It's been 13 years since I saw this movie, and to this day I cannot forget how truly horrible it was. Terrible acting, virtually no plot, lousy special effects; violence, violence, violence. This is the only movie I've ever seen that I honestly say that I hate. (Well, other than the Matrix, but at least it was entertaining).
shareLet's just say that you have no idea and no feeling for movie history. You compare the game FROGGER with GRAND THEFT AUTO also?
Simply because you comparie this film from the 80ies to Matrix from 2004. You have no idea about movie history, it seems. Just never make a comparison between a black&white Jules-Verne-adaptation and the StarWars New Episodes. Please. Or buy a book about movie history.
"Virtually no plot"?
Earth down, contaminated zones, tripper finds head, sells it in the city, head changes owner twice untill death from the Zone was brought into town, head resurrects and connects with tools, attacks. No plot? Did you watch a blank TV screen? You're a blind idiot, am I right?
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for all of you that say "this is the worst movie ever!" to movies like this you really need to just stop. these are OBVIOUSLY not the worst movies of all time... seriously, your comparing a very low budget film to mass garbage that costs 100 million and is absolutely horrible. those are the worst films ever... the ones that cost an arm and a leg yet make you want to vomit because of how awful it is. the movies that are comparably pathetic to what our government spends most of its money on... useless crap that continues to construct the human as a filthy parasite...
In other words, you have no idea what you're talking about and Hardware is a good film :)
"Worst movie of all time"
Don't blow yourself up, kid. YOu have no idea:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086967/
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fgwri is right. this movie is pretty bad, and when i say bad I mean bad taste.
is it really necessary to have the pervert talking about, and i quote from the film itself, "the Hershey highway"? i don't need to hear what sick stuff turns him on. how does that move the plot along? that there will be an ever increasing amount of perverts and sexual deviants in the future? it was disgusting.
it's like the movie was intended to be a porno, but was changed right before production to try to appeal to a mainstream audience.
Hardware could have been so much better with the whole idea of Government sponsored population control, although by the time the movie takes place in, it seems a bit too late for population control to make much of a difference.
the movie portrays such a bleak existence then why not just have suicide centers (a la the film "Soylent Green") where people can volunteer to end it all? give people the option.
while on the subject, a much better B moive about a desolate future is "Soylent Green".
"why not just have suicide centers"
Have you watched the movie at all? I mean WATCHED? Don't think so. Do again and pay attention. Wait for the word "suicide", listen close and come back here.
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Looy,
i have no desire to watch it again.
if i was wrong on the suicide centers it's because it has been 19 years since i went to see it in the movies.
i'd say my memory isn't too bad for almost 20 years. i did manage to remember the pervert guy. unfortunately, he was burned into my memory and also the DJ who says something to the effect that there is "no good news".
if you like this movie, that's cool. i'm not judging anyone.
however, getting back to my original point, i just find that the film goes too far with sexual perversion, for my taste. i'm not into that. that is why i agreed with the OP that i thought the movie wasn't very good, however, it had potential. the premise was very interesting, they just needed a bigger budget to expand the story (if i recall the entire movie takes place in a woman's apartment) and tone down the sexual perversion.
Yeah, the pervert was burned into my memory too.
I like the movie for the atmosphere. On TV you see them announcing "new suicide offerings". Sure, a bigger budget would have been great. Stanley complained about that one too. One drawback was that they couldn't make an animated robot. Instead they got that stiffy droid that wasn't as mobile as the script would have demanded. The final result is a light version of what was intended. (He says on several interviews)
I feel that the movie delivers something very special. But there are parts that weren't done all that well. Back then, it was a blast for me. It still was when I rewatched it some months ago. I like unescapable, tight, grim situations in movies. Only in movies that is.
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I'll just say this.
I was too young to be engulfed in the hype at the time the movie came out, which was about 20 years ago, in which I would have been just a teenager. If the film at the time was presented as the next big thing and the new terminator, I would have been extremely bummed out. But years later, you go back and watch it minus the hype, and you just end up appreciating it for being a stylish, low budget exploitation type movie thats set in a post apocalyptic future.
And I agree, Soylent Green is perhaps the best film of this kind and remains one of my all time favourite movies. But this is somewhat different. Even though its set in the future, its roots are still in the exploitation genre and Richard Stanley himself has stated that Dario Argento is a big influence on his work.
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Truly you are mentally retarded.
shareI'd have to agree. Terrible film.
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maybe not the worst of all time but it comes close
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