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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FUNKED1 on September 18, 2003, 10:06:10 PM
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Underrated. Me want DVD.
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Excellent movie. A bit dated now (the acting and movie production itself. not the theme) but over all a 'must own' or "burn a copy" for the library IMO.
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What's it about?
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Oh no you don't. Not before the Star Wars trilogy!
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cut&paste synopsis:
"THX 1138 is set in the 25th century. The title character is only one of thousands of nameless, faceless workers in the huge underground colony. He works a shift in a robot factory and then goes home to his roommate, LUH 3417, to take the government-controlled sedatives and watch midlessly violent hologram programs. LUH, however, has somehow seen through the clean, peaceful exterior, and knows what their society really is. She switches THX's usual sedatives for stimulants, and they begin to fall in love and engage in illegal sexual activity. Meanwhile, SEN 5241 has a plan of his own to switch the computed roommate matching system so that he ends up roommate to THX and LUH is conveniently cast aside. Tampering with the computer system is as illegal as having sex, and all three are eventually turned in and found guilty for their crimes. THX is taked to a seemingly endless white holding place and conditioned by the very law-enforcement robots he had helped to build. Eventually, he meets up with SEN and several other outcasts who constantly plot getting out, but are too frightened to actually try anything. THX and SEN are fed up with this and head for escape on their own. On the way, they meet up with a "hologram", one of the black actors who served on the holographic television. He helps them to escape, and they realize that the exit was never far away and that it was only their own fear keeping them in the holding area. As they escape, SEN is frightened by the prospet of living away from the controlled environment and rushes back, choosing safety and predictability over freedom. THX and the hologram push on toward the outside. They steal two abandoned cars and race for the exit, pursued by the robots the whole time. What follows is .... "
To find out what happens you'll have to see the movie. :)
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hysterical film. Ahh yes, the cocaine era.
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Ah, haven't seen THX-1138 in a few years, well worth watching again!
(http://www.thx-1138.org/media/widescreen/Thx-50.jpg)
Robert Duvall = THX-1138
(http://www.thx-1138.org/media/widescreen/Thx-53.jpg)
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Sounds alot like Orwell's 1984 with a car chase.
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Those drug commercials on TV often remind me of THX1138. Good movie.
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I realize the plot is like "science fiction lite", but the visuals and sound are awesome.
Also I think it's the first movie to feature things like hackers and channel surfing. :)
BTW who can name the two cars (real race cars with stuff tacked on) involved in the car chase?
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the hologram dies, and the guy makes it out after some tards jump on his back.
(sorry if you havnt seen the movie by now you never will so might as well give it away)
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
I realize the plot is like "science fiction lite", but the visuals and sound are awesome.
Also I think it's the first movie to feature things like hackers and channel surfing. :)
BTW who can name the two cars (real race cars with stuff tacked on) involved in the car chase?
One of them looks like a Ford GT40, dunno what the others are?
(http://www.thx-1138.org/media/widescreen/Thx-47.jpg)
(http://www.thx-1138.org/media/widescreen/Thx-45.jpg)
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I think they are racing cars made by Lotus. (I tried not to look it up)
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In the last pic, the one in the middle is a Chaparral (I forget which model) and the one on the right is a Lola T-70. I'm not sure what the one on the left is, never got a clear view of it before!
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
In the last pic, the one in the middle is a Chaparral (I forget which model) and the one on the right is a Lola T-70. I'm not sure what the one on the left is, never got a clear view of it before!
You sure about that? Looked to me like a Ferrari, Ford GT40, and maybe a Chapparal or Ferrari (or even another Ford GT40). I recognize the hood scoop on the last one but I can't place the name. The older Le Mans GT cars were cool, I just wish I could remember them easier!
Oh yeah, one downer about that whole movie (ok, two): (a) everybody is bald; (b) no skin (at least none that I can remember).
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None of those is a GT-40.
The one on the right is a T-70 for sure.
The one in the middle, I had found a Chaparral that looks like it, but I can't find the photo. I'll find the pic.
The one on the left, I don't think is a race car. Some kind of one-off street car.
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None of them is a GT-40. Similar, but the headlights give away what they really are.