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Mad Max: Fury Road
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jye4ever
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Box Office Mojo headline reads:
Max Pitched Slapped!
Max Pitched Slapped!
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Prime Clone
Super Freak
Is it just me or did Warner not really try hard enough to market it. It's like they gave up on it before it was even released. I get the feeling it woulda done better with more pre-publicity. Word of mouth will compensate to a certain extent.
The trailers were so over-the-top you'd be forgiven for thinking they were all the best bits. Who knew the whole movie would be like that!
The trailers were so over-the-top you'd be forgiven for thinking they were all the best bits. Who knew the whole movie would be like that!
Deckard
Super Freak
Box Office Mojo headline reads:
Max Pitched Slapped!
Except MM has grossed 10 million more worldwide so far. No one outside of the U.S. cares about American comedies.
i think the whole feminist stuff was their way to hype it up. it just didnt work
because they are smart
Prime Clone
Super Freak
Ironic that PP2 stars the latest Aussie "sensation"!
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Just got back. Holy ****** did I pick the right movie to try out D-Box with! DAMN. I thought it'd be some stupid gimmick like I was just watching a movie on an airplane while experiencing severe turbulence but as it turned out getting thrown around in my seat while the cars and trucks were flipping around was insane! I was grinning ear to ear for like 90 minutes straight.
In short, I really liked the movie.
A few thoughts (spoilers below):
1. George Miller, filming cars speeding though the waste from the road's POV, something you've just got to experience on the big screen.
2. I was fascinated that they did make it a true "replacement sequel" for the original Mad Max. A lot of that going around now with Superman Returns, the new ALIENS and now this.
3. It took me a while to "unlearn" Max's character. The kinder, gentler, sometimes even coy hero of Gibson's Rockatanski was nowhere to be found. And when I say kinder I mean toward "innocent" or neutral parties. Obviously Gibson was always a mean SOB to bad guys. But I was like, okay, lets say he DIDN'T get over his wife and kid dying and is just kind of a wandering shell of a survivor. I had to keep reminding myself of that after we saw him try and ditch the wives and steal the truck.
But I did think it ultimately worked. The last time I remember someone trying to pull that off was Costner in Waterworld to laughable results. But Hardy's strong silent type (I mean he had like what two or three lines tops the whole first half of the movie) was actually quite old school.
4. His non-traditional heroism. Also very old school. For a second I thought "hey, he should have killed the main bad guy, Max always does," or "Hey, he should have flipped the rig to trigger the collapse of the pass, that's what he would have done in Thunderdome." But, this Max is NOT THAT GUY. And I think that was risky, unexpected, and kind of cool. His heroism kind of sneaks up on you. He tells the ladies "forget driving over the salt flats, you'll die. Let's take the Citadel." And I was kind of thinking that he might want to reap the benefits of all that green. And so he does the whole epic trek back, fighting and killing, and just helps the girls survive. And then he gets back to the promised land but didn't take out the main bad guys. And I was thinking that I kind of wished that it had gone another way until he LEAVES at the end. Whoa! Okay so he didn't rip Toecutter's face off or whatever but ran that whole gauntlet for ONLY the other gals that he barely knew? That was pretty slick! It was almost an epilogue moment that revealed his heroic core. I liked that. So he helped saved the day but just can't rest while his demons still haunt him.
5. The gnarly mouth pieces of Max and Immortan Joe. I liked the theme of Charlize "liberating" both men of their mouth gear, with drastically different results.
6. I really liked all the little glimpses of different regions and people that we don't normally get in this series. The night time quagmire scene was a refreshing change of pace from what we're used to.
Cool flick, badass explosive action, they surprisingly DIDN'T re-use as many gags from The Road Warrior as I assumed they would, just enough melodrama to not take it too seriously, violence in kind of an operatic John Woo kind of way, I could see someone calling the action sequences of this film as "vehicular ballet." And they wouldn't be wrong.
In short, I really liked the movie.
A few thoughts (spoilers below):
1. George Miller, filming cars speeding though the waste from the road's POV, something you've just got to experience on the big screen.
2. I was fascinated that they did make it a true "replacement sequel" for the original Mad Max. A lot of that going around now with Superman Returns, the new ALIENS and now this.
3. It took me a while to "unlearn" Max's character. The kinder, gentler, sometimes even coy hero of Gibson's Rockatanski was nowhere to be found. And when I say kinder I mean toward "innocent" or neutral parties. Obviously Gibson was always a mean SOB to bad guys. But I was like, okay, lets say he DIDN'T get over his wife and kid dying and is just kind of a wandering shell of a survivor. I had to keep reminding myself of that after we saw him try and ditch the wives and steal the truck.
But I did think it ultimately worked. The last time I remember someone trying to pull that off was Costner in Waterworld to laughable results. But Hardy's strong silent type (I mean he had like what two or three lines tops the whole first half of the movie) was actually quite old school.
4. His non-traditional heroism. Also very old school. For a second I thought "hey, he should have killed the main bad guy, Max always does," or "Hey, he should have flipped the rig to trigger the collapse of the pass, that's what he would have done in Thunderdome." But, this Max is NOT THAT GUY. And I think that was risky, unexpected, and kind of cool. His heroism kind of sneaks up on you. He tells the ladies "forget driving over the salt flats, you'll die. Let's take the Citadel." And I was kind of thinking that he might want to reap the benefits of all that green. And so he does the whole epic trek back, fighting and killing, and just helps the girls survive. And then he gets back to the promised land but didn't take out the main bad guys. And I was thinking that I kind of wished that it had gone another way until he LEAVES at the end. Whoa! Okay so he didn't rip Toecutter's face off or whatever but ran that whole gauntlet for ONLY the other gals that he barely knew? That was pretty slick! It was almost an epilogue moment that revealed his heroic core. I liked that. So he helped saved the day but just can't rest while his demons still haunt him.
5. The gnarly mouth pieces of Max and Immortan Joe. I liked the theme of Charlize "liberating" both men of their mouth gear, with drastically different results.
6. I really liked all the little glimpses of different regions and people that we don't normally get in this series. The night time quagmire scene was a refreshing change of pace from what we're used to.
Cool flick, badass explosive action, they surprisingly DIDN'T re-use as many gags from The Road Warrior as I assumed they would, just enough melodrama to not take it too seriously, violence in kind of an operatic John Woo kind of way, I could see someone calling the action sequences of this film as "vehicular ballet." And they wouldn't be wrong.
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For JYE:
A few things in this movie reminded me of Slipknot, and he was the most obvious. I wanted to think that Miller was influenced by Slipknot, but it's very possibly the other way around.
A few things in this movie reminded me of Slipknot, and he was the most obvious. I wanted to think that Miller was influenced by Slipknot, but it's very possibly the other way around.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Damn Khev, wish I saw the movie with you.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
For JYE:
A few things in this movie reminded me of Slipknot, and he was the most obvious. I wanted to think that Miller was influenced by Slipknot, but it's very possibly the other way around.
lol, at least concert speakers are not in short supply post world destruction.
Just got back -- LOVED IT!
batfan08
Super Freak
Just got back. Holy ****** did I pick the right movie to try out D-Box with! DAMN. I thought it'd be some stupid gimmick like I was just watching a movie on an airplane while experiencing severe turbulence but as it turned out getting thrown around in my seat while the cars and trucks were flipping around was insane! I was grinning ear to ear for like 90 minutes straight.
In short, I really liked the movie.
A few thoughts (spoilers below):
1. George Miller, filming cars speeding though the waste from the road's POV, something you've just got to experience on the big screen.
2. I was fascinated that they did make it a true "replacement sequel" for the original Mad Max. A lot of that going around now with Superman Returns, the new ALIENS and now this.
3. It took me a while to "unlearn" Max's character. The kinder, gentler, sometimes even coy hero of Gibson's Rockatanski was nowhere to be found. And when I say kinder I mean toward "innocent" or neutral parties. Obviously Gibson was always a mean SOB to bad guys. But I was like, okay, lets say he DIDN'T get over his wife and kid dying and is just kind of a wandering shell of a survivor. I had to keep reminding myself of that after we saw him try and ditch the wives and steal the truck.
But I did think it ultimately worked. The last time I remember someone trying to pull that off was Costner in Waterworld to laughable results. But Hardy's strong silent type (I mean he had like what two or three lines tops the whole first half of the movie) was actually quite old school.
4. His non-traditional heroism. Also very old school. For a second I thought "hey, he should have killed the main bad guy, Max always does," or "Hey, he should have flipped the rig to trigger the collapse of the pass, that's what he would have done in Thunderdome." But, this Max is NOT THAT GUY. And I think that was risky, unexpected, and kind of cool. His heroism kind of sneaks up on you. He tells the ladies "forget driving over the salt flats, you'll die. Let's take the Citadel." And I was kind of thinking that he might want to reap the benefits of all that green. And so he does the whole epic trek back, fighting and killing, and just helps the girls survive. And then he gets back to the promised land but didn't take out the main bad guys. And I was thinking that I kind of wished that it had gone another way until he LEAVES at the end. Whoa! Okay so he didn't rip Toecutter's face off or whatever but ran that whole gauntlet for ONLY the other gals that he barely knew? That was pretty slick! It was almost an epilogue moment that revealed his heroic core. I liked that. So he helped saved the day but just can't rest while his demons still haunt him.
5. The gnarly mouth pieces of Max and Immortan Joe. I liked the theme of Charlize "liberating" both men of their mouth gear, with drastically different results.
6. I really liked all the little glimpses of different regions and people that we don't normally get in this series. The night time quagmire scene was a refreshing change of pace from what we're used to.
Cool flick, badass explosive action, they surprisingly DIDN'T re-use as many gags from The Road Warrior as I assumed they would, just enough melodrama to not take it too seriously, violence in kind of an operatic John Woo kind of way, I could see someone calling the action sequences of this film as "vehicular ballet." And they wouldn't be wrong.
I just saw the original last year, and I've really been wanting to see The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome ever since, but I haven't yet had the chance, so, with that in mind, I feel like, maybe, I got lucky in that regard. I know more than your average moviegoer, but just little enough that this world was totally fresh to me, which made it all the more insane. I still definitely want to see the other two, though; probably moreso, now, actually.
You reckon it rules out Road Warrior?
Yep, because he begins this one with the V8 Interceptor again.
Why does this film not fit in with RW or Thunderdome?
EDIT: just saw your post.
EDIT: just saw your post.
Deckard
Super Freak
I can tell you one thing for sure. During one of Max's visions he sees, for a brief moment, Toecutter's eyes bugging out of his head. So it has footage from the original MM in there for sure. I need to see it again to see if their were any flashes or voices from RW or TD.
....couldn't just be a different Interceptor? (serious question!)
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