Mad Max: Fury Road

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Tom Hardy is the Kid, all grown up, leading the good tribe.

Therefore: (old man) Mel is no longer only in memory.
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That was a fantastic movie.
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Very entertaining, very weird. Will be getting on blu ray

Someone earlier said they prefer the fast and furious movies....lolol


I bet they prefer Ed Hardy, Nickleback, and Florida Georgia Line as well.
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Yea that was me. Does it seriously bother you that much that you have to make some idiotic generalization that I like crappy music.
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I like F&F and hate all of those.
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What happened to this thread?
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In Fast and Furious 6 there is a part where Vin Diesel intentionally crashes his car (that he has climbed on top of) full speed into a guard rail on a bridge so that the force will send him flying to an exact spot on another parallel bridge about 100-150 ft away over a deep canyon so that he can intercept the Mexican lesbian girl who has also been flung wildly through the air as a result of a high speed collision on that other bridge...and once he catches her they miraculously smash into the front of a car completely unscathed. This literally happens in the movie. Superman may not have been able to pull this off. It's amazing that something like this was able to stay in the movie.

EDIT: Found it. This is great. I bet all the Ed hardy wearing professional spring breakers went crazy in the theater after this scene...

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Are you really trying to say Fast and the Furious is too over the top on a thread about Mad Max?
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In Fast and Furious 6 there is a part where Vin Diesel intentionally crashes his car (that he has climbed on top of) full speed into a guard rail on a bridge so that the force will send him flying to an exact spot on another parallel bridge about 100-150 ft away over a deep canyon so that he can intercept the Mexican lesbian girl who has also been flung wildly through the air as a result of a high speed collision on that other bridge...and once he catches her they miraculously smash into the front of a car completely unscathed. This literally happens in the movie. Superman may not have been able to pull this off. It's amazing that something like this was able to stay in the movie.


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Saw it tonight, amazing movie.

Anyone else catch the music box?
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Best movie of the year so far, IMO, and best action movie by far. I was more in awe of this than Avengers . And Fast and Furious 17, or whatever they're up to now? Please.....

Masterpiece is the perfect word for Fury Road. If you're the slightest bit interested in seeing it, go see it while its in theaters. Don't wait to see it on a TV sreen. It won't do the stunts justice.
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Since Fast & Furious was brought up: finally saw Furious 7 last night and, while entertained, it was so ludicrous that it felt like a parody of a F&F movie.
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I guess I'll be the only one that loved Tom Hardy's performance. Great stuff.
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Crazy movie. I didn't know what the **** was going on at the beginning.

Who was the little girl that kept on tormenting Max? A past failure? Is that why he leaves at the end of the movie, to prevent himself from seeing it also fail?

The "Witness" parts of the movie were my favorites
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I guess I'll be the only one that loved Tom Hardy's performance. Great stuff.


You're not the only one. I loved it as well. Didn't miss a beat from the originals - he did a fantastic job channeling Max.
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8.5/10. Will see again. My 12yr old son was in total awe and also commented he couldn't believe there was no cussing.
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I heard that some of my 12 year old son's teachers were surprised to hear I had taken him to see this film (my wife is a teacher at my son's school and talks with his teachers daily).

Honestly, the movie is a little intense (but ultimately showed little blood) and the childbirth scene is a little disturbing, but I think the movie is rated R based on reputation. It's awesomeness is too much for normal people.

I think I would have been disappointed if the movie had gotten a PG-13 rating (I think most posters here would be moaning about that for the past few months), but it certainly could have achieved that without much editing. Maybe the movie would have done better at the box office if it had been. I wouldn't be surprised if WB pushes for that rating for the next one.
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Great flick. Not for everyone for sure, but great. The attention to detail, the imagery, and the pace were all solid. My only issue would be the random fade outs. Not a big deal, but it was odd.
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Getting around to posting on the thread after seeing it this weekend.

For starters, how do so many of you not know what 99% on RT means? Some of you act like that is a grade of 99/100, and were therefore disappointed that this was not somehow the greatest triumph in cinema history. Bunch of whiners in here!

Whiners, because this is obviously a movie worthy of a positive review across the board, which is what RT measures. Very fun. Absolutely insane. Really captured the world of Mad Max. Also served as a great intro to the world for the new fans.

The world is my favorite character. I love the reuse of old materials and the solutions they find to practical problems, be it using snakes as weapons or burning methane or using slave labor to turn giant gears or milking humans. This installment is the richest yet and you can tell that it is cut from the middle of a six hour manuscript, in a good way. Gas Town, the Bullet Farm (and the leaders of those communities) are very developed, real places, despite not really being in the movie. That's always a sign of great world building.

Theron is nails and continues to show that she may be greatest, most versatile actress of her generation. Her arm looked GREAT, not just the CGI, but how she sometimes took it off, it had the series of straps and the harness to keep it on. Just great. Lots of attention to detail.

Loved the cult of the Half Life War Boys. Great fanaticism and vernacular and yet another interesting solution to life after the Apocalypse. Great, simple look as well. They did a great job differentiating the look of the War Boys that we saw repeatedly. They didn't run together like a bunch of stormtroopers.

I'm with others who have said that as the movie digested, I like it more and more. The game I'm writing for now is post-apoc, and though the flavor is much different, I find it hard not to go write up some material using elements of the movie. Gets my creative juices pumping!

Gonna go play some Fallout now...
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Gonna go play some Fallout now...

Nah man, Borderlands is based on Mad Max. Play that. Almost as fun.
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Gonna go play some Fallout now...

Nah man, Borderlands is based on Mad Max. Play that. Almost as fun.
Honestly Borderlands is way more fun
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1. Not enough tits.
2. Hardy sounded to much like bane a few times
3. The two headed lizard looked like it was done by the asylum.

That said, I loved it.
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While I have all sorts of respect for the writing, theme, and production value of Borderlands, I tried it a few years back and really didn't enjoy it. I don't have enough time to play to grind or to get skilled at the twitch aspects of playing the game. VATS is a lifesaver for me, playing Fallout.
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While I have all sorts of respect for the writing, theme, and production value of Borderlands, I tried it a few years back and really didn't enjoy it. I don't have enough time to play to grind or to get skilled at the twitch aspects of playing the game. VATS is a lifesaver for me, playing Fallout.
Fair enough, I thought VATS took ALL of the fun out of the game.
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^Have you guys seen the Mad Max game that's coming out soon? It looks really badass, in a GTA sort of way. Here's a trailer, but there's an extensive gameplay video on the net if you want more.

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^Have you guys seen the Mad Max game that's coming out soon? It looks really badass, in a GTA sort of way. Here's a trailer, but there's an extensive gameplay video on the net if you want more.



Interesting. Games based on movies usually suck, but this looks really good. Batman-style fighting system from WB always flows really well.
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I guess I'll be the only one that loved Tom Hardy's performance. Great stuff.


You're not the only one. I loved it as well. Didn't miss a beat from the originals - he did a fantastic job channeling Max.
I loved it too.
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Nailed it
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So, is anyone else haunted by this movie? Like, the images sort of creep back into your head? I really liked Fury Road, but I wasn't BLOWN AWAY like I was with some all-timers like Dark Knight or Inception or... I just realized I was going to list a bunch of Nolan movies... also Moneyball, Guardians; the instant favorites from the past number of years that I immediately wanted to walk back into the theater and watch again.

Anyway, I feel like this film has grown on me to the point that I kinda wanna go see it again. I keep thinking about how bright it was on the screen, and how dense each shot was. I feel like I need to see it again just to properly capture it all. I have a feeling this is going to be a movie that I watch a lot at home, but might need to see it once more on the big screen.
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I agree that it deserves a rewatch.
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So, is anyone else haunted by this movie? Like, the images sort of creep back into your head? I really liked Fury Road, but I wasn't BLOWN AWAY like I was with some all-timers like Dark Knight or Inception or... I just realized I was going to list a bunch of Nolan movies... also Moneyball, Guardians; the instant favorites from the past number of years that I immediately wanted to walk back into the theater and watch again.

Anyway, I feel like this film has grown on me to the point that I kinda wanna go see it again. I keep thinking about how bright it was on the screen, and how dense each shot was. I feel like I need to see it again just to properly capture it all. I have a feeling this is going to be a movie that I watch a lot at home, but might need to see it once more on the big screen.
EXACTLY how I feel. May see it again this week.
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I'll never forget this
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finally saw this last night, holy crap this is my movie of the year so far barely edging out Ex Machina
  • i know Miller says that this is intended to be watched in 2D, but this was honestly my favorite 3D experience I've had at the movies (especially after Hobbit: TBotFA was kind of a let-down in this regard)
  • I'm curious to get SteadicaTm or TCTT's input here, but the thing that wowed me the most about the cinematography was how they seemed to subtly crank up or crank down the frame rate at specific times in the action. not sure if that's the right terminology, but the effect ended up being that i could always tell what was going on in those high-octane moments. kind of reminded me of how Jackie Chan treats action filming where the filmmakers aren't trying to pull a wool over your eyes and say, "just trust that this makes sense!"
  • to those complaining about a thin or un-explained plot/setting - gonna have to flat out disagree. what i loved is that there was no tacky exposition, they threw a lot of great "show don't tell" moments that put you in this world, explained the premise with some brief scenes in the Citadel, and then got on with it. i always hate when action movies slow everything down by explaining too much **** with words - let your visuals and character actions do that for you. i'm uninitiated to the Mad Max franchise so i didn't have much of a context going in, and i still felt that everything was very well explained
  • speaking of visuals, my god this movie is gorgeous - vibrant, thrilling, and clearly very thoroughly planned out. character design was great as well.
i'll be watching this again soon, i think. top 5 action movie i've ever seen.

do y'all think it's worth watching the older three films? i really know nothing about MM apart from what's shown in Fury Road
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I have seen this movie twice and am seriously considering seeing it a third time.

Very few movies in the last decade or so for me have I ever done that. The only one I can remember was the first Avengers movie.
 
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