- Actors: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, Carl McCoy, Iggy Pop
- Directors: Richard Stanley
- Writers: Richard Stanley, Kevin O'Neill, Michael Fallon, Steve MacManus
- Producers: Bob Weinstein, Elizabeth Karlsen, Harvey Weinstein
- Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Severin/Conveyor
- Release Date: Nov 17 2009
- Run Time: 94 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B002E2QHAE
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#24,780 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #44 in DVD > Cult Movies > Horror
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dystopian Future Visions aren't supposed to have happy endings!,
This review is from: Hardware (DVD)
Why do we always hope for classy and happy endings? Horror movies are horror movies because they do not end well. Movies set in post-apocalyptic dystopian wastelands aren't supposed to have happy "look we killed the monster, everything's coming up roses!" ending, it's supposed to be an "oh, crap! You mean there's going to be more of them?" or a "Jeepers! If that's what 1 of them can do..." sort of ending. Released in 1990 to little or no fanfare, this is one of those movies that you either got and loved or didn't and hated it. There are a few reviews saying it was too long, or that it could have ended with dignity, but when you're making a movie about a self-repairing killing machine that kills with a euphoria drug so you don't mind dying, there's really no other way to go than full-on "we live in a radiation poisoned wasteland things really aren't going to get better any time soon" and hope by the time you get done someone is left alive. Hardware was, as far as I'm concerned (YMMV) a really well done 1-set movie with few exterior locations and the majority of it confined to a cluttered, claustrophobic junkyard of an apartment. Sit down and view it bearing in mind it was done in 1990, before Jurassic Park and advanced computer effects with a budget of only $1.5 million. Basically, sit back and enjoy the ride.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining but flawed B-movie,
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This review is from: Hardware (Blu-Ray) (Blu-ray)
Imagine 'Terminator' made as a music video without all the time travel stuff and that's pretty much what you've got here; alternatively imagine a seven-page comic strip from '2000AD' turned into a feature-length movie as that's apparently what it was originally based on... as I understand it 'Hardware' is one of the few movies ever successfully sued for plagiarism.Yes, it has problems in pretty much every department from story to acting, but if you like 80s horror B-movies I think it still stands up pretty well compared to much of the competition from that time, and there are some memorable sequences even if the movie as a whole doesn't quite work; there's also possibly the first use of a Mandelbrot set in cinema, a creepy fat guy, a brief appearance by Lemmy from Motorhead as a taxi driver, and lots of 80s industrial music. The Blu-Ray looks good to me, but I'm only watching it on a 720P TV so I can't be sure of how it would look at 1080P.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing,but not horrid,
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This review is from: Hardware (DVD)
i don't know what to think about this movie.as a sort of postapocalyptic future genre film,it has the bleak gritty,hopeless feeling of despair look down pat.but it's pretty slow,painfully at times,with not a lot going on.it's not really all that exciting even when there is something going on.plus a lot of the movie is just too dark,and by that i don't mean tone,i just mean the lighting.another complaint i have is that the movie had ample opportunity to end on a good note and with a with a modicum of dignity and it just kept going long after it should have.and lastly it was the 2 disc special edition that i just viewed and i have only watched the first disc with just the movie.however,i remember watching this movie years ago,and recalling scenes that are not in this version,so that was disappointing.these scenes may be on the second disc as part of the deleted scenes,but my question is why were they deleted from the original version in the first place?anyway,despite all my complaints,Hardware rates a 2/5
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