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Summary: Things To Come: Good film, bad copy
Review: “Things To Come” is one of those intelligent sci-fi films that you dream about. It is an adaptation of H. G. Wells book of the same name. Filmed in 1936, it traces the history of a (fictitious) world war that begins in 1940, and is continually fought until the 1970’s. The film show life before the war, life during the apocalypse, and finally traces world society into 2036, with a planned space mission, and a group of futuristic luddites who are opposed to the plan.The sets and cinematography is pure eye-candy, and remind me of a rough Fritz Lang, and life during the apocalyptic war has become chilling, considering the possibilities that may happen in this war on terrorism. It is an anti-war film. However, Wells naively thinks that scientific endeavor can save humanity. Contrast this with the idiotic statements that we got when the genome was cracked: “Perhaps most surprising, two analyses released this month suggest that the entire human genome may contain fewer than 40,000 genes - about half the number that scientists have presumed (no more than a worm and a fly combined, Collins quips).” Would you want scientist Collins, who can’t see the difference between a fly, a worm, and a human, to operate on you? And we are to build humanity on this foundation? Science had given us many trinkets, but she has failed to give us any meaning—due to the Naturalistic Fallacy. How do you get from “E=mc2” to “Love your neighbor?” The scientific endeavor, therefore, would just be a type of busy-work. The copy is very rough and blurry at times, and the dialogue fades in an out, and the DVD has no frills that we love and use. But this rough copy is better than no copy at all! This is a perfect classic, and a must for an sci-fi junkie. “Journey to the Center of Time” is bad. But I think it should be mandatory viewing for people who think that Star Trek: The Original Series was bad, since “Center of Time” makes Kirk look like Shakespeare!
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Summary: Things To Come: Good film, bad copy
Review: “Things To Come” is one of those intelligent sci-fi films that you dream about. It is an adaptation of H. G. Wells book of the same name. Filmed in 1936, it traces the history of a (fictitious) world war that begins in 1940, and is continually fought until the 1970’s. The film show life before the war, life during the apocalypse, and finally traces world society into 2036, with a planned space mission, and a group of futuristic luddites who are opposed to the plan. The sets and cinematography is pure eye-candy, and remind me of a rough Fritz Lang, and life during the apocalyptic war has become chilling, considering the possibilities that may happen in this war on terrorism. It is an anti-war film. However, Wells naively thinks that scientific endeavor can save humanity. Contrast this with the idiotic statements that we got when the genome was cracked: “Perhaps most surprising, two analyses released this month suggest that the entire human genome may contain fewer than 40,000 genes - about half the number that scientists have presumed (no more than a worm and a fly combined, Collins quips).” Would you want scientist Collins, who can’t see the difference between a fly, a worm, and a human, to operate on you? And we are to build humanity on this foundation? Science had given us many trinkets, but she has failed to give us any meaning—due to the Naturalistic Fallacy. How do you get from “E=mc2” to “Love your neighbor?” The scientific endeavor, therefore, would just be a type of busy-work. The copy is very rough and blurry at times, and the dialogue fades in an out, and the DVD has no frills that we love and use. But this rough copy is better than no copy at all! This is a perfect classic, and a must for an sci-fi junkie. “Journey to the Center of Time” is bad. But I think it should be mandatory viewing for people who think that Star Trek: The Original Series was bad, since “Center of Time” makes Kirk look like Shakespeare!
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Summary: Don't even think about it
Review: I was disappointed of the visual quality of this dvd. Also the scenario and the cinematography is way too bad to watch this film. I don't recommend you to buy it. The only good thing is its cheap price...
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Summary: Don't even think about it
Review: I was disappointed of the visual quality of this dvd. Also the scenario and the cinematography is way too bad to watch this film. I don't recommend you to buy it. The only good thing is its cheap price...
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Summary: good films; horrible quality
Review: Let me explain. How a 1936 anticipation movie could be more acurate than one made in the 60's? "Things to come" is a masterpiece, I think. The tone is a little bit emphatic, over dramatic, but it seems to correspond to the author's point of view: human race's future is a solemn matters. Astonishing to realise that this 1936 movie expect a catastrophic war to come around in the following years (compare with "Citizen Cane" which touch this matter at one point too). The rest of the prediction for the human history is not exact as for the dates, but it depicts profound realities. The monumental faith placed by the author into the structuring strenght of science and democracy appears questionable but a choice anyway, clearly expressed. As for "Journey to the Center of Time", what to say: if you take it as a festival of surrealist theater, it could be entertaining or even enlightening. But, if it was supposed to be a sci-fi thriller... it's catastrophic. The comogony of the 60's would be an extraordinary study matters and this film is a kind of delirium that can help look in the subconscient of this period. Look at it after a play from Ionesco...
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Summary: Half of an masterpiece...!
Review: Let me explain. How a 1936 anticipation movie could be more acurate than one made in the 60's? "Things to come" is a masterpiece, I think. The tone is a little bit emphatic, over dramatic, but it seems to correspond to the author's point of view: human race's future is a solemn matters. Astonishing to realise that this 1936 movie expect a catastrophic war to come around in the following years (compare with "Citizen Cane" which touch this matter at one point too). The rest of the prediction for the human history is not exact as for the dates, but it depicts profound realities. The monumental faith placed by the author into the structuring strenght of science and democracy appears questionable but a choice anyway, clearly expressed. As for "Journey to the Center of Time", what to say: if you take it as a festival of surrealist theater, it could be entertaining or even enlightening. But, if it was supposed to be a sci-fi thriller... it's catastrophic. The comogony of the 60's would be an extraordinary study matters and this film is a kind of delirium that can help look in the subconscient of this period. Look at it after a play from Ionesco...
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Summary: Gave 1 star because I can't give a zero.
Review: 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.
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Summary: But is it any good?
Review: The big question, obviously, is: Is this version any better than the Hollywood Classics version. I could buy it, and answer that question. But instead I'm going to wait until someone else buys it, and answers that question for me.
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Summary: But is it any good?
Review: The big question, obviously, is: Is this version any better than the Hollywood Classics version. I could buy it, and answer that question. But instead I'm going to wait until someone else buys it, and answers that question for me.
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Summary: Classic Si-Fi Flick
Review: The soliloquy by Massey at the end of this movie will stay with you forever. This is a great movie with a great message.
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