THX 1138 | | Cast : | Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence | | Director : | George Lucas | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Director's Cut, Surround Sound, Collector's Edition, THX | | Released Date : | March 11, 1971 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | Classic | Content
 | I just saw this movie for the first time recently and liked it alot. After watching this movie it made me want to run out and search for more older sci-fi classics I might have missed. Great Job by Lucas on his first film, definately shows his potential. Hopefully he'll make a few more movies before he retires now that he's finished making star wars films. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | I have just seen it on tv | Content
| and I was interested who made it. I was deeply surprised that it was was done by Lucas, who was never taken seriously by me with his childish and stuped in many ways but still good enough for kids in puberty and people who suffer of mental retardation "Star wars". I think ""thx1138" is his best work ever. It reminded me brilliant Tarkovskiy's "Solaris", not by a plot of couse, but both of these films are sci-fi and like Tarkovskiy in "solaris" Lucas tried to make smart and honest movie, not just brain weak people entertainment. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Gives you a deeper respect for Lucas | Content
| If you ask me, "THX 1138" is not THE best Sci-Fi movie I've ever seen. I think that 'honor' goes to Kubrick's "2001". However, if you consider that this was Lucas' first actual feature out of film school, you got to give him a lot of credit for it. As a matter of fact, the movie works pretty well 35 years after it was first released, so he must have done something right!
The whole concept of a society that has become dehumanized, where minds are numbed with drugs in order to be more easily controlled, etc. is not new, but Lucas' approach to it was both, innovative and effective, getting you into the story in a matter of minutes. While, certainly not of the scale of "Star Wars", the movie contains more than a handful of elements (sound effects, for the most part, and a handful of visuals, such as the holograms) that he later went on to reuse for the intergalactic epic.
At the end of the day, "THX 1138" gives you a deeper respect for George Lucas. I hope he mas more of this innovative material lined up for all of us in the coming years. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 26, 2005 | | Summary | If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug | Content
| Seems to me Lucas was once an idealist of the juvenille sort in the early 70's. Science fiction is not very easy to do. It doesn't matter whether you're writing books or making movies, you basically have to create a world in the future (or some alternate space and time) but the only knowledge of physics you have are those of the world you live in. Lucas himself says that this is not a movie about the future, but from the future. Even though I'm not a fan, I have to applaud the man for what he did here. To create the elusion of the future, Lucas the writer makes sure that at least seventy-five percent of the plot doesn't make a lick of sense (that's a good thing) and Lucas the director makes sure that we wander through the world in a languid pace with a pale color scheme. This is all done so we recieve the effect of receiving cinema from "The Future." This is effective real SCIENCE fiction (not just something that focuses itself on gizmos for geeks... ahem STAR TREK), a few scenes and images have power, Duvall immerces himself into the role, the movie has life to it, but it doesn't have a lot of depth to it. While the details are wonderfully incomprehensible, the base of the vision (or its core, whatever you wanna call it) is pretty simple, dull and repetitive, some safe bourgoise intellectuals would call it "Orwellian" that isn't a good thing in my book. The supposed vision is that of a society that submits its inhabitants and works in itself as a machine, scrapping its parts once they no longer function correctly, these parts just happen to be human beings. This notion doesn't contain a lot of punch these days, everyone from the hamfisted Orwell to Pink Floyd have done it with varying degrees of success, Lucas is pretty juvenille to make this his center or his central "message." But there is a redeeming factor if you've followed Lucas's career, since Hollywood is itself a machine-like society as depicted in THX where most movies are made in collaboration with various elements of the machine, no director in hollywood is a ble to start by depicting his own vision without having to collaborate, with prducers and businessmen, so individuality in Hollywood is almost non-existent, yet If you as a filmmaker would like to make films on a big budget it is the only way. The only filmmaker that is probably able to work in this system and project his own vision is Sir Ridley Scott, but he is to be discussed at another time. What I'm getting at is the irony of knowing how Lucas completely immerced himself in his latter years inside the type of environment that he sermonizes against in THX, spending the latter years of his life stealing from Kurosawa, making tons of money over the work of others, and immercing himself in collaborating himself and being welcomed into the machine (I wonder if he ever listened to the Pink Floyd song). Those are of course only my thoughts on the man, I can only distinguish his career choices. With all the factors, I still recommend this movie to fans of REAL SCIENCE FICTION and those who want to see a talented film maker still taking risks before his descent into the fiery furnaces of riches beyond imagination and universal praise. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | An Strange Work From George Lucas! Even As A Beginner | Content
| I can't really find out the point of making this movie. It's not a zero budget but it looks like a zero budget movie. the scenario is absolutely simple and pointless and worse is, it's terribly boring! I can't beleave that the creator of star wars, once has made such a weak movie. really unbelievable, if george lucas from making such movies in only two years reached at that level of making a masterpiese like star wars, I can fly an space ship instead of my car too! don't let the name of george lucas fool you and don't waste your money for buying this freak. it's a director's cut. I've not seen the original movie but i'm sure that the director's cut must be much boring than the original!
Instead of this cheap & pointless movie I suggest you to watch fritz lang's 1927 silent "METROPOLIS", or "1984" wihch has remade several times. these movies has a same story line with THX 1138 but unlike this freak, they are all, very good movies and at least, your time and money, will not be wasted! |
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