Movie Pronouncements
You must go and see:
Because it’s the most unimaginably wonderful film you’ll see this year. Really. If you haven’t seen it yet, then stop reading this post right now and book a ticket. It’s basically a family road trip movie, but deals with depression and suicide and death, and is hilariously funny even when the story gets as dark as you could possibly imagine.
(Still here? Go away! Watch the film!)
You should also see:
Because despite essentially being an hour and a half long lecture on climate change, it’s incredibly well done, and might be the scariest movie you see all year. (Not least for the fact that Al Gore turns out to be an actual human being, rather than the stilted robot who ran for the U.S. presidency.)
None of the facts presented in the film will actually surprise you, but seeing them all clumped together and presented in one place is still quite shocking.
You should avoid:
Because it’s an incoherent mess of a film. Or rather: of five films all mashed together, none of which is all that satisfying. It starts out as a Sci-Fi dystopia story in a decaying London, then turns into a guerilla movement film out in the countryside, then onto “The Road Warrior” before veering off into grimy Eastern-European-refugee-flick territory and then finally ending up as “The Thin Red Line”.
All throughout I kept telling myself that certain aspects were well done, or that I should be enjoying this bit, because I usually like that sort of thing, but I could just never actually make myself care about any of it. It had its moments but was just far too disjointed to actually pull me in.