the vacation of a lifetime…

Westworld Westworld, the vacation of a lifetime! Yes, welcome to Delos where you can choose between Westworld (the wild west), MedievalWorld (13th c. Europe) or Romanworld… What do you really need to clear your head from the mundanity of regular life? A Roman orgy? Wild west shoot out? Jousting and feasting? All as real as real life, but with no dangers! Kill without worrying about being killed, yes for only $1000 per day ($4,851 adjusted), you too can have the vacation of a lifetime… Just hope that nothing goes wrong!

Well, when James Brolin goes on a wild west vacation with his pal (and Delos newbie) Richard Benjamin, they are ready for some good old drinking, robo-whoring, gunfighting and general wild west fun. Soon after they arrive they start to get a taste of the old west, with a tough gunslinger insulting Benjamin in the saloon. After killing this rude interloper, they continue to go about their free-for-all Wild West life! Oddly enough though, that gunfighter returns and they have to take him out again.

It seems like as bad sign, as Delos is supposed to have a strong feeling of reality, when the gunslinger returns yet again, still intent of getting rid of them… But this is the first of many signs that something is going awry at Delos.

Westworld is one of my favorites from my youth. A commentary on the shallow state of human desires and also a warning against the impending pervasive reliance on technology, Westworld covers its entertainment bases by having scenes of decadence in three enticing milieus, in case the market might not have been interested in only one of these historical genres. And their is plenty of TV-style violence to keep any fan awake