Metropolis (restoration trailer)

http://www.kino.com/metropolis/
Metropolis is a 1927 silent science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in 1924, and the story was novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism. The film stars Alfred Abel as the leader of the city, Gustav Fröhlich as his son, who tries to mediate between the elite caste and the workers, Brigitte Helm as both the pure-at-heart worker Maria and the debased robot version of her, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge as the mad scientist who created the robot.

Metropolis was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G. (UFA) and released in 1927 during a stable period of the Weimar Republic. The most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make. The film was cut substantially after its German premiere, and there have been several efforts to restore it. Also, the American copyright lapsed in 1953, which eventually led to a proliferation of versions being released on video.
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[MrUndergrounddweller]

No words can describe how perfect this film is, nothing. Any grand word i could attach to this film would be an insult!

[MrUndergrounddweller]

Well just think about it though 1927! so ahead of its time, you have to think of that grandeur. For a silent film to keep people talking still, its actually in a lot of top 10 lists as the best sci-fi film of all time and for good reason.

[inferno1061]

Radio gaga brought me here. 

[etiscool1]

Still a spectacle at 86 years of age. Now THAT is hard to pull off, especially with something cinema special effects evolving everyday.

[Sean Greene]

I meant if your not patient with them you are more likely not going to enjoy them that is what I was trying to say.

[Sean Greene]

they sit down and watch a very long or slower moving film just to say and another thing I've learned with experience as when watching these older films is to get a good amount of sleep and don't focus or think about what time it is when it comes to long or slow moving films as this will make you not enjoy the film at all!

Would you guys agree with me?

[Sean Greene]

Now tell me do you think someone of younger generation would want to watch that film?

It depends?

Some say I would like ton watch it others might say meh I can't stand films like that and even I have a hard time watching films like The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly but if I watch my previous films that are longer then it I might get the hang of it but still if your not patient the more likely your going to not like the film and just to say most younger gen people need to take a chill pill before

[Sean Greene]

on TV but it will only relate to my own interest besides the movies these days and when I have told someone that foreign films are better he said back a foreign film will never compete against a Hollywood film.

Yeah maybe for money but not when it comes to pure quality and great acting at it's best!

Except for the older Hollywood films and speaking of that.

I'll be renting Ace In The Hole: (1951) Country (United States) (111 min)

Also I have Lawrence Of Arabia that's 227 min.

Just to say.

[Sean Greene]

But yes those films are nowhere near the length of Metropolis just to say but let me say one more thing.

As I've been watching older Hollywood and Especially foreign films and when in rare cases if I go back downstairs when the family is watching TV I've noticed that the acting has greatly decreased throughout the years and the more I watch these films the less I want to go back and watch whats on these days as almost everything they show now is trash.

Though there's a few shows I might watch

[Sean Greene]

on the wall!

Whoever they are have no patients at all when it comes to watching a film.

You know what I feel bad for them and own a few Silents from Josef Von Sternberg and find Underworld, The Last Command, and even The Docks of New York to be very quick pace and as well I just Pre-order Safety Last!

On Criterion.

[Sean Greene]

I'm 25 and will be 26 later this June and I own The Human Condition that one is at 574 min.

Tell me now if I can watch this film?

Sheesh people need to be patient but I can understand from others as I have had fallen asleep before through slower films before.

But at least I try to be patient through these older films and have noticed when younger gen people like me who try to watch the newest film these days some have complained and say.

Man!

That film was as bad as watching paint drying

[etiscool1]

I'll be getting the movie in a couple of weeks. It was bought off Amazon and I can't wait to see it!!!

86 years old and just watching this trailer you can't help but think: "HOW THE HELL DID THEY DO THAT IN 1927? IT'S F#$#ING AMAZING!"