3Amoviegos

This week on 3Amoviegos we bring along our special guest Mr. Paul to see George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Starring Tom Hardy as Max, Charlize Theron as Furiosa, Nicholas Hoult as Nux and Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe, this fourth installment of Miller’s tales of the legendary road warrior finds Max caught in the middle of a daring escape. When War Rig driver Furiosa decides to go rouge and help a group of 5 enslaved wives, selected especially for breeding by Immortan Joe, escape the ruthless cult tyrant, Max is thrust into a chase that’s not his, but fights for a cause he finds himself unable to abandon. Hear our four heroes talk an awful lot about a movie that had surprisingly little dialogue, on this week’s episode of 3Amoviegos.

This week on 3Amoviegos, Ian, Martyn & Joe ride again, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper & Keith David have what seems to be the longest fight in cinema history, and John Carpenter describes 2015 pretty accurately for 1988, in They Live. Roddy Piper stars as Nada, a drifter who, after befriending Frank (Keith David) notices some strange activity in and around a local shantytown soup kitchen, including constant TV signal hacking by a warning to everyone about those in power. After a midnight police raid of the shantytown and nearby church building, Nada finds a box of sunglasses that have the ability to see through disguises and reveals subliminal totalitarian commands in all media, and that many people around us are actually humanoid aliens with skull-like faces. Then, he decides to chew bubble gum…and kick some ass. After escaping with slightly less than compliant Holly (Meg Foster) and coming off as a complete nutter who babbles on about hidden messages and people, he gets knocked out a window and left to fend for himself. After Frank meets up with Nada to give him his paycheck, the previously mentioned fight occurs. Once Frank’s eyes are open, he and Nada meet up with a band of rebels, figure out what the alien being are after, and teleport to the source of the camouflaging alien signal; The local Cable news station, which is where Holly works. Everything culminates in a gunfight to destroy the signal at the top of the tower, along with Martyn’s disdain for the selfie stick. On this week’s episode of 3Amoviegos.

Johnny Depp plays Will Caster, prominent researcher and developer in the A.I. world. Along with his wife and trusted colleague, Will is trying to create a self-aware machine that contains infinite knowledge and full range of human personality and emotion. When he and his colleagues become the targets for radical guerrilla hackers, Will finds himself faced with the inescapable fact that he, out of necessity, becomes the first living participant in what he calls Transcendence. And it works. Suddenly Evelyn (Rebekah Hall) and Max (Paul Bettany) have to decide how much of this new Will is actually Will, and who’s interests is he working toward? An eventual split between Will’s thirst for knowledge and power and Max’s human morality sets the stage for the inevitable question. Can something that is smarter than you be stopped by you? We ride through this film accompanied by impressions of our favorite South African Rapper, a business proposal for Cowboy Curtis, the plot of the movie The Sandlot, a shoutout to a twitter fan, and a new blend called Allsorts. All this and more on this week’s episode of 3Amoviegos.

In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. When one police droid, Number 22, is damaged and then stolen, his designer Deon (Dev Patel) re-programs him with his newly cracked Artificial Intelligence system. Given the name Chappie, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. While living in an abandoned shipyard with pastel-loving Ninja and Yolandi (Die Antwoord), Chappie bounces between learning a creative and curious mindset to one of pseudo-gangster and mischief maker. When Chappie is discovered by Moore (Hugh Jackman), he and powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind, and they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind. We wrap it up this week with a track from Die Antwoord, Enter the Ninja. On this week’s episode of 3Amoviegos.

Set in Los Angeles 2019, Rick Deckard (Ford), is forced out of retirement to become a "Blade Runner" who's sole job is to track down bioengineered beings known as replicants and "retire" (destroy) them. Four Tyrell Corporation built Nexus-6 replicants are fixed with only a four-year lifespan and have returned to Earth illegally suspected to have come to try and extend their lives. Aside from Deckard's "passionate" behavior toward Rachel (Sean Young), we reminisce on the various "rapey" characters Harrison Ford has played from, Indiana Jones, Han Solo and Rick Deckard to… Dr. Richard Kimble? We discuss the nightmarish aesthetic of the movie, Ford's recent plane crash and his new forehead scar, how to safely guide a plane to an adventurous crash landing, the dangers of golf, the other actors ahead of Ford for the role of Deckard, Blade Runner as one of the first DVD's, what is it to be human, Jabba The Hutt walking around, the incredible hunting powers of an owl and the people who worship them, Nexus -6 Daryl Hanna's Best-Death scene and how thankful we are that the original cheesy ending was chopped from the directors cut. We close out the evening by dusting off our boots and sombreros before frolicking off into the sunset like Harrison Ford from Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade…but less rapey, more ridey.