Any opinions on THX 1138

[mizzou]

just finished watching it, looks like it' s a pretty polarizing movie from reading user reviews on netflix. I've always been fascinated by it and had been meaning to watch it since i actually never heard of it until a few years ago.

Just watched it, and damn if I don't want to go out and buy the DVD so I can listen to it in remastered glory.

Loved every minute of it!

 

[RedArmy]

I love those Logitech speakers.

 

[sdifox]

Wait for the BluRay?

 

[mizzou]

Wait for the BluRay?

Would def. buy if it were $10 for blu ray. Needs to come bundled with 2001 space odyssey

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Never heard of it.

 

[sdifox]

Never heard of it.

1971, probably before you were born.

 

[Rubycon]

LOL yes I remember it well and have quite a few lines from the movie remembered line for line.

Very much ahead of its time.

 

[Slick5150]

I hated that movie. A lot.

 

[dennilfloss]

Saw it at the theater and I watch it again when it airs on the boob tube.

 

[lokiju]

I personally didn't care for it much. I've seen many worse movies though.

 

[Rubycon]

LUH calling him THEX was pretty annoying though. (Like a nerd saying CURT for CRT!)

 

[Shawn]

I hated that movie. A lot.

me too, and I like scifi stuff.

 

[MotionMan]

I first saw it on cable in the early '80's when I was much too young to understand the meaning of it. I have seen parts of it many time since.

I am not sure if I like it, but I am certainly fascinated by it and cannot turn it off.

One suggestion: Watch it with closed captioning on to make sure you catch all the radio back-chatter. It adds to the story.

I need to watch it from beginning to end some time.

MotionMan

 

[deepred98]

I liked it. It was unique and presented in an interesting and new (for the time) way.

That being said Robert Duvall was not fully utilized... actually the acting in general was crap

 

[biggestmuff]

:thumbsdown:

 

[Crow550]

I've seen some of it. I should check it out on Netflix Instant.

Wish George Lucas would do other things....

 

[Kadarin]

Well, it's better than Episode 1...

 

[HannibalX]

Why aren't you at your post?

He's got a bad transmitter.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

brutally bad movie. the only thing that would make it worse would be jar jar binks.

 

[dmw16]

Meh. I was underwhelmed.

 

[Gunbuster]

Tried to watch on Netflix streaming. Zzzzzz. Gave up, turned it off.

 

[ShawnD1]

I hated that movie. A lot.

I hear a lot of people compare it to Blade Runner, which I thought was terribly boring. Are the two movies similar in some way?

 

[seemingly random]

It was an excellent movie. Lucas' first.

 

[gonvik]

Very good movie, the 70's were Lucas at his most creative. It's a very slow moving film -- but the film has many interesting points: consuming just for the sake of consuming (those blocks that they buy, only to leave the store and throw them away), or the god that they get answers from in a booth.

No spoilers, but my favorite part is the ending -- more specifically what happens during the final moments of the escape, plus that great final shot that continues behind the credits.

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For the DVD, he decided to include CGI in the movie. The only time this really stuck out is when that electronic device "relieved" Robert Duvall -- in the original without it, surely you can tell that Duvall is doing something down there...

Finally, on the DVD Lucas says during the end of his commentary regarding the type of small scale film THX 1138 is:

"it's probably the filmmaking I'm gonna go back to someday. It's a much more interesting style of filmmaking than I currently find myself in..."

"But these more sort of slightly offbeat movies are really where my cinematic heart is."

That was recorded around '02 or '03...

 

[Rubycon]

What's wrong?

Nevermind....nnnnever mind never mind never mind beep!

What's wrong?

(out of tune SSB receiver voice) I need something stronger!

Take four red capsules! In ten minutes take two more! Help is on the way...

What's wrong?

(out of tune SSB receiver voice not as off zero beat as before)

I want you to take a visual record of this. We found it in the patching cells. We killed it.

Thank you for being conscientious! A visual record is being taken and filed with the department of biological flow.


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