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- xau
I'm catching the 2:00 at Cinerama in Seattle. If it's playing in a city near you... see it. The timing for this release is perfect. Great social commentary on what the (not so distant) future will be like.
- DutchBoy0
i have just seen it 2 hours ago on a filmfestival. the directors cut(2004).
i am not feeling the political/social message as being the unique quality of the movie, as it's been done countless times before and after the original release..(in 1970) (see Metropolis, 1984 etc.etc.etc.).
To me, what really was inspiring and outstanding in it's quality was the extremely tight photography/graphics of it all.... somehow it felt more like a Kubrick flick then a Lucas one.. altho i must admit i have never seen any other movie of Lucas before (never seen any starwars..).
my friend's immediate response after the movie was "damn. would love to have some superhigh resolution prints of some stills".. i had to agree... some (a lot actually!) of them are really worth filling a wall or two with!
ACE.
- DutchBoy0
oh, i believe it was just called "THX - the directors cut" here..
wonder what the original release looked like...
- rasko40
haven't seen the new cut, saw the old one and I really enjoyed it, the styling and the whole stark feel of it was right up my street.
- thompson0
the genesis of teh project was a student film lucas did?
not sure if the original footage was shot while he was a "student".
either way, looks like it will be worth checking out
disappointed he didn't revisit this style before making those last two star wars movies.
- chossy0
hey dutchboy have you seen american grafitti? habe you not seen any of the indiana joneses they rule
- twooh0
you should just buy it guys. the two dvd set is $20, and its already out. you can even get a single dvd set for $14
- DutchBoy0
lol...that was one of the first things a friend said.. 'it has this feel of this designer'.. i said "starck" ..then he said: 'yeah, that's the one'.
but then, to me it looked judt like the modernistic feel of the era (missed big and bold helvetice though.. maybe that's better anyway!) and some strong parallels with Kubrick.
i can recommend it to anyone.
- DutchBoy0
oh didn't know indiana jones was by lucas. yeah i have seen them.
- DutchBoy0
here's some stills.. but the quality here is horrible.
http://www.thx-1138.org/html/img…
on the bigscreen it was all extremely crisp and very, very good contrast.. i really wonder if they cleaned it up in the directors cut.
- pascii0
ordered it on frida. i hope it has the same aesthetic impact like clockwork had to me earlier this year!
website is ace!
- DutchBoy0
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/mo…
what a whiny bitching review.
this p0nk should stick to reviewing Beethoven and Babe. Please gfy.
during the movie about 20 people left.. but i was still fascinated by the photography.. audio and image.
for once, can simple-narrow-minded mcdonalds-mongering retards just set the whole "story-idea" aside and apreciate the atmosphere of a movie?? chrissst sake!!
- pascii0
hehe
well, it is the time of a geberatiob that forgot that there is grey between black and white
- DutchBoy0
unfortunatly yes, pascii..
i think these aren't the best times for great ideas that deviate from the mainstream..
*sigh*
- pascii0
so it's up to us to feed the right information to those who deserve it. : )
- DutchBoy0
right on!!
- warheros0
none of the shots in the new one or the one that was released in theatres when it was originally out have shots from his college film, those are two different movies. THX was based on a college film he did.
just picked up the new DVD, dope!
- DutchBoy0
Lucas' student project version right here:
- veraicon0
there was a movie that was made in 2002 called Equilibrium with Christian Bale...the same theme, etc.
i haven't seen thx yet, but i heard great things about it.
- aaakpth0
I have to agree with that review about the sci-fi cliches... to your argument about not focusing on "story", either have it or don't... doing it as half-assed as it was only serves to detract from the style and cinematography.
If, say, Alien had been overly lit and had a guy in a big hokey suit, the poor effects there would take as much away as the poor story did in THX.
Lucas has always created derivative stories, and they were never that strong - from THX up to Episode II, IMO.