Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp
Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cook...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 18, 2003
Stats: 3,312 reviews
often considered cinema's first great masterpiece, its a shame that some of the scenes from this fritz lang classic are lost to us forever. i feel that the film only preserves so well despite its missing pieces because it is a silent film and can be filled in with text screens, ...( read more)
Kind of a like a Michael Bay blockbuster, except more technically impressive (for its time). The sets are the stars rather than the actors, which give some incredibly histronic performances even for a silent. No matter how much I was impressed by the visuals and the avant garde p...( read more)
Fritz Lang's groundbreaking landmark remains one of the biggest mysteries in the world of cinema. How can a movie that'll soon turn 80 years old still look so disturbingly futuristic?? The screenplay by Thea Von Harbou is still very haunting and courageously assails social issues...( read more)
ok I adore silent films but i jsut COULD NOT GET TROUGH THIS ONE! idk what it was, it was just so,,,, SLOW! and usually idont find silent classics tha way. i felt like there was something i wasnt getting,.....
all in all-?????
This is groundbreaking cinema at its best. Pioneering visual effects, grand scope and a fantastic orchestral score, this is truly the birth of epic sci fi on the pearl screen. Decades ahead of Forbidden Planet, 2001 and Star Wars, the only failing which this film has, is that the...( read more)
Uhhh. ok? I've seen silent films in the past and don't get me wrong Metropolis die-hards but this movie needs to be reconcidered by the IMDB critics who place it so high on their lists. I understand that this movie was incredibly innnovative at the time... but only at that time. ...( read more)
It's an epic poem of urban dystopia (and class warfare) by a misanthropic director who, in his Weimar Republic phase, had a taste for spectacular imagery that, for all our modern digital wizardry, has not been aesthetically surpassed. And his imagined world remains, after all the...( read more)
A great benchmark and something to aim for when it comes to science fiction or fantasy films. It is sad that some of it was lost, but good that the pieces that are still there have survived. I generally do not like silent movies (it is sad to be born in an era of great technology...( read more)
The eye-popping design and sense of scale remains as fresh and vital as it was in 1927. full review
A masterpiece of art direction, the movie has influenced our vision of the future ever since. full review
Far from a historical curio, Metropolis arrives, three-quarters of a century late, like an artifact from the future. full review
Few films have ever been more visually exhilarating. full review
I have this movie on vhs and I've tried to watch it, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT....
I could barely get thru the first 5 minutes without wincing from the pain of not knowing WTF was going on... If there was something, like subtitles & maybe music to follow, then that might make it bearable. They need to re-release it appropriately, with music from Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin, since it was first released as a silent movie, in nineteen twenty freaking seven!!!
http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/07/04/original-1927-cut-of-metropolis-found/
I get so much happiness from this.
A fantastic movie that felt very unusual to me when I first watched it. I have a 2 hour version, but there is text missing compared to the version the flixster's video clips come from. Some people may not understand Metropolis and what it is about, but many scenes have been cut out. The original was 3 hours, but the american experts cut it so only 1 hour remained. I have read somewhere that there was a character, named Hel, that was cut out because they did not like her name. She is the reason why the mad professor creates such a robot.
The movie is very, very well done as a movie during the 1920's. I will never forget it. The version I watched seemed older than the 'restored authorized edition', it was dark in the corners of the picture and brighter in the middle, and dust in the picture, but that made the movie even more special as I watched it. I feel like watching this movie again.
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