THX - you've hit the nail right on the head. Whilst the movies visuals haven't dated particularly well, the whole movie package turns out to be one of those seminal movies of its era.

Certainly the sequels were nowhere near as good in almost every respect (although not having Verhoeven at the helm may well have had something to do with that as well).

Kind of like Starship Troopers - the first movie was a superb political movie (and looked good too), but the sequel was a straight to DVD flop.


I'm very much with Jay though on the visuals front - we're spoiled these days with the wealth of visual richness that we get in movies. Generally, with the pre-digital movies, it's a very small number that managed to really pull off convincing models with the original Star Wars trilogy and Aliens being the absolute pinnacle of the art form at the time. These days, the all-digital pipeline makes it much easier to produce visuals that really look real. Mainly because the entire set in many productions these days exists only in the computer.

But all the visuals in the world still can't rescue a shitty story and screenplay.