Fury Road - Crash & Smash

This effects video from Mad Max: Fury Road has been making the rounds, so you may have already seen it. When Mad Max hit theaters people couldn't stop talking about how much of it was shot using practical effects as opposed to CGI. This video definitely showcases those practical effects.

I thought Fury Road was a really good movie but I'm not quite as in love with it as some were. Maybe it's because all the hype led to some really unreasonable expectations. Maybe I just need to watch it again without having to stop it every 15 minutes because my kids need something like food or attention.

Mad Max Fan re-creates Max's Interceptor

Some crazy awesome guy with way to much disposable income spent about $120,000 re-creating Mad Max's 1972 Ford Falcon. It looks really, really cool. Pretty much anything on the street with a huge blower gets my attention, but the amount of detail he's recreated is impressive.

I love that it gets 6 miles to a gallon. What a terrible car to drive around in the apocalypse.

Tom Hardy in Mad Max is a thing, right?

Man, nothing is happening today. Here's a picture of Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) in the Mad Max reboot: Fury Road. I have nothing to say about this, other than that I'm surprised it's taken them this long to do a reboot. Maybe some studio exec was holding out for Mel Gibson to uncrazy himself.

Christmas is going well so far, for all the friends out there I haven't talked to in a while. I avoided the shaft this year and got the big bonus, which is good because the Christmas budget has been blown. Also this whole fiscal cliff nonsense everyone has been going on and on about really could hit me straight in the crotch gout. If they axe a couple of those "middle income" tax deductions we could very quickly go from breaking even this year to owing like 2 grand. Now that I think about that, how can they do that? They can't raise taxes for the year that's almost over, they have to be looking at taxes for 2013, right?

Also my car still needs either a new Mass Air Flow sensor or a new Thermostat sensor. I think I'm going to buy a thermostat sensor first, it's harder to replace but it's the cheaper of the two parts and it would explain why my heater has been acting wonky lately.

I'll be taking next week off to stay at home with Logan. His daycare is closed the week of Christmas. Hopefully I can get him to watch a couple new movies with me. I'm going to go crazy if I spend the entire week watching Cars 2 over and over and over. Seriously who thought 'Mater should be the star of the sequel? He's the worst... ugh.