THX 1138
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship. From TMDB
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60 of 165 · most liked firstGEORGE LUCAS’ path to movie billions began rather humbly, as shown by this Warner Bros payslip for his 1971 film THX 1138 which has the young director being paid in $2,500 instalments.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Bova, Ben Bova, THX 1138, Panther, 1978. Cover: Peter Gudynas. Novelisation of George Lucas' first directed film (developed from a student film) 1971 and starring Robert Duval. #BenBova #THX1138 #GeorgeLucas #PeterGudynas
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to see some of your favourite final shots in film history. As is right I'll get the ball rolling, with this shot from the excellent and dare I say it, underseen, THX-1138. 📽️ #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →THX 1138 (1971) 🎬🖤 Directed by George Lucas
neutral · AI labelView post →I was watching a review of the old THX 1138 film last night. And it reminded me of other reviews of horror from different generations. Many people say that horror in media often reflects what the people fear the most at a given time in history. In the 50s we had space invasions. Aliens invading and killing everyone. Or the body snatchers. Manchurian candidate. War of the worlds. People's fear of society spies and brain washing. Nuclear weapons. Later 50s we started getting creature…
neutral · AI labelView post →Lalo Schifrin (with scenes from "The Beguiled", "THX 1138", "Enter the Dragon" and "Voyage of the Damned" where Schifrin composed the film score) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 1971 , George Lucas' THX 1138 was released. It's still his best film.
positive · AI labelView post →Monday movie: THX 1138 (1971) ***
neutral · AI labelView post →John Milner's yellow hot rod is a 1932 Ford. And check its license plate: THX 138. That's George Lucas sneaking a reference to his previous movie, THX 1138, into the film. #TCMParty #AmericanGraffiti ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →George Lucas' first film was THX-1138 in 1971. It was a box office bomb but did pique studios' interests. UA offered Lucas a two-film deal. The first was American Graffiti. The second was what Lucas called “a space opera that’s a bit like a western, a bit like James Bond.” 2/37
neutral · AI labelView post →Nearby at a haunted drive-in, tonight's movie... THX - 1138 #scifi #1970s
neutral · AI labelView post →Lalo Schifrin (with scenes from "The Beguiled", "THX 1138", "Enter the Dragon" and "Voyage of the Damned" where Schifrin composed the film score) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →THX-1138 is 55 years old. If I was a billionaire, I’d buy the rights from Lucasfilm/American Zoetrope & re-release the original 1971 print. It’s a film I wish more people had seen but can’t recommend the atrocious “CGI enhanced” 2004 director’s cut
positive · AI labelView post →3/11/71: George Lucas' THX-1138, w/Robert Duvall B O flop; Lucas renounces "angry, socially relevant film" Ya Think? More: @davekehr.bsky.social on the road not taken: www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/m... @illusiveken.bsky.social / @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/georg...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lalo Schifrin (with scenes from "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows", "THX 1138", "Enter the Dragon" and "Voyage of the Damned" where Schifrin composed the film score) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Duvall dans "THX 1138" (1971), film de science-fiction dystopique de George Lucas, explorant une société futuriste totalitaire où les émotions sont réprimées et les individus contrôlés par des drogues. #cinémaaméricain #cinémadescience-fiction #GeorgeLucas #RobertDuvall
neutral · AI labelView post →This was only Lucas's second feature film as director, after the dystopian sci-fi movie THX 1138. Star Wars was still several years away. #TCMParty #AmericanGraffiti ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →You will see scene very similar to this in THX 1138 (1971). George Lucas's first feature film.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like the article is saying there's a correlation between this gene and a list of mental health disorders - anxiety or even psychosis - but the disorders are not necessarily correlated with the gene, they occur in people without the gene. I just read through the article once. I'm a bit jaded, I don't have a high opinion of a medicated society if that's what its coming down to. Too dystopian, like Soma in Brave New World, or people being arrested for "criminal drug evasion" like in the…
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to George Lucas, perhaps best known for how a violent beating in his film “THX-1138” was sampled for the opening to Trent Reznor’s “The Downward Spiral.”
neutral · AI labelView post →GEORGE LUCAS’ path to movie billions began rather humbly, as shown by this Warner Bros payslip for his 1971 film THX 1138 which has the young director being paid in $2,500 instalments.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm pretty sure George Lucas invented this in 1971 in a little film named THX 1138.
neutral · AI labelView post →Uforia 4k coming from Kino Lorber. > Coming on 4KUHD and Blu-ray! > >Brand New HDR/DV Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative! > >UFOria (1984) Starring Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton, Fred Ward & Harry Carey Jr. – Shot by David Myers (THX 1138) – Music by Richard Baskin (Welcome to L.A.) – Written & Directed by John Binder (Endangered Species, The Lazarus Man). From [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Q3wZfhPUWkGbfZP8/)…
neutral · AI labelView post →That second sentence is basically the movie Lucas made twice before, American Graffiti and THX 1138
neutral · AI labelView post →Andor's actually a good example of Star Wars reaching back for sources outside its usual wheelhouse given how much it cribbed from '70s dystopic sci-fi contemporary with the original film, like Blake's Seven and Logan's Run, or even Lucas's own THX 1138.
neutral · AI labelView post →Halo Season 2 Episode 7 - Classic Easter Egg. I've been searching around for a couple of days to see if anyone noticed this. In Halo S02E07 around the 38 minute mark, Talia Perez is staring at her reflection just before Master Chief walks in to talk to her. Over the loud speaker, you can hear someone say "Tango-Hotel-Xray-one-one-three-eight". (headphones helps) That's a classic reference to George Lucas' early film THX-1138. Used heavily throughout the Star Wars universe and many other films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Halo S02E07 - Classic Sci-Fi Easter Egg (x-post). I’ve been searching around for a couple of days to see if anyone noticed this. In Halo S02E07 around the 38 minute mark, Talia Perez is staring at her reflection just before Master Chief walks in to talk to her. Over the loud speaker, you can hear someone say “Tango-Hotel-Xray-one-one-three-eight”. (headphones helps) That’s a classic reference to George Lucas’ early film THX-1138. Used heavily throughout the Star Wars universe and many other…
neutral · AI labelView post →THX-1138 is better than any other film George Lucas made
positive · AI labelView post →3/11/71: George Lucas' THX-1138, w/Robert Duvall B O flop; Lucas renounces "angry, socially relevant film" Ya Think? More: @manondereeper.com: www.filminquiry.com/review-thx-1... @noelmu.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/thx-1138-the... @illusiveken.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/georg...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's this cool movie called THX 1138 about the dangers of sacrificing our humanity to a society where technology becomes religion. Maybe Lucas needs to watch it. 🤷♂️
positive · AI labelView post →Looks like something out of a 70s dystopian sci-fi film. THX 1138, Alien, A Clockwork Orange.
neutral · AI labelView post →George Lucas' first film was THX-1138 in 1971. It was a box office bomb but did pique studios' interests. UA offered Lucas a two-film deal. The first was American Graffiti. The second was what Lucas called “a space opera that’s a bit like a western, a bit like James Bond.” 2/37
neutral · AI labelView post →Feeling a bit sad that none of the Robert Duvall tributes mentions his first starring role in the film that prefigures so much of our current era, THX 1138 youtu.be/4hLXOVCZr-8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →We are heading for a subscription LIFE. Did you ever see the movie THX 1138 (1971)? The police stop chasing him when his "value to society" runs out.
neutral · AI labelView post →#WalterMurch is one of the greatest film editors & sound designers in cinema for 50 years. The Godfathers, THX 1138, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Ghost, The English Patient, & Return to Oz. Hearing him at @amcinematheque.bsky.social was a masterclass in making art from chaos.
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1971, filmmaker George Lucas was at the Cannes Film Festival with his new film, THX-1138. He met the Head of United Artists – David Picker – who asked Lucas for movie ideas. Intrigued by a 60s-set coming-of-age drama, Picker agreed to pay Lucas $10k to pen a script. 2/47
neutral · AI labelView post →THX-1138 is the greatest movie ever made about having a weird roommate and I would know
positive · AI labelView post →8. THX-1138 (1971) For some reason had never seen it. INCREDIBLY FUCKED UP MOVIE and oddly prescient. Weird to me that the guy who made this went on to make American Graffiti & Star Wars and didn't become David Lynch. Guess he looked into the abyss and got scared, like I did watching this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →You'll notice that Milner's car has the license plate THX 138, of course, in reference to Lucas' first film "THX 1138." #AmericanGraffiti #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →George Lucas while directing his student short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
neutral · AI labelView post →THX 1138 George Lucas made a lot of deeply loved movies but THX 1138 is not one of them. It has some good moments though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgq...
neutral · AI labelView post →> THX1138 director George Lucas > Sonic 3 composer Michael Jackson > Mole Mania producer Shigeru Miyamoto
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of THX 1138 #LetterBoxd #FilmSky letterboxd.com/PaddyJuan/
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the '70s: 70: PERFORMANCE 71: THX-1138 72: CABARET 73: MEAN STREETS 74: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE 75: TOMMY 76: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 77: ERASERHEAD 78: DAWN OF THE DEAD 79: APOCALYPSE NOW
neutral · AI labelView post →A film doesn't end up as a "beautiful collaboration" if the director behind it is dreadful. If Lucas had no aptitude, how does that explain THX 1138 and American Graffiti? Finding principal photography to be tiresome doesn't denote a dislike of filmmaking as a whole.
neutral · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "THX 1138 Graffiti" Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Ron Howard, Donald Pleasence Director: George Lucas Science fiction coming-of-age film youtube.com/watch?v=nkQA... youtube.com/watch?v=L8TD...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #FilmSky THX 1138 (1971) "A love story filmed on location in the 21st Century" The first full length feature film directed by George Lucas. Don’t forget to take your sedation pills or you’ll be in violation and subject to possible immediate destruction.
neutral · AI labelView post →In Star Wars, when Han and Luke are on the Death Star disguised as stormtroopers, they say they are transferring Chewie to cell block 1138. THX 1138 is the title of George Lucas’s first movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →THX-1138 (George Lucas' first movie). Am surprised it is popular 54 years on.
neutral · AI labelView post →Living under an authoritarian regime, I was in the mood for a “feel good” film last night, so I rewatched George Lucas’ dystopian sci-fi “THX-1138.” 😂 My original review from four years ago: musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2021/03/21/g...
positive · AI labelView post →George Lucas made one good movie and it's called THX 1138
positive · AI labelView post →the man has absolutely hated making movies since THX-1138, specifically having to deal with the writing, crew, actors, and execs. of COURSE he'd prefer a machine that makes the movie based on a prompt, that's what he's been trying to do his whole life
neutral · AI labelView post →The Narkina 5 arc on Andor isn’t just inspired by the original Star Wars movies. It’s also deeply indebted to a DIFFERENT George Lucas movie. Shave your head and pop your Political Repression Pills, because we’re taking a DETOUR this week to visit THX 1138! 🎧 @ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh hey, the director of THX-1138, one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movies, makes a cameo in the new #Minions movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Maybe look at THX 1138 as the prequel to both, but that's a movie I haven't watched in a while
neutral · AI labelView post →Another 'lost sci-fi film you've probably never heard of' piece and this time it's THX 1138... Mate, it's very cool that you're getting into this genre and I hope you discover lots to love, but maybe don't hold court as a chin-stroking sage just yet. You might not get the reception you expect.
neutral · AI labelView post →• In this issue, the security code is THX 1138, which is the title of an early movie by George Lucas and an "Easter egg" referenced in other movies and sources (commonly related to Star Wars and Lucas' opus but, as this comic-book proves, also in other franchises)
neutral · AI labelView post →After intensive research and a thorough investigation we can now confirm the first magazine Bill Mumy finds in Ken Swofford's footlocker-o-smut in BLESS THE BEASTS AND THE CHILDREN (1971) was the August 1970 issue of Adam Film World, with a scene from George Lucas' first film THX-1138 on the cover!
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched THX 1138 yesterday for the first time in decades. Imagine my surprise when I realized that the sound of someone being beaten at the beginning of "Mr. Self Destruct" was from that movie. I recognized it as soon as I heard it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Great video on the history and background of George Lucas' 1971 film THX-1138, and the 'lost version' (easily found on Archive dot org if you know how to look for stuff). www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzLJ...
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