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Freejack
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Okay. So this race car driver named Alex Furlong is in a race, and his car explodes. And like a split-second before his death, he is grabbed by people 18 years in the future. In this somewhat dystopian future, it seems, sometimes rich people who are dying will pay millions of dollars to import "freejacks," people pulled out of the past at their moment of death. There's something called the "spiritual switchboard," in which a person's mind can be held for a few days after they die. Then a freejack's mind can be deleted, and the rich person's mind can be transferred to this new body. Freejacks are never supposed to wake up, never be aware of any of this, but Alex did wake up, and managed to escape. He was pursued by a guy named Victor Vacendak, who was working for the dead guy who wanted Alex's body. Alex manages to find his former girlfriend, Julie Redlund (who we like), and she tries to help him. There are of course plot twists, involving her boss, Ian McCandless, and the VP of McCandless's corporation, Mark Michelette. I don't really know what else to say, since I don't want to spoil anything. It wasn't a particularly good movie, but I'd been meaning to see it for a bunch of years, so it's nice to have finally seen it, and I didn't feel it was a complete waste of time. That's all.

Millennium
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Well, this movie sort of reminded me of Freejack, even though it came out a few years before that movie. I saw them both over a decade later for the first time, and I saw Freejack first. Anyway, this was probably a better movie than that one, but it's hard for me to tell. I had higher expectations for this one. I thought it was okay, but it's not something I feel the need to see again. I found it sort of boring. This guy named Bill Smith is inspecting the wreckage of a plane crash, and there's this woman named Louise Baltimore (who we kinda like), who is from like 1000 years in the future. They meet and stuff. The human race is dying out in the future, no one can have children anymore, so they take people out of the past who are about to die. But there's this big concern about creating paradoxes by changing the past. I don't want to really spoil anything about the movie if you haven't seen it, so I can't think what else to say... but I probably couldn't think of anything else, in any event....

Waterworld
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Well, this movie got a pretty bad rap, but I always wanted to check it out anyway. And now I have. I think it was okay. I've always liked a good post-apocalyptic world story. Anyway, this is set like, sometime in the future. Maybe a few hundred years from now, hard to say exactly. But the polar ice caps had melted, and so the few survivors are either traders (aka "drifters") who sail around, trading stuff; or atoll dwellers, who live on floating communities. And then there's "smokers," who are like pirates, and have fuel-powered boats and jet-skis, stuff like that, and even a small plane.

The main character is a drifter who doesn't have a name, so some people just call him "Mariner." Others call him "muto," because as it turns out, he's a mutant: he's got gills and webbed feet. He doesn't seem to get on all that well with normal humans, which isn't surprising, as they don't seem to have much tolerance for mutants. Anyway, at one point he gets captured and nearly killed by some atoll dwellers, but then the atoll gets attacked by smokers, and one of the dwellers, a woman named Helen (who we like), helps him escape during the confusion, in exchange for him taking her and a young girl named Enola (who was found in a basket as a baby, or something) with him on his boat.

Unfortunately, Enola has a map tattooed on her back, which supposedly leads to dry land. Helen, as well as her friend Gregor (who escaped the attack in a balloon) want to find dry land, but then again, so does everyone else in Waterworld, though most consider it a myth. The smokers believe, though, and they want to get their hands on Enola. Which means there will be several confrontations with them throughout the movie. Not much else to say, really. I don't want to give away the ending or anything. But I definitely thought it was worth seeing, once.