Photo credit:Warner Bros.
In the Best Picture category for The 88th Academy Awards 2016 that will take place on Sunday, February 28, today we cover Mad Max: Fury Road an action film directed and produced by George Miller starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. In the Mad Max franchise, this is the fourth installment of this Australian and American venture set in a future desert wasteland where gasoline and water are scarce commodities. “It follows Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), who joins forces with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to flee from cult leader Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his army in an armoured tanker truck, which leads to a lengthy road battle. The film also features Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton.” Production notes
Here’s the take: Mad Max did not get Hollywood on the Potomac at “hello.” As a matter of fact, the moment we saw a man eating a live lizard at “hello” we bailed, then tried to stick with it while waiting for a great movie, but couldn’t take more than ten minutes of it. Although the film was widely acclaimed for its acting, direction, screenplay, art direction, score, practical effects, stunts and action sequences, according to Wikipedia, and considered one of the best films of 2015 by many critics and publications as well as one of the greatest action films of all time; for some of us, it was the worse film we’ve seen since Caligula – even if it is the second most-nominated film of the 88th Academy Awards. If there was some feminist message in the plot, we didn’t watch long enough to get it.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD – 2015 FILM STILL – CHARLIZE THERON as Furiosa and
Photo Credit: Jasin Boland
En fin: Taking it out of the winner’s circle. And Comcast, if you are reading this, we are ‘furioso’ and want our money back. On a happy note, today is Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil sees no shadow, predicts early spring.
The Trailer:
