What a day, what a wonderful day!
I've been looking forward to checking out the new Furiosa film for a weeks now, ever since hearing about it releasing. A few plans went a wry over the past few weeks, and we couldn't make it down. Today, however, we managed to get to the cinema.
The 2 o'clock Showing
The movie came in at a whopping, 2:30 film, and there were three showings today, 2, 5, and 8.
8 was kind of out of the question for us, because we were thinking of times, and the fact we'd get out of there about 10:30, then have to walk home and all, it would be close to 11/ 11:15 by time we got in.
It wouldn't be fair on Kaleb either, as we could potentially disturb his sleep, so we decided against it. The 2 showing it was.
We decided to get some food before going in - which took ages to get made, and we ended up missing that showing, so then we hung around the shopping centre with Aimee's parents and Kaleb, and then after a while they headed off and me and Aimee continued to kill some time.
The 5 showing was find though, and meant we weren't in there too late, but we did basically waste our entire day off, of which, we don't get many together anymore.
The Film
Upon our arrival, and purchasing our tickets the machine started acting funny, and the staff had to come over and sort it out.
It just needed some new paper added to it.
The move was really good, and it's a decent story, has some great actors, and characters. Chris Hemsworth playing Dementas was really cool, and well done.
The cast were all great, and as well as that, the action scenes were brilliant.
There weren't all that many action scenes, unlike Fury Road, but the ones that are there are very good, and keep your attention.
Some scenes in particular tend to show the action from far away, and it uses that space to tell the story from young Furiosa's point of view, and that comes across well in the film and feels as though that's what the filmmakers were trying to do.
Talking of using distance in the film, there's a scene near the end that very much reminded me of a scene in The Road Warrior, where Mad Max, and the Pilot are both staring at an assault being carried out by raiders, as they watch through a telescope. Scenes like that kind of give this eerie, almost voyeuristic feeling, and helps to make us feeling uncomfortable.
The Mad Max Sag
More Like This?
I'd love to see more films, and stories coming out set in this world. it's Interesting, and there are plenty more tales to tell in the wasteland.
This film shines a light on some of the main antagonists, or warlords, from the Fury Road movie, which is cool, but in a way, it's good, because rather than going into detail about their backstory, they're just here, being characters in this world.
I would like to see them leave the Fury Road, however, and show us some more factions, and some more areas outside of Gastown, The Bullet Farm, and The Citedel.
If they want to produce more films of this nature, I think the next one will have to be completely separate from this particular area, and show us something entirely new, and potentially different.
Sometimes it's important to show that a fictional world is wider than an ocean, and deeper than a puddle. It's an interesting world, and I'm sure with a bit of creative thought, George Miller and the rest of the team will be able to give us something really cool.
Furiosa is a great character, and deserved this story about her tragic life before Fury Road, and now that it's done, I think it's time to introduce us to some more people who call the wasteland home.
Missed this for some reason but Mad Max didn't catch my interest as much as I expected. At least the movie. The game did a way better job for me. However, might give it a 2nd chance :)
The game was really cool, I played it around the time it came out but stopped, and then a few months ago got into it again, and found it so enjoyable.
Fury Road was really cool, but this new one is also a good edition. Well worth checking out if you get a chance.
I'll see this some time. I was watching Mad Max 2 the other day and it's on a pretty small scale compared with the recent movies. I don't think they had much of a budget back then. Some of Fury Road was just mad (as it should be).
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Mad Max 2 is great, but you're right, the budget wasn't really there, however, they did have more budget than the original film. That trilogy is great, but Fury Road just brought the whole thing to a new level. I'm not a huge fan of cars, although, I found myself fascinated by them and the behind the scenes videos of the whole process of building them is so interesting to me.
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I am sorry some of your precious time got wasted but it's nice to know you finally got the chance to see the film and you think it was worth it.
I am yet to see this one. I guess I'll have to add it to my watchlist.
As you said, fiction is an interesting world and there's so much potential for storytelling, so I too hope the team will deliver something new and exciting next time.
It was grand in the end, we still managed to have some fun hanging around, I just wish it didn't eat up so much of our day. Yeah, it's well worth watching.
Here's hoping, they have a great world here and there's no limit to what they'd be able to do with it, should they really have a good think about it.
I've been needing to watch this too. I loved Fury Road and it was a clear sign that George Miller still has it even in his age.
Fury Road is an amazing film. This one doesn't have as much action as that one, but the action in it is great, well worth checking out before it leaves cinemas.
George Miller certainly still has it haha, what a legend.
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