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.
Beautiful Criterion print, with no UA-cam compression artifacts. Thanks for uploading.
In 1961, both my grandparents died within a month! When we cleared out their house, we found a 1933
newspaper, showing H.G. Wells, predicting a World War by 1940! The book & eventual 1936 movie, "Things
to Come", must have been in his mind, even then! This film was a triumph for "futuristic" fans & should
have been made in color & probably was the greatest example of pre-WWII science fiction films!
HG and many other at that time were aware of Hitlers intentions and the influence he had to some in Germany especially the young who were impressed by the promises this pied piper made. They came to Hitlers call and the elders feared their son's. This film has subtle vignettes warning of uprising and potential war. In some ways we are in the same situation today with dictators and those like the Orange one and P aspire for power and tell us what they will do, yet know one is listening and let it happen.
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.
It still looks plausible today !
"If We Don't End War~ War Will End Us."
Human and WAR is the same COIN, same face of the coin... from the beginning of times any XX years a new big war start... the intelligence we have is a good thing on one hand, on the other is made to create DISASTERS, HUGE BIG DISASTERS...
God willed War.
Boy is that line true - especially NOW!
@@gregoryphillips2939 Sorry, Mate, Satan is the agent behind all hatred and atrocity and death, not God. The devil deceives the whole world into believing lies like the one you don't know you're perpetrating. Such is the depth of deception.
@@gregoryphillips2939 sorry to say that statement is so vague that it's meaningless. Do you mean that God wants people to be at war? True, God did use war in specific cases to work out his purpose, but most wars are man-made and don't have his approval. Notice what he wants for Christians now and in the New World to come on earth.
Psalm 37:11 The meek will inherit the earth and they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.
Psalm 46:9 He is bringing an end to wars throughout the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear.
Matthew 5:5, 9 Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth. Happy are the peace-makers since they will be called sons of God.
Romans 12:17, 18 Return evil for evil to no one...If possible, be peaceable with all men.
2 Corinthians 10:2, 3 ...we do not wage warfare according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things.
2 Timothy 2:24 a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all.
A masterpiece.
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....
no, Some don't change ,but more alarming is the fact that many of the Surnames haven't changed either.
Great upload. Many thanks for sharing. This is a fine movie.
Astounding for the time : as was H.G.
If we don't end war. War will end us. Chicago, IL. Thank you 🍿 great movie.
I just love those old movie sets! So fun!
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!
Wasn't that an iPhone on the desk @01:18:13?
"You've got your stimulus Passworthy. Something great has got you. War has come."
This is a excellent well made classic movie 🎦 its worth watching ❤
Amazing movie!
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.
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...
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!
By 1935,it was obvious to Churchill and a few others that Germany was arming ,despite the restrictions imposed by the treaty of Versailles .This movie was to prepare the populace for inevitable war.
Such a labor of love.
Anticipating the blitz by four years.
Worth watching for the sets alone.
Prophetic as it was made in 1936. A few years later war was a reality.
He probably saw the signs of Hitler and what he was doing.
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 UA-cam 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 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"
You've surely heard of the 15 minute cities?
Megalomania never dies
You enslave yourself, I'm 62 and have lived on what some may call an uncomfortable edge all my life, just don't play their game, be free, going bush has worked for me, out of the cities and suburbs there is very little interference, these days, don't have a phone due to psychological reasons, be free.
@@andhewonders 73 here. Gimme a high five dude. Next few years are gonna tough though.
@@andhewonderscongratulations. Sounds like you have conquered death and sickness. If you haven't, you are still a slave. If the Christ sets you free, you are free indeed. Please read Isaiah chapters 35 and 65. They describe the true freedom soon to come. Hoping the best for you.
The great Sir Ralph Richardson. Nice ! R.I.P
@03:35 Something about these cities, of course movie set, but these create very special atmosphere that isnt present in modern CGI movies. I like that kind of city design.
Super film merci
The Chief if played by Ralph Richardson, who played "the Supreme Being" in "Time Bandits." Last time I watched this classic film, I felt that I recognized him from somewhere, and finally made the connection. :D
Optimism!
One view of a future.
We currently are shooting for the stars, warring, standing by watching genocides, and making a king.
Wells was a little off on seeing our future.
It's Mars Attacks meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets the Aviator meets the Time Machine!
Thanks for granting me the opportunity, it was a 'gas'!
One thing for sure, the props dept worked overtime!
Ed O'Bannon(Alien) must have loved this film! As well as Gene Roddenberry/Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clark
Only 15 minutes in, and it resonates. God help us all.
Inspiration for the pre-credits of
the 1960 « The Time Machine »
0:33 ->
Interesting movie. Loved the costumes that reminds me of the Roman Empire in how they dressed.
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..
The future as relevant today as then,
Excellent ❤❤❤😊
Hi
‘There will be wars and rumours of wars nation will rise up against nation, do not be alarmed these things must happen but the end is not yet… THESE ARE THE BEGINNINGS OF BIRTH PAINS’ Matt 24: 6
Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua PRINCE OF PEACE returning soon to fulfil the feast of Tabernacles by reigning over His creation on David’s throne from Jerusalem for the seventh millennium to the glory of God The Father’
I believed in a 'eutopia' as a teenager , before I came to faith in Jesus Christ as a young man .
This world is as close to Heaven (Eutopia) an unbeliever will come to know . On the other hand , this world is as close to Hell , a believer will come to know .
We are strangers passing through this world , on the way to Home .😊
🇬🇧♥️🇮🇱✝️
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.
Seems that Wars are always started by capitalists in the past 100 years and in the forseeable future .
Thats a good thing
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 !!
😆😏🙂
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.
Made the same year as me, 1936, so, it must be good. July, 2024.
"I want those planes!" :D
A timely movie in our time too 🙄
I understand this is about to be remade staring Cheech and Chong moving further out into the universe.
😂 love it!
Janus films: evil hiding behind good mask
The video quality is excellent! Looking forward to a good story of hope, when so many of us have
next to none today.
So how about that Biden-Trump Debate? We have War everywhere now!
World government is the goal to which all forms of human organization have been directed. There is nothing wrong with it.
Utopia? Impossible!
…but we have to try.
I'm glad Werner von Braun got us away from the space "cannon" idea.
Google "Gerald Bull"
It's still a solid theory just no practical application.
It is somewhat tragic that HG Well,s warning was pooh-poohed. He was certainly familiar with the "New War". What a shame no one listened. Appeasement does not work.
subtitles please
MANY script-holes in this Swiss-Cheese fantasy.
😊
I like the way Wings Over the World evolved by 2036 into the Gay Men In Skirts Pilots Association
oh, there are edits here, many cuts. not good.
"Which shall it be?"
It was nearly over before I realized what it was about, realizing that it was a piece of excrement.
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.
Another work of fiction .
The first recorded lock down?
More speechs from him ? They knew who "HIM" was !
A first - rate propaganda movie ( for it's time ) for a one world government. The UN would be proud
THAT STATEMENT IS ASININE! Nothing to do with “One World Order”. Didn’t you watch the whole movie? “Humanity exists to supersede itself, or parish”. I believe the highest attainment is spiritual, not physical. But I am an exception. Normal people are materialistic. And so a science based civilization is the highest human physical possibility.
The UN is breaking up. US hegemony is over
@ERICWAGNERSLUCID The highest attainment is spiritual, but to prove itself True and that it's worked, it should show itself in the physical world, say like, you convert your heart, and you change your life around, from the way you dress and you look, to the things you do and don't anymore.....And if many people do that, suddenly, there's a change in the whole world for Good and for God!!.....✝️
There's still people in charge who do not do the harder jobs. There will always be different levels of society, Just like the dream of college for everyone, nice idea however real life will nullify that very quickly.
Too many and too frequent ads!
Must be a distant relative of mine 😂
They lost more than petrol because of the war! Looks like they lost their minds😢.. 😂..
”Prophetic”
NWO would love this movie if they cut the last 1/2 hour.
The last great film in the tradition of expressionist cinema?
W.O.T.W. planes look like that plane from Lost Ark.
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.
What should the word "socialism" and "science" be replaced with, for you to say yes thanks?
World order no thank you
@tomkeating5178 looking forward to one world order in the kingdom to come with Yeshua as king
ОБЛИК ГРЯДУЩЕГО(1936).
Mr grimsdale .....😂
Thanks for that 😀I was desperately trying to think where I’d seen him !!!! 😂😂😂😂
An advert 2 minutes in. No thanks.
Precursor to what yrump 2nd term will be
Was his first term like this?
@@greyfriars6540 The tyranny of being able to earn a living, have freedom, retain more of your own income isn't tolerated by the "progressives."
@@artroraback8663 I know that. Progressives are a threat to our society and economy. Trump isn't a Progressive.
You think Trump saw this movie. Uhm......
Naive at best
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
A découvrir!!!!