 did something today that I never thought I would do that I didn't even think was possible my local cinema which was only a couple of blocks away closed down a couple of months ago if you've been watching this channel you've heard me talk about it you've even seen video of the demolition but Mad Max Fury Road opened last night and I wanted to see it today and the nearest cinema that still open is five miles away and I don't have a car that's why seeing movies is such an issue so what happened is I made a 10-mile round-trip bike ride today just to see Fury Road and it was worth it and it was also no problem I thought it would be a real problem but I've lost so much weight recently and I've been doing so much bike riding and taking a two-and-a-half mile bike ride to the laundromat or to the recycling center which I do regularly has become so routine that I thought it taking a five mile ride with a two-hour interval between the return trip it shouldn't be a problem and it wasn't at all so that was a happy experience for me just for that but also the movie was amazing I was really concerned that this movie was being oversold to me I've never seen a movie getting such rave reviews and the only people who are mad about the movie are lunatics so I really wanted to see it when I first heard about this movie a couple of years ago I thought it was gonna be a reboot I thought it was gonna be a do-over and I was not interested in that I was never interested in that and along the way I've been hearing about the problems with the the principal shooting being delayed and all the the script and editing problems over the years and those are bad signs those are always really bad signs but it was only over the last couple weeks as the movie was getting ready to open that I learned that this was that this was just another sequel that this was movie number four and it's created and directed by the same guy who made the first three movies so I was like yeah yeah I want to see this my other concern was that the trailers and preview clips that I've seen are really heavy on the CGI and I was really dreading that I was really hoping that that that wouldn't be a problem and it wasn't pretty much all the CGI in the film was what you saw in the trailers and the clips the rest was I'm sure there was CGI that we weren't noticing but all the really obvious CGI happened early in the film and it wasn't an issue after that in fact the very first scene in the film with max standing on a promontory with it back to you looking out over the desert it had a CGI lizard a little two-headed CGI lizard in it that was obvious CGI and really gimmicky and it didn't look good and I was thinking oh no oh no this is gonna be bad but it wasn't there was the sandstorm with the fire tornadoes early on in the film but other than that CGI was not a problem other than that I don't know where to start I don't think I can say anything that other reviewers haven't already said Jill Pantosi used the word orgasm in her review I I would not use that word but I certainly enjoyed the movie every bit as much as she did and so far I've agreed with all of my Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr friends about this movie about just loving it wholeheartedly and I'm never like that I usually disagree with everybody about everything if you're concerned about this movie if you're wanting it to be like the other Mad Max movies then you shouldn't be concerned it is you're gonna get the never-ending super violent car chases that you got in the other films you're definitely gonna get those and like the other films you're gonna get okay as you might have already noticed it is thundering and raining outside it was not like this when I took the bike ride earlier today otherwise I wouldn't have taken it as I was saying another thing it has in common with the other movies is that it touches on important social issues without being preachy about them without turning into a lesson it lets you see them it lets you absorb them it lets you make your own decisions about them and then it has the car chases like the other three films this movie you can tell is made by the same guy George Miller by the way you can you can definitely tell and that's a good thing it's a great thing the world of these movies and this latest installment carries on that tradition the world of these movies is very severe it's very harsh it's very unsympathetic and because of these things it's very real you can't allow yourself to get attached to anybody and the characters in the film can't afford that luxury either these films show the absolute worst side of humanity and I'm afraid they're showing the reality of humanity in a post apocalyptic world I don't think that a worldwide catastrophe is going to bring people together I think it's going to drive people apart and I think people will show their absolute worst animalistic sides the Mad Max films don't hold anything back as far as the work that George Miller has done in these films keep keep in mind the last Mad Max film was 1985 that was 30 years ago that was 30 goddamn years ago so as much as I loved this film and I did at the beginning I wasn't certain at the very beginning of the film I I found myself not accepting the world that they were building here I found myself not believing in it but that changed over the course of the film and I found myself very invested in it so and that's a thing that George Miller has accomplished with all these films he has made this harsh soulless world of his very believable we accept it we can see ourselves living in this world and believe what we're seeing we can believe what we're experiencing in these films and that's why they have persisted that's why they've been so popular I think not because of the car chases which are good the second film Road Warrior by the way is one of the best examples of modern filmmaking in history I think it's essentially a silent film and I've been talking about that very thing as I've talked about 2001 Space Odyssey and under the skin recently Road Warrior belongs in that category and then this film has come along and it adds something else it adds another hero the problem with making more Mad Max films is that Max himself cannot develop as a character he can't he's a he's a loner out in the desert surviving on his own who doesn't want to belong to any community or have any attachments so he can't by definition develop I mean if you're going to have another Mad Max film in which Max has developed or has changed or grown as a character you would have to show him very old with gray hair with a missing eye or missing fingers or something and he's become the leader of a small town that's built up around an oil Derek or something which the people in Road Warrior tried to get him to do and that may actually happen someday but I think audiences would have trouble believing that and they wouldn't accept it and I think it would make a lot of people angry so George Miller is stuck with the problem of making another Mad Max movie while adding something interesting something that will hold an audience's attention and this time he did it by adding a second hero a co-hero and this time it was a woman he not only added a woman he added women lots of women so this film includes not only participation by women but it includes their perspectives as well and that has angered a lot of people just the simple act of adding women to the film and including them as real characters has made people label this film a feminist film yeah I don't have any problem calling this a feminist film but you don't have to call it a feminist film if you don't want to it's just a really good action-adventure film and it happens to have women in it and their stories are really good and they are complex important people I found myself not only believing in this world and accepting this world but becoming very invested in this world and by the end of the film I was I was clapping and laughing out loud and there were even tears in my eyes and that never happens to me I don't do that at movies I was also having to restrain myself because this was a noon showing on opening day in Florida so the the theater was sold out and it was packed with elderly people taking advantage of their AARP discounts and they were not responsive they were not reacting to the film at all so as much as I wanted to be standing up and yelling and clapping out loud I yeah I couldn't do it this is one of the few times where I regret not having a local community of friends that I can go do these kind of things with as you can tell I'm recommending this movie I'm recommending it wholeheartedly I'm recommending it a hundred percent the only problems I would have with the film and these are really small these are nitpicking problems number one there was too much CGI in the first half of the film again really small problem number two near the beginning of the film there was too much unnecessary exposition there were several scenes that had unnecessary talking in them where people were explaining the film to you there was spoon feeding you the the earlier films didn't do that again really small nitpicking problems three I felt like there was too much background music in the previous films during the car chases there was nothing but car chase there was the sounds of engines and explosions and yelling and screaming and no music this one had the incessant triumphant background music playing all the time which I noticed and I didn't particularly like but again a nitpicky problem the only real problem I have with this film which is not a nitpicky problem was Mad Max himself recasting him with another actor I'm I'm torn on this issue I did not want to see Mel Gibson in this film I I don't ever want to see Mel Gibson again I think a lot of people feel that way I felt like if there's gonna be Max in another movie 30 years later like I was saying before he should have been graying he should have been wrinkled he should have been Brian Cranston type as far as age goes the guy they cast in here I thought was he had no charisma I don't know who he is by the way he had no real presence he had very little to add to the film and honestly this film could have been done without him all together it wouldn't have been a Mad Max film this film could have been done as an unrelated film in the Mad Max universe but everybody in the world would have been sitting sitting there watching this movie thinking you know this is an awful lot like a Mad Max movie so having said all of that I want to make the point again that I recommend this film wholeheartedly 100% we need to support excellent films like this you need to see it you need to recommend it to your friends and it's another one of these smart movies that you need to pay attention to and actually watch it's excellent cinema and I hope George Miller makes more I'm sure he will and I'll talk to you about it when that happens too 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