 I'm brushed, oh good, it's all clean, it's all pearly. Welcome back to Spoonsville. Matt, Max, very rude. Today is what we're talking about. Yeah, and I'm exhausted, but I'm just tired. Yeah, it's okay, it's late. Now it's my turn for the segment where we give each other 20 seconds to explain the entire movie in a brief little thing for those that haven't seen it, and for those that haven't seen it but want it all refresher, a very short, bad refresher. Here we go. It's about a guy named Max who is deeply traumatized from the death of a lot of, basically everyone that he cared about in his life. He gets captured by Morton Joe, the main villain's war boys, his cronies, and it follows as he is captured, it follows Firiosa, who's trying to escape with the breeders, the wives of the main villain. It's too hard. I like it though, I like the challenge. Okay, there we go. That was so bad. Well, I mean, good job for 20 seconds. Yeah, so first I saw this movie in theaters, and the thing I'll always say about this movie, for me it was an instant classic because it was the first movie since basically a movie I'd seen in childhood. You know, when you see movies as a kid, just everything is mind blowing and you're just, you're in awe. Everything is just so overwhelming. You can't wrap your head around it. And this was the first movie basically I'd seen as an adult that gave me that same feeling that I would have for movies as a kid. When I first saw it, it was just so insanely fast and I was just like shaking the whole time. Like it was like, it was a good kind of not knowing what's going on, but it was just the most exhilarating thing movie experience I've had since I was a kid. It's the same director that did the first three Mad Maxes like 20, 30 years ago, but that's a really tough thing I think for a director to pull off where it feels almost like they've honed their craft even more. They've gotten better after a long break and they come back to basically reboot the franchise and then they knock it out of the park. So good on you for George Miller to just keep getting better. And his wife edited the movie. That's so cool. Yeah, she won too I think. Oh yeah, Mad Max cleaned up at the Oscars too. That was a good year. It was the Revenant and Mad Max were head to head getting all the awards, yeah. So I'm not into, I'm not a huge fan of action movies. If you look at it at face value, it is something that's low on plot, but something about the movie for me, even as an action movie, there were lots of things about it that made me feel like there's much more to the movie. Yeah, for me, that was always my favorite movies that can do both the just amazing intense creative action and then also have so many other themes going on because a movie like Transformers, I'm bored within like five, 10 minutes. And that there's action going on, crazy stuff going on there, but I'm just like, I just don't care, right? With movies like this, again, it's another one that I think succeeds like the Matrix where there's a lot of great stuff you can look into, but it's also just so much fun and so easy to watch and so entertaining. That's a really hard balance to do. So anyone that can pull that off, you know? Like I don't, I'm not even a car guy, but that movie just makes me love all, I love all the cars in that movie. They're also like so unique and got so much character and personality each one of them. It's one of those movies that there's so much love and care. You can just tell. I know it's hard to say to someone that if you wanted to compare, I don't know, even like a, I don't want to hear like a fast and furious eight versus this movie. You're like, there's just so much personality and so much passion put into this movie. There's so much uniqueness. There's so much world building in a very quick amount of time. There's a little, they sprinkle in backstory. There's a lot of beautiful stuff. I love the whole thing with 160 days ride that way. There's nothing but salt, you know? If you can't fix what's broken here inside or where you are already, it doesn't matter. You can keep running from your problems, but it is still going to be there. You have to stand and deal with your issues. It's like, let's work on climate change and inequality and things and all the issues going on on earth. Let's not go to Mars and just hope that it turns out better starting calling it Mars. Let's actually fix what's going on here now. Everyone except the Morton Joe is being exploited. You have the war boys who are out there just to do the dirty work or just the labor. There's the fighting war boys and then the ones that are just there to just crank the gears of the machines and all the apparatus that Morton Joe owns. Then there are his harem, I guess, wives that are just there to pass on his lineage. Then there are the other wives, I guess, or other mothers that they basically just milk for their milk. That also, for me, brought up themes of the modification of the human body, which is something again that applies now. More so through marketing today. The human body is commodified more with marketing practices, right? Like you're buying a juice and there's a girl wearing a swimsuit and she's drinking that juice. You're looking at the girl, but the girl, you're supposed to be interested in the juice, right? That is an example of the modification of the human body, especially obviously we see that much more with women, right? So in this world, it's either fertility or milk or it is blood, right? Because Max is literally a blood bag for the war boys. And they don't recognize the humanity of these people whatsoever, which I think is very relevant to, again, past, present, and most likely future. Because think about it, right? Let's say you're watching a movie. The actors that you love, a lot of the times you separate yourself from their humanity. You watch a movie, they give you pleasure and they turn into this object that movie companies can basically get something from. Like they can make money off of these people who you don't even realize or you are not necessarily sensitive or empathetic to the fact that they're people just like you. And so that's an example of present day human commodification of the human body. Everybody's suffering all around. Yeah, everyone's in prison, everyone's a commodity. Yeah, these things are the reason that I really was captivated throughout by the movie. I did find that the scene, the car chase, it went on for so long. Like I was really tired, I won't lie, I was really tired, it went on for long. It was super interesting. I even liked the fact that you had the guitar guy. I think probably some people might think, oh, that was just over the top. However, you have to think about it, right? Joe is a very strategic guy. And when you're going to war, look at like literally anything, there's nothing in that movie that felt like it was over the top one necessary to feel like it was extremely strategic. And that's for me the difference is, I look at some movies and the villain will become all big and mutated and it's like this big boss battle at the end of a video game. That stuff feels like over the top for me or when they're just fighting big mechs just for the sake of it. But for me, I guess some people could see that as like flamethrower, metal guitar writing on a big group. But first of all, that just in my mind is just so far from cool, so I don't even care. But exactly, it does serve a purpose. It's an historical thing. It's like since Romans and much before then, they'd have drummers, they'd have musicians, war musicians, people playing to get people into the mindset of we're going to be victorious. I love it, I love every single bit. So many cool practical effects and CGI effects. I'm also a lover of CGI as well. Whatever you got to use to tell your story, you know. I just, I love it. And there's this, I could go on for hours about it. We don't, we just talk about Tom Hardy. About Tom Hardy because we know. Tom Hardy, everybody. He loves Tom Hardy first, then me. Yeah, at least you're second billing. No, no, that's not true. But yeah, it's just a monumental movie for me. Again, every way that I, everything that I look for in a movie, you know, the world building, the immersion of it, the themes, the music, the everything, just the editing is phenomenal. Yeah, and the costumes were really worth it too. Everything was just, so creative, the slang. Even the guy, the money guy. The money guy. What was the money guy? Oh yeah. The men, people either. Yeah, he had elephantitis, which potentially wasn't even elephantitis, right? It was probably just like, I think maybe they were trying to say, to portray gluttony. Where you see so many people, you have these people that are living at the bottom of the, what is that? The place where the Joe and the war boys are living. And they're all so, so deprived of everything, they're starved of food, water, life, you name it. And so then you have this guy, the money guy, who was just so fat, like he can't even move. He has to be moved and carried into the car, right? That is just, yeah, like where people are, some people are living in access. I think that was the thing about it. Got people that are being brainwashed into thinking that they shouldn't even want enough water for themselves, which is the most bearish of necessities. I love that he combines it to like, or compares it to an addiction. He's like, and you'll resent its absence. I mean, the way he describes it is like how he's basically describing like having a lot of money or having a lot of stuff, because you'll resent not having it, you'll get addicted to it and you'll want more on you. But he's talking about water, you know? It's that kind of thing. It's kind of talking to those that are already the most disenfranchised beaten down and you want them to, you are tricking them into thinking that them even wanting just a little bit of water to make it for the day is them being greedy. So they should be thankful for the warlord, for giving them just that little bit. You know, and that's how you keep people in that spot that they're in. And yeah, how scarcity and violence and domination amongst people can cause such extremes in, you got very gluttonous, greedy, unhealthy people in one hand that have way too much and that's not healthy or needed at all. And then you have people on the other extreme. Both are very unhealthy for people. You just get a lot out of just that one character, you know? And a movie for me that's great and stands a test of time and that I always, you know, you're always thinking about and you can reference it is a movie where there's a minor villain character has more thought and more character put into it than like a whole movie, you know? Like I love the part even when Morton Joe and the rest of his gang are they lost, the good guys got away from them, but they're turning back, so then, you know? And then Morton Joe's just playing an instrument and he's singing, like he's humming something to himself, kind of doing a chant, you know? And I was like, I love that, because again, in less interesting movies, they wouldn't feel the need to give the villain kind of an interesting personality trait or a chord like that, but with this movie it's just overflowing with personality in my opinion. So when you have the main villain just at one point being like, well, until we can think of our next step I'm just gonna play a tune to myself, you know? Love that, beautiful. I feel like the movie also depicted this thing that people in privileged positions do where they don't really realize how well off they are and they don't really, they aren't really attuned to or sympathetic to the challenges that people in disadvantaged situations, yeah, like the challenges that they experience. I think it's also that thing where if you're in a bad place, sometimes you just kind of sometimes it's too hard to actually fight for yourself and you just kind of accept things as they are, no matter how immoral they are, you just accept them as that because you have no other way to, you have no resources to actually do anything about it. And so you kind of fool yourself into feeling like it's okay. There was that one scene where the one wife starts to go through that Stockholm syndrome of like, yeah, but was it really that bad because is it worth leaving, you know? Cause then you start to feel, and they're like, no, remember that they believe yourself enough to remember that you, it was bad enough that you decided to risk your life to leave. So hold on to that. But then sometimes you just think, yeah, but I mean, we were being treated pretty well comparatively to everyone else. So was it really that bad? Maybe we're being kind of selfish and just being ungrateful for the life we had, you know, it's very easy to people to fall into that. So there's a lot of juice in there, you know? Think about coming from an abusive family where one family, you're getting beaten up physically and then the other family, it's emotional abuse. Who are you gonna believe? You're gonna believe the family, that the person who comes from a physically abusive family because he has the bruises, right? He has the black eye. You see them on the street, it's obvious they're suffering. Yeah, but then the emotionally abused person, nothing, no scars, absolutely nothing. So you're like, are you, you know, do you really have problems? Yeah, so Mad Max for your out 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. Don't even have to think about it. I've seen about half a dozen times and yeah, it's. Twice for me. From all 10 for it's, yeah, yeah, second time, special, yeah, so. Well, what'd you guys think of Mad Max for your out? We'd love to hear it, put it down in the comments. Yeah. Give us a like or something like that. Do something. Let us know you're out there. Do something with your powers, your powers of having a YouTube profile and yeah, until next time. Bye.