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Topic: THX-1138 DVD
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 09-15-2004 01:28 AM
I picked up the new 2-disc SE of "THX-1138." It's clearly not a movie for everyone, but I think it is one of the more interesting futuristic movies made in the same period as "2001."
Of course, you have the controversy of Lucas taking revisionistic steps in adding some new CGI stuff to the film. But in his defense, this stuff actually does help the show and the style/design of it doesn't seem out of place. He's shown a bit more restraint with using new CGI in this film. However, it would still be nice to have the original unaltered cut (but with the footage Warner Bros. hacked out in the original release).
I saw the movie for the first time on videotape when I was in high school in the 1980's. This was after seeing a music video by Rush of their song "The Body Electric" from their "Grace Under Pressure" album. I had seen THX-1138 posters and stuff like that before and it was very obvious this music video was doing a send-up of the film and its theme.
In the years since, some movies or even works of music pop in little bits of influence from THX-1138. Anyone who has listened to the Nine Inch Nails album, "The Downward Spiral" and its opening track, "Mr. Self Destruct" would know the sound effects of a beating on the beginning of that song come from THX-1138.
As I said, THX-1138 may not be a movie for everyone. It's pretty arty, and Warner Brothers hated the film when it was first put together. I think it is ironic WB is releasing this 2-disc SE a week before that big "Star Wars" trilogy DVD release.
Still, even if you hate THX-1138, the bonus material on the 2nd disc is worth the price of the DVD alone. There is an excellent documentary about the early days of Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios and how THX-1138 became its first feature (as well as how the enterprise largely fell apart when Warner Bros. hated the film and dropped all those other projects from guys like Lucas, Coppola, Milius, etc.).
There's also a funny piece in the 2nd disc called "Bald," which shows some of the principal actors getting their heads shaved.
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). I may be the Lone Ranger on this, but I genuinely feel the film has been improved with the new shots, and with this picture I am beginning to become more and more sympathetic to the whole update-the-effects-as-technology-allows thing (of course, I have a LaserDisc of the original I can look at for nostalgia's sake).
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