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Furiosa and Mad Max
Get ready for an in-depth look at the world of "Furiosa," the gripping prequel to "Mad Max: Fury Road." We're revisiting our love for the Mad Max franchise, reminiscing about our first thrilling encounters with its chaotic action and unforgettable characters. Hear our admiration for the progressive portrayal of strong, non-patronizing female heroes, and our excitement about the film's setting 45 years after civilization's collapse. We discuss how "Fury Road" consulted feminist experts to create well-developed female characters, making it a standout in modern cinema.
Lastly, we dissect the evolution of Furiosa's character from personal empowerment to a crusader for justice, and how Chris Hemsworth's portrayal of a deeply flawed antagonist adds complexity without pity. We compare Charlize Theron's iconic Furiosa to Anya Taylor-Joy's surprising take on the character, sharing behind-the-scenes trivia like Anya learning to drive on set. From practical effects versus CGI debates to the more dialogue-heavy nature of "Furiosa," our conversation blends humor, travel tales, and cinematic insights for an engaging and multifaceted discussion.
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Get ready for an in-depth look at the world of "Furiosa," the gripping prequel to "Mad Max: Fury Road." We're revisiting our love for the Mad Max franchise, reminiscing about our first thrilling encounters with its chaotic action and unforgettable characters. Hear our admiration for the progressive portrayal of strong, non-patronizing female heroes, and our excitement about the film's setting 45 years after civilization's collapse. We discuss how "Fury Road" consulted feminist experts to create well-developed female characters, making it a standout in modern cinema.
Lastly, we dissect the evolution of Furiosa's character from personal empowerment to a crusader for justice, and how Chris Hemsworth's portrayal of a deeply flawed antagonist adds complexity without pity. We compare Charlize Theron's iconic Furiosa to Anya Taylor-Joy's surprising take on the character, sharing behind-the-scenes trivia like Anya learning to drive on set. From practical effects versus CGI debates to the more dialogue-heavy nature of "Furiosa," our conversation blends humor, travel tales, and cinematic insights for an engaging and multifaceted discussion.
Connect with us at @babewhatpodcast for updates, interactions, and polls.
If you want to help financially support the show, keep our mics on, and help us to continue creating high quality content, you can become a supporter of our show here and contribute as little or as much as you'd like.
Please remember to rate, subscribe, and review!
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Speaker 2:Well, we got our last moving on.
Speaker 1:We got our last free flight out of max going out to denver yeah, which is pretty funny, because so max is heavier than ella and a little thicker, but not as tall, and so we put ella on my lap she usually does a lot better, and he's wigglier, so way more impatient about being on someone's lap.
Speaker 1:And so we're about to take off and the air hostess goes how old is she? I'm like well, she's four. And he's like she has to go back. I'm like, okay, but the other one's bigger and because he's he's still under two, he's still one, and so he's allowed to sit on my lap.
Speaker 2:I'd have to pay for a ticket, but she forced us to switch the kids and we're like okay, because she's like oh, it's a safety requirement because of their weight, and I was like, yeah, and she weighs less, so if we're going by safety standards, but whatevs?
Speaker 1:whatev indeed. So Max was on my lap and it was a little bit more cramped, but he did well. He did better than I thought he would he snuggled up with me against the window and we just held it together by watching Mario.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he loves that movie and you happened to get a seat next to you on the way back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was interesting. So the flight was a full flight and the person next to us wasn't there because we got on first and so I put Max next to me and there was even standby, so people were, you know, whoever didn't show up, they were selling standby tickets and I think, because I put Max in the seat next to me and had him buckled in, they might have marked the spot taken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they were allowing people to kind of move around in the cabin which was weird, so I don't think they were tracking exactly which seats were bought and sold yeah, interesting, frontier's fault yeah, I know so I think they're. They might have marked that seat as taken and then like, because at the very end I was like, okay, well, here comes the standby people, cause all the standby people start coming on and I was like, well, you're going to have to move them.
Speaker 2:you know, and never did so so nice, so that flight out was really the last flight that you had that we had to deal with Max being on a lap, cause he turns two on Sunday and which is, is you know before, this podcast will air, but he'll no longer be eligible for free flights, so nope but it was a good trip, though denver was was really cool go see your brother and his wife, ben and madison. They've been on the podcast before, actually yep and a little talula a little tt which was great.
Speaker 1:We had a lot of fun. There was like we got to do something fun, like every day we go to like the zoo and we got to see like, like, different, like play areas, like we went to this place called candy land and it's just a giant like padded children's crack for kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was really fun.
Speaker 1:Actually, I had so much fun yeah, even because so they make it strong enough for the adults to like participate in the different areas, so I was still like monkeying around. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had fun and I was very tired and on my period, so if that was possible for me then you know, this place is epic. So they took us there. They took us to the zoo which you spoke about, but we got to feed giraffes, which was really fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I almost lost a ring to the giraffe's tongue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, saved it.
Speaker 2:Saved it. It was really fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we saw it. It's actually a really nice zoo.
Speaker 2:It's an amazing zoo. What's the name of that zoo? It's like down south somewhere. I'll have to look it up.
Speaker 1:And it's like up against a mountain, and so it seemed like the animals like had a slightly nicer environment.
Speaker 2:You know it's very natural. It was like cooler as well yeah, it's nice, oh shoot.
Speaker 1:I thought this was so while you looked it up, I had like they had and the animals seemed a lot more active than typical zoos during the middle of the day, you know like, yeah, usually the animals a lot more like just chilling and just trying to sleep or rest because it's hot or whatever, and the animals were, like you know, enjoying themselves I saw a tiger, like playing with a ball, and there's quite a few things that I like had never seen animals like that really interact with, which was cool.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so like we saw um a bear, that was like way more like a huge grizzly bear right up close and they're having a good time and saw wolves running around and um. The elephants were active and cheyenne mountain zoo that's it. Yeah, it's really nice, a lot of steep walking, but I think that ended up hiking, yeah, I actually ended up really liking that, because you kind of feel like, oh cool, I actually got some steps in yeah, they also had like a pizza place.
Speaker 2:That was really good pizza.
Speaker 1:Surprisingly, it did not seem like the kind of restaurant you would have in the kids didn't enjoy it because they didn't have any yeah, they didn't we stopped at a pizza place just for the kids and they're like no, we're not gonna eat the pizza they were a little bit grumpy because they weren't sleeping as well, but overall it was like super fun, super fun trip.
Speaker 2:Now ella's okay, so madison and talula are massive obsessed with taylor swift, which you know warranted. Now ella's been asking for taylor swift songs and videos to go to sleep.
Speaker 1:So pretty funny yeah, it's so funny she's been converted.
Speaker 2:I have been converted by madison and by my cousin janelle, I think I'm. I don't think I'm like quite on the swifty level, but I like kind of want to be. I even have a cardigan, a taylor swift cardigan. So would you encourage me to get, as you shake your head, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Okay. So I I think getting um swag from artists you like is great. I'm just shaking my head because I think she's a great artist and I think skilled and talented, great career, blah, blah, blah. I just feel like she's become overhyped. It's become like a success cycle. You're kind of stuck in the loop of you're more successful because you're more successful because you're more successful.
Speaker 2:For sure, but you have to put out good stuff to keep being successful. I think so, but yeah, again, I felt the same way until I actually started listening to all her music, not just the ones on the radio, and yeah, I'm gonna be an apologist. Anyway, we're gonna be talking about other pop culture, not music related, today. Are you ready for that, that section of the podcast where we talk about the topic You're?
Speaker 1:talking to me. Yeah, I don't know You're like looking to my left.
Speaker 2:There's balloons moving behind you, so the movement also. It's like storming a little bit, so the trees are going crazy behind you.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about the new Furiosa movie.
Speaker 1:Wait what I'm ready. No, what what I'm ready? Let's do it.
Speaker 2:But what were you? Why'd you pause? What were you going to say?
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:Liar Okay, liar okay. Decades before imperative furiosa ignited the fury road. From mad max fury road, a young girl roamed a different kind of hell. Welcome to the world of furiosa. A mad max saga set a staggering 45 years after civilizations collapse in this world. So imagine a world ravaged by war, where water and gasoline are the new gold and ruthless warlords carve out their empires in the scorched earth. This is the brutal reality Furiosa faces at a tender age.
Speaker 2:The film is directed by the visionary George Miller and delves into the origins of one of cinema's most unforgettable characters, a woman whose tenacity and spirit for rebellion would one day challenge a tyrant or two. Fans of mad max fury road will definitely be thrilled to learn that this prequel boasts the same high octane action sequences the franchise is known for, and furiosa promises more than just a spectacle, but it's an epic origin story detailing furiosa's harrowing journey from a stolen childhood to a hardened warrior, a woman forever mocked by the wasteland, yet forever determined to find redemption. So, babe, what do you know about Furiosa? Slash the Mad Max world. Slash.
Speaker 1:So a little bit. I know a lot about the movie. We just watched it and a huge fan of Fury Road Watched it a few times. It's one of my favorite reviews of all time. Same got one of my favorite actresses in it all of all time. And actually one of my favorite actors of all time is in it too. You know tom hardy, he's always weird, but but so good in this. It worked really well.
Speaker 2:It worked really well. And then furious was played originally by charlize theron.
Speaker 1:Yeah but I first got into the Mad Max brand. I guess I must have been like four or five years old.
Speaker 2:That's when you got into the brand. Huh yeah, when you were four.
Speaker 1:Yeah, somewhere around it's like between four and eight I saw Mad Max 2 for the first time and that came out in the early 80s, so it had been out for a while and I'd seen it. And then there was one more Mad Max movie after Mad Max 2. So there's one more before that and I think I might have seen that one at some point, but it wasn't very good, so it wasn't memorable. But Mad Max 2 was very memorable, really good movie for its time, had Mel Gibson in it and it was just absolute bizarre chaos and action and violence was pretty cool, yeah, yeah so I haven't seen any of those original movies okay, none of them first movie I saw was mad max fury road in 2015, and it was a very fun time to see it because I was roommates at the time with hannah harper at the time.
Speaker 2:She's now Hannah Salveson because she married my brother, but one of my best friends was studying film and directing, and so, as she's really delving into like the world of film and like the intricacies of of what makes a good film and everything this movie came out and I just learned so much more about, I mean, I enjoyed it, right, but the more and more deep she would go with like details and how they filmed this and what made the film so special, the more I'd be like I freaking love this film. So I there's a couple of like random things that she shared with me that I remember, which one of which was actually very cool to experience in Fury Road, which was that they consulted with feminist and women's studies experts to talk about the sexualization of women in film and to try and avoid different things that are typically found in just normal films. In this film that would over-sexualize women in an unnecessary way, and I was just like, okay, interesting, watched the film and it really was quite stark, I don't know. I remember that there's one scene in Fury Road where all the pregnant ladies dressed in white are rinsing off from a huge dust storm in water and they're all stunning, beautiful women and my brain immediately was like, okay, for sure, we're gonna have like a closeup of wet bodies. That's just what happens when you have women in slow motion, I don't know, washing themselves and it didn't happen, but yet it was still a poignant scene.
Speaker 2:It was just kind of cool to have small things and be like, oh, it's a really well-developed character or this character is in no way trying to be attractive in any way and this isn't being filmed in a way that it was just kind of cool. And then obviously there's, like my brother kind of joked, that like there's literally, you know the feminist writing on the wall, because you know the women write feminist things on the wall before they're, you know, safe from sex trafficking. But it was just like a very cool. The action, the fire guitar on top of the crazy vehicles, the disturbing characters in it, all of it is so good. But on top of that I just felt like really inspired by the, not only furiosa the character, but charlie saran's like playing over.
Speaker 2:She did a really good job, one of the most beautiful women, just portrayed someone so different anyway yeah so.
Speaker 1:So, speaking to the, I didn't plan on speaking to this, but the fact that, now that you brought it up, um, one of the things that frustrates me in modern cinema is like the you know, almost patronizing way that female characters can be made and be like, hey, look at this, you know amazing female hero, and it's like way overdone. It's like look at how this person can do all these things and at some point it's not very believable and for me that's frustrating. But what I love about fury road and a number of movies like it is that it's not patronizing.
Speaker 1:It's literally like look how amazing this person is. She is also a female, having a female experience which is different than a male experience, but it's not like the like so on the nose and it's like so oversaturated with like hey, look at all the things that I have to struggle with because of my gender.
Speaker 2:This is her story. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But it showed her that she is an amazing human being and she's an amazing woman and the things that she accomplishes as a human being and I love that like and you contrast that against. I think there was another movie that came out it was wonder woman came out that year, yeah, and you're just like, like it was sexualized, like she, like it was like done a little bit. I think it was not the first one, it was like the second one, like 1984 or something like that. She was like oh, that was.
Speaker 1:It seemed a little lame, you know, because the first one a woman, I liked oh the first one I liked was done a bit better, but the second one was just kind of like, uh, we're just kind of throwing out any sort of like yeah, yeah. So the second, this Furiosa, again I feel like nails that whole. Like you know, it sucks me in and makes it believable and makes me appreciate her experience as a human as a human, but also her unique thing. So like seeing and I'm sure we're gonna probably have spoilers in this, so if you haven't seen it, I'll try to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll try to call out right before if we talk about something.
Speaker 1:So spoiler, there's a scene when she's a child and like her experience as a female in this, like her experience as a female in this world, you know, which is, you know, obviously, a mirror to experiences you know in the real world, is what she has to deal with in terms of like, you know, potential like, and you know it really, from my perspective, like it made me appreciate how she manages those things and makes, made me understand or try to be more sympathetic and empathetic to, you know, a woman's experience and then how she handled it, you know. So I, I really liked it. It's, I hope, in cinema it's more that direction of of pushing.
Speaker 2:You know, for me that's a great representation of, you know, showcasing feminism, showcasing feminist um agendas and needs and and things that are unique to the female experience yeah, and I I do know what you're saying when it comes to, like, uh, attempts to do this which, again, I'll always appreciate attempts to do it but I don't appreciate it on the same level where their, their attempt to depict like a strong, feminist, equal woman is. It almost becomes more like that she's that way to do that rather than that way to be a person. Yeah, oh, I'm, I'm creating this strong so that she'll represent feminism, so that she'll represent equality, rather than, okay, let me try and think of a, a holy, worthy, full person. That's a woman and that's feminism.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, and I think this does a great job of that and and I agree that her story, both in Fury Road and in Furious it does a really great job representing how, in disaster, in chaos, in anarchy, it really is women and children that typically suffer the most or are abused the most.
Speaker 2:You see a great depiction of, like men having the same issue, but it really is typically like, okay, all the innocent kids, that's who gets raped, that's who gets owned, that's who becomes chattel, you know. And then women, especially when it comes to like post-apocalyptic issues like this, when you're dealing with like breeding and stuff. That's that's kind of what you get chalked up to, and it does a really good job showing that on a practical level, including, you know, using women for things like literally producing milk in a world where, like, there isn't water. Yeah, so, yeah, I, I like that. It does it in a way that everyone is disturbed by, but that's not like even the main part of their story. The main part of their story is obviously it's important to understand what they come from and what, where they're, what they're trying to run away from and fight against.
Speaker 1:But, like most of their story both inferior and inferior is actually like trying to get to something else, build something else, become something else which I really like as well yeah, and they even again spoiler, so you can here it is yeah, they even start off the movie with a strong mother figure for, for, for yos, and maybe gives a little bit more context why she is the way she is and so I really like that as well. You know it didn't feel like here we go, we're trying to push a strong female character and a strong female like hero in her mother was like it was super believable and it's just who she was.
Speaker 1:Yeah and I love that because I feel like it wins over the hearts of everyone in the theater. It's not like you're gonna put off someone because you're like, okay, well, I feel like this is suddenly becoming political. Instead, it's becoming, hey, this is a real thing and this is a real person and we're showcasing well.
Speaker 2:Here's a human.
Speaker 1:Yeah, quotations. And this is how a real human, that is, a woman, can behave and act in a situation like she was put in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I loved it. Yeah, and I feel like the women in Fury Road because we were kind of introduced to women later on in Fury Road that she would have known as a child before she was kidnapped and later on in Fury Road that she would have known as a child before she was kidnapped, and those women are badass, like so cool as well. And that's what I like is it's not this like one token cool female character. There's so many in both of the movies.
Speaker 2:Like there there are a lot of different kinds of badass women, but so many right and these older women are like riding motorcycles and killing people, and it's all because they've learned to do this, to be protective not only of themselves, but also of their ideals and of of a way of life right that is matriarchal yeah which I, I just love seeing that as well, and it's just interesting to me how impactful seeing female examples like that in Firoz's life because she was literally stolen as, like I would say, probably a single digit age, like nine, maybe ten, and having those examples of women, I do think, really affected every decision that she made and the woman she became, even though she really wasn't exposed to any other women, never mind women like that, like the rest of her life.
Speaker 2:So, and I like that towards the end of furiosa here's a spoiler kind of it's not really because it's just showing us fury road. Right, she transitions from what we see in this prequel to what happens in fury road and it feels like as soon as she really finds her power and finds her vindication, she immediately turns to see what can she do for other women, and that's definitely an experience that I've had as a woman with other women.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of women are very good about doing that, about wanting more for everyone, not just for themselves yeah, and I think it works so well because it's a very clear like there are very, there are very clear victims, like it's not like. There's like in a movie like this there's a lot of gray area like is that a bad guy, a good guy?
Speaker 1:is you know there's a lot of that where it's like you know a lot of good people doing bad things, a lot of you know bad people doing good things like it's like bad.
Speaker 2:Max is an interesting example of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's a lot of all over the place, but that works so well because there are. They were just clearly victims and the fact that she, of all things, chooses to help those people made so much sense yeah, even if they didn't really like who they are.
Speaker 2:They don't have the same grit as she does, the same capabilities they don't. They didn't really like who they are, they don't have the same grit as she does, the same capabilities. They're not really like her, but she still finds like those resonant relationships that mean so much to her that she's like literally willing to risk everything in Fury Road to save them, which is very cool. So a couple other things about the movie that I like that are not necessarily like feminist focused. Let's talk about Chris Hemsworth, okay.
Speaker 1:So for me he's. He, for me, was the centerpiece of the movie. Like I know it's a Furiosa movie, but his acting, his character I felt like was like the glue, that, or like almost the gravity I don't know how to explain it of of the black hole. Yeah, know how to explain of the black hole. Yeah, because that's he's horrible. Yeah, he's, he's absolutely horrible, he's got.
Speaker 2:He talks so funny but, like it, he actually gave some depth to this character and I guess the writers gave some depth to this character, where it's like, yeah, he's a super bad guy, yeah, he's super weird, but at the same time, without it being again on the nose, and like here's my backstory, you kind of get woven in, almost like why he is the way he is, and you're just like, oh, like I get how you went down this road of insanity, you know, like yeah, but not in a way that makes you like pity him no, or at all, because he's literally terrible, he's the worst but also like you as, yeah, just it's the and I think the movies the two mad max movies that I've seen do a very good job of allowing the viewer to toe that line between understanding and pity, and you can provide and give people understanding when you're like, wow, this is a really horrible world with really like, what are your options? Really, it's all understandable, but you don't really pity people, even if you get why they do what they do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was, I think, probably his best performance he's ever had.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I haven't seen him in a ton of other things outside of superhero movies, but I agree that I haven't seen his acting skills on display like that before. And the prosthetics and stuff that they did to change his appearance I thought would be more distracting than it was like. At first I was kind of like, oh man, I think that's. That is chris hemsworth for sure yeah I did a good job.
Speaker 2:I like kind of forgot that it was him, which I feel like is almost impossible to do. When you're chris hemsworth, it's like hard to make people forget that that's who you are, that you're thor, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:yeah, I legitimately did it. Just what did you just kind of forget?
Speaker 2:yeah, he is dementous you know dementous yeah yeah, I agree, I think I can't think of an actor that didn't do an amazing job. The child actor phenomenal all of the the same, like because because we see a couple of similar villains. All did great, as always, and Anya Taylor-Joy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I had very low expectations. I was like I just cannot see her in this role.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:She did a really good job and this is coming from someone who still feels like they should have still cost Charlize Theron she did a great job so. I would still say they should have cost Charlize Theron, not because she did a bad job, but because why wouldn't you?
Speaker 1:cost Charlize Theron. Yeah. So we got out of the movie and I was like, you know, I feel like there was nothing wrong in that movie. But then I was like, but I didn't see a reason why they couldn't have just had Charlize Theron as her. Like it would have been perfectly fine if they needed to de-age her a little bit, or they could have even just done makeup. Like, honestly, it wasn't like. I mean, first of all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look at charlie's turon yep. Second of all, she's not there. You know, half of the movie, which was an unexpected length, is not before half of the movie is when she's a child.
Speaker 2:It's not just like the little bit of the beginning and then you know she's an adult like that. The child, I think it's elilah. She was acting in half of the movie and so I'm like, okay, so you have half of the movie, you don't have to worry about it, and the other half that the adult furosa is in, is her face is covered half the time either with like grease or with literally with scarves and hats, like I was like you for sure could have put her in, I think. I honestly do think that was a mistake.
Speaker 2:However, if you're going to make that mistake. You really made it very well with Anna Taylor-Joy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and especially if you're going to do more movies, she'll be just fine. There's nothing wrong with her doing that role and she did a great job.
Speaker 2:She did a really good job, it's just weird that they didn't use her. I know it's just weird that they didn't use her like it's just no, especially because we read up about it like she was perfectly willing and interested, like she very much wanted to do it, and george miller just went another direction. She did a good job. I mean, clearly he's the kind of director that people really trust and respect, because her she only spoke positively, even though she was disappointed, but come on like I know yeah, I just know.
Speaker 2:Here's an interesting fact about Anya Taylor-Joy that I found out today. That I didn't know was that Anya Taylor-Joy had never driven before, so she learned to drive on set.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:You think a car on set? That's crazy, babson by fire, I mean.
Speaker 1:Wow, isn't that crazy, that is crazy.
Speaker 2:How do you get costed a driving movie? I don't know.
Speaker 1:So one of the things that I saw, one of the few complaints about the movie that I saw was that the physical and practical effects were not as un-CGI'd as the first one, like they were more noticeable, and I am actually going to disagree with that opinion like I was look, because I saw that review before I saw the movie. I was looking for it and even though I was looking for it, it wasn't noticeable, like obviously I could tell when some things were like green screen etc.
Speaker 2:But but it wasn't like, oh, that was bad cgi at any point no, it was, and I feel like I'm sensitive to it because again, we've been spoiled with things like Lord of the Rings and I'm very sensitive, I think, to over CGI and then having it not be well done and I felt like it. It very much held the same feeling for me as Fury Road did.
Speaker 1:Yeah there were some artistic things that were like um, you know, some certain close-ups and action stuff that was. That could feel like a little gimmicky, but that was about it, but it wasn't cgi, it was just literally like an artistic, like zoom in kind of thing that you know wasn't very natural looking, but it wasn't a cgi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, choice which they had done that in fury road too exactly like they made such interesting artistic choices and this is something hannah did tell me when we were living together and when Fury Road came out is that that movie was designed to be potentially available to watch like as a silent film. And that doesn't actually surprise me at all because there's not a lot of dialogue and not a lot of explanation, like it actually did take Hannah kind of talking me through because I hadn't seen any of the other movies, like kind of talking me through the movie to really understand what was going on. I didn't quite just get it from watching the movie the first time, but I would say furiosa is a lot more dialogue, heavy, though I don't think it tips the scale like too far. But I do think it does a better job setting up the world than fury road perhaps does, which I think will be really appealing to, like maybe new watchers of the franchise.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So like the Fury Road was a great like hey, let's drop you into the action, into the world and like, just like, soak you in it. So you just kind of like, here it is, you're part of this world and they do a great job with it.
Speaker 2:I love Show, not tell Exactly.
Speaker 1:Whereas this one was like, hey, it's a prequel for one, so it gave you a lot of backstory, gave you a lot of conversation and gave you a lot of like why behind a lot of things, and I loved that like but they still kept true to the amounts of action and the bizarreness and the crazy characters yeah, that the fury road did so like honestly, I feel like this is nothing but a positive addition to George Miller's Mad Max, and I'm hoping that he's able to get a few more out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's what a lot of people are saying is like I really haven't seen a bad review and I wouldn't trust Taylor's opinion.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't, trust a bad review. It was such a good film. I had very low expectations so that I wouldn't be disappointed. That's how I function in life I like to have very low expectations so I can have them exceeded rather than be disappointed. So I did have low expectations and they were, like, far, far, far exceeded. I really enjoyed it. I've thought about the film. We watched it on Saturday. It's Tuesday. I've thought about it pretty much every day, since it's just not doing great for movies right now. Like no one is doing well, like even if the movies are great and even if people really like them, like people are just not this year really going to see movies, especially like when they release. I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's like a cycle of of people aren't going to movies. So therefore they're not really being exposed to the trailers that hype movies up that are coming in the future, and so then those movies are.
Speaker 1:you know, I think a lot of it is marketing just being maybe people are figuring out that, but I would definitely recommend going to go see this in the theaters for sure we had such a good experience too.
Speaker 1:We sat like there was no one in front of us, because we sat at like right at that front ledge area where there's a big drop off and we're pretty much in the center, perfect distance, and there's a huge screen and the you know it's one of those like lazy boy chair things and the seats rumble and you know. So it's such a good visual and I guess what's at the 3d 40 experience, you know, you can hear and feel.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I would recommend definitely going to see in the theater if you can yeah it's just because it feels so much bigger, like the sounds are so much bigger it makes it will make a big difference yeah, and also this is about the film because, like I and everyone that I've talked to like want another film, but it's, it's scary to think like like he might not be able to do like a fury road mad max lead up or whatever else he has planned which I would really want, want.
Speaker 2:So I think it's just people are just kind of have to pull for what they want and just be a little more of an intentional audience rather than just like an entertainment audience. But I hope it does better. It did, it did. Okay, it's not like it bombed.
Speaker 2:But you know, I don't know, I hope it does. I hope that the international audience comes in and that, like, not just the opening weekend, that things kind of pull through for it, because I definitely want to see more. It's just so good. It proves that, like it was, this 2015 fury road wasn't just a fluke of like oh, the genie soul just kind of happened to come together. It actually was okay. Like he can replicate how good something is yeah.
Speaker 1:So I feel like I haven't seen a lot of good movies lately, so but this one I'd put as a really good movie I've seen lately. So this dune 2 was good, even though you fell asleep it was really late and the movie was really it was a long day with long kids, but other than I'm trying to think of the last time I saw a really good movie at the theater, and I mean it's been a while, and so I'd highly recommend this one yeah, it's, it's really good.
Speaker 2:A couple of things I do want to talk about before we finish off as well. It's just like the names of the characters and that's something that, like mad max just kind of has.
Speaker 1:That is so hilarious and wild well, it's so true too, because it's an australian yeah, it's originally an australian movie, yeah, and and so I love it because of the business and that's what made it so bizarre like it's because there's australia's got its own bizarre kind of quirkyness to it where they've got weird names and weird like social norms and they really like dial it up to insanity in this movie and so, yeah, the names are crazy and the outfits are crazy and the you know the behavior is so disturbing, yeah okay, so let's talk about a couple of the names we have scrotus and say that again scrotus and rectus and rectus we have.
Speaker 2:Oh, I need to look up because as they were doing the credits, I was like bro, like these names are insane. Well, obviously, dementis, which is a great name for a crazy person. Furiosa is a really dope name so many. But one other thing that I would say that the movie franchise does a very good job of is just like very disturbing people. So there's one very large person that's in a morton joe's like main cohort or whatever in fury road. He's disturbing. He doesn't really have a nose so he's like a metal piece to cover it. He's huge, he's disturbing. I didn't think they could make that guy any more disturbing but in this like prequel he's got like holes in his shirt and he's constantly twiddling his nipples while he's with people did you know that in the first one he's got his nipple showing and he's doing the same thing?
Speaker 2:but not like quite so obviously like he is. But this they really dial it up like that actor. Really, what do you mean?
Speaker 2:the first the fury road, yeah yeah, I feel like I do remember that, but they really dialed it up in and then they made rectus the son, the huge son, like way more freaky because he's a rapist you know, a child like this, the guy with the bullets. I mean there's so many disturbing, so many disturbing characters. There's a really good job of that. But overall I totally recommend everyone to see it, to watch free road if you haven't, and maybe it's time for me to watch the original mad max movies. But I feel like I should have re-watched free road right before watching furiosa, because I have like a. I really want to go and watch foriosa again, like I would go and see it in the theaters again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd go see it again for sure.
Speaker 2:It's a date.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:Let's do it. Thanks for listening to the Babe. What do you know about podcast?
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