I didn't know what to expect going into this movie. From what I had read and seen, I was concerned. I heard Anya Taylor Joy (ATJ) didn't appear until an hour in, and the CGI looked iffy. However, I was pleasantly surprised!! This is an incredible character driven action film. Knowing that George and Nick wrote this BEFORE FURY ROAD to develop Furiosa's character is even more bonkers. Chris Hemsworth is scary good as the psychopathic(?) or sociopathic war lord, Dementus. He lives up to his name and steals the show! The amount of character Furiosa has is quite impressive, and even more so when you learn she only has like 30 lines of dialogue. There is excellent visual storytelling, and my favorite sequence might be the Bullet Town section. Regarding the CGI, it looks weird, yeah, but I would argue it works because it is consistent throughout in its style. Really, the problem isn't the CGI itself, but the lighting mismatch from on the set and the background. It's weird but it works in its own way. I wonder how much was shot on one of those LED walls instead of a green screen, where they could fix more in post? I am positive it won't look as bizarre in the black and chrome edition.
How does it compare to fury road? The argument is kinda invalid, as they're wildly different movies. I just rewatched fury road after this one, and I have to say I appreciated and enjoyed fury road more this time around-not because I thought, "man, I wish they could have done THAT again," but because I knew Furiosa's character better. Much of my complaints before about Fury Road, and why I haven't rewatched it as many times as The Road Warrior, was the lack of character development. It's just driving from A to B, then back to A. Here we get to know Furiosa. We see how her brain works, how she survives. It was gutsy having the young her on screen for the first hour, but I think it was a great move. I liked her and Jack. And Jack was, I have to say, also really hot. I think it's the makeup with the upper half of his face being covered in black oil(?). It definitely added to his character and costume. Same with Furiosa. Without her makeup, I would have felt like I was just watching ATJ in Furiosa cosplay.
I'm sad this film isn't doing as well in the box office. I don't think it's because it's a female lead, I think it's because it's an origin story. Also the marketing didn't do the film justice. It "showed the whole movie" while simultaneously painting a different picture of what to expect with the movie. I would like to look more into what happened there.
In conclusion, Chris Hemsworth is scary and steals the show, the storytelling has guts of steel, the 2.5 hour runtime passes rather quickly, and I enjoy fury road even more now after seeing this: because this adds to the lore and builds the characters in ways which that film was unable to. I mean, it's 30 minutes longer and spans much more than the course of, what, 36 hours? Sure, it "could have been better" I guess. I think we first see Immortan Joe in just a standard closeup, as opposed to his bad ass intro in Fury Road. But, I mean, these are tiny details that enhance an already great story. Don't complain about CGI, complain to Disney for oversaturating the industry with unnecessary VFX, and support the unionization of VFX artists! Sorry that I threw that message in last minute, but I just can't stand people complaining about CGI when we as a community can actually do something about it!
8.6/10 Solid ending btw. I like the mythological aspect of it. Voiceover surprisingly worked. I also enjoyed George's other film, Three Thousand Years of Longing. I can definitely see how that film influenced this one. He's such a great artist.
How does it compare to fury road? The argument is kinda invalid, as they're wildly different movies. I just rewatched fury road after this one, and I have to say I appreciated and enjoyed fury road more this time around-not because I thought, "man, I wish they could have done THAT again," but because I knew Furiosa's character better. Much of my complaints before about Fury Road, and why I haven't rewatched it as many times as The Road Warrior, was the lack of character development. It's just driving from A to B, then back to A. Here we get to know Furiosa. We see how her brain works, how she survives. It was gutsy having the young her on screen for the first hour, but I think it was a great move. I liked her and Jack. And Jack was, I have to say, also really hot. I think it's the makeup with the upper half of his face being covered in black oil(?). It definitely added to his character and costume. Same with Furiosa. Without her makeup, I would have felt like I was just watching ATJ in Furiosa cosplay.
I'm sad this film isn't doing as well in the box office. I don't think it's because it's a female lead, I think it's because it's an origin story. Also the marketing didn't do the film justice. It "showed the whole movie" while simultaneously painting a different picture of what to expect with the movie. I would like to look more into what happened there.
In conclusion, Chris Hemsworth is scary and steals the show, the storytelling has guts of steel, the 2.5 hour runtime passes rather quickly, and I enjoy fury road even more now after seeing this: because this adds to the lore and builds the characters in ways which that film was unable to. I mean, it's 30 minutes longer and spans much more than the course of, what, 36 hours? Sure, it "could have been better" I guess. I think we first see Immortan Joe in just a standard closeup, as opposed to his bad ass intro in Fury Road. But, I mean, these are tiny details that enhance an already great story. Don't complain about CGI, complain to Disney for oversaturating the industry with unnecessary VFX, and support the unionization of VFX artists! Sorry that I threw that message in last minute, but I just can't stand people complaining about CGI when we as a community can actually do something about it!
8.6/10 Solid ending btw. I like the mythological aspect of it. Voiceover surprisingly worked. I also enjoyed George's other film, Three Thousand Years of Longing. I can definitely see how that film influenced this one. He's such a great artist.
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