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Hardware Music Videos: Hip Hop, Vol. 1
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (25 March, 2003)
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amazingThis DVD is great. The sound and picture quality are both high and when they say uncensored they mean it. If a volume 2 came out tomorrow I would snatch it up. The only drawback is that some of the songs are a little outdated for 2003, but still worth the money.
Hardware Wars - The Original Edition
Released in DVD by Tapeworm (12 February, 2002)
Starring: Frank Robertson, Scott Mathews, and Jeff Hale
San Francisco filmmaker Ernie Fosselius made the most successful short film of all time in the 1978 Hardware Wars, an inspired, mock-trailer for a nonexistent, cheapo rip-off of Star Wars. It worked like this: instead of Chewbacca, Fosselius offers the Cookie Monster. Instead of Darth Vader's breathy, slightly echoed voice emerging somehow behind that black-mask helmet, we get a villain whose every ranting utterance is so muffled even this film's Princess Leia equivalent beseeches him, "What? I don't understand you." And so on. Part of the joke is that George Lucas's revolutionary special effects are supplanted by common kitchen gizmos--mixers, toasters--that serve as spaceships and weapons sources. The updated special edition contains 20 computer-generated "special defects" that don't--the distributor boasts--at all match Fosselius's earlier version. Um... right on? --Tom Keogh
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This movie or should I say preview [is bad]The movie isn't a movie. Its a preview. It's only 20 minutes long for ...that isn't even funny. Its a waste of money and time in your life.
Short---but funnyYet another parody of "Star Wars" which will tickle your funny bone. All the ships are made of household hardware items. The "C3P0" droid bears a striking resemblence to the TIN MAN in "The Wizard of Oz". Not too bad. Could have been longer.
synaptic ambrosiaOk, that's probbly a bit of an overstatement but this really is very funny considering when it came out.
Hardware
Released in DVD by Buena Vista Home Vid (22 April, 2003)
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, and John Lynch
It's Christmas in the tech noir slum of the post-apocalyptic future, and scrap-metal sculptor Stacey Travis gets a present she'll never forget. Scavenger boyfriend Dylan McDermott returns from the wastelands with the insectoid robot head of a killing machine. In no time it whirs to life and builds itself a gizmo-laden body out of handy appliances to continue its single-minded destruction of the human race, one warm body at a time. Director Richard Stanley, something of a scavenger himself, plunders everything from The Terminator, Blade Runner, and The Road Warriorto Short Circuit (the spidery construct resembles a demonic Number 5) for his violent flesh-vs.-metal survival thriller. Shot in sun-blasted orange and sweltering red, it's a triumph of style, set design, and grunge aesthetics over story, driven by a pounding techno score by Simon Boswell and punctuated by splattering gore. --Sean Axmaker
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The Cannery Row of 80s Noir Apocalypse Horror FilmsThe book "Cannery Row" started off sluggishly and slightly incomprehensibly, and you don't feel connected at all when you begin reading it. About midway through, however, you bond with the characters and the tales, and -- more likely than not -- you begin the book over again, immediately after finishing it. This time, you understand everything you're seeing, and you realize how rich a work of narration and style it is. The film "Hardware" is the same way -- a junky start, incomprehensible characters and circumstances -- but then it gets under your skin, you understand the whole picture and, soon as it ends, want to see it again. (And, Stacey is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.)
dark intelligent sci-fiFirst of all great soundtrack - Ministry and PIL, and not just for the musical content, but for when they chose to use it. It's so beautifully fitting to the scene which it is playing in. The death scene use of fractals just spurs you to wonder what really goes on in the brain during shutdown. Bottom line is this is a great low-budget flick with huge talent in the way of photography and score. And of course no film would be good without acting talent. Chomping at the bit for a dvd version, hopefully digitaly remastered and unedited
great movie but where is the DVD?This movie is a great cyberpunk movie. Too bad it's not out on DVD!!!
Hardware Music Videos: Rock, Vol. 1
Released in DVD by Ventura Distribution (25 March, 2003)
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