OT: Mad Max: Fury Road

[Raellus]

This is an amusing counterpoint (containing some NSFW language) to that argument.

http://jezebel.com/the-new-mad-max-f...d-i-1705273679

If a guy can't handle strong female characters taking care of themselves, then he's not a real man.

[Raellus]

This movie is deeper that it might appear at first viewing. Here are some interesting insights to the politics and military tactics in Fury Road.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/tox...?source=latest

[Olefin]

my rating for the film

A

As in AWESOME APOCALYPTIC ALMIGHTY AUSSIE ASS-KICKING ACTION



or am I being obtuse?

(I do miss Mel though)

[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by Olefin

my rating for the film

A

As in AWESOME APOCALYPTIC ALMIGHTY AUSSIE ASS-KICKING ACTION



or am I being obtuse?

(I do miss Mel though)

Good movie....but..... If you want to see WANTON ASS-KICKING, VEHICLE DESTROYING, DEATH DEFYING VEHICLE BASED ACTION........ You need to drive the Jersey Turnpike at rush hour on a Friday afternoon. Those Assholes will kill you to pull off a lane change.....

[Ancestor]

Originally Posted by Olefin

my rating for the film

A

As in AWESOME APOCALYPTIC ALMIGHTY AUSSIE ASS-KICKING ACTION



or am I being obtuse?

(I do miss Mel though)

Concur 100%. I miss Mel also but I was surprised at how much I grew to like Tom Hardy as Max as the movie progressed. Once he lost the bondage mask, got his jacket back, and started kicking ass I was good to go.

SPOILERS FOLLOW:

The girl playing with the music box was an awesome homage to the Feral Kid, as was the fact that the main villain was played by the same guy that played "The Toecutter". I also think I saw Max limping in a couple of scenes a la the injury at the end of Mad Max.

I was disappointed by the lack of assless leather chaps (no gay, really!), orange mohawks, and references to "Dinki Di" dog food. I also didn't get most of the slang - it was even worse than the kids language in Beyond Thunderdome. And I hated the bizarre "little girl flashback/late 90's horror movie" close ups. I actually think it would have been better to simply show clips of Max's wife and child and the Goose being burned in the first movie rather than try to insert something from "The Ring Part 6".

But I'm nitpicking to be sure. All in all I loved it and it was much better than I expected. It was so over the top and bizarre that it was, in my opinion, an excellent retelling of the Mad Max saga and worth the very long wait.

And as Boogiedowndonovan stated, the whole guitar/drum wagon so over the top it was awesome. Saw it with one of my Army pals and every time that came one one of us would say "that's just badass!"

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by Ancestor

It was so over the top and bizarre that it was, in my opinion, an excellent retelling of the Mad Max saga and worth the very long wait.

Well see that's the thing, it's not a retelling, remake or a reboot. It's meant as another tale in the legend of the Road Warrior.
We're meant to view these movies the same way we would view the tales of any mythological figure. Fury Road is basically part 4 of the franchise.

The article Rae linked to states the implication in its final paragraphs -- "Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves," reads the final title card of the film. It’s a quote from The First History of Man, a fictional book that exists within the Mad Max universe. It implies that humans continued on, improved and recovered to the point of writing books and chronicling their history. Max is sure to be in that history, but as a myth, not as a man.
Max is the man, the Road Warrior is the myth and what we are watching are the tales of the Road Warrior.

Apparently Miller intended Fury Road to be a 3D animated movie with the second movie to be live action. Miller mentioned Akira as an inspiration for how he wanted to approach this animated movie but at some point he decided to drop the idea for an animated movie and keep it live action.
He appears to have very well formed ideas for the franchise and seems intent on crafting the entire legend of the Road Warrior, I'm confident the next movie will be damned good as well.

And Miller has recently revealed that the next movie will be titled Mad Max: The Wasteland.

As an aside, if anyone is interested in another Aussie movie that highlights societal decay, the Guy Pearce movie The Rover can be seen as something of a lead up to the break down of society in the first Mad Max movie. I'm not saying the movies are connected or related in any way but I found it very easy to imagine the world depicted in The Rover as the beginnings of the Mad Max world.

[Raellus]

I saw the Rover and disliked it immensely. The main character was irredeemably unlikable and I quickly found myself not giving a toss what happened to him. The only thing it had going for it, IMHO, was Pattinson's performance as a simpleton.

Fury Road, on the other hand, I might just have to go see in the theater again. Aside from a couple of the original Star Wars trilogy films (I was in grade school at the time), the only other movie I've seen twice in the theater was The Dark Knight.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by Raellus

I saw the Rover and disliked it immensely. The main character was irredeemably unlikable and I quickly found myself not giving a toss what happened to him. The only thing it had going for it, IMHO, was Pattinson's performance as a simpleton.

Yep I agree with you on Pearce's character being very unlikable and frankly I was surprised at how well Pattinson played his role. I believe though, that the point of Pearce's character was to be thoroughly unlikable and in that he succeeded - this is what happens when people and society stop caring about each other.