Jun 13, 2023randomusernamehere rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I find it hard to believe that people actually like this version. It plays like a YouTube video from the 2000's: horrid color filter and random awful rock music that pulls you away from what's happening on the screen.
Without the gaudy…
May 02, 2021Chel_H rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Highly orchestrated film. The actors’ movements, the sets, the imagery. It feels like someone had a hallucinatory vision of the future and then tried to share it with the world. There is a manic rhythm to the film created by the musical…
Dec 30, 2019Bubba_Louie rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
1927's "Metropolis" is a silent-era SyFy film whose story of a world ruled by a tyrannical technocracy is set 100 years into the future (in the year 2026).
I think that it's quite interesting to note that even back 90 years ago man's…
Dec 30, 2019The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
ALTHOUGH THE DVD and Blu-Ray versions are filed here (Tulsa CCL) as if they were the same film, this is not quite true. The DVD is the so-called Restored Authorized Edition, 124 minutes long and dating from 2001. The Blu-Ray is the…
Dec 23, 2019NeoNoir rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Even though Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (from 1927) (set in the year 2026) is yet another SyFy film (in a long line of SyFy films) that takes a very unfavorable and bleak outlook at the future of mankind (and, yes, womankind, too) - I…
I had really wanted to like this film, but eventually I could hardly stand it: for about the last hour and ten minutes I was checking how much longer I would have to watch - it became very tedious. The imagery was great (for its time) and…
Oct 24, 2016TwilightBlue rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Metropolis (from the silent-era) is a fantasy film about a futuristic city and its mechanized society, with an upper-class youth abandoning his life of luxury in order to join the oppressed workers in an all-out revolt.
Even though this…
Oct 19, 2016ManMachine rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
With Metropolis (1927) being from the "silent-era" of film, I was initially quite sceptical about watching it, certain that I wouldn't enjoy it half as much as I did.
Regardless of how idiotic silent-screen actors can carry on…
Oct 09, 2016Derringer rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
In 10 years time (2026) the silent-era, Sci-Fi, classic, Metropolis will be 100 years old - And by sheer coincidence the year 2026 is also the same date in which this film's story is set.
If nothing else - I think that it's interesting…
Jun 19, 2015PeterRLD rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I had hoped that this was the restored full-length version, but disappointingly it was the old print with some new music and color. Enjoyable, nonetheless.
Jun 14, 2014ScorchingSun rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Alright, granted the sets and visuals are excellent and the film is full of social commentary. But the movie needs massive editing. Pare off at least a third of the excruciatingly long-drawn-out boring scenes and you would have a tight…
Oct 25, 2013JCLJoshN rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A gorgeous, affecting, mind-bending movie, very loosely based on Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece. The plot is twisty enough that it may require more than one viewing, but it's beautiful enough to make multiple viewings more than worth your…
Sep 18, 2012akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Set in the year 2026, Metropolis takes place in a dystopian society where wealthy intellectuals rule from vast tower complexes, oppressing the workers who live in the depths below them.
Joh Fredersen is the wealthy man who rules the…
Aug 10, 2012akuip061 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
an interesting film made during the Weimar republic (this artistic freedom you can see in the frantic dance sequence; also, the struggle to define authenticity in a society obsessed with Nietzche). I never realized how lost you can find…
Aug 07, 2012Ron@Ottawa rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Taking into consideration when the film was made, it is without a doubt a masterpiece. Seeing it now, you can't help but feel the datedness of it. Because it is a silent film, facial expressions had to be exaggerated, something that one…
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Nov 02, 2011Starling16 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a wonderful film, worth seeing if just for lead actress Brigitte Helm's facial expressions.
Now I know where the makers of Star Wars, Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey got their inspiration from. I'd recommend this to anyone who…
Aug 30, 2011AtomicFez rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I've never seen it before, due to hearing there was much missing from the story due to whacks of sub-plots being cut to make the film run under 90 minutes. But now they've found stuff. And it's brilliant. Simply brilliant.
The latest…
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