Just Imagine

Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself in futuristic New York City, circa 1980. He finds it a strange new world where fantastically attired people are ascribed numbers rather than names and all marriages must be ...more

David Butler's 1930 science fiction/musical (now there's a genre bender that was only possible to create before either film genre or the audience expectations of each were established) is a clunky period piece, but not in ways that are too much the fault of the director. Hollywood just wasn't making very good sound movies, and still lacked any sense of technique, in 1930. That said, this movie is still well worth a look, not as the glimpse into the future that it constituted in 1930, but, ...more