I watched it four times and could never figure it out. :lol
Just figured he was letting loose a string of profanity.
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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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I watched it four times and could never figure it out. :lol
Just figured he was letting loose a string of profanity.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's the Wastelands equivalent of Yosemite Sam yelling "rackin-frackin-schmackin"
IAmRandom31
Banned
beyond that. when Ash(?) goes " IM AWAITED IN VALHALLA!!! " and guns it.
Max yells something there. It is bothering me I can't understand him lol
I just thought he was saying a string of profanities, haha
most likely is. but what profanities!
blu ray needs to come out already so i can check the subtitles
TheJollyCorner
Member
hahah perfect
Anton Sugar
Member
Subtitles on this will be great. I thought for the longest time that Slit was yelling a homophobic slur at the end chase. Turns out he's yelling "FANG IT!" which is basically "let's fuck shit up!".
Furiosa says it early on, when her Lt asks her if she wants to circle back and lead the Buzzards into the ambush. She says, "No, we push through. We're gonna fang it!"
I always thought she was saying "bang it".
Furiosa says it early on, when her Lt asks her if she wants to circle back and lead the Buzzards into the ambush. She says, "No, we push through. We're gonna fang it!"
I always thought she was saying "bang it".
mind=blown
Simo
Member
Yeah Theron thought Miller made the term up but it's Australian slang for "gunning it" or going faster.
The subtitles will say: [Profanities]
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
lol it does sort of sound like that other word. It wouldn't fit though.
IAmRandom31
Banned
My top 5 exactly. No order
I saw FR a little while ago and I don't think it's as good as most do. The setpieces were pretty cool and well shot, but I think the characters aside from Furiosa were underdeveloped and I had trouble connecting with them. Just didn't really seem like a memorable experience for me... maybe I should give it another chance.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
T2's writing is far and away better and deeper, though. It's a great action movie, but the quality of the script overall is what makes it so exceptional. Mad Max is a great roller coaster, in terms of the production, but who or what is there to really give a damn about?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I don't know that Terminator 2 is all that well written, though.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
Terminator 2 is a great sci-fi film. The inversions from the first are well-done, there's no trite love story,the relationships are well- and realistically-depicted, and the narrative raises and answers more challenging questions about the nature of man's relationship to his technology than even most "hard" sci-fi - and without pretense, to boot.
it is. the first two terminator movies are pretty tight in the writing department
Yup.
Net_Wrecker
Member
I agree, but it's the way Fury Road does everything else that elevates it for me which is why I specifically said "storytelling" instead of "writing." The frantic, physical, silent film energy to the storytelling in FR resonates with me more than the writing in T2. FR is absolutely a roller coaster, but it's Roller Coaster Prime- ironed, oiled, and buffed into an aerodynamic piece of work that accomplishes everything it sets out to do at a level we don't see often in action movies, much less big budget action movies.
Like I said, I'm not taking anything away from T2, it's a classic, but if we're ranking these movies I have to be honest with myself, and when nostalgia is removed, FR does more of the little things I value right now than T2.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
The first is. The second is kinda sloppy .
T2's *prose* might be better (I'm not sure I agree with that, even, but I'm willing to recognize the validity of the argument). Writing is more than dialogue, though, and Fury Road is a tight and concise and very beautifully told story. If you can *watch* a story rather than simply listen, it's got a hell of a lot to give a damn about. IMO it's a triumph of film storytelling in so many ways.
The real beauty of it, though, is that people who aren't into visual storytelling still at least get a rollercoaster.
Yeah, after revisiting the first two prior to Genisys' viewing, it's the second movie where the timeline stuff makes less sense, mainly the tech coming from the first film's Terminator and that whole paradox.
T1 all the way, baby.
I really love T2, and has interesting arc for Sarah Connor, but I don't think I've ever heard it seriously argued that it's a deep story. If anyone is willing to enlighten me on how it has a significant amount of depth (not compared to Fury Road, just in general), I'd like to hear it.
Respectfully disagree. T2 is almost as tight as the first movie, with the added bonus of not looking as dated as the first movie as well.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
I really think this movie is one of the best things I have seen over the last decade. There isn't some moment throughout the day that I don't think about how much I want to watch it again.
I can agree with this list. Easily. Come on Septmber 1st, i want my BD copy!
I always understood it as "Fuck them all".
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Are we talking strictly action? Because Alien is better than Aliens overall.
Aliens is an awesome action movie though. Top tier action movies for sure.
I like this list. Mine would differ
RoboCop
The Matrix
Terminator 2
Aliens
Mad Max Fury Road
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Aliens is definitely better than Alien from an action perspective. How would you even argue Alien is better?
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I wasn't arguing that. I meant that I think Alien is a better movie overall. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Anton Sugar
Member
I think he is saying if we're talking strictly action, Aliens is better...but as a movie overall, Alien is better (which is my opinion, as well).
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
IIRC the Aliens directors cut;
-- Does a better job of explaining why Ripley cares for Newt - Ripley never got to be a mother due to her cryosleep.
-- Explains why the Xenos dont immediately kill the marines after the first action sequence. The sentry guns force the Xenos to find a new route in.
-- Teases the existence of the Queen. (Original cut, she's kind of out of nowhere)
The directors cut of Alien is the one that really drags the entire movie down, IMHO
Fury Road's script is interesting because while there is relatively little dialogue, there is a tremendous about of world building and visual story telling.
Take Nux's arc, for example. He's a "half-life war boy" - son of Immortan Joe, doomed to live a short life due to the diseases that plague them (in his case, the tumors growing on his neck) if not fighting out in the wild. Transfusions are all that's keeping him alive at the point we meet him. Immortan Joe has built up a mythology around himself and for the war boys to latch onto as a way to keep them motivated in the face of short, unpleasant lives: the whole bit about the roads to Valhalla, shiny and chrome. Over the course of the film, Nux goes from
actively trying to die in an act of valor fighting for Joe (and failing repeatedly), to being humiliated in front of him, to coming to realize he was on the wrong side of the conflict, to sacrificing himself for Furiosa and company.
Likewise, Furiosa's character has great depth, but it's almost all wordless. Her determination to return to her homeland is mixed with a desire to protect the wives, and with her own self loathing for a lifetime of being in Joe's thrall. Her reunion with the Many Mothers is poignant even before we learn the truth about the Green Place because we know her burden of guilt for what she's done, what she's lost, what she's been through to get there.
Recently I tried to make a ordered list of my favorite films. At least starting to make it, but as it got harder and harder, I came up with some complex rating system. MMFR somehow got on top using it. I even tried to tweak the parameters, but it'd stay there although I'm pretty sure it's not my new all-time favorite, lol. It's just such a well-rounded package. Scrapped my system after that, however it's a given that Fury Road is very near the top. Higher than T2 and Die Hard for sure.
I wasn't comparing them on that basis, it was just an opinion drop
I was really more saying that to the people who were replying to you.
So much this.
You're right. He does say confucamus.
Yekshemesh
Member
Just saw this.... WOW!!!! Completely blown away by the cinematography, the world, the lore. This movies clicks all my buttons. Honestly the best action movie in the last decade. WITNESS ME!!!!!
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
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Bobby Roberts
Banned
Max is a better character than the T-800
Furiosa is a better character than Sarah Connor
Nux is a better character than John Connor
The action is shot better
The action is more inventive
The story is told *through* the action, and not via stopped-down exposition dumps between set-pieces.
Nobody slides in and out of character for cheap laughs or plot purposes
There's no storytelling bloat
There's no editing missteps
1) Raiders of the Lost Ark
2) Die Hard
3) Fury Road
4) Predator
5) ALIENS (Theatrical Cut)
Furiosa is a better character than Sarah Connor
Nux is a better character than John Connor
The action is shot better
The action is more inventive
The story is told *through* the action, and not via stopped-down exposition dumps between set-pieces.
Nobody slides in and out of character for cheap laughs or plot purposes
There's no storytelling bloat
There's no editing missteps
1) Raiders of the Lost Ark
2) Die Hard
3) Fury Road
4) Predator
5) ALIENS (Theatrical Cut)
Yes? =P
My wife is freaking out waiting for the movie to finally be released to buy.
Discotheque
Banned
I liked that movie but it felt like Hardy was doing a riff off of Brando in on the waterfront, he was great tho despite such a high bar to compare it to
I found Gandolfini even better tho, damn good leads in that movie
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Fury Road > T2, but T2 is great if you just learn to accept Edward Furlong's not-good performance
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
XD oh you
asdashdkjsdfhdsjfgsdkfjsdfhdsf i miss this movie so much
i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds it in my life. stat.