Tonight two movies with wind swept barren planes. First up Mad Max Fury Road, George Miller's return to the world of Mad Max, with it's barren wind swept desert. The new movie is bigger, louder, dustier and nearly one long chase. Tom Hardy is Max, he's out standing about enjoying the view of the desert wastelands when some thugs come along. He runs, gets caught, winds up a blood bag for a War Boy named Nux. The War Boy takes him along, stuck on the front of Nux's battle car, when he goes out to chase after Charlize Theron. She'd run off with the War Boy's leader's wives. Immortan Joe is coming right after her, he's brought his gang, and he calls for help from Gas Town and the Bullet Farmer. No Ted's and Bob's in the wastelands. Charlize wants to go to the green place where she lived as a child. Immortan Joe, nearly catches up to the truck but his funny car is rolled over by the truck. There's more death and destruction on a road that leads to disappointment. The movie ends on a possible positive note. And they've already got a sequel in mind for next year. I enjoyed it well enough but there wasn't as much of a thrill as when I saw Mad Max 2 in the theater the first 2 or 3 times.
Our second movie was the 1952 Finnish vampire fantasy The White Reindeer. It's written by director Erik Blomberg and his wife Mirjami Kuosmanen. It's set in barren wind swept frozen north of Finnish Lapland amongst the reindeer herders of long ago. A woman, played by Mirjami, is sold to her new husband for a big pile of cash dowry. There isn't much passion so she goes to visit the shaman. He gives her something for her troubles. Something, that turns her into a shape shifting vampire. She turns into a white reindeer at will and when she's in human form she pops some canines and chomps some locals. The village is hunting her and ironically her hubby is the one to stake her to the ground with the massive iron tipped spear. It's short, just over an hour, and it still seemed like not much was going on for a long time. It was interesting to see but I don't need to bother with it again.
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