Mad Max: Fury Road

[Deckard]

 

[Wor-Gar]

T2? Lion King? Heat? Unforgiven? saving private ryan? Braveheart? Jurassic Park? Pup Fiction? Shawshank Redemption? Schindler's List? Goodfellas? Se7en? The Professional? Casino?

Such weak 90s flicks.

And that right there is about the total that might make 'classics' lists.

Also some of the Coen's best work--Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, the Big Lebowski. Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, Silence of the Lambs, Reservoir Dogs, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Toy Story, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects, Woody Allen did some good films like Deconstructing Harry, El Mariachi and Desperado, Office Space (one of the greatest comedies ever made IMO),

Some of your choices are simply personal and are hardly classics. Bottle Rocket? Desperado? Barton Fink? Honestly, of your list Silence and Toy Story are about the only movies that would be "classics". Personally I used to love Usual Suspects but I don't think its classic material.

 

[Khev]

Woody Allen did some good films like Deconstructing Harry, El Mariachi and Desperado, Office Space (one of the greatest comedies ever made IMO),

Woody Allen made El Mariachi, Desperado and Office Space? It'll be interesting to see if he ever returns to his Mexican bloodbath roots one day.

 

[Wor-Gar]

90's were so devoid of great action/adventure fare that everyone here actually liked 'Batman Forever'.... that's how desperate we all were.

For this forum, the greats from the 90's seem to start fine with Terminator 2, then Batman Returns, then Jurassic Park.... then nothing until The Matrix. We got filler like Independence Day instead and the SE Star Wars. Hollywood also went thru a terrible streak of turning old TV shows into movies -- from Little Rascals to Dennis the Menace to Beverly Hillbillies to Flintstones, and on and on... it was just horrible. And the corporate obsession with "branding" began to take root.

And after Pulp Fiction, most action flicks went quirky and wannabe hip, which inevitably gets dated fast.

 

[Khev]

90's were so devoid of great action/adventure fare that everyone here actually liked 'Batman Forever'.... that's how desperate we all were.

I suppose that's true with regard to Hollywood. But luckily I got tipped off early on about the greatness of Hong Kong cinema and was more than satisfied with such John Woo outings as Bullet in the Head (one of my all time favorite films to this day,) The Killer, Hard Boiled, and then his Paramount Pictures funded Face/Off. On the Hollywood side I thought True Lies and Speed were great fun too. I think most would consider Verhoeven's Total Recall to be a sci-fi classic of sorts or at the very least a cult favorite.

So many of the big summer event movies sucked though. I enjoyed Last Action Hero but recognize that it underwhelmed. Batman Forever, not great. Twister, Independence Day, The Lost World, Batman & Robin, Godzilla, Wild Wild West, all sucked. The Phantom Menace? Well....

 

[jye4ever]

True Lies?

 

[RIDDICK]

If only the story was better written... it could be perfect. But NOPE, can't have that with George Miller.
I'll watch just the first hour of this film when bored. Cool sets, awesome action, great soundtrack and nothing more.

P.S. still better than "Road Warrior"

 

[jye4ever]

2 and 3 should've been kept in.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Temp baby.

 

[GasparZizou]

If only the story was better written... it could be perfect. But NOPE, can't have that with George Miller.

In what way isn't it well written?

2 and 3 should've been kept in.

Yeah they should've, the movie was already R-rated, I wonder why they kept them out.

 

[crows]

Wha the freaking hell?
Wtf...


Those two scenes were a lot better than some of the stuff that was left in....wtf were they thinking


That last scene was used in the trailers, what a shame

 

[cmiller99]

For all we know, if those scenes were left in, the pacing could have been off.

 

[crows]

For all we know, if those scenes were left in, the pacing could have been off.

The pacing is off, they could have cut 3 minutes of furiosa and max to include those scenes.
The movie could have used more joe

 

[Deckard]

There Are Mad Max Ubers in Seattle Right Now

https://www.vulture.com/2015/08/mad-max-ubers-seattle.html?mid=facebook_nymag

 

[Wor-Gar]

Read this shiny review....



Mad Max: Fury Road 3D Blu-ray Review


"Oh, what a Blu-ray! What a lovely Blu-ray!"

Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, August 26, 2015

It isn't often I don't know how to begin a review. Or that I leave a theater at a complete loss for words. And not just once. Four times. Four separate bouts of speechlessness; shaking my head in bewildered awe, my poor mind incapable of wrapping itself around the entirety of a film. But here goes. Director George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is a stunning, revelatory triumph of post-apocalyptic blood, bone and steel. It's thrilling. Jaw dropping. Mind blowing. An unassuming spectacle somehow steeped in minimalism and excess. A blistering two-hour chase without a break in action or a lull in storytelling, because action and story are one. A visionary melding of reboot, reimagining and loosely connected sequel that requires no foreknowledge of previous Mad Max films yet builds upon everything that comes before it. A brazen dual-character piece confident enough to allow its title character to ride shotgun to a far more complex female antihero. A wildly inventive, beautifully brutal comicbook adaptation without a comicbook to adapt. A bold, breathtaking feast of incredible practical effects and death-defying stuntwork. A bold crossroads of old and new, where CG is used sparingly to enhance rather than create. It is, in a word, astonishing.

Is Miller's brash, unrelenting style divisive? Sure. Is Fury Road for everyone? Absolutely not. Does it matter? Not a bit. I've heard they don't make movies like this anymore more times than I care to count, but there's just one glaring problem with that sentiment: they've never made a movie like Mad Max: Fury Road.

 

[Deckard]

I already bought the stream on Amazon but I'm still going to pick up the Steel Book Blu day one.

 

[Wor-Gar]

This blu ray will be jye's new sound-system tester.

Can't frickin wait. Get me some Max for Labor Day!

 

[jye4ever]

Was the B&W version not included in the bluray?

 

[Khev]

Was the B&W version not included in the bluray?

If the black and white cut is included apparently it's an Easter Egg yet to be uncovered.

Looks Like That Black-And-White Version Of 'Mad Max: Fury | The Playlist

 

[Wor-Gar]

Man, that sucks.