maybe I'm too therapy brained or maybe I'm too forgiving of men who spin a good sympathetic story, but apparently I'm the only person who didn't realize that Clark was faithfully recreating the way yelled at his wife the night they broke up and he might have yelled at her worse or even gotten physically abusive.
I really thought that he was yelling at his therapist because she specifically started a role play that would let him access these negative emotions and verbalize them in a controlled environment. I thought the night when they broke up the situation was similar but more muted.
now that I'm reading opinions of other people who watched it, it seems unanimous that it's the other way around: he was horrible to his wife and more restrained with his therapist
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I just watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and my favourite character is Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell, who is very gender
look at this fucking bisexual vampire, inventing goth in 1970
the movie is a rather infamous sexploitation flick, so it has its problematic moments and a lot of them have to do with Ronnie. At the end of the film it's revealed that they have breasts and uses "she" pronouns, so I 1000% assumed this person was a trans woman and finally transitioning from male to female. But! according to wikipedia the boob reveal was meant to show that Ronnie is AFAB and has been in male drag this whole time? very confusing
I think this movie falls in the same category as the Rocky Horror Picture Show or a lot of John Waters movies in the sense that I cannot truly say this is good queer representation, but it definitely IS queer, overtly and flamboyantly so.
maybe I'm weak minded, but I cannot be too angry about this movie's homophobia (and transphobia? deviating from ""normal"" gender presentation and roles is definitely the thing the villain does here) because the movie itself is so much fun and also literally everyone in it is insane, so why not throw in an evil lesbian seductress and this gender-confused diva who throws the best sex murder parties?
Ronnie is George from Paradise Kiss if he did a lot of cocaine and peyote at the same time and also was trans in either direction
I genuinely think Mad Mad: Fury Road is one of the best modern movies ever. I rarely ever like prequels/sequels to beloved 80's franchises and yet Fury Road had me thinking and talking about the themes and storytelling for literal years after the movie was out. I even got the soundtrack and played it constantly while driving.
So! That means I had insanely high expectations for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. I don't think I was ever going to be 100% happy with any origin story for Furiosa, as nothing can really beat the limitless potential of an untold story. I still tried to go to the theatre with an open mind. Alas I was disappointed.
My verdict: Mediocre! much like when Nux ate shit right in front of his idol, this movie fails to stick the landing.
so my first complaint is:
SHE HAD LONG HAIR WHAT IS UP WITH THAT SHIT
it's not just an aesthetic choice, in a world where a person fights all the time and she got to repair the engine while the truck is moving, long hair is a LIABILITY. it's going to get caught in a wheel and rip her WHOLE scalp offfffffff
her whole scalp!
plus. it looked like a perfectly coiffed wig, which is so out of place in the WASTELAND. how does hair the wasteland look? it should be DIRTY and OILY, there's no fucking shampoo. instead her wig only got a little dusty at the end.
here's my actual biggest complaint: it felt that they were contractually obligated to use the exact same sets, costumes and characters as Fury Road; we BARELY got introduced to any new people or places. EVERYONE looks the exact same as they do in Fury Road, which takes place NINETEEN YEARS after the events here
it's so so fucking boring that Immortan Joe, People Eater and Bullet Farmer look THE EXACT SAME as they do in Fury Road
in Fury Road there's the implication that Joe is slowly dying of various tumours and diseased flesh, but he used to be younger and healthier. we should have seen fit, strong Joe at his prime and maybe this was the START of his health problems; if this movie was any good we should have seen why he wears that teeth mask (it's to hide his possibly cancerous jaw)
People Eater has both syphilis and elephantiasis, both implied to be diseases he got from being a cannibal, but by the time you lose your nose and your leg looks so swollen those are later stages of those diseases, he's close to death in Fury Road. if he has no nose and a swollen leg at the start of Furiosa, that means he held on to life and sanity for nineteen years, which is very very unlikely
Fury Road makes a BIG DEAL that Joe cares about his "wives". He treats them like property and obviously is a rapist piece of shit, but he does care a lot about what happens to them
you're telling me that Joe of all people wouldn't rip the entire citadel inside out looking for Furiosa went she went missing?
that he's so stupid he couldn't put two and two together that a little girl went missing from his harem and later a teenage girl appears "out of nowhere" among his warboys? and this teenage girl seems unusually healthy and capable, unlike most of the children of the wasteland?
Furiosa SHOULD have been about her victimization at the hands of Joe and her many many attempts to escape, WHICH ARE MENTIONED IN FURY ROAD. instead we see her trying to run away once (1) and she never gets punished by Joe. her anger at him in Fury Road makes no sense now
I wouldn't say I want to see rape in a movie like this, but we got set up to think there's a lot more sexual violence in the wasteland. it's explicit in the Road Warrior, it's implicit in Fury Road
we got set up to think Furiosa was a "wife" or was at least the victim of Immortan Joe in a way like that
we know for a fact that JOE has set up a system in which women, especially healthy women who can have children, are at a premium and he gets first dibs
there's a very unsubtle gender divide in the Citadel that we know is Joe's doing because he's the one obsessed with having healthy babies
and knowing this, they're expecting us to believe Furiosa was never the target of unwanted sexual attention? in this society that Joe specifically set up so women could be victimized? I have a hard time believing it
I really am not saying I want Furiosa to be the victim of sexual assault, but I do want them to give us a good reason why she is NOT when the previous movies have established this is a regular thing.
like we could have a scene where she escapes the harem very violently but gets caught, Joe might decide she's too much trouble to keep as a breeding stock but she's feisty and strong so he will give her a chance as a War Boy, and he gets to imply that he will force her to bear children if it she's not a good fighter
what we get instead is that she dressed up as a boy (and somehow doesn't get caught for years despite her disguise being shit) and then gets taken up under the wing of Praetorian Jack and she doesn't disguise her gender anymore; and Joe doesn't care?? huh???
I WISH this movie was more about Immortan Joe establishing his own cult of personality that we see fully formed in Fury Road.
it would have been so good to see War Boys not quite as manically loyal to him until he comes up with the idea that HE is a god-king that will take the boys to paradise (Valhalla)
19 years is a good timeline to establish that sort of lore about himself. the fact that they ALREADY have it when Furiosa comes to the citadel is so SO boring
it's so boring that basically NOTHING changed in the citadel for 19 years, there was no power grabs or changes in hierarchy or changes to the lore that Joe has about himself
everything was consistent and running smoothly for Joe for nearly twenty years? in a wasteland where resources are extremely scarce and people are CONSTANTLY murdering each other for water, gasoline and food?
stability? in THIS economy?
it would have been more interesting if part of the movie was that someone else had the Citadel and then Joe came and took it and established his own society; and we see Furiosa trade one insane warlord for a different (perhaps worse) one
literally one of the things that makes the Mad Max universe cool and fascinating is that the more fractured society gets, the more people in their own little pocket cities reinvent society with their own set of insane rules
the only good thing about Thunderdome was the the fact that they had the Thunderdome to settle their disputes!
loyalty is a biiiiiiig theme in Fury Road, both in how Immortan Joe artificially enforces it with his cult of personality and how Furiosa and Max have the real thing for each through shared trauma
it's so insane to me that loyalty from Furiosa to Joe is not addressed ONCE, it's something that he would demand from her
he just accepts that she works for him?
Joe is 1000% the sort of man who would force Furiosa to shoot her own friend to prove her loyalty to him, but we don't see anything like that
(this point is minor compared to the rest)
I never understood chris hemsworth as Lord Dementus, like what the fuck is his deal
he got better towards the end of the movie, but the first half he was so over the place
was he gonna rape Furiosa's mom? no? why does he want to have the pretty girl-child so badly? is HE a pedophile? no? he likes children, but not in a creepy way? then why does he act so weird with her
is he a capable war lord or just an idiot? hard to tell!
why doesn't he sell Furiosa to Immortan Joe as soon as Joe expresses interest? slaves are a premium resource! if he really likes Furiosa, then why does he relent and give her to Joe when it's clear she's going to be breeding stock?
it's like they saw Lord Humungus from Road Warrior and said "we want this character but without the S&M gay shit, oh oops but if he's interested in little girls that's bad in a different way"
we barely see Furiosa kill anyone in this movie, she doesn't even join in the WAR (the war that she SHOULD join to show her loyalty to Joe so he would trust her with the war rig!!)
in Fury Road she is both ruthless and efficient killer. She's not cruel, but she has zero time to compassionate.
someone explain to me how the hell she got to that point without murdering people up close and personal as a younger woman.
in Fury Road she is NOT afraid to get into close quarters violence with Max, despite not having a gun and having the handicap of missing her arm (and not having her prosthetic one on). this tells us she's someone who KNOWS how to fight, someone who doesn't hesitate to kill
final thoughts: the music was so anemic, during one of the war rig fights I literally found myself thinking "where's the music? the music is supposed to get us pumped up for the action right now. I don't feel the adrenaline these characters feel!"
did they record ANY new music for this movie? or was it all from the Fury Road soundtrack?
final final thought: Lord Dementus being used as living fertilizer for the peach tree is so stupid and impossible. It would have been better to shown him as a corpse, rather than someone who impossibly stayed alive for months or years for a sapling to grow. Did she implant the peach pit in his dick?
Showing clips from the original movie on a sequel should be cardinal sin in filmmaking. It's like they don't trust the audience to remember, or they're telling us "you liked this right? remember how much you liked this, you'll have positive associations with this current one!" do not remind me I could be watching a better movie instead of this
the CGI on Rook's face looked wonky as hell and not in a good way, I know they were trying to replicate Ash from the original but idk this android was already very damaged, they could have melted half his face off with acid and just used the puppet for all his scenes
there's an extended scene where Rain is standing in an elevator shaft not too far away from where there's a breach in the hull of a spaceship and the whole area is violently decompressing. how is she alive?
but aside from those two things it's a perfect movie and honestly I'm willing to overlook the decompression thing because we accepted that Ripley survived and didn't get her arms ripped off in Aliens during a similar hull breach
I am forever intrigued by monsterfuckers who are specifically into xenomorphs from Alien because yeah the sexual themes are there but they're specifically rape themes, this is unequivocally a rape monster. you're not going to have a good time! by design!
no judgement or anything, I just find it fascinating
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tbh the number one lesson we should have learned from Henry Kissinger's whole career is that it's ENTIRELY possible for a person to be the victim of horrible Nazi-led antisemitism and have his childhood destroyed by that and still grew up to be someone who perpetuates prejudice, stokes genocide and is all around someone devoid of morality who will throw thousands of human beings into a meat grinder to further his political career.
the two things are not mutually exclusive! you can (sadly) be a Holocaust survivor AND one of history's biggest assholes!
I watched All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and now I want to watch the 1930 version, not least because actors in the latter might have feasibly been soldiers during WWI.
though in reality I think the actors were probably too young to participate. at the very least it would be undeniable that their lives were affected by the war and they remember how they felt about it, even as children
if I had the brains for it, I would do a study comparing films of historical events shot not long after the event itself vs films made several decades after. ESPECIALLY with the two big world wars, I think that there will be a marked difference between the raw feelings of people that lived through it in comparison to adaptations made after the subject has been talked and analyzed and dissected by historians and academics
