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NOTE: Unfortunately, I think the new colorized Harryhausen version has the same problems. See more below.
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“Things to Come” was the “2001″ of its day.
In the late sixties, I saw a clean print of this movie in a New York theatre and it blew me away. Although it is in black-and-white, it is visually spectacular; the story is exciting; and it has a wonderful score. The sound was mono optical sound, but it was crisp and clear and capable of delivering the impact of the Arthur Bliss music.
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For years, I’ve owned a disappointing VHS copy, which looks as if it were made made from a dirty, blurry, over-contrasty 16mm print, and the sound quality is poor. I’ve yearned to see a clean copy.
So when I got my DVD player, one of the first things I did was to buy this release, which says that it “features a pristine new film-to-video transfer from original source materials.”
I am sorry to say it looks EXACTLY like the cruddy old VHS version, and the mushy sound is completely unworthy of the composer and music director.
So, I don’t know what to say. If you’ve never seen the movie _Things to Come_, I recommend the movie highly. But the image quality and sound on this DVD have, alas, that “lousy old 16mm print look.”
UPDATE: I’m afraid I think the “Harryhausen” colorized version is just as bad. My remarks above were written about an earlier DVD, Alas, and to my great disappointment, apart from being colorized, I’m afraid that they do. My review was for an earlier DVD edition.
I had great hopes for this new release with the Harryhausen name, and I’m aware that apparently other reviewers’ opinions differ from mine. I think they must never have a 35mm print of this film, though.
Black-and-white films from the late thirties are technically every bit as good as “Casablanca” or “Citizen Kane.” This DVD still looks to me like a bad 16mm print. I’m not a purist, but the film grain is coarse and obvious. The framing is not steady. The exposure varies, giving an irregular flickery effect. It’s not exactly blurry, but it’s not as crisp and sharp as any ordinary DVD of any ordinary 1950 black-and-white movie. Comparing it to the earlier DVD, I’m not sure what “restoration” was done except for colorization.
I’m glad that people find this version enjoyable to watch, but _Things to Come_ is a minor landmark in cinema history, and a major landmark in science fiction cinema history. Like 2001, this film was a visual spectacle and low picture quality greatly reduces its impact. It deserves better than this.
Having seen Things To Come on VHS, I looked forward to buying it on DVD. When I received it, however, the reproduction was so poor as to render it essentially unviewable. In the initial scenes the images are so murky that I was often unable to make out the faces of the principal characters. I only knew who was speaking because I’d seen the movie before. In all scenes the image is extremely fuzzy, looking exactly like the background when a camera is tightly focused on a face in the foreground. Sadly then, this DVD is worthless and you should wait for a better version. Note that the movie itself is a science-fiction classic, and ought to be seen by anyone interested in the part of the genre that was not usually shown in drive-ins. Note carefully, however, that most of the reviews are based on the VHS version, not the DVD. These reviews of course give no hint of the unacceptably low technical quality of the current DVD release. Just as an aside, I hope I’m not one of those people who spots a speck of dust and declares the room filthy. I’m actually being kind to the folks who made this DVD!
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