Can't wait. Gonna go to the theater for the first time in over four years for this movie.
The trailers have been a bit so-so (especially compared to the peerless second Fury Road trailer), but the universally great reviews have made me plan a trip.
Godzilla Minus One was pretty good. One of the best Godzilla movies and Godzilla is the only monster in it or maybe the other monster is man. Not woman though because women are perfect. Man though, man is bad.
So what made this movie good is that the human story was actually interesting and good. Usually there isn't a human story at all and if there is one is something dumb. Also Godzilla looked great and was true monster in this. Might be the best Godzilla we have ever seen.
Godzilla x Kong The New Empire was not good but I was entertained. There is so much dumb in this movie. The story was just dumb. Where does the light come from in hollow Earth? So they just have robot replacements parts to heal monsters on standby? Note that was dumb but I did like it in a dumb way but my eyes were seriously rolling at the dumb of it all.
Godzilla got really short changed. He is just there as background monster. Kong was interesting. A baby was used as a weapon which was fun. The movie makes red heads out to be evil. Kong free the slaves. A moth, a snake, a spider, and a dragon monster enter surface world and they step on a priest, a cowboy, and a ugly man. Paper Boy makes a joke out of it.
The movie was nonsense, complete nonsense.
So I say see both but bring a calculator. I hated the math in these movies. Frist I had to do subtraction then multiplication. In the next movie I'm going to have to do long division.
The movie makes red heads out to be evil.
So it's a factual movie. 
(I'm a ginger so I can say that)
So what made this movie good is that the human story was actually interesting and good.
The noise and chaos and destruction of the Godzilla bits did a nice job of evoking the emotional turmoil of the main character. I think the emotional resonance between the two halves of the movie elevated them both.
As for GxK... yup. Every positive review I've seen of the movie, including my own, has talked about how monumentally dumb it was. I do think the story held together better than the first GvK film, but only because they made it simpler; this time they knew trying to tell a Godzilla story and a Kong story in parallel was more than they could handle so they just told a Kong story where Godzilla showed up.
Godzilla has its most important event - they dye their hair bright pink. I assume this is to tell use Godzilla is a teenager in Titan's maturity cycle.
Having gestated on quite the year for the G man I love the fact that I got two movies that epitomise the two faces of Godzilla. A wonderful use of him as metaphor for the human world ala Godzilla (1954) and a end of the Showa era piece of insane nonsense in which Kaiju perform wrestling moves on each other. Long may both incarnations continue.
I can confirm that Furiosa slaps.
Oh damn, soooo looking forward to the streaming of that. ATJ is kind of going back to her B-movie action-horror roots with this one.
Unfortunately I doubt that George Miller has another movie in him. The king of the end-stage live action stunt movies. What a legacy he leaves.
I just hope Furiosa is still showing in IMAX first weekend of June, because that's when I can afford it.
Just watched Furiosa. I thought it was very good. It's difficult to compare anything to Fury Road, so I won't. It's a worthy addition to the franchise.
Gloriosa.
Welcome on set Mr Hemsworth you will find your motorcycle chariot over here and costume will be along to chain your teddy bear to your crotch shortly. Never change George.
Furiosa was good. It wasn't a next level action film like Fury Road, and wasn't trying to be. I was surprised at the talky climax instead of an action climax. It fit the movie, but wasn't what I was expecting.
Furiosa is not as good as two of literally the greatest films ever made. So it's the third best Mad Max movie.
Got tickets to catch Furiosa in Laser IMAX on Wednesday, will report back~
Furiosa was great, but I'm rewatching Fury Road now, and that movie is just a masterpiece. Such a different vibe. Super not a problem. Just crazy to go back to Fury Road. I wonder what the budget difference was...
So we watched all 5 Mad Max movies this weekend, including Furiosa, and here's my takeaways:
Mad Max is a weirdo 70s movie and it's huge popularity is inexplicable from this distance.
Mad Max 2 is great, definitely a proof of concept for Fury Road.
Thunderdome is a goddamn crime - there's barely any fighting in vehicles!
Fury Road is the best ever action movie ever made ever.
Furiosa is almost as good as Fury Road, the action sequences are on par, but it's a denser narrative.
Other observations -continuity between the movies very very loose.
I just thought Furiosa was just "ok" at best. None of the action felt as ground breaking as Fury Road, there was a lot of bloat.
It was a bit neat to see her as a young one but not really necessary. It just felt like many great follow ups - they gave more of the same but somehow it missed the magic.
I think the main thing to understand about Furiosa is that it is trying to be an episodic revenge drama and not an action film. At heart, I don't think it's not attempting to be a Mad Max film.
I think the main thing to understand about Furiosa is that it is trying to be an episodic revenge drama and not an action film. At heart, I don't think it's not attempting to be a Mad Max film.
And yet I think it's the Best* Mad Max film (or the best in the MADMAXVerse, if you will), as in, the one where the wasteland is more clearly presented and defined, with a villain that happens to be a true character with nuances and facets, and a clear storyline that involves more than a chase or a siege.
I could not ask for a better follow-up (or rather, a better "intro") for Fury Road than this Furiosa we got, I specially enjoyed the talky side of it. Fury Road is the ultimate action film, but Furiosa is one hell of a revenge movie. Here's hoping we get a chance for another rodeo on Miller's wasteland.
Other observations -continuity between the movies very very loose.
I've only seen Fury Road so I don't know how it plays out in that franchise specifically, but speaking generally, I love this approach to continuity in franchise films.
I first noticed it in the Fox X-Men films past a certain point. They just kind of stopped caring about maintaining a coherent timeline anytime doing so got in the way of the movie they wanted to make... and plenty of people noticed, but nobody really cared, and it was fine.
As long as a movie is internally consistent within itself, I'm perfectly happy if it makes no goddamn sense in context with what preceded it.
So we watched all 5 Mad Max movies this weekend, including Furiosa, and here's my takeaways:
Mad Max is a weirdo 70s movie and it's huge popularity is inexplicable from this distance.
Mad Max 2 is great, definitely a proof of concept for Fury Road.
Thunderdome is a goddamn crime - there's barely any fighting in vehicles!
Fury Road is the best ever action movie ever made ever.
Furiosa is almost as good as Fury Road, the action sequences are on par, but it's a denser narrative.
Other observations -continuity between the movies very very loose.
I think Miller has stated that he thinks of the Mad Max movies as wasteland fireside tales and they aren't meant to have much continuity.
Jonman wrote:Other observations -continuity between the movies very very loose.
I've only seen Fury Road so I don't know how it plays out in that franchise specifically, but speaking generally, I love this approach to continuity in franchise films.
I first noticed it in the Fox X-Men films past a certain point. They just kind of stopped caring about maintaining a coherent timeline anytime doing so got in the way of the movie they wanted to make... and plenty of people noticed, but nobody really cared, and it was fine.
As long as a movie is internally consistent within itself, I'm perfectly happy if it makes no goddamn sense in context with what preceded it.
I don't think First Class was intended to be set in the same universe as the previous movies, but then they tried to kinda force it with Days of Future Past. It doesn't make sense. I just consider those 2 series happening in alternate universes even if they have the same actors.
So we watched all 5 Mad Max movies this weekend, including Furiosa, and here's my takeaways...
I just finished a pre-Furiosa viewing of the series, too!
I think Kermode said it best in his Furiosa review: the original Mad Max was straight up grindhouse.
Mad Max 2 is definitely where Miller and his production team started to flex their design muscles.
What is this "Thunderdome" of which you speak? No such movie. NO SUCH MOVIE. LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
Fury Road is the best ever action movie ever made ever.
And I haven't seen Furiosa yet.
One thing I appreciate about the X-Men films' approach to continuity is if one of them looks like it's worth watching, I don't feel obligated to try and watch the dumb ones to get the context.
Conversely, even though the Infinity Saga is one of my favorite bodies of pop culture media ever, I have barely watched anything MCU after I missed Spider-Man: No Way Home. I watched Moon Knight and a couple episodes of Ms. Marvel but that's as far as I got.
I will admit that some of this is my problem. I don't really need to watch them all so much as I still want to.
Also some of that has to do with becoming a dad and having to spend a lot of time keeping a small human alive.
One thing I appreciate about the X-Men films' approach to continuity is if one of them looks like it's worth watching, I don't feel obligated to try and watch the dumb ones to get the context.
Conversely, even though the Infinity Saga is one of my favorite bodies of pop culture media ever, I have barely watched anything MCU after I missed Spider-Man: No Way Home. I watched Moon Knight and a couple episodes of Ms. Marvel but that's as far as I got.
I will admit that some of this is my problem. I don't really need to watch them all so much as I still want to.
Also some of that has to do with becoming a dad and having to spend a lot of time keeping a small human alive.
Hawkeye is worth watching if for nothing else Yelena (who is an MCU gem)
Hawkeye dropped shortly before I fell off the train. I did quite like that one.
Furiosa is not as good as two of literally the greatest films ever made. So it's the third best Mad Max movie.
What was the second best?
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