toast knowing her way around guns. just. every gun. all of them
toast saying they can “squeeze off this little [gun] a raunchy 29 times” and looking at max like maybe she’s trying to get a reaction out of him but he does fuck-all
nux kissing capable on. the cheek. a cheek kiss. on the cheek. boy was spraying poison on his face a few scenes ago now he’s kissing people on the cheek don’t touch me
nux still referring to max as “blood bag” even after he’s part of their little makeshift family & how it’s another illustration of nux’s weird innocence. ‘cause “blood bag” isn’t inherently a derogatory term in his head it’s just stating a fact and he doesn’t have anything else to call max so it doesn’t occur to him that maybe max doesn’t want to be called “blood bag” but here we are
“tree thing”
the fact that the wives know what trees are even though they’re around the same age as nux (or younger) but they’ve got books/have probably read about trees & deduced that that thing is, in fact, called a tree
“stay where you are little joe. it’s kinda lost its novelty out here” dag pls
“warlord junior. gonna be so ugly” “it could be a girl” KEEPER OF THE SEEDS PLS
the way they light max’s eyes in the “hope is a mistake” scene
when max tells furiosa his plan about cutting back through the canyon and blowing it up behind them and the kEEPER. OF THE SEEDS. SAYS “KABOOM”
aND MAX SMILES AND POINTS AT HER LIKE “she gets it”
that black-top in the final battle trying to intimidate furiosa by hissing at her and she roars and head butts him so hard dickhole probably ain’t got a face anymore
furiosa and max’s last fights being edited together because parallels and also punches n stuff being timed w/ drumbeats because the actual hero of this movie is punk rock
when furiosa and the wives are pulled up on the platform at the end and they pull other people up w/ them (as opposed to those people being beaten down at the beginning)
the closeup of the dude w/ the facial growths who gets pulled onto the platform and is open-mouthed smiling so hard while gazing upwards idk he just makes me happy
the women who were hooked up to the milking machines being the ones to start the water flowing once they see immortan joe is dead
all the “fuck capitalism” content in this movie culminating in one big happy “NO SERIOUSLY FUCK CAPITALISM” final scene
Ok where do I start…well first, I was completely taken by surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. I don’t go to the movies often and I rarely see theatre movies twice but I left the first time pumped up and starry-eyed.
Apart from being an extremely visually-appealing adrenaline rush with an amazing soundtrack and stunts:
Appreciation and utilisation of weapons and supplies, rather than taking them for granted.
The movie requires you to think about the logic of the world; rather than spoon-feed you explanation for why things are as they are, it gives you just enough to get the gist of it and then leaves you to come up with theories.
The most moving scene in the movie was an act of compassion and healing, not one of violence.
“Strength” wasn’t measured by how masculine a character was. Furiosa wasn’t gruff and emotionless and didn’t use any gender slurs against the Sisters (I don’t like calling them Wives) or try to distance herself from femininity.
5 of the main characters were escaped sex slaves and there wasn’t a single rapey flashback to “prove” how shitty their lives had been. They weren’t defined by their past experiences. (this is why I hate the comics with all my heart, it goes against all of this).
The women’s pain wasn’t used to fuel a male character’s pain/story arc. They were all unique and utilised what skills or resources they have, despite some of them being unused to surviving in such a world.
No forced hetero relationships in your face (I argue that Capable and Nux share a platonic bond but not a romantic one, because she’s the first person to treat him with softness and care and forgiveness like that, and he’s the first guy apart from Max to treat her as a person and not as an object. That mutual respect is really important especially in a world with such a strong gender divide).
Death mattered and it could happen to anybody. Everyone was equally mortal but therefore treated equally. Women weren’t kept alive just to show ‘look we have a girl in the cast’ or as a rare/precious commodity, nor were they killed for the sake of it. As for the violence in general, yeah there was fighting but very little blood shown onscreen (for which I was grateful). And those who did die? It was sad but what they did mattered, and they didn’t die in vain.
It was really visually appealing and there was always SO MUCH to look at, and so little time to do it because it was so fast paced. Which made me appreciate what I got to see.
Max isn’t rewarded for his help, and he leaves without expecting one.
Also, Furiosa *swoons*
Even like this I don’t feel like I can do this movie justice in words.
Max: ???? he does something ????
Furiosa: She’ll kick your ass. She’ll kick anyone’s ass. She’ll kick his ass. She’ll kick your dog’s ass.
Nux: Perfect cinnamon roll too beautiful for this world, too pure
Capable: Lots of people ship her with Nux. Apparently Nux isn’t as bad as the other War Boys?
The Dag: Kickass lady who has premonitions or something?
The other ladies whose names I don’t know: Aren’t sexual objects, the entire movie’s against that, they all kick ASS. But not as much as Furiosa.
The breathie thingie guy: Evil. Eeeeeviiil.
Doof guitar guy: HOLY SH** ON A BISCUIT THE GUITAR IS REAL. THE DOOF WAGON IS REAL???? HE’S ACTUALLY???PLAYING A FLAME THROWER GUITAR???? ??????THAT’S AWESOME
The War Boys: Everything is chrome in the future.
The setting: Wasteland. Bright af wasteland where for some reason the only way to get around is by forming a deadly cirque du soleil bike gang in the middle of the goddamn desert. At least according to the War Boys.
The plot: Max and Furiosa have to kick Breathie Thingie Guy’s butt and free the Kickass Ladies, who are currently kept for the War Boys to doodliedoo. Nux is a precious cinnamon roll. High speed car chases ensue, Furiosa kicks ass, War Boys spray chrome into their mouths (Valhalla or some crud like that yadda yadda “I live I die I live again”), tons of ass gets kicked, the car chases get more and more intense and all of the fricking cars are real. All of the fricking…the fricking metronome things? Real. The fricking FLAME THROWER BUNGIE CORD GUITAR ON A MOVING MUSIC VEHICLE. REAL. THEY ARE LITERALLY PLAYING THEIR OWN THEME MUSIC AS THEY DRIVE ALONG. THIS KICKS ASS.
