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JagerCon Sci-Fi Tuesdays: Westworld
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Tue Nov 10
10 pm,
JagerCon Sci-Fi Tuesdays: Westworld at Clubhouse Jäger
High-concept novelist Michael Crichton dabbled in genre filmmaking for a time in the ’70s, and in 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, a dry run for some of the gimmicks and ideas he’d later bring to his blockbuster book Jurassic Park. James Brolin and Richard Benjamin play wealthy good-timers who vacation at a high-tech amusement park where the guests play at shootouts with “Wild West” robots. When the robots begin to go haywire, Brolin and Benjamin are hunted by a dead-eyed mechanical marksman, played by Yul Brynner. Westworld submerges Crichton’s pop-philosophical musings on the arrogance of the idle rich, letting taut suspense and gratuitous spine-tingling take precedence over moralizing.
Clubhouse Jäger 923 Washington Ave N, Twin Cities, MN
High-concept novelist Michael Crichton dabbled in genre filmmaking for a time in the ’70s, and in 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, a dry run for some of the gimmicks and ideas he’d later bring to his blockbuster book Jurassic Park. James Brolin and Richard Benjamin play wealthy good-timers who vacation at a high-tech amusement park where the guests play at shootouts with “Wild West” robots. When the robots begin to go haywire, Brolin and Benjamin are hunted by a dead-eyed mechanical marksman, played by Yul Brynner. Westworld submerges Crichton’s pop-philosophical musings on the arrogance of the idle rich, letting taut suspense and gratuitous spine-tingling take precedence over moralizing.
Updated 10/29/2009
