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-?????
Really impressive...ly boring
I know I'm going to catch endless shit for this, but this movie bored me to tears. It's a landmark cinematic and visual achievement to say the least...but a tedious one at that.
The missing scenes from Metropolis have been found!!!!
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"We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!" Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared ... ...( read more )
One of the landmark films in cinema. As a movie however, it's just not that good. A simple story moralizing on the need for unions, and that's about all. But as a FILM, it's one of the crowning cinematic achievements ever made. Huge sets, innovative camera work and 80 tear old sp... ...( read more )
"The mediator between head and hand must be the heart." A classic portrait of a future dystopia, with a social commentary on totalitarian capitalism. Possibly the first silent movie I've seen, I found it quite relaxing, with a pleasant score and sets of impressive art nouveau sky... ...( read more )
Fritz Lang's silent sci-fi film is a significant point in cinema. A Must See for any movie enthusiast.
In the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live in luxury on the surface of Earth, and another of workers who live underground ...
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"There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator."METROPOLIS (1927)
Director: Fritz Lang
Country: Germany
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantas... ...( read more )
Fritz Lang was a visionary and a genius, is hard to believe how that man could have that futuristic vision of the 21th century in 1927. who don't like silent movies won't apreciate this movie. is a little slow but s great!
This movie is set in 2026 and had great speacial effects for 1927 movie and great Sci-Fi movie and in the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the visi... ...( read more )
This visual feast is one of the best silent films ever made. A groundbreaking film that has bravely brought the issues of the future and present it in the past. A compelling film that will forever be remembered as the father of stunning visual effects!
another movie I saw as a kid. what can I say latch key block buster curious kid. especially when I was going threw my rock and roll experimental music stage.
silent film with rock and roll classic back ground music.
I had expectations about this film, but it turned out to be that my expectations were lower than my judgment of the movie after having seen it with great admiration and awe. The acting performance was I find excellent, with expressions on the faces that you seldomly see in movies... ...( read more )
"Metropolis" is a fantastic futuristic view of the fight of classes. This is the oldest movie I have seen; therefore I do not feel it is fair to compare with recent science fiction films. I think the film is phenomenal and creative for the era in which it was made. The use of sce... ...( read more )
Vean la version alemana, por que la gringa esta editada para quitar pensamientos comunistas, y carece de sentido (deberian demandarlos por eso)
The famous, Fritz Lang masterpiece. The 2002 Kino edition is the most complete version of this movie I am aware of. The film has been truncated and much of it lost, but this version has been digitally remastered and reconstructed in the correct order with cards implanted where ... ...( read more )
with something like seven different (all official) edits of this film its hard to know exactly what you're reviewing. The edit I watched having NO ROBOTS AT ALL. Imagine my disappointment. despite that it was still enjoyable, and with a message that is still important today.
I had a craving to watch Metropolis ever since I saw the different movie posters in my graphic design book. I had never heard of it previously, but after a little research, I found out it was a definite staple in cinema history. To be a silent film, I really enjoyed it. The st... ...( read more )
Although it is a difficult movie to follow, as it´s a silent movie, the visual work is fantastic, and the story is scarely modern, in a distopic and unpleasant future that is closest to the present times that we would like. This is one of the movies -if I were a director- that I ... ...( read more )
Amazing, visually stunning and actually still a little scarey, the robot is so real, you could be mistaken for thinking she's better than the many who've followed in her footsteps. I saw this film in College and I didn't expect to like it, but its much better than most films of i... ...( read more )
