Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Back from the Far Country
If you are a child of the 80?s, these words are likely forever burned into your grey matter: ?Two men enter, one man leaves.?
If you are a child of the 80?s, these words are likely forever burned into your grey matter: ?Two men enter, one man leaves.?
The Road Warrior outshines its predecessor, an uneasy feat for most sequels. It evolves and expands its protagonist well past the final glimpse of the revenge killer left at the end of chapter 1.
The future sucks.
And if you?re a bad guy with a really lame nickname, it really, really sucks.
How do you take this world you have created with Iron Man that feels grounded and then throw this outer worldly element into it? It?s a big task.
Selma should?ve won at least two Academy Awards…David Oyelowo was that spectacular as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
I feel in order for a summer blockbuster to really take off and break records like The Avengers did, it has to have certain elements that make fans want to go to the theatre more than just once.
Seven years ago (has it been that long?), I remember sitting in the theatre to see a movie about a ?B? level superhero in the Marvel canon. Or so I thought.
There?s much more intent in the heart of Rogers than in many other superheroes I admire. Rogers is the puny, underdeveloped kid who wants so badly to defend his country but can?t. He?s not accidentally struck with a gamma ray, spider bite, or blinding chemicals. He chooses to serve.