Metropolis

Rating:
Summary: "The Film That Started It All"
Review: "Metropolis" spawned "Blase Runner", "Minority Report", "The Fifth Element", "Dark City", and "The Matrix." This is one of the best Sci Fi films ever. It was original, and has incredible acting. This is a great film, I recommend it to anybody. Remember people, this film came out in the 1920's, so not everything looks great, but if you can get past the fact that the visual don't look so great, then this will be a treat.

Rating:
Summary: The Barebones edition, only reason to buy is price.
Review: I picked this DVD up at a local store, because I've been meaning to see the movie and it was quite cheap. It's the original 1927 theater cut (I couldn't tell you if the tinting was added later or not), which means it's only a small part of Lang's masterpeice. The plot is, as it was, choppy and hard to follow without reading up on the movie itself. The scenes that were cut seem to have been important, in that you get the general gist of the story with this truncated version, but there are things you won't pick up on unless you watch it repeatedly.

It's a poor version of the classic, but the price is right. If you want to see the masterpeice, buy the restored, authorized edition as was recommended above. If you want to watch a mildly entertaining silent film that sounds like the soundtrack was put together by the Residents, this is for you.

Rating:
Summary: The Barebones edition, only reason to buy is price.
Review: I picked this DVD up at a local store, because I've been meaning to see the movie and it was quite cheap. It's the original 1927 theater cut (I couldn't tell you if the tinting was added later or not), which means it's only a small part of Lang's masterpeice. The plot is, as it was, choppy and hard to follow without reading up on the movie itself. The scenes that were cut seem to have been important, in that you get the general gist of the story with this truncated version, but there are things you won't pick up on unless you watch it repeatedly.

It's a poor version of the classic, but the price is right. If you want to see the masterpeice, buy the restored, authorized edition as was recommended above. If you want to watch a mildly entertaining silent film that sounds like the soundtrack was put together by the Residents, this is for you.