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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0799898200295
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Michael Wiese Productions
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknown
Manufacturer: Michael Wiese Productions
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Running Time: 13 minutes
Studio: Michael Wiese Productions
Theatrical Release Date: 1978
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
San Francisco filmmaker Ernie Fosselius made the most successful short film of all time in the 1978 Hardware Wars, an inspired, mock-trailer for a nonexistent, cheapo rip-off of Star Wars. It worked like this: instead of Chewbacca, Fosselius offers the Cookie Monster. Instead of Darth Vader's breathy, slightly echoed voice emerging somehow behind that black-mask helmet, we get a villain whose every ranting utterance is so muffled even this film's Princess Leia equivalent beseeches him, "What? I don't understand you." And so on. Part of the joke is that George Lucas's revolutionary special effects are supplanted by common kitchen gizmos--mixers, toasters--that serve as spaceships and weapons sources. The updated special edition contains 20 computer-generated "special defects" that don't--the distributor boasts--at all match Fosselius's earlier version. Um... right on? --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This DVD contains a video clip of a fully nude woman,and so should be rated R !
I purchased: ISBN 094118847-7,the original collector's edition which said on the back that it was 1 hour long. It is more like 12-15 minutes long...with credits included.
Rating:  -
So I have a weird sense of humor, so what, (Im NOT alone) I loved this preview of Hardware Wars when I first saw it in 1979, I'm still waiting for the actual movie! I still think it is very clever, a legend for sure. I love to show it to people who had never seen it before and see their response. They all laugh. I wish I could get Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind on DVD. I still have the VHS version I copied off the TV back in 1980.
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Decent copy. Highest grossing short film in American history, if my facts are correct. I found it very amusing.
Rating: -
I bought this for my nephew,(who's a hardcore Star Wars fan) as a Christmas present. The whole family watched it that day and couldn't stop laughing. It's silly but it's great fun. There is one brief showing of female nudity so I would be careful around young children. I recommend this spoof for anyone that is a Star Wars fan.
Rating:  -
For the film itself, I would give 5 stars. But the packaging is misleading, listing several things that you honestly don't get:
1. "A rare look at a pirated version from 1979": Nope. They just took the film and dubbed some other language over it as a joke.
2. "The never-seen-before director's cut": Nope. They just threw a bunch of extra footage together, such as outtakes, and left the existing soundtrack. For example, you'll see a certain scene repeat multiple times (because the outtakes are now included), but the soundtrack remains the same, so as you are watching one scene, you may be hearing the next. Not a director's cut by any stretch of the imagination.
3. "The shooting script and other original work by Ernie Fosselius": I looked all over the disc for this -- there MIGHT be a picture of part of the script on one screen, but that's it. You do not get the script. Not here. Sorry.
Oh, and the commentary track is a joke. Instead of actually talking about the film, and answering questions that fans have had for years (such as "Who were these people", "How did he get them to be in this film", and "Why such bad hair?"), Fosselius just goofs off the entire time, saying absolutely nothing of interest (or humor for that matter). Great film Ernie, but horrible, horrible commentary, you naughty person!
Recommended for the film itself, but not for any of the things the packaging promises you that you don't acutally get. How about some truth in advertising?
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