Things To Come (1936) - Full HD Movie - H. G. Wells
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Things To Come (1936)
Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
Director William Cameron Menzies
Writer H.G. Wells (novel "The Shape of Things to Come")
Things to Come was voted the ninth best British film of 1936 by Film Weekly's readers. It was the 16th most popular film at the British box office in 1935-36. In 2005, it was nominated for the AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, a list of the top 25 film scores unveiled by the American Film Institute.Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 93%, based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 7.46/10. The site's consensus read: "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."Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed review. Although he made it clear that "a third of the film is magnificent", he felt that the second third (as the world of tomorrow reverts to barbarism and anarchy) seemed implausible, and began to lose interest with the introduction of the "Great Conspiracy" (an international force of airmen bent on restoring Earth's former glory) in the last third of the film. The optimism and idealism comes off as naive for him.Science fiction historian Gary Westfahl has stated, "Things to Come qualifies as the first true masterpiece of science fiction cinema, and those who complain about its awkward pace and uninvolving characters are not understanding Wells's message, which is that the lives and actions of individuals are unimportant when compared to the progress and destiny of the entire human race". He also considered that "the film's episodic structure and grand ambitions make it the greatest ancestor of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey". Indeed, during early development of what would become 2001, co-writer Arthur C. Clarke had Kubrick watch Things to Come as an example of a grounded science fiction film; Kubrick, however, disliked it. After seeing 2001, Frederik Pohl complained in a 1968 Galaxy editorial: The science-fiction movie we've all been waiting for still hasn't come along. We think it's a disgrace that the most recent science-fiction movie made with a big budget, good actors and an actual sf writer preparing the script, not aimed at a juvenile market and uncontaminated by camp, is Things to Come... produced in 1936. - Hry
I love this movie, watching it over and over. So far we've avoided it's course but who knows. If we ever get our acts together, maybe we can skip the middle part.
Me too.
This movie gets more relevant every time I see it, which is a dozen. Different time, different weapons, same sentiment, same dang stupidity. Humans don't change, do we.
EVIL NEVER changes:
It just gets more EVIL!
Evil is simply Evil and immutable and unchanging not able to be better or worse true to the nature of Evil.
It just gets more exposed that's why it seems like it's growing.
..which means.. people are destined to repeat history... that time is coming again.. a very thought provoking film.. much like 1984....
A masterpiece.
Astounding for the time : as was H.G.
Beautiful Criterion print, with no CZcams compression artifacts. Thanks for uploading.
Great upload. Many thanks for sharing. This is a fine movie.
"You've got your stimulus Passworthy. Something great has got you. War has come."
"If We Don't End War~ War Will End Us."
Amazing movie!
This movie was made when people still believed in the possibility of a human-built utopia. If the 20th century taught us anything it is that any utopia created by flawed human beings will inevitably require a long swim across an ocean of blood, and all utopias descend into authoritarian rule.
this is exacly what wrote Wells in his 1901 "Anticipations"
Super film merci
Prophetic as it was made in 1936. A few years later war was a reality.
1:11:51 at least they got the large flat screen televisions right.
1:18:14 also, check out the broadcast operator's monitor... predicting TikTok? Certainly the lazy Portrait camerawork we see a lot of now.
How they'd marvel at our smartphones!
Beautiful print, but around 1-2 minutes of critical footage of the first bombing attack on Everytown is missing. So is part of a scene depicting a corpse hanging on barbed wire which dissolves into just a few scraps of uniform cloth remaining on the wire. And there are clips out of other scenes, particularly when Cabal is flying over the town in his advanced aircraft.
The Wikipedia article on the film says the Criterion print runtime is 96m 31s, and the runtime listed for this CZcams is 94m 4s; so it seems that you are exactly correct. Maybe it's part of a way to avoid being found by bot scanners and asked to take down the upload. You know: less than the whole movie is a fair-use excerpt. Maybe.
This has been heavily edited down from the original. Entire segments are missing. I got the full version of the original at the internet archive some time ago.
Such a labor of love.
A first - rate propaganda movie ( for it's time ) for a one world government. The UN would be proud
Interesting movie. Loved the costumes that reminds me of the Roman Empire in how they dressed.
Amazing how in this movie futuristic aircraft look like they were all designed - in the 1930s... For example at 32:32 or at 57:32 . However that last plane looks very interesting a bit earlier at 53:37 . No jet engines, just piston engines that don't seem to be able to deliver enough power and speed for aircraft of that size. The excavating machines at 1:04:06 look like they belong in a Thunderbirds episode. Is that some sort of very hot plasma torch?
The bit at 1:12:00 about buildings in the future not needing windows anymore because they are able to create sunshine of their own is just silly. Electric lighting has been around for a long time, but we still like to look outside. Living underground doesn't attract me. However the city itself, the sets and special effects like the matte paintings look impressive. A miniature radio or telephone 1:16:02 on your wrist! Very good. HUGE projection screens: fantastic!
No idea why so many people were opposed to the crewed spacecraft going to the moon ( but no landing attempt yet). Also no idea why a muzzle loading ''space gun"' is needed, the writers of this movie must have been aware of the ideas of Tsiolkovski and of more recent rocket designs and test flights. This isn't Jules Verne anymore. Warning people about the expected concussion during launch is likewise absurd, the whole area should have been off limits for miles. This particular scene reminds me of a similar scene in the 1951 film When Worlds Collide even the reason for storming the spacecraft is different.
Amazing little helicopter at 1:24:20 it would have been a fine looking design now. But again: the rotor blades should be larger.
This film version is just an hour and a half, I know there were longer versions, one lasting about 130 minutes.
One other thing : This film shows only white people. There are no women in a command role.
I guess people in the future will say the same thing about science fiction from our time...
Pretty close! Only missed it by one year. I hope that "Civil War" movie doesn't happen in real life.
Oh. But it has started.. the Crusaders will rise again.. nuff said..
Anticipating the blitz by four years.
The script certainly does represent H.G. Wells' rose-colored-glasses socialist view of politics and militarism, and scientists and noble techno-spiritual progress. But it seems to me that the Korda Brothers had the last laugh on Wells, and the end sequence is bitterly ironic. After the romantic far-horizon-gaze speechifying of Cabal, after the interminable war-mongering, the advanced technological product of their civilization is a giant *gun* -- with a sight on the end of the barrel no less!
Thanks. really cheered me up.
This has got to be the first zombie movie , or one of the first !
...and after that, we're in Mad Max territory!
Sure, it's stylised and somewhat... mannered... but WOW!
Just so far-sighted.
Amazing stuff.
Inspiration for the pre-credits of
the 1960 « The Time Machine »
0:33 ->
Best bits are the building and technology montage culminating in 'Everytown 2036'
I'm glad Werner von Braun got us away from the space "cannon" idea.
Google "Gerald Bull"
A timely movie in our time too 🙄
subtitles please
Interesting movie especially for it's time. But it really reflects on Well's socialist/communist tendencies.
Indeed. Wells was very much into non nationalism, and the theme of a 'united world of airmen' as an 'elite ruling body for global peace', for want of a better term, is a recurring theme in several of his stories. In fairness what he envisaged was more of a benevolent dictatorship/oligarchy than the oppressive communist approach, and believed there would need to be a common uniting bond between those in the ruling elite. In his case, he chose aviators as being at the peak of science and technology. Heinlein in Starship Troopers used a common bond of being military veterans, with much the same concept in mind. The problem with so called 'benevolent dictators' is that if you manage to fine one, sooner or later they die and their successors aren't necessarily cast in the same mould. 'All power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely' and that's likely a problem that will never be solved.
@@geoffroberts1126 exactly. It looks and sounds great in theory, but impossible to work in practice as history has shown.
@@montylc2001 Yeah, that's the problem. There have been instances where it's worked well enough, the Swedes hired a French General to be King and he did a great job. One could argue Lenin acted at the will of the people and had good intentions, but he effectively got sidelined by ambitious types, then died and was used as a figurehead to justify just about anything until Tovarisch Stalin ('Comrade Steel' - uncomfortably reminiscent of 'Big Brother') took over, then proceeded to mass murder his own people 'for the good of the party' - which means what you think - because it suited his purposes.
Janus films: evil hiding behind good mask
”Prophetic”
MANY script-holes in this Swiss-Cheese fantasy.
😊
Mr grimsdale .....😂
A new world, with socialism as it's order and science as it's god. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". No thanks.
World order no thank you
Script Flaw:
This Nazi-like primitive society had no manufacturing nor "munitions" industry, yet munitions magically supplied on cue as Script demanded! 😆😂
NOT Almighty God nor Christ Jesus acknowledged by BOTH belligerent parties .
Shame on you H.G.Wells.
1:15:59 Young men in "short-skirts" contrasting Old men in ankle-length robes ! And check-out men's 'Triangular Tops'! :)
My, how WOKE fashions changed in only a couple generations !!
😆😏🙂
i am waiting for someone to compare the US today to this movie and say it proves trump's a fascist.
A découvrir!!!!
my people all these comments bout guess its r nature or we just cant avoid war as if its us, the people, that have anything at all to do with the choice to go to war ans yes sure the rich and powerful who dictate sooo much yes they who r comsumed with ego and greed yes they'll never learn cause why should they but dont say that the common man cant get along cause we will never have a chance to find out