Metropolis

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Summary: Gleep. Um... Gleep.
Review: Brilliant! Metropolis drags you into a world of heaven and hell. The workers down in the caverns keeping the power running for the rich in the gigantic skyscrapers. Revolt is inevitable, but can the two sides find a way to live together without oppression? Bridget Helm is fantastic as both Maria and her evil robotic double. The sets are wonderful and the soundtrack admirably fills in any void felt by the lack of spoken dialogue. It is incredible that a film made in the twenties is still so exciting. Be warned though, this is a review of the Georgio Moroder version. Another version mentioned by another reviewer is really terrible, half the scenes are missing and there is a muzak soundtrack! Buy the Moroder version, be wary of any other. If Amazon could say which version theirs is it would be helpful.

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Summary: A Masterpiece Neglected
Review: Metropolis is one of the best silent features ever made. It ought to be a crime to release such an awful transfer on DVD. Like many people who first bought a DVD player, I assumed that all movies, new and old, would be remastered. I was wrong about this one. Maybe Criterion or Image Entertainment will release a better copy of this movie in the future. Both of these companies have done justice to other silent pictures.

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Summary: Must be a great one.
Review: I still haven`t seen this film because frankly,the one I purchased had keyboard music as a soundtrack and it was impossible to listen to.The drama of the music didn`t sinchronise with the moments being displayed at that time.I had to turn the film off after 8 minutes and returned it to the store.Is there a copy with the original music? I really like to know. Ron.

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Summary: A "classic" that has NOT aged well.
Review: This, one of the greatest films of all time? NO WAY! Your serious film students may disagree with me, but I thought this one was B-O-R-I-N-G!!! The version I saw had a 1980's sound-track added to jazz it up, but the music was so awful I turned it down completely and watched the rest in silence, hoping it would eventually become interesting. It never happened. In fact, I repeatedly wanted to hit the eject button on my VCR, but curiosity over this film's reputation kept me from doing so. Maybe this was the "Star Wars" of the 1920's. If so, maybe "Star Wars" will someday bore the people of the year 2070 the way "Metropolis" bored the heck out of me!

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Summary: Stunningly awful. This should be removed from your catalog
Review: I wasted $10 on this joke of a DVD. The images are nearly unrecognizable, the music just a public-domain classical score and the "extras" a joke. I'll remember this company and tell my friends to avoid their products. It looks like they had a bad print and aimed a video camera at a wall to record it.

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Summary: the movie was very good
Review: I have been looking for this movie every since its been out. the soundtrack is the best of all the metroplus movies there are. I have the soundtrack but the song here's my heart by pat benatar was not the original.If possable i would like for them to re-release this movie on dvd.

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Summary: Utterly disgusting quality
Review: Who would take such a profound classic and put so little effort in transfering this. It looks as if "Madacy" took a DVD camcorder (if there were such a thing) and set it in front of a a TV to record it. It is out of focus, out of contrast and out of frame. I will NEVER buy a Mandacy product again. These reviews are no exageration!

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Summary: Not the best one out there.
Review: This version has a lot of footage, but is still missing large pieces that make the continuity very choppy. The picture quality is fair, and my overall sense is that the producers of this video just rounded up the footage from whatever they could find. There is not a great deal of concern shown for the overall quality of the product. The most disappointing element about this version is, that, it has one of the most annoying sound tracks I have ever experienced with a silent film. I got the sense that the producers of this version really don't understand the purpose that a soundtrack serves in enhancing the emotional elements portrayed on the screen. There is no one credited to the soundtrack of this version and I can understand why, as it is nothing more than 136 minutes of annoying noise that detracts from an otherwise remarkable film. I ended up turning off the sound which helped somewhat. If you really want to experience this film at its best, hold out for the Giorgio Moroder restored version.

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Summary: TERRIBLE
Review: Don't even think of buying this awful copy. I couldn't stand to watch more than 10 minutes. I now use mine as a coaster (along with all those MSN and AOL discs I keep getting in the mail)

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Summary: Anybody know where to get a copy of the Moroder version??
Review: Although Fritz Lang's version om metropolis is excellent, the Moroder version is TOTALLY AWESOME! Great music and use of colortinting, kept me interested, although I saw the version years ago, I can't believe I can't find a copy of the Morodor version! Both are excellent, Lang was a man ahead of his time. Anybody have a copy of the Moroder I am interested in buying it!