Metropolis
Odd. I bought Metropolis, the black-and-white Fritz Lang movie, a while back because the DVD was on sale. It's ... alright, but the music kinda put me off - frilly orchestral stuff. The film has some very industrial dystopian sequences that really deserved some heavy power orchestral music, and the music on the DVD just didn't do them any justice. It's twee and lightweight, and sounds more like it was played through a late-90s sampler orchestra than with a real one.
So a month or so back I rented "Metropolis: disc 2" from ScreenSelect. My version only has one DVD, but I assumed it was just a nicer edition packaged with a 'making of' and so on. It actually looks like a totally different version - in the clips in the "making of" documentary, the picture quality's better, there are sequences which I really don't remember from the version I own, the bland sans-serif English caption cards are gone replaced by German captions with nifty typography and special effects - and, most importantly, the orchestral music (which is apparently the same music that was composed to be played at screenings of the original film) is absolutely awesome.
I checked the cover of my DVD and, yep, it promises a "new musical soundtrack". Grr. What was wrong with the original?
I'm almost tempted to extend my ScreenSelect subscription (I was going to cancel because I have very little time to watch DVDs now I'm back at Uni) solely in order to watch a non-lame version of Metropolis.
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So a month or so back I rented "Metropolis: disc 2" from ScreenSelect. My version only has one DVD, but I assumed it was just a nicer edition packaged with a 'making of' and so on. It actually looks like a totally different version - in the clips in the "making of" documentary, the picture quality's better, there are sequences which I really don't remember from the version I own, the bland sans-serif English caption cards are gone replaced by German captions with nifty typography and special effects - and, most importantly, the orchestral music (which is apparently the same music that was composed to be played at screenings of the original film) is absolutely awesome.
I checked the cover of my DVD and, yep, it promises a "new musical soundtrack". Grr. What was wrong with the original?
I'm almost tempted to extend my ScreenSelect subscription (I was going to cancel because I have very little time to watch DVDs now I'm back at Uni) solely in order to watch a non-lame version of Metropolis.
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PS:
http://www.phatwebz.com/webdesigns/lines/bluepin/bluepin.htm
"Great website design is no accident."
*coughsplutter*