“THX 1138” is the futuristic story of the human race living in vast underground cities with the world government forcing the population to take medication that suppress emotion. When a man and a woman stop taking their meds, they fall in love and become outlaws of the world police force. This premise for a film had some promise, but George Lucas, in his directorial debut, was sloppy at the helm of the project, and co-wrote a terrible script with Walter Murch. Lucas also handled the film’s editing.
The cast includes Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton, and David Ogden Stiers as an announcer’s voice. The very dull and unwatchable movie “THX 1138” was a major bomb at the box office for producer Francis Ford Coppola, American Zoetrope, and Warner Bros. Pictures. Fortunately for both George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, brighter and more successful days lay ahead.
THX 1138 (1971)
cinema
My Review
“THX 1138” is the futuristic story of the human race living in vast underground cities with the world government forcing the population to take medication that suppress emotion. When a man and a woman stop taking their meds, they fall in love and become outlaws of the world police force. This premise for a film had some promise, but George Lucas, in his directorial debut, was sloppy at the helm of the project, and co-wrote a terrible script with Walter Murch. Lucas also handled the film’s editing.
The cast includes Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton, and David Ogden Stiers as an announcer’s voice. The very dull and unwatchable movie “THX 1138” was a major bomb at the box office for producer Francis Ford Coppola, American Zoetrope, and Warner Bros. Pictures. Fortunately for both George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, brighter and more successful days lay ahead.