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THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD

Posted by michael on from the han-shoots-first dept.

OMM0000 writes "George Lucas' first film, THX 1138 is finally coming to DVD. They've also launched a new site, as USA Today reports. As webmaster of a certain THX-1138 fan site (which will remain nameless to avoid slashdotting), this is excellent news. For all of you lamenting the Star Wars prequels, be sure to see where Lucas' roots in filmmaking are."

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  1. As long as it's not by noewun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    THX 1138: The Special Expanded Director's Cut, with better special effects and a new ending I will be very happy.

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    1. Re:As long as it's not by Viceice · · Score: 2, Insightful

      So the way to make Star Wars better is to cut his budget?

      And I'm only 1/2 kidding. I personally enjoy cheap films with a good story, then an expensive all CG and SFX animation 'wolf' in live action 'sheeps' clothing.

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    2. Re:As long as it's not by E_elven · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It was a satirical stab. Since you have apparently seen the movie, this should not have been a surprise to you. Gah.

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  2. You're kidding, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Finally? This is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. I only watched the whole thing all the way through because it was made by the guy that created Star Wars. Probably the same reason people watched Episodes I and II.

  3. Lucas' best work? by zoobaby · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While a bit slow moving, THX-1138 does actually explore something interesting. It is, with the exception of Empire, Lucas' best film. All films since have all slowly (Or not so slowly) deteriorated into the mess we now call the Star Wars prequels.

  4. Re:Am I the only one.. by MrBlackBand · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Am I the only one that wondered why [THX] went to all that trouble just to starve to death on the surface?

    Freedom?

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    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
  5. A Boy and His Dog by engwar · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Not sure that this qualifies as retro but it's one of my favorite cult sci-fi films.

    It stars a young Don Johnson

    This from IMDB...
    A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex..

  6. The mighty have fallen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I don't like much Sci-Fi television or film. The notable exceptions being Farscape (which was punished for breaking conservative expectations of what SciFi is supposed to by) and a handful of movies of which THX is one. THX was intensely imaginative (IMHO) and the acting was enjoyable to watch. You had a director who was more concerned about what he was seeing as opposed to the 'old' lucas is so concentrated on what he is not seeing (the effects, the compositing etc.)

  7. Re:Hi. I am an uneducated... by Dizzle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm, I may be new, but I feel the need to correct this. If you are into a genre, does that necessarily mean you have to like everything from that category? I like watching dramas. That would make me into dramas, however, I don't like every drama. Perhaps one of the dramas was even one of the most boring movies I've ever seen!

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    "I most likely AM so interested in myself."
  8. Yeah, real prophetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I see THX1138 as prophetic: a puritanical (NO SEX!!!) consumerist capitalist totalitarian technological nightmare ...

    Maybe you haven't noticed this but the future is turning out to be FILLED WITH SEX! I mean, the consumerist, capitalist stuff you refer to is practically NOTHING BUT sex these days. Popular "music" and movies are little more than opportunities for young, curvy girls to wriggle their bodies around for the titilation of the audience.

  9. Re:Wow... by beforewisdom · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In other words it is a long campaign commercial to show what the US will be like if GWB wins a new term?

  10. Actually by WTFmonkey · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I think the movie is more about you.
    That's the problem with yesterday's generation. You are so frightened of technology and changing ideas that you attack new ideas with Luddite fervor, banging on the machinery of modern life with oak clubs.

    THX1138 is totally about YOU, huddling in your cave, doing manual labor that WE have designed machines to do for us. You have refused to learn the lessons that the industrial revolution should have tought you, with redundant repetitivity. You have no concept of what the word "progress" means, and you have yet to realize that true education does not (and should not) take place in schools, but in the home, on the playground, and in the burning desire to better yourself and your progeny (not everyone has that last one, by the way).

    The parallels between THX1138 and today are mildly interesting, but hardly prescient. It's easy to look 30 years into the future. Lao Tsu wrote more insightful warnings thousands of years ago. HG Wells did a better job of it over a hundred years ago.

    You've convinced nobody.