So, a while ago, I mentioned the preview for the new Mad Max movie. I said something along the lines of "Wow, doesn't this movie look like a piece of shit!"
I stand by that opinion.
Come on; how can you possibly say this doesn't look like a piece of shit? A stupid, ridiculous, idiotic piece of shit.
However, saying a preview looks like a piece of shit is not the same as saying a movie is a piece of shit. And today, someone pointed me to this review:
They ain't Dave & Marg, but then, who is?
Now, I'm sure you can find YouTube videos with people praising every movie under the sun if you look hard enough. Hell, I'm sure even the fucking Transformers movies have their fans. They'd have to, considering how much fucking money they've made. Also, when they said the film was one big non-stop chase-sequence, I thought, "Oh, I was right". However; by the time we get to the end, it's not the fact that they praise the movie that impresses me, it's the specific points of praise. Specifically, "it's nothing like fucking Transformers".
But also, "amazing character-development achieved through character-actions and not expository dialogue", "everything that happens contributes something to the story and carries an emotional weight", "attention to detail & lived in universe", "felt completely invested for the first time in a long time".
I have to say, it sounds kind of wonderful. The only question is whether or not I can justify the bother and expense of going to see it at the cinema. I don't think so, but maybe. Do you know anyone who's seen it?
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Also, Melba, I'm hearing nothing but great things about the Daredevil series from Netflix, so if P's still into all things Marvel heroes, she could probably do a lot worse than checking that one out.
If she does, let me know how it goes, won't you? Not that I'm likely to watch it any time soon, but I might squirrel it away for "down the track".
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I've heard Mad Max is really really good and Clokes and I are going to see it. So I'll come back and report, but it might be a while. (He got a Gold Class coupla tickets from work or for his birthday, so we usually wait for something kind of big or good to go to the cinema. I can't stand the cinema really any more, and GC is only better because you are further away from people. I have a problem with crowds, getting worse. Not claustrophobia but maybe it is a bit. Need my space, but it's more psychological than physical I think.)
Never saw the last one - not very tempted to see this one. Don't know why
Melbs, don't you hate the allocated seating in cinemas. Ticks me right off
I am also fed up with the cinema. I'm friendly with / did work for a bloke who used to be with one of the local places, and he would take me to any movie I wanted to see for free (we have similar tastes). Even towards the end of that arrangement I wasn't going that much. I just prefer watching things at home.
I also don't like crowds, but I don't think it's anything like claustrophobia; more like agoraphobia or social-phobia, or grumpyoldcuntitis. Most of the time I feel like I just want to stay under my rock and be left alone.
Anyway, I hope you have a good time, and I look forward to hearing your report.
What is allocated seating Squib? Do cinemas make you sit in a particular seat these days? If so, it sounds fuckin' crap.
That's it: grumpyoldcuntitis. It's intolerance for the people of the world I think.
Some sessions have allocated seating, but most don't seem to. Which is cool.
I liked Mad Max, and Mad Max 2 and 3 pretty sure I thought ok, except if 3 was Beyond Thunderdome with Tina Turner (can't be bothered looking up) then that was pretty crap.
Apparently this is wowing people - not critics, lay people - especially women of how tough the women are, how action-womany, and how Max almost seems redundant. MRA groups are moaning that it's feminist propaganda and that they won't see it, blah de blah. But more secure men, men who like women, say they think it's pretty amazing too. I wasn't going to see it until I read all this commentary around it. I don't think it's industry hype because it's coming from people on my facebook, women like me, older, who wouldn't have considered it, are now saying they defo are going to see it and can't wait. Charlize Theron is an amputee in it, and kick arse apparently. And apparently most of the stunts and landscapes/settings aren't CGI, and so it's beautifully shot and realised, which also attracts me.
I usually prefer to be at home as well - what nesters we've all become, our generation. But anyway, we go maybe once a year to the cinema and it's a novelty now.
OK i've had a look at the trailer, it does look like shit. Maybe it's a shit trailer, maybe it's a shit movie. I'll let you know.
At this point I'm thinking (hoping) it's just a shit trailer.
Also, yes, Mad Max 3 was Beyond Thunderdome, with Tina Turner.
Almost all the points you mention are in that review video I posted. Max is not the focus of the story, and that's a good thing; minimal CGI — real stunts and scenery look great; and also the whingey upset men. Apparently there are characters in the movie that are escaped sex slaves, and the director brought in some quasi-famous woman to help the actresses mentally prepare, or something — and a lot of men are upset about that for some reason; fuck, it beats me.
The only thing that gives me pause is that you say a lot of this praise is coming from women on FaceBook who are going to see it, not who have already seen it. There's just that little voice of doubt that won't leave me alone.
We had allocated seating in WA and it's the same here. It all began with tickets online. The idea being that you could buy a ticket online and be guaranteed a particular seat no matter how late you are. I hate late people! This meant people not buying online tickets ALSO had to have allocated seats. So you end up crowded together in random parts of the cinema because allocated seating works by some fucked up algorithm
That sounds even worse than I imagined, Squib. I'm happy not to have experienced it. Hmmph — businesses and their bloody algorithms. If cinemas want to stay alive, I don't think that's the right way to go about it.
Melbs, did you go over weekend? I'm guessing not.
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