Hardware

The package came early and in perfect condition. Tested it out to make sure it was a good copy and was great quality. I got to turn my son onto one of the great cult classics. This IS what you want and this IS what you get!! Would use seller again no doubt. As hard as this one was to find at one point I was prepared to get a wrench or some other form of " Hardware" Very satisfied customer !

Oh man this is the best. I was a teenager when I saw this movie on cable tv and it was insane at the time. I actually forgot about it and its name for a couple of decades until something triggered dejavu and a subsequent quest to rediscover what I had forgotten. Luckily, I was eventually able to find it by researching 'movies from the 90s with bleak, red, mars like environments.' Once I saw a covershot in a list of various movies matching the parameters, I knew I had the right one. I put it my Amazon list and then they put it on sale so I grabbed my copy. Well, I just watched it and this version brought everything back just as vivid as I remember. Obviously this is way better image quality, and format size as well, since my aforementioned teenage viewings were on a meager, 19 inch 4:3 screen. Back then, I thought it looked superb, in my memory anyway, but with this widescreen HD press playing on my 100 inch projection, it blew my mind. That, combined with its Master Audio surround sound cut, and I got the true theater experience I never got back then. "This is definitely what I want, and it's certainly what I got!" I would surely want this again if I had a do-over and I thank you for the opportunity to own it at a fair sale price.

This review is for the Two Disc Limited Edition. This 1990 movie is somewhat a cult classic, so people tend to either love it or hate it. Think of it in terms of the 1950s and 1960s B-rated scifi. If you love those, you'll probably love Hardware. Why do I compare it to those 50s and 60s films? I do so because the special effects are mechanical, not CGI, and because the story line is rather simple. What you see is what you get. There aren't a lot of hidden meanings or agendas for you to attempt to ferret out. "No flesh shall be spared" became somewhat of a catch phrase for "Hardware." That wasn't something Richard Stanley originally planned. It was Dylan McDermott whom pointed out the similarity between the use of the MARK 13 robot and the Mark 13 Bible passage, although the Bible passage is more often translated as "no flesh should be saved." The real gem in this 2-disc limited edition is the 2nd disc. It includes the 54 minute, recently updated, documentary/making of featurette, "No Flesh Shall Be Spared." A special treat is the 1985 43 minute short, "Incidents in an Expanding Universe." This is the precursor to "Hardware." It's actually not bad, especially if you take into account this Super 8 film was made on a shoestring budget by a group of teens. You'll see some of the themes were used in "Hardware." Also of note are the flying cars, the design of which has been used a number of times since this was made. There are also two short-shorts, "Sea of Perdition, Ep. 7" and another very early Richard Stanley offering, filmed on Super 8, "Rites of Passage." In another featurette, Richard Stanley discusses what he had envisioned for "Hardware 2," with a bigger budget, and why it was never made. Also included are deleted/expanded scenes, a German trailer, and an original promo.

I love this movie! It's quirky, low-budget and just different! I saw it and found it originally on VHS and my nephew accidentally tore a corner off the package, but I forgave him, he was only 3 at the time. However, the DVD is amazing! But watch out for the cheaply made packaging it comes in. The plastic is rather fragile and the holders barely hold in the 2 DVDs included. I had ordered one copy and found out the holder clips for Disc 2 were broken and pieces were scattered all over disk 1. I returned that copy and got a 2nd copy, which has a similar problem, but the clips are barely intact, so I'll take good care of that part. I love the quality of the movie, how it was digitally restored, the extras are awesome and I'm planning on watching the included 8mm original version of the movie. If you ever saw this movie and wanted it, grab it fast! It's a good variation of the Terminator story, good special effects, awesome metal music, grungy look and rather touching in spots. It's also weird enough to make it rather unique in feel. I'd give the movie itself 5/5 and the DVD packaging 4/5

Gli intendiotri lo amano per quello: un low budget con altissimo impegno e tantissima cura. Basta un paesaggio desolato filtrato in rosso, suoni e musica accurata, personaggi curiosi e una sceneggiatura che regge e sei proiettato in un altro mondo, un'altra epoca. Una specie di Terminator postapocalittico. Qualità del DVD nella norma.

great film do people really live like this in the part's of the world this film was made in on closed Set.

sais la première fois que je le vois en dvd. Un film peut-être pas pour tous le monde mais moi il ma plu. Je le classe parmi les inclassables, mais je le conseille pour ceux qui sont pour de nouvelles expériences en matière de films.

壮大なSFかと思いきや濃密な密室劇。ロボットからの視点が恐ろしく画面に釘付けになる。この手の密室劇が多い中、あらたにSFの要素を盛り込んだ功績は大きい。

With a disappointingly, scandalously, few movies composing his filmography, Richard Stanley is still close to the top of the list when one considers greatest living cult film directors. A heroic figure, adventurer and raconteur straight out of a Jules Verne novel, he is the Orson Welles of the post-punk generation. This was his first feature film, following on from sundry music videos and a sojourn with the Mujaheddin. Check out youtube to get the tale straight from the man himself, and much more. This film is a brilliantly realised (on a low budget) post-punk science fiction movie in the dystopian/dirty future genre of The Terminator, Alien, Bladerunner, though it's irreverence marks it out as a determinedly non-studio product. A near-chamber piece, the storyline and trappings are very similar to the great 2000AD short story, 'Shock', by Steve MacManus and Kevin O'Neill, which is reprinted in a booklet with this release, but is not credited onscreen. I am unaware of whether the likeness was conscious or coincidental, draw your own conclusions. All the above named are more than worthy of further investigation and will amply reward your investment of time and money. The mech aesthetic was in the ascendant in the mid-eighties, and 'Hardware' does provide a new wrinkle with it's psychedelic, almost flourescent riot of colour contrasting the expected dark, oily mechanismo, a mystical undercurrent and satiric overtones. In some ways this appears to be the most successful screen translation of the 2000AD aesthetic to date. Belonging to a different, unbelievably less media saturated time, the last great pre-Tarantino 'cult' movie, with a genuinely untameable, anarchic, upstart rock n roll attitude. Following 'Alien', Ridley Scott asserted that science fiction was the new western, and he hoped to become the John Ford of the genre. That didn't quite come to pass, but the SF film did indeed grow in prominence as the repository of our dreams and nightmares, a process arguably traceable back to '2001' and it's satiric response 'Dark Star', through Jodorowsky's unfilmed 'Dune' and it's shockwaves, through to the blockbusters of 'Total Recall' and 'Terminator 2', arguably peaking with the Phil Dick inspired 'The Matrix'. Throw in some Cronenberg mutations and distortions of reality along the way and what you have is a visionary canon of cinema that examines our place in the universe, our capacity for destruction or creation, our very perception of reality. Now the superhero movie has overtaken sci-fi as the go to genre for mythological imaginings, one that places the idealised strong, healthy, invincible body front and centre in an eternal 'present day', wherein all problems can be overcome in the arena of hand to hand combat, injury can be endured without pain, and with a side order of spectacular mass destruction. Basically, if you like badass-psycho-robot movies, this one is for you!