M.W.
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I don't think so, but it's still great action.
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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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I don't think so, but it's still great action.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I haven't seen Die Hard, but it's but it above Terminator 2. Definitly among the great blockbusters.
Monocle
Member
That's OK, I'll do it for you.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Wait, you haven't seen Die Hard? What the hell is wrong with you? Go fix that now!
You need to watch Die Hard. There's a reason that movie is always somewhere in the top three of "All Time Great Action Movies" lists.
EDIT - ^^Beaten.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
MEDIOCRE RALEXAND!!!!
MrCunningham
Member
I agree with this, I saw Fury Road twice in cinemas and the movie still resonates positively with me months after seeing it. That is a very rare thing for a Hollywood action movie to do to me recently. I love the running narrative, action pieces and editing in this movie. It is so well made, IMO. To me it is an instant classic.
But then again, I always loved the Mad Max series and the Road Warrior was always my favorite of the series. The Road Warrior may even still be one of my favorite movies of all time, I love the minimalistic approach of it and the way it was filmed. I'm not sure if I like Fury Road more, but Fury Road is a fantastic entry in the series and a perfect reboot.
Yeah, like others have said: When are you gonna see Die Hard CFK?
Here's basically what I discovered with this movie: It's not my favorite movie ever, but it does two rare things:
It never offended my sensibilities (See: Michael Bay's lowest common denominator stuff) and it did a lot of things I'd genuinely never seen in a movie before. It respected the viewer and it changed the way I look at other movies. That's rare, special, and something I really appreciate.
It never offended my sensibilities (See: Michael Bay's lowest common denominator stuff) and it did a lot of things I'd genuinely never seen in a movie before. It respected the viewer and it changed the way I look at other movies. That's rare, special, and something I really appreciate.
Die Hard 1-3 are all really good times, 1 and 3 in particular are my fav's.
MrCunningham
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Ehh... Die Hard 2 isn't a bad movie, but you will feel some deja-vu if you watch it after the first movie. The first two movies are adapted from books, but two completely unrelated books. Die Hard With A Vengeance is also a fun ride and adds Samuel L Jackson to the mix. The plot is flawed, but the action set pieces and the high paced action make up for it. Live Free Die Hard takes on a very different tone, but personally I didn't mind it that much. The fifth movie is a complete dud though. Skip that.
If anything, I would rank them...
- Die Hard With A Vengeance
- Live Free Die Hard
- Die Hard 2 (actually I am not sure if I would rank this one lower than Live Free... maybe about equal?)
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YesNOnoNOYes
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I love the Die Hard franchise right until no 4
It was such a fun series
and CFK really needs to see Die Hard :O!!!!!
It was such a fun series
and CFK really needs to see Die Hard :O!!!!!
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I know, I know. lol
YouTube content id and monetization stuff seriously delayed me. Anyways here is my review. I spent a lot of time for this one because of the magnitude I loved this movie https://youtu.be/DFxXBc9-EEQ
Scorpion Soldier
Member
Sounds about right. Kinda liked parts of Live Free and it did try to do something new, but I can't justify a single section of A Good Day to Die Hard, not even Bruce Willis tried on that one...
I'd say not as good as Die Hard but above T2 (though I've never been as a big a T2 fan as most people, so take that for what you will).
Same here. T2 is a competent action movie but I don't get why it's so highly praised. I think T1 is a better movie.
TheKaeptain
Banned
DUDE...
Discotheque
Banned
I watched T2 again recently and I thought I would be critical of it but honestly it really is one of the GOAT blockbusters
I had absolutely no problems with it, even furlong with his cracked up puberty voice (lol) was fine within the context of the movie. I find it interesting how similar the final scene of it and fury road are. Dat mutual respect and acknowledgement as they stare at each other in different elevation
It's the best pet movie ever btw, fuck a lassie and old yeller
I had absolutely no problems with it, even furlong with his cracked up puberty voice (lol) was fine within the context of the movie. I find it interesting how similar the final scene of it and fury road are. Dat mutual respect and acknowledgement as they stare at each other in different elevation
It's the best pet movie ever btw, fuck a lassie and old yeller
I don't really think of T1 as an action movie. It's more of a horror/thriller. There are a few action sequences in it, but mostly it's just running away from the monster.
T2 really raised the bar for action films, though. I think it's Cameron's peak in the genre tbh, and Cameron was basically a peak in the genre as a whole in that period. Fury Road has just raised the bar again, building on what came before it.
Scullibundo in 3..2...
The first time I saw it I didn't like it for the same reason I didn't like Aliens on first watch: I'd just watched it right after its predecessor. I really dug Terminator, loved Alien, and was really turned off by the genre switch for their sequels. Eventually I grew to love Aliens and (to a lesser extent) T2 for being their own thing and doing so well at it, instead of thinking of them as non-horror follow-ups to their damn good horror predecessors.
And I'm sure most will disagree but my GOAT for the action genre is and probably always will be The Matrix.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Holy Hell, how can anyone like this exist? You've really never seen Die Hard? It's like only one of the best action movies ever made, maybe even the best ever made. Literally. Like not even debatable.
Fix this immediately. Watch it twice in a row as blissful penance.
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
Immediately cancelled my Amazon order when I saw this. So pumped to watch this again.
This would be my top 5 in no particular order. Predator will never be usurped from my top 5 list. It's fucking sublime.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Add Predator and Empire Strikes Back and yeah, I tend to agree with you. Best action flicks ever.
PhoncipleBone
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This thread is now about Charles Foster Kane never seeing Die Hard.
I anxiously await his LTTP thread.
I anxiously await his LTTP thread.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
I should just buy the blu ray set at this point.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I don't see The Matrix.
Predator and The Matrix are most likely my 6 and 7.
T2 is better than Fury Road but that is okay. Fury Road is fking amazing. Maybe it is nostalgia speaking but T2 is so fking good. The plot, the mall sequence, the hospital, the tanker and helicopter chases, the quotable quotes, the ending along with that music.. Fury road does not compare in my opinion but that is just me. I dont think it is even as good as Matrix. The lobby sequence alone is one of the single greatest action sequences of all time. Fury Road is definitely close though and a much better movie than Die Hard in my opinion.
YesNOnoNOYes
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yes yes yes
Net_Wrecker
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I'd put Fury Road above T2. The world, the storytelling, the visuals, the music, the cinematography, the energy; It all hit me on a level deeper than T2 ever has. That's taking nothing away from T2, it's still one of the action GOATs, but I have no issues ranking Fury Road extremely high right now, higher than many action classics that would probably have people calling me a blasphemer. I don't care, it's a great, great movie.
Hard Boiled is still the king anyway though, so miss me with all this "Die Hard/Aliens/T2/Raiders" talk
Hard Boiled is still the king anyway though, so miss me with all this "Die Hard/Aliens/T2/Raiders" talk
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
road warrior!
It's just a Mad Max story. There's no real continuity between any of the films. The good Mad Max movies are Fury Road and Road Warrior. The first one is worth watching but rather different from the others. Beyond Thunderdome crashes and burns once it...well, once it goes beyond Thunderdome. It's not awful, but it's by far the least of the four.
BertramCooper
Banned
It's a sequel. That said, the Mad Max series has what most would consider a floating timeline and it's never entirely clear how much time has passed between each film. And the connections between each film are somewhat tenuous.
It's best to view Max as a legendary figure. He wanders aimlessly across the Outback and is probably ageless.
Watch all of them. Of the original trilogy, The Road Warrior is easily the best, followed by Mad Max. Beyond Thunderdome is...weird, but still worth a watch.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
I don't normally engage this type of conversation but, yeah, FR is better than T2. Even if all things were equal, the fact that T2 is a direct sequel to another film hurts it against FR, which stands completely on its own and requires 0 knowledge of the Mad Max universe to fully enjoy. And, yes, I know you can watch T2 without ever having seen T1 and be ok but part of T2's charm is its reliance on how much of a monster Arnie's Terminator was in T1.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Been curious about something
When he is strapped to the lancers perch at the beginning of the chase and the car starts going really fast with the fire coming from the exhaust and all that, Max says, " CONFUCUMUS " or something like that
what is he saying?
When he is strapped to the lancers perch at the beginning of the chase and the car starts going really fast with the fire coming from the exhaust and all that, Max says, " CONFUCUMUS " or something like that
what is he saying?
TheJollyCorner
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IIRC something like, "First they take my blood, now my car."