>>>>>> been worth the effort. There has to be a better third option.
>>>>>>>>> Prohibition? Roaring 20s? Dinosaur days? Oh wait, they'll do that one.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah, I felt the same way about those other two.
>>>>>>>> Did the HBO version address this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The HBO version doesn't really have anything to do with the real movie or
>>>>>>> the book beyond robot theme park. They have other parks but I'm not sure
>>>>>>> we know what they are. Ian's Wikipedia article says they don't actually
>>>>>>> have medieval world or Roman world but they have more parks in the TV show
>>>>>>> than they did in the movie.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, Mr. Google gave me this. Apparently there are at least six parks we
>>>>>>> know about.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> “Here are the parks that we currently know of: Park 1, Westworld;
>>>>>>> Park 2, Shogunworld; Park 3, Warworld; and Park 6, The Raj.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wait, wasn't the main char in WESTWORLD ambushed by a samauri in the
>>>>>> wilderness?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only park that Westworld viewers actually got to see in Season 1 was
>>>>>>> Westworld, though Shogunworld was teased somewhat in the finale. And in
>>>>>>> Season 2, we went inside Shogunworld, the park modeled after Japan's Edo
>>>>>>> period, and The Raj, an attraction inspired by the period between 1858 and
>>>>>>> 1947 during which the British Crown ruled over the Indian subcontinent.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ugh! The Raj sounds dreadful!
>>>>>
>>>>> Honestly, they all do.
>>>>> I don't know why you'd want to go to India ever except to hunt tigers or to
>>>>> see big buildings which they definitely won't have. They may well have the
>>>>> stench though.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Even though Season 3 doesn't premiere until Sunday, we know that it will
>>>>>>> introduce us to Warworld, a park that is meant to replicate the Nazi
>>>>>>> Germany-occupied Italy during World War II.”
>>>>>
>>>>> G, that sounds like big fun.
>>>>
>>>> At risk of entering Goodwin territory, if one wanted to play being a Nazi, why
>>>> would you goto Italy instead of Germany?
>>>
>>> Well they seem to want to be in a Nazi occupied country. It would've made
>>> more sense if they chosen Morocco for the Casablanca fans.
>>
>> I thought it would make more sense to be France, so you can play a Nazi
>> or a member of the French Underground.
>
> What’s the difference between the Nazi party and the French underground?
>
> The Nazi party has an active culture!
>
Like yogurt?