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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
- Thread starter Simo
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Oh Edgar Wright, thank you, you ridiculous, wonderful man.
I'm usually cool with Honest Trailers because they tend to just take fun little jabs at things and still acknowledge that the movie as a whole is good. Cinemasins comes off as mean spirited as fuck
PhoncipleBone
Banned
The only Cinemasins I watched was the Man of Steel one. The only sin I liked was the narrater saying, "I'm not married to Diane Lane."
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
So is the Blu-Ray not a great package? Heard the features are fairly incomplete. It's currently going for $15 on Amazon right now if anyone is interested.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
The most important part, the film, looks and sounds fantastic. The LFE on the sound mix is nuts.
A Link to the Past
Banned
Honestly, I take CinemaSins as a channel that just enjoys taking the piss out of movies regardless of quality. I mean heck, Neil deGrasse Tyson did one!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Variety stays beating the drum:
http://variety.com/2015/film/features/oscars-hateful-eight-spectre-the-revenant-mad-max-1201627054/
http://variety.com/2015/film/features/oscars-hateful-eight-spectre-the-revenant-mad-max-1201627054/
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I like how they saved the best for last in that article.
Seriously, who they hell thought Fury Road would get reviews that strong and actually get awards talk from trade mags like Variety the months before it opened? We all expected some badass action film, not some film that quickly inspired a fanatical following and even got jaded critics worshipping it.
ShaoranWright
Member
Holy shit, I can feel the momentum getting stronger.
I tried to watch this with my girlfriend and she hated it. "It's just one long action sequence", she said. Well yea. Does every film need some dramatic axiom to be good? Just turn off your brain for an hour and a half and enjoy the ride.
I cowed and we turned it off halfway through and watched My Neighbor Totoro again. I like sex more than movies.
RustyNails
Member
mediocre
Both good movies, and by the metrics of some people, nothing really happens in either of them.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Even if it gets shutout of most major categories, I will agree that it beginning the stunt work award would be a perfect legacy.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
To clarify, do you mean the nomination, or the award.
Because I think the award is probably off the table, but the nomination is still a possibility.
I think Best Director nomination possibility is getting more and more likely, too. Same with Best Actress.
I meant the nomination - I don't think there's a chance in hell (which is fine - personal validation be damned!).
Best Director nomination definitely seems a stronger possibility - in a way I think that'd be the "better" award for recognizing the totality of Fury Road's achievements.
edit - looking at some of these movies, it's hard to see MMFR cracking a top 8 or whatever number the Academy aims to nominate for BP. I'd love to be wrong.
D.Lo
Member
I made my own quick and dirty black and white version with a rip of the DVD.
It's pretty good, has a kind of classic feel. But you obviously lose some of the amazing colour contrast. So I still need to see a version with properly adjusted lighting and contrast!
It's pretty good, has a kind of classic feel. But you obviously lose some of the amazing colour contrast. So I still need to see a version with properly adjusted lighting and contrast!
Eh, why do people say 8-bit for all pixel 'art'? Looks like a late Neo Geo title, just with a bad Commodore 64 soundtrack
obin_gam
Member
I have a beard and hair... is it OK to go as a warboy still? I'm not gonna shave it...
DieNgamers
Member
I made my own quick and dirty black and white version with a rip of the DVD.
It's pretty good, has a kind of classic feel. But you obviously lose some of the amazing colour contrast. So I still need to see a version with properly adjusted lighting and contrast!
Eh, why do people say 8-bit for all pixel 'art'? Looks like a late Neo Geo title, just with a bad Commodore 64 soundtrack
Also Nux doesn't get the attention he deserves in this. ;(
Extra Sauce
Member
Holy shit I just googled it and you're not kidding.
How does this happen to a massive blockbuster movie in 2015...
PhoncipleBone
Banned
The most important part of the movie, aka the movie itself, looks and sounds fantastic.
And at least we don't have to waste time for menu transitions or anything. Actually, static menus like that are pretty common for WB.
And at least we don't have to waste time for menu transitions or anything. Actually, static menus like that are pretty common for WB.
a secret-boss
Banned
just got a projector and first movie to play
nothing like 120" Mad Max
nothing like 120" Mad Max
Freddy=Legend
Member
WB uses that same menu for almost all of their releases. Simple stock. Guess they can't be bothered to make unique menus for their movies.
Well I do like my menus to look a little snazzy, even if they're just static images. This just feels super cheap. Blu-ray is supposed to be some sort of premium format, right?
After googling it, man you're right. First time I see this personally. Thinking about it though, WB really never does anything interesting with their menus, even for the big collections like The Ultimate Matrix Collection.
TDKR
Man of Steel
They really just don't care.
zero shift
Banned
So I rewatched the film. It made me wonder why Max and friends
And yeah the menu is terrible. Something a first year college student would make. I always felt that The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVDs had the best and most classiest menus.
never bothered to take off the heavy water tank that was hooked up on the War Rig once they got passed the bikers. Especially once they were heading back to Joe's lair.
And yeah the menu is terrible. Something a first year college student would make. I always felt that The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVDs had the best and most classiest menus.
As far as I understood it,
they needed that part of the tanker to block off the canyon behind them when they went back to the citadel.
This is really cool, comparing shots in the original Mad Max and Fury Road.
http://nerdist.com/watch-the-symmetry-between-fury-road-and-the-mad-max-trilogy-in-new-video/
Shows how consistent Miller is with all of this.
http://nerdist.com/watch-the-symmetry-between-fury-road-and-the-mad-max-trilogy-in-new-video/
Shows how consistent Miller is with all of this.
That's remarkable
True Savior
Member
I've tried to note in this thread a couple of times how Miller literally rehashed most of the visual techniques that he employed almost 25 years ago. Remarkable someone had the patience to compile it. Terrific video to present the beautiful technique used to compose Miller's vision.
Shame about the ugly palette in the Fury Road. It sticks like a sore thumb next to the pristine nature of the others.
adamsappel
Member
Bobby Roberts
Banned
God, this thread is so fun to skim through.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Monocle
Member
Good!
Lord Couture
Member
Wrong thread
maquiladora
Member
It has been the best film of 2015, I agree.
That is incredible.
Haha, it sure is. Especially starting around page 10 or 11, when people start seeing it for the first time.
Massive_Edge
Banned
So Mad Max fans...i propose a question, i been asking in various Creed threads...if you think Mad Max will win the gaf movie of the year over Creed
what do you guys think?
what do you guys think?
Easily.
Massive_Edge
Banned
is it because Fury Road is not your average movie in a way
Creed was a fantastic movie, but the plot/story is quite generic
while Fury Road is different in a way? it had that extra oompth, Fury Road is already considered to be one of the GOAT action films up there with Die Hard and Judgement Day
Most likely.
Massive_Edge
Banned
it will be interesting to see how the fury road vs. creed vote goes