Mad Max: Fury Road

They certainly seem to be.

  On 5/22/2015 at 4:19 AM, chenGOD said:

Not jocks, (and nice dig at me, ta very much)

lol man, take it in a spirit of fun, you do like sports, you are a lady killer, how is this defamation of character ? heeh. serious brah. It's a mad max thread and we're talking about stupid stuff. Well except for usagi, who has a permanent stick up his arse.

The bit about equating jocks with the lower iq end of humanity, after having described me as a jock*?

Call me an athlete. Not a jock.

*not a scot for all you brits.

Time to get this thread back on track with a testosteron filled review that matches the movie in terms of greatness.

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=mad_max_hell_yeah

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she smears grease on her forehead because she wants to make herself more flammable

Good call.

Welcome back delet. I can't wait to read more of your posts.

hey i hope they'll put tigers, elephants and more fireworks in sequel





...and lord of the dance as the main villain

Where was delet?

I did not like the movie. I'm disappointed in you, WATMM, yet again.

I don't remember who asked in the thread, but NO, it's not a good movie if you're a bitter jaded old fuck.

I mean some things are even done right. A lot of attention to detail that pop movies today just don't bother with. And the physicality of everything "action" is really strong, that's a definite plus.

Still, it's not really a movie. It's a two hour chase sequence, stuffed with every silly prop and mask they could come up with. Why is this advertised as a movie? I expected a movie, but got this fantasy action sequence instead. It doesn't even look good, the color grading, it's just as bad as the rest of crap pop flicks today. The grit? No, I didn't notice any. Actually, I was really missing anything gritty, filthy, nasty. You should have things like that in a postapocalyptic movie, in a Mad Max movie.

But the main thing that's missing is characters. Max is the worst. Zero backstory, zero depth, he's not a character at all! And Tom Hardy is a really bad choice. Furiosa was just a tiny bit less shallow, still totally not there for me.

I'm not really into this whole film theory thing, but I'd say you have to relate to some character(s) to be invested in movie, to feel involved. To care about what's going on. I don't feel this in most flicks today and I know similarly shallow, cheap, trashy and cheesy ones from 30 years ago had it.

Jaded, I know. And old probably. Living in the past. A sad old geezer.

dunno I kind of understand..

I hated that 300 film, where lots of people thought it was good..

seriously this one tho is on a different level despite being shallow as fuck

LOL

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  On 5/23/2015 at 10:37 AM, phling said:

shallow ass fuck

Yeah I hate that

Some of you don't seem understand the concept of some "stupid" ol' popocorn fun.

Try to live a little sometimes, it's not going to kill you.

Oh, man, you know what, you're right! I never thought to look at it that way, everything's okay than, it's a great movie.

It's Mad Max, if you went to it expecting a character-based film then your expectations were misjudged.

  On 5/21/2015 at 6:19 PM, WeAreOceans said:

I'm pretty sure whiney MRA types have opinions on most anything involving a woman being in a positive light... and I've certainly seen more articles about people complaining than the actual complaining itself.

I didnt even know there was such a thing as MRI or what it is exactly they have to be angry about but shit if theyre causing a stink over a mad max movie about cars and explosions and action then surely they dont have an aweful lot to really be upset over??

  On 5/23/2015 at 1:06 PM, tec said:

It's Mad Max, if you went to it expecting a character-based film then your expectations were misjudged.

No, that's the thing, the first Mad Max is a great psychological thriller and the second one is still very deep in terms of characters, compared to the new one.

I think you're not reading between the lines enough with this new one.

I thought the characters were actually really fleshed out, but they drop you "in media res" and flesh out their backstories through that old "show, don't tell" idea. Yeah there's no 10 minute scene in the middle where Max & Furiosa exchange stories around the campfire of their pasts, complete with slow mo flashbacks, but I liked that it's pretty much devoid of cinematic tropes like that.

  On 5/23/2015 at 9:39 AM, kokoon said:

I did not like the movie. I'm disappointed in you, WATMM, yet again.

I don't remember who asked in the thread, but NO, it's not a good movie if you're a bitter jaded old fuck.

 

I mean some things are even done right. A lot of attention to detail that pop movies today just don't bother with. And the physicality of everything "action" is really strong, that's a definite plus.

 

Still, it's not really a movie. It's a two hour chase sequence, stuffed with every silly prop and mask they could come up with. Why is this advertised as a movie? I expected a movie, but got this fantasy action sequence instead. It doesn't even look good, the color grading, it's just as bad as the rest of crap pop flicks today. The grit? No, I didn't notice any. Actually, I was really missing anything gritty, filthy, nasty. You should have things like that in a postapocalyptic movie, in a Mad Max movie.

 

But the main thing that's missing is characters. Max is the worst. Zero backstory, zero depth, he's not a character at all! And Tom Hardy is a really bad choice. Furiosa was just a tiny bit less shallow, still totally not there for me.

 

I'm not really into this whole film theory thing, but I'd say you have to relate to some character(s) to be invested in movie, to feel involved. To care about what's going on. I don't feel this in most flicks today and I know similarly shallow, cheap, trashy and cheesy ones from 30 years ago had it.

 

Jaded, I know. And old probably. Living in the past. A sad old geezer.

uff finally someone!

Me too. Didn't like it that much, I also felt Max was a bit shity and couldn't relate and didn't give a fuck whatever happened. Actually, as the whole premise of the film was to get the fuck away from someplace terrible (which wasn't terrible enough, as those ladies weren't exactly traumatized, to me they looked normal), then going back, kicking ass in between, I didn't care what would happen and who would win and kinda hoped it would all turn out bad somehow. Also, you could name this thing differently than Mad Max, as it's not that much about max, he's just supporting the thing, and he's not really that mad, that mental shit he's visualizing isn't convincing enough for me.

I'm not in love with previous Mad Maxes, but they held me in there, I cared, not in this one.

it's ok to be wrong once in a while.

  On 5/24/2015 at 12:43 PM, usagi said:

it's ok to be wrong once in a while.

flol

Blu-ray will feature black and white version, as well as isolated score:

http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/05/24/mad-max-fury-road-director-george-miller-demanded-black-and-white-version-for-blu-ray

That really discourages me from paying twice as much to see it theaters.