We finally saw Fury Road today, so I went back and read what everyone said about it. This was Jesse's comment, and it's almost exactly what I said to Tim when the movie ended:
I will say, at first I was a little "Huh" and "???" and then the guitar kicked in, I laughed out loud, and was in for the ride.
As soon as I saw the guitarist, I laughed my ass off, and the movie had me. Say what you will about Immortan Joe being a horror; the man knows how to travel in style.
Also, oh, NUX.
I think it was Plei who said on FB that this movie is how to do reproductive horror correctly, and that is so dead on. When Immortan Joe howled, "That's my property!", I physically recoiled.
The only detail that kept yanking me out was: in a postapocalyptic world, they still have blood-typing kits? Gasoline, bullets, chrome spray paint, and blood-typing kits.
Finally, it was super-convenient that Tim had a collapsed lung 2 weeks ago, so I totally knew what Max was going to do to Furiosa.
Gasoline, bullets, chrome spray paint, and blood-typing kits.
They probably have to go on supply runs to Blood-Typing Kit Village every now and then.
Oh, and we saw a trailer for the new Vacation movie, and I have to say...it actually looks really funny. If someone had just told me, "Hey, there's a new Vacation movie where Rusty takes his family to Wallyworld," I would have rolled my eyes forever. But the trailer makes the movie look pretty funny.
We just watched Saving Mr. Banks, and holy crap the feels. So many feels. I mean, yes, I am more primed to cry at this point, but really, they didn't spare the anvil, did they? Also, Emma Thompson is a treasure.
I kinda want to watch
Saving Mr. Banks,
but I know too much about how P.L. Travers actually felt about her deal with Disney.
Also, Emma Thompson is a treasure.
Well, yes. She's the main reason I want to watch it.
Jilli, the movie does not sugar-coat her distaste for all the Disney schlockiness. I thought t was a truly lovely movie.
It sugar coats the ending but it wasn't nearly as sweetened as I thought it would be.
Spontaneously went to see Mad Max last night at the late showing. Accidentally bought a ticket for the 3D version. But it was fine. 3D usually looks dim and blurry to me and sometimes gives me a headache, but this one was really well done. It wasn't intrusive, except for the flying bits where it's supposed to be.
I keep noticing little things. Like how in the scene where they're realized that Furiosa is
going back to the citadel,
and they're having this intense conversation, the really big guy with the pierced nipples is just idly playing with his nipple ring. And that it was the Milking Mothers who opened the sluicegates and let the water down, which seems very appropriate, and also gives them their autonomy back, too.
Yeah, I like the movie. But I don't think it would be much more than a really good action movie except that there are so many humans who are women moving the action forward. That's what makes it exceptional. Also, I don't understand when people say Max wasn't the hero because he didn't do anything, that's nuts, he did a lot! It's just that he wasn't the only hero, and the movie wasn't ABOUT him, which really none of the Mad Max movies have been about him, if I recall them correctly he's always been a wanderer wandering into someone else's story.
The original was pretty Max-focused, wasn't it? It's been decades since I saw it, but I thought he was getting revenge on a gang for murdering his family.
