I loved the original Westworld. Futureworld was ok. The spinoff series was ok for the time.
“Don’t smoke. That’s it. Just don’t smoke.”
-—Yul Brynner
It tells me they (our new generation of imagineers) may have learned about our past times for enjoyment and have applied new cinematographic advances to retell an old story, but they have learned absolutely effing nothing about the lessons and impacts that resulted..
It’s been over 4 decades, but I’m still waiting for the invention of those robotic barmaids.
I agree. Good remakes are rare. "The Fly" was good. The remake of "Rollerball" (which I consider a terrific movie) was unwatchably bad.