Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
44:36 – 52:25… who created famously the vagina monologues was consulted to enhance the portrayal of female characters in this movie. Oh. Which is I thought interesting. Apex Mountain. Wow. George Miller. No. Happy Feet was easily better. You know Babe is really good. Babe is really. Babe and Babe 2 are excellent movies. They're very good movies. And you know we're also talking Mad Max, Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome. I think Road Warrior is his best film and in some ways laid out this carpet for him to become one of the sort of the Spielbergian directors where he could take action, he could do drama, he could do all …
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At George Miller's behest. The writer and feminist Eve Ensler who created famously the vagina monologues was consulted to enhance the portrayal of female characters in this movie. Oh. Which is I thought interesting. Apex Mountain. Wow. George Miller. No. Happy Feet was easily better. You know Babe is really good. Babe is really. Babe and Babe 2 are excellent movies. They're very good movies. And you know we're also talking Mad Max, Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome. I think Road Warrior is his best film and in some ways laid out this carpet for him to become one of the sort of the Spielbergian directors where he could take action, he could do drama, he could do all these different things and he obviously just kind of followed his own path and he did this movie Lorenzo's Oil I think after Thunderdome that was his foray into just kind of prestige drama. It was about Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte trying to cure their kids cancer. Yeah. I think it's an undefined disease. Or undefined disease. But it drew heavily from his experience as a doctor himself and you know it was like a fine tear jerker but he never really like worked at the volume that you need to work at to really get yourself in the mix like that. So I would say probably Road Warrior is Miller's Apex for me. Okay. Tom Hardy? This is really complicated. Is this the best movie Tom Hardy has ever been in? Ooh. Shall we call back to the Inception podcast? The infamous Inception podcast. Is it the best movie Tom Hardy? I bet you guys think it is. Wow. Classic take from a real taboo head. I think that Inception is probably I rate it a little higher. I would actually say that Inception is better than Fury Road in terms of movies that Tom Hardy's starred in. Or at least been in. Yeah. Been in. Yeah. I mean like because I really do love that Ames character. Yeah. We've also got Dunkirk. Uh-huh. We've got The Revenant. Uh-huh. I think my pick might be Warrior which is a movie I really love. That was what I was going to say is his apex mountain. Warrior. Yeah. That's the best he's ever been. Yeah. As a performer. Maybe not in terms of like his fame and his awareness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my favorite version of He's really really great in Warrior. And it's kind of like Tommy Conlon is kind of a better version of Max. You know where he's kind of doesn't speak very much. It's a very physical performance. That being said can you guys when we're asked there's like the fifth question in here but can you guys think of anybody else you would rather have seen played Max realistically. Well I raised the Heath Ledger thing because I thought that would have been cool. And Statham. No. No. No. No. No. Okay. No. Too comic-y. Yeah. No. Yeah. I can't think of I honestly don't think I would pick anybody else over Tom Hardy for this role. What about Charlize? Okay. Is it Charlize as No. No. I'm going to say yes. Wow. Over winning the Oscar for Monster. Yeah. Over Monster. Over her collaborations with Jason Reitman. Over a million ways to die in the West. Uh-huh. Yeah. Famously a good tidbit about this movie. You know she shaved her head for this movie so she had to wear a wig when she was making A Million Ways to Die in the West. The Seth MacFarlane. That was the only problem with A Million Days to That was the wig. That's what held it back. Yeah. I think this I think Monster is for me her apex mountain. George Miller is an interesting question. I do think this is his apex mountain even though I agree that the Road Warrior is a better film in terms of story and characters and there being and the pacing. But I think for me Fury Road is as an achievement it's almost unparalleled. Is that kind of to make that kind of movie in this era. You know what I mean? I just where everything is so CG like the balance between CG and practical effects is like almost completely CG where you could really feel the physics of what was happening where listen Mad Max is is a established IP but it's not this is the age of Marvel and comic movies and it's not it's not something you would put up there with with you know Iron Man and stuff and the Avengers and for that movie to come out. After all the struggles to get it made and for it to be that good like really for me a top five action film all time top five like it's totally watchable at any point that you turn it on if it happens to be on and you see it it started you'll just watch it because there's always something that's going to happen next and it grabs you and doesn't let go in a way that you know maybe the fugitive is a movie that the only other movie I can think of where once it starts that's it you're in you can't stop watching it. You feel propelled by it. So I think I think it for me it is his Apex Mountain because it's a singular achievement in movie making. It's incredible. Apex Mountain the Dew Warrior? Easily. Easily. Easily. Who else? Would this movie have been better with Danny Trejo, Steve Buscemi or Michael K. Williams? Micah? Michael K. Williams because I would have like yeah like to have seen at least we have Zoe Kravitz but in addition somebody who's somebody else somebody else of color would have been nice. No no no war boys of color. What if Buscemi had played Immortan Joe? Are we his friends? Splendid! Well are we sure that Immortan Joe doesn't sound like Steve Buscemi without the voice modulator? I mean he could if he played it like like his character in Fargo after he gets shot in the face you know that kind of voice I think that would help. That's kind of what you know toe cutter from the original Mad Max who was played by Hugh Keyes Byrne who plays Immortan Joe it kind of sounds like that kind of guy just with an Australian accent. Yeah. The Mark Ruffalo they knew overacting award. I wrote down everyone. Yeah I would go Rictus. Okay Rictus. Oh. Yeah I had a baby brother he's perfect in every way. Yeah. Such a good. I think yeah also the backseat all the wives after Rosie Huntington Whitley died. You know like the that was where I can't imagine that the direction was anything other than act really sad. Yeah. Just one thing that is kind of exciting about this movie but also makes it different is it's not all shot in 24 frames per second. It's it's sped up a lot. Yeah. And so it feels like a movie from the 1930s a lot of the time. It's sort of like the old fashioned version of listening to a podcast the 2x you know it's kind of moving faster. Yeah. And I think that that kind of fucks with a lot of the performances because it just seems more cartoony. Yeah. You know and maybe that's a good thing it kind of helps with the pacing and the action that you're supposed to feel this adrenaline that is moving at all times. The only person I feel like doesn't get affected by that is Charlize. Charlize. Yes. She's very languid and she looks very like all of her movements seem incredibly graceful whereas Tom Hardy is just like a three stooges character. Yes. It looks like Buster Keaton at times. I don't believe that this is the case but I'd like to nominate also the scene where the bullet farmer runs over one of the Vuvulinis at the end and makes like what can only be described as a strange like orgasm face. Oh yeah. Yes. Oh it's the Gastown guy. It was the Gastown guy. Yeah the Gastown guy.
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