Hideo Kojima goes mad for the new Mad Max, says George Miller 'is my God, and the saga that he tells is my Bible'

Game director Hideo Kojima, whose self-penned bio includes the line «70% of my body is made of movies», has long had a sideline in film criticism. You can even buy a book collecting some of his many pieces, among which my favourite anecdote was his recollection of watching Taxi Driver as a young man, after which he decided to dress like Travis Bickle: I only wish there were pictures.

Kojima used to write for many magazines, both in Japan and the west: PCG brand director Tim Clark remembers him penning a film column for the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine, which would apparently always arrive well over the wordcount and drive the poor sub-editor batty.

But these days Kojima goes direct to the public via Twitter, and divining the tea leaves of how he posts is enormous fun: mainly because, if he just says he's watched something and makes no further comment, you know he thought it was absolute dreck. If he praises it a little bit, he liked it, but when Kojima starts cracking out the excessive punctuation and themed jokes you know he's going gaga. A personal favourite is his Dune 2 review:

«Even as a movie buff, I was beginning to think it was time for me to start watching movies on my smartphone or tablet. However, when I watched 'Dune: Part 2', my rigid ways of thinking crumbled like sand! [...] it magnificently captivates destruction and aestheticism in beautiful layers. This film shouts, 'This is cinema!' and provides the 'spice' that we need to live. This masterpiece of Denis will likely become a 'resistance' that will significantly delay the spread of subscription services.»

One of the threads in his cinephilia is a devotion to the works of George Miller, the wide-ranging director best-known for the Mad Max films (it amuses and impresses me in equal measure that he also directed Babe and Happy Feet). Miller's latest film is Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, and guess who got themselves down to the pictures, and loved what they saw to an absurd degree.  

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