THX 1138
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- 23kon
what a film!!
id never heard of this film before and bought it on a dvd shoppign spree from Fopp on saturday. the best £7 ive EVER spent!
i love this film, watched it twice and all the extras over the weekend.this kicks 1984, bladerunner,2001 space odsseyarses in my opinion.
good work mister george lucas!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX…
- harlequino0
Yup. By far his best film. And his most experimental, obviously.
Did you watch the docusmentary about how this film pretty much brought down Zoetrope? Kinda funny and sad.
- 23kon0
i didnt watch the zeotrope extra, it started off seeming like it was a short program about the history of american cinema - it made me yawn so i switched to the better extras.
migth give it a watch now though, sounds interesting.
- Mimio0
I like it too. It's the one movie of his that actually benefited from the reworking of the visual effects.
- twooh0
definitely my favorite film of all time...
- kelpie0
never seen this one. bad gap, that.
cheers Kon, will purchase this week.
- Dancer0
hmm I may have to try it
thanks
- 23kon0
kelpie, id never heard of it before either.
well worth buying and definitely my favourite film of all time now.
i think its got to be the most heavily sampled film of all time too!
"my time is yours"
"what's wrong"
"...i need something stronger"
- jaylarson0
from Star Wars, Episode IV:
"Prisoner transfer from block 1138"
- Geith0
good to hear this film get some love. it gets so much hate in film circles. it is def one of lucas' best, though american graffitti is also awesome.
- letters20
I've got a copy – terrific film. Really his best work (save the obvious) – and certainly better than anything else he has done conceptually.
- twooh0
I don't think it's 'better' than anything he's done necessarily. Star Wars still blows me out of the water, and I certainly take his original trilogy for granted.
- 23kon0
i guess its a lot different from starwars. starwars is something that the masses can consume easily, THX1138 is a lot deeper and gets you thinking.
people with a short attention span arent going to sit and watch it.
if you are interested in good cinematography, the brave new world and stuff like that then its a fascinating watch.
ive never seen the original so dont know how sparse some of the scenes were (crowd scenes etc) without the cgi.i watched the video about Zeotrope last night, it was an interesting watch.
I cant believe the film company wasnt interested in this film and wanted to cut it up so much for release.
some collection of directors and producers that were related to that compent - some list!!
- coulstring0
Your lining up a THX1138 against 2001? Ok...If Stanley Kubrick was still alive and could throw millions at re-producing 2001, it would beat anything else on the block. George Lucas tinkers too much...
- kelpie0
2001 sits aside from any other sci fi film, I've not seen another I could really judge it against fairly.
For me 2001 gets the closest on film to the kind of ideas based thrust that the best sci fi has in print. most of it has to go for spectacle over ideas and that's where a lot of it falls down.
- Crouwel0
THX1138: The Director's Cut is worth it.
- coulstring0
I disagree...it's easy for most people to think of 2001 as a visual spectacle because they don't understand the concepts of the film.
If Kubrick could re-visit the movie in the same way Lucas did with THX1138, rather than cool spaceships and weird lights, they would understand the real message in the film and be treated to a visual spectacle as a bonus.
- kelpie0
was that reply to me? I couldn't agree more, it is a visual spectacle, but its the one picture that really gets at something deeper that most prose sci fi (the good stuff anyway) is trying to do...
that's why holywood continually fucks up P K Dick's stuff, for example, they don't know how to express the ideas cinematicaly and end up relying on chase sequences and cool looking robots etc
- tank0
good movie
but sorry..no match for space oddissey and actually also no match for blade runner...
- Crouwel0
nope. tank is right.
no match in terms of FX!!!!!
i think the narration layers in THX are very interesting though.
so good even i bought the DC version on DVD to see it again.
- jaylarson0
A stretch, but these films make me think of Brave New World by Huxley.
"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in't!"The Tempest, Act V, Scene I