Metropolis
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 Released: February 18, 2003
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July 3, 2009often 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 )
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June 28, 2009Kind 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 )
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May 28, 2009Fritz 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 )
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January 25, 2009ok 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,.....
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September 19, 2002
David Edelstein, Slate
September 5, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
The eye-popping design and sense of scale remains as fresh and vital as it was in 1927. full review
August 23, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
A masterpiece of art direction, the movie has influenced our vision of the future ever since. full review
July 12, 2002
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Far from a historical curio, Metropolis arrives, three-quarters of a century late, like an artifact from the future. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Few films have ever been more visually exhilarating. full review
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July 17, 2008I 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!!! -
July 8, 2008http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/07/04/original-1927-cut-of-metropolis-found/
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January 25, 2007A 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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