Aaron Jones
almost 2 years
ago
Somehow dragged on, despite being < 90 minutes. Cool aesthetic, mise-en-scène. Orwellian.
Noah Rymer
over 3 years
ago
I had no idea George Lucas could get this surreal. A little to slow to re-watch.
Charlie Alcock
over 4 years
ago
Back when George Lucas knew how to make films...
Nik Green
over 6 years
ago
As a lover of intelligent sci-fi this is a much watch film.
Jan Wierzbowski
almost 7 years
ago
Atmospheric, dystopian, astoundingly detailed... and painfully slow.
Anthony Kozlowski
7 years
ago
Contains too much 1984 and Brave New World to be called "original."
jacksonmurtha
7 years
ago
artistic, attentive to detail, both action and film noir at times - lucas really did this?
Mark Stanley-Adams
7 years
ago
Superb dystopian vision.. George hasn't ever come close to this standard since
Bryan Nixon
7 years
ago
George Lucas' first movie. Very good story and re-done digitally with some CGI effects.
Michaelangelo
7 years
ago
The only quality movie mr. george lucas made
John Carlyle-Clarke
over 7 years
ago
Beautiful visuals and sound, great characters, slow plot. Haunting though.
THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. The film is based on a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police officers and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotion, including sexual desire.
THX 1138 was the first feature-length film directed by Lucas, developed from his 1967 student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the University of Southern California. This short film was itself based on a one and a quarter page treatment of an idea by Matthew Robbins. The feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by Ben Bova was published in 1971.
In a city of the future, sexual intercourse is outlawed and use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory. Narcotics are...