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Based on H.G. Wells's speculative meditation on the price of progress, this 1936 English science-fiction epic shows the painterly touch of director William Cameron Menzies, an American whose career in...( read more 
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God help me, I couldn't do it. I tried watching Things to Come 6 times and each attempt was more painful than the one before. If you take Metropolis and removed every positive aspect of it (with the exception of set design) Things to Come is what you'd end up with. The sound was horrible and trying to comprehend people overacting on top of it was just too much. The outfits were great in a "what the fuck were they thinking" kind of way. When I decided to shut it down, all I could do was lement the hard drive space Things to Come ate on my DVR.
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MCT:April 7, 2008
Follows the history of a city over 100 years, a World War and a plague or some junk. It's got nice sets and you can tell a lot of it is influenced from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. The actors are alright but they tend to be like most British actors from the '30s, very very boring.
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MCT:January 1, 2008This early sci-fi film, based on an H.G. Wells story, is a good try, but not the classic I had been led to believe it is. Decent special effects for the 30's, and some nifty futuristic machines (I'm sure courtesy of Wells), but especially hammy acting by the leads (Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, et al) and truly horrendous costumes (seemed to cover every time period between the Bronze Age and The Jetsons, at times within the same scene) really distracted from my enjoyment.
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MCT:December 8, 2007A brilliant piece, both for the time and for all time itself. Something that should not be forgotten and remembered well. Amazing atmosphere, astounding visuals, and some amazing special effects. Rather than feeling like some...1930s "attempt" at science fiction, this set a standard for decades. Wonderful and most certainly worth seeing for any lover of Sci-Fi, Film, or Big Guns.
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MCT:November 6, 2007Some remarkable special effects to be found here considering its age and if you like Art-Deco (and I do) you'll be in heaven with the design of this film. The performances are adequate but a bit pompus and, despite some very accurate predictions in the early parts, the "science saves all" theme gets heavyhanded in places and bogs the film down somewhat. The visual spectacle more than compensates for these shortcomings though.
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MCT:October 27, 2007
Entertaining film about what might have been. Again this is another film where my favourite aspect is Bliss's score, esp. the overture.
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MCT:August 26, 2007at its time of release this was probably a big screen blockbuster with all the latest effects. the book by HG wells is probably better than the movie. it was okay but there were moments where my attention was drawn away by the most random of things going on around me other than the tv screen
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MCT:August 15, 2007
H. G. Wells at his technocratic best. Prophetic as ever, this film (Made in 1936) starts with a surprise air attack on a fleet in port as the beginning of a second world war, which ends in atomic weapons being used.
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MCT:July 14, 2007
Be warned this is most likely on Flickster under a couple of other names. (IE - The SHAPE of Things to Come) I loved this when i was a kid. Right next to "It the Thing From Outer Space ( 5 titles)
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