My father is a responsible for a lot of the nerdy passions in my life. At a very young age I would sit with him and watch a copy of Giorgio Moroder’s contemporary restoration of Metropolis on our kick ass 19″ Magnavox television. On a side note, It wasn’t until much later in life that I realized that my father was making illegal dubs of movies that he had rented from West Coast Video. We really didn’t have a lot of disposable income for entertainment, yet we always had good VHS copies of some of my favorites: Big Trouble in Little China, Transformers: The Movie, and Flash Gordon.

Back to Metropolis, it wasn’t until I was well into my college years that I finally got a chance to watch the “original” Metropolis. While I have an appreciation for the tremendous vision that Fritz Lang had in 1927, there’s just something about the color filters and the all-star soundtrack of Moroder’s version. Several years back I went so far as to import the soundtrack from the UK because it was out of print stateside (I kicked myself when it became available on iTunes a short time later)

On November 15th, Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis will be released on Blu-Ray for the very first time. Previously this had only been available on LaserDisc and VHS. And yes, there was a point at which I considered picking up a LaserDisc player specifically for this movie.