Comments | thedeadparrot: Mad Max: Fury Road

thedeadparrot

Mad Max: Fury Road

May 23, 2015 16:42

I finally got to see it after hearing a lot about it (perhaps too much about it). Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. The worldbuilding is impressive. The action is tense. The emotional stakes are well drawn. It feels deeply fearless, in ways that blockbuster movies rarely are these days. There are a lot of women involved! Of all different types ( Read more... )

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bironic May 23 2015, 23:22:56 UTC

Deeper thoughts later, hopefully, but for now, just want to say that the "Red Wedding" song (~8:30) is exactly what it felt like watching the Vampire Lestat musical. D: :D

bironic May 23 2015, 23:51:36 UTC

>>One of the people at work who loved the movie talked about how detailed the movie is, and I don't think that detail exists without a certain type of gleeful fanboyism to go with it ( ... )

thedeadparrot May 24 2015, 10:35:45 UTC

I feel like 'vision' and 'id' can be tied up in each other. I think in this movie, the reason why I react to it so strongly this way is because of the extremity of everything and how specific it is. EVERYONE GETS BRANDED. GUY PLAYING A GUITAR ON A TRUCK. THERE'S A PILE OF STEERING WHEELS WITH SKULLS ON THEM. It's interesting, because I can watch the F&F movies, which also go to extremes, and I don't think I get the same feeling of 'oh, I know what fascinates/repulses/turns on this writer/director' that I did when I saw Mad Max. Maybe not being set in a different universe keeps them grounded just enough that it doesn't show as easily ( ... )