This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream.
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05/31/07
Things to Come (1936)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:19
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Eerily prescient in its presentation of a dystopian future, Things to Come's special effects may be somewhat dated, but its potent ideas haven't aged at all.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In the years since they were published, H.G. Wells's words seem to have become prophecies... Society in 2036 has devolved into a leisure-saturated body of mass consumers. Important decisions... [More]
Starring: Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Ann Todd
Director: William Cameron Menzies
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Reviews for Things to Come
1 - 20 (sorted by comments)
A truly epic work which continues to fascinate.
05/31/07
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
02/08/04
An astonishing black-and-white visualization of Wells' view of the future.
05/13/05
[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.
01/01/00
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06/29/05
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06/27/05
Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination.
05/31/07
In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.
06/24/06
Essential viewing today for anyone interested in the history of celluloid science fiction, but general audiences will most likely find it to be dull.
02/05/09
No review available.
10/11/02
At once dated and weirdly modern, this may not be the film Wells wanted it to be, but it's still more ambitious and impressive than most fantasy cinema of the past 30 years.
05/24/03
Simplistic, but great looking and with a great Arthur Bliss score
08/07/02
Wells' heart must have sunk as audiences avoided his impassioned and idealistic -- yet dour and didactic -- cri de coeur.
04/06/06
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04/04/03
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02/25/05
Landmark sci-fi achievement by Menzies, and still imitated.
10/15/04
No review available.
04/13/05
Spookily prescient in many of its ideas, this is fascinating whilst being a little clumsy and dated, even for its time.
05/14/07
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