Mad Max: Fury Road and how awesome I think it was

Sometimes you go see movies by yourself because you don't have anyone to go with. Sometimes it's an almost empty movie theater, sometimes it's full and you feel a little anxious being there. Sometimes the movie is just okay. And sometimes you come home screaming internally because the movie was so good and you have no one to talk about it with, so you write a review less than an hour from when the movie ended.

Mad Max: Fury Road was so good that I kind of want to see it again right away. (I just realized, I could have. The next showing was like 20 minutes after mine ended. Hmm.) Here is the trailer.

It's basically about a chase through a desert, with awesome cars and stunts and kick-ass female characters. And Tom Hardy. I've not seen the previous Mad Max movies, and to be honest I don't know if I ever will. This worked on its own perfectly.

I wanted to see this because everyone seemed to like it, a lot. And because it was said to be feminist, and I can see that. And it was awesome. Some men have been upset about that, but from what I heard as I left the theater, many groups of guys were saying how awesome it was. And yeah, I kind of felt like shouting a giant "hell yeah" when it ended. Also I want more.

It's a beautiful movie. Some shots were just gorgeous, and the colours were really beautiful. The cars were super cool, the stunts insane. And knowing that they were really real people that did that made it so much better. I love that it was so real, in an age when it would have been easy just to create everything on computers. You can tell it was real, or more like, you can tell when something isn't. The music was awesome. The acting was awesome.

I don't know what to say anymore, other than just that it was really fucking great. Go see it if you like action even a little bit. And even if you don't, you might like it anyway. One of the reasons I went to see this was Tom Hardy because I kind of fell in love with him this spring. It happens.

Okay I'll probably come read this again tomorrow and facepalm, but in the meantime, here, have my immediate reaction to Mad Max; Fury Road. It was so awesome.