FURY ROAD!

Well it has been 30 years since a Mad Max film has been released. It has been even longer since a good Mad Max movie has been released. Thunder Dome had very few great moments. The Road Warrior and the original Mad Max hold special places of awesomeness in my twisted little brain. Now we are given Mad Max: Fury Road. I finally had time to go see it.

It

Did

Not

Disappoint!

Graduation 2015, nature and ghosts

This past weekend we ran out east to see my son graduate from high school. Yeah I’m really really really really really old.

Me and my boy!

Super proud of the boy and his accomplishments. Now he starts college soon. Look out world!

Weekly schlock and new old school?

I know this film is both lauded and vilified. It is a throwback to bygone days and it is a genre travesty. It was both over and under hyped years ago. It really seems to be polarizing between horror fan. I know going in that this is not a parody, but a quasi-homage to the slasher genre of yesteryear.

I have dipped my toe into the Hatchet trilogy.

We open on a verbally abusive father and son out for a typical night of gator hunting. Well it all goes awry as something attacks them. Then……

It is Mardi Gras and this guy Ben has the blues because his girlfriend is gone. His buddies are trying to cheer him up with booze, beads and boobs. This has no effect and Ben decides to ditch the party to go on a creepy haunted swamp boat tour. His buddy, and token black guy, Marcus tags along with him. Off they go into the creepy haunted swamp along with an older married couple, a quiet and shady girl (Marybeth), an amateur porn director and his two boob flashing bim-bettes, and the tour guide who was an Asian guy with a horrible southern accent.

Along the way the boat gets stuck and the group of course gets to land. It is here that Marybeth reveals that this little patch of swamp is home to the murderous Victor Crowley, a ghost local legend. Except it is no legend and this Victor guy killed her dad and brother. (insert Victor Crowley backstory that involves a deformed kid, shenanigans, fire and an axe to the face) Marybeth is on a mission to get revenge on Victor Crowley by killing him. That sounds logical since he is a ghost? Now the little group is must escape the swamp with Victor Crowley, who is giant deformed muscly kill crazy freak show now, jumping out from behind any piece of foliage to dismember anyone he can grab.

Hatchet has all the benchmarks of an 80’s slasher: unkillable bad guy, a inane plot, BEWBS, characters you don’t really get to know or care about, dialogue that isn’t the greatest, attempted comedy hits and good old fashioned practical effect gore. A great job was done making this film feel like an old school slasher!

The antagonist Victor Crowley

Read again, almost like the first time

Just pushed through the original three Dragonlance novels (Dragons Autumn Twilight, Winter Night and Spring Dawning) or the Chronicles series. I guess that is what it is officially called. This is only my second trip through this series and damn did I forget how much I loved them.

Alright if you are one of the eight people who is a fantasy nerd and haven’t read these three books yet, then stop. Close this and go read them. You will not be disappointed.

Why?

Hammer time?

I haven't paid any attention to the WOW movie since I heard about it a while ago.

Now this pic is all over the place and now I'm paying attention.....well almost.

Sadly since this is video game adaptation movie I expect it to suck. The tons of previous video game to movies have all been drek, and I can't imagine this one being different.

At least this has the look of Mr. Ogrim Doomhammer seems legit.

CROSSBONES!

                                        First look at Crossbones in the next Cap movie! 

Looks so much better than this..........

Palindrome week concludes!



Yeah nothing really going on here this week, but at least this happened this year.
Yes it did last year in April and will next year in June.
Still pretty cool though.