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THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut
StefanJ writes "This is either a marvelous Photoshop hoax or something really . . . cool? Sacreligious? Unnecessary? Reportedly, George Lucas has given his first commercially released movie, THX1138, a digital workover, enhancing backgrounds and altering scenes for more eye-appeal. Here are some comparisons of original and altered scenes. For those who haven't seen the film: Without giving too much away, it's about a working stiff living in a repressive underground bomb-shelter society. Emotion-suppressing drugs are mandatory; people shuffle from work to home, pausing to buy consumer goods along the way. (The goods aren't used for anything; you just feed them into a disposal unit after you get home. Making them keeps people busy . . .) If the drugs don't work, you can vent your spleen in a confession booth manned by a really bad A.I. It's really bleak, and sometimes ugly, but worth seeing. I hope the enhancements don't add too much color: The drab, sterile, white-on-white environment of the underground city is an important mood-setter. Consume more; be happy!"
As far as first films by future 'masters' is concerned. I'd rather wait for the digitally enhanced version of John Carpenter's Dark Star to be made and released. The existing DVD already has a Director's cut included (this might be the un-enhanced student version though, I've only seen the movie on cable).
Work for Change & GET PAID!
I saw the enhanced trailer for it not to long ago.
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Get back to working on Star Wars, you lazy bum. And do it right this time!
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
This reminds me very strong of an episode from South Park: Free Hat...
My photo's.
Bet I can predict the mood of the webserver, and it isn't happy. Anyone have a mirror?
Sorry, it was obligatory...
"Here's a spoiler: You're will die alone."-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Anybody mirror this before it died?
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
" I must have the latest PowerBook"...
The poor guy's server is going tits up already.
There were a ton of good pics there if you could have read it in the mysterious future!
There's a second comparison page here
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Seems DavisDVD.com got to feel the power of slashdotting.
And substitute weapons for walkie talkies and replace the word "terrorist" for "unamerican"?
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From what I understand, THX is decent at best. It's only gained esteem due to his other titles out there.
"Here's a spoiler: You're will die alone."-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
...with the white-on-white borderless rooms. All the actors seem to be removed in this version. And I don't think I remember the "website cannot be found" message in the original.
Them:"Lucas is updating X movie to show his true vision which couldn't be expressed at the time due to technical limitations." Us: "Please God no."
12:50 - press return.
I saw this first on Fark quite some time ago. They even had a photoshop contest for it. After a little research, this is no hoax at all. I can't wait to see what Lucas does with this film, a film that lead to so many others like it, yet none were quite as good. Can't wait to see the final results!
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Hasn't Mr. "Lets do another trivially improved release of my movie so people cough up another $20 for it" kind of lost his right to make a movie criticizing consumerism?
Or perhaps he's already taking those drugs, which explains his directing on Episode II.
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...they include the original version and include scene markers. I'm a real stickler for the originals. I love the latest Alien release. It includes the original theatrical release and then a director's cut where I can activate text scene markers and know exactly what was changed. You can choose what versions you like best and actually learn something about how the editing process can change your perception of a film.
The story line seems like a ripoff from Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World. Which happens to be a great book if you've never read it.
... if that's your best, your best won't do... - Twisted Sister
This is yet more proof that George has lost his touch as a director. The man seems completely reliant upon special effects to sell movies now. The back-end motivation seems to be: Who cares if it sucks, the special effects will make up for that.
The LoTR movies prove that special effects and good directing can coexist in a movie. The Star Wars prequals prove that you can sell movies and merchandise on special effects alone... I guess this is historical fact to game players; look at how many games sold well on eye candy alone.
Big deal. THX has to be the most boring Sci-Fi movie ever made. Its even more boring than watching a guy race robots on an empty ship in "Silent Running." Don't see THX expecting the pacing and excitement of the first Star Wars. Its just people shuffling around in bad clothes and having pointless conversations. If I want to see that I can go to the mall on weekdays and watch old people.
This movie sounds like life under Communism.
All replies will be of the following:
(a) FP!
(b) GNAA
(c) How dare he change the film.
(d) How dare the DVD not have both version.
(e) Star Wars sucks now, you bastard.
(f) Proffit!
Follow the imdb link in the story : it's a movie Lucas made in 1971 which is about an over-protective future society. ;)
now, thx1138 himself is the hero of this story, now, "be happy"
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This would make Lucas the Puff Daddy of Movies. Taking existing good movies and "remixing" them to put out something not near as good as the origional.
Evolution or ID?
Which happens to be a great book if you've never read it.
And what kind of book is it if I have read it?
SteveM
Perhaps other images, but the davisdvd site appears to be slashdotted already:
http://thx-1138.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32
When does it all end? I mean are we going to digitally enhance everything to death? While we're at it why not go back and redo every movie ever made. It seems like with DVDs these days you can go back and stick 5 hours of extras and 50 extra discs and call it a collectors edition and everyone scrambles to get it. I personally agree with the South Park creators on this one. Remastering is an exercise in futility. As Kyle said, "When an artist creates, whatever they create belongs to society". Thats my philosophy.
(g) I'll summarize all the posts: ...
The DVD is being released on Sept. 14 of this year. Here's the cover art.
It has it's own homepage
Direct link to the trailer (quicktime).
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
A hilarious sidekick for THX called JRJRBNKS who adds humor to the movie with his zany hijinks!
The explosions-to-thinky-bits ratio is entirely too skewed toward the thinking realm for this crowd. There are some car chases that this group might appreciate.
{Paraphrase of South Park} Kyle: "Changing THX1138 would be like changing Raiders of the Lost Ark"
From that IMDB page: Recommendations If you like this title, we also recommend... Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Does it recommend people see this so they'll like THX-1138 more or something? Ingenious logic, people at IMDB!
I think there's a particular word which could be somewhat relevant in this case but I don't remember which one.
Er... wait a minute. Yeah, I got it:
profit!
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The problem with Slashdot memes is that YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
The guy is out of new ideas (not that he had any of his own to begin with) and can't seem to leave well enough alone.
Can someone please force him to either make his new movies good or his old movies old?
We should have all seen GL for what he was with the Ewoks, but we were fooled anyway. The guy was watching too much scifi when he wanted to be directing the Smurfs.
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Ok, so it's not a duplicate story, but this was all flushed out weeks ago.
Not. News.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Two quick questions:
1.) Anybody got a spoiler why the THX sound jive is [I assume] named after this?
2.) I have to admit -- I liked the original version of Star Wars (Last Hope at least) better and I'm glad I grabbed a tape before they were taken off the market. Anything to gain from finding an old version of this flick insiders already know of?
As long as it's not full of Ewoks...
It's all 0s and 1s. Or it's not.
I've been trying to determine if this line is a quote from the movie THX 1138
Guy1: I don't see any dissolution here at all.
Guy2: Well you haven't.... Don't let it get above 4.7!!!
Does anyone know?
Sure. Just make your first movie with all white backgrounds and sets. That way, when image manipulation technology becomes mainstream, you can color in the backgrounds and sets without re-shooting. Brilliant!
Now I'm off to shoot a movie that's all black.
...was when those 2 guys were talking and Robert Duvall was convulsing on the floor. Just loved the technical conversation as he was suffering.
In Soviet Russia, THX-1138 changes George Lucas!
If he's busy working on THX, then that means people are thinking independently on what to do on Episode 3.
Everytime george wasn't in command, we got decent films.
And we'd all rather him be busy on a less liked film (sorry THX fans...) or "More American Graffiti" (Sorry, you one MAG fan...)
Yes, it is from THX1138 but I can't find a reference to that quote.
...who thought this movie was utter crap?
Why does he waste his time doing this? Especially with movies that weren't particularly good the first time around anyway.
Lucas movies don't suffer from lack of visual appeal. They suffer from poor direction (with maybe 1 or 2 exceptions, American Graffiti is the only one that comes to mind). The best Lucas films are the ones where he doesn't direct. He should really stay out of the director's chair and stick with writing and maybe producing.
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It didn't not have no explosions and stuff!! How could they call it science fiction!! It ain't gots no phaser and spaceships!! What was this thoughtful crap?! The movie tried to make me think!! My head hurts when I try to use my brain muscle!
I think the subject line says it all but polish a turd and it's still a turd, albeit a shiny new turd.
If on the other hand, it's Jar-Jar or Star Wars' merchandise that gets fed into the refuse disposal units... then I, for one, welcome our Industrial Light & Magic overlord.
Did you notice that RotJ was being made right at the same time Lucas and his soon-to-run-of-with-another-man wife adopted a kid? I don't think an explanation of the replacement of Wookies with Ewoks needs to go much farther than that.
/.ers as a whole dislike current copyright laws?)
Having kids changes your perspective something massive, I suspect. Did you notice how Greedo's blasting was taken out of the original SW in the remakes? How stormtroopers (real people in suits) were replaced with morally easier to kill robots in the new stories? He's gone soft, and the turning point seems to be the time of his first child and divorce. Coincidence? Perhaps -- I don't know the man. But it seems unlikely.
Hopefully with the remake of this apparently fairly hard-core movie, he'll regain his edge, and maybe remake these last three, well, first three, well, most recently released Star Wars movies.
(And hey, don't slam a guy for copying. Every great author's done it as certainly as every one of my apps has a copy of paste of Hello, World in it to thank somewhere. Isn't that part of the reason
It's all 0s and 1s. Or it's not.
the funny thing is, photoshop came from the lucasfilm special effects division :)
*meep*
Ironic that George Lucas would make a movie where consumerism is a sickness in society. This coming from the guy who is an uber IP controls advocate, and an uber market-the-garbage-to-death-and-they-will-buy guy.
And don't forget, many movies of this era plodded along. Look at Xardoz, the original Rollerball, etc - all great films but of very deliberate pace.
And, frankly, I'm sick of everyone ripping on directors who retouch their own work. If this were some indie wannabe filmaker doing this from his parent's basement and releasing the work on bittorrent most of you would be reveling about how this is just one more example of the end of Hollywood, how we are all now empowered via digital technology to retouch and recreate any previous work created by anyone, anywhere, and make it work of our own. So why can't Hollywood do the same damn thing? It's not like Lucas burned the original prints - if I wanna see Casablanca in color or thx1138 in a modern light what right do you have to say otherwise?
Welcome to the generation of the post-modernist-anti-revisionist...
2) One of the most annoying things to me about the "enhanced" special editions was the music. In some spots, where he extended scenes, he just replayed the last few moments of music in the original scene, so it sounds like a CD skip. What an idiot.
I might go back and watch it (it's been awhile) but if I recall my laserdisc version was pretty nice as it was. I mean really, is it worth it? I think a lot of this buggered-up re-release stuff is just a thin reason to get people to buy again on another type of media. Like what the heck, this is in the bank, let's diddle a few scenes and get the true believers to pop another $20.
Same for Dark Star mentioned in the first post.
Of course if anybody can get Gilligan's Island re-mastered with a nude Mary Ann, well I might re-consider.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Does anyone else think this movie sounds like a ripoff of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" ?
Except there isn't anything there to think about. If THX stretches your brain that says a lot more about you that about the movie.
THX: [not an acronym] Lucasfilm quality standards (name derived from Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment and from George Lucas' first movie, THX-1138) http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=e xact&Acronym=thx&Find=Find
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
It was also Luke's ID as a stormtrooper when in disguise in star wars... Han's was TK421, not that I remember...
...unless Lucas had gone insane a few years back. I'd prefer it if they just made a remaster of the origininal, and put it in a box.
It's underground. Thanks, there is nothing to give that away throughout the whole film. Wanker. I'm glad I've seen the film otherwise that would have made the end a whole lot less good... Of course posting this will definately make it a whole lot less good...
Kick ass film though.
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As far as I can tell (I've seen the movie lots of times, but my memory may still fail me on the details) - yes, it's from a scene where THX is going through a torture-like examination, and the guys operating the consoles that is doing the nasty work to THX's brain is pointing out "interesting" effects when they turn the knobs and dials, while showing little care or emotional response to THX's agonies.
He better not make it so greedo shoots first in this remake... or else.
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Also a short story I read decades ago - perhaps by Federick Pohl? - about a future society where consumption is mandatory and people stress over meeting their consumption quotas...
I think it is from a scene where he is at work (doing what exactly I don't remember). It was some sort of dangerous job that used remote manipulators in a glove box like device.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Lucas has actually made (or remade) something more then starwars!?!
[ I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance ] -- Isaac Asimov
I think the car chase scene in it was pretty bitch'n
Why bother remaking a good movie? It's already good, and thus is no need of enhancement. Bad movies, on the other hand, those need all the help they can get.
This, of course has nothing to do with THX-1138, as it is actually a good movie. Right?
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Interesting. I had read THX stood for The Human eXperiment.
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According to internet legend, THX-1138 was Lucas's phone number when he was in college.
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I don't know if it's true or not, but it's at least plausible... if you want to try to track it down some more, just Google for "thx-1138 phone number".
It shows up in a few other places, such as American Graffiti (the car driven by Harrison Ford has the plate number THX 138), and the film "Dark Star" by John Carpenter (one of Lucas's classmates), one of the toilet tanks is labeled "THX 1138" (make what you will of that - Carpenter ain't talking.)
Rumor has it that it shows up (in one form or another) in every movie that Lucas has directed.
Lucasfilms does have THX certification and specifications for certain home-theatre amplifiers (namely $$$ ones), supposedly for utterly perfect sound reproduction. Any corelation between the movie's name and the certification?
Chris Knight is my hero.
The movie kinda reminds me of all of the mindless starwar drones that have seen episode 1 & 2 5000 times even though they'll redily admit that they suck.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Given that Lucas's THX-1138 was an obvious and pivotal influence on the paper roleplaying game PARANOIA, it is perhaps on-topic to mention that the game of a darkly humorous future is returning to print this August in a new edition from Mongoose Publishing, as previously covered on Slashdot.
The new PARANOIA XP edition emphasizes the Alpha Complex sort-of economy and a new consumerism very much in tune with THX-1138. You can follow the development of the game on the PARANOIA development blog.
Meeesa thinks yousa needsa buy more consumer goods, citeeesen. Lessa all be thanksful weesa all dee commerce and zees new film from yousa god, Meesa Lucass. Yousa buy more. Yousa buy more nowsa. Buy! Anda yousa be vewwy happy.
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
I hope they don't reduce the impact. I was blown away by THX1138 when it came out. Saw it on the tube recently and figured that the ONLY thing that needed to be done was to replace the shots of tractor-feed pages with video displays. That does need to be done. Everything else is fine. A brilliant work.
Astro
The pleasantries are gone. We're stripped of all we were. In the Eye of Tiger.
(oh yeah, and it's "does this face look almost mean?")
No, but it does have something to do with Princess Leia's cell number and the license plate in American Graffitti
"You might as well get your son a ticket to hell as give him a five string banjo." -unknown minister
Tell me why, again, this was modded down? You mods really need to be more careful here. True, the original poster could've been more specific, but a few of us out there knew what he was talking about.
"Free Hat" is where Lucas and Spielberg start redoing their movies (this episode happened during the 'guns to walkie-talkies' conversion in E.T.
Simply HORRIBLE modding lately - summer getting you down?
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I have to say something about your sig... it's not "you're gonna die alone", it's "you will die alone." Been bugging me, is all. Carry on. :)
The final scene of movie reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, wherein the 'prisoner' emerges from the Cave and sees the Sun.
BNW was a hoot. It's nothing like THX1138.
(Except for the drugs, maybe. But I'm betting that Soma is just great compared to the dope that THX takes. Soma makes you happy; the other stuff just numbs you out.)
The happy workers in BNW are encouraged to have all the sex they want; sex is a crime in THX land.
Robots? We don't need no stinking robots. Drudge work is done by content, dim-bulb Epsilons in the world state.
Life in Huxley's world state is a happy lark. Work seven hours a day at a job you just (were brought up to) love, go to a ballgame, get some spiritual fullfillment at the Fordian temple (Soma ice cream and group sex!), then go to the dorm for more sex and more soma.
Sure, you don't have much freedom of choice. But it's not like you are a slave or anything. The World Controllers get just as much conditioning as you do.
And there's an escape valve! If you really don't fit in, you get sent, alive and with an intact brain, to an island to live out your days with other interesting misfits.
In the underground city, dissidents get beaten to death for TV, or stuck in a white void with mutants and crazy people.
The book itself is a funny satire, a bit dated because it made fun of 1920's materialism, but still enjoyable.
Orgy Porgy!
Stefan
Since the first version was clearly eXperimental and the new version is Computerized, I suggest they change the X in THX-1183 into a C for the re-release.
I'll take a Jumbo popcorn with gobs and gobs of extra butter. And some JuJubies. And a Snickers... no wait make that two Snickers. You don't have any Snickers? Well give me two candy bars, whatever you got. No, I never heard of those candybars but whatever they are gimme two. And what are those munchies in back? Whatever they are I'll have one of those too. Umm, do you carry a 2-liter of coke?
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is this the new or old version? It sure doesn't look like something from 1971. http://www.thx1138movie.com/trailers/1/thx480dd3a. mov
All is prevelant in the world...
Am I the only person here who thinks that Lucas needs to be locked up in a padded room to keep him from himself?
Just because he's George Lucas, dosen't mean he has the right to add land speeders to the street racing scene of "American Grafitti" or add Ewoks in the Cave of Doom in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
True, these things haven't happened yet. Yet.
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IMHO, of course.
May the SOURCE be with you.
I love the way some people don't seem to realize that it's possible to understand a movie but still not like it.
"What??? You didn't like it??? Well then, you must be some ignorant moron who only enjoys mindless action films and reality TV!!"
Yes, THX-1138 had a lot of meaning, symbolism, and character development, but that doesn't necessarily make it entertaining. It's possible for a movie to be deeply intellectual but still be boring, even to the people who understand it.
Why doesn't he dig up an old bad movie, and modify it to make it good, instead of the other way around?
I hope Greedo doesn't shoot first in this version!!!
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I mean, COME ON ALREADY!
George, LEAVE IT ALONE!
At this rate, I don't think I'll ever give up my laserdisc copy of Star Wars (Not Labelled Episode 4!)
There are several scenes in this movie that were shot in the San Francisco Bay Area's subway system: BART. The bleak, drab, emotionless world that Lucas created in this movie is a reality. I ride on it every day. Some 60s era psychologists chose to use 'pacifying' colors in the cars and stations.
A side note: The idea for the imperial walkers came from the shipping cranes that are right past the West Oakland station.
to my mind, this _was_ his best work in the SciFi genre; simple direction, great
performances(Robert Duvall), compelling story('1984'), excellent cinematography
and most importantly, no attempt to spoon-feed the audience why things are the
way they are(like in SW-Ep1 - the force and 'mito-whatevers'.)
Judging by the "improvements" he keeps adding to his library of scifi films, this
Directors Cut will suck too. He just never knows when to leave well enough alone.
"...that's as white as it gets; all the bits are on..."
Anyone else see the irony in touching up and rereleasing a movie about consumers who buy shit they don't need?
http://thx-1138.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32
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I can handle stepping on Jabba's tail, but the worst change is the part where THX-1138 shoots first...
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
I find it funny people bitch about Lucas messing with "art" when he modifies his films...well, its his damn art, he can do whatever he wants with it.
I dont see how he ruined anything, while its true EP4-6 and THX didnt NEED new scenes or FX it doesnt detract from the film, people just need a reason to bitch.
OMG They put a Bantha over there and put some ships in the sky! The movie is ruined!
I'm amazed that you have so much to comment when you haven't read either book, thinking that whatever you are writing has in some way something to do with the discussion at hand... Before you hit the second paragraph, you're already mischaraterized the argument. Way to go.
Brave New World supposes a future where everyone is a clone, because it is the only true way that everyone can be equal. Yet even then, people behave like petty individuals. In 1984, the government controls information, and more importantly actively revises it, so that at any time the information you possess is in some way "wrong", and thus untraficable.
And your whole premise of there being no ownership of information is wrong as well, for in any system of transactions, there must be a way to determine if the content you carry has any value. I may not have commercial rights to a song, but I am the custodian of a collection of bits when ordered a certain way allow me to reproduce the audio. If I change my collection of bits, it will no longer be that original work, and with significant change, it is no longer even audio. I have broken my information, and it is now "worthless".
THX does not stand for the Tomlinson Holman EXperimen. Tom was the engineer for the THX, as well as SMPTE b-chain reproduction, but the references to THX date to well before that time. I've heard Mr. Lucas had "THX 1138" as a license plate in college. And of course, there's the many film references.
The obvious answer, is "THX for all the money"
I rewatched this a few years back. It wasn't as good as I remembered it.
But the twenty-something century country music tune "Benson Arizona" is just great, simultaneously a spoof of the genre and kind of moving:
The years pull us apart
I'm young and now you're old
But you're still in my heart
And the memory won't grow cold
I dream of times and spaces
That I left far behind
Where we spent our last few days
Benson's on my mind
No, it was cell block 1138 that they were transferring Chewie from. It was not Luke's ID. Can't remember what Luke's ID was (I don't remember that they ever mentioned it). Anyway, it was Luke who responded to the call of "TK421"...
Not to be nitpicky, but still...
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.
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In ANH:
Imperial Officer: "Where are you taking this.. thing?"
Luke: "Prisoner transfer to cell block 1138"
In ESB during the battle of Hoth, Rogue 11 is ordered to sector 38.
1138 was printed in whole and half-circles on the back of the "all broken" battle droid after the battle of Naboo in TPM.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I don't know if this is good or bad. On one hand, it takes him away from Esp III, so it may turn out even worse. On the other hand, it takes him away from Esp III, so maybe someone else can step in and make it a good movie.
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it's about a working stiff living in a repressive underground bomb-shelter society. Emotion-suppressing drugs are mandatory; people shuffle from work to home, pausing to buy consumer goods along the way. (The goods aren't used for anything; you just feed them into a disposal unit after you get home. Making them keeps people busy . . .) If the drugs don't work, you can vent your spleen in a confession booth manned by a really bad A.I. It's really bleak, and sometimes ugly, but worth seeing. I hope the enhancements don't add too much color: The drab, sterile, white-on-white environment of the underground city is an important mood-setter. Consume more; be happy!"
In other words, it's a factual commentary about life in everyday USA.
Come to think of it, we may not be able to do an I, Robot or AI from our garage, but I don't think it would be at all out of reach for a couple of basement dwellers to pool their resources and come up with a contemporary Silent Running or Logan's Run. Cityscapes and such are relatively easy and only a few actors would be needed. Hmmmm... maybe I need to invest in a few yards of green felt, myself.
I own both versions- the Theatrical on VHS and the Theatrical / Special Edition on DVD. Personally, I don't think it needs a remaster. It's Perfect just the way it is.
Dark Star : You either absolutely love it, or you've so thoroughly repressed the memory that you'll swear you've never seen it.
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The Aliens DVD is worth every penny. Just wish Alien3 had commentary. :|
I'd kill for a Theatrical cut of Blade Runner on DVD. Alas, all you can get is The Directors Cut. It's annoying.
Yes, The Directors Cut is a Better Film. However, in my experience, it's a Better Film to me in the sense that I already have the context and background that the noir narrative in the Theatrical cut conveys.
The important thing is that THX-1138 is being released on DVD.
The LoTR movies prove that slavering fanboi will buy two versions of a movie in the same year- at three movies, thousands of people wind up having six boxes sitting around. Yeah. And we're ragging on George here.
Willow was totally my favorite fantasy film in my early teens, though the climax effects were bleh even for the time.
:-|
If Lucas REALLY wants to CASH IN, he'll take advantage of three years of LoTR theatre-hordes inertia and release a cleaned up, THX remastered version of Willow in December. Rework the end! Dear gods!
Hey, y'all went and saw the Big Epic Fantasy Thing over winter break for the last three years, what's another one, eh? eh?
I'd go.