
We continue with another episode of Season 4 of Flicks XRayed this week with episode 30 and this week we watch and review Metropolis. The host Tony is joined by Co-host and Mediator Taylor and guests Brain of the City Katie, Mashine-Madchen Elisa, and Machine Heart Amanda. This week we play a game of Haiku Synopsis of Dystopian Movies, The Price is Right and The Flicks Awesome Lodge Word Game for the coveted princess crown. So tune in as we discuss at length about Lost Footage, Crazy History, The Eighties vs the Twenties and sooo much more.
Our Ratings
Machine Heart Amanda 5
Mashine-Madchen Elisa 5
Brain of the City Katie 4
The Mediator Taylor 5
Host Engineer Tony 5
24/25 82%

Synopsis and Starring
Synopsis: This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. When the privileged youth Freder discovers the grim scene under the city, he becomes intent on helping the workers. He befriends the rebellious teacher Maria, but this puts him at odds with his authoritative father, leading to greater conflict.
Directed by Fritz Lang
Starring
Gustav Fröhlich as Freder
Brigitte Helm as Maria
Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen
Rudolf Klein-Rogge as C.A. Rotwang
Game 1
Haikus of Dystopian Movies
Man from thinkers
Chases girl among the workers
Robot lead uprising
Metropolis
- bureaucrat, in the
future, tries to correct error
now is hunted down
Brazil
- a chaotic world
women become infertile,
save pregnant woman
Children of Men
- computer hacker
learns true nature with red pill
war against machines
The Matrix
- failed at climate-change
experiment has killed all life
except those on train
Snowpiercer
- an idyllic future world
society with one drawback
life ends at thirty.
Logans Run
- a competition
teenagers fight to the death
a girl with a bow
The Hunger Games
- police authority
judge, jury, executioner,
cop takes down dealers
Dredd / Judge Dredd
- Lonely astronaut
begins to question mission
is he really him
Oblivion
- a future British tyranny,
shadowy freedom fighter,
plots to overthrow it
V for Vendetta
Price is Right (Game 2)
The Figures
Budget: Germany Converted from Reichsmarks to USD at the Time | $1,258,907 (estimated) |
Domestic: Germany Converted from Reichsmarks to USD at the Time | $17,814 |
Bonus 1: Domestic Re-release: 2002 – 2010 Bonus 2: Foreign Re-Release 2011 | $1,236,166 $113,545 |
Bonus 3: How Many Extras were Used | 37,000 (25,000 men, 11,000 women, 1,100 bald men, 750 children, 100 dark-skinned people and 25 Asians) |
Rotten Tomatoes Ratings Critic Ratings Audience Ratings | 98% 92% |
Game 3
The Awesome Lodge Word Game
Movies with Human Looking Robots
- Prometheus
- Bicentennial Man
- Blade Runner
- Terminator
- The Stepford Wives
- Ex Machina
- Alien
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Weird Science
- Not Quite Human
Movies with Robots
- Robots
- Short Circuit
- Robocop
- Chappie
- I, Robot
- Big Hero 6
- The Iron Giant
- Pacific Rim
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Transformers
Classic Science Fiction Movies
- 2001 A Space Odyssey
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Forbidden Planet
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- War of the Worlds
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Barbarella
- The Blob
- Plan 9 from Outer Space
- A Trip to the Moon
Silent Movies
- City Lights
- The Artist
- Nosferatu
- Ben-Hur
- The Gold Rush
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Circus
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Birth of a Nation
- 7th Heaven