Its been a while since I last posted as I have been very very busy, but that doesn't mean I haven't been going to the movies. I have seen a few things recently, so there will be a few posts today. At the end of May I finished my last papers and celebrated by doing a double feature. I saw Mad Max and Tomorrowland, so we will first talk about Mad Max.
Mad Max Fury Road was INSANE! It is an adrenaline rush from beginning to end and was just spectacular. The best way to describe what this movie is as a two hour violent car chase. If you haven't seen this movie DO IT NOW! Stop reading this and go. Seriously. You can come back and finish reading this later. See Mad Max Fury Road.
Now to talk about the performances. Every actor was great in this movie, but the two leads were amazing. Even Rosie Huntington-Whiteley of Transformers: Dark of the Moon infamy was really good and believable. But the two stars of this movie were Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as Furiosa. Hardy's lines were few and far between, but each one progressed the story and were important. he had no wasted moments or screen time. Theron stole the show though. She was spectacular. She was so good and the movie was really hers. She kicked major ass and you rooted for her to succeed.
The most impressive part of this movie was the effects however. Most of the effects involving the cars were real. People were really jumping from car to car. Cars crashed. A guitar actually had a flamethrower on the end of it. There were moments were I thought some of the effects were digital when in fact they were real. It was great to see a movie push the limits of practical effects and show that practical effects are still usable and that they look just as good and if not better than digital effects. It was awesome. I don't know what else to say about this movie. It was almost perfect and I cannot use more words than INSANE to describe it. You have to see it to understand. I give this a 5/5 and it is currently one of my favorite movies of the year. SO SO SO GOOD!
Now for Tomorrowland. This was a completely different movie than Mad Max. I was really excited to see this movie. Based on the advertising, I thought it would be a sci-fi mystery adventure. And it was exactly that for the first half of the movie. The three main characters, Casey (Brit Robinson), Frank (George Clooney), and Athena (Raffey Cassidy), were well developed and interesting. I wanted to know more about them and the mystery surrounding them and Tomorrowland was captivating. But the movie looses it in the third act. The climax was lame and the payoff of the main mystery was a dud. During the whole movie we kept hearing that Casey was special. We saw she is a tech genius and brilliant. She is a strong female character that can take care of herself. We kept being told that Casey can save the world and that she is the only one that can do it. How does that pay off? She blows up the machine killing all hope by using a grenade. It was not inventive. I was waiting and waiting for a spectacular reveal and finish, but it was a complete failure of an ending.
The movie was beautiful. This film used a lot of digital effects and they were prefect. Everything looked real and I was completely into the beautiful futuristic world of Tomorrowland. I would go there. It was so cool looking.
Overall, this is definitely a children's movie. I wish it had been advertised better as that. Instead, I thought that it was a more mature movie on the level of a Young Adult movie, but it was definitely a tweener or children's movie. As the first two acts went on I thought it looked beautiful and the passing was very good and I was excited to see the story resolve. But the lackluster third act and the waste of the setup of Casey's importance really soured this movie for me. There was potential and there still is, but the end dropped the ball which lower's this films score. I give this movie a 3/5.
So my double feature was a mixed bag with two very different movies. Both were entertaining and should be seen by everyone. One was good. One was exceptional and may be one of the best action movies of all time. The main message of this post is to see Mad Max Fury Road. SEE IT!!!!!
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