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Futureworld

  • 19761976
  • PGPG
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
11K
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Futureworld (1976)
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Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
11K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Richard T. Heffron
  • Writers
    • Mayo Simon
    • George Schenck
  • Stars
    • Peter Fonda
    • Blythe Danner
    • Arthur Hill
  • Director
    • Richard T. Heffron
  • Writers
    • Mayo Simon
    • George Schenck
  • Stars
    • Peter Fonda
    • Blythe Danner
    • Arthur Hill
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 81User reviews
    • 51Critic reviews
    • 46Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations

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    Peter Fonda and Stuart Margolin in Futureworld (1976)
    Blythe Danner and Peter Fonda in Futureworld (1976)
    Peter Fonda in Futureworld (1976)
    Yul Brynner in Futureworld (1976)
    Peter Fonda in Futureworld (1976)
    Yul Brynner in Futureworld (1976)
    Blythe Danner, Peter Fonda, and Angela Greene in Futureworld (1976)
    Blythe Danner, Peter Fonda, and Nick Dimitri in Futureworld (1976)
    Peter Fonda and James M. Connor in Futureworld (1976)
    Peter Fonda in Futureworld (1976)
    Blythe Danner in Futureworld (1976)
    Futureworld (1976)

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    Peter Fonda
    Peter Fonda
    • Chuck Browning
    Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner
    • Tracy 'Socks' Ballard
    Arthur Hill
    Arthur Hill
    • Duffy
    Yul Brynner
    Yul Brynner
    • The Gunslinger
    John P. Ryan
    John P. Ryan
    • Dr. Schneider
    • (as John Ryan)
    Stuart Margolin
    Stuart Margolin
    • Harry
    Allen Ludden
    Allen Ludden
    • Game Show Host
    Robert Cornthwaite
    Robert Cornthwaite
    • Mr. Reed
    Angela Greene
    Angela Greene
    • Mrs. Reed
    Darrell Larson
    Darrell Larson
    • Eric
    Nancy Bell
    • Erica
    Burt Conroy
    • Mr. Karnovski
    Dorothy Konrad
    • Mrs. Karnovski
    John Fujioka
    John Fujioka
    • Mr. Takaguchi
    Dana Lee
    Dana Lee
    • Mr. Takaguchi's Aide
    Alex Rodine
    Alex Rodine
    • KGB Man
    Judson Pratt
    Judson Pratt
    • Bartender
    Andrew Masset
    Andrew Masset
    • Male Robot
    • Director
      • Richard T. Heffron
    • Writers
      • Mayo Simon
      • George Schenck
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    • Trivia
      This was Yul Brynner's final film before his death on October 10, 1985 at the age of 65.
    • Goofs
      (at around 6 mins) Near the beginning of the film, Mr. Duffy recounts the sequence of events of the Westworld incident. His presentation does not match the events of the previous film. Specifically, the Gunslinger was not the first robot to kill a guest.
    • Quotes

      Arthur Holcombe: While you are a glamorous, and highly paid television personality, you are still an employee. In fact, you're my employee. So, unless you'd like to spend the next five years doing weather and fashion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, you will now shut up and do as you're told.

      Tracy Ballard: Oh, yes? Yes, Arthur? We'll see about that!

    • Alternate versions
      For its initial television broadcast, an alternate version of the scene towards the end where Chuck Browning extends his middle finger to Dr. Schneider was shot. Instead of extending his middle finger, Browning performs a sanitized "Italian elbow gesture", where the right hand is placed in the elbow crook of the left arm, then the left arm is raised (fist clenched) in a smooth and continuous motion.
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      Featured in The Pixar Story (2007)

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    A fairly uninteresting sequel with a very poor first half and a second half that is badly delivered
    Years after the failure of Westworld, the same company have regrouped and are planning to open the same theme park again but improved and totally safe. Chuck Browning, the journalist who originally broke the Westworld story, is approached by a mysterious man who has information on this new park – but he is killed before he can tell his story. Looking for dirt under the surface, Browning and colleague Ballard join the elite group selected for the opening few days at the park and begin to investigate a world where nothing is what it seems – nothing.

    Having enjoyed the Jurassic Park rehearsal that was Westworld, I tuned in to this sequel hoping for, at very least, more of same stuff with a clever new slant on it. In defence of the film it does try to do something with the plot and widens it out into a bigger, potentially better conspiracy story but for some reason it fails to really engage. The first half of the film drags like a chain smoker and it seems happy to just bang out sequences that we are supposed to go 'wow' at simply because they involve special effects or robots. This is a terrible first hour because the special effects at best are superimposed men painted red and green to look like holographic chess pieces and, at worst a laughable moment where people sky down the red dust on Mars – on rather, they ski down a normal mountain but the whole scene is shot through a red filter! That is not a special effect and even in 1976 I doubt that these 'effects' were enough to stop audiences from getting bored in the first half of the movie.

    The second half is a marked improvement but, by then, a lot of damage had been done and a flurry of action and conspiracy was not quite enough to make it a good film. It does have some good scenes but, ironically enough, these feature between the duplicated characters rather than being the effect shots that the producers were clearly banking on being the business side of the film. However, the extent of the threat is never translated to the film and the ending is terrible – far too muted to have even the faintest relation to the plot we were being sold just a few minutes before. The film only once or twice has even vague tension and certainly nowhere near the degree that the plot demanded.

    The cast are also hamstrung by the material. Fonda looks bemused the whole time and it looks likely that nobody told him what was happening in the film – he certainly doesn't look like a man who has just uncovered an evil conspiracy! Danner is also as shapeless and dipsy and she didn't make me care one bit about her. The support cast try hard to look 'evil' and 'conspiratorial' but really they are not given the tools to do the job and just end up scowling! A cameo from Yul Brynner just seems to be totally pointless and resulting in his entire scene just being stupid.

    Overall this is a very poor sequel. It tries to repeat the formula from the first film while opening it out into its own plot but it fails in a big way.

    The first hour is empty, unspectacular that was meant to be spectacle but wasn't and a second half that has a potentially good plot which is just wasted by a delivery that is so lacking in excitement and tension that you'd think there was no conspiracy or danger whatsoever! Stick to the original.
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    • bob the moo
    • Aug 23, 2004

    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 14, 1976 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Futureworld - Das Land von Übermorgen
    • Filming locations
      • Johnson Space Center - 2101 NASA Rd., Houston, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • American International Pictures (AIP)
      • The Aubrey Company
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    • Budget
      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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