Strange Days

[The Bard]

Anyone manage to catch this flop? It's actually really good. I was just setting in to fall asleep when I flipped it on and stayed up for the rest of it. It's a weird dark look at the year 2000 from the year 1994 or 95. I always have trouble explaining movies without ruining any of the plot. Trust me,you get a chance see it.

[Mofo Rising]

I enjoyed STRANGE DAYS quite a bit.  Ambitious movie, too bad nobody jumped on board.

Too bad it suffers from the same problem as most movies set in the near future.  It dates itself prematurely.  I don't think it's ever really going to gain a greater audience than it currently enjoys.

Too bad the millenium passed.  I think "end of the world" movies are going to go out of style.

[me]

Strange Days wasn't really an "end of the world" movie... there was no apocalyptic rapture expected, or recieved. The movie was about something completely different.
BTW, I think it was made in 94- James Cameron had expected it to date itself.

[The Bard]

Thinking back to it,you might get the idea that it was an apocolaytic movie if you didn't see all of it. Every 5 minutes someone is saying that the end of the world is coming with the year 2000.

So this was before Cameron did Craptanic. Cool.

[Chris1]

I saw the preview years back at the and thought wow now that going to be a good movie. Then I saw it on HBO and it wasn't very good the one  part  I liked was the being when the hero gave people those camera things to film stuff and gave one to a manand two women that's one of some parts I like in the movie.

[Mofo Rising]

Nah, I wasn't saying that STRANGE DAYS was an "end-of-the-world" movie.  It did deal with apocalyptic fever, but if you follow the symbolism (which was pretty blatant), it ends up being an affirmation of the world.

What I was saying is that I don't think we'll be seeing to many end-of-the-world movies or post-apocalyptic dramas anymore.  The western millenium passed and nothing happened.

It's too bad, because I had a really cool idea about the Lovecraft mythos.

[Nathan]

Checking in late for some shameless self-promotion:

http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/s/strangedays.html


Nathan

[Mech]

That is the longest movie review I've ever read... I think I could've seen the entire movie in less time than it took to read it! :)