[Anthony Durrant]

What do you know about a storysite called METROPOLIS?

[AlexG]

Glammazon wrote:

What do you know about a storysite called METROPOLIS?

Never heard of it.

Now back to you:

What sort of stories are posted/archived there?

How about providing a link?

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Anthony Durrant]

I don’t have a link, but I can tell you that the stories posted at METROPOLIS were about robots – usually female robots – and about people who become robots.

[Paul Schilling]

Metropolis:

Great movie, great special effects for the early day. (ANY of those special effects beat the hell out of CGI) The gist of the story is rich boy falls in love with poor working class girl. Rich Kid’s daddy finds out about this and what she’s doing to bring up a peaceful revolt amongst the workers. Daddy hires mad scientist to make a robot girl to make workers revolt. Rich kid finds out,saves the workers children from a flood disaster in the workers city. The doppelganger of the girl is burnt at the stake, the rich kid fights the mad scientist at the top of the workers cathedral and plummets to his death. The rich kid makes amends with his father and the workers.

There that was easy enough. B)

[Paul Schilling]

Metropolis:

Great movie, great special effects for the early day. (ANY of those special effects beat the hell out of CGI) The gist of the story is rich boy falls in love with poor working class girl. Rich Kid’s daddy finds out about this and what she’s doing to bring up a peaceful revolt amongst the workers. Daddy hires mad scientist to make a robot girl to make workers revolt. Rich kid finds out,saves the workers children from a flood disaster in the workers city. The doppelganger of the girl is burnt at the stake, the rich kid fights the mad scientist at the top of the workers cathedral and plummets to his death. The rich kid makes amends with his father and the workers.

There that was easy enough. B)

[FlakBait]

Shouldn’t this have been in something other then the feedback section? oh well
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Their is a fully restored “Director’s Cut” version of Metropolis coming out later this year on BluRay that has missing scenes that were cut from it’s release in the United States and later releases on home media. It’s supposed to be re-released in some theaters here as well.

[Robert McNay]

FlakBait wrote:

Their is a fully restored “Director’s Cut” version of Metropolis coming out later this year on BluRay that has missing scenes that were cut from it’s release in the United States and later releases on home media. It’s supposed to be re-released in some theaters here as well.[/quote]

Its not a Director’s Cut, its the actual complete (well, almost complete) film, as originally shown in 1927. It was edited down from the original 153 minute run time to 90 minutes after the first showing in Germany. Until now, the longest cut known was just under 2 hours long. The Kino video used title cards to fill in the missing scenes to give an idea of the full story.

A couple years ago, an almost complete (147 minutes) 16mm copy was found in a Brazil museum. Its been restored by the Murnau Foundation and is being shown in theatres this summer. In the fall, both DVD and BluRay versions will be released by Kino.

http://www.kino.com/metropolis/

[FlakBait]

CptMatt wrote:

Its not a Director’s Cut, its the actual complete (well, almost complete) film, as originally shown in 1927. It was edited down from the original 153 minute run time to 90 minutes after the first showing in Germany. Until now, the longest cut known was just under 2 hours long. The Kino video used title cards to fill in the missing scenes to give an idea of the full story.

A couple years ago, an almost complete (147 minutes) 16mm copy was found in a Brazil museum. Its been restored by the Murnau Foundation and is being shown in theatres this summer. In the fall, both DVD and BluRay versions will be released by Kino.

http://www.kino.com/metropolis/

I knew that, hence the “quotation marks” around “director’s cut” as it has been referred to as a “director’s cut” in several articles due to the fact it is a different cut of the film from the one released to theaters, and the industry likes to slap directors cut on things to sell more copies. That’s called

Did not know the website though. What the hell do you mean I just wanted an excuse to post Jack O’Neil?

[Robert McNay]

FlakBait wrote:

Did not know the website though. What the hell do you mean I just wanted an excuse to post Jack O’Neil?[/quote]

Funny, he looks exactly like Angus MacGyver, only with short grey hair. 😛

[FlakBait]

CptMatt wrote:

Funny, he looks exactly like Angus MacGyver, only with short grey hair. 😛

never heard of him 😛

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