An utterly mental mindhump science fiction film adapted from a Michael Moorcock novel.
Jon Finch plays Jerry Cornelius, a playboy dandy genius physicist who can look after himself. His father has died and young Jerry attempts to secure pappy’s work to develop a new kind of human - one that will survive the dystopia. He’s a drink driver and keeps a fridge stocked with chocolate biscuits. Aiding his quest is a woman who seems to want to plough everyone she meets.
It’s utterly bizarre. The dystopia isn’t often explicitly shown - although one instance is Trafalgar Square being a scrapyard of abandoned cars. The Vatican is apparently no more and Amsterdam has been destroyed. There’s a sequence where he chases his brother around a house firing nail bullets at each other. Three old guys helping our hero are utterly feckless. I couldn’t quite work out the tone of the film. Darkly comedic, although sometimes unintentionally perhaps? It wasn’t much of a thriller, but I did find myself transfixed by the insanity of it, including the cringeworthy effects and oddball ending.
Mission Impossible Fallout. After the Brian De Palma original I think I've only seen one of the sequels ... but I couldn't ignore the praise this one has been getting, pretty much across the board. It's been talked up as a great action film and it is. I thoroughly enjoyed kicking back in the cinema last night ... enjoyed the ride from start to finish.
I watched Minions last night with my youngest.
It was a really fun movie. Tons of brilliant comedy snips in it, like when a minion is celebrating near the end and he has his tongue sticking out, and a dog licks it, I was in fits at that one.
Pretty good, extra 14 minutes with loads more violence but there are loads of dialogue changes, some for the better like when he gets shot on the armoured prison transport but alot that arent as funny as the theatrical version like meeting domino and talking about luck and the 3 things he asks cable (dubstep)
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