MadCap's Reel Thoughts - Westworld (1973)

Science fiction was a very different place before Star Wars showed up. Far and away from the high adventure and wonder, the 1970s in science fiction were all about dark, gritty, and depressing. A wasteland of dystopia that was the truth behind the thin veneer of "the future!". This is characterized in many sci-fi films of that decade and one of the best textbook examples of that is Westworld. Made in 1973, it concerns an amusement park in the future year of...1983.

Well, remember, we've always thought flying cars are just twenty years in the future for the past century...