Mick Jagger - Acting God!

[Andrew]

With a subject line like that, I can only be talking about "Freejack."  Emilio Estevez died in a fiery wreck (impressive how his race car caught air), but actually he did not die.  In the future rich, old men want young bodies, so they pay for people to be snatched from the past.  People who are going to die anyway.  Then the brains are wiped and the rich, old man's mind is transferred.

Issues started off early when the time traveling/snatching crew placed their equipment at the spot where Emilio "died."  That always bugs me, because it makes no sense.  Why the exact same spot?  The Earth has spun and orbited, the galaxy has spun and traveled a huge distance, but to make the time jump they have to be on the exact spot.

In my opinion, this is the big stumbling block in time travel.  Move even a few months in the past and you are sucking the vacuum of space.  Moving through time would either require an anchor (gravity maybe?) or an amazingly complex matrix of where everything is at what time.

Enough theory from a Marine with a high school diploma.

Amanda Plummer makes yet another appearance as someone with mental problems.  This time she is a foul-talking nun.  Rene Russo proves that she cannot age.  And, to top it off, Anthony Hopkins is the rich guy who wants Emilio's body (wait, that sounds wrong).

However, nobody can steal the show from Mick Jagger.  He is British, heartless, wears a funny hat, and every part of his face gets into the roll.  We spent an evening watching this and, whenever Mick did something impressive, everyone would yell, "Mick Jagger - Acting GOD!"

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Andrew
have you ever seen "Ned Kelly"? Mick does godd job in that too (even with the fake beard)
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[Gerry]

For all its faults, it's a very entertaining piece of cheese.  You gotta love the philosophy spouting bum who eats fricasseed river rat.  And the shotgun toting nun.

I remember thinking that the computer generated graphics were SOOOO cool, but they're nothing special today.

I like the funky limos too.

And Mick Jagger--hehe.  I love it when his face keeps popping up on the video screen during the car chase.

[Andrew]

Gerry wrote:
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"You gotta love the philosophy spouting bum who eats fricasseed river rat.  And the shotgun toting nun."

The Homeless Prophet!  (Our nickname for the bum.)  How could I have forgotten him?  The only person in the entire movie who gave Mick a run for his money in the acting department.

[yaddo42]

He's also in "Performance" and "Bent", haven't seen either, so I can't comment on his acting in either.

Just think, Mick was supposed to be Jason Robards' mentally challenged sidekick in Werner Herzog's originally planned version of "Fitzcarraldo". But the character was dropped from the story when the script was reworked after Klaus Kinski took over the lead role when Robards became ill. You can still see a few seconds of Mick and Jason in a scene in the documentary "My Best Fiend". We may have missed Mick in his full cinematic glory when he didn't get to play that role........

Although Mick playing Keith Richards during a "Weekend Update" segment on SNL years ago was classic.

[Vermin Boy]

I believe I read somewhere that A Clockwork Orange was originally concieved as a vehicle for the Rolling Stones (presumably with Mick as Alex), with Ken Russel slated to direct. To get a feeling of what Russell might have done with it, watch the Kubrick version in fast forward. :)

I remember my dad and I caught the tail end of Freejack a while back. We didn't know WHAT the hell we were watching, only that it was a sci-fi movie with Estevez, Jagger, and Hopkins. I might have to track it down...