Mad Max: Fury Road

[Argus Skyhawk]

Mad Max: Fury Road -- Rated G!

Well, we know that sometimes after a movie receives an unwanted rating, the movie is re-edited and then resubmitted to be rated again. After posting here yesterday, I wondered if that might be what is going to happen.

 

[Marsden]

I find the R rating rather encouraging, frankly. We're about due some decent blockbuster content that isn't pitched at teens.

I hope so.

They're just teasing us. Right before the movie comes out they'll be like "It's PG-13, suckas!!!"

Have they ever released two versions of a movie before?

I don't know what the cost would be like, but I hope they don't rollback on stuff just for the rating.

 

[Mr Light]

Lots of recent action movies have been theatrically PG-13 and then "Unrated" on DVD/BR.

 

[JD]

Warner has released a new series of short clips:
Explosion
War
Chaos
Retaliate
Retaliate is the longest at 00:46 and is made up almost entirely of new footage. The others are 00:16 each and feature a mixture of new and old footage.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

Mad Max: Changing the subject line just for the heck of it.

That "Retaliate" clip ends with the Rated R logo, so I guess that IS how they are releasing the film. It reads "Intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images."

 

[JD]

They released the "Official Main Trailer" yesterday. This one is definitely the most informative when it comes to the plot.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Mad Max: Fury Road looks like it's going to be awesome! May 15th can't come soon enough, for me.

 

[BigJake]

They released the "Official Main Trailer" yesterday. This one is definitely the most informative when it comes to the plot.

O. M. G.

And I thought I was pumped before.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on in any of these trailers. Is that intentional?

 

[BigJake]

I'm assuming the trailers are meant to keep things ambiguous enough so as not to spoil the film. But that last one lays out a basic plot pretty clearly, or what looks like one.

 

[JD]

Yeah, from what I've read about the movie and the Furiosa prequel comic I've gotten a pretty good idea the general plot.
The young women in white are gang leader Immortan Joe's "wives", Splendid, Capable, The Dag, and Fragile, and Furiosa, who originally worked for him, has taken them, and gone on the run. At the same time Max is attacked and captured by Joe, he ends up escaping, and joins up with Furiosa and they are all then chased by Joe and his gang.

 

[JD]

WB has released a new Legacy trailer which starts with footage from the first three movies before building to some FR footage. It doesn't show us much new FR stuff, but it is a nice look at the franchise's history.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1pqP_6wDc[/yt]

 

[JD]

I found the description for Tuesday's Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux and Immortan Joe #1 prequel comic.
n a fallen world ravaged by oil and water wars, humanity exists without law or mercy. All those who wander the Wasteland are ruled by a single imperative…survive!Among them is Max Rockatansky, a Road Warrior haunted by his turbulent past…
“It’s hard to know who is more crazy.
Me or everyone else?!”

In this first issue, witness the rise of Colonel Joe Moore, a war hero turned tyrannical warlord…The Immortan Joe!
And don’t miss the story of Nux, one of the Immortan’s “War Boys,” who knows only the chaos into which he was born.
From the mind of George Miller, the creator of the Mad Max trilogy, comes a brand new epic tale that serves as a prelude to the upcoming film, Mad Max: Fury Road!

 

[JD]

Final trailer
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woHTUsl66BY[/yt]

 

[DWF]

The movie opens this Firday and it looks to be a wild ride, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it this weekend.

 

[JD]

IGN has posted their review.

The Verdict

The over-the-top stunts and eccentric characters and designs are all hugely important to Fury Road, as are the troubled figures like Max himself and Furiosa, but it’s the overriding sense of the film’s uniqueness, its striving to be something more than just another action movie, that is most impressive. Mad Max: Fury Road is a one of a kind. Like the world it creates, it is a thing of beautiful brutality.

They gave it a 9.2 out of 10.

 

[Starbreaker]

The early reviews have been stellar. I have no idea what I'm going to be watching, but it looks like it's going to be a hell of a ride.

 

[Unicron]

That's good to hear. I've found it difficult to judge the trailers because they reveal so little of the story, and I think that's a key element.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, was brought in as a consultant on the film, resulting a "feminist action film."

That was more than a little unexpected, but it raises my level of interest considerably:

Ensler:George was looking to create empowered women, not victims, and I think he accomplished that. I don’t remember seeing so many women of all different ages in any movie before. I was really blown away by the older women in the film who were just as good fighters as the men. I’d never seen that before. They all have so much agency and independence.

Charlize’s character is also really fierce. But at the same time, she’s compassionate. And that’s a hard thing to pull off. All the women felt full in terms of their backstory. Even something subtle like their clothes in the film: they’re stripped down and vulnerable and objectified in the beginning. By the end, they have their clothes on. They’ve taken their bodies back and themselves back in some essential way.

And the journey of the film: women who are willing to give up enslaved comfort for liberation and risk death to do it. It’s the rising feminine rebelling against the patriarchy.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

No word on a Mel Gibson cameo?