Fury Road

June 2nd, 2015 § 0 comments

(She did play one of the “Amazons.”) Wasn’t quite the blast from the past it was hyped as; I maintain that the Road Warrior is just about the perfect film. An economy of characters without names, and a story that truly didn’t need subtitles (it’d be helluva lot easier to novelize as a Little Golden Book than recent Disney features) nor, unlike both its 1985 sequel and this one, depend on all that world-building to tell it. And really, “over-the-top” doesn’t mean a thing anymore after Kung Fury. Still, it’s inspiring to see even a septuagenarian not tire from just imagining such on-screen energy, much less have to slow-mo every significant action sequence like Joss Whedon generously does for us mouth-breathers.

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