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I left my X Men ninety seven aka's behind this week. Shout out to
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everybody who's been listening to our reviews of X Men ninety seven. Yes,
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we might be back with an all star review next week. We'll see what
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happens. But today, tonight, whatever time you're listening to us, we
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are here to talk about Furiosa, a mad Matt saga, which we had
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the pleasure of seeing earlier this week in four d X. Yes, now,
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if y'all want to know a little bit about forty X, I would
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encourage you to pause here and go watch our and listen to our Dune review
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of forty X. That was our first at least for me, that was
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my first time in forty X and me too, you two okay, and
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understanding what that means for y'all that don't know at least in New York and
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the regal theaters, and this particular one in Times Square is the world's largest
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for d X theater. And what that is is it's literally you know how
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to go two D, three D and four D four D is the experience
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is all around. As the marketing goes, you are basically strapped into like
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a roller coaster type chair and you are thrown about, shaken, punched,
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jabbed, rained on, potentially spit on. It feels like half the time
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went and all sorts of things by little air pocketson. Literally, what it's
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trying to do is is trying to provide an environmental reaction to everything you're watching
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on screen. It's trying to match that and enhanced that experience. The first
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time we did it, we watched Dune, and that was not the first
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movie to be walked through. Doing it in forty X it was wild as
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fuck. Okay, So as you can imagine, we came away from that
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experience, even though I enjoyed the movie generally, we came away from experience
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with some PTSD. So we came here to Mad Max Socer like, oh
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shit, I don't know about this. Were about to get rocked in this
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forty X. Pleasantly surprised that we did not get rocked, but in fact
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it enhanced the experience, and I'm really proud of them. Good job,
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guys. You turned it down on going to ham on this. Appreciate you.
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I would say, I would definitely recommend this is one of the few
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movies you can watch in forty X and just be careful. Just be careful.
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Anything else on that forty X Before we get into our overall thoughts,
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Ben, I pretty much mirror everything you said, like I did not enjoy
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it at all in Doom Too. I'm still traumatized about that shit. There's
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a scene in doone Too that I'm dreading actually watching the movie again because I
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feel like it's just going to bring back those bad memories. So I haven't
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watched the movie again since a I will eventually be not right now and this
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time and I was the same way going in. I had trepidation and all
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that, but once I got in there, it was pretty smooth. I
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really enjoyed it. I mean I really I enjoyed Furios some more than I
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enjoyed Done Too. You know, I like Doom Too a lot. I
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just love furios and before we get into the like proper review, you know
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of it well a little caveat. I guess Fury Road is one of my
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favorite films of all time. Like I think Fury Road is a near perfect
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movie. I think George Miller, the director, is one of the greatest
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directors ever in Hollywood. And I just have such respect and such fondness for
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that film. I've watched it a many times. I've watched the black and
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white cut of it. I just love it. It's just in its I
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mean, it's just one of my favorite films in the story, Like it's
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got to be my top twenty exceptional. I'm also a big fan of I
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don't know if I'm a place is hot, but it's up there, like
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it's it's a. It's just a. And I will say, Firiosa made
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me remember how much I really actually loved Fury Road, right, Like it's
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it's as you said, it's everything you said about being so well done and
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the cinematography of it, and like it's such a it's somartly arranged too.
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It's like when we talk about symphonies of work, like this body of work
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is particularly furial. What we're talking about. It is a symphony of like
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what it means to understand filmmaking. I would say, like everything just works
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in concert so well together, and it gives you that lasting impression in your
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head and your memories, and like it's just something you don't really ever forget.
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So also a big fan of Fury Road, and again just I did
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enjoy Furiosa a lot. It just reminded me how much I really did love
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Yes, that being said, now, with Furiosa, I fucking loved it,
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dog Like that's that's the first thing. Like I was told I was
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smiling throughout the whole film. I remember smiling. Oh, I was sitting
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forward out full of attention. I was screaming out, yelling at parts.
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I definitely screamed what the fuck at what the scene? During this people have
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been talking about it. There's a I think nineteen minutes straight action scene,
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and about twelve minutes into it, I streamed what the fuck because I just
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couldn't believe how they kept ramping it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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that twelve minute mark, I was just like all right, sah, you
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know that's when I just threw my hands up. Like I remember about thirty
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minutes in, I was like, Okay, this is you know, just
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good as Fury Road, and I'm gonna need to see this again. I
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remember I said that like thirty minutes in. Yeah, early. I mean,
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because, like I say, George Miller, I get it what he's
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been doing with these movies. It's from a writing perspective. They talked about
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how Fury Road there really wasn't much of a screenplay at all. It's really
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done just with storyboards and a really light spript because there's not much dilogue.
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There's more dialogue in this, but I'm sure there was a lot of it
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where it's the same thing like that nineteen minute sequence is a lot of storyboards
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and not much script. But I just I think what I really enjoyed about
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Furiosa was how much after I sat and thought about and I'm glad we had
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like a day or two to think about the film before we did o argue,
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how much it really makes Fury Road even better. It's one of those
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peoples that like Rogue One, it just yeah, it makes everything better around
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it. It's very Rogue One. And it also reminded me of its structure,
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not only because it is a revenge film, but because of the chapters,
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it's a very kill Bill type of film. Reminded me of kill Bill.
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Yeah yeah, you know, and any revenge film for that matter,
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because it's that saying it's not much We're not gonna do very much spoiler here,
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but it's not much of a plot. It is a revenge film.
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Furiosa is out for revenge, you know what I mean. And there's some
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other shit going on in her life that really feeds into Fury Road, but
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the overall thing is revenge. Yeah yeah, And I will say, well,
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it's a few things I wanted to say too about that, like do
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you have to have do you have to see Fury Road to enjoy for your
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No? No, However, Kamma, it does enhance the experience greatly because
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this functions like a rogue one where it puts it it puts some hot sauce
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on everything around it, Like you know, the meal was already delicious,
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but you know what I'm saying, the greens was already everything, but let's
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put some hot sauce on it. You understand, Like, that's what this
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does. So if you if you can go ahead and see it, and
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it does give you some more substance and more foundational, because again this is
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this is supposed to be before Fury Road and all that stuff. This is
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this is the coming up. This is the coming of age story of Furiosa
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and how she became who she is or who she was. But like,
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still it does help, and it does enhance your understanding of what's happening.
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It's not required whatsoever. So like if you're just like, oh, I
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didn't get to you're still gonna be okay. I think you're still enjoy it,
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but then definitely watch Ferry Road right after, just just to get yourself
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an understanding and just more context. Would I would definitely say, And I
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would also say, what did I want to say about this? That I
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had something else that I wanted to mention, but continue, Well, it's
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also I mean in that sense about with Rogue one. I think it's even
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I won't say better, but slightly different than Rogue one. And the fact
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that in Rogue one and spoiler for a movie that is now I can't remember
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how many years old, everybody dies and none of the main characters of Rogue
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one are very much involved in the Star Wars universe because their dead. You
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know. So this is more like you said, it's the origin story for
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Furio So, who is directly involved in Mad Matt Fury Road. So everything
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that we see in this film lends into her character. And because it's by
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the same director, the same writer, everything like that, George Miller.
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And actually George said that he wrote this before he wrote the script for Fury
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Road. Really yeah, yeah, he said he'd actually wrote the script for
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this first, and I tend to believe him having seen it, because there's
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so much in Fury Road that is it's playing in this film. The Road
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is just yeah, this explains where all the people we are, where a
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lot of the people we see in th Road come from, and why they're
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at the point that they are in Furior, especially in Furiosa, but even
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a lot of the main i mean minor characters like the Bullet farm Leader,
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the other big fat nigga with yeah yeah, the Titty Ring and then even
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my Man and Moreton Joe from the first film. You know, all those
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characters we get to see in this film, and so it lends into where
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they are and you know why they who they are in feriy D. So
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it's even more like intertwined than Rogue one. It is very entering, and
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that reminds me of what I was going to say, which is what Better
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Means said early about there's not necessarily a plot to be had, like there's
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stuff happening, obviously, but it is a story. It's a backstory.
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And because of that, do not, under any circumstances let anyone ruin or
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tell you what actually happens in this film. And we will not tell you
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specifics of every single thing. But really because the things that are happening are
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truly what the fuck at times, and not in a bad way, in
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a very like imaginative like damn, I did not think that they were gonna
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something like this would happen, right, I did not think I would see
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something like this, Like it's a lot of if you know anything about Mad
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Max, is a lot of ingenuity, literally like figuratively and literally, there's
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in terms of when it comes to mechanics, when it comes to tech,
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when it comes to movement, space and time, like how people dress,
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how people talk, how people everything. It's very it's it's very creative,
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highly creative and just things that you wouldn't think to put together. But you
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see the influences right fury roll, furiosa, that whole world about that,
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that whole idea of just a post apocalyptic wasteland mix with what is that masochism,
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mixed with just sheer violence obviously, mixed with dark comedy, and mix
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with also just just really abstract beauty to it. Like it goes really hard
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in a lot of different ways. And that's why that's why I say,
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like, just don't let people tell you exactly what happens during the movie,
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right like, cause people gonna be excited when they come out. Yeah,
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And I also don't think it's one of those things like you could describe to
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me that whole nineteen minute sequence and it wouldn't matter if you're explain what happened.
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It'd be like when somebody goes see a comedy show and they try and
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tell you the jokes afterwards they're bad, you know, they're like, oh
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God, I needed to see this because yeah, yeah, And even if
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they did tell you, it might just hype you up, because it's it's
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nothing that you have to see it, you know what I mean. It's
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just the way George Miller Durrett's action is second to none to me, and
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he did it again. You know. That was all I could say when
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that was my first thing. I deleted the treat but I was like,
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Yo, they did it again, you know cause it's just like I said,
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I thought, Fury Road is some of the best action that's ever been
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put to film, and I think Furiosa has that in spades, as well
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as a really dope story about Furiosa and who she is, and like we
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keep saying, how it just feeds into the whole world and it just really
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gives her character so much more pathos and gravitas. I guess it's like where
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it's like, you know, so much more of her. Yeah, and
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you're like, oh, when you're watching Fury Road, when she's spreaming in
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that's saying that I kind of shot her fall into her and to screaming into
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saying that shit is like, Oh. It's like recently, I've been rewatching
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the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the whole standard edition, and I just
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think they're fantastic, one of the best triples of all time. But when
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you watch them in quick succession, when you get to the third one,
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it's like, Yo, Sam and this nigga proto been fucking throw it it.
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Yeah, so you're like, God, damn niggas throw it. So
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when they get stressed, you understand it. And so that's the same thing
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with Furiosa Infurio. When you see what she why she's taking this ride,
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why she's so determined, you will understand all of that. And that's what
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I thought was really dope. Yeah, And one copy that I do have
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is like, this is an incredible movie. I will say that. I
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still at the end of the day, if I had to put them together,
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I do did enjoy. I do think I like Fury Road better.
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Yeah, and it's just and there is a particular reason why that I realize
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why. But but we'll get into that as we continue. Yeah, you
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want to talk about these characters been, I mean, I want to talk
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about Anna Taylor Joy. Yes, Anya, Anya Taylor Joy, Anya Taylor
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Joy character. Yeah, and you know she had a hard at the follow
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with Charlie's thereon first the wrong and I love I do too, who does
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it? And I'm not that familiar with Anya. I know she's a brilliant
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young actor, but oh my god, like just one thing that I have
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to talk about is how she transforms in this movie because there's another actor playing
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furio say as a very young girl, and she's also oh my god,
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stunny, stunny, you know. And then when Amya takes over, Furiosa
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is still quite young, and it's like, throughout the movie you just see
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her transform into from this younger version to the version that we know in Fury
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Road, and it's incredible. I feel like when you first meet her as
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Amya's like, damn, she looks like a baby still almost, and then
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quickly she has forced to grow up by Cita around. I mean, she's
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already been fucking through it. Don't get me wrong. Everybody in the world
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has been through it, and she's a hard ass from the jump. But
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that, you know, the young girl playing her is great showing you,
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you know, a kid in this world has been through it already. The
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young girl that plays the young actress that plays the young Furiosa, the kid
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Furiosa is ali Alilah Elilah Alila. I'm sorry if I'm mispronounce your name,
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but Elilah Brown. And again she does a phenomenal job like and also because
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and I will say that Furiosa has more dialogue than than Fury Road and when
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I think about it, I think they just spoke a lot more even in
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the absence thereof like when it was about really like character acting, like really
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showing your emotion and emoting and being able to speak through your eyes and stuff
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like that. Like she had it down because there were whole scenes where she
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was saying nothing and it was just her eyes and you could just read what
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was going on, and it was it was brilliant. And then that translated,
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as you mentioned, going on up to maybe the the late teens early
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twenties version of Furiosa, which is Anya Taylor Joy's version, right, and
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she carried like they carry that torch from one another, and it was really
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like it was an incredible Also even though it's the story, it's also like
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a tribute to Furiosa. And you could tell, like how much George loves
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that character, and you can't tell that's Fiosa's my favorite chatch in the Mad
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Max saga, so in the Mad Max universe. So just they they did
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Furiosa justice. Yeah, and I'm really happy with just not only the through
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line through all the different stages of life that you see of Furiosa in this
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film, but just the the aura and the gravitas that was brought. Yeah,
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no, I think you know, I've already said, I think she
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did a fantastic job, like you said, throughout every day, even when
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she just having to emote. I know she did a lot of the stunts
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herself. You can see it in the film and it streat Uh what you
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were just talking about that, I do want to mention because I've got the
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NBA playoffs in the background, and avoid the commercials, y'all because they're showing
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some of the illest sequences of the commercials already. I'm like, don't tell
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let nobody talk. I'm tight, and it doesn't matter. It's different when
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someone tells you versus you see it. Yeah, when you watch it worse.
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Yeah, I've got someone told me about that than what I just saw
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on screen. I'm glad I already saw it, But if I just seen
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that sequence on screen, I would have been mad. But that's one of
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the illest sequences and it's like, you got to see it all unfold the
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trailer on that on the marketing Listen. This is what I'm saying, Like,
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I know it's like and that's part of my job. We gotta watch
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trailers and talk to y'all about it. But half the time I'm just like,
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damn, I don't want to see the trailer. I want to I
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want to be fresh when I sit in the theater. And thankfully I didn't
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know either the early stuff that came out, I didn't watch much. I
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was just like, no, I'm going to so I didn't already know.
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Yeah, same, okay, I used to watch any of the trailers,
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souse. I was like, I'd already know. I'm going to see this
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movie as soon as I can. It was dead ass. Oh my god.
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Every time something went down, anything else you wanted to mention about Anya
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or do you want to move on to you? We can move on.
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She's a beast. So the other person. If you see like a lot
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of the a lot of the flyers, you'll see you'll see Furio say,
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and you'll see another nigga that looks pretty familiar. He's not Thor this time.
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But Chris Hemsworth playing doctor Dementis. The doctor was not earned. He's
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just Dementus. That's not I mean, he's a doctor being. He earned
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that that. I didn't realize this, and Ben Ben gave me some detail
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before we started recording, but I didn't realize just how strong of an actor
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Chris Hemswer was when it came like literal to use his name, like some
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demented type ship, like some ship where you really gotta you really gotta think
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off kilter to be like delivering certain lines, delivering certain energy and approach to
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other characters like you really gotta you just can't be a pretty boy actor,
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like you really got to have some substance in you. And Chris as good
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as fun, like he fucking delivered. And I haven't watched too too many
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movies with like just starting him right like that. But this is Robbie,
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one of his best roles I've ever seen him in. All Right, I
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googled it real quick, and I want you to google this. Why I
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tell you this, Google Bad Times at the l Royale because I want you
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to see the images of him's worth that pop up when you google the movie.
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All Right, If y'all don't know like Tatanna isn't aware of his acting
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as I am, I peeped him in. He was in the remake of
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National Lampoon's Vacation and he plays the antagonist in that. And he's fantastic,
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and he's like a straight asshole, but he's an asshole in the vein of
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someone who knows they're Chris Himsworth, you know. And then there's Bad Times
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at the l Royale, which is a thriller from twenty eighteen, where he
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is the villain, not only the antagonist, and he's a horrible, evil
21:56
monster in that film, but he's terrifying. So I've been known that Himsworth
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was a great actor, like one doing comedy like The Thor, even though
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they went over the top and Love and Thunder. Doing that level of comedy
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takes acting. You know, comedy is harder than dramas. When you can
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pull off the comedy, you can usually pull off the drama. And so
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when I knew he when I saw The National Lampoons, I was like,
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Oh, this nigga is stupid funny, not just Thor funny, like he's
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really funny. And then Bad Times I was like, oh, he a
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monster. So when they cast him in this, it was like, you
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know, I already knew I knew going in I was it was just like
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when they cast Christian Bale's Batman, because I'd already seen him in an American
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psycho, So I was like, you know, glorious, you know,
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perfect, And it was the same with this. I already knew he could
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play an asshole, and I knew he could play a monster. So I
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didn't know and as I said, this is this is one of his best
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roles I ever seen him. And just you can see the picture of bad
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times I did. Well, he's just standing in the rain with the chest
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out. Yep, look Chris Chris as doctor dementis he that is one of
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the funniest, most fucked up, darkest characters that I've seen, Like where
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you truly do not like this nigga at all. But it's also just like,
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but I do want to hear what he gotta say, like because it's
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like he's saying some wild ship every time. But it's just like you still
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like, I'm gonna listen to to the function he got to give, you
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know, to to to the audience. He's a motherfucker, but I still
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want to listen to him. And that's why that's a very hard line to
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rot, because a lot of people can't because it's a delicate balance because you
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could really easy easily turn off people, especially when you have a character that's
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such an asshole. But it's like both a fun and a hated asshole and
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it's and it's so weird and and I have to really stress, this is
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dark comedy. This is not he ha ha. None of that shit happening.
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Ain't no door whatever the fuck that the that ain't happening. It ain't
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none of that. This is like, did that nigga just say that?
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And did he just do that? Do that? And it's like it's like
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you would laugh right, you're laughing like a nervous and nervous laughter type way,
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not because you know that little giggle bank, yeah, nervous laughing,
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not because it was truly comedy. It was just like this nigga's crazy type
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stuff like he diabolical, diabolical, doctor Demnis Chris Hemsworth expression of doctor Dementis
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is truly diabolical and worth every minute of screen time. Infuriosa. I want
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to give a quick shout out to the radio host Doctor Demento, because he's
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somebody that I used to seek out and find his radio shows, and I
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feel like there's definitely a tribute with Doctor Dementis to doctor Dementto and doctor Demento
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is also someone who inspired people like combat Jet. So rest in peace and
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shout out to you know doctor doctor de Minto is still alive at eighty three.
25:03
Yeah, I had to google it. I ain't. I ain't heard
25:03
from that nigga since like high school. Fine, Yeah, white boys put
25:07
me off to him back in the day. You know, he's I don't
25:10
even know how they get this ship. It was weird, but he would
25:12
do these weird radio shows and it was Dementon And so Doctor Dimensus. Now,
25:15
as far as like I said, I already knew going in that Hemsworth
25:18
was going to eat this role alive. I didn't know how good the role
25:22
was, That's what I'll say. And I think Doctor Dimntus is a fantastic
25:26
fantastical and even though this movie does have more dialogue than Fury Road, it's
25:30
still very sparse and a lot of it is told through we said three moting,
25:33
which Hemsworth we all know can do. But Hemsworth, I mean,
25:37
Dementsus is bad story, which is told slightly in this film gives him enough
25:42
weight where you feel for him at times. Even though this nigga's a complete
25:48
monster, you know, out of control monster, I do I will say
25:52
like there were times I was just thinking like, well, what's that?
25:56
Like, what did he go through? Yeah, to get to who he
26:00
is now? And that requires death, and that requires again balance and true
26:07
some expertise there, because it's very easy to just see the rope bad guy
26:12
quote unquote and be like, all right, that's the nigga down supposed to
26:15
hate and you just don't think about anything about them ever again, like anything
26:18
deep. Whereas this I was, you know, even like the times I'm
26:21
like this nigga's fucked up, I'm also like, well what happened exactly?
26:25
Like what's his backstory? Like I was actually interested? Okay, and then
26:32
you will learn why. But to see the back and forth play between Doctor
26:37
Domestic Superiosa and that dynamic was they they played off each other so well,
26:42
and that dynamic when they did when they had the answer an opportunity too.
26:47
It was like this a cinema they like, they fed off each other so
26:52
well that I would love to see her in that store film, you know,
26:56
just something. I don't care what role you know they give her,
26:59
but just someone so she could play off four because I would love to see
27:03
it because she they have a great chemistry, and it's a it's an ill
27:07
chemistry in this film, but they definitely have a great chemistry. And like
27:11
you said, that's what I came out of the film saying that was my
27:14
first thing coming out. I was like, y'all, I'd love to see
27:17
another prequel where there was the prequel to show him for falling to this evil,
27:22
like a breaking bad in the world of Mad Max, because he's definitely
27:27
full blowing Walter White in this movie. I don't know, I want a
27:30
whole feature. I do want some some few what happened. I wouldn't want
27:34
a whole fature just about doctor Dementis because at the end of the day,
27:37
as some motherfucker, and I don't think he deserves all that shincessarily true indeed,
27:44
but I am interested, like, well, you know, just give
27:45
me some give me a little bit more to the cliff notes, but I
27:48
don't need a whole three hours for him. Well since, yeah, I
27:53
can see how they could work that in because what they are what George Miller
27:56
has talked about doing is another film called match Wasteland, which would take place
28:02
before Fury Road, just like this one does, but I think it would
28:04
feature more on Mad Max in the Wasteland, in his travels and his leading
28:11
up into Fury Road. Okay, because that was one big complaint, and
28:15
I'm sure they're gonna come out in force again. The misogynists were super upset
28:21
about Mad Match Fury Road because they felt like it was misnamed. They were
28:23
like, they should have called a Furials because it was basically her story,
28:27
and then it is along for the ride grunting, which is fine. And
28:32
that's one of the reasons, one of the many, many reasons why I
28:34
love you Me Too. It's one of my reasons too. It's one I
28:37
would the reason why I love it so much is because one thing that is
28:41
repeatedly said in this in Fury Road was who ruined the world? And it's
28:47
implied that, you know, men had a big part of that. Women
28:49
keep asking that question, and that's something that I just thought was so subversive.
28:52
And who killed the world, as I think the line actually who killed
28:56
the world? And I thought that was so, you know, just such
29:00
a fire thing to put in your movie. Now, I'll always say that
29:04
about Furiosa. I felt like this movie isn't as like where it's like men
29:10
kill the world. It's more like everybody kind of did it and just watch
29:14
it go down. It's just like because they put you in the middle.
29:17
Because there's a very like the other one. There's a very brief point in
29:19
the beginning where it first comes on, where they just you see basically you
29:25
hear news blurbs right like people saying the world is falling and this is the
29:29
economy is collapsing and the crops is dying. Like they just basically setting up
29:33
to be like everything's shitty, okay, everybody down bad. It's not really
29:37
blame about who's doing well who. It's like everybody's down bad and everyone's behaving
29:42
down bad because of it, and that's all these people. That's the question
29:47
that's asked in the beginning of this one, is like what indignities will you
29:49
suffer, you know, as the world falls apart? Like what will you
29:53
watch happen? And that's something like a friend of mine, a good friend
29:59
of mine who I grew up with, who's been involved in military intelligence and
30:02
all kinds of stuff. We talk about things like this and he's like the
30:03
world's not going to fall apart, you know instantly, And I know that
30:07
too. It's like that's one of my favorite books of parable The Sower,
30:11
the Octavia Butler. And when I read that as a like, I read
30:15
that book I think in high school, and it was one of them books
30:17
where I read it. I put it down like, ah fuck, because
30:19
I could recognize the signs already in my day to day life that they were
30:23
seeing in that book. And we're seeing them more and more now. You
30:26
know, there's a lot of decay in civilization or what we call civilization,
30:30
et cetera. And meanwhile we're going to the movies, so you know,
30:34
it's like we are all complicit in this thing. I saw there was this
30:38
great quote in the comic book recently, like when in war, Like if
30:44
you're part of the victory team and you're part of the empire and you're just
30:47
chilling at home, you're still war, you know, like America is blown
30:52
up, people all the around the world, and we're sitting at home like
30:55
m M, watching movies, watching the game and shit. So it's like
30:57
we're still part of the war, you know, we just have a different
31:02
place in it, right, No, I get it, absolutely, Preatorian
31:08
Jack so Latchie, and again I apologizes by myth pronouncing mad Mini Mad Mini
31:17
Max Yeah Tom also also also known as Mad Max Jr. But in this
31:23
film I Furiosa, he's called Pretorian Jack. Okay, I'm like, oh,
31:29
I just feel like I feel like George put him in, like nigga,
31:32
y'all shut the fuck up, Like yeah, like he was. He's
31:37
clearly the Mad Max junior archetype, like I got, I was, like
31:40
god it. But he is also and he had his name is his name
31:44
Paetorian Jack. For reason, he's a Pretorian, which if you learned in
31:47
the other films, that's what Curiosa is. She's a pretorian. She's just
31:51
like in charge of the deliveries and and then she's a badass, right,
31:55
She's the one who makes sure everything gets through the way he's supposed to get
31:57
through. That's the that's the executioner. Roll right drives the big rig.
32:01
She drives the big the big war rig, like the biggest, the biggest,
32:05
the strongest, all that shit, and again responsible for the deliveries back
32:08
and forth, getting getting the goods back to the citadel or wherever that it
32:14
needs to go, and just making sure that even like through relentless attacks and
32:17
brutal everything happening around them that they still make it through no matter what.
32:23
So you have go ahead, you have you version of this praetorian Jack played
32:29
by Tom Brike in this yep. And like it was established Infray Road,
32:32
the main locations that still exist at least of these people who are in this
32:37
region of the world are the Citadel in Australia, and they are in the
32:44
original film, so I'll say they are here too. In the original mad
32:47
Max films that start with Mel Gibson, it takes place in Australia. It's
32:52
Australia. I thought everything's in Australia, Okay, I think so. I
32:55
think it's still so if you take a place in Australia. So the main
33:00
things that we see artists Citadel which is run by Morton Joe, and then
33:06
we also had gas Town and bullet Town. You know, where they get
33:09
the gas and where they get the book and everything in this world is literal.
33:13
So the bullet Town is where they make bullets and guns and weapons,
33:19
yes, and gas Town is where they make as they call it in the
33:21
film, guzzoline. And I want to talk about that type of language later.
33:25
But oh, that's all through Fury Road too, Like it's so it's
33:29
so subtle but so hilarious. The ship they be saying the whole go into
33:34
Valhalla. The thought chrome. I thought they were like like deliberate, like
33:40
not jabs, but like poking fun at like everyone's like like even Chris Hams
33:45
are himself being like known as being thoring ship like that, Like I thought
33:50
like they threw some of that ship in. And isn't he himself Australian too,
33:52
So like I thought they was throwing a lot of like random ship like
33:57
that is could be related to him like as a as a wink. I
34:00
think that is the case. And it's also because they do this Inferior World.
34:02
I can't remember the line that always has me cracking up. But they'll
34:06
make pop culture references that are fucked up because it's like they don't remember exactly
34:12
what it was, and so they have like off brand pop culture references.
34:15
But the whole you know, they're always covering themselves in the war The war
34:19
Boys cover themselves in chrome. They have this whole worship of chrome, you
34:22
know, which comes from the cars and all that. So that's you know,
34:27
like they want to go into Vihala shiny and chromed up so they you
34:30
know, spray themselves. But there's all the language is great in the minimal
34:36
dialogue they have, and that's you know, just great world building. That's
34:38
something that these films are fantastic at and furios that really does the job with
34:44
is the world building. Yeah, but back to Mini Man Matt's praetorian Jack.
34:47
I thought he did a fantastic job as well. Jobs the hell excellent
34:52
connection with with you tell Joy's caster like like you you this is the as
35:00
he's the archetype right that and again both an archetype and a mini mad Max,
35:06
and you see those influences how they affect Furiosa, how that shapes and
35:10
molds her as she gets older and things like that, like just just fantastic
35:15
job. And then seeing them both it was giving very much lauded. Well
35:21
that Bonnie and Clyde means reloaded where it's just like when I'm saying specifically about
35:25
when it's just Neo and Trinity and they just running the gamut, they can
35:30
going through just bo bop left right going hand, this is them, that's
35:35
them. You said the magic word gambit, roguan gambit and that very very
35:40
rogambic like that's actually even better analogy because the level of faith that brogan gambit
35:47
having each other, Like how you mentioned gambit, like not like he not
35:52
centinel back there, but he even looked back or blink twice. He already
35:54
his mama got no, he knows rogue laying hands and it ain't nothing right,
36:00
same same approach to Pretorian and Jack and Fieriosa. It is just that
36:02
type of this nigga. They got it. Yeah, that's my roll,
36:07
dog like they I ain't got no worries, I don't have to look.
36:12
It's that. It's that. It's that playing basketball. Is that no look
36:15
past to you put it to your partner like they got it. I always
36:19
have a value for you. I'm always there. That's the type of approach
36:22
it was, and it and it felt very fun because you mentioned Bonnie and
36:25
Clyde. It had that fun aspect to it, like, oh, as
36:29
long as they tagged him together, they tag team Championship partners were good.
36:35
Everybody's getting thrown out the ring and they standing at the top of the top
36:40
buck at the yell. They both standing at at top of the ladder bringing
36:45
down the money in the bank suitcase. Easy, easy, Yeah, No,
36:51
I don't know him from ship at all. And I thought he was
36:53
fantastic because one, he doesn't have a lot of time to really and that's
36:58
why he is an archetype character, because it doesn't have a lot of time
37:00
to where you get you introduced him. But he does in the time that
37:05
they give this character, he and you know, makes you fall in love
37:08
with the character, makes you fall in love with him and furiosa. And
37:15
I thought he did a fantastic job. I didn't expect him at all.
37:17
I didn't know shit about PETI expect that. Yeah, And I didn't even
37:22
know he was part of the film. And they was like okay, and
37:24
this is awesome. Was like, okay, yeah, gotcha, gotcha.
37:28
And morning Joe. He was in the Fury Road film returning again. That's
37:34
the nigga with the with the ashen blonde hand, the weird, fucked up
37:38
you know, bad built, beach blonde body, all that, all that
37:44
mediocre. That's his famous line fact lea chie or lachi whom. Yeah,
37:52
so I'm doing a horrible I'm pronouncing y'all names, but y'all got it.
37:55
So and more than Joe's character is an interesting thing. Want and also just
38:00
interesting the gravitation between Furiosa to more than Joe. I don't know, Like
38:07
from the very early on in the film, you see Furiosa like gravitating towards
38:10
him, and I don't know if I ever understood why. Maybe and maybe
38:15
you noticed why. But it's just like from the very beginning, it's not
38:20
to say she liked him. It's just like I'm intrigued by him, you
38:22
know, more safety and power. Morton Joe has power in Furiosa is looking
38:29
for somewhere to be safe at that po Okay, I don't think she's intrigued
38:31
all by him. I think she's disgusted by him through as both people should
38:36
be. I just think she knows that he can keep her safe at that
38:39
point, and that's all furio is looking for, right, for safety,
38:43
Okay, because the moment she can, she you know, does what she
38:45
can to get away from him. But then if we see she's still evolved
38:49
with the Morton Joe, right, which is why I'm just like, what
38:52
is like, what is that dynamic about? Well, we see, you
38:55
know, that's that's a bit spoiled. I don't want to exactly say why
38:59
she's still with him Curio Road. But you know you see why, Yeah,
39:01
I will say, And I don't think it's because it's still for safety.
39:06
Like we said, there are three spots. There is bullet own and
39:14
tells her three three places you could go and the laundromat yeah, or your
39:22
house Or your house is the best one, Nigga. You could add like
39:25
you want to hang out at the corner store, but you don't want to
39:28
live. There ain't nowhere else to go. I want to give a big
39:32
honorable mention, maybe even more than I will mention to Elsa Pataki who's in
39:37
this She she's Chris Hamsworth's wife in real life, and she plays two cavaters
39:42
in this film. She plays Vuvelini General and a woman called or perhaps a
39:47
non binary character called mister Norton. I don't know who that was, you
39:53
do, it was it was it was the It was the character at I
40:01
don't want to say too much, but in a way, but it was
40:04
the woman who ended up like being part of Dementus crew. Oh nice,
40:08
yes, nice, Okay, yes, that job work. So that was
40:17
a good enough distie for me, you know, I mean the makeup also
40:22
because sure he was listen list the makeup for something else. It didn't look
40:32
like that, right, And I didn't realize who, Like I don't realize.
40:35
I didn't realize it was. First of all, it's not that I
40:37
know Matt much of about But then you know, when I was told it
40:39
was her, I was like, okay, Okay. Then I looked at
40:42
her stuff and I'm like, well, first of all, she looks nothing
40:45
like that. And the film number two, she's done a lot. Like
40:47
she was in Love and Thunder she was, she was in the fucking Fast
40:53
and Furious film, The Fate of the Furious. She was Elena. She
40:57
was, she was the cop, just great, beautiful woman and yeah,
41:01
I mean, and then now she's in this and I'm just like, is
41:05
that a thing? Now? Like they're just her and Chris are just just
41:07
like kind of like Helen the Bottom Carner is always in the Tim Burton movie.
41:12
It's like every time you see Chris you might see her. You know
41:16
she's great too, because she's like, she did really good. She's really
41:22
good in this and Great and Fast and Furious, and she can definitely do
41:23
action because she pulls it off for those movies. Well, she could do
41:28
action. And I like actors that are not faid to be ugly, right
41:31
and just like unrecognizable, but in a manner that it means that they're deep
41:37
into the casual they're trying to portray. So fantastic job. And then returning
41:43
was Nathan Jones's Rictus, the Big Doofy guy, and then you have Josh
41:49
Hellman as Scroed as his brother. Yeah, and I want to shout out
41:52
Lady Hume who played to Morton Joe, because he's the second actor that I
41:57
played Morton Joe. Hugh Burn played him in the first film, and he
42:02
was also in the original Mad Max as the main villa, not in Morton
42:07
Joe. It's a whole different character. But yeah, so him and George
42:09
Miller go back. But I just think he's a little bit too elderly at
42:15
this point to play Morton Joe again, So gotcha, gotch Yeah, shout
42:17
up to that brother, though, because you mentioned it, I want to
42:20
jump into like this section, which is just about like the look in the
42:23
feel right, so make up, costuming, how they did this in terms
42:30
of all the characters. And I think this is also one of those Mad
42:36
Max These Mad Max films is at least the most recent, cause I'm not
42:38
really familiar with the original you said, the Mel Gibson led one, Not
42:42
really familiar with that, but I'm obviously familiar with with Fury Road and then
42:45
this one and the when we talk again, we talked about the mythos and
42:52
the world building of the Mad Max universe and the fact that they are They're
42:59
supposed to be humanity, but at this point so down bad, like they've
43:02
turned into different They turned to look at different idols and different bygone eras and
43:08
things from the past that they now that now become their gods. Right,
43:12
So they worship cars and chrome, and it's very given. It's giving heavy
43:16
metal. It's giving that heavy metal rock band with skulls and crosses and things
43:22
that are very macabre. But at the same time things that are about like
43:25
almost like the fifties, like street racing type thing like like that real like
43:30
grease lightning type shit. It's a strange diconomy of that type of grease lightning
43:36
meets heavy metal, rock, hair band meets everything, cars meets what I
43:42
said, macab meets everything. Uh, just what is it? What is
43:49
it? What? Like you have like the nipple rings and shit like that
43:52
yes, very masochistic, very very very everything. Everything from the way that
43:58
they just talk and walk, it's just it's violent. Everything is also just
44:05
rooted in violence. Yeah, it's a very short life world and everyone and
44:09
it knows that. And it's also a world where themes are falling apart constantly,
44:15
and so people are always adapting and always having to you know, put
44:19
this jury read this. Yeah, we see it all in fery Road,
44:22
and that's can fit continue very well this I think even more so really,
44:27
I like how they really showed you how the world, how these people are
44:30
like stafvengers, how you have to just keep moving. You know, this
44:34
breaks, Okay, we got to fix this and keep it moving, abandon
44:37
that, keep it moving, always to keep moving or die basically, And
44:40
so I think that's really well done. The cost of exceptional like stuff like
44:45
that. It's like it's for me. It's like, yeah, they did
44:49
it again, you know, once again, because all that was so well
44:51
done the first one. The whole look at the war dogs, how they
44:54
have this unified look more in Joe with his whole breathing apparatus, like Nigga
45:00
got not just a mass. Nigga's whole chest help him breathe, Like,
45:04
it's all kinds of things, all these little things. I mean, Chris
45:07
Himsworth has some nipper ring shit going on in the Yeah, n he's he
45:09
And again there's lots of leather obviously I said, and it's very biker culture
45:14
too. Also throw that in there, dot Like it's literally all the things
45:16
I mentioned. They threw it in the blender and came out with this world.
45:20
And then the way people look. You mentioned Chris leather chains, some
45:24
whitch some some some some some wild shit going on, like and it's like,
45:29
also everyone's trying to be regal. There is a vehicle that he drives
45:35
that I've is so ingenious and I have never seen anything like that, and
45:39
it's like I don't want to give it away because it looks so good on
45:43
screen. And it's just like because you said like you're a scavenger, so
45:46
you're literally like you have to have been the most creative child. Like all
45:51
these people are all the children who was playing with legos all goddamn day because
45:54
it was just like, Nigga, this is all you got, make some
45:58
with it, scavenge and then in the heat of battle, the heat of
46:01
the moment shits falling apart and you got to rearrange, reorganize, rebuild on
46:07
the fly. And you see that with the way they dress, the way
46:09
their vehicles, they're, their weaponry everything, it's it's really insane and it's
46:15
actually like really scientific as well. So like if you're a real nerd about
46:17
that shit, you're gonna like that. Yeah, And that's say if you
46:22
if you're not as familiar with the Mad Mats world, this is all like
46:25
it's just how like Mad Match has its own look, you know, and
46:30
this is just keeping at you and like you this is look yeah, and
46:32
this has been the standard since the mail agifts and films, So it's like
46:37
people reference Mad Max more so than it's like referencing other things. It is
46:42
its own thing, you know, like the S and M shit's been there.
46:45
You can go back to Tina Turner's Looking Beyond Thunderdome, which is you
46:49
know, all of that here. I mean they even have references to like
46:53
physical characters who look like other characters like arch types. We say, so
46:59
this has all been done. That fine for me. It's like did it
47:02
again? You know, but yeah, this has all been established and it's
47:06
just it's more. It's definitely I don't even want to say they did it
47:09
more in this one when they've done it in another one's already. It's just
47:15
it's just it's just like I do think it deserves shine, right, Oh
47:17
yeah, the facial jewelry. This just the way and the way that and
47:22
it's like it's so weird. It's just like a repulsive kind of sexual energy
47:28
too, like because it's not like, oh that looks good. It's like
47:30
a okay, this has this has some sexual connotation, but it's nasty,
47:34
like I don't know, And all the characters have some form of it in
47:37
some way, and the ones that are the most repugnant and repulsive have it
47:42
in the worst ways. Like you'll see lots of cod pieces and things hanging
47:45
off of certain appendages that you know, I guess they they thought that shit
47:50
looked cool to them, and it looked really gross, like like the big
47:52
fat dude, like I he addressed it was a bit much for me,
47:59
so he was also very sexral with it. It. Yeah, it was.
48:04
It was. It's strange and and and I think that's also what makes
48:07
this what makes you feel so exciting, because it's just like it don't look
48:10
like nothing else. It doesn't like nothing else, it looks like its own
48:14
thing. And again everything was just on point, cosume and makeup, all
48:16
that sound, the cinematography itself just like it's it's in it. It's it's
48:23
set in the desert. It's always set in a wasteland, right, so
48:27
just seeing the expanses of large empty places like that, but with a lot
48:30
going on. There are certain shots. There was one shot where a major
48:36
event happened, but you see it from afar, and I think that was
48:39
one of my favorite scenes in the movie because like lots of times, a
48:43
lot of movies like they need you to be right on top of that action
48:45
and you're seeing everything blow up, and that is what Mad Max is,
48:50
right, it is, the lots of explosions and chaos. But it was
48:53
kind of refreshing to see like you're seeing on the ship, but like from
48:58
a bystander, like way over here, watching some wild shit go down,
49:00
and it was just like it's kind of made me feel like here in New
49:04
York, just when it should be happening across the street and I'd be like,
49:07
damn, like you're not going over there, You're not participating, but
49:10
you're just like, fuck, you're involved. So I appreciate that. Yeah,
49:15
I mean I said this before. George Miller is a god to me.
49:19
And you know again I keep saying this since you know, he did
49:22
it again, but it's like one he did it again. But like I
49:27
said that eighteen minute sequence, I just love that they invented new ways to
49:31
do these car battles, that new little trick, different things that we didn't
49:37
see in Fury Road. There were certain repeated things of course, repeated the
49:42
tags, repeated use to the weaponry, but the way they used it,
49:45
they're just slight twist, you know. That's all you really need. It's
49:50
just a little bit of slight twist to what you've seen before. When you're
49:53
doing it. It's this level. To me, I don't think you really
49:55
need to reinvent the wheel. You don't, so they didn't re reinfit the
49:59
wheel, but it's still the same level of pure expertise, love care put
50:05
into every shot. All the rules of cinematography are always so well followed in
50:09
this, Like they don't, you know, it's like they don't break barriers,
50:13
they don't break planes. Your eye doesn't need to travel around the screen
50:17
to see what's happening. Not a much of shaky cam and none of that,
50:20
none of that. There ain't no shaky cam at all, right,
50:22
And I mean they're shaky scenes. There's shaky scenes, but no like like
50:25
it's never like a cheating situation where it's just like people like they're shaking cams
50:29
and doing other shit to disorient you. It's like, no, there's so
50:31
much chaos and it's just like you feel like you're in it. And yes,
50:36
being in the forty X chares did help because and I will say maybe
50:38
the fact that this is very you know, car focused and vehicle focus,
50:42
like because it's a sit down chair, you're you know, in motorcycles and
50:45
shit like that. Like you feel like you're one within the scene. So
50:50
couple that with everything you just said about not breaking the plane and all the
50:52
other stuff, you feel very much in it. No, And like you
50:55
said, he knows how to take shots where you can see everything. Like
51:00
I was saying, the one in the commercial is part of this eight minute
51:04
sequence and it's such an ill shot to me because they're riding along and they
51:08
do that a lot, where like the car that's filming is a car riding
51:14
behind these other cars. Yeah, so you get the feeling of being in
51:19
this race. And while all right, there was this I remember I had
51:22
this huge like argument and it made me look at this one cat on Twitter.
51:27
Kno gonna name you, bro, I could, I won't this When
51:30
the first film came out and they were like, I just hated all to
51:32
CGI in the movie. And the funny thing about Feary Road is there's very
51:37
little obvious CGI. Most of that shit was practical effects. They were really
51:43
driving these cars through the desert. They're really crashing these cars and flipping them
51:46
over. Tom Hardy is really hanging alongside the car with his head close to
51:52
the ground as it drives like so that everybody hurt me because I'm like,
51:54
George Miner really put his work in on this. So when I saw the
51:59
trailer for Criosa, there is a lot more obvious CGI. In my eyes
52:02
immediately was like, ooh, fun, let me finish the good wine.
52:08
When I when I get to the movie, I have to say that was
52:13
erased. There are the obvious CGI. To me is still obvious CGI.
52:17
My eyes just are trained to pick that shit up. But it's that same
52:22
George Miller fantastic dedication to detail where it doesn't matter. There was there's a
52:28
shot early on in the film where I was like, fuck, that's a
52:30
terrible CGI in the background. But for the most part, there were certain
52:34
shots. I don't know if it's the same one you're talking about, but
52:36
there's a shot where you're seeing everything from a like kind of a helicopter shot,
52:39
and I was trying to figure out how much of the background was CGI
52:44
or was it because it looks so natural, But I'm like, this,
52:46
shit's so crazy of a like place in the world. Where is this you
52:52
know, where you can shoot this and at least cards driving and have this
52:55
background. So I was like, that background's gotta be fake. But I
52:59
couldn't. M hmm, I that was I was going to say, that
53:05
would be my only like slight minus for the film. This is very heavy
53:09
CGIM and not saying there were no practical effects. It's just there there there
53:15
are, It's just that way more CG. I then I remember or or
53:21
recall, and I don't think it was like to your point. I think
53:23
it was. It was mostly mainly practical in infery road it but you can
53:29
see the difference. And there were more than one time I would say,
53:34
and and again nothing too too much like oh, this looks like crap,
53:37
just but there was more than one time I'm like, that's c G I,
53:40
that's CGI. That's and it started like even early in the beginning,
53:45
and and if and for me, I was questioning, I was like,
53:47
why did that have to be c G I? But it didn't make sense
53:52
for it to be CG I. Did it? Did it ruin a movie?
53:53
No, It's just that it made me question it, like they didn't
53:57
need to do that, like you can see like and it was like on
54:00
Canny Valley type ship where it's just like that's clearly not a person or that
54:04
person or that that really not happening. That background is clearly fake. Like
54:08
yeah, So I would say that was the only slight negative that I had.
54:12
That there was way more CGI Inferido, so that they probably could didn't
54:15
need uh when you're thinking about it in the grand scheme that said, perhaps
54:20
that's done for safety reasons and or time, And there's certain stuff like you
54:24
just can't do like that, Like there's a shot that's in the very first
54:29
trailer that I saw on the trailer, and I still love there's a shot
54:32
with this river of bullets basically, and it's you know, done it.
54:36
The bullets are all CGI. But when you see it in spring and when
54:38
I saw it in the trailer, I was like, oh, that's even
54:40
though I knew the bullets for CG, I like, what a shot.
54:45
And on the bitch bred I was even born, like wow, what a
54:47
shot. Yeah. And on the flip side, there are some CGI scenes
54:52
where it's just like that shit looks crazy in a good way, like that
54:55
shit goes hard so and there's still doing hella practical effects. They employed over
55:02
two hundred stump people. They are crashing cars left to right. All of
55:07
that shit is still very much Yeah, you know, I promise you where
55:09
they are them cars explosions, that shit with some real pyrotechnic work and that
55:15
That's one thing I can't stand is fate fired films because it always looks terrible.
55:20
It looks fire is one of the hardest thing to animate. And these
55:22
niggas ain't playing around with that. They are still blowing it up left to
55:25
right, and I love it. Yeah. I want to comment off of
55:29
something you said just about the fact that you said, you mentioned that some
55:34
things are repeated just in terms of the things you've seen from Fury Road.
55:37
I will, I will even I'm gonna actually raise that a bit and say,
55:43
not beyond just being repeated, this is how these niggas fight. Okay,
55:46
Yeah, these the war Boys. They are running and doing fucking parkore
55:53
mixed with search to sleat on vehicles moving at one hundred miles in our fucking
56:00
giant mac trucks and and muscle cars and mud and as everything. And they're
56:06
doing this like they're literally on a dirt road or sometimes like an ospital road,
56:09
but they are literally going barreling down the road at these breakneck speeds,
56:14
fighting each other to the death. Okay, So yes, you're gonna see
56:17
some of the approaches that they did in Fury Road, but they add some
56:22
inventive shit on top of it. It's like, all right, yes,
56:24
you gonna see the war Dogs if you if you love them, you're gonna
56:28
get them again. You're gonna see them doing some wild Kamakazi shit going brazy
56:31
on everybody. Yes, and they're gonna be some new shit on top of
56:37
that, and new contraptions, yeah that you ain't never seen before and as
56:44
Benami said early when he said there were times of heat verbally loudly, because
56:47
the whole audience heard him. Hope he'd heard him, brothers laughing a little
56:51
bit when he said what the fuck because and I was mouthing what the fuckers,
56:54
I couldn't get it out fast enough, like just things flying in the
56:58
air. It was there, like I literally can't wait to see a movie
57:02
again. It's you know, it's like I said, it's just for Feriy
57:06
Road. It's like if one of those things where like I feel you like,
57:08
Feriy Road to me is near perfect and it's like almost perfect, you
57:13
know. It's like and it's also it's still big, big business. And
57:17
I will also say it's like the difference between Kill Bill Volume one and Kill
57:22
Bill of Volume two, Like Kill Bill Volume two is more cerebral, and
57:27
it's the same thing. This is a very meditative take on the nature of
57:30
revenge and what revenge means, what it does to someone. You know,
57:35
what it means to hold that anger, what will you get out of it.
57:38
It's like one of my favorite Gi Joe stories from the comic is about
57:42
Snake Eyes and storm Shadow, and they have the same talk. You know,
57:45
it's what the same talk that himn Birth and them have it is,
57:49
and it's kind of mirrored in Kill Bill. The talk the Bill and the
57:52
bride have at the end is the same talk it's been. It's been done
57:57
over and over again. The dialogue is different. But people have said that
58:00
revenge is an endless circle. You know, that's just an old take,
58:05
like and it's an old true take that it's endless circle. It will always
58:08
someone will always want revenge, you know. The bride says it to Ernita's
58:14
daughter. You know, you can come looking for me in twenty years if
58:15
you want, I get it. I just chose your moms. You know.
58:19
That's how I go down. It's trying to be an endless circle.
58:22
And then you come kill me, and my daughter gonna be looking for you.
58:24
It's just how it goes. So that's been told. But the dialogue
58:29
of this and the explanation I thought was top notch, exceptional all that.
58:32
But I would like I say, I think this is the difference between Kill
58:36
the Volume one and volume two. Cury Road is volume one and this is
58:40
volume two. There's more dialogue, more thought on the nature of why everything
58:45
is, but there's still some incredible action sequences, just like how Volume two
58:51
has incredible action sequences. The Volume one is just a you know, straight
58:55
up karate flick. You know you knuckles to the wall into end damn near
59:00
action. Yes, you know, take some breaks, but it don't take
59:02
many. And when it's on, it's on, just like furiy Road was,
59:07
and Furiosa is such an impeccable foundational film as mentioned about defining characters and
59:15
what happens and why certain things move the way they move in the world,
59:20
and which leads me to just putting even more energy on that dialogue. One
59:28
of my favorite, most top favorite things about the Mad Max universe, and
59:31
of course in Furiosa, is the dialogue and the language that is spoken.
59:37
This is like some great value brand version no child Left Behind version of English.
59:45
When I say, it's like, you know what they're saying, but
59:46
you're also like, what is that nigga actually saying? It's It is such
59:52
a strange dichotomy of almost Shakespearean soliloquy. Well all of them, yeah,
1:00:02
all of them came very like as mentioned, like very Shakespearean mixed with sat
1:00:09
words. But then they would not understand or forget the most easiest basic words
1:00:15
and then have you know, standing words for that. So like you have
1:00:20
this mishmash language as being spoken and again just as a as a as the
1:00:23
outside artis you can pretty much understand what they're saying, but you also like
1:00:28
nigga what like like I said, like I use guzzling as an example,
1:00:30
like just certain things where that and they're just and they're just talking. And
1:00:35
I would also imagine like how the actors like yeah, you're you know,
1:00:37
you're learning the script, but just literally your your way kind of like having
1:00:42
a dialect, like your way of speaking is changed dramatically, and it's like
1:00:45
the way they're talking generally most of them is very like fluid but also janky.
1:00:52
It's weird how they're able to do that. And I don't understand like
1:00:57
how they came up with how the language is spoken, like how and it's
1:01:00
all English, but how the language is broken is is I really wouldn't want
1:01:04
to learn more about that. That's again, that's it's crazy. Yeah,
1:01:07
and that's all from the first one. That's just George Miller and like just
1:01:10
we said this, it's like it's just a breakdown of everything. So the
1:01:15
language is broken down, so people are making, you know, making a
1:01:20
references to things that they think about, but it's not things they see on
1:01:22
the daily anymore. So they talk about old movies and things of that nature
1:01:27
of old pop culture. But it's not like there's a radio that to do
1:01:30
or they can go watch a DVD of it, So it's like third fourth
1:01:32
hand knowledge of this shit. Yeah and yeah, and again it's just so
1:01:37
funny. It's just like certain certain four syllable words. It's like everyone's saying
1:01:42
with no problem, no difficulty, and then other things people are like what,
1:01:45
Like, it's just it's just it's incredible. I just love how how
1:01:50
it all flows. And when you mix that with just how everything looks and
1:01:52
feels, it's it's a great film. And if you've never and I'm sharing
1:01:58
all this because especially like you just don't know the background or not really sure
1:02:01
about the story or even just forgot, like this is the type of shit
1:02:05
you're getting, Like it's world class. Yeah. I really don't have much
1:02:12
more to say on it, you know, like I think I've covered it.
1:02:14
I think it's a great film. I think everyone should see it.
1:02:16
If you like action, it's you know, if you just if you like
1:02:20
an action summer movie, this is top notch. It doesn't get much better
1:02:22
than this. Oh that is the last question I had. What did you
1:02:25
feel about the pacing? I will say for me because it's had more dialogue
1:02:30
and maybe not as much as I expected in certain parts. In the beginning,
1:02:37
it wasn't slow. It was just let me be clear, it didn't
1:02:39
slog. It was just like, okay, I guess. I was just
1:02:42
trying to be like, where is this going? And then like I got
1:02:45
into the groove versus with Feary Road, I was in it immediately. I
1:02:49
felt so I don't know, I think. I mean, once again,
1:02:52
it's two different type of films. The Fear Road does not waste any time.
1:02:54
But we had discussion, you know after the film where some people were
1:03:00
saying that same thing, and I just disagree completely, like well, they
1:03:02
were saying it more so so I felt I felt slightly and then it fixed
1:03:07
itself. I was like, cool, great, I would I think,
1:03:09
I'm yeah, I guess, I don't. You know. That's one of
1:03:15
those things I just disagree with because I felt like when it and that's why
1:03:19
I can't spoil anything. But no, I disagree. I get why people
1:03:24
can say that, because it's not if you're comparing it to Fiery Road,
1:03:29
Like yeah, it don't start off like Fiery Road, but you know a
1:03:32
few films do. But for most films like this moves, I don't.
1:03:37
I didn't have those problems like yeah, not at all, man, I
1:03:42
like I said, I can't wait to see this shit again. I have
1:03:44
no notes. There ain't no like like I'm not sitting there like, oh,
1:03:46
you could have done this, nigga, what you did this? You
1:03:50
know, George Miller, all of y'all, y'all did this. I don't,
1:03:53
definite mean I don't. It's hard for me to be critical when there's
1:03:57
work like this out there, you know, because it's like this like r
1:04:00
R just like Athena, Like sure I could say things, but if I
1:04:04
said things like that, that's just me being a backseat driver because it could
1:04:08
be perfect when it's already near perfect. You know. That's me having the
1:04:13
ability to see the movie, you know, and not make it. That's
1:04:16
what I mean. It's like like my boy once called me. I put
1:04:19
my boy a watte on to a theme and he called me in ransom for
1:04:23
like thirty five minutes afterwards, and I was said, dog, you're only
1:04:26
saying all this because you love it, and he said, yeah, man,
1:04:29
this movie could be fucking perfect. You know, it's just almost there,
1:04:32
and it was. So that's what I mean. It's like these type
1:04:34
of films are like, go see experience it for yourself. Don't let nobody
1:04:38
tell you about it. Go see it as soon as possible, you know,
1:04:42
if like it's out of everything I've seen this year, this is one
1:04:46
like, Nigga, go see this shit in the story. There's no question
1:04:48
I echo that this is a this is a mussy type film. Go see
1:04:53
that shit. It's I had a lot of fun. I had to blast
1:04:56
with this. You will have a lot of fun. This is the type
1:04:59
of film you see what your with your partners and them with your with your
1:05:02
I don't want to say with your kids in that, but this is now
1:05:05
with your kids. But you can you can, you can like go out
1:05:09
like like this is like type which doesn't happen often, like you know,
1:05:12
group type ship, like yo, we all about it. We all find
1:05:14
to go to the to the to the show, as y'all say. In
1:05:16
certain areas of the country, like this is the one like, this is
1:05:20
one of those ones where it's just like, yo, we're all going,
1:05:24
can you see if you can see it in forty s do it if you
1:05:26
could, just if you If it's no forty X, you don't need it
1:05:29
to see them the biggest thing you can because it's worth that. It's worth
1:05:32
the eyeballs and and the and the wows and the stairs, and it's just
1:05:36
well done, fun film, dark comedy, but also just like amazing just
1:05:43
in terms of the type of story and engagement you're gonna get from this.
1:05:47
I absolutely recommend it. I don't even know if I want to give it
1:05:53
stars or numbers and nothing. I just fucking recommend this. Shit. This
1:05:55
is I mean, I see you in the commercial of the Corner Instant Classic,
1:05:59
and I feel pretty much just say, yeah it is. You know,
1:06:00
I thought Fury Road when I walked out of it, I was like,
1:06:02
that was one of the greatest films I've ever seen. And when I
1:06:05
walked out of this, I was like, well, that was almost to
1:06:08
the Fury Road. So you know, if Furry Road is one of the
1:06:11
greatest films I've ever seen, this is right up there. And then the
1:06:14
more I thought about it, the more I liked it, because, like
1:06:16
I said, I feel like it just gives so much weight to Furiosa where
1:06:20
now I'm just like, I'm damn near crying with her when she's screaming in
1:06:24
the desert because I know, like I'm like, God, damn girl,
1:06:28
you've been throwing and you had this dreamy all whole life. You know.
1:06:32
It's like, so that shit is ill. One word to describe Furiosa for
1:06:38
me. Hard amazing shit goals hard, yeah, fucking you know, beautiful.
1:06:45
It's I don't know when y'all gonna hear our review, but it does
1:06:49
drop May twenty fourth. You know, obviously we saw a little bit early.
1:06:53
That's why we're giving you this detail. But again, go see that
1:06:57
shit. I got nothing else. I appreciated my time. We had a
1:07:02
time. Yeah, I'm going to see it again as soon as possible.
1:07:05
You know that. That's and that's very few movies that I do that for
1:07:11
very few movies that I'll go see twice in the theater. Infinity War I
1:07:15
did. I didn't get to see r R or theater in theaters. I
1:07:20
would have done those I can't. I might see this shitn't forty X again
1:07:26
to be honest, because like I don't have to, but I would,
1:07:28
because it just made it even more. It was a ride, like the
1:07:31
film itself as a ride, and then to physically be on a ride.
1:07:34
And as I said, it was a market difference from what we watched to
1:07:38
do it because the movement of the chair and when they decided to do elemental
1:07:43
shit at you you know, water and whatnot, this and that, it
1:07:45
all made sense. It made sense and matched up with what I was seeing.
1:07:48
And I was, you know, I was like not anticipating, but
1:07:51
like when it happened, I was like, Okay, I expect that to
1:07:54
happen. That that matched up with what I'm seeing. So yeah, I
1:07:57
fucked with it. Yeah, I don't know, because I I did enjoy
1:08:00
it a lot, But I don't know. I might see forty again.
1:08:03
We'll see again, y'all don't have to like just even watching a right there,
1:08:08
you will. You will still have a lot of fun with this.
1:08:11
No, I can't imagine anyone seeing this. Like I said, this is
1:08:14
just one of those films, you know, like this is great. It's
1:08:15
one of those films you gotta see in a big ass theater. It's like
1:08:19
when I saw Infinity War and I was thinking about it earlier. How I
1:08:21
went and saw it again in an even bigger theater the second time with a
1:08:25
full crowd, And because I knew what was happening, what was coming,
1:08:29
I could anticipate all the reactions and it was just great seeing those people's reactions
1:08:33
and being part of that. So, like we saw it with credits and
1:08:36
stuff, who were kind of you know, they ain't like me. Who
1:08:40
gonna be like what the fuck? You know in the middle of this theater.
1:08:42
So I want to see it with some you know, crowd. Yeah,
1:08:45
go screaming what the fuck? Like me? So yeah, Thank y'all
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