Hardware Wars - The Original Edition
by Ernie Fosselius
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Actor: Artie Deco, Cindy Furgatch, Ernie Fosselius, Paul Frees, Sonny Buddy Jr.Director: Ernie Fosselius
Primary Contributor: Jeff Hale
Primary Contributor: Scott Mathews
Primary Contributor: Frank Robertson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Michael Wiese Productions
Movie Reviews of Hardware Wars - The Original Edition
Movie Review: I kissed more than $3.00 goodby and laughed all the way to the bank
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of Hardware Wars - The Original Edition
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 KeoghComedy DVD Video
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