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Great Movie Buy
The movie is in great condition and couldn't believe I would find it but I did and at a great value. This is one of George Lucas, as a young director and I am happy that I have it.

George Lucas is a Fool
Yes, he is you know... George Lucas is a fool. I used to really like this film, regardless of what some boneheads might think. Yeah, sure it's dull, it's dull and confusing and excruciating to watch almost, just like life. In fact, that what it does, THX 1138 shows us one vision of how more and more of life is being drained of its meaninging and people are reduced to automatons. Of course, as relevant as this seems today in many ways (this film is what the world of Office Space becomes in the future - you like Office Space, right? well get those two rusty gears in your poor excuse for a brain working once in a while and maybe you can figure something out for yourself one day) this vision of the future was more relevant back when THX was made. If not more relevant, then a bit more immediate. Today, people actually WANT to be automatons - either that or soulless extreme thrill seeking animals. Anyway, the reason I say George Lucas is a fool is that he really thinks he knows what's best for his films and mistakenly believes that shoving all the fancy effects he dreamed of when he made his films into them years and years after the fact, simply because the technology is there and he has the money to do it, will somehow make them better, "truer to his original vision", like he was making movies only for himself? Hey, you filmmakers out there, listen up! Your "original vision" means nothing. If you can't get it into your films then that's it, you had your chance, because once a film is released to the public it becomes THEIRS. Would you like it if Van Gogh came back as a zombie and started repainting all of his works because what he was going for originally was pictures of big eyed waifs but he just could not get them right so he settled on chairs and flowers and stuff? This new version of THX, the one on DVD SUCKS in comparrison to the original. You'd be much better off buying a used VHS, cropped though it may be. The cropping is MUCH LESS DAMAGING THAN LUCAS' ADD-INS! I wish George was reading this right now, so I could ask him how he'd feel if the director or producer of the original King Kong was still alive and actively involved in film and decided to remove all the Willis O'Brien stop-motion animation and replace it with CGI because that kind of stuff is what they were dreaming of when they originally made the film, and to top it off decided that since he still owned rights to it that we was going to replace all older versions still bearing the old effects with the new one, forcing everyone from here on out to watch only his new, reworked version? That'd be GREAT, right? I mean, didn't you see how hokey that monkey was, jerking around like a Rankin & Bass Xmas special puppet?! And who could POSSIBLY believe that Empire State building scene? In fact, maybe we could CGI in Britney Spears in place of Fay Wray! Basically, what George did here was cram in a few superfluous scenes, jam in some effects, like more going on above and behind the workers on the assembly line, and replace elements like the midgets in the mutant zone with really CHEESY space monkeys. I mean, we're talkin' SPACE MONKEYS, FOLKS, SPACE MONEYS!!! Aren't space monkeys just ever so much better than mere midgets? Hey George, if I was you I'd get to work on figuring out some way I could CGI out that ridiculously swollen fat neck of yours, dude, whenever you are interviewed. I mean, does everything you eat go to your neck or what? Is it a thyroid condition? What gives??!! Anyway, THX 1138 is in many ways a great movie, and even in the current screwed up version it's still pretty good. But after just ONE viewing I was DONE with it and gave it away.