Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: October 15, 1986
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301651677
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,919 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The somewhat cloudy origin of Max is brought to light in this home video feature which captures the "creation" of the offbeat, arrogant and decidedly obnoxious computer generated talk show host.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "It squawks...", October 24, 2003

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Neil Ford (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Max Headroom:Original Story [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This, the original British movie, is truly great (also very funny, very scary, very prophetic) - it is archetypal cyberpunk, and was hugely influential, even outside the sci-fi/hacker/geek world. It could perhaps be described as Blade Runner meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The music video series that preceded it was weird and funny, the interview show (which I haven't seen) sounds intriguing (especially the William Shatner interview!), and the US series actually lived up to the movie.

But - I've searched all over the internet for Max Headroom on DVD, and all I can find are choruses of people wailing "Why isn't this on DVD?" When the big brains who own the shows actually put them out on DVD, they're going to make a mint.

(Taps foot impatiently...)

Meanwhile, this will do as a stop-gap. Watch and wonder.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 20 years later and it still holds up against the best, July 13, 2004

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M. Bhangal "S" (Somewhere in Northern England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Max Headroom:Original Story [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Like most people who have seen the original Max headroom shows (the British pilot and the US series), I am amazed at how farsighted a lot of it was. The shows talked about hackers, firewalls and suchlike as long ago as the 1980's.

The thing I most noticed was the way that the Max Headroom series has obviously been copied in later, more recent films, and in particular, the Matrix.

The use of a remote character who is guided by an operator, a near future story, and (this is the killer) a regular character who looks *exactly* like Morpheus (Rick) shows how close the two are stylistically. Funny how nobody else has seen this. Must be down to the no-DVD issue...

In any case, no Sci-fi collector's collection is complete without this. You might have to look hard for the full series though.

Final thought...Hollywood is awash with superhero films, and searching for the next character to convert to the big screen is a task many are probably involved in. I think they could do far worse than Max Headroom. Strapline: "The matrix with humor". Couldn't be worse than Revolutions.

S

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real classic series, June 10, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Max Headroom:Original Story [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Please oh please we want this in digital format. This was a fantastic sci-fi series with the best on screen character out there Max Headroom, complete with his own computer glitches. I first saw this in Australia on TV and would love to have a DVD collector set.