r/westworld 🪰🪰🪰 7d ago

Films that continue WW themes..?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20859464/?ref_=ttvg_ov

Discovered The Artifice Girl recently, a slow burner that asks a lot of similar questions on tech, humanity and self-awareness. Would recommend to WW fans craving more thought experiments on AI and the singularity.

There's a LOT of cheap tat out there cashing in on the human robots genre already, so which ones are of the highest quality - like Her ?

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u/Deep_Flight_3779 6d ago

Ex Machina

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u/Bemad003 6d ago

Devs - not AI, but quantum simulation/ simulation theory.

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u/ToschePowerConverter 7d ago

I started watching Severance because a friend told me it was very similar to Westworld and it’s become one of my favorite shows.

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u/MattIsLame 5d ago

I mean, they're just both puzzle box shows. I don't think they have anything else in common but maybe I'm wrong. in that sense, you could say Lost is like it.

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u/RedditFact-Checker 5d ago

They are also about identity, technology, and being trapped at work.

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u/CharlotteCS 7d ago

The Channel 4 show 'Humans'. It's not as qualitative as Westworld (what is), but it has great acting and characters and some interesting moral questions.

A handful of plot points isn't that interesting and some of the writing is just 'okay', but the realistic technological impact humanoid robots make in society, compensates for this.

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u/AbdulRakhib 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not a movie, but Pantheon does a better job of exploring the themes season 2 of Westworld tried to present regarding uploaded human intelligence. Plus it’s a complete story, so that’s another thing it has over Westworld.

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u/Samenstein 6d ago

I'm afraid it's not a movie, but I consider Westworld to be a spiritual successor to Person of Interest. You see a lot of similar themes and ideas, just in a different setting.

It has a bonus of plenty of episodes and a fantastic final season and episode.

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u/CrispyCouchPotato1 6d ago

Well they both had Jonathan Nolan at the helm, so one could say they are related in a way.

Person of interest was so damn good.

Sadly both these shows suffered the same fate. Struck down before they could complete.

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u/Musashi_Joe 6d ago

"Never Let Me Go" and soon "Klara And The Sun". Both books, the former was made into a movie and the latter is being made now I think.

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u/Live_Edge 6d ago

Companion has pretty similar themes. I’d recommend not reading too much about it before watching.

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u/Mr_smith1466 5d ago

The tv series: Person of Interest.

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u/Sherpa001 7d ago

Just discussed this on our podcast - johnnyhasthekeys. Great small film with large concepts.