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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This may be my favourite George Lucas film, I absolutely love it. It's a low-budget film that looks a helluva lo better than it probably should.
The Blu-ray picture and sound are really good, and are clearly an improvement over the Dvd.
Some don't like the updates made to some of the effects, but I felt they fit perfectly, apart from one brief shot of a small creature climbing on a wall nearer the end of the film.
The extras are the same as the Dvd and are really good if you're into the film, and are interested in Zoestrope Studios.
Don't buy it if you're hoping it'll be anything like Star Wars, because it isn't. It's more arty than any other George Lucas film. I wish he'd done more like it. Sadly, I can't see that happening now.
I'd highly recommend it if you like Cult 70's Sci-Fi or low-budget films.
The Blu-ray picture and sound are really good, and are clearly an improvement over the Dvd.
Some don't like the updates made to some of the effects, but I felt they fit perfectly, apart from one brief shot of a small creature climbing on a wall nearer the end of the film.
The extras are the same as the Dvd and are really good if you're into the film, and are interested in Zoestrope Studios.
Don't buy it if you're hoping it'll be anything like Star Wars, because it isn't. It's more arty than any other George Lucas film. I wish he'd done more like it. Sadly, I can't see that happening now.
I'd highly recommend it if you like Cult 70's Sci-Fi or low-budget films.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Cast your minds way, way back to the days when George Lucas could be considered cool... gone back far enough yet? Back in the '70s Lucas churned out a trifecta of brilliant films; THX 1138, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and of course STAR WARS. (EMPIRE doesn't count as Irvin Kerschner directed it). THX was the first, made in 1971 and based on Lucas's student film ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH THX 1138 4EB. Sugar Daddy Francis Ford Copolla's American Zoetrope Studios funded the film, and in this arena of independent craftmanship and iconoclastic student bravado a uniquely dystopian future-shock film emerged, something Lucas wouldn't be capable of today even if he'd been injected full of a cocktail of Chuck D and George Orwell.
The story concerns THX and his flatmate LUH, who live in an underground, oppressive and desensitized autocracy where emotion, sex and any semblance of freedom have been replaced with rigid conformity and rampant consumerism. LUH takes THX (the always impressive Robert Duvall) off his medication which allows the two to start a sexual relationship, which ends with LUH "disappearing" and THX detained in limbo with the sinister SEN (Donald Pleasance) who seems intent on getting as close to THX as possible. Escape plans begin in earnest.... The film looks remarkable, crammed with sterile sets and '70s technology and brutalism to showcase the film's message of overwhelming progress. Seeds of later Lucas can also be seen, with robot police the precursor to the Stormtrooper, and if you listen carefully enough you can hear one remark "I think I just run over a wookiee back there on the expressway...". Never one to waste an idea, old George.
All such a wonderous product, but here comes the bugbear... Lucas the meddler can't leave the film alone and like the "Special Edition" STAR WARS films released in 1997 he's added special effects, widened sets, the usual. So pointless, but at least the reworking doesn't intrude on the story and such, and apart from a (bad) CGI sequence where THX escapes the city by car it amounts to mere tinkering. You would hope that on this Blu-Ray release the original would be included, but since it wasn't on the 2004 DVD I sincerely doubt it, considering Lucas seems to find his initial film versions to be inferiour or something. Also, expect the same extras as on the DVD too, let's hope for a few pleasant surprises as well.
So, to recap, this film is a '70s dystopian Sci-Fi classic, brimming with ideas and originality. This director, however, is a heretic. Leave perfection alone.
The story concerns THX and his flatmate LUH, who live in an underground, oppressive and desensitized autocracy where emotion, sex and any semblance of freedom have been replaced with rigid conformity and rampant consumerism. LUH takes THX (the always impressive Robert Duvall) off his medication which allows the two to start a sexual relationship, which ends with LUH "disappearing" and THX detained in limbo with the sinister SEN (Donald Pleasance) who seems intent on getting as close to THX as possible. Escape plans begin in earnest.... The film looks remarkable, crammed with sterile sets and '70s technology and brutalism to showcase the film's message of overwhelming progress. Seeds of later Lucas can also be seen, with robot police the precursor to the Stormtrooper, and if you listen carefully enough you can hear one remark "I think I just run over a wookiee back there on the expressway...". Never one to waste an idea, old George.
All such a wonderous product, but here comes the bugbear... Lucas the meddler can't leave the film alone and like the "Special Edition" STAR WARS films released in 1997 he's added special effects, widened sets, the usual. So pointless, but at least the reworking doesn't intrude on the story and such, and apart from a (bad) CGI sequence where THX escapes the city by car it amounts to mere tinkering. You would hope that on this Blu-Ray release the original would be included, but since it wasn't on the 2004 DVD I sincerely doubt it, considering Lucas seems to find his initial film versions to be inferiour or something. Also, expect the same extras as on the DVD too, let's hope for a few pleasant surprises as well.
So, to recap, this film is a '70s dystopian Sci-Fi classic, brimming with ideas and originality. This director, however, is a heretic. Leave perfection alone.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Classic scifi precursor to so many films on bluray sound great x if u like old fashioned stories with a twist plus duval is an excellent actor go for it x don't look for big effects this film is about the concept x a very intelligent film x as always service is good x
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Published 18 months ago by Marius Liesdek
The darn disc doesn't even play!!!
Waited for months for this to come out on bluray only to find that the first batch has a pressing fault. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. Mark S. Rumble
Buyer beware - Blu-Ray is problematic with some players
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Published 19 months ago by Mr. M. S. Mckinnon
Meh
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