My second sci-fi and overall film of 2025 and a lot better than the poorly aged Things to Come (1936).
Metropolis tells the myth of the Tower of Babel and uses it to paint a ruling class and working class struggle that comes together as effective and believable. Though I didn't enjoy some of the drawn out scenes, especially towards the end, they felt very repetitive but most of the time it is intense and gripping and I was really hooked by it's story and analogy.
What really surprised me was how beautiful it still looks, the upper futuristic city with it's bi-planes flying by and the giant posters to the offices of workers with their elaborate mechanisms that they work with, everything looks great.
A work of this caliber by Germany reminds me of their rather modern sci-fi series Dark. Both never forget the human drama within their stories no matter how crazy the non-human elements get.
I watched the version available on Tubi and while it looked pretty great and the image quality was most of the time clear, i have to say that their is a jazz score all over the movie to account for the "silent" film. It may be distracting to you or it may not.
7.6/10 Definitely worth watch and a pioneering sci-fi film, it's so old that the movie uses the word "Machine-Man" instead of robot!
Mentioning metropolis and "dark" in the same breath is an affront to good taste and you'd know it if you had watched the Giorgio moroder version of Metropolis
Yeah moroder cut slaps, killer soundtrack.
Obviously the "complete" version is the best in terms of having footage, but I love moroders vision even if it's using a less complete story
To be honest, I have never finished Dark. I just thought both being German and both having the mad idk visuals was pretty cool. Is there anywhere I can watch that version? Might try on a re-watch of Metropolis