I tried watching this about 15-20 years ago and turned it off. I figured I was just not getting it due to age. Then after James Caan bought the farm I found it used for $8 and decided to give it another go.
Action is crap, dialogue is beyond crap, slow paced, absolutely no effort in making it look like a movie that takes place 50 years in the future. Turned it off after 35 minutes.
Loved this as a kid. Rewatched last night for the first time in years. Mistake - some things are better to remember than revisit. Aged terribly. So has the film.
shareThank you for the vote of confidence
shareJust because it looks 70s doesent mean its aged badly.
Flared collars and orange & brown color schemes will be all the rage in 2073.
Yep I agree. It's meant to be futuristic but reeks of the 70's.
shareSo does A Clockwork Orange, and that's a classic.
shareHave to agree with the negative comments.
I saw it for the first time in the 80s, and the notion of using a violent game to satiate the blood lust of the masses probably seemed edgy in the 70s, but not in the 80s. And the stuff around the games, the political maneuvering, the romantic interludes etc were a total bore.
Rosemary's Baby was another celebrated movie I was completely unmoved by. It probably did not help that I saw The Exorcist first. Hard to top that.
And Clockwork Orange. I saw it when I was young and it did shock me. In later years I find its lost a lot of its shock value but I still think its a technically superb piece of filmmaking.