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Mad Max: Fury Road
I'm mad that I saw "Mad Max: Fury Road." A complete waste of my valuable time. But here's the good news: I ate an AMC hotdog with meat and bun with ketchup and mustard. It was delicious and messy. The ketchup spilled over the side of the bun and soaked the napkin. I hate it when that happens.
Please don't tell Monique H. that I ate that dog.
I think this movie is a pseudo re-make of the 1979 movie entitled "Mad Max" starring Mel Gibson. I'm also pretty confident that there were some ugly-looking bad guys and some not-very-handsome good guys covered in dirt that were fighting over a desert wasteland and water is at a premium.
Tom Hardy starred as the macho Max Rockastansky who is a "man of few words" and a long pistol and is trying to bring order in a brutal, dystopian world of chaos. Charlize Theron plays Imperator Furiosa who is a rebel fighting goblins in order to get back to her childhood homeland. I didn't care if they had water or went swimming in the sand dunes. The movie was loud and obnoxious.
Admittedly, the special effects and cinematography were first class, but I simply did not enjoy the film and almost non-stop action. Monique H. will like Furiosa, though, because she kicked butt and took names. And beat up some bad dudes.
Director and writer George Miller, 70, is from Australia and shot this in Namib Desert, Namibia. Beautiful sand. Miller knows Mad Max; he was the director/writer and producer of the original Mad Max and several versions thereafter -- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Enough already. Miller also directed and co-wrote "Happy Feet" (2006) so the man's got talent. But then five years later, he did "Happy Feet Two." Oh well.
This is reportedly a $100 million movie. I wouldn't give you a plug nickel for it. It made me sleepy. Rock 'n Roll.
Grade 69. Larry H.