The Shape of Things to Come<\/a>.\u00a0 Wells reportedly considered the book less a novel than his thoughts on what the next 100 years could hold for mankind.\u00a0 That’s a big story for any movie, and maybe it’s too big.<\/p>\nThe film starts in 1940.\u00a0 We’re on the brink of another World War.\u00a0 There are mixed opinions on if the war will happen, but of course it does and rages for over 20 years. Most cities around the world are destroyed.\u00a0 Technology ceases to advance.\u00a0 In the 1970s, a city known as Everytown is governed by “the Boss”.\u00a0 His people live in bombed out buildings and wear tatters for clothes.\u00a0 One day a modern airplane lands.\u00a0 John Cabal (Massey), the pilot emerges.\u00a0 He wears futuristic garb and says that he’s from a community known as Wings Over the World.\u00a0 He offers “the Boss” a chance to join this community.<\/p>\n
Instead “the Boss” takes Cabel prisoner.\u00a0 When Wings Over the World realizes this, they send an air armada for rescue.\u00a0 The advanced airplanes drop sleeping bombs.\u00a0 Once the population is unconscious Paratroopers drop for the rescue.\u00a0 “The Boss” dies from a reaction to the sleeping gas.\u00a0 John Cabal announces that “The Boss” and the old world ways are dead.<\/p>\n
The movie then has a montage showing the advancements made by the new world order.\u00a0 Technology makes life better for all.\u00a0 As plans are made to go to the moon and later the stars, there is a group who see more advancement as bad.\u00a0 As the astronauts prepare for liftoff, rioters charge to destroy the rocket.\u00a0 They’re too late to stop the launch.\u00a0 The movie ends with two characters discussing mankind and progress…<\/p>\n
Things to Come<\/em> bites off perhaps more than it can chew.\u00a0 Having a story that spans over 100 years with the focus on all of mankind is a tall order.\u00a0 If this story were to be done today, it would be best served as a tv series. It was interesting to see how H.G. Wells and the filmmakers perceived the future.\u00a0 The one thing that they got right, was that even when things are going well, there is always a group that finds fault.<\/p>\nThings to Come <\/strong><\/em>earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\")
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