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.
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
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Atropa - Jun 07, 2015 7:53:16 pm PDT #29114 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Scrappy - Jun 07, 2015 9:41:23 pm PDT #29115 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jilli, the movie does not sugar-coat her distaste for all the Disney schlockiness. I thought t was a truly lovely movie.
Gris - Jun 08, 2015 4:28:04 am PDT #29116 of 30000
Hey. New board.
It sugar coats the ending but it wasn't nearly as sweetened as I thought it would be.
Zenkitty - Jun 08, 2015 6:09:24 am PDT #29117 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 08, 2015 7:05:15 am PDT #29118 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
-t - Jun 08, 2015 7:30:47 am PDT #29119 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, but the original was not very good. Not that I remember anything about it other than not liking it, so I can't even confirm it was Max-centric.
Polter-Cow - Jun 08, 2015 7:37:37 am PDT #29120 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought he was getting revenge on a gang for murdering his family.
Ha ha ha this is like the last fifteen minutes of the movie and the rest is boring.
Steph L. - Jun 08, 2015 7:41:10 am PDT #29121 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Ha ha ha this is like the last fifteen minutes of the movie and the rest is boring.
Yeah, and the other 2 movies aren't super Max-focused. They're weird movies in that regard.
This is the only one of the 4 where Max narrated, which is interesting.
I don't find Tom Hardy particularly attractive (I don't think he's UNattractive, but he's just not my type), but he really was excellent in this movie.
Connie Neil - Jun 08, 2015 7:52:32 am PDT #29122 of 30000
brillig
I like the one with the people and the gas refinery, but that's more for the people he deals with. "A fella, a quick fella, might have a weapon under there. Then I'd have to nail his head to the panel."
Zenkitty - Jun 08, 2015 7:55:48 am PDT #29123 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
This is the only one of the 4 where Max narrated, which is interesting.
I didn't realize that. In my head, he narrates at least at the beginning of each of them. Though my memory might be retroactively influenced by the current movie. It's been ages since I saw any of the others.
I don't find Tom Hardy particularly attractive (I don't think he's UNattractive, but he's just not my type), but he really was excellent in this movie.
Seconded.