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Mad Max: Fury Road
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Strap in tight and prepare for a whirlwind tour of the desert dystopia with your adrenaline junkie hosts, Jesse, Jason, and guest, Dakota. We're peeling out on the gritty tracks of "Mad Max: Fury Road," where Tom Hardy's brooding portrayal meets George Miller's masterful cinematic chaos. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, this installment resurrected our initial doubts and rocketed us into a frenzied appreciation for its chase-centric storyline and epic editing feats. As we recount our personal voyages through the Mad Max universe, you'll feel the scorching sands and the fervor we hold for this silver-sprayed spectacle.
Our trek doesn't shy away from the film's intricate layers that weave through a dystopian tapestry bursting with vibrant characters and heart-racing action. We dissect everything from the War Boys' cultish craze to Furiosa's unorthodox leadership—and let's not forget the visceral thrill of the battles that unfold. Join the convoy as we steer through character dynamics, from the towering Nathan Jones to the unexpectedly robust pregnant warrior, all while navigating a world where everyday objects become lethal weapons. It’s an expedition that celebrates the raw power of narrative and the explosive charm of Australian slang.
Our final waypoint on this high-speed chase shines a spotlight on the climactic ballet of vehicular warfare. Feel the sand in your teeth as we unpack Max and Furiosa's showdown, tipping our hats to the strategic genius of weapon hoarding and the sweet symphony of engine roars. So buckle up, listeners, and remember: every day is a chance to proclaim, "What a day, what a lovely day!
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast, where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse.
Speaker 2I'm Jason. I'm Dakota.
Speaker 1You know, hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane. Because this week we recommend Mad Max Fury Road.
Speaker 2All right Did you actually say uh, yeah, okay. No, I didn't just add uh, you did I restart, it's natural.
Speaker 3I'm not going to do that during the intro. Well, it's just who you are.
Speaker 1So this is my favorite genre of film and it's the genre is specifically Tom Hardy has something over his face and mumbles throughout the movie.
Speaker 2Yeah, I like it. Every time I watch this movie. It's fucking incredible. I had to rent it last night. It was on Max what.
Speaker 1Yeah, I messaged you it last night. It was on Max, what, yeah, I messaged you in the messenger. Okay, well, I don't care because I was ready to spend $4. So I remember seeing the trailer. I don't remember what movie I saw the trailer with or whatever. I don't know, I'm out of it. But when I saw it I was like oh snap, because I didn't know there was going to be a Mad Max sequel. And I loved the second one, road Warrior. Watched it a lot as a kid.
Speaker 2It was constantly on. I haven't seen either one of them. You haven't Some bits and pieces of them?
Speaker 1What.
Speaker 2So is this one like a natural successor to those?
Speaker 1Or completely just side stories. You have no idea which one comes after what.
Speaker 2It doesn't matter. Oh okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1That type of thing. But so when I saw the trailer, I was like there's no way this is good. It's like, 20, 30 years later, there's no way this is going to be a good movie. This never happens where it's good. I was like well, I like George Miller, I only know the Mad Max series and then I went to watch it and I couldn't believe what I saw. It's incredible. It was like the best movie I've seen.
Speaker 2Maybe it was a bad movie at first, and then they cut all the lines off.
Speaker 1I don't know Well. So his wife directed or edited the movie and she said there was over 470 hours of footage and it took her three months just to watch it all.
Speaker 2Dang because usually they watch it and kind of yeah, yeah, that's what editors do categorize what they're going to use and stuff like that, wow yeah, three months worth. So it's all this desert stuff. She's the one we needed to thank yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1What's her name? I can't remember it it's just his wife.
Speaker 3It's gotta be something.
Speaker 1Miller no, it's actually a lot. They don't have the same last name. Make me a liar. So, dakota, what's your story with Mad Max? Do you have any? I mean, like, did you watch any of them growing up?
Speaker 3oh yeah, I mean Mad Max 2, same thing. It used to be on don't know what channel. Was it Sci-Fi or MC, I don't know Whatever it was.
Speaker 1That, or TNT or TES. I feel like it came on. There's a lot of TNT movies that I've seen.
Speaker 3I don't even remember what. If I watched a trailer for it, if I just saw Mad Max and I wanted to go see it, I was like, well, it's got Tom Hardy in it and I like Mad Max and I'm sitting in here just with my mouth open the whole time. I'm like this is amazing.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's crazy because all it is is they drive to one area of the desert and then they're like let's just go back, and then they go back.
Speaker 3But they do it in such a good way.
Speaker 1It should have been Mad Max.
Speaker 3They're back again. It's about the journey.
Speaker 2You could just name all the Mad.
Speaker 1Maxes, just the Lord of the Rings. But they're so good, except maybe the two towers.
Speaker 2I don't think there's a two towers. They all have dune buggies and the hobbit, just Frodo and Sam, just like driving.
Speaker 3Oh, jason question when you, if someone came up to you and you were just like talking to them, talking to them about movies, and they said, and you mentioned this movie? And they said, yeah, I didn't really like it, it was boring, would you just look at them in such disappointment?
Speaker 2yeah, I would disagree immediately. I mean, I don't. I guess I'd want to find out, like what they thought was boring about it.
Speaker 3I think it's really non-stop everything there is a desert there. It was because it was in like a desert area the whole time yeah, that is pretty boring oh, I mean I was like we're in a desert, but it looks so fun.
Speaker 1There's only one tree yeah, well, it just looks beautiful and I don't know how. I don't know how I could be tired of desert landscapes in star wars and then I come to it's because, uh, they didn't make it look displeasing I guess.
Speaker 3Well, there's like star wars movies have like a weird and whatever filter he has on it that makes it look to me, because it looks super saturated. Yeah, it looks. It makes me think it's irradiated. It makes me think it's a toxic wasteland type of place.
Speaker 2Hell yeah, everything's so fucking epic too.
Speaker 1There's so much story building or like world building. Just going to the Citadel I'm like I understand this place Because you got oh, there's everybody at the bottom, they're all poor and stuff. This is very classic.
Speaker 2Well, they should be.
Speaker 1I feel like whenever there's post-apocalyptic era and then you have the cities around it, it's always just the rich people are in the high rises and everybody's poor on the bottom.
Speaker 3It's like how it always happens in post-apocalyptic, always looking up from your ivory tower or whatever they call it.
Speaker 1I'm trying to think of the, the is it City of the Dead. It's Romero's fourth zombie movie. I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's essentially like this where, like all the zombies and the people are city. I think it's city of the dead. I know it's very similar to the way I have it set up in this, which I think is funny so they're like cohabitating or they're just fighting?
Speaker 2yeah, well, and in that one.
Speaker 1That's where the zombies can kind of they're starting to remember it's a very fun movie if y'all haven't seen it, it's got dennis hopper in it, and he's wild in it. I don't know who that is. Yeah, yeah, Well, he's like. That's why At least you remembered his name. Yeah, that's true. So this movie is directed by George Miller.
Speaker 3Now so I know, y'all know.
Speaker 1Happy Feet and I know y'all know like the Mad Max stuff. Have y'all seen his other movies?
Speaker 2Was he in the Hobbit Battle of the Five Armies? I don't know a couple of these actors were.
Speaker 1No, I mean, like the director George Miller, like he is the craziest filmography. So we have all the, you know the Mad Max's. So after Mad Max Thunderdome, he does the Witches of Eastwick. Y'all seen that? Nope, it's a wild movie. Then he does Lorenzo's Oil.
Speaker 2I've seen that one. That's kind of crazy that he did that.
Speaker 1The guy. It's about how they came up with Lorenzo's Oil.
Speaker 2Yeah, they're trying to save a boy.
Speaker 1Yeah, like the whole movie. And he's just trying to come up and Nick Nolte has the craziest Italian accent and it's almost kind of filmed like a horror movie in some scenes and it's like, oh, it's crazy. And then you got Babe Pig in the City, the sequel to Babe what is going on? And then Happy Feet, happy Feet 2 and Happy Feet 2 is in 2011. Then he finally does Mad Max Fury Road sounds like he was literally just building up cash so he can make Mad Max Fury Road.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 1What did?
Speaker 3he do. After Fury Road.
Speaker 1You said 3,000 Years of Longing, which is the movie that came out a couple years ago. It's pretty good. And then now we got Mad Max.
Speaker 2Furiosa baby Is Charlize Theron the Furiosa.
Speaker 1Oh no, no, it's Anya Taylor-Joy. I said it right. I feel so proud, taylor Joy. I said it right.
Speaker 3I feel so proud.
Speaker 1I don't A.
Speaker 3Sid actress?
Speaker 1I don't Well, she's in the Witch, the Vivitch. Yeah, have you seen?
Speaker 2that With Black Peter.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2It's not Black Peter, black Philip. He's a pirate that lives on their floor.
Speaker 1Yeah, I watched the discount version of the Witch. It has Black.
Speaker 3Peter.
Speaker 1instead of Black Philip version of the witch, it has black peter instead of black philip, where it looks like the vv's a double vaginas, it's a scissor witch. And so, um, george miller, he was like a er doctor in australia and because of that he came up with the idea of mad max. Because of all the vehicle injuries he had to deal with in the ER oh wow, that was the thing that he saw the most, so he knew how to crash cars.
Speaker 2That's awesome, isn't that so awesome? He knew how to make the makeup look real. I knew how to make them explode.
Speaker 1So this movie had a budget of $150,000 or $1 million, I was going to say whoa whoa hold on. Now Ended up making $380 million, but I would have said whoa whoa hold on now. Ended up making $380 million, but I mean $150,000 just to crash cars in the desert $1,000 again. Huh $150,000?
Speaker 2Jesus Christ, my brain doesn't work. My headphones are freaking out.
Speaker 1I'm just not going to do it. So we were talking about, like the look of the film. So, regarding the look of the film, director George Miller Miller laid down two stipulations for the production to follow. Firstly, the cinematography would be as colorful as possible in order to differentiate the film from other post-apocalyptic movies which typically have bleak, desaturated colors During pre-production. The initial concept was for a black and white film. However, producers strongly advised against this as they believed it would deter audiences.
Speaker 1Secondly, the art direction would be as beautiful as possible, as Miller's reason that people living in the post-apocalypse would try to find whatever scraps of beauty they could in their meager environment.
Speaker 2Interesting.
Speaker 3I think it works because it makes me think 80s vibe like oversaturation. I don't know why. It works perfectly, works perfectly. Yeah, you made it look beautiful.
Speaker 2I mean, like all the we talk about the colors, like there's a lot of when he's got the blood, when he's the blood bag, yeah, the reds really pop in this movie.
Speaker 1It's crazy. Every time and there's an explosion, it's just, it's just red flames. It's like what? Why did?
Speaker 2I say it like that A lot of explosions.
Speaker 1So in the Cannes press conference, which is like a Cannes Film Festival, tom Hardy apologized to George Miller for the reportedly complicated relationship between the star and the director during filming. He stated there was no way I mean I have to apologize to you because I got frustrated there was no way George could have explained what he could see in the sand when we were out there, because of the due diligence that was required to make everything safe and so simple. What I saw was a relentless barrage of complexities, simplified for this fairly linear story. I knew he was brilliant, but I didn't know how brilliant until I saw it. So my first reaction was oh my God, I owe George Miller an apology for being so myopic.
Speaker 1Charlize Theron mentioned similar experience where she had no idea what she was filming, up to the point where she would ask the director what the hell he was doing. In the end, seeing the finished film greatly exceeded her expectations as well. I do wonder. I guess it's because you're in the desert and you're just burning up and all you're doing is just filming cars just crashing all day, and it's like what am I doing? Why?
Speaker 3am I here, probably driving, that's all there's.
Speaker 1We're driving a few miles today, a few miles tomorrow, but it's funny because whenever you watch it, it's like it's such a simple plot and it's like, do you mean? You're confused, you're just going straight for a long time. And there's going to be a battle, and then you continue going straight. So there's another battle.
Speaker 2And then there's some weird ass people on stilts.
Speaker 1Yeah, the wasteland, the green land, are they?
Speaker 2creatures? What are you doing, Miller?
Speaker 1They're just people scouring what was once the Greenland. I guess I'm assuming that's what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2I thought maybe they were trying to make it look like they were some weird abomination.
Speaker 1They were trying to like I'm also birds.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's been so long since I've seen the movie and I was always wondering, like where is that place? Because I always miss. Like what happened to the Green? It's been a while since I've seen it, finally mentioned it and when they were driving through there I was like, oh, that might be what that is. And then he was like you already drew through it. I was like I knew it, I should have made it two years ago oh, another thing.
Speaker 1So the original Mad Max the villain is a Morton Joe for real, it's the same actor different character, but same actor. I love that. I love when they do that cause. Then I can be like I can just point at the screen.
Speaker 3Oh, you do, I'm doing the Leonardo DiCaprio thing.
Speaker 2Hey, hey, hey, hey, I know that guy. Like when they say the name of a movie in the movie.
Speaker 1Yeah. So to prepare themselves to go into the battle, ready to sacrifice their lives for Immortan Joe, the war boys spray their lips and teeth with a silver substance very much like common spray paint. Both the war boys and Immortan Joe often speak about this as though it's a religious ritual, saying that it will allow them to enter the gates of Valhalla shiny and chrome. However, in May 2015 interview with Crave Online, actor Hugh Keys-Brian, who plays Immortan Joe, said this practice, which the War Boys think is purely ritualistic, actually involves the inhalation of a very euphoric drug that keeps the War Boys high and suicidally devoted to Morton Joe. Another clue to the spray's narcotic properties is the fact that chrome and chroming are Australian slang terms for inhalant abuse. It's like is it because my tongue's too?
Speaker 3big Like I just can't talk.
Speaker 1I don't understand.
Speaker 3Maybe your brain goes faster Than your tongue can go. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1Yeah, so that's what they're spraying, cause I know, every time I watch it I'm like Is that just supposed to be Spray paint? I thought they called it Morvosa.
Speaker 2It's drugs, but then there's.
Speaker 3Someone in the face with the spikes.
Speaker 2And he sprays it and he's able to get up. It's like, yeah, there's some blood in here, yeah, he's going through his fucking skull.
Speaker 1That's eventually where meth's going to go. It's just going to go into a spray bottle.
Speaker 3Oh, have you heard one of the theories that someone came up with for this about, like max's character? Uh-huh, so you know, the little boy in the second one, who's kind of like feral, didn't talk much. They were saying that like well, that character stayed with him and eventually he took over and he like, and that's why he doesn't talk that much.
Speaker 3He took over the cow apparently he's like yeah, he like something happened, max helped, raised him or whatever, and then he took over. That's why he doesn't talk that much. He's just like grunts, like no, or is his name also Max?
Speaker 1That's silly. No, it wasn't. Have y'all seen Thunderdome Beyond the Thunderdome?
Speaker 3I had the collection and then I've lost it somehow.
Speaker 1You know what I find interesting? The Mad Max trilogy is very similar to the Star Wars trilogy.
Speaker 3Hell yeah, all over the place.
Speaker 1Because you got like the low budget first one. We're not like super low budget but and it's very scrappy. And then you get the second one where it's like now we're going to have semis in the desert, we're going to drive it, we're going to have like broken down helicopters flying around, and it's bigger and it's more epic and it's the better one. And then you got the third one where it's like what the hell are we doing here? Why is max hanging out with a bunch of kids? It's the worst part of the entire franchise.
Speaker 3It went from like our rating to like pg-13 rating or something I can't remember if it's pg-13, but it definitely just it got softer as it was.
Speaker 1Well, it's just every, because everything about it's great. And then he just goes to hang out with some kids and it's like what are we doing, peter Pan, here? What's?
Speaker 2going on here.
Speaker 1I've never seen it, I've never, ever wanted to grow up. But it's funny because it's just like the original Star Wars trilogy, where I love the third one, where he kills a bunch of kids, yeah. No, in Return of the Jedi, like it's very kid friendly. It's more, more kitty than the other ones. And then I just find it very funny because thunderdome, I love that one. As a kid watched it all the time, just like I did return the jedi. Then, as I grew up, I'm like uh was jar jar.
Speaker 1This one's hard to watch, except in certain parts yeah, you didn't see his bones out in the desert in fury road cool. It's just like in uh um, force awakens, so they're supposed to have like his bones in the desert somewhere. Jar Jar's.
Discussing Mad Max
Speaker 1Oh, I see so they say, but I don't think it's true. All right, so I'm going to go through the cast before we hop into the film. So you have Tom Hardy that plays Max, charlize Theron who plays Furiosa. Nicholas Holt plays Nux. Zoe Kravitz plays Host the Knowing. This is why I'm so excited to do this. The names that the girls have are crazy. You have Hugh Keys Bryan who plays the Morton. Joe Nathan Jones, who plays Rictus Erectus.
Speaker 2Yeah, dude, he's 6'11". Yeah, oh that guy. Yeah, he's huge, it's awesome.
Speaker 1You have Rosie Huntington. Wheatley Whiteley Is the Splendid Angra Hard right, Is that how you say her name? Yeah.
Speaker 2She's the pregnant one.
Speaker 1You have Riley Keough who plays Capable, Abby Lee plays the Dag.
Speaker 2The what you like dags Dag.
Speaker 1Dag the D-A-G, that's how it is. And then Courtney Eaton Cheeto the Fragile.
Speaker 2Cheeto yeah.
Speaker 1Cheeto eating cheeto, the fragile cheeto cheeto. And then you got richard carter, the bullet farmer, and let's see, that's pretty much the main ones that you really see. Oh, the people eater john howard is the people eater. Yeah, it's the guy with the nose and he plays with his nipples. He plays huge he uses his giant foot to keep the cargo. Yeah, funny and cool, love it all. Right, I got anything I want to say before we hop in. I got so much to talk about, but I guess we just go ahead and start.
Speaker 2Yeah, I feel like it's gonna be a better one to do alright, so we're gonna hop into the film.
Speaker 1Buckle up, baby, do you get?
Speaker 2it because they're in cars buckle up, go buttercup. They don't wear seatbelts they have.
Speaker 1Well, I mean they don't they're safety first. They're crawling all over the cars without seatbelts y'all talking about this movie?
Speaker 3huh, is this movie r?
Speaker 1yeah, okay, it's blown all over the place, not as much as you think there's a lot of. There's, not a lot of.
Speaker 3I guess I would say like with these type of movies they would usually see like, because you see a lot of people falling off cars and stuff and they kind of just roll away. Yeah, most of the time you'd see them hitting any of that, you know, getting ripped apart and stuff because, like I don't know what movie scene I'm thinking of when someone gets run over and just squishes them oh bro now I have to know maybe we don't believe it.
Speaker 3I mean, it's definitely arcs, there's blood and stuff in it, but it it's not over-the-top super gory.
Speaker 2They're not a hell of a union with me. I'm not arguing it's like ultra-violence, but that's what it is.
Speaker 3There's a point to bring up that he didn't go super ultra-violent with it there are some scenes that are ultra-violent.
Speaker 1Well, R cars would disagree.
Speaker 2I'd love to see you bring yourself how many of my fallen brethren down, brethren, brethren, yeah, brethren.
Speaker 1So do you think, after Mad Max is when the car series starts?
Speaker 3oh, they start talking, no that's the Stephen King movie, whatever it's called, maximum Overdrive. Yeah, we gotta do that one.
Speaker 2I wish that they would remake that movie. I don't know, it'd probably be terrible I hope they do it.
Speaker 1It's george miller that does it oh my god. And there's cars coming up yeah, it's been a long time it's me, lightning mcqueen still bringing on wilson yeah, wow, I'm lightning mcqueen, wow okay, so we're to get to it.
Speaker 2I could go on forever doing that that's what is self-realization as a car.
Speaker 1So following a nuclear holocaust, the world has become a desert wasteland and civilization has collapsed. I'm going to stop doing that immediately. So it starts off. We get the beautiful shot of Max standing next to his car. Love it, perfect opening, put it in the Louvre.
Speaker 2We hear whispers of like females saying they need help from like previous movies or previous adventures we didn't see. Yeah, this is what made me think it was a successor yeah, to any other movies, because I hadn't seen them.
Speaker 1Well, I think that Because the original one, his daughter gets ran over.
Speaker 3Well, like those other, I can't remember if they say I haven't seen Thunderdome. So I don't know how much they connect together. But all the people he sees, because at the end of two he drives off with like a bunch of people Right, he drives off with him in the second one, or did he just? He always, like, goes off on his own at the end. So the third one, that means the people he's seeing has got to be the people that he was connected to in Thunderdome, because he's not just seeing his daughter, he's seeing other people.
Speaker 1Well, I think it's just supposed to be for his story to be like oh, all these people I couldn't save, so maybe I can save these people. I think that's all it's supposed to mean. I don't know if it technically goes with any of it. I don't think it really matters. That's what I feel like I like about this movie. It's like everything you know before doesn't matter, we're just doing whatever we want. It's my vision. I can do what I want. Dang it, it's my money and I need it now. So after we see him eat the little lizard thing and then he drives off, being followed by the gang called the war boys who try to crash his car and we're getting this awesome little narration during it, I am the one that runs from both the living and the dead, hunted by scavengers, hunted by scavengers, hunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct Survive. Hell yeah, lord, so good.
Speaker 3Then Jeff Probst walks out Survivor Mad Max. Fury Road Edition.
Speaker 1He can be a good ghoul. So Max, played by Tom Hardy, a survivor, is captured by the war boys, the army of the Morton Joe, which we'll learn and taken to Joe's Citadel where he is shaved and he is tattooed. Did you see what it said on his back? Yeah, well, it's saying um, yeah, hold on Like blood type and stuff.
Speaker 2I saw that. That that was the only thing. I don't remember the other things on it.
Speaker 3Well, I also had like, how like it was, like also like a rap sheet, because it was saying aggressive and does this and that um. I saw that above that with the blood. Then I saw something about v8 octane on there, I guess, because it was like their god well, it's like their fuel, because I always see it, it's like i-octane blood going through me.
Speaker 1I wish my blood was high-octane oh man, that would be cool.
Speaker 1It can be, you just have to have more testosterone maybe Hold on, I have the whole thing Okay. So the portion of the blood bag information tattoo being needled on his back. It was day 12,400,000. Height, 10 hands, 180 pounds, no name, no lumps, no bumps, full life, clear, two good eyes, no busted limbs, piss okay. Genitals intact, multiple scars, heels, fast O negative. High octane Universal donor, lone road warrior run down on the Powder Lakes V8, no guzzling, no supplies, isolate, psychotic, keep muzzled.
Speaker 2That's what it says, all right.
Speaker 1Who had the taste of piss. I guess it just wasn't bleeding.
Speaker 3I feel like that's probably a good thing. He's like O negative.
Speaker 2I don't know, bro, I guess they have blood tests.
Speaker 3I want to see him because it'd be so fun if he just like licks it and he's like, oh yeah, he's oh negative, right here, yeah um.
Speaker 1So throughout we get a chaotic chase scene through the cave system, while seeing visions of like a little girl throughout. So good the way they do that. It's like. So it's like revved up right. Do you know what I mean by saying that like? I feel like it's like revved up, right?
Speaker 3Do you know what I mean by saying that? Like, I feel like it's fast.
Speaker 1It's so fast they're running in front of the cameras fast it's like cutting. But not super fast, Like they're cutting before punches and stuff like that. So you're still seeing the punches.
Speaker 3It's like they filmed the scene and he just added slightly bit of speed to it. Yeah, like speed ramped it.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's where he slows it way down, then he ramps up the speed and then slows it right back down.
Speaker 3No this one, because he's got so much happening, it gets you in that moment if he's trying to run away. But you don't feel disjointed with these flashes, because sometimes when people have those flashes it's like, oh, holy crap. You're like wait, weren't you just getting chased Because he aren't?
Speaker 2you just getting chased Because you know you're supposed to perceive it in their head. He wants to just like stop and think about what it means.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, this one she's just like running and trying to avoid everything.
Speaker 1So Max tries to escape but comes to a dead end and is captured. It's great because he runs out, he's like whoa, but then you see, like the symbol of Immortan, like holy crap, this is a whole civilization here it's so cool, we're so high up thousands of people that live there yeah, and those
Speaker 3giant things. Do you think they're? Do they say word magmatics, taste place Australia.
Speaker 1I would just assume it's Australia, because everybody has Australian slang like schlanger.
Speaker 2It's the best so, since he's a, universal blood donor.
Speaker 1He's imprisoned meanwhile. We, it's the best. So, since he's a universal blood donor, he's imprisoned. Meanwhile we meet Furiosa, one of Joe's lieutenants, and she's being sent out in an armored truck to collect guzzoline. So we, we meet Mort and Joe being powdered up and getting dressed. It's really rad.
Speaker 2It reminds me of the scene in Darth Vader or Star Wars, the scene in Darth Vader they're putting putting it on and you're like ew, he looks gross except in this one. They're like. You get to see the gross why do?
Speaker 3they look so gross probably radiation, radiation, their skin's just boiling, I'm sure there's no ozone anymore.
Speaker 1I love seeing little things like that of SPF 200.
Speaker 3It feels so real cause everyone has some issues and just seeing him come up but he's still like, oh, he's sick, but he still comes out like a badass, like to an extent until you see him running in his little cave and he's like it makes me laugh every time.
Speaker 1So then we get joe. He makes a speech on top of a canyon. We see poor, all the poor and downtrodden people waiting for their water to be released.
Speaker 2We see that joe controls. Dudes are holding like wicker baskets trying to catch water.
Speaker 1It's like this is all we can afford. So he starts to release the water, but he only releases it for a minute, while people moan in displeasure. They even start fighting each other for it, and I love it. It's like he releases it and there's people like a hundred yards away. It's like, well, these people are just going to die at this point.
Speaker 3I love his little quote at the end of it. Don't get addicted to water, don't rely on water, because its absence will make you something. Die yeah like its absence will hurt you more than you realize I'm sorry.
Speaker 1This is what we need to survive. You can't even go three days without a Joe. He doesn't care.
Speaker 2They all have this also super dehydrated like dirty. Nux's lips are just crud.
Speaker 1It's the hardest thing to watch in the entire movie.
Speaker 1It's like dude chapstick brother stop spraying spray paint on your lips, I know that is the chapstick yeah, huffing paint like Charlie Day so then we're with Furiosa, she's off out and about into the desert and then all of a sudden we see Gastown in front of her and then she pulls off last second and everybody's like what the heck? She's got a little party of war boys with her. So she drives off route. Joe realizes that his. And then you got the little guy in the little chair. He's out there, seeing that she drove off route, tells him more than Joe. And and then you got the little guy in the little chair. He's out there, seeing that she drove off road, tells him Orton, joe. And he's like what, wait a second. He's running around and he's trying to look for his five women, wives or whatever Sister wives.
Speaker 1But then he realized that they're all gone. I wish Miss.
Speaker 2Getty would have popped him. Yeah, I think that would have been the movie worse.
Speaker 1Yeah. Well, well it's the one thing the older lady like with the gun at the beginning.
Speaker 3I can't believe she did not. It's like how do you?
Speaker 1just shoot the guy dude, like he's. I mean, I think they all think he's like immortal, though they think he can't be killed. Maybe his lore is very high, I feel like especially there, but I love that while he's running through the whole cave system, you you see, like the breastfeeding room where it's where we learn about Mother's Milk.
Speaker 3I just think.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3Yeah, you'd probably say that oh my.
Speaker 1God. Well, and then I was thinking because isn't there a character called Mother's Milk in that show?
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Mother's Milk, mm. So Joe leads his entire army in pursuit of Furiosa, calling on the aid of a nearby gas town and the bullet farm. But yeah, I love this part because you see everybody starting to get their cars ready to go. We meet Nux, who is sick and beginning to help go after Furiosa.
Speaker 2Yeah, and he's like all. He's got some kind of cancer. Like how do they make these war boys All?
Speaker 1the war boys are like Joe's babies. That's how I figure it, Like this is all the people that he produced babies Like Joe's babies.
Speaker 2That's how I figure it Like. This is all the people that he produced babies.
Speaker 1Like they're all supposed to be his. That's what I got from it. Why are they all so pale? This is pale. They all have cancer and tumors all over them. Because they're product of growing up in the wasteland. Okay, because a lot of people like Max was before the wasteland. That's how I get it. And then like so this all still happened in their lifetime is war.
Speaker 2This town's the Citadel's commodity, cause he's got bullet town and gas town.
Speaker 1His thing is a water plantation. Even with his water.
Speaker 3He controls more, he has more power than cause. Even they mentioned like how he uh who, who said I don't know. One of the one of them said it said that. One of them said that, yeah, he controls the other two, bullet Farm and Gastown, because water is more important than both of those.
Speaker 1Yeah, water pretty darn good, you know.
Speaker 3It doesn't have like sludge in it.
Speaker 1So when we meet Nugs, he's all like sick and they call them like half-lifers. It's because they're only going to live to like 30 or something, because they're just riddled with cancer.
Speaker 2Yes, he's got a lot of little faces. He's in my mates Larry and Barry.
Speaker 1And Nux has the idea to use Max as his blood bag, because if he dies he wants to do it on the Fury Road. Hell yeah, dog, and we get. Max is strapped to the front of Nux's car with like a little.
Speaker 2I don't know Like the Hannibal mask, yeah.
Speaker 1It looks so rad, which that thing ends up saving him a couple of times. Yes, um. So then we gotta start getting it and we're getting into the action of it. Now we see the gang riding out after furiosa. It's super sick and it's great, and this is where the goosebumps just kind of stay on my body for like the entire time like this movie literally makes me tingle whenever I watch it.
Speaker 2It's wild.
Speaker 1It's just so freaking rad.
Speaker 3It just looks good too. It doesn't go over the top with things. He nailed it perfectly on what he wanted.
Speaker 2I think there is no top to go over in this movie, because everything is so over the top.
Speaker 3Well, there's a point where you go too over it and you're like I don't feel it as well.
Speaker 1This one was just like I just I think once, once you're established that this is going to be as crazy as to the point where these guys have a mutated guy playing guitar on a giant thing. That's my favorite, I think it's just like this movie can go anywhere and I'm totally acceptable.
Speaker 2I accept it, guitar is also a flamethrower.
Speaker 3It's so cool. I just love that. Whenever he gets knocked off his guitar, he like bounces back and he immediately like I've still got one baby. Yeah, that's what you see. He feels the music.
Speaker 2Yeah it's so sick and you imagine he's playing it the entire time they're driving, so he's sometimes he's just like yeah, it's like and it's like let's's like Joe's over there, just like not even caring, it's just like what if someone gets sad? Does he play like a dirge?
Speaker 3I just love that it's like you know how they used to have drummer boys going into battle. Well, we're gonna have guitar they also have drummer boys.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like a whole band.
Speaker 3It's so rad it's so like just I couldn't think of that type of concept and to see them have it.
Speaker 1It's like that's amazing it's like why did we not have this in every movie already?
Speaker 3Hulkapostalistic movies. Y'all need to step your game up. Yeah, for real.
Speaker 1So, as Furiosa's driving down the desert, we see another gang coming after. After Furiosa, let's let the chaos begin. We see cars with spikes on them Because this is a rival gang. This isn't like the war or the gas town and bullet farm people. This is just like I think, like the Rippers or something, something like that, yeah Spikes. So we see the cars with spikes on them. War boys throw spears with bombs on the tips which is the coolest thing ever. We have saw blades extending from cars trying to cut the tires and destroy the other vehicles.
Speaker 1We also get to start seeing war boys spray the stuff on their mouth and start yelling.
Speaker 2Witness me.
Speaker 1We're seeing more world building. They're doing stuff with their hands. It's almost like little symbols Essentially the steering wheel symbol.
Speaker 3Like the steering wheel kind of like was like a sacred item when he was grabbing it, which was really cool.
Speaker 1It's like you see, you feel like they see the cars. It's a symbol of a Morden Joe because he's got everybody branded on the back of their necks and stuff.
Speaker 3Stuff that they don't mention. But you see like, oh, I understand what was going on.
Speaker 1Didn't need it all explained.
Speaker 2I thought they kind of worshipped the V8 because they kept saying V8. And then they had like the, where they put the steering wheels on that altar and then, like above it was, didn't it say V8 or something?
Speaker 1Yeah, they bring up V8. A lot Like V8 is a part of their I don't know ritual or whatever in some way.
Speaker 3It's like a car person mixed with like a viking religion. Hell yeah, man. Yeah, it's awesome, let's do it even say.
Speaker 2They even say uh, mcfeasting and valhalla, yeah, if you watch it with the captions to make feasting, and that's awesome mcfeasting.
Speaker 3Is that like mcdonald's?
Speaker 1yeah, I think so we miss it um, but yeah, so this scene essentially just got some. It's crazy. We've never seen car stunts like this. That was fucking great.
Speaker 2I mean no matter.
Speaker 1And how realistic it feels and looks. You just, I mean, because you know I love the Fast and Furious movies. They're great, I love them, but they just don't look this great and they don't look this real and you just don't feel it as much.
Speaker 3I mean there's still some parts where, but like this it's just like two hours of I think it's because, like you get, you know those outward shots and you can't see the driver in there and it's just doing a lot of that shaky. Then cuts back to them. This one, you're like, you're actually kind of like panning out with it yeah, the camera's moving all over the place and it's actually with the movement versus like cut, cut, cut, cut yeah, I feel like I'm in there and it's like it won't cut.
Speaker 1It will let you you see the whole crash. It doesn't like cut away to it or anything.
Speaker 3It just looks beautiful and it's slow-mo.
Speaker 1And also, it's just like cars are this tough. Most cars just break down driving 30 miles an hour. I feel like these days Well these are like older cars that have like full metal bodies.
Speaker 2They're real cars. They're men cars, not people with Priuses. Stop cars, not people with Priuses.
Speaker 1Stop. So during this part, as all the chaos is going on, all of a sudden we see a girl coming out of the tank of the big semi and just kind of randomly, we see it real quick and we're like what. And now that the rival gang is taken care of, joe and his war boys go after her. Furiosa that is Furiosa drives into a sandstorm, evading her pursuers, except Nux who attempts to sacrifice himself to destroy the truck. Also, I forgot to mention the entire time. Max is on the front of the car, just constantly almost getting hit and wrecked into, and it's wild.
Speaker 2That, along with the landscape of all sand, it kind of looks like ships on the ocean, like it's a sea battle. Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 1Especially when it goes with a very wide shot and then you have the storm coming in and it's just like ships going into the storm as they're about to ride it's awesome, and also with the girls. This is just. This is the pregnant girl that ends up doing most of the physical labor throughout the movie which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1She's the leader, yeah, and she is one of five five girls that are in more than Joe's wives. I feel like I said that earlier, but I just want to make that clear. So I've got this. So Furiosa, who drives in the? Oh wait.
Speaker 2And they're the only people not covered in shit. I just like, also like uh, uh.
Speaker 3Nux is like not well his little fight with uh Max just with the chain yeah you're taking advantage of it, yeah.
Speaker 2I don't know, does this seem?
Speaker 1cool yeah, it's so awesome.
Speaker 3I die, I die, I live, I die, I live again yeah it's so good it's so freaking good.
Speaker 1I'm ready to go, but yeah, so as they're, they drive into the sandstorm and it looks amazing. So, good, it's like all red in there. I love when they crash one of the other War Boys cars in it and it just like flies up, the music starts swelling.
Speaker 2It's like kind of beautiful. At the same time, I have arms up in the air the whole time I was watching this part.
Speaker 3There's a little detail of like the semi also got picked up slightly. If you watch it and then, as she drives away from it, it goes back, down, back down yeah, and then you have Nux who's in the other, another car next to her.
Speaker 1He's getting ready to just completely sacrifice himself. So he starts, he sprays himself and he's like, witness me blood back. And then this is also where we get the. What a lovely day, what a lovely day. So he like spray paints his face, drugs himself up. He like all the gas that I guess valves that leave his car also have nitrous.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1Well, he does fill it up with some gas too, maybe just get.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1I don't know what valve does so it's pulling up and then Max is like, oh shit, he's about to blow this up. So he's about to blow this up.
Speaker 2So he's like trying to pound back into the car, he pops the flare and he grabs it yeah.
Speaker 1And then he grabs him and they just kind of, uh he, they get in front and but their car just completely wrecks and when their car wrecks, I was like, okay, they're dead, yeah, but you can't beat them and then, when the flares is sitting there, you're like is it?
Speaker 2is there gonna be like a trail that?
Speaker 1ignites, it goes, it blows them up.
Speaker 2I don't know. I was hoping it would.
Speaker 1It's great, but I remember watching up to this point in theaters, like you could hear a pin drop, like the whole time. And as soon as it went black like whenever it cut to black everybody was just like take a break.
Speaker 3There was so much happening, especially because, if you didn't, see this in theaters.
Speaker 1Like man you missed out man that was such a good movie to see.
Speaker 2It was amazing. Yeah, I missed out. We're all looking at you.
Speaker 1Jason, because I got to see it in theaters the first time and then later that year. The next year it came out around my birthday in IMAX. What? That's how I teared up while watching it.
Speaker 2I was like this is cinema.
Speaker 1This is beautiful.
Speaker 2More movies.
Speaker 1I want this movie every day. So after the storm ends, max, who is covered in sand and attached to Nux, sees Furiosa repairing her truck. I love it, though, because when he's trying to get the hand off, he finds this double-barrel shotgun, like sawed-off shotgun. He's going to shoot his hand off, Nux's hand off, but it doesn't work. It's like, it's like, oh man.
Speaker 3I know Nux is going to be a good guy eventually. I didn't.
Speaker 1I don't know why I thought that was funny, Cause I was sitting here like what happens? I don't remember Cause nothing should. Everywhere it's rough, so after that doesn't work. He hears Furiosa repairing her truck, so he just starts dragging. He carries Nux in the door because he can't get it out. So we also see that Furiosa is accompanied by Joe's wives. You got Capable Cheeto Toast and the Dag and Angerheart I'm assuming I'm saying that right the last of them is very heavily pregnant with Joe's child, all right.
Speaker 1So I love this because Max sees that they're all like kind of watering off and like hosing down and Max sees this and he's like Tom Hardy, like being this, like he is a great facial.
Speaker 1Expressive actor I think that's why people can't wait to put masks on his face, because they're like, yes, and he always has like a weird voice, and no matter what movie. Because he got Bronson. I don't know if y'all ever saw Bronson. It's the guy that directed Drive. Y'all should watch it. It's a great movie. He just goes around fighting people the whole movie. It's awesome. But he has a funny voice in that and he's hard to hear because he's kind of mumbly in that as well. He always has a mumbly voice, so he has to. Just he does all his acting with his face.
Speaker 2He works his eyes, they draw more attention to his face.
Speaker 1This is actually how I feel like our podcast is because all I ever see is Jason with a microphone of his mouth, so all I see is his eyes Like a Morton Joe.
Speaker 2Just need to put the mouth on this side, Like I know what he's about to say if his eyes open wide.
Speaker 3But he's not. That I can't get over it.
Max and Furiosa's Epic Battle
Speaker 1Max. Seeing that they have water, he asks for some. He tries to get his chain cut off by Furiosa, by the girl Agrahard, or whatever, or the Dag it was one of the blonde ones. I love it because whenever he has one of them coming over to cut chain I don't know if y'all have ever cut chain with bolt cutters it's not easy, it's impossible, because I tried to cut that size of chain when I worked at Home Depot. I could not do it. That's why Home Depot has a special machine that cuts chain.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, it's just funny because they're always doing it so easily.
Speaker 1I'm like this is impossible you can't do this.
Speaker 3There's no way. The chain has obviously been irradiated and it's weakened.
Speaker 1That's true. Everybody has the strength of the Incredible Hulk Just because they're women.
Speaker 3Jesse doesn't mean they're not strong enough, that's true.
Speaker 2It's all that mother's milk they've been drinking. It's so strong.
Speaker 1But before he can get the chain off, furio said tax. They have this whole awesome battle. Then all of a sudden Nux starts waking up and then he starts helping out. And I love it because you have essentially at first it's six against one and you just immediately think because in most movies when there's a fight your lead character usually loses the first one because you want to make the other characters also seem strong and powerful, kind of like Godzilla versus Kong, where you kind of have Kong that wins the first match, I feel like.
Speaker 3And then yeah, that's how it always works. Shows how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1Or did Godzilla win the first match I?
Speaker 3can't remember Just fuck me.
Speaker 2I guess Just fuck me, I don't care I feel like if Godzilla wins a match, then the other thing is dead.
Speaker 3Yes, that's how.
Speaker 1Godzilla rolls, but it's great, even though Nux does help him a little bit. But Max gets the upper hand and he takes control of the situation, which is, I don't know, it's rules. It's just a dope battle, because do you think Furiosa is going to whip his ass? And like he's able, she does, but then also he kind of wins and the way that, whenever he takes control of the situation, he doesn't kill her, he just shoots the gun around her head.
Speaker 1That was such a good scene, like how smooth he like loads it, it cocks it and I love that knack nux thinks that max is with him and he's like, oh, we're gonna yeah we're gonna be together we can ask for anything. He's like give me my jacket, oh, you can have whatever you want.
Speaker 1I mean we could ask for anything I'm gonna want to drive the big truck, and then he just like hits him around the stomach after he takes off his chain, then max is free and ready to go. Um, max tries to steal the truck, but it's he starts driving down the road, or sand, or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2This happened to me in Afghanistan. The vehicle I was driving just stopped, just ran out of gas, oh God, and I didn't know. I was like, oh fuck, fuck, fuck that sounds terrifying. And so I was looking around and somebody had hit the kill switch for the gas, the gas pump, and they didn't turn it back on oh so we're just stranded out there oh so a kill switch exists on y'all's.
Speaker 3Yeah, my mom borrowed, uh, someone's truck one time. She's like you gave me a truck that I had to like fill it up with. He's like oh, there's a switch on it that has like an extra tank of gas, like it was like an extra thing.
Speaker 1Oh cool, that's awesome. So after the kill switch is disabled, max reluctantly agrees to let Furiosa and the wives accompanying him it's mainly because they're like you want that mask off. You have to let us all in and we can get it off for you.
Speaker 2And then they don't help him. Yeah, he doesn't trust them.
Speaker 1Well, help him. Yeah, he doesn't trust him.
Speaker 2Well, they just give him a little file and he just takes a file at all.
Speaker 1That would take forever. And then we see Nux that's left behind. He catches up to the truck and gets back up on it, but they don't know, While in the truck Max takes all the guns for himself.
Speaker 2I love how many guns there are.
Speaker 3He just knows where to look too.
Speaker 1He's just like mmm mmm, and I love it because he's just pulling them all out and, like, all the girls in the back are starting to talk, we're starting to hear their personalities and you have the dad. He's like he's just a nasty old man.
Speaker 3They eat slang I love it, love it Every single time out of her mouth.
Speaker 1The way Australian speak. It's just great. I love their slang. It seemed like a cool group of people.
Speaker 2They are speak. It's just great. I love their slang. Uh seem like a cool group of people.
Speaker 1They are cool and if they give you shit, that means they like you. Yeah, that's just. I just kind of like american.
Speaker 3Yeah, I just like he also like looks and makes sure he's just like always, like. I know what I need to do constantly has a gun.
Speaker 1He was smart enough to know like, oh, there's gonna be guns all over this place and he takes their bags and puts it all in there it's awesome. But one thing he did not check was the gear shift because it was enough.
Speaker 2Hell yeah, everything's a weapon.
Speaker 1She's always like she's always this guy, she's got one little.
Speaker 2She had that one gun on the side outside yeah, they got.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was in the skulls it's so cool so some of the skulls have fucking bombs in them yeah
Speaker 2yeah, like what the ones that were on front of one of the cars gets cut off and explodes another car behind it when they run over it. Yeah, they're ready to kill. You have to in this world it's fucking great.
Speaker 1That's why the girls want out mcfeast.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's funny because, like, when I was watching this movie I was like man. You know, there's a lot of people I know like this movie and they don't seem to complain that it's woke about women trying to escape their being forced to be bred for stuff well, I think most people are totally against that part that uh, have you seen what everybody complains about with movies nowadays?
Speaker 1well, this is a little different. This is like you're capturing sex slaves, essentially. I think everybody's pretty down to go with that.
Speaker 2Universally. I did forget, like on Dakota's.
Mad Max
Speaker 1Facebook page. It says totally cool with sex slaves. I didn't say it's cool with it, I just think it's funny how everyone likes it.
Speaker 3I have seen some people complain like you know how they always it was a complaint with, like Star Wars, like Daisy Ridley's character coming in and they kind of try to do that with this one, like he doesn't even do much through the movie and she's always winning and stuff.
Speaker 1Well, if anybody complains about that, watch the other Mad Maxes, where mainly the side characters are the main characters, and he's just kind of there mumbling his way through the entire film. It's not the same. Because he's not completely different from Mel Gibson's version of Max. I mean, he's a quiet and sane guy. That's all that's supposed to be. He's just a crazy guy. And we drive cars and they crash. It's awesome, it's great.
Speaker 2I love it. It's everything I want in film.
Speaker 1So, while driving, max has to fix a piece of their truck. While doing that, max takes his mask off, because he finally gets it, because they're about to go into the Canyon. Pass, where there's gonna be a bunch of like dirt bikers, which is right and then Nuts hit the brakes.
Speaker 1Yeah, he pulled like a line off that makes the gas tank in the back yeah, so that he can, I guess, like get into the truck to slow him down or whatever, yeah, slow him down. So then Max has to go back there. He fixes it and then he finally gets his mask off, and it's great because he's like, eh, finally.
Speaker 3He just got a grunt. It's even like when he finally gets it off. I felt like you were in that moment of him, because you know when you feel like you're getting close to something like that, and I felt like he finally got it.
Speaker 1He sneaks into the truck, the ladies subdue him but don't kill him. They try to tell him Joe is bad and he is like the people who destroyed the world, and they kick him out and he runs back to Joe. The bullet gang is also after them now. So you got the Gastown Bullet Farm and the War Boys all after him.
Speaker 2What's up with the Gastown guy's nose the man-eater I think that's his name right, probably Huff, and guy's nose the man eater is, I think that's his name.
Speaker 1It's just the people have a gas. That, or people, people are just. Everybody has skin cancer. It's like there's no ozone. We blew it up, I guess he dressed it up nicely.
Speaker 2You know he's got the nipples.
Speaker 1Great, there's chains going from. Every time you see him, he's always like playing with them, yeah I would too, man, if I had a few chains on there yeah, just snag them on one thing, though sitting there talking to you, there's so many things to snag on, cause they always have their displays.
Speaker 3Like you know, I feel like strikes of fear and imposing this to these people. What a chain attached to my nose, to my nipple. Yeah, sir, if you just got a nipple thing like no, no, no, trust me, trust me, it'll strike.
Speaker 1Fear had me scared so Furiosa drives through a biker gang controlled canyon. To barter a deal for safe passage she's gonna give like 3,000 gallons of guzzoline that's what the pod's for right yeah, but they're all pissed off because it's like you told us there's gonna be a few people coming after you, not an entire army. And then she's getting smart to the fact that it's like, oh, these people are gonna turn. And then you also have the one pregnant girl starting to uh, I don't know, I guess contract a little bit.
Speaker 2I don't know she's not supposed to be due for another month, though. So probably all the stress of being so close to death.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, she's just not being the more active girl out of all of them. So, with joe's forces pursuing the gang turns on her, forcing her and the group to flee, while the bikers detonate the canyon walls to block Joe, max and Furiosa fight pursuing bikers as Joe's cars, with Nux on board, climbs the blockade and eventually attacks Furiosa's truck, he has a shot, but Angerheart blocks his shot because Joe's about to shoot Furiosa, right, and she, like, comes out and it's like me, don't shoot me.
Speaker 3You won't shoot me.
Speaker 1Also, I love when Nux gets back onto the truck. It's because he goes to Joe. He's like I have one of the girls' cloth things little dress things he's like ah, get on you got one guy. I got Max's boot.
Speaker 2Screw you, we don't care about this. And so they're going after them.
Speaker 1and then Nux says hey, max's boot, screw you we don't care about this, and so they're going after them and then Nuck says hey, get me close to this and I'll kill. I'll stop them and kill Furiosa. He goes to get onto the truck and as he's running he has the chain still attached to him and it gets stuck into the truck and he falls. Often Joe's like mediocre.
Speaker 3I love that whole set of that scene, just like being epic and stuff. And then he just fails completely.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Because I felt it like later when he's sitting there like ugh.
Speaker 2They also said mediocre before when that dude sprayed the drugs and then he jumped him to the other car and blew it up. Yeah, they're like mediocre. It's like he just killed himself for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1Give him a little more, he should have survived it. Um, but I love this scene because you got bikers jumping all over the place and then you have furiosa and max, just like sniping them out of the air yeah, he's just like firing out the window they're starting to like throw bombs specifically on the hood of the truck, causing it to catch fire, and I love that that they have that plan.
Speaker 1Like, oh, our car's going to catch fire, so they put the bulldozer thing at the bottom so that it can go into the sand and it can cover the entire truck with sand and put out the flames.
Speaker 2I know she's thought of everything. Yeah, furiosa is cool.
Speaker 1And then this is also where we get the 3 3,000 gallons of gasoline exploding and it looks beautiful.
Speaker 2It really pisses off the bikers, though. Yep, that's when they stop following.
Speaker 3After that point it's like, well, they're winning our stuff. We want and we don't want to fight all these other parties.
Speaker 1So the pursuit continues. However, as the truck's starting to escape Angra, hard, who is hanging outside the truck, falls off in an attempt to protect Max, and is run over by Joe's car, moodily wounding her and her child, joe fucking flips his shit. Joe's pissed. I love, like when you see him he's holding her, and like her back is just like like she just is not bent right.
Speaker 2It's not supposed to be like that.
Speaker 1And it's such an unsettling scene because, like you know, her stomach is protruding because she's pregnant, so it looks even worse and more like awful. And then you have rictus erectus is shooting.
Speaker 3He's screaming, oh wow, this is just a good scene and yeah when I was listening to it, did you hear her like trying to breathe? I missed that. I thought she fully died, because you know later this scene comes up later with yeah, they say that she's breathing a little bit. Well she's like, well she's about to pass.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3And that's what it was. Oh, I'd never know. I don't know if it was because I was messing with my sound settings last night and I heard her.
Speaker 1So and then you get the whole thing where, like, all the wives in the back are like turn around, we got to, is she dead? He's like she went under the wheels. So, and then we get like, as they're driving, because they're getting away now that she died, because Joe's like no. So Furiosa explains to Max that they're going to the green place, um, and so we get. They're just as they're driving, capable. She goes into the back just to keep lookout, uh, capable, finds nux hiding in the truck. Um, who's boohooing over his failures and stuff. But she starts to console him because he's like oh, like I was there, I could have been into valhalla. I had three chances today and I missed all my opportunities.
Speaker 1She's like what are you talking about, dude, just want to die this one woman and he's ready to flip. She's essentially saying like oh, joe's wrong, you should just be with us instead. And he's ready to flip. She's essentially saying like oh, joe's wrong, you should just be with us instead. And he's like oh okay, have you met my mates Larry and Barry? Because he's like if the son doesn't get them, his friends will get them.
Speaker 2Yes, like.
Speaker 1Larry and Barry and it's like, oh, that sucks, they're all about to die.
Speaker 2That's cute.
Speaker 1All the war boys are going to die soon, so that night the truck gets stuck in the mud. I love this, by the way. This is also where we see as they're driving. They see the people on stilts and stuff in the wasteland with all the crows.
Speaker 3I want to know what do y'all think about visually, how the night scenes look, because of like the blue, overly blue, tone.
Speaker 1Yeah because they filmed during the day and they just color corrected it and so look like nighttime do y'all like it, y'all think it looks like.
Speaker 3I like it, I love it looks really cool.
Speaker 1I feel like it goes really well with this film. I feel like in other films when they do this, it just kind of looks a little off because the rest of the film isn't stylized like this. I think it works very well.
Speaker 2It's kind of given the idea that the entire place is lit up.
Speaker 1Us just starlight the nighttime makes me think that this could just have been a graphic novel.
Speaker 2Yeah, because how visually pleased. Everything was visually pleasing yeah.
Speaker 1Just feel like this movie could have just an easily printed straight onto a graphic novel, and it looked great. So that night the truck gets stuck in the mud, and Furiosa and Max slow Joe's forces with mines except the mines and they all start exploding as they're driving away, but Joe's ally, the bullet farmer, continues pursuing them. What's his name, though? I don't even remember.
Speaker 3Okay, I think it's just a bullet farmer.
Speaker 2It's so funny how he's like hut, hut he's like the the guzzle to gas towel man was like his name was the man eater and the other guy was like I don't know.
Speaker 1I can check real quick. Give me once again.
Speaker 2He loves bullets. He eats them literally, yeah, he like pulled one out of his tooth Like bullet tooth Tony.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, that would be hilarious. Hey, old bullet to Tony.
Speaker 1They just call him the Bullet Farmer. That's what he's always called oh and then. So then we cut back to Joe and you have his little doctor, or organ mechanic is what they call him.
Speaker 2Organic mechanic.
Speaker 1Organic mechanic, that's what it is and there's, they're looking at Angerheart and she, they're like, oh, she's still kind of alive, she's breathing a little bit. And they're like, oh, she's still kind of alive, she's breathing a little bit. And they're like, oh, I think the baby inside of it might be, I think they say it's dead and they cut it out, it got quiet in there. And they're like oh man, another month and this would have been a viable baby boy.
Speaker 2Perfect in every way.
Speaker 1Rictus erectus. You had a baby brother and they're like we had a and he was perfect in every way we're all about family. Yeah, like Vin Diesel, rictus Erectus has been. So now we're back at the truck. Nux helps Max free the truck while Furiosa shoots and blinds the bullet farmer, while using Max to stable the gun they take out the one tree yeah, on the planet there's one tree left and they completely destroy it.
Speaker 1But I love it because they shoot the bullet farmer's little light and it gets in his eyes and he's like I can't see. Put a flare in front of me. It's like it's right in front of you and he's like no, and then he starts shooting. And I love, like you got that one classical music song that I forgot to put down in my notes.
Speaker 3Flight of the Valkyries.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3That's what it was. Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 2He's got those big long pistols with the huge barrels like the Joker.
Speaker 1Yeah. So now the bullet farmer is now widely shooting at them, but they are eventually able to free the truck using the tree, and I love that. It's Nux's idea, so he's 100% on board with this group. Now he's like yeah, I don't like.
Speaker 3Joe anymore, totally down with Max and the girl. Well, I think he's just like part of it was like I embarrassed myself at least with them. I have something.
Speaker 1He's like at least I got this redhead girl.
Speaker 2She seems down to clown. Yeah, it's got to be reason to live.
Speaker 1So Max, who is willing to die to help them, walks into the dark to confront the bullet farmer and his men. While the truck down, we see a huge explosion in the dark. Max returns with guns and ammunition and I love it when he because it's great, because it's a giant explosion in the back. You hear all this gun and they're like, oh, I hope that was for good for us and not them. And then he comes back and he's walking there. He's wanting to splash his face because he's got blood all over him.
Speaker 2Like whose blood is that it's?
Speaker 1like it's not his blood. He's like what's this mother's milk? And just's not his blood.
Speaker 2He's like what's this Mother's milk and just starts splashing his face with breast milk Like a milk bath in the middle of the hot desert. They're supposed to.
Speaker 1I think that's the only viable food they have, so can we not use it? With your bloody face, yeah.
Speaker 3They're still going to drink it. It's still just one of those. A whole little party.
Speaker 1Yeah, because he takes a huge thing of gasoline and everything.
Speaker 2And does he come back with his boot that got taken.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh no, he took someone else's boot earlier than that. Yeah, but I love it, I love that they didn't show it too.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's just like. You can put it together in your imagination.
Speaker 1It's like the one thing, this movie leaves to your imagination.
Speaker 3Because you know Max and you just see like I'm seeing Mel Gibson's character, but I'm seeing Tom Hardy doing these crazy things yeah, so they drive the truck overnight through a swampland in desert.
Speaker 1We see women on stilts. Oh, this is actually the part where you get it. Whoopsie Furiosa explains that she is looking for redemption because she was kidnapped as a child from the.
Speaker 2Greenland Greenplace yeah, the Greenland Green Place. Yeah To the Citadel.
Speaker 1Yeah, the group comes across a naked woman the next day. Max suspects a trap. I love it because he's like that's bait. But Furiosa approaches the woman and states her history and clan affiliation. The naked woman summons her clan, the Volvulini, who recognize.
Speaker 2Furiosa the Volvulini. Yeah See, I was trying not to say that, but now that you came here, and said Volvulini.
Speaker 3Now I'm going to say Volvulini, the entire time I didn't realize she was naked. The first time I saw this I thought she just was up there and I love when she goes down the rope.
Speaker 1I thought she was sliding down the rope but it thing I was like naked. She's just like smoke coming out of her cooch. Yeah, on the rope so fast so they recognize furiosa because of her eyes.
Speaker 3Essentially, what does it say? She has the green in her eyes or something. Yeah, something like that, um they.
Speaker 1Then they just start going around inspecting the young women. They're like oh, this one's got all our teeth such smooth skin, yeah I love it so, but furiosa is devastated to learn that the swampland they passed was indeed the green place now inhospitable. Um, and this is probably where we get the best shot of the film, where she's like just dramatic as fuck and like walking through the desert and then she starts screaming like it's perfect it's beautiful, pretty emotional it also works very well in the black and white version, because there's a black and chrome version that I have when I took notes.
Speaker 2I watched that yeah, and that was because well, older filmmakers love black and white film they always, they always want to make at least one movie in black and white.
Speaker 1They have to, which?
Speaker 2I love it, but in black and white they have to, which I love it. But I like what they did with Sin City.
Speaker 1They like how, yeah, that was good, like he said, because it has an introduction from George Miller. He says that he likes the grittiness feel and his very first version of the Road Warrior he saw it was just a version without any of the color and he said he loved the grittiness to it and how you lose information in the frame because of it. And when I watched it some scenes work really well. I feel like the sandstorm looked amazing in black and white, but I still prefer the color.
Speaker 2It just looks so beautiful.
Speaker 1But yeah. So she's all like sad and whatnot, because everything she lived for is gone.
Speaker 3You know, get over it. She's all like sad and whatnot because, uh, everything she lived for is gone.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know, get over it so they're staring out at night, uh, watching satellites, uh, fly around the dag, and keeper of the seeds, talk a bit. We see that she plants seeds anytime she's able, but the ground has been too sour and she can't feed, can't? So then? The group then plans to ride motorbikes across the immense salt flats in hope of finding a new home. They have like 160 days worth of gas and stuff to drive.
Speaker 2I'm not going to make it y'all.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like it's too hot, it's too hot. Furiosa doesn't even have anything to cover part of her arms and her head Barely any milk.
Speaker 2She's got to freaking fry out there, and you know what's great for the heat A warm glass of milk.
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Speaker 1Yeah, sure I love nice spoiled, warm milk. It's nice and chunky, so I got something to texture my mouth. So Max chooses to stay behind and tells them hope is a mistake and that if they can't fix what's broken you'll go insane. But after seeing visions of a child he failed to save, he convinces them to return to the undefended citadel, which has ample water and greenery that Joe's keeps for himself.
Speaker 1And they plan on trapping Joe and his army at the Biker's Canyon. Also, something I love about this this is where you know I forget, I just completely lost track of thought, where you know what, forget it, I just completely lost your thought. But yeah, so they're. So, essentially, we get like over halfway through the movie and they say let's just do the movie in reverse, let's go. And it's such a bold choice, simple choice, and it rules, because it's like, yeah, let's just keep going with this whole cars crashing into each other. It's great.
Speaker 3I don't know, I agreed with it. It's like we need to go back. It's like, well, he does have the water. I know it's a great plan and they're not expecting because it makes sense. You just gotta hope it's a viable option.
Speaker 1You just have to hope, though, that at some point they weren't like fuck it, we're turning around, let's just go back to the citadel, pull over right now, because then they get all the way back there and they're like dang it, they're back. Well, I guess now we have 159 days worth of gas to drive that way.
Speaker 2Yeah, they left the oven on.
Speaker 3Yeah, I also want to know how they have that much gas to carry around.
Speaker 2Well, they had that like 300.
Speaker 1It exploded, though what was left in?
Speaker 2the semi-truck that could have just like Diesel into some dirt bikes. Yeah, I don't know man.
Speaker 1It's a movie. Hey, nux is a black thumb, he could figure it out out. So the group heads back to the Citadel, but they are attacked en route by Joe's forces. While driving, nux and Max start spitting guzzoline into their engine to speed it up because another car is starting to do it and it's the raddest thing ever and I have no idea if it works.
Speaker 2I was learning it too. The other guy that was doing it he had a spray bottle and then he started pouring it into his mouth too. It's like why.
Speaker 1Because Nux is doing it and it's like, ah, that looks rad.
Speaker 3Well, they're all about like octane like oh, that'd make me more.
Speaker 1Because he's wanting to spit, like use the two bottles to pour and spit into it as well. And I'm like man, if you just constantly hold those other two, I think you'll, Because they're doing that. It damages one of their engines. So now they have to fight. They're going to disconnect the tank that is being slowed by pursuing trucks, Because you have the trucks that are shooting like harpoons in it and like driving stakes down into the ground, which is the raddest thing, so they're being slowed by those trucks.
Speaker 1Before that can happen, you have people pole vaulting off cars they call them pole cats, like earlier in the film and it's where you just have like it's like a rig, where they can. Essentially a giant thing and it has a counterweight at the bottom so they can constantly swing and it looks so sick and anybody that ever thought of this is the coolest person I've ever met.
Speaker 1We made pole swinging cool and awesome it's so dope, it's just like I would have never thought of that I don't understand it it's something it's like ships like in the ocean, like pirates. They have to swing over, but instead they have like a better version of it.
Speaker 3That's exactly how he said. It's like a pirate ships in the sea it's a desert, jason, you figured out the movie and we're all proud of it.
Speaker 1It's a naval battle yeah, so the.
Speaker 2If they would have had broadside cannons or something that would be fucking crazy.
Speaker 3I would have loved that it would have made so sense for one of them to have it.
Speaker 1And so one of the polecats has kind of like hedge trimmers and then you have another polecat with like a chainsaw. But the one with hedge trimmers she's like coming in and out trying to grab the people and the keeper of the seeds like ends up getting wounded by one of them. It gets like cut, I'm not sure where, because you don't ever see blood bleeding but somewhere in this area, because she like, holds it and I'm like, why is there not more blood?
Speaker 3there it's not as like, very like, graphically gory.
Speaker 1It's so weird. So Joe's army seems to be getting the upper hand. They take Toast the knowing out of the truck they're just like whoop. Yeah, that was awesome. And Max fights a guy with a chainsaw on the hood and is saved from falling off by Furiosa who grabs her with her little metal hand thing that she has?
Speaker 3is this also like the scene where he like does that?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah thing that she has? Is this also like the scene where he like does that? Yeah, yeah, the little girl, I love that Cause. Earlier, like the girl like like force pushes them and he's like, oh, cause he's seeing the vision and puts his hand up. And then that comes into play a little later when someone's about to shoot him and the little girl goes, does that again.
Speaker 2I thought it. There's a little bit of supernatural stuff all throughout. Yeah, just here and there, because he's insane.
Speaker 1He's mad. He's Mad Max. Oh, is that what that's about? That's what it means, because he went insane after his kid and wife got ran over, and so the whole first movie is a revenge movie, and because of it he went insane.
Speaker 2And that's the whole point of it, that's cool.
Speaker 3Did you play Metal Gear Solid 5?
Speaker 1No, I own it. I have it downloaded.
Speaker 3So like when he like had it that spike in his head and then broke it out, had that little horn, I was like you know, you could probably play like an older Venom snake. Yeah, because it made me think of it as like he kind of looked like him a little bit.
Speaker 1Tom Hardy could totally play.
Speaker 3Because he doesn't talk a lot in the fifth one.
Speaker 1Yeah, he just mumbles. Yeah, I was like this is perfect role for him. Yeah, that'd be perfect, do it somebody.
Speaker 3We have the Oscar Isaac film that's still not moved anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1So while Furiosa's holding Max, furiosa ends up getting wounded by a guy that she stabbed earlier with her little trucker knife and he ends up getting in there and stabs her and mortally wounding her. Essentially, joe ends up positioning his car in front of the truck to slow it, while Max captured the guzzling leader's car. And this is cool because while he's hanging, nuxus kicks him and it kicks him onto the gas sound guy.
Speaker 2The guzzling guy is just like all right, you're driving now. Yeah, and Nuxis kicks him and it kicks him onto the. I love how the guzzling guy is just like alright, you're driving now.
Speaker 1He's like trying to take over, but just like a couple hits really just knocks him out. So then Max fights a guy while on the pole vault stick thing.
Speaker 2I love all of these sentences. You're saying it's insane.
Speaker 3I didn't even know how to explain it, you explain it and you're like that doesn't make sense and you watch like, oh my God.
Speaker 1Because, like, he ends up getting picked up by one of those guys and then they start fighting and it's crazy because he almost gets his head pushed onto the sand and it's really cool. And so this is also we see a giant gas tank that is completely explodes and it looks amazing, do they? We know why that just started exploding? Well, that was a gas town Semi. They brought one that was filled with gas. Well, because, yeah, it's because a bomb exploded, the gas town guy, and it exploded.
Speaker 3I feel like having flame floors. They call everything crazy. I'm getting confused on which crazy thing, it doesn't matter about their slangs. You get confused anyways.
Speaker 1Yeah, I can barely talk English. But now that the giant tankard exploded, the Canyon Bike Gang know that they're coming. So, max, he ends up getting on the guitar guy's truck and starts fighting and he's getting connected with the guitar.
Speaker 2I don't like how no one really goes after the guitar player, because he's just there. He's there to play guitar, he's there to thrash he's the soundtrack.
Speaker 1He's the hon zimmer of mad max world, um, but he's slowly making it back to the truck. Rictus gets to their truck and cheeto asks to be taken with him. We're like no, cheeto, what a coward. She wants to go back. But really it's a trick. She was just there to get on there to distract them, um. So he tries to grab the others and max and a couple of the older ladies fight them off. The captured toast distracts joe long enough for furiosa to get onto his truck and end up stabbing like the spear thing into his mouth, and then he just rips it off and it looks sick as fuck dude it's so dope and then like everybody's like what?
Speaker 2yeah, the chain just like rips his face away oh, so good, I love it.
Speaker 3I didn't expect it and, like Nux, can't believe.
Speaker 1Nux can't believe that Joe's dead. He's like, oh, he's just immortal, like everybody or he's mortal like everybody else immortal he's not immortal it's just regular old Morton Joe now and then Nux decides to sacrifice himself by wrecking the truck, killing Rictus and blocking the canyon. Witness me allow it. Yeah, he's like witness me.
Speaker 3I love that like slow-mo of it too.
Speaker 2Yeah yeah, so I really loved his character yeah, he's a great little arc right.
Speaker 3Yeah, everybody's got a perfect little character, moved his career some I don't know.
Speaker 1Honestly, I don't know much about nicholas holt. He's always kind of been a side character in a movie and he just he. Usually he's been in a lot of romantic lead roles, but it's just. Those never go anywhere he's, he's beast.
Speaker 3He's beast in uh the james mccoy one, yeah, the, uh, the x-men yeah the young x-men, where they're all young and beautiful and then, uh well, he's also in one movie I watched a long time ago. It's any good, my tattoo artist, but I was like kill your best friends or something he's kind of leading that?
Speaker 1yeah, I mean I've seen him in a bunch of movies that I just don't know much about him really well he's.
Speaker 3Is he Lex Luthor now?
Speaker 1I don't maybe, I don't know, off the top of my head, I'm not sure, but so they end up blocking the canyon which is allowing Max, furiosa and the wives and the Volvini to successfully escape in Joe's car. Now they are safe, and Furiosa is breathing heavily, though, and her lungs are collapsing Because one of the older ladies are like every breath she takes is actually killing her. So Max decides like you know what, I'm sorry this is going to hurt, and stabs her in the lungs, I guess.
Speaker 3Yeah, because it wasn't inflating. I think is what he said.
Speaker 1It's wild how that works and you know what you. Yeah, it's wild how that works and you know what. You get that because George Miller was a doctor. He stabs her lungs to help and then Max transfuses his blood to Furiosa to help her survive her energy Injuries.
Speaker 3Not energy.
Speaker 1Energy. And then I love it because this is where we finally get Max saying his name. My name it's Max. My name is Max.
Speaker 2He has to have the shortest name possible so he doesn't have to say things Well, I love it. He says it like a crazy person, max.
Speaker 1My name is Max, that is my name. So they arrive at the Citadel. The impoverished citizens are overjoyed at the sight of Joe's corpse. I love it when they reveal it. It's like, yeah, it's gross. Furiosa, the wives and the Bovillini are cheered by the people and welcomed by the war boys and led up to where Joe lives and they release the water. While going up, max walks away, sharing a glance with Furiosa before disappearing into the crowd. When I watched this in IMAX, I literally almost started tearing up. I was like I don't want to do it. Everybody's happy, everything did well.
Speaker 2Why does Max have to leave?
Speaker 1Oh, that's just what he does. He doesn't belong.
Speaker 2But he's a survivor and this is the best place to live.
Speaker 3It's probably because anywhere he goes, something happens, Bad things happen Well he's so.
Speaker 1the man With no Name trilogy. The Clint Eastwood movies Good, bad, the Ugly, a Few Dollars. A Few Dollars, more Fistful of Dollars. The trilogy it's essentially kind of that, where he goes to this town, he performs his missions or whatever, and then he's like alright, well, I don't belong anywhere, so see you later, guys, and that's essentially all this is. It's just, he's a wanderer.
Speaker 3Where is he going to go?
Speaker 1His home was destroyed in Mad Max 1.
Speaker 2He just goes around the corner and just kind of hangs out.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's just like. Actually I'm just going to get facial reconstruction, I won't even know who.
Speaker 3I am, I'll come back when you guys have stuff planted more.
Speaker 1And it's worth it. I don't feel like doing that work Once. This place is amazing. I will come back.
Speaker 2It's already full of little powder boys. How much better can it be?
Speaker 3We didn't finish the last bit of it, yeah we did. That was it well let's talk about when she shows up with Immortan Joe's body and they kind of like, let like the people below cause, even though they were screaming Immortan Joe, they obviously know that he is like the reason they don't have anything they were so happy and, like the people up there, were even worried because they were like let him up and the war boys were like.
Speaker 1I also think that it's kind of one of those things where an army needs a leader.
Speaker 2Their leader died Just showed up at the previous leader's corpse, I guess since you killed him now you're.
Speaker 1It's like well, I wouldn't say dad, but now you're mom Furiosa. You're mommy, go ahead and do it Hang over. So yeah, your mommy Go ahead and do it Hang over. So yeah, mad Max, free Road Perfect movie.
Speaker 2Masterpiece, one of the best movies to ever be made, ever.
Speaker 1So unexpecting, but amazing.
Speaker 2This is fucking incredible, can't wait for Furiosa. The Legend of Furiosa, whatever it's called. Yeah, they got great reviews.
Speaker 3I'm excited. I was worried it wasn't going to be as good, because I've been kind of like hesitant, but now the reviews are coming out saying, no, it's good.
Speaker 2Do you think it's as insane?
Speaker 3No, I don't think it's going to be on that level.
Speaker 1Probably going to be more story.
Speaker 3Yeah, it had a little bit more like CGI to it, which is probably going to focus more on Furiosa's story.
Speaker 2That's just trailers though. I love how it was Chris Hemsworth right. Yeah, his voice is awesome. I love that.
Speaker 3We're getting Chris Hemsworth's Australian accent voice, his normal voice is supposed to be.
Speaker 1Have we ever heard it?
Speaker 2in a movie?
Speaker 1No, it's always been an American accent. I'm so excited to get some of that Australian Hemsworth.
Speaker 2Yeah, and his character seems really cool. In one of the scenes of the trailer he's wearing a wedding dress with a cape. Oh really, scenes of the trailer he's wearing like a wedding dress with a cape.
Speaker 3Oh really, that's what it looks like to me.
Speaker 1Might not be, as uh might be a movie the last time I really see him for a little bit, because yeah, he wants to do the um, go like on hiatus because he found out like he has like a alzheimer's, all alzheimer's, alzheimer's. He has some kind of like yeah, disease, like it's not alzheimer's specifically right.
Speaker 3It's something else oh, I'm sure, but it's something where he's going to start a lot sooner than he should start getting symptoms of Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2Oh fuck.
Speaker 3I don't exactly remember what it was.
Speaker 2He's going, bruce Willis on us.
Speaker 3Oh, Nicholas Holt is Lex Luthor.
Speaker 1Oh cool, all right, so I guess we're going to head on to our category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. This is where we discuss the good of the film something we liked the bad of the film something we didn't like the ugly of the film something that didn't age well. And the fine something that did age well. Anybody want to start off?
Speaker 2Good, I like a lot of the character transformations. I thought they were really fucking cool.
Speaker 1Yeah.
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Speaker 2And just like the giant set pieces and all the book explosions yeah, exactly fighting and what about you, dakota?
Speaker 3I just love the part of just the visual appeal the world makes me feel. That's because you know, when you see stuff like in a book or a video game or anything, you try and like connect it to other things. This visually is how I would see a over-the-top world.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I don't know, and it's like sylvester sloan is in the truck driver doing his weights huh over the top.
Speaker 3He's an arm wrestler okay not over the top reference.
Speaker 1Please continue. It's a truck driver arm wrestling I also would say it feels like.
Speaker 3It's like if you took Mad Max 2, that was from the 80s and you just took it and it's like this is how I think you should do. It's a movie from the 80s. We made a movie that you would make in the 80s but did it with how we would do it today.
Speaker 1It's still the same of like it really is just a legacy sequel, that's all it is. Just they redid well, not completely redid Road Warrior, but essentially, yeah, new characters and it's just more of the same.
Speaker 2But you know what it rules because we just don't get movies like this yeah, so I guess mine was just the practical effects and the stunts.
Speaker 1I think this is why we should have a stunt award at oh yeah, at the oscars, because this movie should win it every year, even though it shouldn't be eligible every year, but it should just win it every single year.
Speaker 3Well then, john Wick would finally go in there for something. Yeah, alright, let's move to the bad. Most brains exploded.
Speaker 1Something that didn't age well for this movie. It came out in 2015, so not a lot. Oh wait, no, that's not age Well, something bad, something you didn't like in the movie. Is there anything, whether it be small, a nitpick, anything that you didn't like about the film?
Speaker 3I do have just tiny ones. It's just a couple of times, I don't know, it's just because I haven't seen it in so long, certain scenes like when that was before they were leaving and at the Citadel I could tell the background was like CG, there's just a few moments like that.
Speaker 2That's really my only few complaints. Anything for you? Any bad? No, no, not really. I like everything.
Speaker 1The only thing that I saw in it. That would be like why y'all keep doing that. So when the pregnant lady kept doing all the more physical stuff, it's like stop, lady, you're pregnant, let someone else go out there and do it, let's have it.
Speaker 3She's the one whoitz. She's the one who's pregnant. She's the one who's pregnant. So that means she was brave enough to be laid down with a Morn Joe. Well, no, they all have, Because the dag is also pregnant with his baby, maybe she's the only one who's just like sane enough, because everyone else has got toast brain yeah.
Speaker 1One's all right. So now we're going to go to the ugly, which is something that didn't age well.
Speaker 3Really, I don't have anything that doesn't age well it all goes for the movie and there's nothing, just the bad from overtly awful couple always felt so bad for everyone who had to be in the sun oh yeah something that didn't age well is because yeah, everybody struggled out into the heat.
Speaker 1I mean he spent like 130 days doing one scene, oh, and I guess it just wasn't. Apparently Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron did not get along and they were kind of mean to each other or whatever, or Tom Hardy was mean to her one of them. They all forgave each other, of course, because I think they were just probably going insane from the sun and being hot all the time and just constantly covered in sand.
Speaker 2But yeah, if something didn't age.
Speaker 1well, I'd say it was the fact that the set seemed to be a little hostile and kind of crazy. But to make a movie like this, there's going to be issues because it's huge and there's so much that has to be done. It adds so much to the movie. If something messes up, you know how insane that is, because you have to smooth out the sand. You have to do it. I mean, there's so much that has to go back into it. Getting your shot back to one To be insane, of course, is probably super stressful and crazy.
Speaker 3Yeah, watch out for giant worms. Yeah, you never know. They're filming.
Speaker 2Dune right next to us, there might be a dune worm, a tremor worm.
Speaker 1There's so many worms. There might be a beetle juice worm out in the desert. You never know.
Speaker 2Oh shit.
Speaker 1Alright, now we're going to go to the find Something that aged well.
Speaker 2These fucking cars. Yeah, cars are rad there's a lot of classic cars.
Speaker 1Cars will always age well because cars are cool. Everybody likes cars. Even if you don't care about cars, you're still like man. That car looks cool. Yeah, throw some spikes on it also just uh, auteurs that just get to make their goddang masterpiece of a movie that they've been wanting to make for 30 years, let them do it just let them have full control, because you can make some great stuff but like directors that are worth the risk, not directors that barely make good movies, and we still give them like $200 million to do stuff.
Speaker 1And it's like why do we give them this huge of a budget, like they've only done like one thing?
Speaker 3To be fair, George Miller's filmography before this would not lead me to think he was going to make a good movie.
Speaker 1Well, he just had to take some jobs to just make some money.
Speaker 2As long as he's crying.
Speaker 1It's like if anybody can make a Mad Max movie, it's the guy that made the Mad Max movies. All right, so we're going to move to our next category, which is double feature, a movie that pairs well with this movie. Mine is going to be kind of crazy, but I picked actually Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Speaker 2It's a post-apocalyptic world.
Speaker 1It's the best one out of the new trilogy and even though it has monkeys in it, but it's also one of those movies that makes it a quieter way. Quieter movie, less action, set pieces, but in terms of just post-apocalyptic world, that's really good and kind of a masterpiece in itself. I think it's this. I want to see the new one visually amazing, looking really good. Matt reeves, great director. I love.
Speaker 2The title of the new one is like dawn of the planet, of the kingdom of the apes it's kingdom of the planet of the apes the titles I mean it's like you got war of the planet, of the apes, dawn of the planet.
Speaker 1It gets crazy. The older ones are even crazier the titles and that.
Speaker 2Immediately after watching this I turned on. I saw that some of the cast had been in the Hobbit movies, so I turned on a Hobbit movie, so I guess that would be mine.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean really like it's just them running across a desert landscape, but more so it's like a green landscape. So it's the opposite. Still fun, Opposite, but fun in a thing.
Speaker 2Seeing all the actors just doing different stuff. Yeah, it's neat. What do you?
Speaker 3got bro? I think mine would be, because it just to me it's like, like I said, it's a modern 80s movie. Another movie that makes me think it's kind of like over the top but fun to watch, is the Return of the Living Dead.
Speaker 2Yeah, watch is, uh is the return of the living dead.
Speaker 1Yeah, that movie these are the first one that was in color. No, no, no, no, this is. It was like. Uh, it's not like george a romero's like of the night of the dead type series, it's like its own little thing. It's like the punk rock version of, or the more punk rock version of, night of the Living Dead. Gotcha More brains.
Speaker 3It's got these crazy over-the-top moments that I would love to see. If you could take it and make it modern day, but keep it the 80s style. Over-the-top, yeah, and it's very wacky, so I can understand the wackiness with Mad Max yeah that's exactly how I thought, because it's just over the like pole vaulting and all that and all like the cars and everything. It's just really cool and that's why I think of that movie.
Speaker 1Yeah, so you know nuclear stuff yeah. So just to go over this again, our double features for. Mad Max 3 Road Dawn of the planet of the apes doesn't really make sense. You got a hobbit movie or lord of the rings, either one and then a zombie movie return to the living dead. That's pretty wild.
Speaker 2Uh, that you definitely be watching some zombies in the lord of the rings should have been there might as well be the worst, might as well just be zombie.
Speaker 1Well, anytime I think of anything else post-apocalyptic like I want something, though.
Speaker 3That's like because this movie to me is fun and just over the top. You know, I have to say hi.
Speaker 1Post-apocalyptic movies need to make you put the rock on, and if they don't, then you really failed.
Speaker 2What have you done?
Speaker 1Yeah, but yeah, that's our conclusion of this week's episode. Make sure you join us next week as me and Jason will be discussing Hot Fuzz. What's the director's name? Edgar, probably, kind of secretly. Edgar Wright's like best movie, I feel like in terms of that he also did.
Speaker 2It's like I love.
Speaker 1Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim. Oh no, scott Pilgrim.
Speaker 3Oh no, scott Pilgrim is my favorite, obviously, but Hot Fuzz is kind of a secret masterpiece in itself.
Speaker 2It's funny. I watched it a long ago and I was like, yeah, this movie's great. The movie's kind of perfect, everybody has a gun all of it.
Speaker 3It's great, especially if you love action movies as I said, when I watched Napoleon Dynamite, I didn't life. It's not, it's like you know, movies can be satirical it's great.
Speaker 1Can't wait to discuss that. I was kind of really did want to do another Edgar Wright movie, since it's we haven't done one since Scott Pilgrim, so might as well do his next best movie. I was gonna do that during Halloween.
Speaker 2Fuck yeah.
Speaker 1So, yeah, make sure you join us next week for that, dakota, thank you for joining us again Thank you for having me and yeah. So if you want to leave us an email or something you got any questions for us. You can send us an email at werecommendmailbagatgmailcom. One day we'll get some emails.
Speaker 2Or we'll just make some up. We, we're just gonna start making them up, yeah oh, they actually read them.
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Speaker 3Bye, what a day, what a lovely day, hell yeah.
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