Okay, back to movies!
This is another of those "modern classics," the movies that everybody talks about, that pierced popular culture and that gets referenced nonstop, with memes and references and nostalgia. And now I'm finally caught up! Over the course of 2 hours, I "got" like seven hundred jokes from the past ten years. Most of them were about "bait," but still, worth it.
So how was this as a movie, outside of memes? It was pretty good! The characters were eccentric, entertaining, and over-the-top violent, basically exactly what you would expect out of post-apocalyptic characters these days. I've played enough Borderlands to know that in general, human life is minimally valued, and explosives are the name of the game. I enjoy Tom Hardy a lot just as an actor, and he did a great job of being kind of on the edge of sanity for most of the movie, although sometimes his maddened mind settled almost too much, enough to form calm, coherent thoughts, but again, in the wastelands, you expect people to be a little bit nuts...or a lot nuts.
One thing that didn't work quite as well for me were the moments where they seemed to speed up the action slightly, accentuating the frantic-ness but in an unnatural way. I found those spots a little bit jarring, and they took me out of the fiction for a brief period. Ultimately they weren't enough to fully detract from the movie experience, but it's a little ding for me.
The prequel Furiosa came out this year, and Max is constantly shoving it in my face as a recommended movie to watch, so it's possible I'll crank that up before the end of the year. Anya Taylor-Joy is supremely watchable, and I'll watch most Marvel alumnus in stuff, so the inclusion of Chris Hemsworth is a positive as well. We'll see! The queue remains... massive.
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