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Ugh... I haven't been to the movies

7/1/2015

I haven't been to the movies in a long time, since I went and saw MAD MAX to be honest. I feel like I am going through withdraw. Books have become a problem. Now most people wouldn't think of books as a problem. There are a lot of people that love books and would rather read than watch a movie. Me, I like both books and movies. I love to read and I love to watch movies. I wish that I had been watching more movies because I am beginning to feel like I am missing some good or okay movies.

I missed the AVENGERS movie. JURASSIC WORLD has been out for a while and I haven't gotten to it yet. And today, the new TERMINATOR came out and I didn't rush out to see it. Well, I'm going to give in. I'm going to put down the awesome books I've been reading and I'm going to the movies. I am probably going to see something terrible, but I will be going to at least one movie this month.

THE GALLOWS looks like it has potential. A movie about something that has been done, but not quite in the way that is being done. Found footage or videotaping while the bad things have happened has so been done. People going into an abandoned place and getting murdered has been done, in fact it has been overdone. But the hanging part, I'm interested in seeing how it will be handled. Plus, if you know me, or if you have been reading these blog posts, you know how much I love love love horror. I'll watch anything horror related, even when it sucks, even when it sucks and I know beforehand that it sucks.

I'd like t know what you, out there in internetland think. Have you seen any movies lately that you'd like to recommend? Bad or good? Just tell me. I'd like to know.

For now though, I'm going back to reading this book. I've been reading EMPTY ROOMS by Jeffery J. Mariotte. It's pretty good. I am totally wondering where the bad guy is and if the bad guy we are reading (from his POV) is THE bad guy we are looking for, or if there are multiple bad guys and multiple things going on. It's complex and I like it. I don't know right off who the bad guy is and how this book is going to end, which is a total A+ for me lately!

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Movie Review - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

5/17/2015

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Honestly I have no idea how this is part of the Mad Max franchise. Max isn't very mad, in fact he seems a little insane and a lot complacent. The plot to this movie can be described with one line in the movie, "And all this for a family squabble." Yup, that sums it up.

I wanted to like this movie. BEYOND THUNDERDOME was terrible but also awesome, this one, this one just fell a little flat. While the action scenes were very interesting, I questioned how many times I really needed to watch a car being blown up. That sums up the action, cars getting blown up left and right. The best fight scene in the movie is very early on between Max, the guy he has been chained to, and the leading lady, Furiosa. After that the movie was fun to watch, but it didn't really say anything.

Max said maybe 20 words throughout the entire movie and from my standpoint he could have been a background character. I would have liked a little more background on the story of this version of the future. For example how did this one guy get to be a warlord controlling all the water and fresh green produce? Why are their pale children running around and what is the history behind the handicaps and blood transfusions that they are getting? Also what the heck was up with all the silver mouth spray paint?

A lot of this movie could have been better than it was. A lot of this movie could have had a lot more Mad Max. I can't say see it, but I can't say don't see it. It isn't for me to say what you out there in internet land might like. Personally I didn't like the weird little girl hallucinations that weren't explained because they weren't his murdered child from the very first movie THE ROAD WARRIOR.

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Ugh... I haven't been to the movies

Movie Review - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

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