[Mindjack Release] October 25, 2004

[Donald Melanson]

Mindjack Release
October 25, 2004
http://www.mindjack.com


Now in Mindjack:

THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut
DVD reviewed by Donald Melanson

George Lucas' visionary first film finally makes it to DVD, sprinkled with
new special effects and a slew of bonus features.

"George Lucas' THX 1138 was the first and very nearly the last film produced
by Francis Ford Coppola's indie studio American Zoetrope. As the excellent
documentary included on the DVD, A Legacy of Filmmakers, explains, Zoetrope
bet the company on Lucas' film, and its failure to impress Warner Bros.
executives nearly bankrupt Coppola and his company.

It's not hard to see why studio execs would find the film puzzling. It is
neither your average science fiction film nor your average independent film.
When Warner Bros. agreed to fund the film, they were hoping to get a movie
that appealed to the same audience that embraced Easy Rider a few years
earlier. Instead they got a heady, avant-garde science fiction movie that
appealed more to cineastes than to stoners."

Read the full review here: http://www.mindjack.com/film/thx.html