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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Lucas' vision of a visionless PC police state...:

George Lucas, Francis Coppola and Robert Duvall joined forces years ago to create this disturbing cinematic statement on the consequences of THE POLITICALLY CORRECT society. The irony is probably none of them realized the thrust of the film, nor its imminent realization in our present "PERSON of the YEAR" culture. (Check out TIME magazine in 10 years awarding the THX-1138...or 1139,or whatever "sensitive" sobriquet is then acceptable for who was once identified MAN OF THE YEAR.) The power of the film lies... more info

THX-1138 looks for meaning in a future of crushing anonymity:

Ignore any comparisons of THX-1138 to any other films. It is stylistically and thematically superior to most other Science Fiction released at the time (except perhaps 2001:A Space Odyssey). Fresh out of film school with little experience, George Lucas crafts a sensual masterpiece set in the sterile, homogenized world of a possible future.

Unlike Orwell's "1984," this is an anti-utopia we have brought on ourselves. Our quest for self-perfection has become our undoing. THX-1138 (Robert Duvall) finds... more info

Has eveybody been fooled?:

In my entire life I have never met anyone who liked this movie. And by like I mean, "I sat down to watch THX1138 last night and Lord that's a good movie! I never get tired of looking at that one!"
I made a similar comment this week in front of a group of people and someone came to it's defense with a rousing, "It wasn't THAT bad!"
It wasn't THAT bad is the kind of comment we all make when we come to the defense of filmmakers whom we like but movies which we don't particularly care for!
This whole,... more info

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