Future '38
A 1938 screwball comedy set in the far future year of 2018.
Future ‘38 is a gem of film that harkens back to the early to mid-1900’s era of cheesy Sci-Fi. Successfully attempting to recreate the look and feel of such classics like Flash Gordon, Just Imagine, Things to Come, and Buck Rogers, Future 38’ starts with an introduction by none other than modern famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining that a 1938 science fiction film once thought loss to the world has recently been recovered. The film is one of the earliest features shot in color, and deals with a 1930’s soldier sent to the year 2018.Tyson states the importance of analyzing such a film in a very tongue and cheek way; what did these filmmakers from the 1930’s get wrong about our modern time? What did they get right? The notion of seeing our very near future through the eyes of the days long gone is extraordinarily intriguing, and the way it’s pulled off is wildly entertaining. Also, Future ’38 has the cleverest and riotous oral sex jokes I’ve seen in just about any movie.
