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Things to Come (1936)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 9/17

9/17: Things to Come...*eyes roll*

I'm surprised at Alexander Korda for directing it. He's way better than this first British million-dollar claptrap which died pathetically at the box office in both UK and the United States.

It's hard to understand what's going on. There's a basic idea, but the same actors who play different characters in varying time periods make it all confusing for me to follow.

Because H.G. Wells hated Fritz Lang's Metropolis (I don't blame him there), he decided to make a better film by writing his own screenplay and then directing it only to be replaced by William Cameron Menzies due to his incompetence behind the camera. Ironically, the latter ended up copying just about everything from Metropolis .

All in all, fans of H.G. Wells are better off reading The War of the Worlds for the umpteenth time.

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