"I think I ran over a wookie back there on the expressway..."

Anyone, who is a fan of the Star Wars series, knows of the movies director, George Lucas. Those fans would know of the famous films he wrote, like Willow, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom. What most fans don't know is Lucas' first full length feature film was the cult classic sci-fi THX 1138. I only first heard of this movie about two years ago and bought it on Dvd last year. The movie is about society in the future, where everyone's mind and body are controlled by a government and everyone's names are composed of letters and numbers. Robert Duvall plays THX 1138 a man who works in a factory and lives with a woman, who he is not to become intimate with. Duvall begins to fee trapped in this life that he doesn't want and begins to rebel. He and a "hologram" escape from the city and try to find the way to freedom.
This movie is for a true sci-fi film lover. At first it is hard to get into, but after you see the beautiful visuals and how the story develops, it will get more and more interesting. The film includes other good performances by Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley and Maggie McOmie. Also my favourite characters have to be the robot police (who you can also see in Three Days Grace's video for "Just Like You". And the "wookies" that roam the outskirts of the city (who also appear in Star Wars.....everyone should know this). The Dvd is the "George Lucas Director's Cut" and is another one of my coolest looking Dvds. It has slide-in cover with Robert Duvalls bald head, and name tag, clipped to his ear. The director's cut is a double-disc and on the inside cover there is a little introduction written by Lucas himself. Definitely a film to own for any sci-fi geek, but hopefully in the future we won't all be bald, like they are in the film. "Extraordinary. Visually hypnotic," says Vincent Canby from The New York Times. THX 1138 was released in 1971 and directed by George Lucas. Released by Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope.

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THX 1138: #381