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[nigeltde]

I watched Metropolis today. The first half I thought was absolutely stunning, and Brigette Helm is captivating. The special effects were much better than I expected for 1926. And I love it how it's set in, like 2000, and they have all these biplanes flying around. It makes me wonder what we now assume will be in the future because we have no way of thinking about it any other way; like, the workers didn't really have any idea about robots, so they didn't pick Robot!Maria even though she was acting nothing like Normal!Maria. Peter Osbourne's soundtrack was brilliant, although I hear that a more recent release has a re-recording of the original score, so I'd like to hear that. I really liked how at the start the movie seemed to be about how it's so fundamentally wrong to have a society that treats humans that way, and that if you do so, things simply have to fuck up because it's just so wrong. Especially when that machine broke down - wow, that sequence was excellent. But by the end I thought the message went a bit sour: Yay! As long as they're happy, it's ok to use slaves! Duh! And also the story seemed to become a little more mundane. But kudos to Fritz Lang, because it's a pretty damn cool movie, and I'll have to check it out again to see if my first impressions are correct.

Also: from where did I get the impression that Dead Poet's Society was this Great American Classic? Cause it was a little lame. But Josh Charles was cool, and Robin Williams didn't bug me too much (best Robin Williams movie: The Birdcage!)

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[frostmourne.livejournal.com]

I think I can get you a copy of Metropolis if you'd like :)
My friends are extremely metropolis-happy so they're bound to have copies.

Oh oh did you have a blackout too?

Haven't seen you in a while so I hope your feeling well and are as cute as ever :)

[corvus-coronis.livejournal.com]

I remember hiring Metropolis at a friend's house, which completely pissed her off because she wanted to get drunk to Sleepless in Seattle.

[nigeltde]

haha! Bit of a contrast there.

[nigeltde]

ooo - which version, do you know? And on DVD?

I don't know if we had a blackout, I may have been asleep at the time *g*

I am well, and I hope you are too :-)