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
Reviews for Things to Come
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Spookily prescient in many of its ideas, this is fascinating whilst being a little clumsy and dated, even for its time. Full Review |
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In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Essential viewing today for anyone interested in the history of celluloid science fiction, but general audiences will most likely find it to be dull. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A truly epic work which continues to fascinate. Full Review |
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This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream. Full Review |
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Wells' heart must have sunk as audiences avoided his impassioned and idealistic -- yet dour and didactic -- cri de coeur. Full Review |
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An astonishing black-and-white visualization of Wells' view of the future. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Landmark sci-fi achievement by Menzies, and still imitated.
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Simplistic, but great looking and with a great Arthur Bliss score
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[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936. Full Review |
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