Science Fiction: Things to Come

Starring:Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers, Ivan Brandt, Anne McLaren, Patricia Hilliard, Charles Carson, Terry-Thomas, George Sanders, Patrick Barr, John Clements, Anthony Holles
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Studio: Madacy Records
Product Type: DVD

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Based on H.G. Wells's speculative meditation on the price of progress, this 1936 English science-fiction epic shows the painterly touch of director William Cameron Menzies, an American whose career in art direction and production design, as well as uncredited directorial work, attached him to such visual triumphs as Gone with the Wind, Alexander Korda's sumptuous 1940 Thief of Baghdad, and Menzies's better-known SF achievement as director, the original Invaders from Mars. Things to Come traces a generational saga that begins, presciently, with a global war that outlives its own political purpose, unraveling society to a Balkanized world of isolated communities. In the wake of a subsequent, devastating plague, a new technocracy arises, evolving toward Menzies's striking vision of vast, subterranean cities, rendered in matte paintings building on then-contemporaneous art-deco "streamlined" aesthetics. Driven more by theme than plot, Things to Come lacks the sheer momentum of other Wells classics brought to film (The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine, among them); but Menzies's bold look and a strong cast including Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke and a young Ann Todd explain the film's enduring appeal. --Sam Sutherland

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From H.G. Wells' shocking book comes one of the most lavish science fiction epics ever to hit the screen! -In color for the first time and includes fully restored black & white version -Great Ray Harryhausen bonus features, Classic Sci-fi Toy Commercials

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Dated, but Fun and Relevant.......2007-05-01

This film is basically divided into three parts. The present (circa early 40's wartime Britain)...the foreseeable future (the '60s) and the "distant future" (mid 2001st c). The murkiest section, both in terms of plot, acting, cinematography, is the first third. Pretty mundane, war is bad, humanity is lame sort of deal. The film quality for some reason looks washy and badly filmed. Don't know if it's the quality of the print or of the original camera work, but it hasn't worn well.

The second part is saved by an over the top performance from one of my favorite actors of Brit stage and Cinema, Sir Ralph Richardson. He plays the Banana Republic, fascist "fearless leader" to the hilt and back. The cinematography is also a bit better, and in retrospect, maybe that's what the director intended. As time progresses, the film quality does as well, though given that logic, "civilization" actually regresses after all the years of warfare, so the film quality might have too.

At any rate, the main reason to purchase this film is for the final third, the futuristic, early '40's Art Deco vision of the future.
The sets are truly mind boggling. I don't know what sort of budget Korda & co had, but they spent every pence of it in constructing these wonderfully inventive, wonderfully detailed models. In an era before CGI, this has to be the state of the art in terms of set design. Truly incredible!

Some camp value in terms of the short tunics the men wear in futureland. Couldn't conceal a smirk or two in seeing those.

The ending is pretty corny, but still endearing. Raymond Massey was a great enough actor to pull it off. Definitely worth owning and the DVD quality is excellent (given the caveat about the first part, which I gather was intentional).

Oh, and a note about the colorization. I generally hate it. Who wants to see The Maltese Falcon in color, for Turner's sake? But it works very well here and Harry Harryhausen oversaw it, so you know it can't be half baked. Again, as with other technical aspects, the colorization is pretty murky in the early parts, but works fantastically in futureland. It's definitely a plus, rather than an artisitc hindrance, in this instance.

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a portent of things to come?.......2007-04-06

I first saw this movie in 1961 on TV and I found it compelling. To watch it again 44 years later on DVD/video and it still holds me. A 1938 british movie that was in special effects avant garde and it loses nothing in being B&W. the society breakdown this movie portrays is actually happening now especially in the 'Horn of Africa'

can you beat a classic.......2007-01-26

a classic film, brillant in B/W and even better in colour. if you haven't watched this classic you should. sure it may seem dated but the story is ageless and well worth the watch.

A GREAT MOVIE.......2007-01-20

FOR IT'S TIME IT IS A GREAT MOVIE, THINGS TO COME ARE HERE.

superb!.......2007-01-15

This is a must for film buffs! This outfit has refined the colorization process to a Zenith. Their results are awesome. Pristine print, great sound, beautiful color AND Ray HARRYHAUSEN commentary and documentary! HELLO!

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Dated, but Fun and Relevant
a portent of things to come?
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A GREAT MOVIE
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H.G. Wells - Things to Come
Starring: Raymond Massey , Edward Chapman , Ralph Richardson , Margaretta Scott , and Cedric Hardwicke
Director: William Cameron Menzies
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One of the most important science fiction films of all time, H.G. Wells's "Things to Come" opens prior to World War II and takes the viewer on a hundred-year time trip to 2036 A.D. when a man and a woman are rocketed to the moon. This inspired saga predicts television, jet planes and evil dictators. Featuring fabulous sets, a rich musical score and sweeping visual grandeur, "Things to Come" is a truly spectacular film event! Features a pristine new film-to-video transfer from original source materials.

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Dated, but Fun and Relevant.......2007-05-01

a portent of things to come?.......2007-04-06

can you beat a classic.......2007-01-26

a classic film, brillant in B/W and even better in colour. if you haven't watched this classic you should. sure it may seem dated but the story is ageless and well worth the watch.

A GREAT MOVIE.......2007-01-20

FOR IT'S TIME IT IS A GREAT MOVIE, THINGS TO COME ARE HERE.

superb!.......2007-01-15

Things to Come/Journey to the Center of Time

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A classic and a B-movie.
A Spark Of Interest Marks This Dreck
What are they thinking?
Gave 1 star because I can't give a zero.
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Things to Come/Journey to the Center of Time
Starring: Raymond Massey , Edward Chapman , Ralph Richardson , Margaretta Scott , and Cedric Hardwicke
Director: William Cameron Menzies , and David L. Hewitt
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A classic and a B-movie........2006-09-19

Things to Come, the movie, is a mixture of two of H.G. Wells's books. The first part is out of The War In The Air. The idea is that the nations of the world end up starting a war very much like the First World War but with more powerful weapons, mostly in the form of aircraft, which causes civilization to fall. The war scenes, some of them footage of real military equipment and others very cool looking models, seem very realistic. In the end, H.G. Wells's other book, The Shape Of Things To Come, is brought into the movie. The book is about the wonderful, bright, future and the film shows a future where airmen have joined together in their wish to bring peace to the world, using science and bravery, by overthrowing the old ways and the old world. In the end mankind takes the first steps to the stars.
The second movie is called Journey To The Center Of Time. The idea is that scientists are trying to find a way to peek into the past or the future. But an accident breaks the lab away from the present, tossing it into the river of time and space, first far into the future and then back into the past. There seem to be some complaints that dinosaurs did not exist one million years BC but nobody says the giant lizard is a dinosaur. It fact it could be a giant Komodo Dragon.
OK, maybe I am being silly, but outside of the somewhat bad science, the movie isn't that bad. It isn't great but it isn't that bad. I remember seeing a part of it as a kid and being impressed that the bad guy ended up killing himself.
On the other hand I am not too impressed by the new lab coming out of no where. Maybe the movie producers wrote themselves into a corner and they had to find a way out?
This disc was worth getting used but don't buy it new without a REALLY good reason.

A Spark Of Interest Marks This Dreck.......2006-01-01

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME is one of those cheaply made science fiction films whose miniscule budgets are matched only by an equally miniscule plot, direction, scripting, and acting. In this clunker, Scott Brady is your typically beefy industrialist whose only connection to the advancement of science is the financial bottom line. His unwillingness to open the vaults of further funding forces his scientists, lamely played by Gigi Perreau and Anthony Eisley, to prematurely loop ahead to the future in a time machine. Naturally, there is a mishap that lands then squarely in a nuclear war, whose own weirdly made up leaders (Lyle Waggonner and Pouppe Gamin) do little more than prance about for their few minutes of screen time. Brady and his time travelling cohorts travel back to 1,000,000 BC where they meet dinosaurs. Apparently, the script writers failed to indicate that the dinosaurs died out when a comet smacked into the earth 65 million years ago. At this point, whatever plot coherence there was dissolves into a misty mess of chintzy special effects whose only apparent purpose is to divert the viewer's attention from the T-Rex size plot holes. Further complicating matters is a series of potentially interesting temporal paradoxes that might have engaged the viewer had the script respected his intelligence to the point of incorporating them into a coherent plot. By the final reel, the viewer is asked to accept yet again another dopey science fiction cop out ending of How We All Began. JTTCOT had the potential to be more than all hands concerned made it. But because it groped, however dimly, toward Saying Something Interesting, I gave it two stars.

What are they thinking?.......2004-07-02

This is a review of the combined product and the rating has no relationship to the individual movies. Some one is getting over zealous they just tied a Sci-Fi Classic "Things to Come" to a lackluster dud "Journey to the Center of Time". Just incase some one has not pointed out the differences. I figure there was room left over on the DVD and instead of adding extras they would fill the space with no cost fluff. You will want to look at the reviews for the individual movies before buying this hybrid or low-breed.

Gave 1 star because I can't give a zero........2003-06-12

Poor quality film. Poor DVD transfer. No Extras. Waste of time. At least I didn't throw a lot of money away on it. Terrible film.

Cheap Rip-Off.......2003-03-08

This double feature by (shudder) Madacy contains two amazingly poor looking films: "Things to Come" and "Journey to the Center of Time." "Things to Come" is a thought provoking film based on H.G. Welles's book "The Shape of Things to Come," but you wouldn't be able to tell it by this shoddy transfer in which none of the dialogue is even understandable and the picture is dark. A much nicer version is available from Image Entertainment/Wade Williams Collection. Get it.
"Journey to the Center of Time" is a terrible, lifeless, shamefully low budget film in which almost nothing happens. Despite the box's claim that it's "Stimulating, exciting, and great fun!", there is not a speck of entertainment to be had (unless you count Lyle Waggoner's cameo. I didn't). The transfer fares slightly better, but it's still barely watchable.
There are a few extras, too. A Sci-Fi Oscar Winners Index, Sci-Fi Common Themes, Special FX Notes, and Trivia Questions. They're not very good at all, but at least they're reasonably abundant.

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Worst movie I've seen this month, and that's saying something.
WACKY post 70's Canadian Sci Fi film!
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Brilliantly, hilariously bad!
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The Shape of Things to Come
Starring: Jack Palance , Carol Lynley , Barry Morse , John Ireland , and Nicholas Campbell
Director: George McCowan
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H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come is so deliriously bad that it begs inclusion in any collection of 1970s kitsch. It's a disco-flavored variant of TV's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century--just another no-budget rider on the coattails of Star Wars. Only a fool would perceive even a slight connection to Wells's classic novel, to which this misleadingly titled cheese-fest is ostensibly a sequel. Their careers in sorry decline, Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse (late of TV's Space: 1999), and John Ireland look embarrassed as they wrestle with a wearisome post-apocalyptic plot that pitches Morse, a pair of Ken-and-Barbie heroes, and their quirky robot (of course) against megalomaniac emperor Palance, who controls a drug needed for survival of moon-based colonists. Prior to directing this laughable mess, George McCowan had helmed episodes of several prominent TV action series of the '70s, but here he devolves into moribund hackwork. This is a ham sandwich sans bread, from a time when stale sci-fi was spreading like mold on George Lucas's leftovers. --Jeff Shannon

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Worst movie I've seen this month, and that's saying something........2007-06-26

The Shape of Things to Come (George McCowan, 1979)

I'm not terribly sure how many variations on the word "bad" I can use in one review, but this review will, most likely, see them all. The Shape of Things to Come is a movie so heart-wrenchingly, eye-bleedingly, mind-shatteringly awful that it demands my best effort. It's the only pleasure I'm going to get out of having sacrificed that ninety minutes of my life.

So, the setup: there's been a nuclear war on Earth, and most of the surviving humans are holed up on the moon, in New Washington. The humans are treating the Earth, and the survivors left on it, with a mineral that can only be harvested from one planet. As the movie opens, a ship from that planet is on its way to the moon, refuses to be stopped, and crashes into the big dome that covers the moon base. Obviously, something's wrong up on that planet, and we find out what pretty quickly: the evil Omus (Jack Palance) has ousted everyone from the planet's control center and taken over with his army of (really quite stupid) robots. The erstwhile governor of the planet, Nikki (Carol Lynley), and her band of survivors are trying to find a way to get back and and overthrow Omus. Meanwhile, a small band of folks from New Washington, led by Dr. Caball (Barry Morse), head out to the planet to see what they can accomplish, as well.

It's H. G. Wells, so you know the script won't be horrible, but it's not an adaptation that really shines in any way. This is not helped by the terrible, terrible acting. But this pales beside the (very) special effects, which take the definition of "anachronism" to a whole new level. It was pretty cool to see those Honeywell green-screens and children's-toy keypads, though; one wonders whether payment for product placement actually existed as far back as the seventies. The costumes are dreadful; when Nicholas Campbell grunts "get this robe off him!" at one point in the movie, you almost wonder whether he was expressing (entirely understandable) deep-seated resentment at the costume department. A flock of kids on Earth during one brief scene that never goes anywhere have shockingly cheap dye jobs. Etc.

And, well, I'm back to the script, because there are at least two instances (there may have been more; I'm sure I blocked some out) where major pieces of foreshadowing occurred that just disappeared, never to be seen again. The trip to Earth is one; Sparks the Robot's erratic behavior about halfway through the movie is the other. Great setup (with, of course, the requisite bad acting). No follow-through. Disappointing. But then, that's an excellent word to sum this movie up--disappointing in every respect. I only watched it because it came as part of a set with Contamination (reviewed here a few weeks ago); that Contamination was by far the better of the two movies may, in fact, be the choicest epithet I can hurl at this puddle of pond scum. It may be fun to watch if you're painfully, deliriously drunk. Otherwise, avoid at all costs. (zero)

WACKY post 70's Canadian Sci Fi film!.......2005-03-17

I remembered reading about this film in an old Starlog and of course, the film never appeared in my area! I was assured it was "ghastly" and "hilariously bad". When it came to DVD I had to buy it just to see how true that was and indeed...it is. From it's disco music opening theme which wants to take off Star Wars and Space:1999's 2nd season music...the film overall comes off like a cross between the second seasons of Space:1999 and Buck Rogers!!! In fact, early on Sylvia Anderson(late of Gerry Anderson) went to Canada to be involved as a producer of some sort and she wound up signing her name off it. Every gal has those "feathered" disco haircuts and the clothing is right off the Roller Boogie racks. All that's missing are the roller skates. The special effects are pretty bad, mostly "in camera" work similiar to Space:1999 however not pulled off with the class or craftmanship that was done with. Badly photographed and everything is always "up close" revealing the true miniature nature of the models. The overall production design is pretty cheesy too, with robots that look awkward and they appear that way despite the fact apparently most of the film's budget went into them!!
The moon city is obviously some (then, late 70's) futuristic office building or company headquarters in Canada where we see clouds, trees etc outside the windows but this is explained that they've re-created an earth enviroment in a dome. The same corridor is used again and again and again for "running" shots.
Hard to believe the talent involved(Barry Morse,Jack Palance and Carol Lynley) that got involved in this film. Great in anyone's "bad" film collection!

Get Down With Jack Palance.......2004-12-24

The onscreen written intro tells us that this film is taking place in the "Tomorrow after Tomorrow". So apparently in the next two days we'll have experienced the "Robot Wars" and have had to relocate to the moon coz Earth is too damn polluted and radioactive. The people of the moon colony come under attack by Jack Palance and his army of trashcan robots who do his dirty work. Palance hangs out on Delta 3, but he wants control of the moon as well. The wimpy moon people don't wanna take action, but 3 badazz renegades and a reprogrammed Palancebot aren't about to just roll over. So, before you can slap on your Skin Bracer, they're off to turn the tables on Jack Palance. First a quick pitstop on Earth for repairs. Meanwhile on Delta 3, about 7 people have formed a resistance against Palance's dictatorship. When they're not being fried to a frizzly frazzle by the Palancebots, they hide from these innovative, high-tech death machines by merely crouching in the grass about 2 feet away as the killers merrily march by. If these robots are the biggest threat the moon colony is facing, what's the panic all about? Palancebots are also easily dispatched by a good rap on the head with what ever is handy. Our heroes finally make it to Delta 3 after a brief detour through some wacky black hole-type thing. I don't know what the hell that scene is about, but guessing from the facial expressions it was either very painful or felt very good. Once on Delta 3, they team up with the shrinking resistance and have to face Jack Palance's Deadly Disco Dance-O-Rama! Hope they didn't forget their lucky deck coz Palance isn't gonna go down easy. Check out the shot where the crumbling ceiling bonks Jack Palance on the head! Was that intentional? Do our heroes save the day? Do you really give a @$#&? Well, all I can say is if you like bad(and I really mean BAD) sci-fi flicks, this is a must see. I don't know why, but I've always found the worst sci-fi to be 100 times more entertaining than the "good" sci-fi. And how can you not love the theme music? Can you get this song on cd anywhere? Makes a great double bill with Tango, Cash, Cash and Tango.

Brilliantly, hilariously bad!.......2004-10-06

Up until I saw "The Shape of Things to Come," I thought Joe D'Amato's hysterically atrocious "Troll 2" was the best "so bad it's good" film out there. Well, I still believe that, but this movie comes in a close second. I suspect if you watched both films as a double feature, your head would explode under the endless assault of numerous scenes loaded with bad dialogue, ridiculous overemoting, and impenetrable plot points murkier than a cup of black coffee. This is a film so mind meltingly horrible, so offensive to every cinematic sensibility, that only lovers of bad movies who have fortified themselves beforehand should venture into this challenging territory. And even then I am not sure you will emerge unscathed on the other side. "Hey," I'm hearing people say, "How could a film starring Jack Palance and Barry Morse--set in a future where radiation from a series of robot wars wiped out the planet earth--be so bad?" That's a good question, grasshoppers. A very good question that I asked myself before setting out on this mission. The answer, the particulars of which lie ahead, sums up as follows: It's bad because the filmmakers took their effort seriously. It's also great because the filmmakers took their effort seriously. Read on.

I have no doubt, from the detailed plot set up and seriousness of every actor involved, that "The Shape of Things to Come" was meant to be a film that would rival Lucas's "Star Wars" in the science fiction genre. Heck, the film supposedly is based on a story by H.G. Wells, a fact the title boasts about. Thank goodness Wells never saw this nightmare; he might have stopped writing. As far as I could tell, the plot goes something like this: a series of robot wars went nuclear, thus rendering the planet inhabitable. In an effort to survive this disaster, people set up a base on the moon called New Washington and began exploring the universe. The only way to restore earth is to use a drug called RadicQ2, which stymies the insidious effects of radiation. Unfortunately, the only place this substance exists is on a planet called Delta Three, where the humans set up a base manned by Governor Niki (Carol Lynley) and what looks like a staff of six. Problems emerge when Omus (Jack Palance) takes over Delta Three and attempts to force New Washington to name him Emperor of the Universe. We learn all about this after Omus sends a cargo ship helmed by a robot crashing into the moon. Luckily, the base's shield protects humanity, but now the authorities must decide how to deal with Omus.

Here's where Doctor John Caball (Barry Morse), his son Jason (Nicholas Campbell), and Kim (Eddie Benton) come into the picture. Not content to cave into Omus's demands, these three sneak away to Delta Three on Caball's supersecret craft called Starstreak. They plan to unseat Omus and restore production of RadicQ2 if they survive the perilous trek through the solar system. Along the way, the trio land on earth and run into a bunch of kids who look like rejects from "The Village of the Damned," undergo serious technical difficulties with the ship, and travel through a cheesy intergalactic storm that looks like psychedelic vomit. The film occasionally switches to the action on Delta Three as Niki and her loyal followers attempt to thwart Omus's infernal schemes. The poor governor--not only is her name 'Niki,' but she and her compatriots must also fight off an army of robots that look like modified Hoover vacuum cleaners and move about as fast as a snail with a limp. You can probably figure out how the movie ends, but that's not important. It's how much cheese we have to swallow on the way there. At least the musical score is cool.

Where do I start? How about the histrionic performances? Ultimately, the hammy acting was what I enjoyed most about this picture. The actress who played Governor Niki is so breathtakingly wooden that I kept expecting someone to learn over and check for vital signs. And Palance! Oh dear, wonderful Palance! He throws away all pretense of subtly in his truly memorable turn as the evil emperor wannabe. At the moment of his greatest defeat, Palance screams something in a tone so incredibly, hilariously over the top that I had to watch the scene three times to absorb it. But even Palance can't top the antics of Barry Morse. Omus possesses a machine that sends out dangerous pulses of energy, a machine that will incapacitate an individual, and he uses it on Morse's character in another hilarious scene. Morse hops around and shakes in such a way that I wondered if the machine was really that dangerous or if Caball just had to go potty. The machine itself resembles a spinning disco ball, and Omus wore a helmet that looked like a fish tank to protect him from these dangerous pulses. I haven't laughed this hard in ages! "The Shape of Things to Come" is really one laugh after another even though everyone plays it so straight that you just know they thought they were making something special. And they did, but not in the way they intended.

It's amazing this clunker found its way to DVD, let alone with a French language trailer, television spots, and stills as extras. I think I can safely say that this is a film that begs for a commentary track from the principals. I'd pay good money just to hear what Palance had to say about this travesty. If you're a fan of trash cinema, you can't do much better than "The Shape of Things to Come." This picture is a hilarious cult classic, a picture worthy of respect if for no other reason than that it illustrates how important "so good it's bad" films can be.

Trapezoidal.......2004-06-20

Jack Palance plays an insane villain who takes over a mining colony on a planet with a population of about 12 (who spend most of the film hiding from Jack in a cave). He uses his newfound power as head (and now sole) miner to crash his only interstellar ship, manned by a robot, into the headquarters of the galactic government on earth (actually, Ontario Place), thus causing so much damage that it takes the government all of 10 minutes to make repairs. Jack then demands that he be made supreme dictator on the strength of this demonstration, and apparently also because of his ability to cast cool spinning holograms of himself. The earth government is too afraid to counterattack Palance (who no longer has the means to even leave his planet), so it looks like he'll get his wish, except that several heroic types hijack an unfinished battleship in order to launch a counterattack. Once on Jack's planet, they must defeat about 20 slow, clumsy robots that look like mini-fridges with legs and which can be taken out if you hit them once over the head with a staff. Luckily for Jack, all the good guys are absolutely incompetent morons (although not as incompetent as the good miners who stand still long enough so the robots can electrocute them in battle). Oh yeah, there's one robot who turns good and gains the ability to teleport for no apparent reason and which, for comic relief purposes, falls in love with the lead female (which means it must consider itself to be either a male or a lesbian). Some poor mutant children (they look like Edgar Winter) show up to pull at your heartstrings, and there's production design straight out of Space: 1999 and Battlestar Galactica which could give you a bad case of disco fever.

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By all means get this.......2006-11-29

-For "Things to Come" alone, though the first "Flash Gordon" movie and the movie they later lampooned mercilessly in "Amazon Women on the Moon" is also worth it.

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Dated, but Fun and Relevant
a portent of things to come?
can you beat a classic
A GREAT MOVIE
superb!

Science Fiction: Things to Come
Starring: Raymond Massey , Edward Chapman , Ralph Richardson , Margaretta Scott , and Cedric Hardwicke
Director: William Cameron Menzies
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Dated, but Fun and Relevant.......2007-05-01

a portent of things to come?.......2007-04-06

can you beat a classic.......2007-01-26

a classic film, brillant in B/W and even better in colour. if you haven't watched this classic you should. sure it may seem dated but the story is ageless and well worth the watch.

A GREAT MOVIE.......2007-01-20

FOR IT'S TIME IT IS A GREAT MOVIE, THINGS TO COME ARE HERE.

superb!.......2007-01-15

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A classic and a B-movie.
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ASIN: B00000IC8D
Release Date: 2000-02-01

Customer Reviews:

A classic and a B-movie........2006-09-19

A Spark Of Interest Marks This Dreck.......2006-01-01

What are they thinking?.......2004-07-02

Gave 1 star because I can't give a zero........2003-06-12

Poor quality film. Poor DVD transfer. No Extras. Waste of time. At least I didn't throw a lot of money away on it. Terrible film.

Cheap Rip-Off.......2003-03-08

Average customer rating:

Worst movie I've seen this month, and that's saying something.
WACKY post 70's Canadian Sci Fi film!
Get Down With Jack Palance
Brilliantly, hilariously bad!
Trapezoidal

H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come
Starring: Jack Palance , Carol Lynley , Barry Morse , John Ireland , and Nicholas Campbell
Director: George McCowan
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00007L4MA
Release Date: 2003-02-11

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Description

The time is the tomorrow after tomorrow, and mankind has now populated the Moon where vast domed cities have been built on what was once a wasteland. But when power-mad Emperor Omus (Oscar winner Jack Palance of "City Slickers") attacks the lunar colony of New Washington, a team of scientists led by Dr. John Caball ("Space: 1999's" Barry Morse) launches a dangerous mission to destroy the dictator and his robot army. Can three daring space jockeys and one renegade robot save their universe from the dark forces of intergalactic evil? Carol Lynley (Vigilante), Nicholas Campbell (The Dead Zone) and John Ireland (Spartacus) co-star in this epic science-fiction adventure directed by George McCowan (Frogs) and inspired by H.G. Wells' visionary novel that takes you beyond the frontiers of space, where man's future is limited only by his imagination!

Customer Reviews:

Worst movie I've seen this month, and that's saying something........2007-06-26

WACKY post 70's Canadian Sci Fi film!.......2005-03-17

Get Down With Jack Palance.......2004-12-24

Brilliantly, hilariously bad!.......2004-10-06

Trapezoidal.......2004-06-20

Description

CONTAMINATION:
Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE) stars in this Italian splatter favorite co-written and directed by Luigi Cozzi (STAR CRASH) and featuring a pounding score by Goblin (SUSPIRIA) now remastered for the first time ever in mind-blowing 6.1 DTS-ES and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX. Also known as ALIEN CONTAMINATION and TOXIC SPAWN, this juicy shocker was censored worldwide for its ultra-nasty exploding chest scenes that Blue Underground has proudly restored from the original vault negative to all their gory glory!

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME:
The time is the tomorrow after tomorrow and mankind has now populated the Moon where vast domed cities have been built on what was once a wasteland. But when the power-mad Emperor Omus (Oscar® winner Jack Palance of CITY SLICKERS) attacks the lunar colony of New Washington, a team of scientists led by Dr. John Caball (Barry Morse of SPACE: 1999) launches a dangerous mission to destroy the dictator and his robot army. Can three daring space jockeys and one renegade robot save their universe from the dark forces of intergalactic evil?

Carol Lynley (VIGILANTE), Nicholas Campbell (THE DEAD ZONE) and John Ireland (SPARTACUS) co-star in this epic science-fiction adventure directed by George McCowan (FROGS) and inspired by H.G. Wells' visionary novel that takes you beyond the frontiers of space where man's future is limited only by his imagination!

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