Things to Come opens with a near-future forecast of Christmas 1940 in the metropolis of Everytown (obviously London), a city threatened by world war. Pacifist intellectuals, such as John Cabal (Massey), try to turn the tide. But Cabal's efforts go unheeded by the self-interested classes, and war arrives with tanks and aeroplanes and gas bombs. Everytown is destroyed by air raids (dramatically enacted four years before the real thing).The war continues for thirty years, its original purpose forgotten. As a result, civilization degenerates while "the Wandering Sickness" and devastation accelerate the spiral down until 1970, when the world has crumbled into a balkanized "Mad Max" Dark Ages. Everytown is ruled by a barbaric warlord, the Boss (Ralph Richardson), as the war continues on a Medieval scale.
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Reviewer:grisly bear - - August 19, 2009 Subject: Great Movie 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 about the way Science and the Military bounce off each other to provide new and improved means 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was also the main theme of Star Trek (the 1960s series and all the later re-makes) and it is a theme that never gets out of date. The MP4 file download provides a good standard of sound and picture. This movie is well worth watching.
Reviewer:ttocsmij - - August 4, 2009 Subject: Need A Note In Regard To Format I downloaded the MP4 and MPlayer and then spent the better part of the afternoon trying to figure out why there was no sound (video playback was faultless). Going back through everything is when I noticed that ALL of the downloadable files here are in a sub-directory named "things_to_come_ipod_version"; as in http://www.archive.org/download/things_to_come_ipod_version/things_to_come.mp4. Of course this leads me to believe now that I've got an iPod file which of course will be useless on my laptop without further processing which frankly I'm not doing as I am not an iPodhead.
The point of all this verbiage is that NO WHERE ON THE IMDB or ARCHIVE.NET pages are there any indications that these files are in IPod format. Had there been I would saved a lot of my time not using these pages.
BTW, there are three separate pages in Internet Archive for this same movie, Things To Come, and they all list different files (and apparently different formats) without any explanations in regard to those formats (vis-a-vis iPod or PC or whatever). NOT a criticism of your site but rather just pointing out that I've wasted nearly an entire day trying to make an iPod file play on a PC because the page description didn't mention the iPod encoding.
Have a great day.
Reviewer:moosie4242 - - March 22, 2008 Subject: ONE TO WATCH With wars going on in all parts of the world this movie should be required watching for everyone. Perhaps a little too much of a doomsday message here, but one can easily relate to today's events. This film is easy to watch but hard to think about. Entertaing and frightning at the same time.
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