> a 14 plus hour show
> about life in the former United States of America after the Russians have
> taken over.

Too soon.

> 

Cherry 2000 (1988)



This movie is a minor classic. The director's only other feature, Miracle Mile, is a bona fide classic. The lead actors are terrible here, and also have no chemistry, but De Jarnatt truly excelled at world building with the details instead of with exposition and this movie is so excellent in that regard, and so prescient in so many of its ideas (alienation from other people in the face of social connection with devices; late-stage capital collapse with urban centers hanging on while the rule of law ends just out of town), I really love it. Plus, y'know, 80s colors. Most of the action kind of stinks, but at least it's real people in real locations and not digital goo, but there's one truly awesome set piece (truly stupid, too, but awesome) involving a car dangling from a magnet (just how many films with cars hanging from magnets did Poledouris score in 1987, anyway?) above a ravine while stunt doubles hang off it with people shooting bullets and rpgs at them. Music is a blast in context, at least when they're outside of the rule of law. AHITF, some of the early music sounds weirdly like the Supergirl music reimagined for soft porn.