Imagine a movie where Tom Hardy is the point of calm. Max’s re-enfranchisement is a triumph of barking-mad imagination, jaw-dropping action, crackpot humour, and acting in the face of a hurricane.
Miller's long-delayed return to the Mad Max series, which has its European premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later this week, is nothing less than a Krakatoan eruption of craziness. The director last visited this world in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, but this feels more like a spiritual sequel to The Road Warrior, the far superior 1981 instalment.
Utterly embarrasses a generation of Hollywood blockbuster
Even the 'Fast and Furious' movies look like Autopia test drives next to George Miller's powerhouse reimagining of his iconic 'Mad Max' franchise.
In a better world the conversation around Mad Max: Fury Road would be all about how much George Miller, a true master of cinema, deserves the Best Director Oscar.
Tom Hardy is a macho Mr Bean in brilliantly pimped reboot
'Mad Max: Fury Road' Is An Action Movie Masterpiece
meh
Noisy, explosive and visually spectacular but depressingly hollow.
Strong female action stars :lawd Was just last night talking about how severely under-appreciated Cynthia Rothrock was.
Hoping to see this with a buddy on Saturday night. :hyperSame here except we are going tomorrow night.
I haven't seen a movie in theaters since Interstellar.
Face meltingly awesome. So good.
On another note, I think I grew a vagina. Damn insidious feminist propaganda!
And the best part, as previously mentioned, is that it ruffled some feathers due to the strong female cast and characterization. Meaning as the movie ascends into the the pantheon of jizzing internet nerds, #gamergaters and MRA won't be be attending the wankfests.
That's huge.
Author Aaron Clarey admits he has not seen the film yet, but his self-proclaimed "spidey sense" noticed that Charlize Theron "talked a lot during the trailers" for the film, and he said Tom Hardy only seemed to have cameo appearances. "Charlize Theron's character barked orders to Mad Max," writes Clarey on Return of Kings. "Nobody barks orders to Mad Max."
Clarey did not like reading reviews commending Theron for many of her action scenes, nor did he appreciate the news that the movie's director, George Miller, asked Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler to consult with the five actresses who play sex slaves in the film. (Theron's character plays a road warrior fighting to lead the child-bearing women to safety.)
Clarey writes that he is concerned "men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes."
The movie — like the original Mad Max trilogy — was filmed in Australia and is directed and co-written by Miller, who is Australian. (Fury Road was also filmed in Namibia and South Africa.)
Heard there are only like 7 minutes of dialog in the entire movie. Is that accurate.
I wasn't blown away by it
Heard there are only like 7 minutes of dialog in the entire movie. Is that accurate.
Great! Now to convince my "I hate crowds and don't want to go Bahrain" brother to go with me. He's the biggest Mad Max special fellow on god's green earth but won't go to that country. And I really want to see it on the big screen.
When Tom Hardy finally sat down and saw Mad Max: Fury Road, after reportedly spending more than 100 days filming the post-apocalyptic action film in Namibia, the English actor realized that he owed the film’s director, George Miller, an apology.
And for whatever reason, the actor didn’t say he was sorry until Thursday’s press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, when a journalist triggered one particular memory for him.
After being asked what Hardy’s very first thought was after viewing Miller’s desert-scape masterpiece, the actor surprised the press by revealing, “I owe George an apology for being so myopic. . . . That was my first thought.”
Coincidentally enough, Hardy, who plays the film’s minimally verbal title character, suggested that his issue with the filmmaker while shooting had been communication.
“The most frustrating thing for me or the hardest part [of filming] was trying to know what George wanted me to do at any given minute on a minute-by-minute basis, so I could fully [execute] his vision,” Hardy said of working with Miller, who directed the first three films in the franchise. “But because [Miller was] orchestrating such a huge vehicle literally in so many departments, and because his signature is on every single detail [of the film] and because all of the [parts] in the vehicle are just moving, there is just motion.”
In a room full of journalists, Hardy solemnly continued, “I have to apologize to you because I got frustrated and there is no way that George could have explained what he conceived in the sand while we were out there [filming]. And because of the due diligence that was required to make everything safe and to make everything that was incredibly complex so simple—which is what I saw—which is a relentless barrage of complexities simplified in a fairly linear story . . . I knew [Miller] was brilliant, but I didn’t know how brilliant until I saw it.”
Miller and McCarthy found during the writing process for Fury Road that they had enough story material for two additional scripts. One of these, entitled Mad Max: Furiosa, has already been completed, and Miller hopes to film it after the release of Fury Road.
In May 2015, Miller told Wired magazine, "Should [Mad Max: Fury Road] be successful, I’ve got two other stories to tell."
I can't believe I'm reading some people describe the action as "so-so"
There is literally nothing like it. That first 30 minutes. Oh god.
This movie is awesome and I’m buying the blu-ray. It’s every bit as good or better than Road Warrior, and thoroughly washes away the stink of Thunderdome.
no sex scenes but the women don't wear much. there was one scene where they were all clothed and washing themselves. that's as far as anything went.
http://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-player-doof-warrior-colin-gibson/ (minor spoilers)
wait what
now I need to see it again bc damn
MTV: So wait, the whole thing actually worked?
Gibson: You bet your sweet… George — unfortunately — doesn’t like things that don’t work. I have in the past built him props that I thought were just supposed to be props, and then he goes, “Okay, plug it in now.”
I feel like a lot of people are very excited about the idea that you’re doing old school stunts, old practical effects. Was that very important to you, going into it?
Yeah, Mad Max is not a superhero. We don’t defy the laws of physics, it’s not a fantasy film. It’s basically a western on wheels. And I think if people see, I know when I see too much CG, that sort of takes me out of the experience. You want to have that sort of almost, I’m not going to say documentary experience, but you want to feel it like you’re really immersed, like it’s really happening. So we decided to literally do every car that’s smashed is smashed, every stunt is a real human being, even the actors do a lot of their own stunts, and so on.
Sand storms were too, since obviously you can't wait around for those to be ideal. And they're kinda dangerous.
I can't think of any sweeping practical effects turning the African Desert into a roiling sandstorm. Double so with the tornados.Dick Cheney's weather machine.
The 78-year-old Jaffer says she and the other actresses did their own stunts. "And I got feeling from a lot of the crew members that they didn't think it was right women of my age to be doing that sort of thing. You know, sometimes they'd come up and say, oh, he shouldn't ask you to do that. And I would say why? And they'd say, well, because you're an older woman. I did it, and I have to say, I enjoyed every minute of it."
Jaffer says it was a box office risk for Miller to cast older women to play such ferocious characters. But she says she jumped at the opportunity. "The roles that one is offered at this age, quite frankly, you're either in a nursing home, you're in a hospital bed dying, you're suffering from dementia, or in fact, in two cases, I was offered two characters who'd actually died and come back to life," she says. "So when this role came along, I thought well, I won't get another chance like this before I die, and that's why I took it. It was absolutely wonderful. Wonderful role."
do you like people driving around while they shoot and punch each other? do you appreciate the aesthetics of seventies and eighties fantasy action movies? if so you will like this movie
[My wife] had never cut an action movie, and she said, ‘Why on earth would you want me to cut the movie,’ and I said, ‘Because if it were the usual kind of guys, it would look like every other action movie you see,’ and she said, ‘My job here is to stop you from embarrassing yourself.'
spoiler (click to show/hide)How Max's character had those brief traumatic flashbacks, that never really got properly explained or resolved. Movie would have been better if those were axed[close]
spoiler (click to show/hide)How Max's character had those brief traumatic flashbacks, that never really got properly explained or resolved. Movie would have been better if those were axed[close]
Those are references to the previous three films (this is a continuation/"reboot" reboot after all). Notably: The Road Warrior/Max Max 2.
I liked the flashes, even without explanation you can imagine what kind of fucked up shit you go through in a wasteland.
I'd say this film definitely had a Clash of the Titans feel to it
I was glad to see Theron and a group of women be the main protagonists in an action film and am glad Hollywood is changing, but at the same time half those women were waif-like and nearly naked.
I was glad to see Theron and a group of women be the main protagonists in an action film and am glad Hollywood is changing, but at the same time half those women were waif-like and nearly naked. To me it seems like one step forward, one step back.Immortal Joe looked like he was old enough to remember the pre-fall days, so it’s not surprising that his ideal for women is that they look like models. It is a little weird that as prepped and modified as the truck appeared to be, they didn’t have a change of clothes. Still, not the /least/ realistic aspect of the film.
WELL FUCK THAT WAS MAD AS HELL
http://io9.com/the-explosively-awesome-concept-art-of-mad-max-fury-ro-1705332309
More badass concept work.
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Damn Teh Bore hype train making me go to the theater for a movie. :-\
My friends loved it. One said he almost cried during the desert storm scene.My friends thought it was boring and did'nt like it.
My friends loved it. One said he almost cried during the desert storm scene.
I almost cried during that scene.
Greatest thing I've ever seen in a theater. It surpassed Avatar.
You'd think Inception has like a 25% Tomato-meter from how GAF talks about it.
I did'nt know Inception had such backlash. Still, it's a fun heist film with some clunky exposition. I simply dislike the ending which played the ambiguous card for no reason, setting lose a debate that was unneeded and making dumb people think the movie is some super deep complex movie. I think the problem with internet fanboys is that thier "complex" nerd movie is actually liked by normal people. So they feel the need to be above it.
Is this a bad movie to watch alone?No, I saw it alone the first time.
Where is the comic being sold? Physical, not digital.I picked it up at my local comic shop. One that sells out pretty easily as they order conservatively and they still had plenty of copies.
I saw it again in the worst circumstances imaginable— tiny 3D screen with two friends, one whom loved, while the other bitched throughout the entire movie... especially about the guitar guy. This is what I get for recommending this over Pitch Perfect 2 to gay guys.
Miller, who began filming “Fury Road” in 2012, had said several years ago that he planned to shoot two films back-to-back, with the second titled “Mad Max: Furiosa,” but Warner Bros. has not confirmed that there will be any more films in the franchise.
I saw it again in the worst circumstances imaginable— tiny 3D screen with two friends, one whom loved, while the other bitched throughout the entire movie... especially about the guitar guy. This is what I get for recommending this over Pitch Perfect 2 to gay guys.
The one that liked is a keeper. Gay Bro and all that.
Then the final chase scene happens which is 10x cooler than everything you just watched, which means it's 100x cooler than every other chase scene in every other movie combined. Impossibly cool. Chain saws, explosions, grandmas getting killed, kidnapping, metal, and a collapsed lung. This movie has everything I like and nothing I don't (horses).
Anyway I'd go on but I don't want to spoil anything. I give this movie: 100/5 stars
Except they're biker grandmas who've set up a literal boobie-trap and you think you're going to see some full-frontal.
Saw it again with girlfran in Time Square. She loved it as much as I did. :rejoice
Is this a bad movie to watch alone?I'd have to watch it again, but I'd only agree if there was an actual reaction from him to the thing spinning. If I remember correctly he spins it and goes about his embrace with the family not caring about it. Which sure sounds like him just accepting whatever, but the camera focusing on it seems to simply just be the audience and to keep us guessing. The movie also seemed so clear cut with it's rules and what happen that I never even would assume that he's still dreaming accept for the ambiguous ending.I did'nt know Inception had such backlash. Still, it's a fun heist film with some clunky exposition. I simply dislike the ending which played the ambiguous card for no reason, setting lose a debate that was unneeded and making dumb people think the movie is some super deep complex movie. I think the problem with internet fanboys is that thier "complex" nerd movie is actually liked by normal people. So they feel the need to be above it.
I went into it hating the rabid Nolan fanboys but liked it and thought the ending was smart as the whole point was that Leo just accepts what he sees without questioning it anymore. It had to be an ambiguous ending.
"Remember me?" <- What? I was expecting a more badass line to be sure, but even just something that made sense in-context would have worked too. Or hell, even silence. Was there anything in the movie to suggest Joe had forgotten Furiosa? Cause from where I sat he was completely fixated on her for the entire thing.
has there been a contrarian backlash yet? i'd like to get a proper bitter tears chub goin'.I'll give you a chub
has there been a contrarian backlash yet? i'd like to get a proper bitter tears chub goin'.
And the real issue is not whether Hollywood has the audacity to remove the name sake of a movie franchise called MAD FREAKING MAX, and replace it with an impossible female character in an effort to kowtow to feminism.
It has.
It’s whether men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes.
has there been a contrarian backlash yet? i'd like to get a proper bitter tears chub goin'.I'll give you a chub
En route to Jurassic Park way back when, I warned my screening pal: “When Spielberg decides to scare you, you’d better duck.” But the millions of people excited by the Internet trailer for George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road aren’t just ducking, they’re bowing down. The odd thing is, film culture has changed so much since the 1993 Jurassic Park that trailers (a tool of marketing) have become the end-point of interest in movies. Jurassic Park’s F/X spectacle was the event; now the sell is the event. Those who were teased by Fury Road’s trailer will surely prefer it to the two-hour-plus movie. Who can blame them? But that preference signifies a huge problem. Fury Road continues the end-of-civilization premise from Miller’s 1980s Mad Max films, which starred Mel Gibson (Beyond Thunderdome was the best of them). Tom Hardy, playing survivalist-loner Max, joins a group of runaway female concubines, led by Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa, zooming for peace and regeneration in a dystopian world. With few explanatory narrative details other than the elaborate cartoonish freakdom (“Mankind has gone rogue! The Earth is sour! Who killed the world?!”), it’s all just nonstop road-rage violence. Director-writer Miller capitulates to the low instincts he originally pandered to more than 30 years ago. He’s gotten better at it — demonstrating lotsa panache — but the problem is that popular taste has degraded into an appetite for outlandish destruction and fantastic cruelty. The pop audience (and not just youth) has become like the crazed yahoos Miller depicts on screen without exactly satirizing them. The most watchable moments of Fury Road offer chase-movie overstatement to a point of laughable shrillness: Among the starving masses begging for water, one can be spotted lifting up a bedpan to catch his rationed portion. Fury Road itself is a bedpan filled with crazed details. Miller overflows it, intending audiences to get drunk on his excess — drunk on what Bill Murray in Quick Change called “used wine.” SLIDESHOW: Mad Max: Fury Road Fury Road offers nothing new; Miller rehashes his 35-year-old formula with a vengeance. There are clear, split-second edits of motorized, diesel-fueled caravans topped by jungle drums and a flame-thrower rock guitarist hurtling through the desert; Max strapped to the front of the juggernaut like a hood ornament; a car outfitted with rusted metal porcupine quills; and assorted branded, tattooed, screaming weirdos — at one point swaying like pole-vaulters across the width of the screen. Miller doesn’t simply master this we-are-all-gladiators trope, he celebrates it. None of today’s specialists in nihilism can match this stuff. Not Darren Aronofsky, not Christopher Nolan, not Bong Joon-ho, not Quentin Tarantino. But so what? When Miller put aside the Mad Max franchise and made the marvelous Babe: Pig in the City and Happy Feet, he showed more feeling for a pig and for penguins than for humans. Hardy’s charisma is wasted (masked again, as in The Dark Knight Returns), leaving the film’s emotional core to Theron’s one-armed Furiosa — a grindhouse cliché like the one-legged Rose McGowan in Planet Terror. None of this mindless madness is meant to scare you as Jurassic Park did. Miller’s action-cinema ferocity is hollow. His apocalyptic circus has video-game spectacle but no cinematic power; its revved-up imagery is unconnected to an understanding of what sensation and violence have done to our souls. That was the real point of Jurassic Park as well as of Neveldine/Taylor’s unnerving pre-apocalypse satire in the Crank series, Gamer, Jonah Hex, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Neveldine/Taylor stepped up action cinema and stepped forward philosophically, whereas Miller applies the intellectual version of what race-car drivers call “drag.” By overinflating the biker-movie concept (featuring whips and chains, leather and studs, and a body-pierced, dreadlocked, skinhead chorus line), Miller allows his outré flamboyance to rob subcult menace of its edge. This distracts from the cultural collapse that’s really taking place on screen. His degraded audience mistakes the sentimental ending for narrative satisfaction. That’s what happens when movie culture has moved to a state of entropy. Fury Road is essentially an expanded movie trailer, full of inflated highlights — exactly what everyone expects and has already seen.
It reexamines assumptions of good and evil-morality tale vs, trite entertainment-by confronting the hideous compromises people make with social conventions and their own desperation.
"Remember me?" <- What? I was expecting a more badass line to be sure, but even just something that made sense in-context would have worked too. Or hell, even silence. Was there anything in the movie to suggest Joe had forgotten Furiosa? Cause from where I sat he was completely fixated on her for the entire thing.spoiler (click to show/hide)It's a statement, not a question. Joe's entire religion that he's built up for his war boys is all about doing amazing, manly deeds and then going on to Highway Valhalla. So, what Furious is saying is "Remember this moment, where everything that you'd built up was completely torn down by your own lieutenant, a woman."[close]
Feminism doesn't simply mean women getting to partake in typical badass "guy stuff". Feminism is about redefining our social value system. (https://storify.com/wire2k/anita-sarkeesian-on-mad-max-fury-road)
:huh
Sounds like something a man would say :hitlerFeminism doesn't simply mean women getting to partake in typical badass "guy stuff". Feminism is about redefining our social value system. (https://storify.com/wire2k/anita-sarkeesian-on-mad-max-fury-road)
:huh
Some of her tweets about the movie, disregarding opinions and interpretations, are just flat-out incorrect.
Second, you'd hit the ocean in less than half that time.
Saw it again.I assumed the oceans were dried up and that's what the salt they planned on crossing was.
Still really good, but it falls off a bit for awhile after they get to the many mothers.
A couple of things don't make sense. First, you could never carry enough fuel on a motorbike to go 160 days. Second, you'd hit the ocean in less than half that time.
If the MRA set hadn't gotten their panties twisted nobody would be yelling about how feminist this film is. Don't remember anyone making a huge splash about Dredd treating Anderson like a person, and this isn't beyond that. If we were going to start doling out social justice cookies Fury Road's claim to any are thin as shit, given that it in no way undermines any inequality in the film industry (never mind the idea of Brendan McCarthy and Eve Ensler working on something that could honestly be called "progressive").
But it's just an action film about cars crashing shit, so imo it would be very strange to be disappointed by how it isn't some feminist manifesto
Saw it again with girlfran in Time Square. She loved it as much as I did. :rejoice
And Magic Mike XXL.
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But it's just an action film about cars crashing shit, so imo it would be very strange to be disappointed by how it isn't some feminist manifesto
And the real issue is not whether Hollywood has the audacity to remove the name sake of a movie franchise called MAD FREAKING MAX, and replace it with an impossible female character in an effort to kowtow to feminism.
It has.
It’s whether men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes.
Feminism doesn't simply mean women getting to partake in typical badass "guy stuff". Feminism is about redefining our social value system. (https://storify.com/wire2k/anita-sarkeesian-on-mad-max-fury-road)I love these so much. Sure, Max is mostly along for Furiosa's ride. But that's fucking the same as all the other Mad Max movies, he winds up in somebody else's problems that become his. His main instinct is to survive, just like in all the other movies. The only real difference in this one is that she's not a sidekick as much as an equal ROAD WARRIOR. And that comes as much from her knowledge of the state of affairs as doing anything "badass." Max has been trapped so he's not up to date on what's been going on and so he just tries to escape initially and has to be brought up to speed for why he's gotta wreck some people in the face before hitting the road.
:huh
Feminist Frequency ✔@femfreq:dead
Sometimes violence may be necessary for liberation from oppression, but it's always tragic. Fury Road frames it as totally fun and awesome.
THANK YOU! been kind of annoyed with this whole "this is not a mad max movie" complaint/observation from people who've never watched a Mad Max movie before.It's like the whole essence of the character, he's a wanderer with "no purpose", who in his travels gets into some local affair that he can't leave behind for whatever reason including his comparatively high morals/character until the task is done and then he can't stay because of who he is.
QuoteFeminist Frequency ✔@femfreq:dead
Sometimes violence may be necessary for liberation from oppression, but it's always tragic. Fury Road frames it as totally fun and awesome.
In a 1979 review, the Australian social commentator and film producer Phillip Adams condemned Mad Max, saying that it had "all the emotional uplift of Mein Kampf" and would be "a special favourite of rapists, sadists, child murderers and incipient [Charles] Mansons".:lol
I think this was the best cinematic experience of my lifetime.The more I think about it, I'm pretty sure it was the best for me too. After the storm scene ended that first chase my wife looked over and said "whoa". I think that about sums it up. I was actually grinning watching it.
THANK YOU! been kind of annoyed with this whole "this is not a mad max movie" complaint/observation from people who've never watched a Mad Max movie before.It's like the whole essence of the character, he's a wanderer with "no purpose", who in his travels gets into some local affair that he can't leave behind for whatever reason including his comparatively high morals/character until the task is done and then he can't stay because of who he is.
They're really just classic Western tropes set in an apocalyptic future. With a lot more large scale action.
QuoteFeminist Frequency ✔@femfreq:dead
Sometimes violence may be necessary for liberation from oppression, but it's always tragic. Fury Road frames it as totally fun and awesome.
One of my favorite things was when he went back to the guys trailing them at one point, then came back a couple minutes later covered in blood and hauling a shit ton of weapons and supplies. One of the breeders was all, "you're bleeding" and someone else said, "that's not his blood..."
When you've gone so far off the deep end that you can't enjoy Mad Max, it's just time to stop and re-evaluate your life.QuoteFeminist Frequency ✔@femfreq:dead
Sometimes violence may be necessary for liberation from oppression, but it's always tragic. Fury Road frames it as totally fun and awesome.
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THANK YOU! been kind of annoyed with this whole "this is not a mad max movie" complaint/observation from people who've never watched a Mad Max movie before.It's like the whole essence of the character, he's a wanderer with "no purpose", who in his travels gets into some local affair that he can't leave behind for whatever reason including his comparatively high morals/character until the task is done and then he can't stay because of who he is.
They're really just classic Western tropes set in an apocalyptic future. With a lot more large scale action.
Also how with each film he gets pushed further and further into that classic western/samurai flilm mythical figure status. Mostly silent and near unstoppable. More spirit than man. With this film even his name gets pushed out.
Mad Max: Fury Road is the Platinum Games bossfight of movies (https://twitter.com/ChipCheezum/status/602253156236431360)
I don't think the answer is pertinent to mad max movies so I hope it's never answered. This movie was so good it has me replaying new Vegas for third time. Been in a fallout mood ever since seeing it.
May have to re read Fist of North Star too because of it
"Who killed the world?"
I love that line in the movie. It's one of the first times a character looks past their nose and asks a question bigger than their own immediate survival.
I wonder if future Mad Max movies will ever seek that answer? I almost don't want them to, because I know I'll probably end up disappointed with the answer. I think I prefer the idea of the world just slowly going mad.
"Who killed the world?"
I love that line in the movie. It's one of the first times a character looks past their nose and asks a question bigger than their own immediate survival.
I wonder if future Mad Max movies will ever seek that answer? I almost don't want them to, because I know I'll probably end up disappointed with the answer. I think I prefer the idea of the world just slowly going mad.
From context, my assumption was the answer is simply "men." Men killed the world, as there simply were not enough women in positions of power; they were not allowed into positions which could have affected change.
Haha, you're not going to trick me into watching anime.
and then TA was animeHaha, you're not going to trick me into watching anime.
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Saw it. Liked it.
Not in love with it (although fuck yes flamethrower guitar).
Kind of think the plot works better with a much older Max, long long after the nebulous historical apocalypse. That city and setup looked much too old, especially with Furiosa being a kid living in a "clan" in "the green place" when Max in his 20s was driving around an Australia full of grass and trees as a cop. And they had hospitals, nightclubs, etc...
I mean the plot seems to demand a Fallout type of delay between the apocalypse and the events in the film, or at least many many decades.
Saw it. Liked it.
Not in love with it (although fuck yes flamethrower guitar).
Kind of think the plot works better with a much older Max, long long after the nebulous historical apocalypse. That city and setup looked much too old, especially with Furiosa being a kid living in a "clan" in "the green place" when Max in his 20s was driving around an Australia full of grass and trees as a cop. And they had hospitals, nightclubs, etc...
I mean the plot seems to demand a Fallout type of delay between the apocalypse and the events in the film, or at least many many decades.
Anyone else catch feelings when she goes under the wheels?
Saw it. Liked it.
Not in love with it (although fuck yes flamethrower guitar).
Kind of think the plot works better with a much older Max, long long after the nebulous historical apocalypse. That city and setup looked much too old, especially with Furiosa being a kid living in a "clan" in "the green place" when Max in his 20s was driving around an Australia full of grass and trees as a cop. And they had hospitals, nightclubs, etc...
I mean the plot seems to demand a Fallout type of delay between the apocalypse and the events in the film, or at least many many decades.
Miller could have framed the movie as a story retold (like he did in Road Warrior). But that is just "Hollywood fat" if you think about it. It doesn't really make the movie better, it just helps contextualize the movie for nerds that care about timelines and 'canon' and shit like that.
I am a nerd.
I do want a series to have a continuous story that makes sense if it's going to have the same protagonist.
When each story is throw away, then that is also, logically, how I am inclined to treat it.
Anyone else catch feelings when she goes under the wheels?spoiler (click to show/hide)And it was Max's fault, too. The wound on her leg where he accidentally shot her was bleeding and that caused her to slip.[close]
Anyone else catch feelings when she goes under the wheels?
How come Cloud isn't in Final Fantasy XV? No sale
Man, this movie just tossed exposition in the bushes. I'm not sure whether it's showing faith in the audience to figure shit out, or counting on people being able to enjoy the action regardless of how much they understand, but either way I liked it.
"Who killed the world?"
I love that line in the movie. It's one of the first times a character looks past their nose and asks a question bigger than their own immediate survival.
I wonder if future Mad Max movies will ever seek that answer? I almost don't want them to, because I know I'll probably end up disappointed with the answer. I think I prefer the idea of the world just slowly going mad.
From context, my assumption was the answer is simply "men." Men killed the world, as there simply were not enough women in positions of power; they were not allowed into positions which could have affected change.
More specifically, the world was killed by warmongers, corrupt capitalists, and religious zealots [represented in the post-apocalyptic world by the Bullet Farmer, the People Eater, and Immortan Joe].
This beautiful movie is finally out on torrents, going to watch it again tonight :rejoice
This beautiful movie is finally out on torrents, going to watch it again tonight :rejoice
Look at this plebe, not going to see it in theaters a fourth time (https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/615039135397457926).
George Miller has to be a lock for director Oscar, right?
Fury Road will win a bunch of technical Oscars and nothing else, despite the fact that it's the best movie of the past 25 years if not of all time ever, because the Academy are a bunch of fucking assclowns. It's cool though, everyone will know the truth.
Fury Road will win a bunch of technical Oscars and nothing else, despite the fact that it's the best movie of the past 25 years if not of all time ever, because the Academy are a bunch of fucking assclowns. It's cool though, everyone will know the truth.
I agree it won't get the Best Picture it deserves but... man. To just ignore the dedication, vision and just sheer fucking legwork that went into creating and directing this movie would be just insane.
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looks awful
But today brings news that this news from Page Six was, in one sense or another, complete bunk, as Miller is now saying that he was misquoted by the writer and that he is, indeed, ready with at least two more installments in the venerable series. Here’s what he had to say, via The Wrap:
“That was a completely garbled interview. I was in New York and it was so noisy and the journalist was asking me questions on a red carpet at the National Board of Review…She completely got the wrong fragments of information that were just not true. I said no, [another ‘Mad Max’ movie] will not be next, and she took that to mean I never wanted to make another ‘Mad Max.’ It won’t necessarily be next, but I have two more stories.”
just a heads up, but because it was nominated for best picture mad max is coming back to a lot of theaters next week. So if you missed it and want to experience it you've got another chance.
just a heads up, but because it was nominated for best picture mad max is coming back to a lot of theaters next week. So if you missed it and want to experience it you've got another chance.