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Things To Come (1936)

Sci-Fi

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Reviewer: grisly bear - - August 19, 2009
Subject: Great movie that is still relevant today
Made in 1936, this movie correctly predicted World War 2 and they almost got the year right. The movie was wrong about the progress of the war and underestimated the way in which Science and the Military bounce off each other to invent new ways of killing people. The movie is 100 percent right in saying that "war is hell" and the human race has to get over it if we are to achieve our full potential. This movie was based on an H.G. Wells book and it conveys the main theme of that book - that the human race should explore the universe instead of wasting money on armies and wars. This was also the main theme of Star Trek (the 1960s series and all the later re-makes) and it is a theme that never gets out of date. This movie is both scary and entertaining. Well worth watching.

Reviewer: mentalmummy - - May 5, 2009
Subject: Excellent film but not public domain
This is an excellent film, the film that as a kid encouraged my interest in science fiction, however the film is not in the public domain.

In the US it did become public domain in 1964 until copyright was renewed under the Uruguay rounds agreement act in 1996.

Reviewer: ucla1960 - - April 23, 2009
Subject: "Things To Come"the movie.
Should be in the AFI top 100, no accounting for taste.

Reviewer: quigs - - January 4, 2009
Subject: Things to come
The screenplay was written by H.G. Wells. It is the only screenplay he ever wrote. The book,"The Shape of Things to Come" was the last thing he wrote as a social commentary on the way things were and if we were are not careful, the "shape of things to come". The book was pessimistic and when approached to write the screenplay he was asked to make the film's ending more as a ray of hope for Mankind not darkness and gloom as was written in his social commentary(fable not science fiction).

Reviewer: ERaven24 - - January 4, 2009
Subject: I Cannot Believe
I cannot believe that no one has done a review for a such a great movie. To me one of the best sci-fi pictures of all time. Although I only remember seeing Raymond Massey as the head doctor of the Dr. Kildare television series of the 60's. I came across this movie first years ago when it was shown on TVO. Then our public library got it in on VHS. This to me is better because of what they had to work with. Some may or may not agree with me better then the Star Wars (although I am a fan of those) movies and alot of CGI of today. A masterpiece.