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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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Gentleman Jack
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Dude opens the film with bits of lizard gore in his beard. He probably doesn't care about breast milk on his face.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Pretty sure everyone stinks
RustyNails
Member
MY WORLD IS FIRE AND BLOOD
Why would he do something so crazy.
Monocle
Member
This might have been too subtle for most of you guys to pick up on, but there are hints that Max is a little mad.
It hadn't been that long, and it was in a sealed container.
The only scene that bothers me is the
cesarean birth. I get the point they were making with it, but having this sore covered, drooling guy cutting open a well liked character and chuck the baby corpse aside was a bit too much ugliness for me. It felt needlessly cruel.
Nappuccino
Member
This better not turn into a Departed situation.
nortonff
Hi, I'm nortonff. I spend my life going into threads to say that I don't care about the topic of the thread. It's a really good use of my time.
I watched it again last night.
I didn't like it the first time I watched in the theaters. Maybe it's because I don't like 3D and the movie blows up alot of shit in your face, made me impatience and dizzy. I just wanted it to be over actually, so I did hated it the first time.
But now, at home, with no 3D? My god this movie is so awesome and flawless. And this time I knew I shouldn't give a shit about the story and just enjoy the mad action sequences.
I didn't like it the first time I watched in the theaters. Maybe it's because I don't like 3D and the movie blows up alot of shit in your face, made me impatience and dizzy. I just wanted it to be over actually, so I did hated it the first time.
But now, at home, with no 3D? My god this movie is so awesome and flawless. And this time I knew I shouldn't give a shit about the story and just enjoy the mad action sequences.
Bro. My mind is blown at this connection haha.
Dirtyshubb
Member
Kind of fits the setting doesnt it? I mean you are dealing with a leader that presents himself as a god so he can lord it over slaves while teaching them to not be addicted to water.
It might seem cruel but its a cruel world they live in. I think any complaints about the cruelty are probably from the shock of seeing it happen as that was quite a surprise which really helped sell the scene for me.
#1 defender
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It's the stock menu design for WB BD's in the last few years, par for the course.
Edit: Nevermind, you guys already explained it... a month ago.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Fuck Mel Gibson.
I'm glad the best Mad Max is the one that doesn't have his repugnant ass in it.
Gentleman Jack
Member
I've had other friends complain about the scene, not necessarily for its content, but the angle it's shot from. A reverse or far angle from Joe's pov would have conveyed the same action without the feeling of a greasy creep picking through entrails in your face.
The scene didn't bother me mind, but I can see how the closeup angle would be really upsetting to people.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
But they show next to nothing in the scene. Most of it is left to your imagination. We never actually see him cut her open. And we only see the feet of the baby and then the umbilical cord. It is a shocking scene, and for good reason, but most of the horror of it is left to your mind to fill in the blanks.
adamsappel
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It's good that Gibson is hurting for work because of his detestable personality, but if he wasn't such a bag of shit, Fury Road would have been a fine, um, vehicle for him. Hardy didn't bring anything to the role that Gibson couldn't have done and it would have been nice to have the continuity.
I don't think I'll be buying any more WB blu-rays at this rate. BD is supposed to be a premium format, I expect better than that garbage. It makes my disc look like some bootleg shit.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
You watch the menus or the movie? Because the movie looks fuckin' brilliant.
I could give a shit what the menu looks like.
That's a dumb reason not to buy great movies, Jett.
Well, here's the deal. When I buy a blu-ray I'm not just buying a movie, I'm buying a package. I can watch a movie a million different ways. I don't buy everything that gets released. I only buy movies I really like, and I refuse to buy stuff that either has a shoddy transfer or has shitty/non-existent bonus materials. Master and Commander is literally the only exception in my collection. Stuff like this just rubs me the wrong way. It's petty, but it is what it is.
RustyNails
Member
Jett pls
PhoncipleBone
Banned
You obviously didn't get the deluxe version that came out on DVD. That was a fantastic collector's edition.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
When I buy a blu-ray, it's because I want to watch the movie in the highest possible quality available to me as a retail consumer.
Here's the Bobby Roberts heirarchy of needs in Blu-Ray purchasing
1) I will rewatch this movie multiple times
2) It is a really good transfer of the film
That's it.
I don't put the case in the player. I don't sit down in front of the screen and watch the menu loop for two hours, either. I skip past all the bullshit as fast as I can, I hit play, and I turn the volume up so that I may enjoy a high-bitrate, immersive, clean, eye-popping presentation of a fine piece of cinematic storytelling. And if the disc doesn't feature any "bonus" materials on it, all the better, as that's just more information for the film itself to be using. Besides which the percentage of "bonus features" worth the time is lower than Trump's approval ratings with anyone approaching basic sanity.
When Creed comes out in a few months and I buy that, I'm not going to give a fuck that the menu is just a bar with five buttons on it. I'm certainly not going to withhold a purchase of that film for that reason, because that's just silly.
It's silly, Jett.
You're silly.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Well I'm talking about BDs so no.But I did rent it back in the day.
I never upgraded to the blu ray on Master and Commander because of the supposed messing up of the sound mix. The DTS track on the DVD is still mind boggling.
But the collector's edition on DVD is still classy as fuck.
That is my main criteria as well. Do I love the big, elaborate special releases of things? Hell yes. But in the end, the quality of the film presentation itself is the most important. The best picture and the best sound possible, please.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Have you not before? Oh, man. You are in for a treat.
If you have, then it is still a treat.
Although the ending pisses me off every single time.
That final shot of the ship in pursuit, I was waiting for one final big sequence to start. Instead I left the film with figurative blue balls. Yet was still happy about having the blue balls even if I wanted more, more, more!
I caught the end of Road Warrior and beginning of Beyond Thunderdome on AMC the other day. It's interesting seeing those two aesthetics back to back, in the wake of Fury Road. Fury Road is so clearly more aesthetically and stylistically similar to Thunderdome than to any other Mad Max movie. Just how big and weird everything is. Max getting on an elevator and being lifted up, then the camera moving past and honing in on GIGANTIC OILED UP MUSCLED DUDE AND LADY manually cranking the elevator up. The whole opening is very evocative of the introduction to The Citadel with all the weird detail.
The creativity from Fury Road was more or less there in 1985, it's other stuff that holds Thunderdome back.
EDIT: Also Master and Commander is amazing. I have the Blu-ray (video quality is garbage, but it's overall probably better than the DVD just because of resolution? audio is aces though), but also have the collector's DVD still as well. Those special features are sublime.
The creativity from Fury Road was more or less there in 1985, it's other stuff that holds Thunderdome back.
EDIT: Also Master and Commander is amazing. I have the Blu-ray (video quality is garbage, but it's overall probably better than the DVD just because of resolution? audio is aces though), but also have the collector's DVD still as well. Those special features are sublime.
When I buy a blu-ray disc, I immediately rip it to my HD. That is the full disc, without further compression. I don't even see the menus. The case/box will go into a closet, with the intention to leave it there unless I need to rip it again or feel the need to bring it somewhere (never happened).
Quality is much more important to me. Primarily because I'm projecting it on a large screen in a darkened room. It's impossible not to spot flaws like edge enhancement and DNR. Fury Road looks just like I remember it in theaters thankfully.
Quality is much more important to me. Primarily because I'm projecting it on a large screen in a darkened room. It's impossible not to spot flaws like edge enhancement and DNR. Fury Road looks just like I remember it in theaters thankfully.
RustyNails
Member
Everyone should.
I never upgraded to the blu ray on Master and Commander because of the supposed messing up of the sound mix. The DTS track on the DVD is still mind boggling.
But the collector's edition on DVD is still classy as fuck.
That is my main criteria as well. Do I love the big, elaborate special releases of things? Hell yes. But in the end, the quality of the film presentation itself is the most important. The best picture and the best sound possible, please.
The blu-ray is really not all that worth it, unless you get it on the cheap (I got for five bucks). It looks really blurry too. Fox did release a digibook edition of it which looked pretty nice (I like those things), but everything else remained the same unfortunately. No fucks were given for the ten year anniversary...
I don't disagree with what you're saying. But whatevs. I like my shit shiny and chrome. A cheap packaging deserves a cheap price. And I didn't get Mad Mad all that cheap.
#1 defender
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I think the BD as a premium format ship has sailed when prices started to drop as low as $5 a year after release. I do like some effort put into the presentation of a physical release myself, but it's hard to expect premium quality on packaging and menu design at those prices. Just don't buy mass market BD's by big studios at full price and wait 2-3 months after release to get them at $10 or so. I loved MM:FR, but knowing how fast especially WB BD's plummet in price, i could easily wait a little bit longer. On the other hand i'm more than willing to pay premium prices for releases that i know won't be in the bargain bin within a few months. If you want premium quality, look at the stuff produced in Korea and Japan, though that stuff also easily costs 2-3x as much and hardly ever drops in price significantly.
If there's anything we should take away from this thread, it's that everyone should watch Master and Commander.
Is that the one with the classy as fuck 'let's play some instruments' scene with Bettany/Crowe? The scene that every other blockbuster would cut, and they were all 'BAH GAWD FUCKING PLAY THAT SHIT SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLY.'
GOAT scene.
Master and Commander is the kind of movie that will never be made again. $150 million period drama focused on character development and camaraderie and with no romantic subplot of any kind. Yea, that's not happening ever again.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
And the sound mix of God.
I think that should be the second or third thing we should take away form this thread
ShaoranWright
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And to think that the character played by Russell came to Chile and helped us to win the war agains Peru :3
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Criticwire and The Village Voice both do year-end polls where hundreds of noted critics submit their top 10 films of the year, as well as top 3/5 for Best Actor, Actress, Screenplay, etc. Fury Road dominated both for Best Film, with Todd Haynes' Carol as the closet runner-up.
If you're interested in seeing some of the mostshiny and chrome critically acclaimed films of 2015, these are some good lists to browse. A lot of them are small, obscure, or foreign films that you may not have heard about it otherwise.
If you're interested in seeing some of the most
Critics Top 10 is a good one to follow as well. They tally all the appearances each movie has on critics' top 10 lists, accounting for first-place votes as well. This gives an overall picture of what critics are liking most for the year. Fury Road is #1 right now, but it's still early.
Also, Blackhat has 8 list appearances. Didn't see it but thought it was received poorly...
Also, Blackhat has 8 list appearances. Didn't see it but thought it was received poorly...
Discotheque
Banned
I liked blackhat. It's an easy top 10 entry for me this year though I have yet to see a few of the buzzed about movies that came out recently
Oh you mean Peru as in Spain.
He contributed to both the Chilean and Peruvian independence from Spain.Bobby Roberts
Banned
Only just now seeing this: Chicago Film Critics gave it Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, Editing, and Production Design.
Also made the AFI Top 10 of the year, (Straight Outta Compton & Force Awakens also made that list)
HOWEVER:
Business Insider talked to an anonymous Oscar voter, who told them
Also made the AFI Top 10 of the year, (Straight Outta Compton & Force Awakens also made that list)
HOWEVER:
Business Insider talked to an anonymous Oscar voter, who told them
YesNOnoNOYes
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Bobby Roberts
Banned
Brilliant movies spinning off into conversations about other brilliant movies IS pretty fun.
HyperZone<3
Member
this is a Mad Max thread...
but yeah, Master & Commander kicks a lot of arse. Damn fine film. In the Heart of the Sea compares favorably, believe or not, see it in 3D while you can, its a dang fine experience and some of the best used 3D I've ever seen.
but yeah, Master & Commander kicks a lot of arse. Damn fine film. In the Heart of the Sea compares favorably, believe or not, see it in 3D while you can, its a dang fine experience and some of the best used 3D I've ever seen.
Battersea Power Station
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I think this is why I get so sad when I watch the trailer for that Thor Moby Dick movie. Like, yeah, ok I'm sure it's good, but the formula is spelled out all over the screen.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Variety's own Best of List:
Mad Max appears on two of the three critics lists, 2nd in one, 3rd in the other, behind "the Assassin" and "Carol"
Mad Max appears on two of the three critics lists, 2nd in one, 3rd in the other, behind "the Assassin" and "Carol"
adamsappel
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If I knew the ages of those two voters, and what part in the business they work, I'd be able to forecast it better. A couple of old, bitter screenwriters might not find the written plot to be compelling, while a younger guy from sound work is blown away.