The Shape of Things to Come (1979) RiffTrax 720p.10bit.BRRip.x265.HEVC-budgetbits

The Shape of Things to Come (1979) RiffTrax 720p.10bit.BRRip.x265.HEVC-budgetbits

The only audio track has RiffTrax commentary. If you want to watch the movie with normal audio, you will need to find another source.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079894/

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GENERAL INFO

RiffTrax release date
January 31, 2020

Genre
Parody, Comedy, Adventure, SciFi, Thriller

Plot
The Shape of Things to Come! No, it’s not a harrowing follow-up to our classic thrill ride short Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle, it’s a space thing!

Specifically, it’s a space thing “based on” a book by H.G. Wells. Even more specifically, it came out in 1979, two years after Star Wars, yet still feels like a B-movie from the 50s that someone accidentally colorized.

The titular Things to Come are a future in which mankind has laid waste to the Earth - which is, just, CLASSIC mankind - and lives on moon bases filled with boxy robots who can teleport, but only sometimes. Danger has emerged on a distant planet in the form of none other than Jack Palance, rocking a gold jumpsuit and purple cape combo, and chewing through scenery like a shark through tissue paper. Also, his name is OMUS. Jack Palance / Omus is out to rule the galaxy from his very dull space office, and our only hope is - who else? - some scientists in slightly-different jumpsuits. One of them is played by a guy from Space: 1999. Y’know, for the kids!

Choose your jumpsuit wisely and get on board with Mike, Kevin, and Bill for a geometrical taste of The Shape of Things to Come!

Written by Mike Nelson, Conor Lastowka, Sean Thomason

Contributing writers: Jason Miller, Zachary Shatzer



Encoding info
Transcode of the official RiffTrax HD high release (ShapeOfThingsToCome_HDhigh.mp4) with HandBrake 3.0, slower preset, x265, 720p, 10 bit, crf 25, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.

The commercial Blu-ray release has poor video quality, without much detail. This transcode actually doesn't look much worse.

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COVER


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SCREENSHOTS
(Click to enlarge)



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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = The Shape of Things to Come (1979) RiffTrax 720p.10bit.BRRip.x265.HEVC-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 17 min
Size = 342 MiB
Overall bit rate = 616 kb/s

Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe:[Linux][GCC 9.2.1][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 1280x720
Aspect ratio = 16:9 (1.778)
Bit rate = 540 kb/s
Frame rate = 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS

Audio #0
Title = RiffTrax
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 72.2 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English