Things To Come

Special effects.

Things to Come is a feast of trick photography and special effects but it lacks the hypnotic power of films like Metropolis.

It cost a colossal for that time £350,000 to make and didn't recover its costs until many years after its release.

Although Wells, a noted sci-fi author, was responsible for the screenplay, the war in the movie could be wholly set in the 1930s.

But as the story progresses, man and machines continue to look much the same.

But Wells did have an uncanny knack for prediction.

When the film was first shown in 1935, audiences roared with laughter at the opening scenes, where planes crossed the Channel Coast to bomb England.

Only five years later, it was to actually happen.

I remember reading that last bit on my wall as a kid, thinking, God, this film sounds amazing.

Predicted the blitz.

And that's one of the main reasons to come and watch it.

It just occurred to me, not only is this image here of a megacity going to appeal to a 2000 AD fan, because it looks like Carlos S. Queiroz designs for Megacity 1.

But the idea of a megacity rising from an apocalypse of tribal wars is basically the Cursed Earth.

This is a very Judge Dredd vision of the future, that there will be a massive war, it'll flatten everything, and you'll build a megacity.

I've just recorded the thoughts that I'm going to do next, and I forgot to mention Arthur Bliss.

The other thing that was important to me about this film as a kid is I had a cassette that had Arthur Bliss's music for things to come on it, The March, which is very martial and stirring and a huge influence on John Williams' Star Wars.

The music is brilliant.

If you buy the full soundtrack for this, which is worth getting, it does feature a track called Attack on the Moon Gun.

And I think all albums should have a song called Attack on the Moon Gun.

It would make them better.

I think Sgt Pepper should have it.

I don't know, London Calling should always have a song called Attack on the Moon Gun.

Attack on the Moon Gun Things to Come, which is a film I think there's not a hell of a lot of love for anymore.

It's not like Metropolis.

It's not got a fond, stylish, cool about it.

Special effects.

Things to Come is a feast of trick photography and special effects but it lacks the hypnotic power of films like Metropolis.

It cost a colossal for that time £350,000 to make and didn't recover its costs until many years after its release.

Although Wells, a noted sci-fi author, was responsible for the screenplay, the war in the movie could be wholly set in the 1930s.

But as the story progresses, man and machines continue to look much the same.

But Wells did have an uncanny knack for prediction.

When the film was first shown in 1935, audiences roared with laughter at the opening scenes, where planes crossed the Channel Coast to bomb England.

Only five years later, it was to actually happen.

I remember reading that last bit on my wall as a kid, thinking, God, this film sounds amazing.

Predicted the blitz.

And that's one of the main reasons to come and watch it.

It just occurred to me, not only is this image here of a megacity going to appeal to a 2000 AD fan, because it looks like Carlos S. Queiroz designs for Megacity 1.

But the idea of a megacity rising from an apocalypse of tribal wars is basically the Cursed Earth.

This is a very Judge Dredd vision of the future, that there will be a massive war, it'll flatten everything, and you'll build a megacity.

I've just recorded the thoughts that I'm going to do next, and I forgot to mention Arthur Bliss.

The other thing that was important to me about this film as a kid is I had a cassette that had Arthur Bliss's music for things to come on it, The March, which is very martial and stirring and a huge influence on John Williams' Star Wars.

The music is brilliant.

If you buy the full soundtrack for this, which is worth getting, it does feature a track called Attack on the Moon Gun.

And I think all albums should have a song called Attack on the Moon Gun.

It would make them better.

I think Sgt Pepper should have it.

I don't know, London Calling should always have a song called Attack on the Moon Gun.

Attack on the Moon Gun Things to Come, which is a film I think there's not a hell of a lot of love for anymore.

It's not like Metropolis.

It's not got a fond, stylish, cool about it.