Author Topic: Mad Max: Fury Road (Read 16404 times)

booksmart · « **Reply #25 on:** May 17, 2015, 05:48:22 pm »

I don't remember any of the other Mad Max movies being particularly high concept.

Just sayin'.

I intend to catch it in the theatre, but moving next weekend (for the second time this year) may well hinder that.

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Raptor · « **Reply #26 on:** May 17, 2015, 07:00:13 pm »

Quote from: GeorgeHill on May 17, 2015, 05:11:09 pm

Hey, I loved SUCKER PUNCH too.
Thin Plot - but who cares? It's about violent cute chicks with guns. You need more than that?

Yeah, to not have to have to slog through a half hour of boredom and nothingness intercut with scenes of cute chicks getting the snot beat out of them in order to get to see the violent cute chicks with guns.

Only Ingmar Bergman film I've ever seen was The Seventh Seal, which I had to watch for one of my classes in college, though I'll be darned if I can remember which one. I enjoyed it, though at the same time freely admit that it's pretty sick, twisted, and just plain messed up at times. It's what I like to call a "slow-motion trainwreck movie," i.e. you really can't stop watching it even if you really want to.

Canthros · « **Reply #27 on:** May 17, 2015, 09:11:53 pm »

I mean, the splosions and vrooms-vrooms were great and all, but I need a little more to get my mental cylinders firing.

(Actually, there was a review at Forbes I thought raised a bunch of valid points in this regard. Myself, I couldn't really put my finger on what didn't click for me, except that it seemed to be in the story, rather than the visuals.)

sarge712 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 18, 2015, 08:25:56 am »

Quote from: strangelittleman on May 16, 2015, 10:36:25 pm

Honestly, I've never seen anything George Miller directed that I want to see again. He's the motarded, homo-erotic ass-child of Stanley Kubrick and Tim Burton.

Oooookay SLM. Um well, I loved Mad Max and Road Warrior. Does that make me that there homerneurotical or motardical?

strangelittleman · « **Reply #29 on:** May 18, 2015, 07:10:18 pm »

Both, Short-Bus Twinkle-Toes. I'd draw you a picture, but you ate all the "grape" colored crayons...

scarville · « **Reply #30 on:** May 18, 2015, 10:50:25 pm »

Ugh! I hated The Seventh Seal. Watching it was like mixing a paper cut and lemon juice.

I had to write my review twice. Once to get out of my system what I really thought of it then once more to say what the professor wanted to hear.

Lupinus · « **Reply #31 on:** May 19, 2015, 12:58:34 am »

Watching this movie for its plot is like flipping through a Playboy to read the articles.

booksmart · « **Reply #32 on:** May 21, 2015, 12:04:24 am »

http://jalopnik.com/how-the-man-behind-the-machines-of-mad-max-put-a-hellsc-1704037927

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“Make it cool or I’ll kill you.” That’s what director George Miller told Colin Gibson, the production designer responsible for all the cars in Mad Max: Fury Road. Gibson did one better: he made every single one of them functional, because the desert doesn’t suffer mechanical fools lightly and CGI is bulls___.

Thernlund · « **Reply #33 on:** May 21, 2015, 03:54:53 pm »

Here's some b-roll that I found entertaining...

-T.

Doug Wojtowicz · « **Reply #34 on:** May 22, 2015, 01:52:28 pm »

Quote from: Lupinus on May 19, 2015, 12:58:34 am

Watching this movie for its plot is like flipping through a Playboy to read the articles.

Yo, some of that's pretty entertaining. (Especially the stretch where every Christmas issue had a James Bond short story...)

seanp · « **Reply #35 on:** May 22, 2015, 04:13:56 pm »

That B-reel is pretty interesting. I always like to see behind the scenes. Makes me wonder what their budget was for sunscreen.

booksmart · « **Reply #36 on:** May 22, 2015, 07:17:09 pm »

Quote from: seanp on May 22, 2015, 04:13:56 pm

That B-reel is pretty interesting. I always like to see behind the scenes. Makes me wonder what their budget was for sunscreen.

Maybe 10% of the fuel budget?

Doug Wojtowicz · « **Reply #37 on:** May 23, 2015, 02:43:00 pm »

I'm just gonna leave this here. Because... winning.

Avenger29 · « **Reply #38 on:** May 24, 2015, 10:36:45 am »

Went to see it last night with Lupinus and a few others.

"Whacked out over the top" is what I would describe it as. Lots of excellent carnage and destruction. Some weird s___ at times but otherwise, it's just some spectacular violence.

Lupinus · « **Reply #39 on:** May 24, 2015, 11:29:13 pm »

Quote from: Avenger29 on May 24, 2015, 10:36:45 am

Went to see it last night with Lupinus and a few others.

"Whacked out over the top" is what I would describe it as. Lots of excellent carnage and destruction. Some weird s___ at times but otherwise, it's just some spectacular violence.

It was wonderful

scarville · « **Reply #40 on:** May 26, 2015, 09:03:47 pm »

The wife and I went to see it over the weekend. I honestly have to say I liked it as well -- maybe a little better -- than the Avengers. It was almost non-stop action. A car chase movie with goofy names and over the top comic book villains. So, naturally, I liked it.

I was a little skeptical of Tom Hardy as Max but, while I think his performance as Bane was better, he was a credible Max. Charlize Theron is always worth watching even with her hair chopped off and part of her left arm missing (CGI, I'm sure).

It may or may not spark a sequel -- after only two weeks it got it's butt kicked at the box office by "Pitch Perfect 2". OTOH, the theater was about two thirds full is which is unusual for a Sunday morning.

Avenger29 · « **Reply #41 on:** May 26, 2015, 10:47:20 pm »

Quote from: scarville on May 26, 2015, 09:03:47 pm

it got it's butt kicked at the box office by "Pitch Perfect 2".

Anyone who would go see a "musical comedy" (which is what Wikipedia says that is) over Mad Max needs to be exiled.

Harm · « **Reply #42 on:** May 26, 2015, 11:05:23 pm »

It'll get a Sequel, it's already made a profit, and is hanging tough weekend to weekend. Sometimes it's the percentage lost on the Box Office week over week that shows its staying power. Pitch Perfect already faded over 70% from opening week. Max is almost down 45% after a few weeks longer run.

Expect it to end globally north of 300 million. Sequel green lit & hitting theaters about 2018

scarville · « **Reply #43 on:** May 27, 2015, 11:57:22 am »

Quote from: Avenger29 on May 26, 2015, 10:47:20 pm

Anyone who would go see a "musical comedy" (which is what Wikipedia says that is) over Mad Max needs to be exiled.

My wife saw both but has the decency to not drag me to see Pitch Perfect 2. The daughter and her went and left me in peace (actually I was at work that day

)

According to Box Ofice Mojo, Mad Max and Pitch Perfect 2 were both released on May 15, 2015 and PP2 beat out Mad Max on both weekend totals. I mention it because is was little surprising to me. On the bright side, I read that there is a sequel already planned (tentatively titled "Mad Max: The Wasteland").

Doug Wojtowicz · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2015, 05:21:02 pm »

There is also currently a theory - for fans who aren't convinced of Hardy being Max - that Hardy is actually the Feral Boy.

The first time he says his own name is at the end. And he still doesn't sound quite sure of it. But the entirety of the Fury Road ordeal *IS* his trial by fire to be worthy of being the new Max.

GeorgeHill · « **Reply #45 on:** May 28, 2015, 08:31:10 pm »

That's not a sound theory for many reasons.

Chrissmitty820 · « **Reply #46 on:** May 29, 2015, 08:33:04 am »

Quote from: GeorgeHill on May 28, 2015, 08:31:10 pm

That's not a sound theory for many reasons.

Agreed. I read that theory, and it has holes big enough for the Doof Wagon.

Doug Wojtowicz · « **Reply #47 on:** May 29, 2015, 01:42:55 pm »

Quote from: GeorgeHill on May 28, 2015, 08:31:10 pm

That's not a sound theory for many reasons.

Even that theory states the possible holes in it. *shrug*

armoredman · « **Reply #48 on:** May 31, 2015, 09:21:08 pm »

Saw it. Good movie, but not Mad Max. The movie wasn't ABOUT Max, it was about Furiosa ad the escape. An Easter Egg that was pointed out was the little music box Max was playing with....is it the same one that the original Max gave to the Feral Kid? Is THIS Max the grown up Feral Kid?

Does ANYONE see the incredible wit of casting the Toecutter as Immortan Joe? That's right, the ORIGINAL Mad Max bad guy is back...

Hugh Keays-Bryne. THAT was a touch of brilliance.

Grant · « **Reply #49 on:** May 31, 2015, 11:08:32 pm »

Finally saw it today. I enjoyed it as a post-apocalyptic movie,......with Mad max as a character.

I ain't going to diss it, it's straight action, with some cool vehicles (some abominations too) and I didn't start thinking "god I wonder when this will be over", but it wasn't mad max.

The way I look at it is this:

I'll pass on the DVD when it's new and $24.99. And $19.99. I'll buy it when it hits $12.99, but BEFORE it goes down to $9.