https://vo.rs/tags/androids/Latest from the Androids desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/westworld-1973-crichtons-theme-park-nightmare/<p>Michael Crichton had already sold a bestseller and a screenplay before he stepped behind a camera, and <em>Westworld</em> in 1973 was the novelist teaching himself to direct in public. It shows, in the good ways and the bad. The staging is often flat, the pacing lumpy, the acting broad. And yet the film contains two ideas so durable that half a century of science fiction has been living off them, and a third that pointed straight at the future of the movies themselves. For a first-time director working within a modest budget, that is an extraordinary strike rate, and it is why the film is remembered when slicker pictures of its year are forgotten.</p>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000