For people who are into show-not-tell worldbuilding with badass ladies in it who are not Trinitied, and Tom Hardy doing a weird voice with metal shit all over his face, and trucks with electric-guitar-playing slaves chained to the hood and sometimes the trucks catch fire and explode, this is the movie for you.
I was already in after hearing about Eve Ensler consulting (& MRA groups getting pissy about this movie "destroying a piece of American culture" - which, what? Did they not know the original is Australian?), but I have now doubled down.
Sadly, I need to see AoU first. So probably no Mad Max until next weekend (or the one after).
Also - what's the app or site that lets you know when to take pee breaks? That is also now a factor. Stupid babies ruin everything. (Not really.)
Crimson Peak trailer! [link]
I was thinking of going to see a movie tomorrow. But I have no desire to pay full price for Ultron. Or even first-run matinee price. Sad.
Hot Pursuit is actually surprisingly entertaining. I went tonight, only had to break out cotton balls to protect my eardrums from Sofia Vergara for one scene (to guffaws from the rows behind me), and had a good time that wasn't entirely predicated on Rob Kazinsky's nude scene. Though that was what got me to buy a ticket in the first place.
Fury Road
was a lot of fun. Explosions! Post-apocalyptic nuttiness! When I eventually ascend and become Vampire Witch Queen, I'm borrowing an idea from the warlord; but instead of having a guitar player chained to a wall of amps on my war vehicle, I'm going to have a traveling pipe organ.
(Not spoiler-fonted because that scene was in the trailer.)
Yeah, Mad Max was amazing. Took a little while to kick in but then never let up.
but instead of having a guitar player chained to a wall of amps on my war vehicle, I'm going to have a traveling pipe organ.
Surely Caryl Struycken will be the organist?
Fury Road: holy bejesus.
I need to see again to orient myself with the actual lead of the movie. I had three big complaints:
1) lack of Australian accents. It just didn't seem like Mad Max without that
2) Tom Hardy. Love the man, think he's a brilliant actor, but
it seemed like the combination of his fear in stepping in MG's shoes, the lack of a script, TH's confusion over GM's vision, Charlize Theron's replacement of Max as the lead and focus, and GM's focus on storyboard over script led to a rather nothing role. I think the scene where Max acts as a sniper stand for Furiosa says it all about Max's role and significance in the movie. I feel kind of bad for Tom about that. M
3) crappy dialogue.
Again, this movie really does feel good unscripted. Like so much time was spent on the storyboard, visuals, and cinematography that the quiet beats were left to the actors to improv, and that these actors weren't used to improv, which led to cliche a trite dialogue about hooking up blood bags and redemption and hope.
That said, I adored
Nux, and the fight in the beginning when he's unconscious and being jerked around is extra wooby inducing in retrospect. As well as still being hilarious.
I haven't seen Fury Road yet, but a former student posted this and now I simply Must. Just. See. It.
