TheExhaustedWalrus
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Best action movie of the decade so far IMO. Amazing movie, and I can't wait to see it again.
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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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Bobby Roberts
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I really wouldn't be surprised if there's a slight uptick in fender-benders leaving the theater this weekend.
Nowhere NEAR as many as the Fast movies, of course. But at least a couple.
nhlducks35
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30 min
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I left Furious 7 wanting to speed as well. It is only natural.
I am looking forward to your thoughts on the film though. I know I need to see it again ASAP. Now to convince my wife. She is normally down for anything science fiction, but I had to introduce her to Road Warrior a few years ago and she thought it was good, but she had no interest in Fury Road.
I did send her the articles about the feminism aspect of it, and that did pique her interest some though. But hopefully my enthusiasm now will convince her to go. She is a sucker for great world building stuff, and this delivers it in spades.
Saw it last night here in Australia. Amazing film! Really well paced, the action is amazing and it's really cool to see some oldschool Australian actors play some pretty major parts.
It's non stop, the whole movie is like a 2 hour car/truck/bike chase. All the characters get a decent amount of time and the story is really well told.
It's non stop, the whole movie is like a 2 hour car/truck/bike chase. All the characters get a decent amount of time and the story is really well told.
maquiladora
Member
^ Thats a young looking 70 yr old.
And the cinematographer is 72.
You know what im gonna find a packed showing on Saturday and see it again. Havent done that in years.
Good gravy. Must have been hopped up on the crack cocaine or something while shooting lol they teaching the young guys how its done.
Good gravy. Must have been hopped up on the crack cocaine or something while shooting lol they teaching the young guys how its done.
Anton Sugar
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^ Thats a young looking 70 yr old.
For real, from the Q&A session, I would think he's a) 20 years younger and b) purely a period piece director. He is so calm and cool, it's astonishing when you realize he made this movie.
Chezzymann
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I was talking about how awesome it was on Facebook and was met with people saying it looked incredibly dumb and stupid. Guess the quirky style doesn't resonate with the masses.
maquiladora
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thanks will watch
RastaMentality
Banned
What other great work has Charlize done (other than Monster)? I've always loved her but I wanna see more.
SCULLIBUNDO
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It's great fun, but people saying it redefines the action genre and shitting on the 'assholes' who gave it a bad review are the reason people come out of these movies let down.
Settle down on the hyperbole and maybe the film won't have to live up to impossible expectations for the people who haven't yet seen it.
Settle down on the hyperbole and maybe the film won't have to live up to impossible expectations for the people who haven't yet seen it.
MrCunningham
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Amazing that this movie was originally going to film in 2001 with Mel Gibson but they couldn't get it made because of 9/11. The collapse of the US dollar ballooned the cost of production in Australia to the point where they had to put the movie on hold. George Miller was 54-55 back in 2001, now he is 70.
It really is fascinating that they story boarded everything first and then wrote the dialogue to the storyboards secondly. George Miller is talking about the editing process, and how it was hard to take things out because everything was filmed so closely to the original story boards.
Great interview with some nice incite.
ViewtifulJC
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North Country. Thought that her best performance(til Fury Road that is). No ugly make-up required, but she only got nominated for the Oscar, not the win.
BronsonLee
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Yeah, people gotta be careful with that shit. When I posted about what I thought of it after the screening, I was careful about overhyping it, even though I did love the damn movie. But then the reviews starting hitting and hitting fast...
If it's at all possible, go into this blind. That's kind of what I did (I only saw some of the trailers), and the movie hit me in the fucking face like a freight train.
Discotheque
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i think it's lame when people pile on the negative reviewers for sure, for whatever film. but honestly...this kind of did live up to my impossible expectations. it's a film from a bygone era as far as I'm concerned.
Bobby Roberts
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Did that even happen here though? The SF Gate guy actually made coherent points, which I quoted, and most everyone else just kinda went "Huh. That's weird" and then griffy made an animated gif that goofed on the idea that another rotten review was even a big deal.
I don't think there was a pile-on happening, just goofing off at the idea a second negative review would turn this from a must-see to a must-avoid.
If there's going to be backlash regarding the movie not living up to expectations, it's going to happen regardless. It happens with every movie, no matter what the trailer, reviews, or RT rating is. Had the RT rating not become part of the thread title, and thus a focus of the conversations, there still would have been a "backlash" due to how on-point the marketing was. And if someone hadn't seen the marketing, there'd be a "backlash" because it didn't live up to Road Warrior.
There's going to be negative views on this film, and it seems fair to suggest a lot of them are going to center around the movie's story, and the movie's pacing. Those problems are going to pop up in response to this film even if nobody ever said ANYTHING about the movie in the pre-release.
ViewtifulJC
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See, I actually don't think its from a by-gone era. I feel its like Terminator 2, something that used the latest and greatest technology in service of some big budget thrills.
It just did it better than just anybody else this decade, with fantastic editing, an impeccably well-designed world, a very distinctive and beautiful look, strong performances...excelled in pretty much all areas of craft these popcorn movies are supposed to do.
It just did it better than just anybody else this decade, with fantastic editing, an impeccably well-designed world, a very distinctive and beautiful look, strong performances...excelled in pretty much all areas of craft these popcorn movies are supposed to do.
Discotheque
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yeah nobody was doing that here. but just speaking of history in general, whenever some big fanboy movie is out and a negative review popped up (in the midst of positives) there would be some angry comments in response on RT and the like.
Bobby Roberts
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No doubt. Gaming-side side-effect, I'd bet.
HIGH DEF JEFF
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Young Adult was the best movie of 2011. She starred in that.
Prof. Bathtub
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I think the Dreadlock BMXers, Russian Hedgehogs and Bullet Farmers are tied for the best factions.
After seeing the armada-like configuration of this film's chases, I'm itching for another Aubrey-Maturin movie.
After seeing the armada-like configuration of this film's chases, I'm itching for another Aubrey-Maturin movie.
So I just watched it, I don't know how to feel... maybe I was overhyped because I left wanting more... but then again when you want more is for a reason, I felt the movie short initially, then I realized I was glued to the screen and my seat for two hours, needing to go to the bathroom but not really wanting to go, I didn't want to miss anything.
I need to watch it again. The movie haunts you for hours after watching it.
I need to watch it again. The movie haunts you for hours after watching it.
This kind of described my experience. I too had to use the bathroom but waited a bit. I think it did so much right it is hard to take it all in until after some time passes. I like it a lot more just thinking about what i watched. I was really tense when watching it too which i wasnt always aware of.
Arrested Development
ViewtifulJC
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this is the right answer
Bobby Roberts
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PhoncipleBone
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One of my favorite Ebert reviews.
Sax Russel
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This movie could basically play as my desktop background.
With this playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaL6NxTvWRM
With this playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaL6NxTvWRM
MrCunningham
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He had some of the same thoughts when he wrote his review for Mad Max 2 in 1981: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mad-max-2--the-road-warrior-1981
Anton Sugar
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I don't know about that. Isn't a woman
raped and then immediately murdered
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Heh. I shoulda thought to look that up too. Good pull.
a Master Ninja
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My only complaint with the movie is that it had 3 or 4 shots in a lower resolution, probably done with a GoPro.
Well all the previous Mad Max films had some level of humor and comedy to them, even with stuff like rape and whatnot. Here's there's almost zero and the humor that is there is also black as fuck.
Also some of the implications of this post-war world are spelled out much clearer than in the previous films.
This is by far the darkest of the films.
Yep, and don't forget they even
kill the dog
lunchtoast
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Great ride.
I can't believe a movie like this got released by a major studio in 2015.
I can't believe a movie like this got released by a major studio in 2015.
CharminUltra
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To those who have seen all four movies, how would you rank the villains?
TacticalFox88
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Jesus.
The cinematography is fucking NUTS!!! There are so many shots I want a wallpaper of!
The cinematography is fucking NUTS!!! There are so many shots I want a wallpaper of!
DOWN
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The first two movies have lots of greenery. The fields have bushes and grass in Road Warrior. There's red dirt under, but plenty of living grass and bushes for a dry climate.