More_Badass
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This is like saying Taken 3 and The Raid are the same because they both have fight scenes in them
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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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Haven't read through the thread but I just found this.
French Toast and Guzzoline: How One Fervent Fan Realized His Dream To Work on ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’
This is a pretty awesome story about a guy who got into the VFX business just because of The Road Warrior and how he got to work on Fury Road. It's written in a weird style, but it's still pretty cool. Sorry if it's been posted already.
French Toast and Guzzoline: How One Fervent Fan Realized His Dream To Work on ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’
This is a pretty awesome story about a guy who got into the VFX business just because of The Road Warrior and how he got to work on Fury Road. It's written in a weird style, but it's still pretty cool. Sorry if it's been posted already.
I don't expect much from JJ Abrams and action movies. If he does that terrible shakycam shit again...
haha.
I'm excited to see Mad Max.
Tricky I Shadow
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Enjoy brehRemember to post your impressions in this thread!
Will do!
LOL, for some reason I thought the shaking was added in post and not that they were -actually- shaking the camera.
I don't expect much from JJ Abrams and action movies. If he does that terrible shakycam shit again...
What that is doing isn't making it "shakycam" like a Bourne movie, it's adding high frequency vibrations like what would be added from heavy machinery/engines, or when traveling at incredibly high speeds and the wind is shaking the camera, or something similar. The camera can actually remain quite stable and make the action perfectly clear while that is happening.
Same with me. I can't imagine why they wouldn't add it in post. Why spoil the raw footage? There has to be a way to replicate this.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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So just how important is the international market to Fury Road's success if Pitch Perfect is on track to win the weekend?
Abrams likes his tactile, real stuff, which can be hard to replicate with adding the motion in post (which is why they created that little rig to actually create the vibrations the same way for the CG cameras).
It could end up getting some nominations for technical categories visual effects, sound design, sound editing, etc.
Maybe whatever Guardians of the Galaxy got nominated for, which is not much.
HIGH DEF JEFF
Banned
This should be the year they finally create the "Best Stunt Work" category and Max wins it.
Stunt Actors Remain Oscar's Forgotten Heroes
Why do stuntmen not have an Oscar?
Anton Sugar
Member
This movie completely justifies a "Best Stunts" category.
EDIT: Damn you, High Def. Great minds! Stunts are sorely underappreciated.
NealMcCauley
Member
I assume it would be a shoo in for editing.
TheJollyCorner
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Tom Cruise would finally win an Oscar, yo!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
As griffy pointed out, this method isn't "shakycam" really, as evidenced by the scenes as they look in the film. These two gifs:
were captured while shooting these two scenes.
The platform fight
The Ice Creature sequence
Neither of which are particularly shaky at all.
You have to actually divorce the final product from the gifs in order to make the point you want the gifs to make. When you take them in context, their effectiveness as an argument against shaky-cam is pretty thoroughly reduced.
Bobby Roberts
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I dunno about Oscar talk. Even if this does become one of the best reviewed films of the year, there's a fucking TON of stigma working against it come voting time.
But if Warner Brothers figured out a political campaign that played on the fact George Miller did what he did at age 70 after almost 2 decades of trying to get this thing off the ground, and managed to make it look like this while being maybe the most feminist blockbuster since ALIENS (if not moreso) then maybe he'd have a shot at a token Best Director nod.
Maybe.
But Warners would have to want to pour money into that.
But if Warner Brothers figured out a political campaign that played on the fact George Miller did what he did at age 70 after almost 2 decades of trying to get this thing off the ground, and managed to make it look like this while being maybe the most feminist blockbuster since ALIENS (if not moreso) then maybe he'd have a shot at a token Best Director nod.
Maybe.
But Warners would have to want to pour money into that.
Yeah, well it's not going to get best director or anything like that. I don't care about the oscars, I'm just mentioning whats possible for a film like this.
This film could have been snubbed by critics and I'd still think it was fucking amazing. I'm glad they saw the light, too, though.
BronsonLee
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I don't give two shits about what awards this gets nominated for unless the name of the award is the 'Lifetime Achievement Award For Fucking Exploding Every Car In Existence' Award
Bobby Roberts
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Warners could probably lobby the Academy for that one, too. They'd probably call it something a little softer (and easier to etch into a brass base) like "Special Achievement in Stuntwork" or something. "Special Achievement in HOLY FUCK JESUS CHRIST SHITFIRE GODDAMMIT"
PhoncipleBone
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It would be nice to finally get a "Special Achievement in Stuntwork" award. Stuntmen have been trying for years.
I am glad that High Def Jeff posted the articles about it earlier so more people can read those.
BronsonLee
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I like em both. The stunt team on this is...ahem..mad.
Jesus Christ that Polecat sequence, wtf
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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89 on Metacritic.
CharminUltra
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98% fresh on RT after 61 reviews. That's kinda insane.
Special Achievement in SWEET JESUS DID YOU SEE THAT HOLY SHIT
Bobby Roberts
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And isn't the top critics average still over 9/10 on those fresh ratings, too? So it's not like it's C+ or B- kinda fresh.
this really could, depending on how post-release shakes out, end up being one of the best reviewed films of the year. Which doesn't necessarily count for all that much anymore, but it's still a pretty interesting stat should it shake out that way.
True Savior
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Shaky Cam is used a million times to replicate the characteristics of the environment where the action takes place. In no way the technique is reduced to what Bourne tries to accomplish it it (which also tends to have a very aggressive editing).
JJ does that in many other sequences. He shakes the mag for small reframings , a lot of time in action motion scenes. Kirk jumps many times from his position in the frame because of this stupidity. He even uses this in stable settings. Just watch the extras.
obin_gam
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PhoncipleBone
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Just looked at the RT page and my big takeaway is, "Holy shit, Richard Norton is in this?"
Kenzodielocke
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Showed the trailer to a friend, he said it looked cheap and he can't imagine how the story would be any good.
Also he said that fighting on cars is what he liked in Kindergarden.
I immediately stopped writing with him. So fucking annoying and that's why Bay transformers exists.
Also he said that fighting on cars is what he liked in Kindergarden.
I immediately stopped writing with him. So fucking annoying and that's why Bay transformers exists.
Why do people honestly give a fuck about story when it's more important to have atmosphere and sense of place in films, IMO
Especially with action movies, like what kinda story do you need? Philosophical? Romantic? What I don't understand. Fury road looks like a fine story too enough for the action to shine.
Especially with action movies, like what kinda story do you need? Philosophical? Romantic? What I don't understand. Fury road looks like a fine story too enough for the action to shine.
Nerdkiller
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Show him the reviews. If that doesn't convince him, then there is no hope.
Kenzodielocke
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Yeah, right now I am trying to convince him. He likes TDK, Inception and the Bourne Trilogy in terms of action, Lol.
Edit: He hates the car chase. Well, that's it.
It sounds like the trailers are pretty accurate so maybe it's just not his kind of film.
It's really not all that crazy once you've seen the movie, then it makes perfect sense. You have to be a pretty detached soulless troglodyte to walk away from this movie not loving it.
RastaMentality
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I'm wondering what's this phenomenon where the trailers look phenomenal to people like me but trash/cheap/boring to others.
Also, is anyone else who's seen this film starting to love it more and more the more they think about it? It's slowly becoming top 5 of the decade for me.
Also, is anyone else who's seen this film starting to love it more and more the more they think about it? It's slowly becoming top 5 of the decade for me.
Renegade Yeti
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I cant even comprehend that Miller made this coming of happy feet
More_Badass
Member
I think if you have some knowledge about cinematography, the trailers speak volumes to the quality of the movie. The practical effects, the vivid colorful wide shots, etc.
He's done a lot aside from Mad Max. He's an incredibly versatile director.
JeTmAn81
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He's a doctor, he can do anything