# THX1138 On DVD 9.14.04! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199 "2004-06-02T03:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/1 "2004-06-02T03:42:14Z")
This comes from [Lucas himself!](http://www.starwars.com/) The offical movie page can be found [here.](http://www.thx1138movie.com/) (Note the site does **not** work in Opera, but will work in IE.) Definately Lucas’s best film, and I don’t know who put the site together, but other than it not working in Opera, they did a damn fine job. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/2 "2004-06-02T09:56:29Z")
I’m assuming it will be the special edition version of it, not the theatrical one. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/3 "2004-06-02T12:34:26Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m assuming it will be the special edition version of it, not the theatrical one. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/4 "2004-06-02T14:19:14Z")
Ooo, it’s going to have the original student film. Must get, must get. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/5 "2004-06-02T14:22:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m assuming it will be the special edition version of it, not the theatrical one. That’s the one where Donald Pleasence shoots first, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/6 "2004-06-02T23:42:21Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > That’s the one where Donald Pleasence shoots first, isn’t it? Right, also, since there’s the consumerist “Buy now!” commands given in the film, there’s going to a lot of product placement of the new Star Wars action figures in the film as well. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/7 "2004-06-03T01:57:30Z")
Yes, I understand… Could you be more specific? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/8 "2004-06-03T02:18:06Z")
The movie came out when I was in college. It was only playing in one theater, so my roommate and I took several buses across town on a snowy winter night to get to it. The only other people in this huge old-fashioned theater were a father and his two young daughters, about 8 and 10. He must really have wanted to see it. The girls were patient and quiet throughout most of a movie that we thought they couldn’t possibly understand until the scene in the white on white prison came on. The eight-year-old said, “They put him in nowhere. How can you escape from nowhere?” Still the best in-theater audience line I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/9 "2004-06-03T03:25:35Z")
**Exapno** , this is probably going to make you feel old, but I saw that movie when I was about 10, on late night TV (a little more than 20 years ago), and I don’t remember “getting it,” and I’ve not seen the film since (though I remember bits and pieces of it, and I have caught a few minutes of it here and there in the years since on TV), but apparently, parts of the film “stuck” with me. I have writings around here that I’ve done, which have things that match up almost perfectly with parts of the trailer. :eek: So, where ever those little girls are, it’s entirely possible that they retain memories of the film. Gotta wonder how they turned out. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/10 "2004-06-03T03:33:16Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Definately Lucas’s best film… [QUOTE] That’s a bold statement, given the original Star Wars (not the Special Edition) and American Graffiti. Now I definitely have to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/11 "2004-06-03T03:35:08Z")
I must purchase this DVD. I will watch this DVD. I will enjoy this DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/12 "2004-06-03T04:25:48Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] [QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Definately Lucas’s best film… > [@](#): > > That’s a bold statement, given the original Star Wars (not the Special Edition) and American Graffiti. Now I definitely have to see it. Well, as much as I love the original Star Wars, it is a bit of a “fluff” movie (not that there’s anything wrong with that), THX1138 is definately **not** fluff. It is in the same vein as _1984_ and _A Brave New World._ It is harsh, gritty, and utterly unlike anything Lucas has done since. Whilst I’m glad he did Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back, I wish that he’d continued in the same direction he seemed to be heading with THX1138. It is possible, I suppose, that Lucas is bringing this back because he now wishes to pick up where he left off. One can only hope so. (BTW, the letter and number combination THX1138 appears in every one of the Star Wars films.) ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thx1138-on-dvd-9-14-04/248199/13 "2004-06-03T04:40:47Z")
Just about every other film he’s made too. Check out the license plate on Harrison Ford’s car in American Graffiti.