Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-23 (Thursday)

In article <v2qik1$2e38c$1@dont-email.me>,
 Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (theatrical) Latest entry in the Mad Max
franchise. This is the 5th movie but it is a prequel to the 4th movie
and details the back story of Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy). The movie has
been getting rave reviews and absolutely lives up to the hype. I need
to watch part 4 again, but at this point this is either the best movie
in the franchise or the second best after 4. I suspect I'm going to
like 4 a bit more, but they definitely still knocked it out of the park
with this one. Visually it's pure eye candy and pretty much nonstop
action as the movie details how Furiosa came to live in the wasteland
and a war between Immortan Joe (the villain the last movie) and Dementus
(Chris Hemsworth) a new villain for this movie. Furiosa is caught in
the middle but makes the best of it. Plus she's got her own vengeance
quest going on too.

What I liked about the Charlize Theron movie is that the stunts and SFX
were almost all practical and used very little CGI. From the trailers,
this one looks like it did the opposite, which is disappointing.