Mad Max: Fury Road

[Captaindemotion]

My favorite fan theory regarding how Fury Road's Max isn't like Gibson's, and only the very old seem to remember pre-apocalypse times: this "Max" is the Feral Kid from The Road Warrior, having grown up and assumed the persona of Mad Max.

I like it.

And besides, isn't there a scene in this film - I haven't seen it yet - where Max has a vision of his family, and the child is a girl? In the original, Max and his wife only had a son (Sprog).

Though Hardy's Max wears a knee brace like Mel Max from TRW - which he had to wear after being shot in the knee in the first film.

 

[Beagleman]

I think we are getting to a point where the continuity isn't as important as the concept of The Road Warrior, kinda like James Bond...

 

[publiusr]

Max is used as much as part of the setting--the surreal world there is the real star.
This movie all worked.

In terms of politics, look at Theron's shoulder armor. You will find one of the popular IUD earrings now a symbol of women and their right of choice

In real life--were there a world changing disaster, imagine The Handmaids Tale meets The Road.

No movie to be made there--such a world is not very pretty.

With no Federal Oversight, no other Brown vs Board interventions will be possible. The Warren Jeffs and the David Dukes will have a field day--but no cool armor in sight.

Take a look at what Immortan Joe's face really looks like--not that of the Toecutter actor, who played Joe--but this:

http://www.etonline.com/news/165025...er_josh_duggar_child_molestation_accusations/

 

[Tulin]

^ Wha ....... ?

 

[TRON JA307020]

Max is used as much as part of the setting--the surreal world there is the real star.
This movie all worked.

In terms of politics, look at Theron's shoulder armor. You will find one of the popular IUD earrings now a symbol of women and their right of choice

In real life--were there a world changing disaster, imagine The Handmaids Tale meets The Road.

No movie to be made there--such a world is not very pretty.

With no Federal Oversight, no other Brown vs Board interventions will be possible. The Warren Jeffs and the David Dukes will have a field day--but no cool armor in sight.

Take a look at what Immortan Joe's face really looks like--not that of the Toecutter actor, who played Joe--but this:

http://www.etonline.com/news/165025...er_josh_duggar_child_molestation_accusations/

Ok I hate to say it but your response is really strange. Somehow you made a connection to Mad Max Fury Road to Duggar.

 

[publiusr]

I suppose my thinking makes sense only to me. The point was that, in a dismal future, oppression won't wear body armor, drive cool rods, and play rock music suspended from a semi. It will all be much more mundane. The Immortan Joes are already here.

They're just in a boring pulpit.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Max is used as much as part of the setting--the surreal world there is the real star.
This movie all worked.

In terms of politics, look at Theron's shoulder armor. You will find one of the popular IUD earrings now a symbol of women and their right of choice

In real life--were there a world changing disaster, imagine The Handmaids Tale meets The Road.

No movie to be made there--such a world is not very pretty.

With no Federal Oversight, no other Brown vs Board interventions will be possible. The Warren Jeffs and the David Dukes will have a field day--but no cool armor in sight.

Take a look at what Immortan Joe's face really looks like--not that of the Toecutter actor, who played Joe--but this:

http://www.etonline.com/news/165025...er_josh_duggar_child_molestation_accusations/

Ok I hate to say it but your response is really strange. Somehow you made a connection to Mad Max Fury Road to Duggar.

Both Immortan Joe and the Duggars (along with a sizable movement in evangelical Christianity) treat women as objects, mainly as walking wombs and nothing more. Both also used religion to motivate their followers.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Saw the movie today. Probably my favorite new action movie since Hellboy 2.

Visually and aesthetically the movie was awesome and stylized. The action scenes managed to capture a lot going on at once while still having it all make kinetic sense: That is, your brain can easily connect action and reaction, which is what 80s action films did so well and most modern CGI driven films usually fail at.

It did have a few problems. It jumped into the action a little too quickly, not taking the time to make you care about the characters until halfway into the film (Though when it made the effort, it succeeded). Also they used camera effects to intensify the action in some cases where the action might have looked cooler without them. The movie could have stood to reel in the pace once or twice. The most memorable scene in Mad Max 2 isn't the action scenes, it's the big standoff scene where the bad guy instructs them to 'Just walk away', and this Mad Max film was wall to wall action scenes.

Also if we're going to make comparisons to the old Mad Max movies, in the old Mad Max movies the machines and areas seem more like things people could have plausibly built in a post apocalyptic desert, whereas the Citadel didn't quite have that plausibility.

Overall, very good movie.

And Max can't be the feral kid. He said at the beginning he used to be a cop. This is a reboot, not a sequel.

 

[Mr Light]

Just saw it today. That was amazing! I was expecting a little more story and character, but wow what an incredible action packed movie! One prolonged chase scene from beginning to end--- filmed practically! Everything just looked absolutely incredible! (hell, even the people he was rescuing this time were a group of scantily clad supermodels! George Miller thought of everything! )

I would have liked to have seen how Furiosa came to meet Joe's wives since they're kept locked away in a vault and made the decision to break them out and how she accomplished it.

 

[Smellmet]

I really hope they make a sequel. And ramp shit up accordingly.

 

[JD]

Just saw it today. That was amazing! I was expecting a little more story and character, but wow what an incredible action packed movie! One prolonged chase scene from beginning to end--- filmed practically! Everything just looked absolutely incredible! (hell, even the people he was rescuing this time were a group of scantily clad supermodels! George Miller thought of everything! )

I would have liked to have seen how Furiosa came to meet Joe's wives since they're kept locked away in a vault and made the decision to break them out and how she accomplished it.

The next comic focuses on Furiosa, so there is a chance we might see some of what you're talking about there.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I really hope they make a sequel. And ramp shit up accordingly.

Short of adding more ramps, how could you possibly ramp this up more than it already was? It's was essentially a continuous back and forth car chase from start to finish with a couple of smoke breaks in between. Not that I'm complaining, because it was awesome, but I'm not sure how much more ramped it could get without drinking crack- and ecstasy-infused Four Loko while watching it.

The Australian outback must be littered with vintage car parts and monster truck tires in working condition, much like the sidewalks and streets of Los Angeles are littered with polished skulls in the Terminator films.

 

[Smellmet]

I really hope they make a sequel. And ramp shit up accordingly.

Short of adding more ramps, how could you possibly ramp this up more than it already was? It's was essentially a continuous back and forth car chase from start to finish with a couple of smoke breaks in between. Not that I'm complaining, because it was awesome, but I'm not sure how much more ramped it could get without drinking crack- and ecstasy-infused Four Loko while watching it.

The Australian outback must be littered with vintage car parts and monster truck tires in working condition, much like the sidewalks and streets of Los Angeles are littered with polished skulls in the Terminator films.

Oh don't get me wrong - this is one insane action film. I'd already venture that this film will reach classic status, especially in the action department. What I'm saying is that I sequel is easily possible if this one does well at the box office (jury's out at the moment) and I would love to see how Miller can top this.

I think I actually prefer the first major chase in the movie which climaxes with the sandstorm. That sequence is pure action gold.

The 64,000 dollar question is... do I prefer this chase to the one in The Matrix Reloaded? Damn it's close, but I reckon I just prefer Reloaded. Or do I? Shit. I can't make my mind up. Suffice to say it's up there with the very best car chases ever committed to film.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I really hope they make a sequel. And ramp shit up accordingly.

Short of adding more ramps, how could you possibly ramp this up more than it already was? It's was essentially a continuous back and forth car chase from start to finish with a couple of smoke breaks in between. Not that I'm complaining, because it was awesome, but I'm not sure how much more ramped it could get without drinking crack- and ecstasy-infused Four Loko while watching it.

The Australian outback must be littered with vintage car parts and monster truck tires in working condition, much like the sidewalks and streets of Los Angeles are littered with polished skulls in the Terminator films.

Oh don't get me wrong - this is one insane action film. I'd already venture that this film will reach classic status, especially in the action department. What I'm saying is that I sequel is easily possible if this one does well at the box office (jury's out at the moment) and I would love to see how Miller can top this.

I think I actually prefer the first major chase in the movie which climaxes with the sandstorm. That sequence is pure action gold.

The 64,000 dollar question is... do I prefer this chase to the one in The Matrix Reloaded? Damn it's close, but I reckon I just prefer Reloaded. Or do I? Shit. I can't make my mind up. Suffice to say it's up there with the very best car chases ever committed to film.

Oh, I know you weren't criticizing it, I was just having some fun with the craziness of the chase scenes and the idea of "ramping up" further from there.

The sandstorm chase was just mindblowing, though it's kind of a shame we already saw most of it in the trailers.

 

[Mr Light]

I can only assume that the sequel would be about defending the Citadel from being taken from evil dues.

 

[Smellmet]

I think I went into watching it the first time with false expectations, I was hoping to see an expanded tale set in the universe of Mad Max. What Miller has delivered, and I wasn't expecting this, is a straight up Mad Max movie that retains the tone and feel of it's predecessors in that it's almost a 'Man with no name Clint Western with car chases' yet manages to be hugely entertaining to the modern moviegoer without resorting to a load of predictable CGI. Pixel effects are used sparingly but to stunning effect in this movie - the big pullback to the approaching sandstorm and the chase inside it are stunning. It's quite a feat.

 

[Smellmet]

I can only assume that the sequel would be about defending the Citadel from being taken from evil dues.

I'd like to see a chase through a deserted and rotted away Sydney, with bridges and stuff brought into the mix.

 

[Mr Light]

^

That sounds cool, but it would mean doing everything in CGI...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Whatever it takes.

 

[Aldo]

^

That sounds cool, but it would mean doing everything in CGI...

Would it though? "Beyond Thunderdome" had a flyover of a destroyed city and it was all done with model work. Granted it looked exactly like model work, but it was still a striking image.

If they want to do a chase through a burned out city, they can build half of it with sets and use CGI to augment the sets. Not all of it has to be CGI.