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.
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Hardware (Two Disc Limited Edition)
Dylan McDermott
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Stacey Travis
(Actor),
Richard Stanley
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IMDb5.9/10.0
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Genre | Documentary |
Format | NTSC, Widescreen, Color, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Limited Edition, Special Edition |
Contributor | John Lynch, Paul McKenzie, Chris McHallem, Fred Leeown, Arnold Lee, Barbara Yu Ling, Dylan McDermott, William Hootkins, Stacey Travis, Oscar James, Iggy Pop, Sebastian Chee, Susie Savage, Mark Northover, Mac McDonald, Mimi Cheung, Carl McCoy, Richard Stanley, Lemmy See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 33 minutes |
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Two high-tech junk dealers roam an infrared wasteland patrolled by killer government cyborgs.
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The Best Sci-Fi Horror Film Of The Year! --Fangoria
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
- Item model number : 500168
- Director : Richard Stanley
- Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen, Color, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Limited Edition, Special Edition
- Run time : 1 hour and 33 minutes
- Release date : October 20, 2009
- Actors : Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop
- Studio : Severin/ADA
- ASIN : B002E2QH8Q
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #130,655 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,889 in Science Fiction DVDs
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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014
Honestly, if they had more money, this movie would have been just another over-budget flop. However, this tight-budget production crucible, makes it a gem of a time capsule of it’s time.
Historically the late-80’s to early-90’s is now know as the “cyberpunk era” of Silicon Valley. The movie’s music, costume, big-and-in-a-room-corner computers and over all wanna-be Film Noir "Blade Runner feel" brings back my memories of the clubs, parties and heavy metal girls of that time. Fond memories of the "hard new edge" technologies I worked on in warehouse lofts in San Francisco, down the peninsula, along the valley of spare offices in Industrial Parks of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Bandley Drive in Cupertino and closed storefronts of downtown San Jose started to feel like the prototypes were right in front of me running code written that day with the rework solder on the printed circuit boards still cooling down.
Heavy Metal was still king in the clubs and personal computers were hitting mainstream. Many consider the “Golden Age of Cyberpunk” starting with the release of William Gibson’s Neuromancer series (why there was no movie deal is a Greek tragedy) and slowing burning out with the release of Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk album and the Hackers movie. To many, it ended with the dot-com boom as web pages reached parity with Usenet group activity.
It was a time when the first wearable and mobile systems came on the market from the decades ahead of it’s time Newton to countless startups that came and went. The first Virtual Reality systems came to market as a novelty giving the public a taste of cyberspace. Watching this movie in the now matured mobile technology and finally ambulatory wearable systems market in the second decade of the Twenty First Century, Hardware gives a shockingly accurate foresight.
Of course there are anarchisms that’s nearly impossible to avoid. Land line video phones never came to be, the environment of the planet never became that screwed up as predicted and big hairstyles kept is knowing this is an 80’s ear film complete with a hot redhead. However, the concept of the self-repairing, self-assembling, heat-vison-driven and electrical-power-parasitic robot is shockingly vanguard for the time. The actors go a good job and you can see genius in the script scene with he budget they had to work with it.
This movie along with Hackers (1995) makes for a very good Cyberpunk double-feature evening. Get your parachute pants and a bowl of microwaved popcorn ready for this treat. The second DVD in the package has a lot of extras completing the package. It also explains why its sequel was never made.
Historically the late-80’s to early-90’s is now know as the “cyberpunk era” of Silicon Valley. The movie’s music, costume, big-and-in-a-room-corner computers and over all wanna-be Film Noir "Blade Runner feel" brings back my memories of the clubs, parties and heavy metal girls of that time. Fond memories of the "hard new edge" technologies I worked on in warehouse lofts in San Francisco, down the peninsula, along the valley of spare offices in Industrial Parks of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Bandley Drive in Cupertino and closed storefronts of downtown San Jose started to feel like the prototypes were right in front of me running code written that day with the rework solder on the printed circuit boards still cooling down.
Heavy Metal was still king in the clubs and personal computers were hitting mainstream. Many consider the “Golden Age of Cyberpunk” starting with the release of William Gibson’s Neuromancer series (why there was no movie deal is a Greek tragedy) and slowing burning out with the release of Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk album and the Hackers movie. To many, it ended with the dot-com boom as web pages reached parity with Usenet group activity.
It was a time when the first wearable and mobile systems came on the market from the decades ahead of it’s time Newton to countless startups that came and went. The first Virtual Reality systems came to market as a novelty giving the public a taste of cyberspace. Watching this movie in the now matured mobile technology and finally ambulatory wearable systems market in the second decade of the Twenty First Century, Hardware gives a shockingly accurate foresight.
Of course there are anarchisms that’s nearly impossible to avoid. Land line video phones never came to be, the environment of the planet never became that screwed up as predicted and big hairstyles kept is knowing this is an 80’s ear film complete with a hot redhead. However, the concept of the self-repairing, self-assembling, heat-vison-driven and electrical-power-parasitic robot is shockingly vanguard for the time. The actors go a good job and you can see genius in the script scene with he budget they had to work with it.
This movie along with Hackers (1995) makes for a very good Cyberpunk double-feature evening. Get your parachute pants and a bowl of microwaved popcorn ready for this treat. The second DVD in the package has a lot of extras completing the package. It also explains why its sequel was never made.
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2009
Yes, it's finally here on DVD and Blu-ray where it so rightfully belongs. Richard Stanley's cult classic shocker Hardware is here in all its uncut glory, and just like Fangoria labeled it so long ago, it truly is one of the best sci-fi/horror films that you have never seen. In a post-apocalyptic future, a soldier named Mo (Dylan McDermott) returns home to his metal-sculpting artist girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis) with a robot head to give to her as something to work on. Soon enough, we learn that the head is that of a murderous combat droid called the M.A.R.K. 13, and it isn't long before it starts to reassemble itself. Filled with some truly scary and downright nasty moments, seeing Hardware all over again is like seeing an old friend again after a long absence. Seeing it uncut is even better, and seeing it in the absolute best picture quality that it has ever had is the icing on the cake. The special features are plentiful, including an hour long documentary featuring recollections and insights from Stanley, Travis, and others (sadly Dylan McDermott is nowhere to be found), an insightful commentary from Stanley, a collection of his short films, and an interview with Stanley where he discusses his original plans for a sequel that sadly never came to fruition due to Hardware's issues with multiple distributors. All in all, it's great to have Hardware on DVD and Blu-ray, and seeing it get the treatment that it gets here is proof positive that there still is some justice in the world.
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Reviewed in Italy on August 31, 2022
Era da tempo che tentavo di rintracciare questo film. Il CD è ottimo. Un cultore di fantascienza non dovrebbe farselo mancare nella propria videoteca.
Matías Espasa
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Reviewed in Spain on July 6, 2021
Sonido mono aceptable y la imagen buena muy entretenida y sangrienta
Philippe Harvey
5.0 out of 5 stars
A vision you can almost feel... Pure cinematic Poetry.
Reviewed in Canada on March 11, 2019
I fell on this little gem by accident, not really knowing what I was getting into except a good old wasteland cyberpunk dystopia. And on this the movie delivered... But what stayed with me and pushed me to buy it was the sheer sensuality of it. There is something about the way this movie is directed, or edited, or written... a little like the old Hellraiser's touch.
It is a celebration of imperfection trying to be better than nothing.
A denunciation of the traps we build ourselves.
A fight for beauty from the ashes that Baudelaire could be proud of.
What if you could see the world for what it is, endless garbage stacking together, adding up to nothing. What if all the while you had the faith, or simply your gut instinct telling you to live? What if, in the last days of humanity, all you had in terms of defiance was to cling to your individuality and the truth of your feelings for others? Be they as pure as dumb, or perverse as hell?
Hardware is like that. Its technology is dated, its special effects will take you back in a time when suspension of disbelief asked for a little effort from the audience. But at the same time; you're not really there to see the robot... you are here to experience it and life pushed against such an evolution. To contemplate on the bestial nature asking for itself to end against all reason. You will enter a world of texture, light, and sound so desperately rich that the life of the characters can be felt crawling over the ruins of their worlds.
From the dirt clinging everywhere, the sunlight dying, the humidity on the wall.
The attention to detail and the sheer exuberance of them... nothing here comes in shades of grey.
Everything dies... and sometime the only measure of freedom is to accelerate it.
I figure... either its style will touch you, or leave you only puzzled.
But if the movie works on you, breathing back in you some of that old fighting spirit; then I strongly suggest you check out on Dust Devil from the same director.
It is a celebration of imperfection trying to be better than nothing.
A denunciation of the traps we build ourselves.
A fight for beauty from the ashes that Baudelaire could be proud of.
What if you could see the world for what it is, endless garbage stacking together, adding up to nothing. What if all the while you had the faith, or simply your gut instinct telling you to live? What if, in the last days of humanity, all you had in terms of defiance was to cling to your individuality and the truth of your feelings for others? Be they as pure as dumb, or perverse as hell?
Hardware is like that. Its technology is dated, its special effects will take you back in a time when suspension of disbelief asked for a little effort from the audience. But at the same time; you're not really there to see the robot... you are here to experience it and life pushed against such an evolution. To contemplate on the bestial nature asking for itself to end against all reason. You will enter a world of texture, light, and sound so desperately rich that the life of the characters can be felt crawling over the ruins of their worlds.
From the dirt clinging everywhere, the sunlight dying, the humidity on the wall.
The attention to detail and the sheer exuberance of them... nothing here comes in shades of grey.
Everything dies... and sometime the only measure of freedom is to accelerate it.
I figure... either its style will touch you, or leave you only puzzled.
But if the movie works on you, breathing back in you some of that old fighting spirit; then I strongly suggest you check out on Dust Devil from the same director.
Margaret Kenny
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just read the last sentence
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2018
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!
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Reviewed in Japan on July 11, 2017
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。