Futureworld
(1976)
Where you can't tell the robots from the machines
- even when you look in the mirror!
Director
- Richard T Heffron
Writers - George Schenk, Mayo Simon
Starring - Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner,
John P Ryan, Stuart Margolin, Allen Ludden, Robert Cornthwaite,
Angela Greene, Darrell Larson, Nancy Bell, Bert Conroy, Dorothy
Conrad, John Fujioka, Dana Lee
Review by Noel Baily
Sure, a tribute to the 70's fashion disaster but still
a worthy little thought-provoker in its own right!
These
guys at least TRIED something different and didn't simply
re-run the original with a few new characters. OK Peter Fonda
was never in his dad's image...he never TRIED to be! Henry
was an un surpassable one off..and by all accounts was a far
better actor than he was a father! Peter gave us Bridget so
hell that's a pretty fair contribution. How many of you realise
that Blythe Danner is Gwyneth Paltrow's mum?.....which accounts
for the latter's total lack of charisma too! I actually LIKED
Blythe in this...she was a bit of a go-getter, no damsel in
distress, "help me I'm feeble" wimp.... she could
dish it out!
Yeah,
the low-spot WAS the gratuitous Yul Brynner cameo - it didn't
make me throw-up like some of you...it was simply unneccessary!
Fonda's reporter with attitude was all that he HAD to do,
he wasn't trying to be Jet Li on a mission. The ending? well
guys and dolls, I must be the only humanoid who actually liked
it - I make no apologies.
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