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Honestly Fury Roads dialogue could be replaced by engine noises and you'd still get 95% of the story.
The flamethrowing electric guy is just taking marching to a band to its logical mad max extreme and the whole everyone march to a drumbeat thing seems kind of quaint and silly until you need to move thousands of men across country and don't want to spend days or weeks getting re-organized once you get somewhere.
Wonderful movie. The only complaint I have was that 9/10 of the main characters don't say their names on screen so I have to search the internet to know their names. Like the Wives. The red head was adorable, Rose Huntington-Whitely raised her game as an actress in this movie - she's got a promising acting career ahead if she plays her cards right. Theron was magnificent. Tom Hardy sold me as him being the next Punisher. Nux was amazing. George Miller needs to direct a WarHammer 40k movie yesterday, he was born for it.
Honestly Fury Roads dialogue could be replaced by engine noises and you'd still get 95% of the story.
The flamethrowing electric guy is just taking marching to a band to its logical mad max extreme and the whole everyone march to a drumbeat thing seems kind of quaint and silly until you need to move thousands of men across country and don't want to spend days or weeks getting re-organized once you get somewhere.
Quaint and silly is how the Warboys roll. If it isn't either of those they're not interested in doing it.
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You'd never know by looking at him thanks to his mask, but the actor that plays Immortan Joe also played the gang leader Toecutter in the original Mad Max.
I wonder if WB is going to offer Miller another shot at directing Justice League after this?
After this, they might be worried that he could put out a decent DC movie. And we can't have that.
On a related topic, I really like one of the Mad Max movie posters (The one with Max standing facing towards the oncoming war band with the header "What a lovely day".
This one:
Anybody know a reliable retailer that I could order one from?
So while people are discussing how this movie is feminist or anti-men or whatever, I think there's a neat sub-theme going on with Max.
Like, I see a lot of parallels in his story and how some men react to feminism over time.
Like, to start out, he has his own damn problems. Problems big enough that it's easy for him to ignore the plight of others (which is why he steals the truck and tries to leave the women behind.) He's not being malicious, he's not a part of mistreatment of these women; but he also has no desire to help either, as he's more concerned about his own problems. I see people like this a lot; they're not sexist, but having no real experience with how shitty women are often treated, its easy for them to focus on their own problems and are skeptical or dismissive when feminist issues are brought up in the media. Everyone has problems, why are yours so special?
After being forced to work with the women, Max sees just how shitty their situation is and decides to help. I think a lot of guys who are now pro-feminism were in similar situations; once they were finally exposed to the reality of the situation, they decided it wasn't something to ignore anymore and so they begin to react when they see it.
In the end, Max and the women go their separate ways, but he comes back to lay out his plan of returning to the citadel, basically deciding these ladies problems are big enough for him to get directly involved, and so he takes a proactive position on helping them accomplish their goals.
Basically Max's story is about a dude who goes from being ignorant of feminism, to being a feminist ally.
I liked this movie a lot, it's okay if they don't make another one.
Where would you even go? It would be weird to just dump furiosa and move on to something else. Is there more they could do with the citadel?
Furiosa rallying her people to liberate and unite the survivors at the gas and bullet citadels. I mean, their leaders didn't come back either, so somebody had to step up and take over. After getting control of the towns, they have to defend against the remnants of the warbands that found a way around the canyon they collapsed. Defense is hard to do when the warbands took most of the hardware with them in Fury Road, but I think you could have some really great 300 style fight scenes with a smaller army with superior position defending against superior numbers (loin cloth/cape combos are optional).
Second movie, we follow Mad Max as he sets off on foot (or maybe on a bike) to find a route back out past the canyon to get back to his Interceptor and try to get his car back up and running (seems like there'd be plenty of spare parts around). He evades raiders, maybe beats a few heads in with a wrench. But for the most part it's sneaking past heavily armed and pissed off raiders He gets to the interceptor, finds it mostly rebuilt by the raiders (car was built to take a beating), Over the course of a few days (same time period as Furiosa's defense) he finishes it and drives it back to the citadel. Along the way, maybe something bad happens (I'm thinking he comes across an lightly defended raider camp and sees they've crucified anyone not capable of fighting, but who knows?), Max snaps and leaves a pile of bodies behind him, causing him to realize that he's not particularly fit to live in a civilized society, (even considering the current definition of "Civilization"). Maybe it's driving through the carnage of Furiosa's defense that causes him to question whether or not he should stay. Maybe it's the implication that the War Band remnants followed his path in that gets him kicked out of town.
Either way, the movies end with Max driving away from a budding civilization, likely into the jaws of yet another dilemma.
Or not. It's Mad Max, you've got an entire planet worth of post apocalyptic hellscape to explore. No reason to hang around here.
I'm not sure if all of them are, but I get the impression most. There seems to be two types of people, the Organic Mechanic refers to Max as a "full life" which I assume means he doesn't have any sicknesses or radiation diseases, and Nux is a "half life", so it might not be a requisite but it's probably common amongst war boys, I don't think Immortan Joe causes it, but maybe selects children at birth who have it?
So while people are discussing how this movie is feminist or anti-men or whatever, I think there's a neat sub-theme going on with Max.
Like, I see a lot of parallels in his story and how some men react to feminism over time.
Like, to start out, he has his own damn problems. Problems big enough that it's easy for him to ignore the plight of others (which is why he steals the truck and tries to leave the women behind.) He's not being malicious, he's not a part of mistreatment of these women; but he also has no desire to help either, as he's more concerned about his own problems. I see people like this a lot; they're not sexist, but having no real experience with how shitty women are often treated, its easy for them to focus on their own problems and are skeptical or dismissive when feminist issues are brought up in the media. Everyone has problems, why are yours so special?
After being forced to work with the women, Max sees just how shitty their situation is and decides to help. I think a lot of guys who are now pro-feminism were in similar situations; once they were finally exposed to the reality of the situation, they decided it wasn't something to ignore anymore and so they begin to react when they see it.
In the end, Max and the women go their separate ways, but he comes back to lay out his plan of returning to the citadel, basically deciding these ladies problems are big enough for him to get directly involved, and so he takes a proactive position on helping them accomplish their goals.
Basically Max's story is about a dude who goes from being ignorant of feminism, to being a feminist ally.
That's certainly a fair point and interpretation but I think there's a lot more being read into the story than what it is. If we could just have never had any of the sexist/feminist talk about the movie show up this past week with all the sides trying to paint things a certain brush I think interpretations would be a lot different and more conducive of a usual summer blockbuster story. Hell, the movie would probably get flak for having damsels in distress, and that seemed to be the case when the trailers first started showing up.
Max leaves initially because he does this all the time. He's broken, he doesn't want to be involved in the lives of others because it means he's going to be hurt again, as evidenced by his (apparently happened off screen) dead daughter), but he can't stop being a good person. It's not a women thing, it's an innocence thing. He knows what those people are capable of because he experienced it himself, the only thing that didn't make him have the Furiousa arm treatment (yet) is his blood type. The same thing happened with the oil refinery and Bartertown and the airplane kids, he starts off with selfish intentions but looks at the plight of others trying to be decent in this new world and then helps out. His decision at the end isn't so much a plight to fight patriarchy, as it is that unless they take the Citadel (and the normal people who live below), that is tens, then hundreds of people who will be lost to the crazy of the world.
Look at every movie, it's about Max fixing things with his own version of justice, despite taking losses to his own self. His wife and son, his dog, his camels, his cars, whatever this apparent family was he had somewhere between Thunderdome and Fury Road, all these go away but in exchange he gets large amounts of good people to safe haven, from that coast city alluded to in Road Warrior to Sydney with the airplane kids to here, it paints a pattern of Max moving from east to west in the continent and giving these glimmers of hope to the audience. Heck, it would be too artsy fartsy to say Max is covering Australia like he would the sun, until his story finally sets in Perth, which should be this relatively normal world where Max just can't understand how normal it is.
And I didn't realize this was losing to Pitch Perfect 2, this is totally getting Edge of Tomorrow'd. For shame, everyone, for shaaaaame.
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Mad Max has 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, Pitch Perfect 2 has 68%.
Mad Max is rated R, which generally don't do as well.
Even if this movie doesn't do great in theaters, it'll KILL on home video.
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Just got back from an 8:45 showing. I noticed some people complaining that Pitch Perfect was sold out, but the Fury Road theater was still pretty packed.
Mad Max has 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, Pitch Perfect 2 has 68%.
Mad Max is rated R, which generally don't do as well.
But I think we'll see which film has legs.
Yeah, I don't think anyone should be surprised that the R-rated post apocalyptic murder-car chase movie is being outdone by the PG-13 comedy about college girls in a singing competition.
I mean, sure, we can be disappointed with movie going humanity in general for that result, but not surprised.
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The flamethrowing electric guy is just taking marching to a band to its logical mad max extreme and the whole everyone march to a drumbeat thing seems kind of quaint and silly until you need to move thousands of men across country and don't want to spend days or weeks getting re-organized once you get somewhere.
This movie is actually worth seeing in 3D. Miller understood everything about what makes 3D work and this movie passes the test flawlessly.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/3D-Or-3D-Buy-Right-Mad-Max-Fury-Road-Ticket-71474.html
Quaint and silly is how the Warboys roll. If it isn't either of those they're not interested in doing it.
Cool!
I try to see as few films in 3D as possible, though.
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You'd never know by looking at him thanks to his mask, but the actor that plays Immortan Joe also played the gang leader Toecutter in the original Mad Max.
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That'll do George. That'll do.
Honestly, the character design in this movie was just top notch.
After this, they might be worried that he could put out a decent DC movie. And we can't have that.
On a related topic, I really like one of the Mad Max movie posters (The one with Max standing facing towards the oncoming war band with the header "What a lovely day".
Anybody know a reliable retailer that I could order one from?
i hope not. also wasnt it justice league dark or was that del toro?
Hell, he might not get this chance again, period. It cost like 200+ million to make and it's losing to pitch perfect 2.
You don't get 200+ positive reviews and not get noticed by someone.
He'll probably not get another 200 million, but I imagine he'll be getting some job offers after this.
Where would you even go? It would be weird to just dump furiosa and move on to something else. Is there more they could do with the citadel?
Apparently while making the movie, George Miller had ideas for at least two more films, one of which would be about Furiosa.
Like, I see a lot of parallels in his story and how some men react to feminism over time.
Like, to start out, he has his own damn problems. Problems big enough that it's easy for him to ignore the plight of others (which is why he steals the truck and tries to leave the women behind.) He's not being malicious, he's not a part of mistreatment of these women; but he also has no desire to help either, as he's more concerned about his own problems. I see people like this a lot; they're not sexist, but having no real experience with how shitty women are often treated, its easy for them to focus on their own problems and are skeptical or dismissive when feminist issues are brought up in the media. Everyone has problems, why are yours so special?
After being forced to work with the women, Max sees just how shitty their situation is and decides to help. I think a lot of guys who are now pro-feminism were in similar situations; once they were finally exposed to the reality of the situation, they decided it wasn't something to ignore anymore and so they begin to react when they see it.
In the end, Max and the women go their separate ways, but he comes back to lay out his plan of returning to the citadel, basically deciding these ladies problems are big enough for him to get directly involved, and so he takes a proactive position on helping them accomplish their goals.
Basically Max's story is about a dude who goes from being ignorant of feminism, to being a feminist ally.
That was del Toro, he did Justice League: Mortal.
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/12/30/justice-league-mortal-the-film-we-almost-got-2550184?lt_source=external,manual
Anywhere they want. Mad Max world is filled with enormous potential as a film series. This is the forth movie.
Furiosa rallying her people to liberate and unite the survivors at the gas and bullet citadels. I mean, their leaders didn't come back either, so somebody had to step up and take over. After getting control of the towns, they have to defend against the remnants of the warbands that found a way around the canyon they collapsed. Defense is hard to do when the warbands took most of the hardware with them in Fury Road, but I think you could have some really great 300 style fight scenes with a smaller army with superior position defending against superior numbers (loin cloth/cape combos are optional).
Second movie, we follow Mad Max as he sets off on foot (or maybe on a bike) to find a route back out past the canyon to get back to his Interceptor and try to get his car back up and running (seems like there'd be plenty of spare parts around). He evades raiders, maybe beats a few heads in with a wrench. But for the most part it's sneaking past heavily armed and pissed off raiders He gets to the interceptor, finds it mostly rebuilt by the raiders (car was built to take a beating), Over the course of a few days (same time period as Furiosa's defense) he finishes it and drives it back to the citadel. Along the way, maybe something bad happens (I'm thinking he comes across an lightly defended raider camp and sees they've crucified anyone not capable of fighting, but who knows?), Max snaps and leaves a pile of bodies behind him, causing him to realize that he's not particularly fit to live in a civilized society, (even considering the current definition of "Civilization"). Maybe it's driving through the carnage of Furiosa's defense that causes him to question whether or not he should stay. Maybe it's the implication that the War Band remnants followed his path in that gets him kicked out of town.
Either way, the movies end with Max driving away from a budding civilization, likely into the jaws of yet another dilemma.
Or not. It's Mad Max, you've got an entire planet worth of post apocalyptic hellscape to explore. No reason to hang around here.
This fuckin' movie, guys.
Did Joe make them that way or is it just the general debilitatation from living in the wasteland without basic needs fulfilled?
i think that's just a product of the environment.
Barry and Larry for best supporting tumors.
Barry and Larry really chewed the scenery, and the cast
That's certainly a fair point and interpretation but I think there's a lot more being read into the story than what it is. If we could just have never had any of the sexist/feminist talk about the movie show up this past week with all the sides trying to paint things a certain brush I think interpretations would be a lot different and more conducive of a usual summer blockbuster story. Hell, the movie would probably get flak for having damsels in distress, and that seemed to be the case when the trailers first started showing up.
Max leaves initially because he does this all the time. He's broken, he doesn't want to be involved in the lives of others because it means he's going to be hurt again, as evidenced by his (apparently happened off screen) dead daughter), but he can't stop being a good person. It's not a women thing, it's an innocence thing. He knows what those people are capable of because he experienced it himself, the only thing that didn't make him have the Furiousa arm treatment (yet) is his blood type. The same thing happened with the oil refinery and Bartertown and the airplane kids, he starts off with selfish intentions but looks at the plight of others trying to be decent in this new world and then helps out. His decision at the end isn't so much a plight to fight patriarchy, as it is that unless they take the Citadel (and the normal people who live below), that is tens, then hundreds of people who will be lost to the crazy of the world.
Look at every movie, it's about Max fixing things with his own version of justice, despite taking losses to his own self. His wife and son, his dog, his camels, his cars, whatever this apparent family was he had somewhere between Thunderdome and Fury Road, all these go away but in exchange he gets large amounts of good people to safe haven, from that coast city alluded to in Road Warrior to Sydney with the airplane kids to here, it paints a pattern of Max moving from east to west in the continent and giving these glimmers of hope to the audience. Heck, it would be too artsy fartsy to say Max is covering Australia like he would the sun, until his story finally sets in Perth, which should be this relatively normal world where Max just can't understand how normal it is.
And I didn't realize this was losing to Pitch Perfect 2, this is totally getting Edge of Tomorrow'd. For shame, everyone, for shaaaaame.
Mad Max is rated R, which generally don't do as well.
But I think we'll see which film has legs.
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/tom-hardy-says-he-knew-he-owed-george-miller-an-apology-after-he-saw-mad-max-fury-road
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/mad-max-fury-road-george-miller-interview
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/15/406731120/the-women-pull-no-punches-in-fiery-feminist-mad-max
Yeah, I don't think anyone should be surprised that the R-rated post apocalyptic murder-car chase movie is being outdone by the PG-13 comedy about college girls in a singing competition.
I mean, sure, we can be disappointed with movie going humanity in general for that result, but not surprised.