I saw it in a theatre that had a bar. it was a double feature with ralph bakshi's "wizards"
good times

My dad liked to take my brother and I to Sci Fi movies. And we still had two drive-in movie theaters in Bridgeport Connecticut back then so that was a real treat. He used it as an excuse to get us to wash and vacuum the car.

How about when the disaster movies were big and the theater got Sensurround speakers for movies like Earthquake and Midway.

(man did this thread go sideways. But it is fun.)

Wizards was cool. It had the whole Vaughn Bodē - Cheech Wizard and Junkwaffle comic style.

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A lot of sub plots going on in the pilot episode. I've seen worse Sif Fi original productions. Give it some time to stregthen character developments.Hmmmm...I smell a Pinball machine somewhere from this...

I'd just like to say that Evan Rachel Wood, playing Dolores Abernathy, is REALLY beautiful!

That is all.

Wizards was the perfect stoner movie from the 70s. First time I saw it was the first of a double feature with the Song Remains the Same, so we were already geared up for it when we got there. Must have seen it five times before I could remember any of the plot, but I knew I liked it.

As far as Logans Run, Farrah Fawcett was the sex symbol of the 70s, but after seeing that movie it was Jenny Agutter I thought about.

Earthquake with Victoria Principal? Heck ya!

The 70s were a great time for movies. When the biggest stars in Hollywood took any roles they could get. And liked it!

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Keep you hands where we can see them.

I always liked that Towering Inferno poster with everyone's description. Robert Vaughn's face is funny.

In the late 90s when I was a still in school, we got satellite which was a big deal in the country where there is no cable. I remember watching many disaster movies on DirecTV PPV. Volcano, Dante's Peak, Independance Day, The Perfect Storm, Armageddon, Twister, Apollo 13. It was a resurgence of the disaster movie from the 70s.

I get the feeling this is more of a sequel set 30 years from the original Westworld. I watched the pilot and it seems interesting, but agree with you. Noone of the characters could hold Yul Brynner's jock strap. So, I am curious to see who the bad guy turns out to be. Ed Harris seemed like a sociopath, but human.

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Holy crap that had everyone except Ernest Borgnine. I thought he was in everything. And don't leave out The Posiden Adventure for a disaster classic.

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Poseiden Adventure is pretty much the one that started it all.

Oh wasn't it a great time to be growing up!

Airport was the one that started the disaster movie run. It was a comparatively small "disaster" movie in scope and budget, but it's the one that started the run of them in the 1970s where each one had to be bigger than the last.

Almost forgot about that one. Another great movie with many sequels.

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So many sequels they spawned the Airplane! parodies.

The other day I caught a movie called Crash Landing on TCM. It's supposed to be an early disaster movie from '58. It was pretty interesting but I had to laugh at the stock footage used for the plane shots. I kept looking at Nancy Davis thinking she looked familiar. It wasn't until the host came on after the movie ended that I realized who she was. The poster even does the descriptions for the characters like The Towering Inferno poster.

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I saw that one. Great movie!

I've been watching a lot of those before my time movies on Turner lately. One that really must have made people think is this cold war nuclear disaster movie starring Henry Fonda.

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Just watched the episode. I think this show has a ton of potential. Anyone notice the piano played Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden? Also, played Painted Black by the Rolling Stones?

Qinhave not started to but was planning on it, is it worth it? Just starting watching the Quarry show on Cinemax as well.

I like to wait for an entire season of a show to run then watch them all at once, granted I did catch the first episode and while a little slow paced seems like there's great potential there.

Apparently, the second episode "Chestnut" is now available for early viewing on demand.

I enjoyed the first episode but was not blown away but reading the discussion boards has given me a better understanding of the episode and a lot of the clues and easter eggs with in it and now I am more excited about the series. I am SO thankful that HBO does not do the Netflix model of dumping all the episodes at once, it is great to read the speculation posts with everyone on the same episode and no spoilers.

I actually like having all the episodes released at once, so I can watch when it fits my schedule and not have to wait around for a full week to get to the next episode, especially if there is a cliffhanger.

I agree in some cases regarding cliffhangers. I feel there are varying degrees to that, but I feel that most of the HBO content I watch doesn't "cliffhang the shit outta" me. Where as the network shows like Walking Dead do.

But aren't cliffhangers the best? To anticipate and think about the different possible outcomes for a few days? To speculate with friends about what could happen? To discuss it the following day?

Or maybe I am just too old school, lol. Also I hate the people who have time to binge watch a show and then talk about it and have them go out of their way trying not to spoil it. "What episode are you on? Oh, that is the one where she comes back to life right? Oh, she's still dead? Forget I said anything!" or the ever popular "I don't want to spoil anything but wait until episode 7 when the shit really hits the fan! WOW!"

I've begun many mornings with sleep deprivation.

Try Skyjacked and Colossus: The Forbin Project
oh and Coma!

Did anyone else notice that the horse that was in for repairs in the original, is being rode on the main street of the HBO?

Episode 2 is already out on HBO Go and HBO Now. Just released today.

If they link the show to the original movie I will be impressed. Even though the movie is very good it doesn't get the love it deserves and I could see some show runner not wanting to connect to some "old and outdated" movie.

I think I might go back and watch the original now.

The "Gunslinger" from the movie is referenced in the HBO series as "The Man in Black "; and one of the characters says something about nothing going wrong, at least since he got there, so it could be that the HBO is set 40 years into the future from the original Delos theme park.

Wow great first episode. Music was pretty good. I like the cover of the Rolling Stones song and it's always great to hear American Recordings Johnny Cash.

I love movies/shows that reference their history before we got to watch. One of the most intriguing things for me is when they reference the many roles the androids got to play. So fun

Theories I have:
Ed Harris is not an android. I don't think he's playing Yul Brunner's character because he's not an android. The androids can't kill him and he says he's been coming there for 30 years.

Dolores is sentient. She's playing along with the staff so they won't decommission her but I think she's knowledgeable of what her world is and her role in it. I wonder if she will play the Yul Brunner role later on. What I mean is she will be the android that goes rogue.

There are androids working among the staff. The show is giving me Blade Runner vibes where I'm questioning if anyone is a real person.

The original is still such a great movie, but we need to be honest and realize it's because of Yul's performance. He barely has any lines, but makes such an impact.

The first episode of the new series was interesting, but I don't see how this story can improve with longer air time. Time will tell.

After watching the second episode, I'm getting the feeling Anthony Hopkins is gonna have the same fate as Sean Bean from GOT.

I just found out Vinyl got cancelled because they did not know where elese to take the show, go figure.

Vid, wasn't it already in the future?

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I know Futureworld was in the future.

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I think it was cancelled primarily because it was hugely expensive and no one was watching it.

Olivia Wilde gets nekkid and I still couldn't bother to watch.

I watched that one.

I'll probably catch it eventually, but I can't keep up with all the quality TV out there.

Westworld original movie is on Sci-Fi 10pm CST tonight (10/816).

Just a bump in case anyone wants to catch (or DVR) the original movie. Starts in five on SciFi!

without revealing any spoilers, was the boy that anthony hopkin's character taking a stoll with in last night's episode, a host or a real person? initially, I was thinking he was the son of a guest, but at the end I'm thinking just another robot