Rollerball From:James Caan , John Houseman , Maud Adams , John Beck , Moses Gunn , Norman Jewison , MGM (Video & DVD) ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792838302
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Letterboxed
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 0792838300
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1998-03-10
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1975-06-25
Product Description:
The year is 2018. There are no wars. There is no crime. There is only...the Game. In a world where ruthless corporations reign supreme, this vicious and barbaric 'sport is the only outlet for the pent-up anger and frustrations of the masses.Tuned to their televisions, the people watch Rollerball : a brutal mutation of football, motocross and hockey. Jonathan E. (James Caan, Misery) is the champion playera man too talented for his own good. The Corporation has taken away the woman Jonathan loves (Maud Adams, Octopussy) but it can't take away his souleven if diabolical corporate head (John Houseman, The Paper Chase) tells him he d better retire...or sufferthe old-fashioned way.With its surrealistic imagery and tense action sequences, Rollerball grips you by the heartand never lets you go!
Customer Reviews:
 Somewhat dated in appearance, yet still prophetic with its message, 2008-09-17
As corporations continue to expand their control of various industries across the globe, "Rollerball" is more meaningful than ever before.
Sure, you've got the bad:
1) helicopters that look like the ones from M*A*S*H;
2) laser-pistol effects that are a little cheesy;
3) a bunch of guys in roller skates instead of roller blades;
4) dated video displays;
5) casual clothing and parties that look like something you might find at Playboy Mansion West . . . in the early seventies. (Spandex! Nothin' but spandex!)
But then you've got the good/great:
1) Violent rollersport with, in the end, NO SUBSTITUTIONS, NO PENALTIES and NO TIME LIMIT, essentially turning the game into a last-man-standing event;
2) Jonathan E, played by James Caan, who is the aging star of the rollerball sport. He's not represented as an unintelligent jock but, rather, as a simple man with simple desires who happens to have a gift for rollerball and a longing for the wife that has been taken from him. He became and remains popular in a sport that was designed to eradicate individual achievement. The NRG corporation (whose team he plays on) is ready to put him out to pasture. Takin' on the man, yeah!
3) John Houseman as the head dude of the NRG corporation. Cold, calculating, aloof and always enjoyable.
4) Toccata and Fugue in D Minor as the soundtrack! Bold and fitting at the same time. Check it and see (or hear, rather).
5) The movie just gets better and better towards the end, crescendoing like a classical symphonic piece.
6) A great dystopian film about man vs. the society of the future.
I'm serious. If you love dystopian stories, this should definitely be on your "Must See" list.
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