Our May Wrap-up episode. A time to reflect on MAD MAY, in which we watched all the films in the Mad Max franchise, including the latest, 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga'.

00:00 Reflections on the franchise and recent box office

03:05 Mad Max Awards

19:54 Ranking the Franchise

24:24 Movie Musings

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Nathan: 00:00:11

Well, and welcome to back to the frame rates may wrap up.

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This is a monthly episode that we do to recap prior month.

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And this was quite a month cause we did the entire Mad Max retrospective,

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the whole saga culminating and furing out a couple of weeks ago.

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And this is gonna be a fun episode because we have some final thoughts.

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On the saga and reflections on it, and we're going to rank the franchise.

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And also we have some awards and superlatives to give out.

Nathan: 00:00:44

Any thoughts before we begin this?

Sam: 00:00:46

Hello.

Sam: 00:00:47

I just want to say this was the best box office ever.

Sam: 00:00:52

May was on fire and we had back the frame where we're there to witness this

Sam: 00:00:56

incredible just, I just, what can I say?

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Scorcher.

Nathan: 00:01:01

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:01:01

You know what is funny before we get to this, I see so much not so much hate,

Nathan: 00:01:06

but like so much so many people are just kind of like, just digging at Furiosa for

Nathan: 00:01:11

his poor box office, but you know what?

Nathan: 00:01:13

It's the entire box office.

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And I hope that Hollywood is not just looking at Furiosa as

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like, Oh, this movie bombed.

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Every movie is bombing right now.

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So I am hopeful that they will realize this is not isolated to

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this movie, or any of these movies that are coming out this month.

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This is something that is a global thing that's going on, or a

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thing that's happening right now.

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And eventually, it probably will turn around at some point.

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They will figure out, they'll crack the code, and hopefully, Hopefully

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people will return or they'll figure out a way to get people back in.

Nathan: 00:01:45

But right now people are not going to the theater for one reason or another.

Nathan: 00:01:48

I have theories about the, the window that movies are coming

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to streaming and VOD so fast.

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That's one of my thoughts on it.

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But I hope that Hollywood doesn't think like, Oh, no more Mad Max

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movies because nobody's going out.

Nathan: 00:02:01

It's more, it's bigger than that.

Bee: 00:02:03

And if we choose movies that are going to be bellwethers, maybe we don't

Bee: 00:02:06

choose the legacy prequel nine years later with none of the original stars.

Bee: 00:02:10

Yeah.

Sam: 00:02:11

Yeah.

Sam: 00:02:11

It's, it's I feel like it's a marketing thing too.

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And I also think there's this saying going around in in Hollywood and movie

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theaters called survive till 25 because of the writer's strike, all the movies have

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shifted, you know, big titles in the 2025.

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But I do think that This has been a trend this month in May, but I also

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think it has to do with the titles, just the movies themselves, like

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maybe people were less interested.

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I do think this, this box office of this summer will improve.

Sam: 00:02:41

And I, it's, I can understand if people disagree, but I think I have a feeling Bad

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Boys, Ride or Die is going to open well.

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I'm just talking box office.

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I think it could be.

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I think it could do that.

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And then a quiet place year one, I see hope for this summer.

Sam: 00:02:56

So I don't think it's all doom and gloom, but I'm always an optimist.

Sam: 00:02:59

We'll see.

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Time will

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tell.

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Maybe when we get to our June wrap up, we can look back and see what happens.

Nathan: 00:03:05

Well, let's get awards to proletives for the Mad Max franchise.

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And I, my apologies.

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I recycled some of our categories from last month when we did our

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Christopher Nolan Retrospective, but I think there's some fun ones in here.

Nathan: 00:03:20

We can kind of see as we go, but I think obvious one we have to do is best villain.

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No,

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it doesn't have to be the main villain.

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It can be any of the villains on that from this franchise.

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No,

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it's good here.

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Who would like to begin?

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We just, we just rock, paper, scissors this.

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I don't care who begins.

Sam: 00:03:41

I think B would like to begin, right?

Sam: 00:03:42

B

Bee: 00:03:43

I would thanks, Sam.

Bee: 00:03:45

I.

Bee: 00:03:46

You've heard me say for the last like four or five shows that I think the

Bee: 00:03:50

this franchise has a villain problem That being said I love toe cutter.

Bee: 00:03:56

I really like I never got over toe cutter But Dementus came Pretty close.

Bee: 00:04:03

Mm.

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Sam!

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So, and, and, and forgive me, I'm a complete moron because I've been running

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around today, but I forgot the rules.

Sam: 00:04:13

Does that mean that I can't pick, pick the same villain now?

Sam: 00:04:16

No, this isn't, this isn't, this isn't

Nathan: 00:04:17

a draft, no.

Nathan: 00:04:18

Okay,

Sam: 00:04:19

gotcha.

Sam: 00:04:19

No, you can, no

Bee: 00:04:19

rules.

Sam: 00:04:20

There's no, wow.

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No rules.

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What would the world be like?

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What would the world be like?

Sam: 00:04:25

No, so I, I gotta be honest.

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It has to be Toecutter for me as well, because So good.

Sam: 00:04:30

It's just his presence, and then one of my favorite lines in all the Mad Maxes

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with his sarcasm, where he's like, Ugh!

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I hate guns!

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And just, the way he delivers that is like, perfect, bad guy, like, he, and

Sam: 00:04:44

I will, I mean, I really like the, I do like the villains in, in The Road

Sam: 00:04:49

Warrior, but I just think Toe Cutter, he's more of a mythic place for me.

Nathan: 00:04:54

Mm hmm.

Nathan: 00:04:55

Well, I'm, we're gonna go three for three here.

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I also like Toe Cutter.

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Runner up, though, was

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Hughie's

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other Mad Max villain, Morton Joe, who I think is terrific.

Nathan: 00:05:06

I think Tina, I think Tina Turner is a weak character.

Nathan: 00:05:10

Lord Humongous and Wes look cool, but there's not much to their characters.

Nathan: 00:05:16

And I've already said last week that I think Dementus character I thought

Nathan: 00:05:20

would have been stronger if he was a little bit more of an enigma.

Nathan: 00:05:24

But I gotta stick with the OG, Toe Cutter, because he's so theatrical and

Nathan: 00:05:28

enigmatic and he's just full of chaos.

Bee: 00:05:31

And I

Nathan: 00:05:31

think he's the scariest of them all because he's just so unpredictable.

Nathan: 00:05:35

And

Bee: 00:05:35

he feels so real when he goes after the wife's ice cream.

Bee: 00:05:40

That for me is the moment from the original Mad Max that

Bee: 00:05:43

sticks in my mind so clearly.

Sam: 00:05:45

Yes.

Sam: 00:05:45

He's scary too.

Sam: 00:05:46

He's like a real life, like, like, like psychopath or

Sam: 00:05:49

like, I just said, like, very,

Nathan: 00:05:52

he's also rooted in the real world.

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This is not, this is before the apocalypse.

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So that's what kind of makes him scary.

Nathan: 00:05:58

Cause this guy exists in a world that we kind of, Live in to some degree, you

Sam: 00:06:05

know, Relatable terror.

Sam: 00:06:07

Yeah, exactly.

Bee: 00:06:09

In a bar somewhere.

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And there's a woman covering her drink.

Nathan: 00:06:12

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:06:13

All right.

Nathan: 00:06:14

We let's move on to our next category.

Nathan: 00:06:16

I think we can all agree.

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This is a good one.

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Best vehicle.

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And this could be anything that flies or drives.

Bee: 00:06:23

The gyrocopter.

Bee: 00:06:24

It's not even a question.

Bee: 00:06:25

What are we, what are we doing?

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It's the gyrocopter.

Nathan: 00:06:28

Gyrocopter.

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Okay.

Sam: 00:06:34

Sam.

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You look.

Sam: 00:06:35

So I got to say, you know, I'm so my, my answer surprises me because

Sam: 00:06:38

usually I would go for like you know, something from like the earlier films,

Sam: 00:06:42

but I got to say specifically in Fury Road and excuse me, Fury Road.

Sam: 00:06:47

I like

Nathan: 00:06:48

Fury Road.

Nathan: 00:06:48

Fury

Sam: 00:06:49

Road.

Sam: 00:06:49

I like it.

Nathan: 00:06:49

Or

Sam: 00:06:50

how about Fury Ode Suh.

Sam: 00:06:52

Oh, I'm sorry.

Sam: 00:06:53

Hey, I still got it.

Sam: 00:06:55

No,

Sam: 00:06:57

I would definitely have to go with the War Rig in Fury Road because

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we spend so much time with it and it's one of the vehicles that lasts

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a surprising amount of time and does not get destroyed as is often the case

Sam: 00:07:08

with a lot of vehicles in these films.

Sam: 00:07:09

And you get to just see how it's operated and like Charlize Theron's like trick

Sam: 00:07:14

for starting it and it's just, it's, I just feel like I've been on a adventure.

Sam: 00:07:18

I've been with that vehicle more than others, even though I love many of them.

Sam: 00:07:22

It's a tough choice, but I have to say that.

Bee: 00:07:24

I liked in Furiosa how we learned a little bit more about how it was designed.

Bee: 00:07:29

You know, the practicality of what went where I thought that was cool too.

Nathan: 00:07:33

Good pick, Sam.

Nathan: 00:07:34

Cause I also went with that, but you know, I will mention, of course I

Nathan: 00:07:37

had to go with the pursuit special.

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Mad Max's car because if there ever was a vehicle in the series that, I don't know.

Nathan: 00:07:45

I think it's just, it's not featured enough.

Nathan: 00:07:47

I wanted more from it, but you know, the, the Warwick has its own personality and

Nathan: 00:07:52

I feel that that truck is just a beast.

Nathan: 00:07:54

And hearing your story from a few weeks ago, Sam, where they, there's

Nathan: 00:08:00

Moby Dick references to that, where there's whale sounds added to it

Nathan: 00:08:03

and made me love it even more.

Nathan: 00:08:06

I'm in awe of the, the war rig.

Sam: 00:08:09

If we ever get the Wasteland movie, maybe that could be Mad Max's,

Sam: 00:08:12

like, car survives all of the film.

Sam: 00:08:14

Cause that would be great.

Sam: 00:08:15

You know, it's been a while if we ever get to it.

Sam: 00:08:17

I don't know.

Sam: 00:08:18

I I'm optimist.

Sam: 00:08:19

I'm forever an optimist.

Nathan: 00:08:22

Okay.

Nathan: 00:08:23

So.

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This is where I kind of recycled some of our awards from the past month,

Nathan: 00:08:27

and, but I have our We just kind of

Bee: 00:08:30

liked it.

Nathan: 00:08:31

Our sidekick award.

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What character would you want to go into battle with?

Bee: 00:08:36

Charlize's Furiosa.

Nathan: 00:08:39

Furiosa.

Nathan: 00:08:43

Okay.

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We'll just leave it at that.

Nathan: 00:08:45

Okay.

Nathan: 00:08:47

That's fine.

Nathan: 00:08:48

No explanation needed.

Nathan: 00:08:49

Sam.

Bee: 00:08:49

Yeah.

Bee: 00:08:50

I mean, she's badass.

Sam: 00:08:51

Oh my God.

Sam: 00:08:52

I don't know how to, you know, I'll be honest.

Sam: 00:08:53

Sometimes you just don't think, you know, the first thing that came to my head

Sam: 00:08:57

right away, I got to say the gyro captain.

Sam: 00:09:00

Because he might not be like the strongest, but he's like clever

Sam: 00:09:05

and he throws snakes at people.

Sam: 00:09:06

So like, yeah, you know, he'd be cheerful about it.

Sam: 00:09:08

Like if we were going to die, he'd be like, still be smiling

Sam: 00:09:11

and that would help, you know?

Sam: 00:09:13

But it's, I don't know.

Sam: 00:09:14

It was a tough choice, but yeah.

Sam: 00:09:15

He would bring

Bee: 00:09:16

some levity to the team.

Sam: 00:09:17

Yes.

Sam: 00:09:18

Exactly.

Nathan: 00:09:19

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:09:20

This is, this is a tough choice.

Nathan: 00:09:21

I'm going a little unconventional.

Nathan: 00:09:22

I'm going with a character that we did not talk about.

Nathan: 00:09:25

Enough last week.

Bee: 00:09:26

Are you going to say Nux?

Nathan: 00:09:28

No, but I was incredibly impressed with the skills of a

Nathan: 00:09:30

character named Mary Jibasa, Furiosa's mother from Furiosa Mad Max Saga.

Nathan: 00:09:37

Yeah, I know I sort of shit on this movie a little bit, but it's been

Nathan: 00:09:41

growing on me the more I think about it.

Nathan: 00:09:43

And there's so many incredible characters in this film, but one of

Nathan: 00:09:45

those standouts was Furiosa's mom.

Nathan: 00:09:47

So much that.

Nathan: 00:09:49

I wouldn't even mind a movie about her character.

Nathan: 00:09:53

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:09:54

Now, I know that will probably never happen based on the box office, but maybe

Nathan: 00:09:57

a limited series would be really cool.

Nathan: 00:10:00

I don't know.

Nathan: 00:10:01

Anyways, Like I said,

Bee: 00:10:02

that opening chase, I think is one of the more interesting Mad Max chases.

Sam: 00:10:06

That opening chase, I, is like my favorite.

Sam: 00:10:09

I just love it.

Sam: 00:10:10

My favorite in the whole film, I think.

Sam: 00:10:11

Yeah, I loved it.

Nathan: 00:10:12

But Mary Jabasa Fioris mom could kick all our asses.

Nathan: 00:10:15

She's incredible.

Nathan: 00:10:16

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:10:17

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:10:19

Next, this I'm calling the Wingman Wingwoman Award, and this is

Nathan: 00:10:25

an award, but what character would you want to be your, your wingman on a date?

Bee: 00:10:31

That's a really good question.

Bee: 00:10:33

Wingman on a date that I probably would have to go, no,

Bee: 00:10:37

no, I'm not going to do that.

Bee: 00:10:38

I was going to say gyro captain, but no, I'm not going to do that.

Bee: 00:10:40

Nux.

Bee: 00:10:45

You know why?

Bee: 00:10:45

Because I think Nux is like.

Bee: 00:10:48

He just, he just is so devout and loyal, and he really like, he's someone who, who

Bee: 00:10:55

quickly evangelizes sort of whatever side he's on, so I can see him really talking

Bee: 00:10:59

me up to, to whomever I need him to.

Nathan: 00:11:03

I like that.

Sam: 00:11:07

I'm going to have to go in a slightly comedic direction and say

Sam: 00:11:10

master blaster, because I think it would be wondrous fun if like they were my

Sam: 00:11:17

wingman at a bar and like master was shouting like, Sam, go talk to her.

Sam: 00:11:21

She nice.

Sam: 00:11:22

Go talk now.

Sam: 00:11:23

I'd be like, I'd be like, okay, this is amusing.

Sam: 00:11:25

So maybe not the best choice in the world, but like.

Sam: 00:11:28

Master blaster.

Nathan: 00:11:29

I'd be worried he'd, he might scare off some, some of the ladies.

Nathan: 00:11:32

I don't know.

Nathan: 00:11:32

That's

Sam: 00:11:32

the thing.

Sam: 00:11:32

It would, it would be kind of a problem, but it would be, it would

Sam: 00:11:35

certainly be a memorable evening.

Sam: 00:11:36

Well, you know,

Bee: 00:11:37

if someone's stuck around, that's a real one.

Bee: 00:11:38

Yeah.

Bee: 00:11:39

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:11:40

For me, no doubt.

Nathan: 00:11:42

I, I, I bring Goose along from the first Mad Max film.

Nathan: 00:11:45

He's, he's funny.

Nathan: 00:11:46

Outgoing.

Nathan: 00:11:46

He probably tells some great jokes.

Nathan: 00:11:49

I can really picture a fun night out on the town with Goose.

Nathan: 00:11:51

Goose.

Nathan: 00:11:51

Goose.

Nathan: 00:11:52

And he'd definitely buy a couple rounds of drinks, for sure.

Bee: 00:11:55

Goose is

Sam: 00:11:56

a great, Goose is awesome, yes.

Sam: 00:11:57

Yeah.

Bee: 00:11:58

That's a good choice.

Sam: 00:11:59

That's a realistic choice.

Sam: 00:12:00

I, I, I yeah.

Sam: 00:12:02

I was, I was going for the laugh on that one.

Sam: 00:12:03

That one I want to

Bee: 00:12:04

redo.

Bee: 00:12:05

I don't know how to be funny.

Bee: 00:12:06

I'm

Nathan: 00:12:06

sorry.

Nathan: 00:12:08

Alright, this is kind of a serious one here.

Nathan: 00:12:09

This is kind of an award for a good performance, a little underrated here.

Nathan: 00:12:12

Who is the, the secret, we're giving this one to the It's

Nathan: 00:12:15

called the Scene Stealer Award.

Nathan: 00:12:16

And this is wide open because there's so many performances

Nathan: 00:12:19

in here that this could go to.

Nathan: 00:12:22

So it's, it's just somebody who steals the scene in any of these

Nathan: 00:12:27

movies here that doesn't maybe get the appropriate recognition.

Bee: 00:12:30

Yeah, actually, Nathan, for this, I had Furios's mother.

Nathan: 00:12:33

Yeah,

Bee: 00:12:35

I mean, just such a powerful performance.

Bee: 00:12:38

One of my favorite, most innovative chase sequences we've seen.

Bee: 00:12:42

Total dedication.

Bee: 00:12:43

And, and she, to me, sort of captures the energy of Charlize Theron's

Bee: 00:12:48

Furiosa more than Anya Taylor Joyce.

Bee: 00:12:50

So, huge fan.

Bee: 00:12:52

All

Sam: 00:12:54

right.

Sam: 00:12:54

Sam, what do you got?

Sam: 00:12:56

Oh my God.

Sam: 00:12:56

Well, you know, the problem is, and he might not be enough of a A

Sam: 00:13:00

character because he never speaks, but like, he is a scene stealer.

Sam: 00:13:03

I'm talking about the guitar guy, the Duke warrior.

Sam: 00:13:08

Yeah.

Sam: 00:13:08

I just, because like, he's a scene stealer, but like he's, you know,

Sam: 00:13:12

we don't know this character, but it's like, it's like the epitome

Sam: 00:13:15

of like, what Mad Max is all about.

Sam: 00:13:19

I love

Nathan: 00:13:20

it.

Nathan: 00:13:20

Good pick.

Nathan: 00:13:21

Good pick.

Nathan: 00:13:21

Mind Stealer Award goes to Wes from The Road Warrior.

Nathan: 00:13:25

And I almost gave this to the gyro captain, but The Road

Nathan: 00:13:27

Warrior is a very dour film.

Nathan: 00:13:29

And even the color palette is quite muted, you know, tans and browns.

Nathan: 00:13:34

We didn't get the lush colors of these later, until these later

Nathan: 00:13:37

movies, but there's one big thing.

Nathan: 00:13:38

Beacon of insanity in this, in this film, and it's in the form of this character,

Nathan: 00:13:42

which looks like a rooster on crack with that blood red Mohawk he dons.

Nathan: 00:13:47

And every time Wes is on screen, he knows something completely

Nathan: 00:13:50

unhinged is going to happen.

Nathan: 00:13:51

And he is my Steen Steeler because I love every moment that he's on screen.

Bee: 00:13:54

You know, this is such a hard category for these films

Bee: 00:13:57

because every character, no matter how small is really fleshed out.

Bee: 00:14:01

Like I think of Road Warrior, I think of the Golden Youth.

Bee: 00:14:03

Oh yeah.

Sam: 00:14:04

Just

Bee: 00:14:04

that random pretty boy.

Sam: 00:14:07

There's 000 good scene stealer options in this, in this franchise.

Sam: 00:14:12

Like

Bee: 00:14:13

there's so many.

Bee: 00:14:13

It's the every frame of painting of good characters.

Bee: 00:14:17

Yes.

Nathan: 00:14:18

All right.

Nathan: 00:14:18

I'm going to, for time's sake, I'm going to jump ahead here.

Nathan: 00:14:21

I'm going to, this award I'm coining, we probably could think of a more PG

Nathan: 00:14:26

name for this award, but I'm calling it the most fuck yeah moment award.

Nathan: 00:14:31

I like that.

Nathan: 00:14:32

Yes.

Nathan: 00:14:32

All right.

Nathan: 00:14:33

Let's just

Nathan: 00:14:33

keep it at that.

Nathan: 00:14:35

So I think this speaks for itself.

Nathan: 00:14:38

If you've seen these movies, you know what we're talking about.

Bee: 00:14:41

Okay.

Bee: 00:14:42

So I kind of have a tie, but they're very different kinds of fuck yes.

Bee: 00:14:46

And I couldn't decide.

Bee: 00:14:47

So maybe you two can help me here.

Bee: 00:14:49

I know.

Bee: 00:14:50

This is kind of cheating.

Bee: 00:14:51

This is a bit of a cop out, but I really couldn't pick.

Bee: 00:14:54

So my first one is Toe Cutter's death in the original Mad Max, the bulging eyes.

Bee: 00:15:00

That's the first time we really see that camera technique.

Bee: 00:15:02

I love that scene.

Bee: 00:15:04

It's, you know, in a movie that I think can lull a little bit.

Bee: 00:15:07

It's awesome.

Bee: 00:15:09

But in my heart of hearts, I think it's the, the sandstorm scene.

Bee: 00:15:14

In Fury Road,

Bee: 00:15:16

I

Bee: 00:15:16

think that's the one like, and when I think of the epicness of this

Bee: 00:15:21

franchise, you know, I want to pay homage to, to the older films, but

Bee: 00:15:26

God, Fury Road, such a masterpiece.

Nathan: 00:15:30

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's go with your heart.

Nathan: 00:15:33

You know, it sounds like you already know, but

Bee: 00:15:35

fine.

Bee: 00:15:36

All right.

Bee: 00:15:36

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:15:38

Okay.

Nathan: 00:15:38

I think that's the sandstorm.

Nathan: 00:15:39

All

Nathan: 00:15:41

right.

Nathan: 00:15:43

Sam, what's your fuck yeah moment?

Sam: 00:15:45

I gotta be honest, there is one of well, there's many in

Sam: 00:15:49

Fury Road, and it is awesome.

Sam: 00:15:51

But, but the ultimate choice I have to make I have to go back to, I got to

Sam: 00:15:57

say for me, even though there are much higher Octane action moments and much

Sam: 00:16:02

more fast paced, like wow factor moments.

Sam: 00:16:04

I love the huge helicopter shot of the whole road chase taking

Sam: 00:16:08

place in the road warrior.

Sam: 00:16:10

When you see the gyro like captain in the sky as well, that just pullback moment of

Sam: 00:16:15

that chase, all those vehicles are there.

Sam: 00:16:17

There's no augmentation.

Sam: 00:16:18

It's just like, that's pure cinema to me.

Sam: 00:16:21

Yeah.

Sam: 00:16:22

And that's, it was a tough choice because Fury road, like.

Sam: 00:16:25

It's like, my God, you know, like the whole movie is a fuck.

Sam: 00:16:28

Yeah.

Sam: 00:16:29

Movie.

Nathan: 00:16:30

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:16:31

Sam, I, I agree with you a hundred percent.

Nathan: 00:16:33

That's my runner up.

Nathan: 00:16:34

I'm going to one up you because mine is a similar shot from fury road.

Nathan: 00:16:38

I knew, I knew you were,

Sam: 00:16:39

I knew you were going to one up.

Sam: 00:16:40

I knew it was going to happen.

Sam: 00:16:41

And it's the way of the force that the force wills it.

Sam: 00:16:43

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:16:43

I mentioned this on free road.

Nathan: 00:16:44

I literally stood up in my seat and screamed out when excitement, when I

Nathan: 00:16:48

saw the war party for the first time.

Nathan: 00:16:51

Beating their drums, going off to catch the war rig, and we sweep over

Nathan: 00:16:54

the war boys and the drums, and we settle to reveal the doof warrior

Nathan: 00:16:58

playing the flamethrowing double bass and framing it perfectly as

Nathan: 00:17:02

the war party is seen behind them.

Nathan: 00:17:04

There's actually one of those car transport vehicles off in

Nathan: 00:17:07

the distance with more of the war party sitting on that, riding that.

Nathan: 00:17:12

And that's like the thought.

Nathan: 00:17:14

And the composition of, of all of this is incredible.

Nathan: 00:17:18

And I actually shouted in the theater when I saw this shot, I'm like this.

Nathan: 00:17:23

Is incredible.

Nathan: 00:17:23

This is what Mad Max is to me, that's the whole franchise in a nutshell.

Nathan: 00:17:27

Just the, the, the balls on this movie to, to give me that shot is, is incredible.

Nathan: 00:17:34

So that is, that is my award for that.

Sam: 00:17:36

That is epic.

Sam: 00:17:38

I could, that's like, yes, that's, it is incredible.

Sam: 00:17:40

Oh, man.

Sam: 00:17:40

Incredible.

Sam: 00:17:41

Yeah.

Sam: 00:17:41

So,

Nathan: 00:17:42

And we have, I have one last one.

Nathan: 00:17:43

We probably should have ended it with that.

Nathan: 00:17:44

And maybe I'll swap these up in post, but I kind of like this award because it's a,

Nathan: 00:17:49

this movie has so many incredible stunts.

Nathan: 00:17:52

And I think we need to have an award for that.

Nathan: 00:17:53

Now we could say like best stunt, but I want to call this someone

Nathan: 00:17:57

should have died on the set award.

Nathan: 00:18:01

And it could be your interpretation of the best stunt.

Nathan: 00:18:04

Or it could be it may, yeah, it could be the best stunt or just like the most

Nathan: 00:18:08

outlandish, you know, where someone actually could have, should have died from

Nathan: 00:18:12

the stunt, but just submit to me what you think is something that just needs to be

Nathan: 00:18:16

recognized for a stunt from the series.

Bee: 00:18:19

You know, for me they, Trying to remember, like, one stunt is hard,

Bee: 00:18:27

because there's

Bee: 00:18:27

like a thousand stunts in these movies.

Bee: 00:18:30

So I kind of was just thinking the whole first movie.

Bee: 00:18:33

I mean, going back and watching the documentary of how the original was

Bee: 00:18:36

made, it's astounding that nobody was hurt, but I think especially

Bee: 00:18:41

all those motorcycle stunts.

Bee: 00:18:43

That happened in the other ones, the jumps, the crashes into

Bee: 00:18:46

the, into the big cars where you see them sort of break away.

Bee: 00:18:48

Those breakaway stunts, geez Louise.

Nathan: 00:18:52

Absolutely.

Nathan: 00:18:52

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:18:54

Anything you want to submit Sam?

Sam: 00:18:56

I, you know, it's like in terms of like danger level and like most

Sam: 00:19:00

spectacular, like life threatening stunt.

Sam: 00:19:02

I don't know if this would be the one, cause they were really well

Sam: 00:19:04

organized, but I got to say the, the like pole vaulting in fury road when

Sam: 00:19:10

they're like, you know, jumping, like literally jumping onto the truck.

Sam: 00:19:13

Yeah, it's just.

Sam: 00:19:14

Amazing.

Sam: 00:19:14

Yeah.

Sam: 00:19:16

And I would say I had a hate to like a close second that the one I almost picked

Sam: 00:19:20

is just the when like motorcycles like are coming down the hill and fury road and

Sam: 00:19:24

they like literally jump over the truck.

Sam: 00:19:25

Like, I don't know if that's augmented, but it's just, it's amazing.

Nathan: 00:19:29

I'm also going with the pole cat, Sam, you know, there are a lot

Nathan: 00:19:31

of options for this, but I went with that because, you know, there, he

Nathan: 00:19:35

could have done that digitally, but practically, those are real stunt men.

Nathan: 00:19:41

Pull vaulting from cars onto the war rig, which is incredible.

Nathan: 00:19:44

And I'm sure there is some augmentation here and there.

Nathan: 00:19:47

I mean, they probably weren't going super fast doing this,

Nathan: 00:19:49

but they are really doing that.

Nathan: 00:19:51

So yeah, it doesn't matter.

Nathan: 00:19:52

It is incredible.

Nathan: 00:19:53

Yeah, it is

Sam: 00:19:54

amazing.

Nathan: 00:19:54

All right.

Nathan: 00:19:55

So quickly we're, that is our awards.

Nathan: 00:19:57

I want us to rank the franchise.

Nathan: 00:19:59

And Bea, let's start with you.

Bee: 00:20:02

Okay, so number one, I have to go with Fury Road.

Bee: 00:20:07

I just think it's, it's a perfect movie.

Bee: 00:20:09

I could watch it over and over and over again.

Bee: 00:20:11

And I have after that, I go for Road Warrior.

Bee: 00:20:17

Yep.

Bee: 00:20:17

Then probably the, probably the original Mad Max 3rd.

Bee: 00:20:23

Then Furiosa, and then Thunderdome.

Bee: 00:20:27

But Thunderdome's good, like, that's, you know, last place, but like,

Bee: 00:20:32

it's a pretty good movie, you know?

Bee: 00:20:33

It's fine.

Nathan: 00:20:34

Sam, give us your five.

Sam: 00:20:36

So, my five would be, number one, for me, just cause the experience of excuse

Sam: 00:20:41

me, the experience of first watching it as a kid number one would be Road Warrior.

Sam: 00:20:45

Hmm.

Sam: 00:20:46

Two would definitely be Fury Road.

Sam: 00:20:49

Three would would be Mad Max, the original.

Sam: 00:20:51

'cause that movie's just what it created is so classic and amazing.

Sam: 00:20:55

Fourth would definitely be fur, a Mad Max Saga, and fifth

Sam: 00:20:59

would be Beyond Thunderdome.

Sam: 00:21:01

And I, I like beyond Thunderdome, but like of those five, it's definitely the, yeah.

Sam: 00:21:05

The weakest.

Sam: 00:21:06

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:21:07

All right.

Nathan: 00:21:08

And for me is number one is Mad Max Fury Road followed by two,

Nathan: 00:21:13

the road warrior three is Furiosa Mad Max that did slide into three.

Nathan: 00:21:19

And I know that it was kind of down on a little bit, but as if you recall from

Nathan: 00:21:22

our early episodes, I wasn't, you know, completely sold on the first Mad Max.

Nathan: 00:21:27

I thought there was some production problems with it.

Nathan: 00:21:29

And I was, I, you know, it is good, but I don't love it.

Nathan: 00:21:32

Mad Max was fourth and of course, Beyond Thunderdome fifth.

Nathan: 00:21:36

So I actually don't love Thunderdome.

Nathan: 00:21:38

I, I, I think I gave that like a two and a half.

Nathan: 00:21:41

I was pretty low on it.

Nathan: 00:21:42

That's okay.

Nathan: 00:21:43

Yeah, it's okay.

Nathan: 00:21:43

I,

Sam: 00:21:44

Remember you know, no, I'm not remember, but I was going to say that,

Sam: 00:21:47

like, I have a feeling that Fury Road, I mean, excuse me, Furiosa might go

Sam: 00:21:51

up on my list, like with a second viewing, like, because it is, I'd rather

Sam: 00:21:57

watch it than the first Mad Max 79.

Sam: 00:21:59

It's just cause it's so classic.

Sam: 00:22:00

It's hard to, it's like those movies may oscillate.

Nathan: 00:22:03

All right, so we've done our ranking, we've done our awards.

Nathan: 00:22:10

I know I want to get to some other things before we're done,

Nathan: 00:22:14

but any final thoughts on this?

Nathan: 00:22:17

I mean, maybe, maybe we should just put a bow on this and we're done.

Nathan: 00:22:20

Yeah.

Sam: 00:22:21

I enjoy Mad Max films.

Nathan: 00:22:23

Okay.

Bee: 00:22:24

Big movies.

Bee: 00:22:25

Yeah.

Bee: 00:22:26

I like them.

Nathan: 00:22:26

All right.

Nathan: 00:22:27

I, I do hope that this is not the end.

Nathan: 00:22:29

I do hope that we get to see more and, but we shall see.

Nathan: 00:22:33

It's

Bee: 00:22:33

really interesting that this is what broke out of Australian new wave

Bee: 00:22:37

cinema and, and that of everything that came out of the country at that time.

Bee: 00:22:41

This is.

Bee: 00:22:42

The thing that became the sensation.

Bee: 00:22:44

I'm, I'm grateful for that.

Nathan: 00:22:46

I think the one thing that we really touched on lightly, but not

Nathan: 00:22:49

that much is how influential the, these early movies were, we, you know, the,

Nathan: 00:22:55

the, the action in these it really sets the tone for a lot of films,

Nathan: 00:23:01

action in the eighties that Hollywood was trying to duplicate and not always

Nathan: 00:23:08

successfully, but as you can see, you, you watched a lot of Australian new wave.

Nathan: 00:23:14

So

Bee: 00:23:15

power through a lot of that.

Bee: 00:23:16

It's not, but what's, what's interesting is we talk about it in the context

Bee: 00:23:20

of its influence over Hollywood, but really Australian new wave was

Bee: 00:23:26

reinvigorating Australian's love for old Hollywood that sort of people weren't

Bee: 00:23:31

seeing those movies come out anymore.

Bee: 00:23:33

So in the context of that wave of cinema, you know, we talk about George

Bee: 00:23:38

Miller, this one kind of sounds like it's kind of seems like a silent film.

Bee: 00:23:41

This one seems like it could be sort of a Western.

Bee: 00:23:44

That's the wave of cinema that they were doing.

Bee: 00:23:47

They were emulating all those films that they, that people stopped making.

Sam: 00:23:50

Agreed.

Sam: 00:23:50

And Furiosa definitely had that like, Coming of age, epic vibe where

Sam: 00:23:54

it's like, this is like, like a saga for like through time, a saga film.

Sam: 00:23:58

I like that, which I think

Bee: 00:23:59

speaks to how timeless those storytelling techniques are when we

Bee: 00:24:04

think about film as a movement and its influences, we can always go back

Bee: 00:24:09

to these ways of telling story and trust that they're going to live on.

Nathan: 00:24:14

Great.

Nathan: 00:24:14

Well, let's put a bow and a bow on.

Nathan: 00:24:18

Our Mad Max retrospective.

Nathan: 00:24:19

That was, that was a fun month,

Nathan: 00:24:21

but we are going to be

Nathan: 00:24:23

transitioning into the month of June where we are going to be featuring

Nathan: 00:24:28

our subject is June pride, and we're going to be getting to that soon, but before we

Nathan: 00:24:32

do that, we're going to just transition to movie musings, where we're going to just

Nathan: 00:24:36

talk a little bit about some of the things that we've been watching the past month.

Nathan: 00:24:40

And I, hi.

Nathan: 00:24:42

I will, I high highlight a few things that I want to talk about.

Nathan: 00:24:45

We don't have a lot of time tonight, but who would like to begin?

Nathan: 00:24:48

I can begin first, or me or Sam.

Nathan: 00:24:51

Go for it.

Nathan: 00:24:52

Nate, I'll jump first because there, there's three things I want to mention.

Nathan: 00:24:57

I did a rewatch of Rosemary's Baby.

Nathan: 00:25:01

I haven't seen this movie in ages.

Nathan: 00:25:03

Have you guys seen this?

Bee: 00:25:04

Yeah, I rewatched it a couple years ago.

Bee: 00:25:06

I'm super interested to hear what you have to say about this.

Bee: 00:25:09

I don't have thought I, I've seen the film.

Bee: 00:25:10

If you

Sam: 00:25:10

can believe

Nathan: 00:25:10

it, I've gotta see it.

Nathan: 00:25:11

I saw this movie in the mid nineties in college, and my expectations of

Nathan: 00:25:16

this movie were something that this movie is not, I thought this was

Nathan: 00:25:20

supposed to be some like horror movie.

Nathan: 00:25:22

All like The Exorcist with, right.

Nathan: 00:25:24

It's like, but it's, this is really psychological horror.

Nathan: 00:25:27

So I went into this with fresh eyes.

Nathan: 00:25:30

And it made a world of difference.

Nathan: 00:25:31

I, the basic plot, if anyone out there does not know Mia Farrow

Nathan: 00:25:34

as a wife, she's married to John Casavetes and they move into upscale

Nathan: 00:25:38

neighborhood in the Upper West Side.

Nathan: 00:25:40

I'm sure most listeners know the premise, but if not, I don't want

Nathan: 00:25:43

to spoil too much of this, but.

Nathan: 00:25:45

What is a 55 year old movie, so who knows.

Nathan: 00:25:48

Anyways, what this movie really isn't, it's not so much a horror movie in the

Nathan: 00:25:53

traditional sense, but a critique on the oppression and the manipulation

Nathan: 00:25:56

of women, particularly in the context of reproductive rights, which I never

Nathan: 00:26:01

really Thought about ever, you know, when I, when I watched this the first time,

Bee: 00:26:05

kind of the way that the exorcist, which you just brought

Bee: 00:26:08

up as a critique of mental health.

Nathan: 00:26:10

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:26:11

Much of the subtext went right over my head.

Nathan: 00:26:14

The first time I watched this back in my early twenties and seeing this now,

Nathan: 00:26:17

especially with the current climate with what's happening with Roe v.

Nathan: 00:26:21

Wade, this film, I think is even more prescient than ever.

Nathan: 00:26:25

So I'm thankful I got to revisit this because now I kind of

Nathan: 00:26:29

understand why it's considered one of the greatest films of all time.

Nathan: 00:26:32

I had a really good time watching this.

Nathan: 00:26:34

It really made me think a lot.

Nathan: 00:26:36

So there's a lot of things I want to talk about tonight, but I, I really

Nathan: 00:26:41

loved this movie now seeing it.

Nathan: 00:26:43

Appropriately.

Nathan: 00:26:45

And I got to see this in in on a Blu ray as well, which I think I saw this

Nathan: 00:26:49

probably on cable in the nineties.

Nathan: 00:26:51

So this looked really good.

Nathan: 00:26:53

It was, I, I brought, I took it out of my library.

Nathan: 00:26:56

There's, they have a, they have a criterion version of it, so I

Nathan: 00:26:58

got to see all the documentaries that came with it and stuff.

Nathan: 00:27:00

So it's really, really cool.

Nathan: 00:27:03

John

Bee: 00:27:03

Cassavetes deserves to be seen in high resolution.

Nathan: 00:27:08

And I'll go again, but anyone else have something they want to mention?

Bee: 00:27:11

Totally different vibes to Rosemary's Baby.

Bee: 00:27:14

I went to the theater this week and I saw Babes, which was super fun.

Bee: 00:27:19

It's like the

Nathan: 00:27:20

Babe, right?

Bee: 00:27:22

The Babe.

Bee: 00:27:22

That's right.

Bee: 00:27:23

That's exactly what it was.

Bee: 00:27:24

No, you know, it's, it's good to see just an out and out comedy in the theaters.

Bee: 00:27:30

It kind of was reminiscent of bridesmaids for me, which I'm

Bee: 00:27:33

sure that's floating around a lot.

Bee: 00:27:34

I haven't read a lot of the reviews on this film yet.

Bee: 00:27:37

You know, is this like a perfect movie?

Bee: 00:27:39

No, it's just a good movie to go.

Bee: 00:27:41

Good Tuesday night movie.

Bee: 00:27:42

You know, just go see it, go hang out.

Bee: 00:27:44

It was funny.

Bee: 00:27:44

I really like Alana Glazier.

Bee: 00:27:46

I think she's awesome.

Bee: 00:27:47

So I was glad to see it.

Bee: 00:27:48

Yeah, fun, fun time.

Bee: 00:27:49

Awesome.

Bee: 00:27:50

Cool.

Sam: 00:27:51

So I because it was the 25th anniversary of The Phantom

Sam: 00:27:56

Menace, which I can't believe that that much time has passed.

Sam: 00:27:59

I went and saw that and I honestly, I really had the same reaction that

Sam: 00:28:02

I did to the film the first time.

Sam: 00:28:03

I feel it's like overstuffed with like, Early CGI, some of which is good, some

Sam: 00:28:08

of which isn't, the dialogue is kind of dull, but I do see George Lucas interest

Sam: 00:28:14

in like, geopolitical situations and how like, the Senate can be manipulated,

Sam: 00:28:18

and he's really interested in that, but he focuses more on that than the

Sam: 00:28:22

storytelling I must say that, I, it does have two excellent, like, set pieces

Sam: 00:28:28

from Star Wars Lords, the pod race as well as the battle with Darth Maul,

Sam: 00:28:33

and Obi Wan at the end of the film.

Sam: 00:28:34

So those are always going to be amazing to me.

Sam: 00:28:37

I actually like Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith more.

Sam: 00:28:40

I prefer those films, but I will say lastly, the funnest part of

Sam: 00:28:43

going back to see the movie was not necessarily the movie itself, but

Sam: 00:28:47

it, it brought back so many memories of 1999 that I hadn't thought about.

Sam: 00:28:52

And so I was like, Oh, I remember seeing this at that age.

Sam: 00:28:55

There was a nostalgia factor.

Sam: 00:28:57

So it was fun.

Sam: 00:28:58

I'm glad I went and saw it.

Nathan: 00:29:01

Great.

Nathan: 00:29:01

Great.

Nathan: 00:29:01

I are all three prequels coming to the theater or did

Nathan: 00:29:04

they already come in and out?

Nathan: 00:29:06

I thought

Sam: 00:29:07

they've been like they've come in and out a lot, but I think they'll

Sam: 00:29:10

probably do like, so the 25th anniversary for attack of the clones will be

Sam: 00:29:14

like, you know, two years from now.

Sam: 00:29:16

And then for wrench, this is like, I'm sure they'll have it for everyone.

Sam: 00:29:18

I thought I read that

Nathan: 00:29:19

all three of them were coming out, like one after the other, this This spring

Nathan: 00:29:22

or fall this summer or something, if they

Sam: 00:29:24

are, that'd be great.

Sam: 00:29:25

I would prefer to see the other two.

Sam: 00:29:27

Yeah.

Sam: 00:29:27

I mean, I haven't, I don't know.

Nathan: 00:29:29

All right.

Nathan: 00:29:30

I'll mention another thing that I saw.

Nathan: 00:29:31

This might be spoiling our mid year top five, but there's always a chance

Nathan: 00:29:35

that things could be shuffled around.

Nathan: 00:29:38

But right now, this is my favorite film of the year.

Nathan: 00:29:42

It is love lies, bleeding rose glass.

Nathan: 00:29:44

It has its roots.

Nathan: 00:29:46

Deeply, I think, in the Coen brothers aesthetic have you all

Nathan: 00:29:49

heard the theory that all of their films are in a shared universe?

Bee: 00:29:52

Yes.

Bee: 00:29:52

Okay.

Nathan: 00:29:53

It's, I, I, I feel like this is only internet theory and

Nathan: 00:29:56

the Coens have never confirmed this.

Nathan: 00:29:58

Right.

Nathan: 00:29:59

But I personally would like, I, I buy into this.

Nathan: 00:30:02

If that's a true fact, Love Lies Bleeding feels like it could share

Nathan: 00:30:07

that universe, possibly living adjacently to the events happening a

Nathan: 00:30:10

few towns over from what's happening in Raising Arizona or Blood Simple.

Nathan: 00:30:14

This stars Kristen Stewart, who I think is perfect in this

Nathan: 00:30:18

film, And who else is in this?

Nathan: 00:30:22

I forget the other actresses name.

Nathan: 00:30:23

Well, anyways, so one day, yeah, I think she is going to get the

Nathan: 00:30:27

recognition she deserves, but also Katie O'Brien is also terrific in this

Nathan: 00:30:33

and the supporting cast and Harris, Dave Franco, Jenna Malone's in this.

Nathan: 00:30:37

A few months ago one of my most anticipated movies, of the year really

Nathan: 00:30:42

disappointed me, driveway dolls.

Nathan: 00:30:44

And this feels like it's, you know, every couple of years is like the

Nathan: 00:30:47

doppelganger film that comes out.

Nathan: 00:30:49

This is the much better film about a female couple who are on their

Nathan: 00:30:53

road trip and they get in over the head in the world of crime.

Nathan: 00:30:57

Highest of recommendations.

Nathan: 00:30:59

I love this movie.

Nathan: 00:31:00

This probably will definitely be on my top 10 list at the end of the year.

Nathan: 00:31:04

I love this film.

Bee: 00:31:06

I have heard so much about this film and I haven't seen it yet.

Bee: 00:31:10

And I don't know what's taking me so long.

Bee: 00:31:11

I love Kristen Stewart.

Bee: 00:31:13

It sounds right up my street.

Bee: 00:31:14

I got, I got to get to it, man.

Bee: 00:31:16

This is the motivation I need.

Nathan: 00:31:18

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:31:20

Instead, I

Bee: 00:31:21

watched Jim Henson's Idea Man and it was tepid, fine.

Bee: 00:31:27

It's good to watch, you know, footage of Jim Henson and his kids.

Bee: 00:31:31

I like that they shone such a light on their mom's work

Bee: 00:31:34

and how instrumental she was.

Bee: 00:31:36

They really glossed over the Disney stuff.

Bee: 00:31:38

It was fine.

Bee: 00:31:39

It's fine.

Bee: 00:31:40

Okay.

Sam: 00:31:40

I, damn, I'm really excited about that.

Sam: 00:31:42

I was hoping for more but I'll have to watch it.

Sam: 00:31:44

I'm, I'm hearing some, I love, I mean, I love Jim Henson, but yeah.

Bee: 00:31:48

Me too.

Bee: 00:31:49

I, I'm a huge Jim Henson fan and I think you know, it's just, it's nice to sort

Bee: 00:31:54

of watch a, a compilation of his work.

Bee: 00:31:57

So I think if you go into it with that expectation as opposed to like

Bee: 00:32:00

a, a really great toothy documentary, you're not going to get that.

Nathan: 00:32:04

Right.

Nathan: 00:32:06

Sam, any, anything else you want to mention?

Nathan: 00:32:08

Thank you.

Sam: 00:32:08

So top five, you mean, or

Nathan: 00:32:10

no, no, no, just anything in the month of May.

Sam: 00:32:13

In the, God, I saw nothing.

Sam: 00:32:15

In fact, I feel like I represent the average movie goer.

Sam: 00:32:18

Cause I just didn't,

Nathan: 00:32:20

according to Hollywood reporter, I think you're supposed to watch what was it

Nathan: 00:32:25

supposed to be like two movies of a month in order to support the industry, right?

Nathan: 00:32:32

No one or something like that or no 12.

Nathan: 00:32:34

I forget there's a report and how many movies the average adult person should

Nathan: 00:32:38

watch a year to support the industry.

Nathan: 00:32:40

And it doesn't seem like it's a lot, but maybe if you think about it, it is.

Nathan: 00:32:44

Yeah.

Sam: 00:32:45

I mean, I saw Fury Road and I thought about seeing if, then I was

Sam: 00:32:48

like, I actually do really want to see kingdom of the planet of the apes.

Sam: 00:32:51

That's the one that's actually of those films.

Sam: 00:32:53

That's like the most robust box office in May.

Sam: 00:32:56

And like, it got decent reviews and like, I will see, I'm going to

Sam: 00:32:59

get to the theater and see that.

Sam: 00:33:01

Yeah, but

Sam: 00:33:01

I've missed the fall guy.

Sam: 00:33:02

I'm sure it looked good, but I, Hey, it's probably already streaming.

Sam: 00:33:05

Yeah.

Bee: 00:33:06

I saw, I saw I think 25 movies this month, but they,

Bee: 00:33:11

they weren't all in theater.

Bee: 00:33:12

So I don't know if that counts.

Bee: 00:33:13

I, a lot of them were Osploitation, Australian new wave stuff.

Bee: 00:33:17

So if anybody wants some recommendations for those movies,

Bee: 00:33:20

hit me up, I've got letterbox lists.

Bee: 00:33:23

It was, some of them were a really good time.

Nathan: 00:33:25

All right.

Nathan: 00:33:25

I have one last thing I want to mention that I saw.

Nathan: 00:33:27

I So, late night with the devil.

Nathan: 00:33:30

This is a one of a kind movie.

Nathan: 00:33:32

It's, it's kind of a horror faux documentary found footage film,

Nathan: 00:33:36

but it's so much more than that.

Nathan: 00:33:38

I recommend everybody go out and seek this one out.

Nathan: 00:33:41

It stars one of our most awesome.

Nathan: 00:33:43

underused character actors, David Dastmalchian, who portrays a 1970s

Nathan: 00:33:48

late night talk show host, Jack Delroy.

Nathan: 00:33:51

Without spoiling anything, this entire movie is presented as if we're

Nathan: 00:33:55

watching a found footage, lost episode of one of his episodes of a show

Nathan: 00:34:01

called Night Owls with Jack Delroy.

Nathan: 00:34:04

This film is so good.

Nathan: 00:34:06

It's so good.

Nathan: 00:34:06

It's so original.

Nathan: 00:34:08

And I was really blown away and surprised by everything that happens in this film.

Nathan: 00:34:13

And I'm being intentionally vague because I think everyone just needs to see this.

Nathan: 00:34:17

I don't want to spoil the plot of this, but just trust me, this film is great.

Nathan: 00:34:20

David Dastmalchian needs more vehicles to showcase his talents.

Nathan: 00:34:25

It's on Shudder right now, and you can also, I think, get it on VOD.

Nathan: 00:34:29

Love him in

Bee: 00:34:30

Blade Runner 2049.

Nathan: 00:34:31

Yeah, he is so, he's, he's, he's great.

Nathan: 00:34:33

He needs, I don't know, he either needs a TV show or, or something.

Nathan: 00:34:37

Like, I don't know.

Nathan: 00:34:38

He's, he's really good.

Nathan: 00:34:39

So check this out.

Nathan: 00:34:40

Really is great.

Nathan: 00:34:42

That's it.

Nathan: 00:34:42

I saw a couple of other things.

Nathan: 00:34:43

Bea, I don't know if there's anything else you want to mention.

Bee: 00:34:45

I think we both saw Evil Does Not Exist.

Nathan: 00:34:48

Yes.

Nathan: 00:34:49

How did

Bee: 00:34:50

you feel?

Nathan: 00:34:51

Hmm.

Nathan: 00:34:52

I haven't really formulated my thought.

Nathan: 00:34:53

I mean, it was, it's, it's a slow meandering, but really beautiful film.

Nathan: 00:34:58

And, and I like the fact that it's going in one direction and then characters

Nathan: 00:35:03

who you think are just like minor characters end up being like the subject

Nathan: 00:35:07

and the main characters in the movie.

Nathan: 00:35:09

I And then it has, well, I don't want to spoil the ending of it, but I'm

Nathan: 00:35:14

really puzzled still what it means.

Nathan: 00:35:18

And I actually started researching online what the ending means,

Nathan: 00:35:22

and there are no answers.

Nathan: 00:35:25

And that kind of frustrated me that it's a movie that seems to be so rooted in.

Nathan: 00:35:30

And Grounded goes in a direction that is such a head scratching ending.

Bee: 00:35:36

See, I liked it because I thought the movie was, was

Bee: 00:35:38

very ethereal and dreamlike.

Bee: 00:35:41

And, and there's sort of this intangible quality about the ending, but I

Bee: 00:35:46

definitely left the theater a little unsatisfied in it and it grew on me.

Bee: 00:35:49

But again, I think Drive My Car is the better, the better movie.

Sam: 00:35:52

By the way, I totally forgot to mention this at the Beverly Cinema in

Sam: 00:35:55

in LA, this was in the month of May.

Sam: 00:35:58

I did see Clerks and Mallrats.

Sam: 00:36:00

They were headed to Devil's Features.

Sam: 00:36:01

So that was, yeah, that was fun.

Sam: 00:36:03

It was good revisiting them.

Bee: 00:36:05

That's a good name.

Sam: 00:36:06

And I know Clerks is the more like, well received like, you know, like,

Sam: 00:36:11

independent like, breakthrough film.

Sam: 00:36:12

But I do like the, I find mole rats very amusing.

Nathan: 00:36:17

Alright alright.

Nathan: 00:36:18

And also

Sam: 00:36:19

I saw a part of Die Hard with a Vengeance on AMC.

Sam: 00:36:22

But then I fell asleep, but it was good.

Bee: 00:36:26

And that's May, folks!

Sam: 00:36:27

I won't let you down, folks!

Bee: 00:36:30

Woo!

Nathan: 00:36:32

All right.

Nathan: 00:36:32

I think we are going to wrap it up there and stay tuned for

Nathan: 00:36:38

our June June pride episodes.

Nathan: 00:36:41

We are going to be coming in next Monday with our first episode,

Nathan: 00:36:44

which is the adventures of Priscilla queen of the desert with our

Nathan: 00:36:49

guest Rob Chrissy, who joined us.

Nathan: 00:36:53

So keep our eyes out for that and we'll see you next time.