A famously "so bad it's good" film, Miami Connection is just about the most bizarre concoction of everything 80's you can think of. It starts of quite promisingly with a well shot and sharply edited showing two groups meeting for a drug deal which is being spied upon by ninjas. But as soon as someone opens their mouth a has to deliver actual lines of dialogue then you remember "oh yeah, this film is terrible".
I think it had a plot. The heroes are a multi-racial group of college students who also have side jobs in the martial arts/synth rock industries. They hang around shirtless in their house together and bully the one black guy about his mail. Then the black guy cries because he never saw his dad. Then we hard cut to them at the beach, gaily frolicking in the ocean and sexually harassing the local women. They keep getting into fights with bikers and hilariously, the band of middle aged rockers they replaced at the bar they work. In the end they kill all the ninjas and the black guy finds his dad. Success!
Just a fascinating movie. It's like, how did this get made? It feels like it was made as parody in the the mid-noughties or something but nope, it's the real deal. In fairness to it, unlike some other bad/good films, it never really bored me. There are little lulls but between the weird unintelligible plot, the fight scenes and the gross biker chick boobs it kept me interested. And the music. Glorious. Watch it, it's up on youtube.
Aka The Last Days of Man on Earth and based on the Micheal Moorcock book of the same name, this is another film that seemingly encapsulates the era it is set (early 70's) even if it is not as entertaining as Miami Connection. It's a much, much better shot and written movie but it is also tries to be too clever by half and builds to an questionable ending that seems to deliberately want to wind up the audience.
The plot is a bit light as well. Our protagonist is Jerry Cornelius, a noble prize winning, whisky slugging, womanising, upper-class scoundrel who after attending his father's funeral and hearing a prophecy of the impending end of the world, decides to return home and set his affairs in order. However when he gets there he finds his drug-addled lunatic of a brother holding his sister hostage and stumbles into a plot to find a microfilm (that most 60's of McGuffins) that holds the key to the next stage of human evolution! Or it would, except the film kind of flounders once Jerry liberates his home and is then sent packing by nazi vampire Miss Brunner to both find and use the microfilm for her own nefarious purposes.
There's kind of a sleazy undercurrent to the whole thing. I wasn't reminded so much of Alfie while viewing it but rather Confessions of Milkman and other softcore romps. Yeah, there's some Dr Who-esque Sci-Fi ramblings and Jerry shoots people with his hilariously cheap looking plastic dart gun but overall there's not much to it beside some interesting imagery and some classic 70's front bottom.
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my dad has scheduled a realtor to check out the house without telling me so I need to clean up as best I can. Guess I'll be needing to find an apartment or a fixer upper to live in soon 
