Schreiber

I have now joined the ranks of People Who Have Seen Fury Road. Squigamunk & partner talked me into it, after we had Moved All The Things and also hit the Brunswick Diner one last time.
(Afterwards we had to explain to her that her plaintive question "But when will there be a Mad Max II? was technically moot, since this would nominally be like Mad Max 4 or something.)

Other people have reviewed this film already, and done it better and/or funnier than I could. But hey, what is LJ for if not telling people your
not-so-insightful thoughts on whatever crosses your mind?

But I'm gonna keep this brief.
1) Basically: MMFR is like you took a gender-switched version of Gay, Bejeweled Nazi Bikers of Gor and crashed it into the side of an element-switched version of Waterworld, and then pulled all the concept art out of an old file in Theodore Geisel's desk that modern art historians are now identifying as his Goth phase.*

2) This film features a...vehicle...where they basically welded the body of the General Lee onto some tank treads. (And then I think put in a race car engine or something.)
It is probably the most reasonable, practically-designed ride in this film.

3) I should really have foreseen that if they hang an instrument that is also a weapon and simultaneously also on fire on the wall in Act 1, somebody is going to take it down and have a three-way melee with it in Act V.


* Vernon's description of it as "basically the last half of Watership Down only with metal instead of rabbits" is better. I wish I'd though of that.