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May. 24th, 2015 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreYesterday, I went to see Mad Max: Fury Road. Like everyone else on the internet, I love it completely (and would really like to see it again).
I have never seen a Mad Max movie before which, given my love of apocalyptica is a little surprising. Now I'll have to do that, as this movie contained a whole bunch of things I love about the genre: gorgeous wasteland vistas, terrible hellscape societies, crazy-ass religions. Plus, whole bunches of women being awesome and critiques of toxic masculinity, which I do not usually get in my apocalyptica. So that was awesome.
Also, I really appreciated how little exposition there is in the movie. There's a little tiny voice-over at the beginning and then it's essentially a 2-hour action sequence, with characterization via action, and you have to figure everything out yourself. Because that, for me, is one of the great joys of apocalyptica as well - you have to figure out how the world works now by reading about it. And this movie assumes you're smart enough to do that, which is pleasant and refreshing.
Plus, the movie is gorgeous. And, for a movie that is essentially a 2-hour action sequence, surprisingly not gory. Violent, yes, but not gory. Which was also refreshing.
I'm trying to convince my mom that we should go see it together today.
I have never seen a Mad Max movie before which, given my love of apocalyptica is a little surprising. Now I'll have to do that, as this movie contained a whole bunch of things I love about the genre: gorgeous wasteland vistas, terrible hellscape societies, crazy-ass religions. Plus, whole bunches of women being awesome and critiques of toxic masculinity, which I do not usually get in my apocalyptica. So that was awesome.
Also, I really appreciated how little exposition there is in the movie. There's a little tiny voice-over at the beginning and then it's essentially a 2-hour action sequence, with characterization via action, and you have to figure everything out yourself. Because that, for me, is one of the great joys of apocalyptica as well - you have to figure out how the world works now by reading about it. And this movie assumes you're smart enough to do that, which is pleasant and refreshing.
Plus, the movie is gorgeous. And, for a movie that is essentially a 2-hour action sequence, surprisingly not gory. Violent, yes, but not gory. Which was also refreshing.
I'm trying to convince my mom that we should go see it together today.
