The way it was. When I was a kid there was an emergent wave of science fiction and fantasy films in the multiplexes. “Star Wars,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Superman: The Movie,” as well as countless lesser-quality imitators of each, such as “Starcrash” (an exceptionally awful movie), “Hangar 18” (a dumbed-down “X-Files”…
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HBO’s “Westworld”(2016) and comparisons to “The Prisoner” (1967)
It’s one season (or in modern terms, a handful of episodes) into HBO’s new “Westworld” TV series, which is based on the 1973 Michael Crichton (“Jurassic Park”) movie of the same name and overall idea (robots at amusement park go on rampage…no one’s happy). The new series is to the 1973 film what 2003’s Battlestar…