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Furiosa: A MAD MAXED OUT REVIEW · May The Review Be With You

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Is the fifth installment technically takes place before Fury Road, so it's technically the
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fourth in the timeline. Actually, I might have messed that up too.
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Yeah, I think I think you should. We should stop talking. You
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know, we're not going to review this movie. It Actually we're done.
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Thank you for coming, you know, everybody, Hello, and welcome to
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May the review be with you with Nick and Joe. I'm Joe, I'm
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Nick, and today we are reviewing Furiosa, a Mad Max saga, mad
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Mas story. It's a Mad Max story. Where's Mad Max saga? Now?
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I don't know what is it? Nick? It's a saga. What's
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the difference? You tell me that rule me that? Well, it's part
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of the Mad Max saga, which began in nineteen seventy two. No,
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nineteen seventy nine. Almost mess that up. Nineteen seventy nine. I guess
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a saga film. Yeah, in saga. A saga is like a collection
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of stories. I suppose. All right, just toast infuriors now saga.
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I just got done watching this movie. This is a bit of a later
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review for us, even though we're getting this out at a bit of an
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earlier time, which is great. But Nick something that dawned on me while
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I was watching this movie. As I was diving into the sands of this
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movie, as it were, I realized twenty twenty four is the year of
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epic desert movies. Oh man, I mean I watched Dune two Part two
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again a couple of days ago, and then I went right into this well
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like, that's okay, right, so so so Dune two, right,
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furiosa mad Max saga. You got border Lands coming out later this year.
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Freaking Matt Web was, Oh no, sorry, that wasn't a desert.
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The theater was deserted. It's different. I'm so mad you just made that
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joke. I'm so mad. But anyway, the point stands. The stands.
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This is the year of epic desert movies. I've never wanted to hang
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out in a desert. Now That's all I want to do is start like
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a religious cult, or just like start a biker gang in a desert.
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Maybe have like a tricycle chariot. That sounds pretty cool. Careful what you
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wish for, Care for what you wish for. The heart inching toward that
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sort of apocalypse, aren't we Yeah, it gets more likely every day.
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However, if the trade off is a freaking awesome chariot of what is it?
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Was it three motorcycles? Three bikes? Three bikes? Yeah, it's
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just like an amazing and amazing what an amazing mode of transportation to have in
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the Oh yeah, apocalyptic, glorious, apocalyptic, glorious, glorious. Absolutely,
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that was one of my that was that was really awesome. Gosh,
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George Miller, Man, George Miller, Oh my goodness, right, the
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dude is seventy nine years old. Yeah, and managed to pull this off.
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Freaking unbelievable. I was. I was so surprised when I found out
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that he was still attached to this project. I could not believe it that
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he's still at the helm of this series, Like so so cool has lost
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a beat? No, I mean it's his story here. It's like,
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yeah, he's been telling these stories for since he was like I think,
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thirty four years old. And fun fact, he was a emergency room surgeon.
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Really used the money that he made to fund the first to help fund
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the first Mad Max movie back in back in the day with him and his
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co writer Byron no Way. Yeah, it's amazing, hot, damn.
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So that is amazing. What a good way to spend your money. Didn't.
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It wasn't until he was thirty four years old. So for all you
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out there, never too late, don't give up thirty fourth birthdays coming up?
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Oh oh oh, where's your Mad Max saga? Joe? It's do
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or Die coming up? We'll see stay tuned. So it is about that
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time. I say this reluctantly as it is a yeah, it's amazing how
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like we do this every time. I feel like I wouldn't better remind you
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I shouldn't have said anything because it's my turn. I shouldn't have said ship.
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I totally forgot Joe. It's your turn. Stop stop my turn,
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my turn for what? Uh? For those of you who don't know,
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every time we review a movie, we take turns giving a fifteen second summary.
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Joe has the honor of giving us a fifteen second summary of Furiosa,
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a Mad Max saga. He just got out of the theater, so this
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should be pretty good for Joe. I'm pausing just to make Joe a little
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nervous and forget everything he wants to say screws up. So anyway, trying
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to ice the kicker. You icing the kicker here? Yes, I am
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icing the kicker. In fact, all right, Joe, you have fifteen
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seconds to summarize Furiosa, a mad Max saga and three two one go.
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As a young girl, Furiosa is in the Green Place. She's abducted by
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a biker gang. Her mom tries to rescue her, but she's brutally murdered.
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The biker gang takes her, but then she's taken by Morgan Joe,
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and she gets caught in between a war between the two war dude, dude,
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you took your time there. I mean, so I had to say
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one more thing. I had to say one more thing. She gets her
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revenge on the biker guy. Like that's that's it. That's literally it.
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Listen, listen, listen. You took your happy ass time. Okay,
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this movie is broken down into five chapters, and you took eight of your
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eight of your fifteen seconds on the first chapter, which is the shortest part
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of the film. Really, what I should have done was three seconds per
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chapter. Yeah yeah, but you know you didn't think about that until afterwards.
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I didn't even bother mention preator Jack. Yeah. No love interest,
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which I thought was a pretty big, big point of the film's important,
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to be honest with you, it was that important. I enjoyed it.
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I enjoyed it, you know, I thought it was pretty important, you
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know, taught her the ropes. Anyway, you're grade as a C minus.
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I'll take it. I'll take it. You know. It's it's okay.
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Minus is fine. It's better than an F, which I will remind
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you, was your previous grade from one of your favorite movies. Yeah,
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that was not great. I want you to. I want you to linger
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in that. I want that to I want that to grow out of you
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like a like a tree of revenge, just just perennially growing. That will
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haunt me for the rest of my days. That was gross. In fact,
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it's very gross. It's pretty bad. So uh, C minus for
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you, Joe. But real quick, I did want to mention, because
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I did touch on it in a second ago, that this movie, which
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I enjoyed, was broken into five chapters. I thought that was really cool.
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Wasn't expecting that those five chapters I believe were called poll of Inaccessibility,
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Lessons from the Wasteland, the Stowaway, Homeward, and Beyond Vengeance, which
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is really cool. I don't know. I liked I liked the uh,
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the way that George Miller kind of broke up the storytelling there with giving us
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like those five sections. I thought that was cool. I don't want to
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I wonder why, but I would like to also comment on that. But
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however, before we get too far away from that first chapter, I just
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want to throw in a quick anecdote here. I actually missed the first title
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card of this movie because I sat in a theater with like three other people
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and we just sat there in darkness and there was just nothing. There was
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like no commercials, there were no previews, there was just nothing. We
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sat there for about twelve minutes, and like finally I was just like,
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well, I'm gonna go talk to someone. And I go to do that,
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and like I talked to like someone at concessions. I'm like, hey,
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like there's no movie playing in the theater. And she's like, oh
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yeah, let me get on that. And like she gets on like a
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phone and she's like, hey Jack, yeah, theater seven, yep,
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it's time. Okay bye, And I'm like okay, and like I walk
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back into the theater and I've missed the first minute. I was like,
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are you freaking kidding me? Like they didn't even do previews. They just
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shot right into the movie. The hell oh so bad. So so the
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guy that gets up to tell them that they need to put the movie on
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missus the first Yeah, I got punished. I got punished. That's really
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funny. Actually, you know that's why I messed up my summary neck because
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I didn't see the first minute of the movie. Yeah, that's not why
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it messed That makes sense if you don't think about it, it makes no
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sense. I do. We do have to call out the theater though.
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What was it? What was it an AMC? Was it a regal?
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Was it not? It's what is the COB? I want to say,
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it's not like a big franchise I don't think, well it was it was
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that theater that you got a free movie ticket to, The COB in downtown
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Orlando. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
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it's the Coup Plaza Cinema Cafe. Yeah, it's it's not it's not
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a big franchise film theater. Interesting. Interesting, that's that's actually really that's
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kind of cool that it's down in downtown where it's located, and it's just
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like a normal it's like privately owned I guess that's cool. I guess.
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I mean it would be even cooler if someone was doing their job that' that'd
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be awesome. All Right, Well, Joe missed the first title card,
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so he's gonna be upset about this for a while. All right, do
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your jobson, McCafe. Come on, what what you got? What's on
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your mind? So to get back into what you were saying with George Miller,
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I agree. I do enjoy the broken upness of this film. They're
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just like all real quick, just word vomit of like initial impressions. Super
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cool that we got to see the Green Place. It was quite abundant,
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honestly abundance. Seeing it actually kind of made me a little sad. And
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I think it's really interesting that we still don't know why it becomes that swamp
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land. Yeah maybe that's a it's something that's in the works. I don't
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know, but uh, yeah, that's that's interesting. Chris Hemsworth is is
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thor Ish, but in a very different, in a very subtly different way
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that I really appreciated. And honestly, I think he has way more talking
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lines than Anna Taylor Joy in this movie. And yeah, probably should be
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considered the star. I just saying, even though he's not the main character.
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I mean, he is a main character, right, but he has
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way more speaking lines. Anya Taylor Joy has I think thirty lines, and
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her first line isn't even until chapter three. Is that? Is that for
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real? It's that until chapter three? Yeah, chapter three is her first
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line. So because the first two chapters are are like her when she's younger,
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and like her her her story at the beginning of her life. So
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we don't see Anya Taylor until the third chapter, and which you know,
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from a storytelling pertive perspective, I love this. I knew that we were
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going to get kind of the origin story of Furiosa here. Obviously the movie
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is called Furiosa, but I was not expecting to get that much younger like
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girl Furiosa. Like I don't know the timing of it. I don't know
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how much time actually screen time. It was like maybe like thirty minutes,
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maybe forty minutes, whatever it was. It was. It was more than
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I was expecting from like when she was a kid. You know, I
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was not expecting to see on Anya Taylor that late, not that it was
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that late, right, because she was she was on screen for most of
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it, but it felt much later than I was expecting, but I was
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close to half the film. It was really cool. The child actress whose
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name is escaping me right now, but yeah, it was. I agree
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with you. I was. I was very surprised by it. But she
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was really good. Ali Alilah Ali La Brown, it is her name.
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She was fantastic, although I did learn something about about her, so I
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thought it was wild that they found a young actress that looked like Anya Taylor
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Joy because she has such distinct features, you know, like she's nothing sort
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of actress that you can really mix up with anybody. And was like,
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wow, it's so crazy they found someone who looks like her. That's wild.
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And she looks so much like her. No, No, she actually
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doesn't the actress, you know, it's it's her doing all the stuff.
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But they used AI imagery to like touch up her face to make it look
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more like Joy. Yeah, which I didn't realize that was something that we
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were doing these days. So well movie there, there we are. That's
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cool though, but I love the fact that we got so much backstory from
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when she was growing up, and it really like George Miller just does this
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great job with storytelling and making us see and believe like how resourceful furios is,
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Like all of those scenes with kid Furiosa, if you will like that,
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we're really really cool. And we just got a lot of detail on
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why, like she was able to survive after being kidnapped. Basically, it's
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because she was already resourceful and she was trained by you know, women warriors,
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and yeah, was able to like you know, figured out how to
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stay alive in one of those ways, was essentially acting like one of the
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boys once she got to the citadel, cutting her hair and not sitting you
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know, basically not talking. Awesome storytelling there by George Miller. And then
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yeah, super surprised again that we didn't get Onya Taylor Joy until the third
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act basically, and her first lines are badass. They're so good because like
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she's on screen, we see her for She's probably on screen for like twenty
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minutes before she actually even says her first lines, maybe longer because that scene
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where there the raiders are hijacking the war rig, that scene is like fifteen
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minutes long. That's the scene where she speaks her first lines. But there
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was like some scenes before that where she was on screen, so it might
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be like twenty plus minutes like before her actual first line when she shows up,
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which is crazy, and then she only has like thirty lines in the
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whole movie. But that scene also took like seventy eight days to film.
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Wow, that war rig scene where the raiders at the beginning with or an
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act three when Anya Taylor Joy is finally on screen, that fifteen minute scene
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took seventy eight days to film. Dude, I believe it. There's a
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lot of eight days. Seventy eight days and then two hundred stunt people.
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Yeah, fifteen minute action sequences apparently is like one of the the biggest ever.
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You can see it too. You know what's funny about that? In
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particular, like that that scene sticks out for like a lot of reasons,
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one because how long it is. Yeah, but the scene itself, Uh,
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it felt to me, it was like it reminded me a little bit
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of Fast and the Furious one where yeah, trying to steal from the semi
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right. It reminded me of that scene, and I was like, you
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know what, this is what they wanted that scene to be like in Fast
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and Furious, this is what they wanted it to be like, that's so
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funny. Yeah, and like twenty some odd years later, George Miller didn't,
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Yeah, the right way, right way. Yeah, that's amazing.
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I love that. Yeah, but that scene was so great. And I
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was reading reading too that Taylor joy and and George Miller would have conversations about
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that scene and he was explained to her why this the scene had to be
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this long and it and his answer was because the audience like needs to understand
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how resourceful Furiosa is and like and like in how smart and all that she
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is. And like that scene definitely does the trick like you you you it
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get He sets us up with kid furiosis, you know, introduction in the
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first part of the film, and then that war rig scene with Furiosa like
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brings home how smart and resourceful she is with like, you know, just
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everything about the war rig. And she obviously helped build the war rig too,
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so she knew a lot of things about it. So fantastic, unbelievable,
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like seventy eight days for one scene. Imagine that's insane. Yeah,
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I wonder, I wonder what the budget for that one scene was. I
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don't have that that that's a great question. Honestly, that's got to make
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some producer sweat out there. He's like, I don't even I don't care
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how much movie, how much money this movie makes. I don't want to
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think about how much money that scene costs. Yeah, I just don't want
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to think about it. That's what that is crazy seventy eight days man,
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and sorry, go ahead. I was gonna say the other thing though,
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like what's great about that scene is, like I said this, it's the
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it's the first lines that Furiosa says or is that like towards the very end
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of that scene, like you have this whole build up where you're watching her
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just be extremely resourceful and like a total badass and crawling underneath the war rig
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and then like taken out, taking out all these raiders and everything, and
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she's like one of the last last one standing, the last one's standing,
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and she's on top of the war rig, and they've got this like they
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call it the bounty Hunter. At the at the very end, that get
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the thing that twirls with like the spiked balls or whatever. Yeah, and
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and the war boy like the war boys like asking if you know he should
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turn it on and to this point, she still hasn't said any lines.
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She's been on the screen for like thirty minutes, and there's just this like
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tension and I'm just like, and the tension is so good that you yourself
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want to scream yes. And then her first lines are her screaming back to
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him the bounty Hunter, do the bounty Hunter now, which is like,
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I love because he just George Miller does such a good job and she did
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such a fantastic job of just bringing the tension, and you're just like,
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is she gonna speak at all? And then she's just yelling with you basically
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to turn this damn machine on so that they could like finish the battle and
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win. Yeah, the use of or the lack of lines speaking lines from
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from Furiosa was like, I thought, incredibly well done and a tailor.
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Joy did that like a fantastic She's just fantastic with thirty lines. I didn't
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feel like it didn't feel weird to me at all. So personally, I
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so one of the things I want to I want to address that, but
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to do it, I have to go bigger here. First. I enjoy
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this movie, even though I don't think I don't think I enjoyed it as
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much as Fury Fury Road. I think Fury Road like is ambitious in a
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very different way and covers a lot of ground. This movie is as far
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as like its characters go, Like, it feels like the story it's trying
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to tell is a lot simpler, right, this like quest for Revenge,
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And in doing so, it takes these two characters and you know, it
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pits them against each other, and you know, we're we're able to like
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examine them through that journey, right, And what I really enjoy about that
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is, like, you know, toward the end of this movie, we
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have Dementis like arguing like you know, the whole like hero villain thing,
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like we're not so different, you and me, Spider Man, you know,
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like always that, but they really are diametrically opposed in a lot of
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ways. You know, as you just pointed out, She's a really quiet
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character the way she's written. You know, she's very meticulous. She's always
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thinking about like down the road, whereas like Dementis is exactly the opposite.
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Right, He's a very smart character, but he's very short sighted, right.
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He thinks about like what's directly in front of him, and like had
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a problem solved, like right then and there. And like he's the opposite
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of a quiet character, right, Like you always know what he's thinking about.
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He's always talking. I love that they are polar opposites, right,
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But I guess in their quest for revenge, maybe they aren't so different,
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right, And I guess that's the point he tries to make at the end,
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which that scene at the end where they are just talking to each other,
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is probably my favorite scene in the entire movie. Oh yeah, yeah,
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that's so well done. They're both fantastic during that scene. Oh my
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gosh, I could watch that scene like one hundred times in a row.
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That was fantastic. Chris Hemsworth is a good bad guy. Yeah, a
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really really great, awful villain. Well. And I think this kind of
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villain, though, played to his strength a lot too, right, because
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he's also he's got like a lot of really good qualities from like a comedic
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perspective about him. And so this was a kind of villain that let him
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also be funny and like, I don't know, there's a lot of just
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him being himself in a way. It felt like just a little little loose
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he was just it was yeah, he was just he just did a wonderful
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job like being a bad joy. I enjoy that there is something familiar about
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the performance, right, Like there you can see Thor like in the performance,
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but it's not quite Thor, right right, Like they're like, you
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know, the the vanity is there, the bravado is there for Thor,
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and then of course the humor from Thor is there, but there's also this
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like there's this selfish disregard for the people around him, right yeah, and
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yeah, I mean very appropriately named, right, there's this dementedness to him.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I love that. It's it's it's
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Thor, but just like sort of like askew. It's like it's Thor,
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but like there's something just off about him. You know. It was a
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good subtle difference that I thought he made, and I, like I said,
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I thought he was just a really compelling bad guy, especially the scene
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where they're escaping. Is it the bullet factory when when she and Jack are
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trying to escape the bullet factory and bullet farm? I think bullet farm,
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Yeah, the bullet farm, and and it you know, the gate is
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blocked by like a bunch of cars and like someone's like get the digga and
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he's like no, no time, and like just starts like bullheaded, like
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randing into it over and over again. The only thing that bothered me about
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that is they tried to do it with the Warwig earlier in the scene and
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it didn't work. And then they like Jack takes off and just decides to
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go through the plate the bullet farm and Firiosa goes like through the gate to
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help him. And then at the end when when Dementus just takes a another
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truck that's not like to me was not any more equipped to be able to
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take down a gate. Still, I had the same thought. But I
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think I think that truck we are led to believe after he plows through the
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game, I guess the gate is supposed to show us this actually when he
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does that. Later we see another feat of speed from this truck as it
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like goes up the hill right the dune and like no other bike can do
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it, and like it pulls off like a few like different feats of like
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crazy like strength and speed. Yeah, and you know, because of how
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big the tires were on that he was able to actually like get over the
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gate once he tore down, right, So that was the other thing I
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was thinking, And in the moment when I was watching it, I was
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like, ah, no, I feel that, but that's a small thing
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I have that actually happened to me a couple times in this movie. So
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overall, like I had a great time watching firios. I thought it was
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it was a really fun ride. But I think, I think maybe this
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is just a personal thing for me. Revenge stories, I feel like the
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story is always in the last like five minutes, and everything for the story,
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for the revenge story is the build up. I am thinking of another
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Anya Taylor Joy film that was a revenge story. She was not the in
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attraction of it though. The Northman again another revenge story where like the horrible
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thing happens in the beginning and then the character like goes through like the shit
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that like will make him like into the perfect monster that they'll be at the
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end to like pay off the revenge, right, And I don't know,
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I just feel like, as far as those stories go, like this didn't
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really deliver me anything different that I've seen, And as we pointed out before,
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it even does like the stereotypical of like we're not so different you and
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I, which, like, I am so tired of that conversation. Yeah,
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writers, yet your people to say something different. I'm sorry, like,
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no more, no more, We're not so different. We are,
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We're pretty different, we can be very different. I'm over it, you
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know. I mean, I'll give you that. You're making a good point
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about how that always in our revenge story seems to be the between the bad
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guy and the good guy, a good girl whatever, right, Like,
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there's always the we're not so different vibe, and it is overplayed. I
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think it was, like, yeah, I think it was delivered well here
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to where it is, you know, nothing against the actors. Yeah,
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but that's a great point. I will also say, it's tough in this
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kind of a world. It's tough to really say that anyone is good or
27:22
bad, right because you know, granted, Furiosa comes from a place that,
27:29
for all we know, seems like it's good, right, but it
27:33
can't. But it's also secluded and they're trying to keep everyone out, so
27:38
they're not one hundred percent good because they're also not trying to help, not
27:44
that they could. With how Laurel Gray area we have, it's a pretty
27:48
good argument granted, pretty good argument when you see what's out there, I
27:52
don't know, no one wants their help. They would just take over.
27:55
So it's kind of a catch twenty two situation on uh you know the gray
28:00
area there, but no one's really the good guy or the good girl,
28:07
right like Furiosa even has you know, by the time we get to the
28:11
her getting revenged at the end, like she's done plenty of bad ship at
28:15
that point, right she depending on who you are, like she's the bad
28:21
the bad person of the film, right so, I mean, granted,
28:26
I mean she tas she's not right, she's she's the badass and she's the
28:30
the good the good side of the film. But in this kind of a
28:34
world, it's hard to really guarantee who really is good or bad. Everyone's
28:40
just out out for themselves. But that is a good point about coming up
28:45
with something new regarding the vengeance story. You know, you know an example
28:53
of a film like taking something that's been overdone, I like rewriting it,
28:57
but like you know exactly what it is is that they're trying to say.
29:02
So Captain America's Civil War, there's that scene between Tony Stark and Peter Barker
29:08
and Tony's like, so, like what's your mo Like why do you do
29:12
what you do? Like why do you get out of bed every day?
29:14
What's what's your thing? And Peter's like, well, when you can do
29:18
the things that I can do and then you don't and then the bad things
29:23
happen, well, then that's not you. With great power comes great responsibility.
29:30
Like we all know what it was that like they wanted him to say,
29:33
but they're like, oh, we've all heard it a million times,
29:37
let's not do it here, right, So like yeah, like there are
29:42
ways around it, guys, Like you can do it without actually doing the
29:45
cliche, you know. Yeah, And who knows, maybe I wouldn't have
29:49
cared that much about the revenge story being like overdone had it not been for
29:55
that line, you know, right that being said, Like I think,
30:00
uh, I think as far as revenge stories go, I enjoyed the world
30:07
building that we got out of this revenge stories, you know, like seeing
30:11
the bullet farm, seeing gas town, uh, and like the way that
30:15
like that their war was starting. I wish we got to see a little
30:18
bit more of the war, but the way that started and then the way
30:22
it ends awesome. So yeah, that that aspect of it. I really
30:30
enjoyed some parts that I thought we're a little like lackluster, so preatory predatory
30:41
and Jack cool name. By the way, the moment you see this guy,
30:47
you're like, okay, well, like this is the love interest because
30:48
this is the only handsome man in the entire world. There's it's just it's
30:57
just a world of and then this one man, this one bastion of handsomeness.
31:04
Yeah. Plus he's got the black the black paint on his forehead,
31:08
which we all knew to be a furiosa thing from Fiery Road, And so
31:14
you see that too, and you're like, Okay, this is about to
31:15
be some kind of storyline because clearly this is where she gets her her war
31:22
paint from. That is so funny. He's the only good looking man in
31:26
the whole world. Of course, it is the love interest. Well point
31:32
though, so there were two things about that though, So like A,
31:34
he's handsome as hell, right uh, And then like b his name is
31:40
uh, Preatorian Jack, which like to this point, other than like Immorton
31:45
Joe, is like the coolest name we've gone so far, Like are you
31:48
kidding me? Preatorian Jack, Like you're competing with rictus, erectus and scrotus,
31:56
Like are you like no one stands a chance against the sky, Like
32:01
he's perfect in this world and he's a good shooter and driver. What's he
32:07
bad at? I guess, I guess living at the end. But like
32:09
other than that, like girl, stand Alive, not very good at stand
32:17
alive. That was heartbreaking. It's like you knew it wasn't gonna happen,
32:21
because obviously we know how it ends. But what if. Man, they
32:25
were so close, they were so close. Was there any part of you
32:30
that I know, I know that it can't happen because of like the timeline,
32:35
Was there any unreasonable part of you that was like, and this is
32:38
when Max shows up to save the day? Well, I mean Max did
32:43
show up. He does, he does, right, he does. I
32:47
didn't think he were gonna see her in the credits he shows up, Yeah,
32:52
but but he's he's there at the one shot where I think she's walking.
32:59
Yeah, right, and then you they zoom out and they show him
33:02
with his car. Yeah, I was at the top of the top of
33:06
the dune. But it was the watching it wasn't it wasn't Tom Hardy.
33:09
It was the guy who does who was a stunt double for mad Max Fiery
33:14
Road, Jack Jackson, because I think he was on I think he was
33:21
doing some stunts for this movie, for FiOS, for someone else or whatever,
33:25
So he was already there and so they used him in that shot.
33:30
That's pretty deep. So cool. Yeah, we got mad Max, you
33:32
know, and then we shot we Charlie's they're on at the very end when
33:37
they showed us. I think there were some actually they were old there was
33:40
the very beginning of the old clips. Yes, it was just like the
33:44
highlights. Yeah, there were actually Fury Road clips. Yeah, Fury I
33:49
think. Yeah, but that was pretty neat. Yeah, but go ahead.
33:54
So sorry, my actual point about Paratory and Jack, Sorry, I
33:59
got I got off. He's so handsome, he's got off tangent. So
34:05
after the war rig scene, which we agree amazing scene and probably one of
34:10
the best in the whole movie, he's like, yeah, I need a
34:15
new creom starting again. You know, stick with me. I'll teach you
34:19
everything you need to know to get back to the place you need to get
34:22
to right and then like we we get a fast forward through time and like
34:29
she's got everything she needs at this point, and like we're we're getting up
34:34
to like the war I'll be honest, I was a little disappointed that we
34:37
weren't gonna get more of that, you know, Like I honestly could have
34:40
done a little bit less of the war rig scene and gone into like not
34:46
like a training montage, but just like them going on missions together, like
34:51
at least one mission together, where like she doesn't know all the shit yet,
34:53
right, and like we just see him teach her one thing, right,
34:58
right. I don't think we actually ever see him teach her anything,
35:00
do we? No, I don't think so. But I think this goes
35:04
back to George Miller's point about why the word scene is so long to show
35:08
us how resourceful she is already. So I think it's kind of one of
35:12
those things where he didn't want to like then show her learning something because we're
35:16
already supposed to imply that like she's just gonna absorb whatever information. And so
35:22
it's probably true, but like I get what you're saying, It makes that
35:24
that would have I would have enjoyed that too, maybe a little bit more
35:29
about like help like flesh out their relationship, right, because like we go
35:32
from that to like, oh they fucking like like like immediately, which like
35:39
who could blame her? You know, like, yeah, it's the only
35:43
handsome man in the world. Yeah, it truly is. Though. That's
35:47
so funny, which Bye, by the way, meant to bring this up
35:52
earlier another like, I don't know if it's an issue. It's something about
35:58
the movie that I thought was going to come back and never it never actually
36:01
does. So when I Morton Joe makes the deal with Dementis and he ends
36:07
up taking Furiosa to like be his like eventual bride, which is gross.
36:17
She escapes, right, but it's after she thwarts his son who like presumably
36:22
is going to do something awful to her, right, and then like she
36:27
just like disappears. Eventually she kind of wriggles her way back into like the
36:31
situation I'm fine with, Like in Morton Joe like not recognizing her. I
36:36
think that makes sense him not recognizing her, But like, is there really
36:39
like not one scene where he's like, hey, where's that bargaining chip that
36:45
like this whole deal was centered around. Is she still here? What do
36:50
you mean she's gone? Yeah? Like how is there not one scene about
36:53
that. Yeah, that that is a great point that you know she ran
36:59
away, and especially because his son knows that she ran away and it was
37:04
his fault, so there is no uproar. You would think there'd be an
37:08
uproar about why she gone after this, after that whole thing. But also
37:15
it might just be because he has so many wives or potential wives that it
37:20
doesn't matter, right, But no, I agree with that that it doesn't
37:23
matter probably in the end. Yeah, it shouldn't have been hard to put
37:27
in a thirty second the what do you mean she's gone? You know,
37:30
right fast forward to her cutting her hair and or she already did that,
37:35
but fast forward to her like earning her way up up the ranks as a
37:39
war boy. Basically, Yeah, that's a good point. Okay, one
37:46
quick thing and then there's a bigger thing I definitely want to talk to you
37:50
about, because I'm sure you also wait before you get to your big thing.
37:54
Let's take a quick word from our sponsors, and we're back. Nick,
38:00
you said you had a big thing. I have a small thing and
38:02
then a big thing. Small thing of that big thing. The small thing
38:06
is that I liked that we got to uh, we got to see the
38:08
music, the guitar, the flaming music, guitar, stereo guy. Briefly,
38:14
I was also very happy about that. I was waiting for him the
38:16
whole time. I was like, please, please, is he here yet?
38:19
Is he a part of the world yet? Please? And we got
38:22
him. I like, yeah, that's like my favorite part of Fury Road.
38:25
That guy. I just like, put just put that guy's scenes on
38:29
a projector in a room. I'll just sit there for hours. It's hilarious.
38:32
It's so funny, is so great. It's so ridiculous. The man's
38:36
a mobile concert. It's so ridiculous. But that was cool to see we
38:39
got that. And then the other thing is, I want to talk about
38:45
History Man. Oh yeah, you mean Homeless Gandolf. Yes, that's what
38:52
he was. He was he was Yeah, I said what I said,
38:55
Homeless Gandalf. That's all. Oh my god, that's amazing. Sry your
39:05
point, your point about it doesn't matter. Now my point doesn't matter.
39:09
You've ruined everything about History Man. I thought his name was cool and everything.
39:14
He just renamed homeless Gandal. Well, but the thing about History Man
39:21
is he's actually very integral in the whole Mad Max world. So he's like,
39:25
so the narrator, the narrator of the film. You know how we
39:30
had a couple points where there was a narration that was that was history Man.
39:34
Yes, that I did recognize. Yeah, and I guess George Miller
39:39
says that like history Man and the narrating is part of Because the Mad Max
39:45
story story or saga takes place over decades, you need like the his the
39:52
those stories are passed through generations from the history man of the worlds at the
39:59
time or whatever. So that's like, I guess the reason for having even
40:02
the character at all and then also having him like narrate is how like this
40:10
world essentially passes along stories is with the history men of the generations basically because
40:17
there's no you know, social media or electronics basically in this apocalyptic world.
40:22
So I thought that was cool, but not as cool as I thought.
40:27
After hearing the homeless Scandalf, dude, I just couldn't. I couldn't done
40:34
see it man, Like it was it was the cloak that he was wearing.
40:37
I was like, yeah, dude, he's just well Martandal. I
40:40
will say he did have this one line towards the end too, when when
40:44
Furiosa brings this like rinky dink car to the war and then they take her
40:51
tire and then she steals the car that they put the tire on, and
40:54
she that's when she she goes and finds a dementis by herself to at the
40:59
end of the But as she drives away, history man just like straight up
41:05
like zoomed in camera right on him, and then he's just like, it's
41:07
the fifth Rider of the Apocalypse. And that was so funny. I don't
41:14
think I don't think it was. I totally agree with you, I because
41:19
it was so it was so overly dramatic. Yeah, because like because like
41:24
if if the camera wasn't on him, and like it was just his disembodied
41:29
voice and like her writing off the distance and him and like you hear like
41:31
the fifth Rider of the Apocalypse, right, Like that would be really cool.
41:36
But it's the fact that you see him say it next to all of
41:38
these like garbage looking people and like he's like the most eloquent sounding one.
41:43
He's so out of place, yeah, and like he has no reason a
41:46
to know who's even driving the car, and like b to say this to
41:52
be like in awe of it, like he should be like, oh shit,
41:54
like right they she took the car, like if if like they knew
42:00
that she in the first place, they know who took it, which I'm
42:01
pretty sure they don't. Yeah. No, that scene was funny. Yeah,
42:07
that was funny for sure. It's like he was right. It was
42:10
like he was holding on to it. Yeah, like he was writing it
42:15
like a week later after telling a story on paper or something. You know,
42:17
it's like, what would I what should I say in this moment?
42:21
Oh, it's the fifth writer of the And then I was like, oh,
42:23
she's totally the fifth writer of the Apocalypse. Yeah, I'm so glad.
42:30
I'm so glad you noticed that too, because that was I had to
42:32
write that down. I was like, this is hilarious. It was.
42:37
It was the most immersion breaking scene of the movie for me. When he
42:42
when he said, I was like, that's so stupid. I love that.
42:45
That just oh one other thing that I thought was kind of not dumb,
42:51
but it bothered me throughout the film. What's what the constellations on her
42:54
arm that she she drew herself and then this father got him. Yeah,
43:00
they didn't set anything up constellation wise, really right, I mean, ever,
43:05
at the very beginning, her mother says something about like follow the stars
43:09
or or something, but it wasn't enough to warrant her like constantly looking at
43:16
her tattoo to find her way back home because she honestly didn't even know where
43:21
anyway. Right, You think she knew what direction to go regardless, right,
43:24
or she had a vague idea, but like and if you know what,
43:29
if you know it well enough to draw it on your arm, then
43:31
like you don't need an illustrative reminder, right, unless it's like it's more
43:37
it's more poignant and emotional and she just wants to remember home. Yeah,
43:40
right, Like if it's that, okay, cool, But there's no indication
43:44
that it's that, you know, right, I mean it's probably partly that,
43:46
but it just felt it felt like something we didn't really need. Yeah,
43:51
I agree, I mean if anything, like I can only think of
43:54
one thing for this, and like, if I'm Miller, which I'm clear
44:00
not, but but if I was, if I was, You're going into
44:06
this movie this is actually okay, So I'll give him this. This is
44:10
creative. So the problem with prequels is it is hard to build steaks in
44:20
a prequel because you already know what's going to happen, right, Like,
44:24
even without having watched the film, you know two things. You know,
44:29
Immorton Joe is going to be fine, you know it all right, I
44:30
guess you know a few things. You know, his sons are going to
44:32
be fine. You know, Furiosa is going to be fine. You know
44:36
Dementis is probably not going to be fine, right, and his gang right,
44:42
So like you know all those things, and like that's what the conflict
44:45
is like generating around. So like how you get around that usually is you
44:50
know, you you built in emotional steaks in a way that maybe the viewer
44:57
cannot see coming, right, like building up like an emotional context to something
45:02
that the viewer couldn't have possibly have known beforehand. And the star thing is
45:08
one way to do that. I don't think that this hits, but I
45:10
think that this is what he might have been going for. So we know
45:14
that furios is gonna lose her arm at some point in the movie, right,
45:17
and then in the beginning she draws like the stars on her arm,
45:22
and if we're right, if it's supposed to be more of an emotional thing,
45:24
a reminder of home than her losing her arm. I mean, like,
45:30
I feel like you don't have to build too much of an emotional context
45:32
to lose your arm. You've lost your arm. That's pretty emotionally devastating in
45:37
and of itself. But if it's supposed to be a reminder of home,
45:42
I could see that being a very clever bit of writing. Again, I
45:45
don't think it if it's supposed to be that, I don't think it hits
45:49
really at all. Yeah, but principle, I didn't even realize at the
45:54
end after she loses her arm that the drawings were on the arm that she
45:58
lost. Yeah, kind of like maybe even boilers for me to be complaining
46:01
about because you doesn't even have the arm anymore anyway. Well no, because
46:04
well, like to your point you said, like what was the point of
46:07
that? Yeah, yeah, because like it doesn't really add up to anything
46:09
except being lost. Yeah. And I also I love that George made sure
46:15
not to give us the arm ripping off scene until like muchs later, because
46:21
we didn't know how, but you knew it was gonna happen at some points,
46:22
like Okay, we're going to figure out, like this is how did
46:24
she lose her arm? We're gonna find out in this movie, and I
46:28
felt like there were a lot of moments it could have happened, and I'm
46:30
like, okay, this is it. It happened like four times, like
46:32
oh this is this is the moment for sure. Nope, this is it.
46:36
Nope. Yeah, like this is the word scene. Yeah, there's
46:37
one one moment. Yeah. And then she gets her arm stuck and you're
46:42
like, okay, like her arm shed They're gonna have to, like she'll
46:46
lose that part of her arm because the wound is too bad. Right.
46:51
But then that wasn't completely it because then they tied her up by the arm,
46:53
and the second her arm goes up on the tie, you're like,
46:55
oh god, because you see the bone sticking out. You're just like,
47:00
oh, okay, so this is gonna snap eventually. And then and then
47:06
that was a really cool scene. Obviously this is when Jack dies, which
47:08
you know, that's super sad when the best looking character in the film,
47:14
excuse me, aside from Curiosa although furios is not necessarily hot, Anya Taylor
47:22
Joy is, but when she's playing Furios and maybe not the whole time anyway,
47:29
dig yourself out of this. Yea, we wish Jack was still with
47:34
us. But that seems really cool because she again shows her resourcefulness and after
47:42
they have you know, like gotten this like sand tornado like spun up by
47:47
just going in circles and dragging Jack around and just like making all this commotion.
47:52
She's under the cover of all this desert and they they're not paying attention
47:57
to her at that moment, and she she probably detaches the rest of her
48:01
arm herself, of course, and takes off and is able to able to
48:08
get away, which is just like another resourceful moment, really cool and brutal.
48:15
Jesus. I do love that she is ultimately responsible for cutting off her
48:22
own arm, right, like obviously, like stuff happens to her and that
48:25
forces her to do it, but like it's not like someone took her arm,
48:28
like she decided I'm getting out of here, you know, ye,
48:32
very on brand. Yeah, And then for the character, the resourcefulness to
48:37
like build herself another arm which is gasoline powered, right, is so cool?
48:43
Like what this is amazing, like very very cool. I love that.
48:50
Yeah. And then I think I have like one or two more things,
48:53
including a something you might not know about the film, but I'm wondering
48:57
if you have anything else you wanted to talk about before I bring that I
48:59
do, actually, and it's about that scene. So Simon Dugan is the
49:06
cinematographer for this movie, and he's done a bunch of stuff before, to
49:10
my favorites being I Robot and The Great Gatsby. That one in particular is
49:17
beautifully shot. I think that's probably his at least that's my favorite thing that
49:22
he's shot. Can I just pause real quick? Sure? So those I
49:27
Robot, The Great Gatsby, and Furiosa. Yeah, that's a trifecta for
49:31
a cinematographer. Pretty good. What a random ass three movies the name.
49:37
Obviously he's done many other things, Yes, yes, Like there's got to
49:43
be like three other movies he's done to mention instead of I Robot, Like
49:45
what wait, hold on, hold on, are we anti I Robot here?
49:50
I'm not anti EE Robot. I just I haven't seen it in like
49:53
fifteen years, and it just seems like such a random movie to mention at
49:57
the moment. I have to go look at this guys all right discography now,
50:01
because I feel like there's like another movie you might have mentioned instead of
50:05
I Robot, Like when I when I went to take a look I'm pretty
50:08
sure those are the two biggest that he's responsible for. Okay, all right,
50:12
never mind, so he didn't do he was, don't get me wrong.
50:15
There are other notable films. I'm pretty sure those are the two they
50:19
released my two favorites. Okay, So random that I Robot was so random
50:23
to me to talk about I Robot more later. I get the randomness now
50:28
that you like mention it, But like, yo, I Robot rules.
50:31
I might watch it tomorrow night. Actually, because now we're talking about you,
50:35
we'll talk about it afterwards. Kay, I'm gonna watch it tomorrow night.
50:37
So we're gonna review I Robot next week. Let's do it. I
50:40
love My Robot. It's such a fun movie. Alright. Well, I
50:45
just got myself into something I probably don't actually want to do, but here
50:49
we go. All right, So, but he wasn't a cinematographer for Furiy
50:52
Road that I assume. I mean, Fury Road was like twenty fifteen.
50:57
He was not there. But anyway, sorry, yeah, So, so
51:00
Simon Simon Dugan shoots this movie. It's it's a beautiful movie. There are
51:06
so many different I you know, after watching this in Dune, I'm wondering,
51:10
like is it just a cheat code to like shoot in the desert?
51:14
Can you just like create beautiful images like that easily? I know it's not
51:17
I know they have talent, but like, damn do they make it look
51:20
effortless? It's really good. The scene you just mentioned, though, has
51:23
my my favorite shot of the entire movie, and I just love how like
51:29
creative it is. I think, like usually I'm not a big fan of
51:35
fade faded transitions, you know, like when when one scene like fades into
51:40
another, Like they're fine and like they're effective, but like they never usually
51:45
stick with me, and they're not supposed to write. They're supposed to be
51:49
seamless, right, Like you just go to one scene transition to the next,
51:52
right, Like we keep it moving. It's not supposed to take you
51:54
out of the film. It's literally supposed to like skate by you. Right.
52:01
There's a shot here though, where they got really creative with that faded
52:05
transition where Dementus says, like you know, like he says whatever he says,
52:12
and like the bikers like start going in circles, right, but like
52:16
the camera's lingering on his face like while he's doing that, and it transitions
52:22
to a wide shot of the bikers going in circles around the encampment that they've
52:29
created, but there's still like fifty percent opacity of Dementus's face, so like
52:36
it looks like you're getting this like inside look of what it's like to be
52:40
inside Dementus's head with all these bikes just circling around and all like the sand
52:45
and the twister like going around, like it looks insane. It looks like
52:50
he's insane, and just like, yeah, just like visually, like what
52:54
a great way to communicate, like, where the hell this character is right
52:58
now? An angry crazy person. Yeah, And he was having a moment
53:04
too there while he was wh they were all going wild. That was.
53:06
That was a moment that he was having internally, Yeah, that was.
53:09
I think that was like one of his most emotionally unstable moments. Like I
53:14
was legitimately scared of him in that moment. I was like, oh man,
53:17
yeah, so yeah, Chef's GISs to that. Here's something that you
53:22
might not know about Furiosa, or rather something you might not have noticed upon
53:30
first watch of the film, and it has to do with, uh,
53:37
two smaller characters in the movie okay that you you know, just very in
53:44
passing Chris Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth's wife, Elsa pat Pet Paddocky, Pet Pattacky.
53:52
I'm not sure how you say her last name, but Elsa actually plays
53:58
two characters in this film. She plays She plays one of the women from
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the Green Place at the very beginning, which is very obvious. You see
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her at the very beginning of the film, and she's a I think she's
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she's like some sort of general at the Green Place and furios Is. She's
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the one who goes after the raiders with Furiosa's mother, and then Furios's mother
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continues the journey on her own, and so that's her first appearance. And
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then in the next chapter when we meet Dementus, or actually I think we
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still meet I think we meet Dementus in chapter one as well, but in
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the next chapter, in chapter two is this scene was the most gruesome to
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me in probably the whole film. And in chapter two when Dementus is like
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just like him and his crew just conquered some other crew or whatever, and
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there there's only a certain amount of spots on Dementus's biker gang and you have
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to fight to win or whatever, and so that you have to fight each
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other to get a spot on a bike, and then you have to and
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then there's like five or six bikes that are tied to this person who's in
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the center, and they're all going to hit the gas pedal and just rip
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this guy's limbs off. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. But Elsa her the other
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character she plays, and she plays this character for the rest of the film.
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I think that character's name is actually mister Norton, if I ever looked
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it up correctly. So funny. But and you see this really quickly.
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She is a part of the game that the people have to fight to get
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a spot on one of the bikes to then rip this guy's limbs off.
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She's the lastest one, she's like the last one that gets on. But
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she gets her face like just destroyed. So she's got this disgusting deformity for
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the whole film on her face, so you can't really tell it's her,
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But that's her other character, right, So that's the other character, which
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is why she's able to play two characters, because she plays like a deformed,
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a deformed biker gang member for damentus, I love that. And she
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gets another close up one time at the very end, because like they did
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a good job of like not showing her like a close up or anything.
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I mostly see, probably because I remembered her messed up mouth. Yeah,
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at the very end, they do a close up of her, and I
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imagine at that point it was spaced out enough to where people weren't bothered.
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But at the beginning of the film, I noticed her and I was like,
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I'm pretty sure that's his wife playing a second part, and then it
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I was the whole film. I was like trying to like get a good
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shot of her, and they didn't do it again until the very end,
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probably to hope the audience wouldn't realize it or something, but I did.
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You didn't fool me, George anyway. I thought that was like a fun
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fact and that was pretty cool. No, that's that's sick. I like
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that. That's a that's a good Easter egg hunting. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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yeah yeah, yeah, so shall be great. Let's do some grades.
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Man. I loved Let's maybe you want to see I wanted to rewatch
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Fury Road again even though I just watched it last week. I was like,
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man, I really want to watch Furio now because like you just have
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this whole extra backstory on why Furios is the way that she is. So
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it's cool. You know, this movie actually made me wonder, Like,
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so, I guess quick side note before we grade this movie, but like
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so, Fury Road is like pretty famous for being stuck in like development hell
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for a long time, right, Like I think I think George has like
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the idea for Fury Road, like back in like nineteen eighty seven. Yeah,
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and I think you're right, yeah, and like he can't get it
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off the ground. I think there's problems when like nine to eleven shows up,
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and then I think that the whole project gets side railed for a while.
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But anyway, the reason why bring that up? This movie made me
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wonder, like how much of Furios's like backstory was originally supposed to be part
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of Fury Road. You know, so originally he wanted to film They were
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supposed to film them both, I think at the same time, AHH supposed
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to come out back to back, and then when they started pre production for
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both for for Fury for both of them, they really they decided to just
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do Fury Road the first time. So it wasn't until pre production because I
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think going into pre production, they're like, we're gonna do two movies back
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to back. We have a plan, and then they started pre production they're
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like, holy shit, there's no looking way because if you think about both
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movies, you're like, yeah, no shit, you can't do both back
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to back. Like it took them forth. It took him seventy eight days
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for war rigscene, Like they're not filming movies. It makes sense when you
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think about it, Like when you think about this film, like there's just
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so many parts of it that feel like that maybe they should have been in
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Fury in Fury Road, like like the very beginning with like the green plays.
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You know, yeah, is a strong word that they could have been
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in Furi like the beginning with the green plays for context. Yeah, yeah,
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exactly like that. That feels like that absolutely could have been in the
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original movie, in the last movie. Right, but yeah, that makes
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sense sense, Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. Now it's it is
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complete. Now you can you can complete watch Furios and go right into right
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into this and and another another fun fact, too real quick, Charlie's stare
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on was not Obviously, she did not reprise her role as as Furio said
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in this film, because George Miller didn't want to use Ai to like dage
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her basically, and he decided he'd rather recast, which Charlie's was apparently a
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little bit bummed about but understood. At least that's the quote I saw.
1:00:01
Who knows she might still be pissed. But that does make me though,
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like, how how many more movies can Anya Taylor Joy play a ting a
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teen in? Like so she she was a teen in New Mutants as well,
1:00:20
but like she's like, I'm pretty sure she's on the other side of
1:00:22
twenty five. I mean it was like she looks young. She does look
1:00:29
young, she does, so maybe she's got a couple more teen movies in
1:00:32
her before before it's all over. I like that though, the recasting,
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especially because it's been sady jam since since Fury Road, and I think it
1:00:40
it it would be I definitely want to rewatch Fury Road now that I've seen
1:00:46
this and just just to like, you know, see how it goes but
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right, and nothing to like knock the original performance. But I don't think
1:00:54
like, at least at in twenty fifteen, I don't think Furiosa was like
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iconic enough of a character to not have another actress come in and play her,
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you know, like like it's not like Indiana Jones one came out and
1:01:12
then Indiana Jones two and like you didn't have Harrison Ford right right, right
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right, yeah, like Furiosa is Charlie's there on, but like now she's
1:01:22
also Anya Taylor Joy, right. They both crushed it. Oh yeah,
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And I think that Anya Taylor Joy did a really good job of uh kind
1:01:34
of picking up some mannerisms that Charlie's would have used in Fury Roads. So
1:01:37
like, I actually think watching them back to back would be like seamless because
1:01:42
they both did such a good job and I think they they blended it perfectly.
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So yeah, anyway, kudos to them. Fantastic performance. Let's score
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it all right, let's do it. I'm giving it a three. Serious,
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Yeah, I'm giving it a three, even like you were just like
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it's a three. Good night, see, I've given it a three.
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Here's the thing. I I enjoyed the heck out of this movie. I
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really had a fun time with it. I stay by what I said earlier.
1:02:15
I think prequels really do have a hard time creating something that's like not
1:02:22
an artificial, artificial conflict, right, like you kind of know where everything's
1:02:27
going. Revenge stories are overly simple to the point of like again, you
1:02:31
know where it's going. So it's got both of those things working against it.
1:02:36
There was one other thing that bothered me about it. I can't recall
1:02:39
what it was. But anyway, overall, it's not enough for me to
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say this movie is bad. By no means is it bad. It's a
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good movie anything. People see it in theaters. Absolutely absolutely for the warwhig
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scene alone, go seed in theaters. I definitely got a seed in theaters.
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One hundred percent worth going worth going to twice in theaters. In my
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opinion, I love this movie. George Miller crushed it, as you mentioned,
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signed with cinematography fantastic, Annie Taylor Joy amazing, Chris Hamsworth amazing.
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It took seventy eight days to film a damn fifteen minutes scene action scene,
1:03:16
Like you have to go see this in theaters. It's fantastic. I'm giving
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it a four point two. It's it's great. It's a really solid score,
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way higher than Joe. Although I see where Joe came from, I
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do understand his points. But I think that the the origin story of Furios
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is like it's super well done. So four point two that's a review.
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That's a review. Next time we are we're doing a TV show next time,
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right, Like, what's what's the next act? Lie? Oh man?
1:03:52
Nick, We're doing a Star Wars thing next, oh man? And
1:03:54
do you think I think the act lite will have a desert in it.
1:04:00
I think it's got a heavy desert. It's got it right, It's got
1:04:03
twenty four, the Year of the Desert. Let you go. Yeah,
1:04:09
apparently some people have seen the first couple of episodes already, just like a
1:04:12
sneak peek, and it's like, apparently really awesome. So I'm stoked for
1:04:15
this, super stoked. So we're talking about Acolyte next for sure, that's
1:04:19
in. That's in about ten days. Okay, something get excited about.
1:04:25
Yeah, hecky, Star Wars Baby, finally Wars Baby. We're back.
1:04:29
We're back baby, let's go. But until then, made the review be with you