- Every once in a while a movie comes along that really changes your life. After watching George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, I knew that I had seen such a film. Well, I hadn't really seen it, but that's only because I resorted to hitting the fast-forward button after its first painful half hour. Nevertheless, the experience changed me in deep and profound ways. I found myself wondering: When was the last time I saw a movie this stupid? Is this even a movie? Do I still want to watch movies after this? Could God create a movie so dumb that even He couldn't watch it?
- Possessing the style and intelligence of a heavy metal video, but none of its brevity, Mad Max: Fury Road left me with a sense of despair. There was a cast of largely unrecognizable actors, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult, and Zoë Kravitz. Its plot was...post-apocalyptic. Has the apocalypse actually occurred? Was it somehow my fault? There go those nagging questions again. It may have been a mistake to watch this after recently seeing six good-to-great films from the 1940's, back when you couldn't just crash cars together in a sandbox and expect people to like it. And yet, critics and audiences did like this movie...a lot! Like Mad Max says, "It was hard to know who was more crazy...me...or everyone else."
