Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
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I am looking at the back of a man who stands on a sandy precipice beside his souped up sports car, and I have just enough time to think three things:
1) Wow, the colors of this post-apocalyptic desert wasteland are so saturated that they make Luke Skywalker’s homeland look positively grayscaled by comparison!
2) Is this guy just scanning the horizon, out beyond the dunes? Or he is preparing to urinate over the edge? And then,
3) I wonder how long this goes before we hit the first chase scene and we see Max —
BOOM!
We’re off! He’s jumping in his car! And the first mad, mad, mad chase scene of Mad Max: Fury Road is underway!
And if you’re not excited about tha..