Mandible
Super Freak
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2010
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How to unpack this one????
Story - by far the best structured narrative in the whole series. Classic revenge movie; beginning, middle, end. Generally the MM stories are bits and pieces barely strung together. Not much plot, or character development (not saying that in a bad way - it's just what they are... pretty basic).
Characters - if they didn't have the relationship with Pseudo Max and Furiosa (and the way it was handled), I probably wouldn't have liked it as much as I did. We haven't seen a "relationship" like this since the original film with Max and his wife. Obviously that had more weight as they had a lot of history (and a child), but I liked how they did Pseudo and Furiosa a bit more naive and childlike - like they were going to sail off into the sunset together and live happily ever after in perfect land.
Scale was epic. As in, the various different types of locations, etc. It felt a lot like the MM video game in that sense.
BUT...
The CG is out of control. It's so obvious, it's on the nose. And unnecessary a lot of the time - the bit where Hemsworth is ramming the big gate to get through clearly was CG to do this dumb close shot of his face as he would reverse up and go again and again. Same shot, same angle, same **** CG. I've seen shots handled better and more realistic in The Volume.
The movement of all the vehicles is horrendous when they're CG - it looks like a cutscene from a video game.
I tried to look past the CG, but it is just so overused, obvious, and poorly executed - I struggled.
Saying all that, I want to watch it again. Probably give it a 7.5 or 8.
Story - by far the best structured narrative in the whole series. Classic revenge movie; beginning, middle, end. Generally the MM stories are bits and pieces barely strung together. Not much plot, or character development (not saying that in a bad way - it's just what they are... pretty basic).
Characters - if they didn't have the relationship with Pseudo Max and Furiosa (and the way it was handled), I probably wouldn't have liked it as much as I did. We haven't seen a "relationship" like this since the original film with Max and his wife. Obviously that had more weight as they had a lot of history (and a child), but I liked how they did Pseudo and Furiosa a bit more naive and childlike - like they were going to sail off into the sunset together and live happily ever after in perfect land.
Scale was epic. As in, the various different types of locations, etc. It felt a lot like the MM video game in that sense.
BUT...
The CG is out of control. It's so obvious, it's on the nose. And unnecessary a lot of the time - the bit where Hemsworth is ramming the big gate to get through clearly was CG to do this dumb close shot of his face as he would reverse up and go again and again. Same shot, same angle, same **** CG. I've seen shots handled better and more realistic in The Volume.
The movement of all the vehicles is horrendous when they're CG - it looks like a cutscene from a video game.
I tried to look past the CG, but it is just so overused, obvious, and poorly executed - I struggled.
Saying all that, I want to watch it again. Probably give it a 7.5 or 8.