In 1964, Lyndon Johnson is president of the United States, George Clooney is a little kid, and everyone’s looking forward to having their own jet-pack. The young George Clooney (I mean the young John Francis Walker, played by Thomas Robinson) is trying to help everyone out by getting the $50 prize at the Hall of Invention at the 1964 World’s Fair for his jet pack. Except, as he reluctantly admits to David Nix (Hugh Laurie), who is clearly someone Very Important, it doesn’t quite work yet.
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Mad Max: Fury Road
In the post-apocalyptic future, everything is scarce: fuel, water, food, but most of all actual first names.
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Avengers: The Age of Ultron
They keep jamming more and more into these movies and making them harder and harder to summarize. Someday I’m going to give up on discussing the plot and just list all the things I thought about and discuss what the audience did, sort of a meta-review, but that day is not today. I’ll do my best to hit all the high points.