I'm an easy mark for this kind of thing, but I loved watching it. The cast is phenomenal, the stage craft is incredible, the music rips along and the book is really well constructed with a lot of spinning plates that all mostly stay intact.
There's SO MUCH in this topic that it's easy for things to get overlooked - how America started treating anyone Muslim or vaguely Middle Eastern like shit is briefly shown but feels like it is…
Deeply weird film! It captures the painful awkwardness of computer science academia almost too well. Some of the more abstract stuff is interesting, and it has plenty of amusing moments, but overall this just doesn't entirely feel like it's for me - despite me being a software developer who likes movies.
Absolutely incomprehensible if you have not watched the 90s seasons of Twin Peaks.
Absolutely beautiful and horrific if you have seen Twin Peaks. And still slightly incomprehensible - as it should be.
Sheryl Lee's performance is astounding. What a gift.
This is not the singular, focused experience that is Fury Road, but it isn't meant to be.
From looking at Wikipedia, this Furiosa prequel was supposed to be shot back-to-back with Fury Road (derailed by the studios not paying Miller's company what they were owed!), and Charlize Theron read an early version of it to help inform her performance. So why did they do this as a prequel, and not just film the two in chronological order?
Because no one…
