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Why is there no mention of the Alternate Reality Game which told the story of THX's roommate after THX left the underground city? How do we get that information mentioned. It was a huge ARG and was part of the DVD release anniversary?
I know one of the developers who worked on the "SEN5241" alternative Reality Game.... Should I email him to get information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JTiberius ( talk • contribs) 23:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Why is there no mention of the Alternate Reality Game which told the story of THX's roommate after THX left the underground city? This was a worldwide game with the conclusion of the game being the date of the DVD release? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.170.244.174 ( talk) 19:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I think this article definitely needs more specific information on the special effects in the scenes:
If i recall some imagery from Marilyn Mansons The Dope Show was inspired by THX 1138. I may be wrong but just throwing that out there if anyone wants to add to the imagery section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iscream22 ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
I've often thought of this comparison and now I think it's time to add thins to Wikipedia. Logan's Run the novel was published in 1967, the same year that THX was originally made. The novel was later turned into a film in 1976. Seeing both movies, they are almost identical. I wonder if anyone else shares this same opinion with me. Given Lucas's penchant for blatantly stealing ideas for his work, I think this is a very plausible theory. Before I make the addition to the main page, I want to post here, hear some more ideas, and avoid an edit war.
Almost identical? How?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.158.130 ( talk) 12:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Just watched THX 1138 for the first time and through the whole second half of the film I was thinking this is just like Logan's Run, and wondering which came first and whether one ripped off the other. Dystopian, high-tech future in a contained urban environment, where religion is used in a very naked means of social control, with a protagonist running from the security agents of the system to find, ultimately his way into freedom outside the system. The plot and themes of these two works overlap enormously, though stylistically they are quite different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.149.22.198 ( talk) 18:51, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Lots of science fiction is based around dystopian/futuristic/oppressive plotlines. without impartial research to refer to or specific comments from lucas to support such a theory it is not worth mentioning. after reviewing both logans run and thx1138 my personal opinion is they are NOT the same anyway - in neither plot OR construction. Its like calling star wars and star trek the same because their both set in space.
This film strongly reminds me of Brave New World, the whole setup of the society and aspects of the plot are the same. I don't care that it wasn't credited, but maybe this (and the other books mentioned above) should be mentioned in the article as possible inspiration/sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.81.214.52 ( talk) 12:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Yea, and ya may as well throw in Woody Allen's "Sleeper" too.. filmed around same time... same kinda story. sorrta. 2602:304:CDAF:A3D0:E523:32AB:98AC:4A49 ( talk) 02:22, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by Richard Nixon
Does anyone know which lines and from which speeches? I wasn't able to find any source or proof that supports this statement in the article. Siyavash 16:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
1+1=(2) A=B A+B=( ) $1+$1=($2)
In front of person there is a garden. In front of the entrance to the garden there are three stones. One on the ground, one on top of the one on the ground, and one on the top of the one on the one that is on top of the one on the ground with a peice of rope tied around it. Nature made the person then nature balanced the stone but who tied the rope around the top stone and why is what the sun asked at the end of the movie.
Some people are blinded by the light of nature, others embrace, yet others throw stones.
I can jump so high others can not, I could crawl so fast and others never breathed air and became born. What this movie tells us is what we can do, why we can do some things is what we need to ask ourselves when we can not see the garden because of the blinding light of logic which colors our existence.
Lucas' use of the number 1138 can be seen as a tinkered allusion to the numerology employed by James Joyce, who used the number 1132 throughout Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. According to Joseph Campbell, the number 1132, which repeats throughout Joyce's works in adresses and times of day among other things, can be best seen as a number symbolizing the fall of man ("32 feet per second per second," Leopold Bloom's manta of the rate of falling objects) and rebirth/redemption ("11" being the first new number in a cycle.)
Lucas' employing Joyce's numerology provides some interesting insights into the nature of his films, especially his epic Star Wars narrative. Multiplied together, Joyce's numbers produce the number 6, the number of episodes in Lucas' film cycle. One can then see the number 1138 as 1132+6=1138. Furthermore, Lucas' protagonist Anakin Skywalker undergoes the same transformative experiences implied by 1132--a fall from grace and redemption. Another multiplication process of the numbers, 3x2x11=66, produces the number of the the Emperor's holocaust command against the Jedi, Order 66.
It's been several months, and nobody has offered a citation to justify the inclusion of Joyceian numerology in this article. I'm removing it. --
Skyraider
21:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
During the car chase scene a voiceover clearly says words to the effect of "I think I ran over a Wookie". I seem to recall this was mentioned in an earlier version of the article but it is not present now. Is there a good reason the line is missing? Apparently when Lucas heard this line he liked the name and used it in Star Wars. Robert Brockway 08:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The trivia section contains a lot of references from other films, many of which are then duplicated in the section with references from other films!
Nine Inch Nails sample the film for the album " The Downward Spiral". It is also important to note Renzor wrote the song "we're in this together" from the fragile which references a quote from the film.
Reply: sorry i've never done this before, so if ive formatted my reply wrong just delete it or something. anyway, im confused by this idea that they sampled the police beating into the song mr. self destruct. i heard that it was made to synch up to the first scene in E Elias Merhige's film Begotten, in which God is disembowling himself with a razor. can anyone clarify one or the other? —Preceding
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I don't know how to put in references on the original article (and at the moment I don't have time to figure it out), but the Trivia section of this article says it doesn't have references. Most of the facts listed there are from the Internet Movie Database, if anyone wants to put the reference in the right format. If not, I'll come back and try to do it myself...
The URL for the page is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/trivia
Laurie Tubawiki 06:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Under the
1138 (number) page there is a lot of trivia about 1138 already. Why is it duplicated here ? Or should that section over there be brought here ?
WendelScardua
15:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
So every person who has ever been to a hospital to get radiation treatment is based on THX-1138 by that reasoning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.147.182.238 ( talk) 00:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Can someone please find out how much this film actually cost? I doubt that it was exactly 77,777,777.77 I would guess this is vandalism, but I'm unsure.
Jeroorda 01:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, that's the silliest thing I've seen in a few days. $777,777.77 is no estimate.
I have to agree. Anyone got any real figures? AKismet 03:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
In the Making Of thing on the DVD, Lucas says that that is what Coppola set the budget at. Recury 13:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
List_of_science_fiction_films says it was shot in 1970. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.20.244.254 ( talk) 19:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
The "References in other media" section repeats a ton of stuff that's also found in 1138 (number). Should that section be changed to a quick, paragraph-form summary of references with a link to more references at the 1138 page? If so, be sure to move all references that are here but not at the 1138 page to the 1138 page. Tophtucker 04:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
One of the trivia points is that the plot of one of the Breath of Fire games is remarkably similar to that of this movie. If "Underground Dystopia, escape sequence to Earth's surface that is now inhabitable" is all that's the same, that is much too weak a connection to be anything other than coincidence, lacking evidence to the contrary. On the other hand, maybe there are more extensive similarities or a connection between the two. Would someone more familiar with the Breath of Fire series than I am put this one to rest one way or the other? 24.118.231.95 03:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Under the director's cut section this sentence appears: "Fan and critical reaction to this version was mixed, although any negative commentary was far more low key than the backlash Lucas faced with altering the Star Wars films. This likely due to the relative popularity of the films."
This is confusing, is it trying to be said that: A)star wars is far more popular then THX 1138,or the oppisite. B)both are popular and therefore fans do not want them altered. The sentence is also speculation & "this likely due" is poor grammar. I will remove it and if someone wants to put it back plz clarify. -- Wilson 12:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
OMM's icon was incorrectly given as Albrecht Dürer's self portrait. The differences between the two are seen here: [1]. It clearly resembles Hans Memling's painting 'Christ Giving His Blessing' seen here: [2]. -- CrinklyCrunk 18:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Certainly, the idea of people have their emotions controlled by the Govt. mandated, complusory use of drugs, and having at least one main character stop taking the drug, is the same as in Equilibrium. -- 81.105.176.121 13:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I thought it was zero zero zero zero, am I wrong. Where dose the 0910 come from? -- Steinn inn 05:46, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
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When THX and SRT are avoiding the police, the end up in a large electronic center of some sort. Anyone know where it was? It looks too big to be a telephone switch, and I doubt they would have let them film at a SAGE. Maury ( talk) 00:02, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I recommend merging Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB into a new section in this article. As it is Electronic Labyrinth would likely be deleted otherwise for lack of references, notability, etc. 74.13.109.25 ( talk) 16:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
You forgot the rating! -- 66.205.143.105 ( talk) 22:59, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I distinctly remember a screening of this on TV in Britain in the 1990s which included a short excerpt from the old Buster Crabbe Buck Rogers serial before the opening credits. This is mentioned at the Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Film Review and indeed on the IMDB itself, but it's nowhere in Wikipedia's article; did I dream it? Was the clip part of the five minutes apparently excised from the film at the studio's request? Is the clip present in the recent DVD release? - Ashley Pomeroy ( talk) 19:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Why does Ununtrioctium redirect to this article? It's not mentioned in the article text. I realise that if un=1, tri=3, oct=8 you get 1138 (-ium being a common suffix for a metallic chemical element), but why is the word "Ununtrioctium" significant? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
I was led here by the strange completion "ununtrioctium" when searching for element 113, "ununtrium" (in the news today, as it happens); since there's nothing about this impossible element 1138 in the article and since all other web references seem to stem from this article, it really should be deleted. 66.32.207.61 ( talk) 22:28, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
It's the name of a placeholder for a very very future element. Fixed, though the redirect was kind of cute. Dreadfullyboring ( talk) 16:58, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Culture jamming? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.87.29.188 ( talk) 22:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a cloaked name for Trivia......I like it. Bddmagic ( talk) 13:20, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I bought the DVD release specifically to see the 'spinning coca cola ' capsule of medication that the principal character draws from the talking medicine cabinet. The sequence is missing, and many other aspects of the DVD release apper to be digitally enhanced.
Does anyone else recall the spinning, airborne capsule with the Coca Cola logo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.191.212 ( talk) 07:11, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
WAIT... wait..... wait........ why does the article say it wasn`t finacuialu succesfull when it made it`s budget back over 3 times?/????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.45.130.67 ( talk) 03:35, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Wait if the film made it`s budget back times 3 then why was it unsuccesfull, and could the concept of it having become a cult classic be clearified, plus didn`t Lucas fully write the story and ony cpowrite the screenplay, and that cowriter only cowrite the screenplay not the whole film????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.45.130.67 ( talk) 01:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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The newest film is Disney, not Lucasfilm. How/where should I add a reference to 1138? Dreadfullyboring ( talk) 17:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC) Dreadfullyboring ( talk) 17:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
In the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow, around the 24 minute mark, when Sky Captain and Polly go to Dr. Jennings lab, the number on the door is 1138.
IMDB has a item in the trivia for the movie that reads: Dr. Jennings' lab is suite number 1138 - an homage to George Lucas. [1]
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There are a lot of songs that have sampled THX 1138, for some reason the NIN sample is always mentioned even though it's one of the least obvious ones. Apart from audio samples, there are lots of other references in film, tv and music. A few are listed on the Lucasfilm Wiki ( https://lucasfilm.fandom.com/wiki/THX_1138#In_popular_culture) and on WhoSampled ( https://www.whosampled.com/movie/THX-1138/). Maybe we should leave it to those sites to collect this kind of information? Or should we create a new Wikipedia page ("THX 1138 in popular culture"?), and move it off the main page? That way we needn't restrict it to a few select items, and thus avoid the discussion on which item should be included.
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Why is there no mention of the Alternate Reality Game which told the story of THX's roommate after THX left the underground city? How do we get that information mentioned. It was a huge ARG and was part of the DVD release anniversary?
I know one of the developers who worked on the "SEN5241" alternative Reality Game.... Should I email him to get information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JTiberius ( talk • contribs) 23:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Why is there no mention of the Alternate Reality Game which told the story of THX's roommate after THX left the underground city? This was a worldwide game with the conclusion of the game being the date of the DVD release? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.170.244.174 ( talk) 19:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I think this article definitely needs more specific information on the special effects in the scenes:
If i recall some imagery from Marilyn Mansons The Dope Show was inspired by THX 1138. I may be wrong but just throwing that out there if anyone wants to add to the imagery section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iscream22 ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
I've often thought of this comparison and now I think it's time to add thins to Wikipedia. Logan's Run the novel was published in 1967, the same year that THX was originally made. The novel was later turned into a film in 1976. Seeing both movies, they are almost identical. I wonder if anyone else shares this same opinion with me. Given Lucas's penchant for blatantly stealing ideas for his work, I think this is a very plausible theory. Before I make the addition to the main page, I want to post here, hear some more ideas, and avoid an edit war.
Almost identical? How?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.158.130 ( talk) 12:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Just watched THX 1138 for the first time and through the whole second half of the film I was thinking this is just like Logan's Run, and wondering which came first and whether one ripped off the other. Dystopian, high-tech future in a contained urban environment, where religion is used in a very naked means of social control, with a protagonist running from the security agents of the system to find, ultimately his way into freedom outside the system. The plot and themes of these two works overlap enormously, though stylistically they are quite different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.149.22.198 ( talk) 18:51, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Lots of science fiction is based around dystopian/futuristic/oppressive plotlines. without impartial research to refer to or specific comments from lucas to support such a theory it is not worth mentioning. after reviewing both logans run and thx1138 my personal opinion is they are NOT the same anyway - in neither plot OR construction. Its like calling star wars and star trek the same because their both set in space.
This film strongly reminds me of Brave New World, the whole setup of the society and aspects of the plot are the same. I don't care that it wasn't credited, but maybe this (and the other books mentioned above) should be mentioned in the article as possible inspiration/sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.81.214.52 ( talk) 12:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Yea, and ya may as well throw in Woody Allen's "Sleeper" too.. filmed around same time... same kinda story. sorrta. 2602:304:CDAF:A3D0:E523:32AB:98AC:4A49 ( talk) 02:22, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by Richard Nixon
Does anyone know which lines and from which speeches? I wasn't able to find any source or proof that supports this statement in the article. Siyavash 16:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
1+1=(2) A=B A+B=( ) $1+$1=($2)
In front of person there is a garden. In front of the entrance to the garden there are three stones. One on the ground, one on top of the one on the ground, and one on the top of the one on the one that is on top of the one on the ground with a peice of rope tied around it. Nature made the person then nature balanced the stone but who tied the rope around the top stone and why is what the sun asked at the end of the movie.
Some people are blinded by the light of nature, others embrace, yet others throw stones.
I can jump so high others can not, I could crawl so fast and others never breathed air and became born. What this movie tells us is what we can do, why we can do some things is what we need to ask ourselves when we can not see the garden because of the blinding light of logic which colors our existence.
Lucas' use of the number 1138 can be seen as a tinkered allusion to the numerology employed by James Joyce, who used the number 1132 throughout Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. According to Joseph Campbell, the number 1132, which repeats throughout Joyce's works in adresses and times of day among other things, can be best seen as a number symbolizing the fall of man ("32 feet per second per second," Leopold Bloom's manta of the rate of falling objects) and rebirth/redemption ("11" being the first new number in a cycle.)
Lucas' employing Joyce's numerology provides some interesting insights into the nature of his films, especially his epic Star Wars narrative. Multiplied together, Joyce's numbers produce the number 6, the number of episodes in Lucas' film cycle. One can then see the number 1138 as 1132+6=1138. Furthermore, Lucas' protagonist Anakin Skywalker undergoes the same transformative experiences implied by 1132--a fall from grace and redemption. Another multiplication process of the numbers, 3x2x11=66, produces the number of the the Emperor's holocaust command against the Jedi, Order 66.
It's been several months, and nobody has offered a citation to justify the inclusion of Joyceian numerology in this article. I'm removing it. --
Skyraider
21:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
During the car chase scene a voiceover clearly says words to the effect of "I think I ran over a Wookie". I seem to recall this was mentioned in an earlier version of the article but it is not present now. Is there a good reason the line is missing? Apparently when Lucas heard this line he liked the name and used it in Star Wars. Robert Brockway 08:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The trivia section contains a lot of references from other films, many of which are then duplicated in the section with references from other films!
Nine Inch Nails sample the film for the album " The Downward Spiral". It is also important to note Renzor wrote the song "we're in this together" from the fragile which references a quote from the film.
Reply: sorry i've never done this before, so if ive formatted my reply wrong just delete it or something. anyway, im confused by this idea that they sampled the police beating into the song mr. self destruct. i heard that it was made to synch up to the first scene in E Elias Merhige's film Begotten, in which God is disembowling himself with a razor. can anyone clarify one or the other? —Preceding
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81.105.75.139 (
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15:59, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't know how to put in references on the original article (and at the moment I don't have time to figure it out), but the Trivia section of this article says it doesn't have references. Most of the facts listed there are from the Internet Movie Database, if anyone wants to put the reference in the right format. If not, I'll come back and try to do it myself...
The URL for the page is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/trivia
Laurie Tubawiki 06:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Under the
1138 (number) page there is a lot of trivia about 1138 already. Why is it duplicated here ? Or should that section over there be brought here ?
WendelScardua
15:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
So every person who has ever been to a hospital to get radiation treatment is based on THX-1138 by that reasoning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.147.182.238 ( talk) 00:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Can someone please find out how much this film actually cost? I doubt that it was exactly 77,777,777.77 I would guess this is vandalism, but I'm unsure.
Jeroorda 01:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, that's the silliest thing I've seen in a few days. $777,777.77 is no estimate.
I have to agree. Anyone got any real figures? AKismet 03:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
In the Making Of thing on the DVD, Lucas says that that is what Coppola set the budget at. Recury 13:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
List_of_science_fiction_films says it was shot in 1970. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.20.244.254 ( talk) 19:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
The "References in other media" section repeats a ton of stuff that's also found in 1138 (number). Should that section be changed to a quick, paragraph-form summary of references with a link to more references at the 1138 page? If so, be sure to move all references that are here but not at the 1138 page to the 1138 page. Tophtucker 04:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
One of the trivia points is that the plot of one of the Breath of Fire games is remarkably similar to that of this movie. If "Underground Dystopia, escape sequence to Earth's surface that is now inhabitable" is all that's the same, that is much too weak a connection to be anything other than coincidence, lacking evidence to the contrary. On the other hand, maybe there are more extensive similarities or a connection between the two. Would someone more familiar with the Breath of Fire series than I am put this one to rest one way or the other? 24.118.231.95 03:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Under the director's cut section this sentence appears: "Fan and critical reaction to this version was mixed, although any negative commentary was far more low key than the backlash Lucas faced with altering the Star Wars films. This likely due to the relative popularity of the films."
This is confusing, is it trying to be said that: A)star wars is far more popular then THX 1138,or the oppisite. B)both are popular and therefore fans do not want them altered. The sentence is also speculation & "this likely due" is poor grammar. I will remove it and if someone wants to put it back plz clarify. -- Wilson 12:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
OMM's icon was incorrectly given as Albrecht Dürer's self portrait. The differences between the two are seen here: [1]. It clearly resembles Hans Memling's painting 'Christ Giving His Blessing' seen here: [2]. -- CrinklyCrunk 18:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Certainly, the idea of people have their emotions controlled by the Govt. mandated, complusory use of drugs, and having at least one main character stop taking the drug, is the same as in Equilibrium. -- 81.105.176.121 13:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I thought it was zero zero zero zero, am I wrong. Where dose the 0910 come from? -- Steinn inn 05:46, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 19:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
When THX and SRT are avoiding the police, the end up in a large electronic center of some sort. Anyone know where it was? It looks too big to be a telephone switch, and I doubt they would have let them film at a SAGE. Maury ( talk) 00:02, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I recommend merging Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB into a new section in this article. As it is Electronic Labyrinth would likely be deleted otherwise for lack of references, notability, etc. 74.13.109.25 ( talk) 16:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
You forgot the rating! -- 66.205.143.105 ( talk) 22:59, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I distinctly remember a screening of this on TV in Britain in the 1990s which included a short excerpt from the old Buster Crabbe Buck Rogers serial before the opening credits. This is mentioned at the Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Film Review and indeed on the IMDB itself, but it's nowhere in Wikipedia's article; did I dream it? Was the clip part of the five minutes apparently excised from the film at the studio's request? Is the clip present in the recent DVD release? - Ashley Pomeroy ( talk) 19:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Why does Ununtrioctium redirect to this article? It's not mentioned in the article text. I realise that if un=1, tri=3, oct=8 you get 1138 (-ium being a common suffix for a metallic chemical element), but why is the word "Ununtrioctium" significant? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
I was led here by the strange completion "ununtrioctium" when searching for element 113, "ununtrium" (in the news today, as it happens); since there's nothing about this impossible element 1138 in the article and since all other web references seem to stem from this article, it really should be deleted. 66.32.207.61 ( talk) 22:28, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
It's the name of a placeholder for a very very future element. Fixed, though the redirect was kind of cute. Dreadfullyboring ( talk) 16:58, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Culture jamming? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.87.29.188 ( talk) 22:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a cloaked name for Trivia......I like it. Bddmagic ( talk) 13:20, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I bought the DVD release specifically to see the 'spinning coca cola ' capsule of medication that the principal character draws from the talking medicine cabinet. The sequence is missing, and many other aspects of the DVD release apper to be digitally enhanced.
Does anyone else recall the spinning, airborne capsule with the Coca Cola logo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.191.212 ( talk) 07:11, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
WAIT... wait..... wait........ why does the article say it wasn`t finacuialu succesfull when it made it`s budget back over 3 times?/????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.45.130.67 ( talk) 03:35, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Wait if the film made it`s budget back times 3 then why was it unsuccesfull, and could the concept of it having become a cult classic be clearified, plus didn`t Lucas fully write the story and ony cpowrite the screenplay, and that cowriter only cowrite the screenplay not the whole film????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.45.130.67 ( talk) 01:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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The newest film is Disney, not Lucasfilm. How/where should I add a reference to 1138? Dreadfullyboring ( talk) 17:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC) Dreadfullyboring ( talk) 17:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
In the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow, around the 24 minute mark, when Sky Captain and Polly go to Dr. Jennings lab, the number on the door is 1138.
IMDB has a item in the trivia for the movie that reads: Dr. Jennings' lab is suite number 1138 - an homage to George Lucas. [1]
I will leave it to someone to decide if a main page edit is justified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.94.21.53 ( talk) 20:16, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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There are a lot of songs that have sampled THX 1138, for some reason the NIN sample is always mentioned even though it's one of the least obvious ones. Apart from audio samples, there are lots of other references in film, tv and music. A few are listed on the Lucasfilm Wiki ( https://lucasfilm.fandom.com/wiki/THX_1138#In_popular_culture) and on WhoSampled ( https://www.whosampled.com/movie/THX-1138/). Maybe we should leave it to those sites to collect this kind of information? Or should we create a new Wikipedia page ("THX 1138 in popular culture"?), and move it off the main page? That way we needn't restrict it to a few select items, and thus avoid the discussion on which item should be included.
— Kawayama ( talk) 15:00, 18 October 2019 (UTC)