This article contains spoilers for "The Mandalorian" episode, "The Convert."
As "The Mandalorian" embarks on its third season, it faces tougher challenges than Pedro Pascal's beskar armor-clad Din Djarin does on a daily basis. For one thing, the return of Grogu neé Baby Yoda in the other Disney+ series, "The Book of Boba Fett," may have confused some of "The Mandalorian" viewers who skipped that show, as well as people who had tuned in for more Boba action and not "Mandalorian 2.5." For another, like most series entering their third season, the show faces many questions about its future: how long is it going to run, is there an endgame in play, and where else can the show (and Din and Grogu) go exploring?
That last question began to be answered with the show's latest episode, "The Convert." Although the beginning and end of the episode followed the further adventures of Din,...
As "The Mandalorian" embarks on its third season, it faces tougher challenges than Pedro Pascal's beskar armor-clad Din Djarin does on a daily basis. For one thing, the return of Grogu neé Baby Yoda in the other Disney+ series, "The Book of Boba Fett," may have confused some of "The Mandalorian" viewers who skipped that show, as well as people who had tuned in for more Boba action and not "Mandalorian 2.5." For another, like most series entering their third season, the show faces many questions about its future: how long is it going to run, is there an endgame in play, and where else can the show (and Din and Grogu) go exploring?
That last question began to be answered with the show's latest episode, "The Convert." Although the beginning and end of the episode followed the further adventures of Din,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode 7 - "Announcement"
After George Lucas directed his first film, "Thx-1138", you would be hard pressed to find a film of his that followed without a reference to the sci-fi movie somehow. The number 1138 comes up a lot in his movies. In "American Grafitti", John Milner's license plate is "Thx 138." In "Star Wars: A New Hope," it was the cell block Princess Leia had been transferred from. In "The Empire Strikes Back", General Rieekan sends Rogue's "10 and 11 to Station 38." In "The Phantom Menace," one of the Battle Droids has "1138" scrawled out on its backpack. It's everywhere. But fans have learned to spot it, and the filmmakers behind "Star Wars" have had to find increasingly more subtle ways to reference the movie in their work.
This week's episode of "Andor" is no exception and has one of the most unique subtle references to "Thx 1138" yet.
After George Lucas directed his first film, "Thx-1138", you would be hard pressed to find a film of his that followed without a reference to the sci-fi movie somehow. The number 1138 comes up a lot in his movies. In "American Grafitti", John Milner's license plate is "Thx 138." In "Star Wars: A New Hope," it was the cell block Princess Leia had been transferred from. In "The Empire Strikes Back", General Rieekan sends Rogue's "10 and 11 to Station 38." In "The Phantom Menace," one of the Battle Droids has "1138" scrawled out on its backpack. It's everywhere. But fans have learned to spot it, and the filmmakers behind "Star Wars" have had to find increasingly more subtle ways to reference the movie in their work.
This week's episode of "Andor" is no exception and has one of the most unique subtle references to "Thx 1138" yet.
- 10/19/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
George Lucas’ debut feature, the sci-fi classic Thx 1138, is out now on Blu-ray. Here’s our look back at what is possibly the director’s finest film…
Of all the various attempts to bring the literary dystopias of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to the screen, none succeeded in replicating the extraordinary atmosphere and tone of their source novels.
John Hurt may have been magnificent as the doomed Winston Smith, but Michael Radford's adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four never quite retained the savagery present in Orwell's stark, terrifying prose. Similarly, the 1998 TV movie of Brave New World couldn't capture the despair in Huxley's vision of a scrubbed-up future of state controlled sex and drugs.
George Lucas' debut feature Thx 1138, based on his own student film Electronic Labyrinth: Thx 1138 4Eb made four years earlier, captured the sentiment of those...
Of all the various attempts to bring the literary dystopias of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to the screen, none succeeded in replicating the extraordinary atmosphere and tone of their source novels.
John Hurt may have been magnificent as the doomed Winston Smith, but Michael Radford's adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four never quite retained the savagery present in Orwell's stark, terrifying prose. Similarly, the 1998 TV movie of Brave New World couldn't capture the despair in Huxley's vision of a scrubbed-up future of state controlled sex and drugs.
George Lucas' debut feature Thx 1138, based on his own student film Electronic Labyrinth: Thx 1138 4Eb made four years earlier, captured the sentiment of those...
- 11/3/2010
- Den of Geek
Thx 1138
Blu-ray | DVD
Directed by George Lucas
Starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Release date: September 7, 2010
Complacent with his narrative and uninspired to produce anything more profound because he is relying on his visuals to do the work, director George Lucas attempts to create a 25th century utopian future gone awfully awry. Literary minds depicted such sterile, lifeless, and bleak environments with precise detail. Orwell (1984), Huxley (A Brave New World), and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) tackled dystopian and futuristic atmospheres with a potent narrative behind it. They called to our attention truly believable and paradoxical relationships that integrated humanity with sterility, freedom with captivity.
Lucas’ 1971 science-fiction film Thx-1138 lacks his predecessors’ originality because he is not capable of excavating beyond his beautifully eerie aesthetics. If he would be able to he would find a story that...
Blu-ray | DVD
Directed by George Lucas
Starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Release date: September 7, 2010
Complacent with his narrative and uninspired to produce anything more profound because he is relying on his visuals to do the work, director George Lucas attempts to create a 25th century utopian future gone awfully awry. Literary minds depicted such sterile, lifeless, and bleak environments with precise detail. Orwell (1984), Huxley (A Brave New World), and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) tackled dystopian and futuristic atmospheres with a potent narrative behind it. They called to our attention truly believable and paradoxical relationships that integrated humanity with sterility, freedom with captivity.
Lucas’ 1971 science-fiction film Thx-1138 lacks his predecessors’ originality because he is not capable of excavating beyond his beautifully eerie aesthetics. If he would be able to he would find a story that...
- 9/20/2010
- by Three-D
- Geeks of Doom
With Forbidden Planet and Thx 1138 coming out on blu-ray this week, this Tuesday is a very good day for science fiction lovers. Both films were visionary and represented the beginning of an era in sci-fi film. Forbidden Planet was the beginning of science fiction films with solid story and big budgets. Thx 1138 was George Lucas’ first feature film, a director who would in later years have the big budgets (though perhaps not as solid of stories). The original Thx 1138 was a minimalist art film about the future, and it represents the enormous potential and talent of George Lucas. The blu-ray release, however, represents the best and worst of George Lucas.
Thx 1138 is set in a frightening totalitarian society where every movement is being monitored by a theistic government. People confess their sins to government-run confessionals, work government-assigned jobs, take heavy sedatives to keep them docile, and cannot have sex.
Thx 1138 is set in a frightening totalitarian society where every movement is being monitored by a theistic government. People confess their sins to government-run confessionals, work government-assigned jobs, take heavy sedatives to keep them docile, and cannot have sex.
- 9/8/2010
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
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