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Mad Max: Fury Road
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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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
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!
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
To quickly follow us on social's or listen on another platform follow the link!
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
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 2:I'm Jason. I'm Dakota.
Speaker 1:You 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 2:All right Did you actually say uh, yeah, okay. No, I didn't just add uh, you did I restart, it's natural.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to do that during the intro. Well, it's just who you are.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:It was constantly on. I haven't seen either one of them. You haven't Some bits and pieces of them?
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:So is this one like a natural successor to those?
Speaker 1:Or completely just side stories. You have no idea which one comes after what.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter. Oh okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1:That 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 2:Maybe it was a bad movie at first, and then they cut all the lines off.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Dang 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 1:What's her name? I can't remember it it's just his wife.
Speaker 3:It's gotta be something.
Speaker 1:Miller 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 3:oh 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 1:That, or TNT or TES. I feel like it came on. There's a lot of TNT movies that I've seen.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 3:But they do it in such a good way.
Speaker 1:It should have been Mad Max.
Speaker 3:They're back again. It's about the journey.
Speaker 2:You could just name all the Mad.
Speaker 1:Maxes, just the Lord of the Rings. But they're so good, except maybe the two towers.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's a two towers. They all have dune buggies and the hobbit, just Frodo and Sam, just like driving.
Speaker 3:Oh, 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 2:yeah, 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 3:I 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 1:There'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 3:Well, 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 2:Hell yeah, everything's so fucking epic too.
Speaker 1:There'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 2:Well, they should be.
Speaker 1:I 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 3:It's like how it always happens in post-apocalyptic, always looking up from your ivory tower or whatever they call it.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:yeah, well, and in that one.
Speaker 1:That'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 3:Now so I know, y'all know.
Speaker 1:Happy Feet and I know y'all know like the Mad Max stuff. Have y'all seen his other movies?
Speaker 2:Was he in the Hobbit Battle of the Five Armies? I don't know a couple of these actors were.
Speaker 1:No, 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 2:I've seen that one. That's kind of crazy that he did that.
Speaker 1:The guy. It's about how they came up with Lorenzo's Oil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're trying to save a boy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 1:What did?
Speaker 3:he do. After Fury Road.
Speaker 1:You 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 2:Furiosa baby Is Charlize Theron the Furiosa.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, it's Anya Taylor-Joy. I said it right. I feel so proud, taylor Joy. I said it right.
Speaker 3:I feel so proud.
Speaker 1:I don't A.
Speaker 3:Sid actress?
Speaker 1:I don't Well, she's in the Witch, the Vivitch. Yeah, have you seen?
Speaker 2:that With Black Peter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's not Black Peter, black Philip. He's a pirate that lives on their floor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I watched the discount version of the Witch. It has Black.
Speaker 3:Peter.
Speaker 1:instead 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 2:That's awesome, isn't that so awesome? He knew how to make the makeup look real. I knew how to make them explode.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Jesus Christ, my brain doesn't work. My headphones are freaking out.
Speaker 1:I'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 1:Secondly, 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 2:Interesting.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:I 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 1:It's crazy. Every time and there's an explosion, it's just, it's just red flames. It's like what? Why did?
Speaker 2:I say it like that A lot of explosions.
Speaker 1:So 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 1:Charlize 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 3:am I here, probably driving, that's all there's.
Speaker 1:We'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 2:And then there's some weird ass people on stilts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the wasteland, the green land, are they?
Speaker 2:creatures? What are you doing, Miller?
Speaker 1:They're just people scouring what was once the Greenland. I guess I'm assuming that's what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2:I thought maybe they were trying to make it look like they were some weird abomination.
Speaker 1:They were trying to like I'm also birds.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:So 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 3:Oh, you do, I'm doing the Leonardo DiCaprio thing.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey, hey, hey, I know that guy. Like when they say the name of a movie in the movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah. 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 3:big Like I just can't talk.
Speaker 1:I don't understand.
Speaker 3:Maybe your brain goes faster Than your tongue can go. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:It's drugs, but then there's.
Speaker 3:Someone in the face with the spikes.
Speaker 2:And 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 1:That's eventually where meth's going to go. It's just going to go into a spray bottle.
Speaker 3:Oh, 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 3:He 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 1:That's silly. No, it wasn't. Have y'all seen Thunderdome Beyond the Thunderdome?
Speaker 3:I had the collection and then I've lost it somehow.
Speaker 1:You know what I find interesting? The Mad Max trilogy is very similar to the Star Wars trilogy.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, all over the place.
Speaker 1:Because 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 3:It 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 1:Well, 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 2:going on here.
Speaker 1:I'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 1:This 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.
Speaker 1:Oh, 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 2:Yeah, dude, he's 6'11". Yeah, oh that guy. Yeah, he's huge, it's awesome.
Speaker 1:You have Rosie Huntington. Wheatley Whiteley Is the Splendid Angra Hard right, Is that how you say her name? Yeah.
Speaker 2:She's the pregnant one.
Speaker 1:You have Riley Keough who plays Capable, Abby Lee plays the Dag.
Speaker 2:The what you like dags Dag.
Speaker 1:Dag the D-A-G, that's how it is. And then Courtney Eaton Cheeto the Fragile.
Speaker 2:Cheeto yeah.
Speaker 1:Cheeto 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 2:Yeah, I feel like it's gonna be a better one to do alright, so we're gonna hop into the film.
Speaker 1:Buckle up, baby, do you get?
Speaker 2:it because they're in cars buckle up, go buttercup. They don't wear seatbelts they have.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 3:huh, is this movie r?
Speaker 1:yeah, 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 3:I 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 3:I mean, it's definitely arcs, there's blood and stuff in it, but it it's not over-the-top super gory.
Speaker 2:They'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 3:There'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 1:Well, R cars would disagree.
Speaker 2:I'd love to see you bring yourself how many of my fallen brethren down, brethren, brethren, yeah, brethren.
Speaker 1:So do you think, after Mad Max is when the car series starts?
Speaker 3:oh, they start talking, no that's the Stephen King movie, whatever it's called, maximum Overdrive. Yeah, we gotta do that one.
Speaker 2:I wish that they would remake that movie. I don't know, it'd probably be terrible I hope they do it.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:I could go on forever doing that that's what is self-realization as a car.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:We 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 1:Well, I think that Because the original one, his daughter gets ran over.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 1:Well, 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 3:Then Jeff Probst walks out Survivor Mad Max. Fury Road Edition.
Speaker 1:He 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 2:I saw that. That that was the only thing. I don't remember the other things on it.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 1:I wish my blood was high-octane oh man, that would be cool.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:That's what it says, all right.
Speaker 1:Who had the taste of piss. I guess it just wasn't bleeding.
Speaker 3:I feel like that's probably a good thing. He's like O negative.
Speaker 2:I don't know, bro, I guess they have blood tests.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:So 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 3:Do you know what I mean by saying that? Like, I feel like it's fast.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:It's like they filmed the scene and he just added slightly bit of speed to it. Yeah, like speed ramped it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where he slows it way down, then he ramps up the speed and then slows it right back down.
Speaker 3:No 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 2:you 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 3:Yeah, no, this one she's just like running and trying to avoid everything.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:giant things. Do you think they're? Do they say word magmatics, taste place Australia.
Speaker 1:I would just assume it's Australia, because everybody has Australian slang like schlanger.
Speaker 2:It's the best so, since he's a, universal blood donor.
Speaker 1:He'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 2:It 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 3:they look so gross probably radiation, radiation, their skin's just boiling, I'm sure there's no ozone anymore.
Speaker 1:I love seeing little things like that of SPF 200.
Speaker 3:It 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 1:So 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 2:We see that joe controls. Dudes are holding like wicker baskets trying to catch water.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:I 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 1:This is what we need to survive. You can't even go three days without a Joe. He doesn't care.
Speaker 2:They all have this also super dehydrated like dirty. Nux's lips are just crud.
Speaker 1:It's the hardest thing to watch in the entire movie.
Speaker 1:It'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 1:But then he realized that they're all gone. I wish Miss.
Speaker 2:Getty would have popped him. Yeah, I think that would have been the movie worse.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, well it's the one thing the older lady like with the gun at the beginning.
Speaker 3:I can't believe she did not. It's like how do you?
Speaker 1:just 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 3:I just think.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you'd probably say that oh my.
Speaker 1:God. Well, and then I was thinking because isn't there a character called Mother's Milk in that show?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Mother'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 2:Yeah, and he's like all. He's got some kind of cancer. Like how do they make these war boys All?
Speaker 1:the 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 2:That's how I figure it Like. This is all the people that he produced babies.
Speaker 1:Like 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 2:This town's the Citadel's commodity, cause he's got bullet town and gas town.
Speaker 1:His thing is a water plantation. Even with his water.
Speaker 3:He 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 1:Yeah, water pretty darn good, you know.
Speaker 3:It doesn't have like sludge in it.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Yes, he's got a lot of little faces. He's in my mates Larry and Barry.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:I don't know Like the Hannibal mask, yeah.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:It's wild.
Speaker 1:It's just so freaking rad.
Speaker 3:It just looks good too. It doesn't go over the top with things. He nailed it perfectly on what he wanted.
Speaker 2:I think there is no top to go over in this movie, because everything is so over the top.
Speaker 3:Well, there's a point where you go too over it and you're like I don't feel it as well.
Speaker 1:This 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 2:I accept it, guitar is also a flamethrower.
Speaker 3:It'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 2:Yeah 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 3:I 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 2:Yeah, it's like a whole band.
Speaker 3:It's so rad it's so like just I couldn't think of that type of concept and to see them have it.
Speaker 1:It's like that's amazing it's like why did we not have this in every movie already?
Speaker 3:Hulkapostalistic movies. Y'all need to step your game up. Yeah, for real.
Speaker 1:So, 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 1:We also get to start seeing war boys spray the stuff on their mouth and start yelling.
Speaker 2:Witness me.
Speaker 1:We're seeing more world building. They're doing stuff with their hands. It's almost like little symbols Essentially the steering wheel symbol.
Speaker 3:Like the steering wheel kind of like was like a sacred item when he was grabbing it, which was really cool.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:Stuff that they don't mention. But you see like, oh, I understand what was going on.
Speaker 1:Didn't need it all explained.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Yeah, they bring up V8. A lot Like V8 is a part of their I don't know ritual or whatever in some way.
Speaker 3:It'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 2:They even say uh, mcfeasting and valhalla, yeah, if you watch it with the captions to make feasting, and that's awesome mcfeasting.
Speaker 3:Is that like mcdonald's?
Speaker 1:yeah, 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 2:I mean no matter.
Speaker 1:And 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 3:I 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 1:It will let you you see the whole crash. It doesn't like cut away to it or anything.
Speaker 3:It just looks beautiful and it's slow-mo.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:They're real cars. They're men cars, not people with Priuses. Stop cars, not people with Priuses.
Speaker 1:Stop. 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 2:That, 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 1:Especially 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 1:She'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 2:And they're the only people not covered in shit. I just like, also like uh, uh.
Speaker 3:Nux is like not well his little fight with uh Max just with the chain yeah you're taking advantage of it, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know, does this seem?
Speaker 1:cool yeah, it's so awesome.
Speaker 3:I die, I die, I live, I die, I live again yeah it's so good it's so freaking good.
Speaker 1:I'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 2:It'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 3:There'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 1:He'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 3:Yeah, I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1:Well, he does fill it up with some gas too, maybe just get.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:So he's like trying to pound back into the car, he pops the flare and he grabs it yeah.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:is there gonna be like a trail that?
Speaker 1:ignites, it goes, it blows them up.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I was hoping it would.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:There was so much happening, especially because, if you didn't, see this in theaters.
Speaker 1:Like man you missed out man that was such a good movie to see.
Speaker 2:It was amazing. Yeah, I missed out. We're all looking at you.
Speaker 1:Jason, 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 2:I was like this is cinema.
Speaker 1:This is beautiful.
Speaker 2:More movies.
Speaker 1:I 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 3:I know Nux is going to be a good guy eventually. I didn't.
Speaker 1:I 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 1:So 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 1:Expressive 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 2:He works his eyes, they draw more attention to his face.
Speaker 1:This 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 2:Just need to put the mouth on this side, Like I know what he's about to say if his eyes open wide.
Speaker 3:But he's not. That I can't get over it.
Speaker 1:Max. 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 2:Yeah, yeah, it's just funny because they're always doing it so easily.
Speaker 1:I'm like this is impossible you can't do this.
Speaker 3:There's no way. The chain has obviously been irradiated and it's weakened.
Speaker 1:That's true. Everybody has the strength of the Incredible Hulk Just because they're women.
Speaker 3:Jesse doesn't mean they're not strong enough, that's true.
Speaker 2:It's all that mother's milk they've been drinking. It's so strong.
Speaker 1:But 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 3:And then yeah, that's how it always works. Shows how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Or did Godzilla win the first match I?
Speaker 3:can't remember Just fuck me.
Speaker 2:I guess Just fuck me, I don't care I feel like if Godzilla wins a match, then the other thing is dead.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's how.
Speaker 1:Godzilla 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 1:That 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 1:I 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 2:This 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 3:Yeah, 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 1:Oh 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 2:And then they don't help him. Yeah, he doesn't trust them.
Speaker 1:Well, help him. Yeah, he doesn't trust him.
Speaker 2:Well, they just give him a little file and he just takes a file at all.
Speaker 1:That 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 2:I love how many guns there are.
Speaker 3:He just knows where to look too.
Speaker 1:He'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 3:They eat slang I love it, love it Every single time out of her mouth.
Speaker 1:The way Australian speak. It's just great. I love their slang. It seemed like a cool group of people.
Speaker 2:They are speak. It's just great. I love their slang. Uh seem like a cool group of people.
Speaker 1:They are cool and if they give you shit, that means they like you. Yeah, that's just. I just kind of like american.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:He 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 2:Hell yeah, everything's a weapon.
Speaker 1:She's always like she's always this guy, she's got one little.
Speaker 2:She had that one gun on the side outside yeah, they got.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was in the skulls it's so cool so some of the skulls have fucking bombs in them yeah
Speaker 2:yeah, 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 1:That's why the girls want out mcfeast.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:well, 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 2:Universally. I did forget, like on Dakota's.
Speaker 1:Facebook 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 3:I 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 1:Well, 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 2:I love it. It's everything I want in film.
Speaker 1:So, 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 1:Yeah, 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 3:He 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 1:He 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 2:What'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 1:It'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 2:You know he's got the nipples.
Speaker 1:Great, 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 3:Like 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 1:Fear 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 2:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 3:You won't shoot me.
Speaker 1:Also, 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 2:Screw you, we don't care about this. And so they're going after them.
Speaker 1:and 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 3:I love that whole set of that scene, just like being epic and stuff. And then he just fails completely.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because I felt it like later when he's sitting there like ugh.
Speaker 2:They 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 1:Give 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 1:Like, 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 2:I know she's thought of everything. Yeah, furiosa is cool.
Speaker 1:And then this is also where we get the 3 3,000 gallons of gasoline exploding and it looks beautiful.
Speaker 2:It really pisses off the bikers, though. Yep, that's when they stop following.
Speaker 3:After 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 1:So 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 2:It's not supposed to be like that.
Speaker 1:And 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 3:He'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 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And 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 1:So 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 1:She'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 2:Yes, like.
Speaker 1:Larry and Barry and it's like, oh, that sucks, they're all about to die.
Speaker 2:That's cute.
Speaker 1:All 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 3:I want to know what do y'all think about visually, how the night scenes look, because of like the blue, overly blue, tone.
Speaker 1:Yeah 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 3:I like it, I love it looks really cool.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:It's kind of given the idea that the entire place is lit up.
Speaker 1:Us just starlight the nighttime makes me think that this could just have been a graphic novel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because how visually pleased. Everything was visually pleasing yeah.
Speaker 1:Just 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 3:Okay, I think it's just a bullet farmer.
Speaker 2:It'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 1:I can check real quick. Give me once again.
Speaker 2:He loves bullets. He eats them literally, yeah, he like pulled one out of his tooth Like bullet tooth Tony.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that would be hilarious. Hey, old bullet to Tony.
Speaker 1:They 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 2:Organic mechanic.
Speaker 1:Organic 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 2:Perfect in every way.
Speaker 1:Rictus 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 1:But 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 3:Flight of the Valkyries.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's what it was. Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 2:He's got those big long pistols with the huge barrels like the Joker.
Speaker 1:Yeah. 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 3:Joe 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 1:He's like at least I got this redhead girl.
Speaker 2:She seems down to clown. Yeah, it's got to be reason to live.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:Like whose blood is that it's?
Speaker 1:like it's not his blood. He's like what's this mother's milk? And just's not his blood.
Speaker 2:He'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 1:I think that's the only viable food they have, so can we not use it? With your bloody face, yeah.
Speaker 3:They're still going to drink it. It's still just one of those. A whole little party.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he takes a huge thing of gasoline and everything.
Speaker 2:And does he come back with his boot that got taken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, it's just like. You can put it together in your imagination.
Speaker 1:It's like the one thing, this movie leaves to your imagination.
Speaker 3:Because 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 1:We 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 2:Greenland Greenplace yeah, the Greenland Green Place. Yeah To the Citadel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Furiosa the Volvulini. Yeah See, I was trying not to say that, but now that you came here, and said Volvulini.
Speaker 3:Now 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 1:I 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 3:Essentially, what does it say? She has the green in her eyes or something. Yeah, something like that, um they.
Speaker 1:Then 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 2:I 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 1:They have to, which?
Speaker 2:I love it, but in black and white they have to, which I love it. But I like what they did with Sin City.
Speaker 1:They 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 2:It just looks so beautiful.
Speaker 1:But yeah. So she's all like sad and whatnot, because everything she lived for is gone.
Speaker 3:You know, get over it. She's all like sad and whatnot because, uh, everything she lived for is gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:I'm not going to make it y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:She's got to freaking fry out there, and you know what's great for the heat A warm glass of milk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 1:And 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 3:I 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 1:You 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 2:Yeah, they left the oven on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I also want to know how they have that much gas to carry around.
Speaker 2:Well, they had that like 300.
Speaker 1:It exploded, though what was left in?
Speaker 2:the semi-truck that could have just like Diesel into some dirt bikes. Yeah, I don't know man.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:I 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 1:Because Nux is doing it and it's like, ah, that looks rad.
Speaker 3:Well, they're all about like octane like oh, that'd make me more.
Speaker 1:Because 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 1:Before 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 1:We 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 3:That'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 1:It's a naval battle yeah, so the.
Speaker 2:If they would have had broadside cannons or something that would be fucking crazy.
Speaker 3:I would have loved that it would have made so sense for one of them to have it.
Speaker 1:And 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 3:there it's not as like, very like, graphically gory.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:is this also like the scene where he like does that?
Speaker 1:yeah, 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 2:I thought it. There's a little bit of supernatural stuff all throughout. Yeah, just here and there, because he's insane.
Speaker 1:He'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 2:And that's the whole point of it, that's cool.
Speaker 3:Did you play Metal Gear Solid 5?
Speaker 1:No, I own it. I have it downloaded.
Speaker 3:So 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 1:Tom Hardy could totally play.
Speaker 3:Because he doesn't talk a lot in the fifth one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just mumbles. Yeah, I was like this is perfect role for him. Yeah, that'd be perfect, do it somebody.
Speaker 3:We have the Oscar Isaac film that's still not moved anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:The 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 1:He'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 2:I love all of these sentences. You're saying it's insane.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:Because, 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 3:I 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:I 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 1:He'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 2:yeah, the chain just like rips his face away oh, so good, I love it.
Speaker 3:I didn't expect it and, like Nux, can't believe.
Speaker 1:Nux 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 3:I love that like slow-mo of it too.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, so I really loved his character yeah, he's a great little arc right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, everybody's got a perfect little character, moved his career some I don't know.
Speaker 1:Honestly, 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 3:He'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 1:yeah, 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 3:Is he Lex Luthor now?
Speaker 1:I 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 3:Yeah, because it wasn't inflating. I think is what he said.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:Not energy.
Speaker 1:Energy. 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 2:He 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 1:My 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 2:Why does Max have to leave?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's just what he does. He doesn't belong.
Speaker 2:But he's a survivor and this is the best place to live.
Speaker 3:It's probably because anywhere he goes, something happens, Bad things happen Well he's so.
Speaker 1:the 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 3:Where is he going to go?
Speaker 1:His home was destroyed in Mad Max 1.
Speaker 2:He just goes around the corner and just kind of hangs out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just like. Actually I'm just going to get facial reconstruction, I won't even know who.
Speaker 3:I am, I'll come back when you guys have stuff planted more.
Speaker 1:And it's worth it. I don't feel like doing that work Once. This place is amazing. I will come back.
Speaker 2:It's already full of little powder boys. How much better can it be?
Speaker 3:We 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 1:I also think that it's kind of one of those things where an army needs a leader.
Speaker 2:Their leader died Just showed up at the previous leader's corpse, I guess since you killed him now you're.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:Masterpiece, one of the best movies to ever be made, ever.
Speaker 1:So unexpecting, but amazing.
Speaker 2:This is fucking incredible, can't wait for Furiosa. The Legend of Furiosa, whatever it's called. Yeah, they got great reviews.
Speaker 3:I'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 2:Do you think it's as insane?
Speaker 3:No, I don't think it's going to be on that level.
Speaker 1:Probably going to be more story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it had a little bit more like CGI to it, which is probably going to focus more on Furiosa's story.
Speaker 2:That's just trailers though. I love how it was Chris Hemsworth right. Yeah, his voice is awesome. I love that.
Speaker 3:We're getting Chris Hemsworth's Australian accent voice, his normal voice is supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Have we ever heard it?
Speaker 2:in a movie?
Speaker 1:No, it's always been an American accent. I'm so excited to get some of that Australian Hemsworth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:Oh really, that's what it looks like to me.
Speaker 1:Might 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 3:It'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 2:Oh fuck.
Speaker 3:I don't exactly remember what it was.
Speaker 2:He's going, bruce Willis on us.
Speaker 3:Oh, Nicholas Holt is Lex Luthor.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 2:Good, I like a lot of the character transformations. I thought they were really fucking cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And just like the giant set pieces and all the book explosions yeah, exactly fighting and what about you, dakota?
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Yeah, and I don't know, and it's like sylvester sloan is in the truck driver doing his weights huh over the top.
Speaker 3:He's an arm wrestler okay not over the top reference.
Speaker 1:Please continue. It's a truck driver arm wrestling I also would say it feels like.
Speaker 3:It'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 1:It'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 2:But 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 1:I 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 3:Well then, john Wick would finally go in there for something. Yeah, alright, let's move to the bad. Most brains exploded.
Speaker 1:Something 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 3:I 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 2:That's really my only few complaints. Anything for you? Any bad? No, no, not really. I like everything.
Speaker 1:The 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 3:She'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 1:One's all right. So now we're going to go to the ugly, which is something that didn't age well.
Speaker 3:Really, 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 1:I 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 2:But yeah, if something didn't age.
Speaker 1:well, 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 3:Yeah, watch out for giant worms. Yeah, you never know. They're filming.
Speaker 2:Dune right next to us, there might be a dune worm, a tremor worm.
Speaker 1:There's so many worms. There might be a beetle juice worm out in the desert. You never know.
Speaker 2:Oh shit.
Speaker 1:Alright, now we're going to go to the find Something that aged well.
Speaker 2:These fucking cars. Yeah, cars are rad there's a lot of classic cars.
Speaker 1:Cars 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 1:And it's like why do we give them this huge of a budget, like they've only done like one thing?
Speaker 3:To be fair, George Miller's filmography before this would not lead me to think he was going to make a good movie.
Speaker 1:Well, he just had to take some jobs to just make some money.
Speaker 2:As long as he's crying.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:It's a post-apocalyptic world.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:The 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 1:It gets crazy. The older ones are even crazier the titles and that.
Speaker 2:Immediately 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Seeing all the actors just doing different stuff. Yeah, it's neat. What do you?
Speaker 3:got 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 2:Yeah, watch is, uh is the return of the living dead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 3:It'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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Uh, 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 1:Well, anytime I think of anything else post-apocalyptic like I want something, though.
Speaker 3:That's like because this movie to me is fun and just over the top. You know, I have to say hi.
Speaker 1:Post-apocalyptic movies need to make you put the rock on, and if they don't, then you really failed.
Speaker 2:What have you done?
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:It's like I love.
Speaker 1:Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim. Oh no, scott Pilgrim.
Speaker 3:Oh no, scott Pilgrim is my favorite, obviously, but Hot Fuzz is kind of a secret masterpiece in itself.
Speaker 2:It'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 3:It'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 1:Can'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 2:Fuck yeah.
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