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THX 1138 Image
  • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Robert Duvall
  • Summary: A complete digital restoration and remastering of THX 1138 -- the first feature film by George Lucas -- a nightmare impression of a world in which a man is trying to escape a computerized world which constantly tracks his movements.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Reviewed by: Mark Bell
    100
    Enough about the CGI tweaking, is this film really Lucas's unloved masterpiece? The film that got lost in the shadow of "American Graffitti" and "Star Wars" while, actually, being a better film?
  2. Testament to the emergence of a visually masterful filmmaker, capable of ingenious, low-tech special effects.
  3. Reportedly, Lucas has been tinkering with this "director's cut" for nearly two years, so its sound and visual elements -- which were fairly impressive to begin with -- have been markedly enhanced, while new digital backgrounds give the film a more epic scale. Still, it's an extraordinarily unengaging and tedious affair.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. I loved this movie and it's new additions. I think it's great that Lucas can now touch up his films in the way that he invisioned them originally... with the latest special effects. It's not over the top, the new additions are quick and blend in nicely adding to the sense of this future world THX lives in. Sure the originals are good but now they're better... ask any young lad experiencing them for the first time. What I enjoy most of this film and others like it is the lack of dialoge. The real world doesn't explain everything to it's viewers, that you have to figure out for yourselves and it's not that difficult... well at least not for most. Instead it leaves our attention to stunning and beautiful cinematography, incredible audio and the very bright but dark vision of a big brother world. Expand
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  2. JayH.
    4
    Overrated, just because George Lucas had something to do with it doesn't make it good. It's cold and aloof, poor character development. I never cared what happened to any of the characters. It has some imagination, good photography but the film is lifeless. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JaredC.
    0
    The thing about this is that it goes somewhere, but only leads to the already known succession. Nothing special besides the mastering of digital arts happens in this dull feeling bore. It takes so little time in the creating of the technology that it is way over the top and light hearted. Its an unappreciative film that shows the storyline of a director's heart in improving things, but his performance leading towards his character goes no where, it is hard to find the character by the neutral appearance of George Lucas' character. Only if the movie was 2 hours long I would respect this, but because of the quick but bad tasting plot, it sucks, you have to expect something when George Lucas writes and directs the movie. And this is not his style, I cannot see how George Lucas made such an unrelatied style to the way he directed Star Wars. I am not happy with this film, not happy. And that means something about this film you know, with all these high ratings it seems to be that the film is a very very very very very flawless movie, the way I see it. its hard to like, it is a letdown, it isn't disappointing because I've waited so long for a dumb movie, but its that I got a bad view of how George Lucas did it. I would rather have been their seeing how he really made THX, not watch what he thinks would be best for his success, you know there is so much more to just showing importance, its the idea (which is great), the acting, the performance by every involving filmmaker. This movie never tries but fails by how movies never should be made as, this just shows what George Lucas thinks what makes his important role in history is, not a movie for entertainment. Expand
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