Mad Max Fury Road: Black & Chrome Edition
Finally saw this version...just astounding in every way. Watching Fury Road in black & white is like watching a different movie. Too beautiful for words. I got to really study the compositions this way, and I'm even more impressed with this movie now. And I thought it was a masterpiece before.
The world-building, the scant dialog that gives you just enough of their religion and culture and insanity...legless men slithering through the dirt like snakes, while others on stilts walk through sour mud...mothers' milk and war pups and bullet farmers and guzzoline...
I love how the 5 wives are given their own, distinct personalities and aren't just throwaway sex slaves. On rewatch, Charlize Theron give her best performance ever. She and Tom Hardy, when on screen together, are the ultimate movie stars. Nicholas Hoult as Nux holds the film together throughout with his growth from War Boy yearning for Valhalla to realizing he's just perfectly fine as a human. His Larry and Barry also shine, of course.
Mad Max Fury Road, in any version, is this century's preeminent fairy tale. And while I still can't figure out how the Vulvalini have survived that deep in the desert (how do they gas their motorcycles?), George Miller's epic is still perfect in just about every way.
I love this movie so much.