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Summary: Oh, please!
Review: The other reviewers are correct about this, the movie is good, but the Madacy DVD sold here for under $10 is terrible. You can tell it's been transferred from video, because there is a horizontal dropout-discoloration in the first 10 minutes! It's a shame there are no good versions out, as far as I can tell, and although I haven't seen the "rock n' roll" version, I would want an edition with original musical score (if possible). Don't buy this disc. Maybe there exists a better VHS version, but the one sold here is apparently pretty bad also.
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Summary: METROPOLIS: I could've assembled a better cut AND scored it!
Review: OK, I bought this disc--I'm hugely disappointed this wasn't the version that was broadcast on WNET, Ch. 13 in NY about 20 yrs. ago with a sinister synthesiser-music score. I DO hope at some point we see either the aforementioned Moroder version on DVD or the one I saw, or at least SOMETHING resembling the original film!
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Summary: GREAT FILM
Review: This movie is more beautiful than anything else in film, if this film can ever be matched, I'm scared. Oh yeah, there are enough people whining about the bad DVD quality, so quit writing damned reviews about it, you pricks.
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Summary: Metropolis: Excellent Movie, Horrible DVD
Review: Metropolis is one of the all-time great films, that goes without saying. It is a well crafted story of opression of the working class when cold-hearted capitalism takes hold. What really impresses me about this film though, is the wonderful sets, which are very advanced for its day.The DVD of Metropolis on the other hand, doesn't do the film justice. The print is often so scratchy it is not exactly clear what is going on. If you cannot find a copy of this film anywhere else go ahead and get this. Only if a better copy can't be found though, because a clearer print would be worth the money. By way of extra features, this DVD only has one worth mentioning. This is the trivia game. At the end of the film there is a multiple choice game that asks questions about the content of the film. It's amusing, but only the first time you play it.
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Summary: What have they done to Metropolis?
Review: I'll start off by saying that the film itself gets five stars. However, this poorly made DVD is abolutly disgraceful. I thought DVD's are the wave of the future; God knows this one isn't. In fact, this is THE worst DVD I have ever seen. Fritz Lang's Metropolis is one the top ten sci-fi films ever made; and I hope someone else makes a better DVD-and soon! Who cares if this film is crypticlly pro-communist, it's visually stunning. I recommend this film to any sci-fi fan; however, I suggest you wait until a better DVD is released.
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Summary: The Shape of Things To Come?
Review: Metropolis is one of may all-time favourite movies. The plot concerns a man, Freder Fredersen, who is the son of the mastermind behind an ultramodern city. The city is completely mechanised but is supported by a mass of workers who operate the machines that keep the city alive and who live underground (a little improbable but literalism isn't always important in expressionistic films). Freder is unaware of the underground workers until a daughter of one of the slaves comes above ground and Freder sees her. He is struck with compassion for these people and asks his father about them, who, as the leader of the city, is happy for things to remain as they are. The master of Metropolis consults with Rotwang, a mad scientist of sorts (the allusion to the evil magician is only slightly masked), who comes up with a robot that when mass produced, will ultimately replace all of the humans below, making the city completely automated. The robot is made in the likeness of the young woman and sows the seeds of sedition, which casues the workers below to destroy all of the machines, and thus ruining the city. A truce is reached at the end. The cinematography of this move is stunning, the acting is beautiful and the message is even more real today than it was when the movie was made in 1926. The idea of a fully automated society in which machines are more important thatn human beings seems all to real today, whereas it was only a distant fabtasy in the twenties. While the literal torture that the workers lived in seems out of place now, the possibility of total mechanisation still remains a fearful spectre. A very disturbing, but very rewarding film.
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Summary: An Insult To Metropolis
Review: Metropolis is the outstanding masterpiece of Fritz Lang. The version recorded on this DVD, however, is an insult and a disgrace (hence the low price tag on it). There is no gray scale through much of the movie (faces are totally black in many scenes!), the quality of the print from which this was lifted is abhorent! If you want to see Metropolis in all of it's glory, find the Georgio Moroder version which was restored and re-released in the 1980's complete with contemporary soundtrack and color (in some scenes, mostly sepia tones). It's hard to find, but worth the effort - this DVD version is a waste of money.
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Summary: Metropolis DVD does not do Lang's Masterpiece justice
Review: I remember this film as a breathtaking visual feast, but this transfer to DVD is dreadful! We loose the perimiter of the picture, most noticeable when heads are cut off at the top of frame. I am sure there are better quality prints out there, the one used for this transfer was dark and murky. The music chosen seemed wildly inappropriate at times, I ended up turning the sound down, it was so distracting.
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Summary: a classic, but not on d.v.d.
Review: This movie is an absolute sci-fi classic. The dvd version is an eternal flop! The lighting sometimes dims, making the characters look dark and blend into the background. There is no lobby poster that comes with it! There's a picture of the lobby poster on the dvd details. That is ridiculous. The trivia has eight questions that my wife could answer! There is absolutely nothing good about this except that i could swear that there's a couple of extra small scenes. However, they completely cut out the part where the worker dies for the mediator. Where's the justice? If you're a true fan and have a couple of version, maybe it's worth it for the collection..but I'd hate for them to collect another cent for this abonomation of this absolutely timeless classic. Where's the justice?
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Summary: City world
Review: fantastic or too much real
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