I appreciated ‘Fury Road’ on many levels, however, if I’m being completely honest, the actual experience of watching it really stresses me the fuck out. I get that’s kind of the point to some extent, but my internal Barbara Bush can at times wonder why I should ‘waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'
‘Furiosa’ was everything I appreciated about ‘Fury Road,’ but a lot more fun in every possible way.
It vaguely recalls the difference in watch experience…
In the first few moments I literally exclaimed “Holy shit!”
It’s incredibly refreshing when you get to see a film where the director was able to just absolutely go for it.
I saw this when I was much younger and was mostly just interested in the “naked ladies” and felt like everything else was just weird and whatever, but this view made so much more sense with much of the alchemical symbolism and commentary on the spiritual corruption of religion…
I really want to get into Miyazaki so I can stop just nodding along and pretending to know what everyone’s talking about... ‘Spirited Away’ seemed like the most obvious starting point and was good enough that I’m definitely still holding out hope, but I simply didn’t connect to this one for some reason.
Maybe it was bad timing and I was too distracted or perhaps I just need to read up a little for more context and start somewhere else…
‘Wonka’ had me pondering some of life’s deepest questions like “who exactly likes these kinds of movies?” and “why am I so dumb and not realize this would obviously be a musical?”
I Love movies and I Love music, but the twain shall never meet (except in incredibly rare cases such as the original ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and maybe ‘Moulin Rouge’).
Timothée Chalamet was somewhat less stiff and better-suited for the role than the trailer left me expecting.…
