wabbit's warren

Treasure
Fandom: Mad Max: Fury Road
Rated: G
Category: Gen, friendship. Max, Furiosa.
Summary: For them, silver is definitely more precious than gold.
Word Count: 623.

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Here's a new one, about the best thing I saw at Dragon Con. I was saving that for its own entry, and here it is. Also, I ran into werewulf there (and it was the second time I unintentionally saw her this year - hooray for happy conincidences*)!

*Not that it's really a conincidence that an awesome lady would be at a photoshoot for an awesome movie, but whatever, right?

Okay, well, just the one, but whatever.



I've seen Fury Road four times now. I'd go again right this minute if I could*. I have a countdown in my phone to when it goes on sale on Blu-Ray, and I'm stoked beyond all joy that it's before Dragon Con, so I can watch it while I travel, etc, though I'd love for it to just stay in the dollar theater forever, too. It's still amazing, and gods help me, but I still stand by what I said the first time I saw it, when I told hubby it would be the best movie of the year. When he reminded me of a little film that comes out in 128 days, I responded without thought with, "There's no way Star Wars will be that good."**

Yes. I said that. I did. And it would hurt me to admit that if Fury Road wasn't so bloody brilliant.

But it is, so like I said, I stand by it. And you know how much that means for a Star Wars geek like me. But seriously. For expecations alone, I think it's going to be true. Because even with all the buzz I'd heard from people I trust, I still didn't expect Fury Road to change me. But it did. And because it's Star Wars, I expect Episode VII to blow me away, so it has a much harder job if it wants to thrill me. Just the facts.***

But I digress. I could do that a lot more when talking about Fury Road. I could tell you about how I took my sister-in-law to see it last week and she cried three times and wants to see it again. She who "doesn't like action movies." Yeah...

But again, I digress. I just wanted to post an icon from one of my very favorite scenes in the movie. One I finally got a pic of due to a lovely YouTuber. An icon of a true handshake between equals. An icon that tells me that we can perhaps "together, come across some kind of redemption."



*Yes, I know I could buy the Vudu version now on early digital release, but I have an older phone and it won't run that app, so I'm not paying the money for that just to watch it on my computer. Fuck you, Apple. Fuck you. Ahem. Moving on.

**Could you imagine it if was, though? Oh, be still my heart.

***I still haven't even seen a preview for Star Wars, and I don't plan to, but one played at my most recent viewing of Fury Road. I curled up and closed my eyes and plugged my ears and didn't see or hear anything except that music. Couldn't avoid that. And when it played, I literally jumped. I wasn't prepared for it without the visual cues of the preview ending. I flinched hard core and almost wet myself. Just from the music. And when I saw a poster recently in a theater, I nearly cried, because it made it real. And I've already taken December 17th and 18th off work. So yeah. Expecations are different for that movie, and it won't have to do much to put a huge smile on my face. But it simply can't knock my socks off like Fury Road did because it can't surprise me in that way. There's no way I won't see it at least twice, but it's...different. Again, I stand by my words, may the Force forgive me. It shocked me how easily they came out of my mouth then, but that was telling of how great Fury Road is, I think. Very telling, because no matter what, I am still a Jedi, like my father before me.