Why did I just lose 107 minutes of my life?!
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wireless-phil — 11 years ago(August 31, 2014 09:36 PM)
You must be one of the young punks that wasn't around back in the 80s.
No wizz bang stupid junk you kids watch today, or in the last 10-15 years.
Computer generated graphic wasn't even used back then because it was still in its infancy, no one had it yet but the computer programers and the labs.
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glennrhoads — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 01:00 AM)
I can't resist; you didn't get it. You have to understand evolution in order to understand the movie. Given the sorry state of education in this country in regards to evolution, it is no surprise that many people did not understand the movie.
In a nutshell, a scientist finds a drug, whose effect is amplified by an isolation tank, that accesses the junk DNA in the cells of his brain and causes him to undergo reverse evolution. He goes further and further back into humanity's evolutionary chain, eventually all the way back to Darwin's primordial life form and finds out that life has no meaning or purpose. He also finds out the tremendous power of love; it pulls him back from the primordial edge and changes the profound emptiness he feels to a feeling of meaning and purpose.
I don't know if that description helps you; you really do need to understand evolution in order to appreciate the story.
An often overlooked aspect of this film is that William Hurt's performance was brilliant; really the best of his entire career. But you need to understand the story and the scientific mindset to appreciate just how amazing Hurt is in this movie. -
Pzachlen — 10 years ago(March 08, 2016 11:00 PM)
No one here mentioned that the reason they went to Mexico was because of this tribe and it's rituals.It was also explained to them that EVERYONE has the same hallucination. "Their original truth".
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pery-1 — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 09:57 PM)
Yes, half way through I realized it's just a psychedlelic version of old time sci-fi horror like Neanderthal Man and Monster on the Campus, with little attempt at plauibility plausibility. "Good special effects" is all it has going for it.
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karchad — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 07:56 AM)
This is the 2nd time in 30 years I am trying to watch this movie. I turned it off 30 years ago, and I'm about to do so again. It is uninteresting. It is bad sci-fi, lousy horror. Even William Hurt can't help this turkey. It's my last time trying this film, too many good ones to waste my time on it. At least this time I lasted, let's see, 47 minutes this time. I think I lasted 25 the previous time.
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goddabkiddin — 10 years ago(November 30, 2015 08:14 AM)
Every time I watch a movie, I come to the messages boards and inevitably, someone says something to the effect of "I've just wasted (insert minutes here) of my life."
What are you looking for, sympathy? Should we feel sorry for you and those precious minutes you lost?
Nobody made you watch minute after torturous minute.