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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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MrCunningham
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I agree with this, I still feel like Mad Max 2 is the better film. At least it resonated with me better. But Fury Road is no slouch, and it is a finely tuned movie with a lot of creative vision, some really fantastic stunt work and it has a lot of small and wonderful details in it.
I would rank it higher than Mad Max 1 or 3, but lower than Mad Max 2. The original Mad Max is still a fine movie in its own right too, but I always felt that its inherently low budget production values always prevented me from ranking it higher. The sound quality was always my biggest complaint with this movie. Mad Max 2 was a nice sweet spot for me, and Thunderdome has always been kind of weird.
This is good to hear! Cant freaking wait!
Well both those movies were amazing considering what they did with their budgets and I would take them over any of the mediocre action blockbusters we get these days. To see a big budget R rated movie made with similar sensibilities is a great thing. Why would it reduce your hype? In any case keeping hype levels down can only be a good thing.
BronsonLee
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Unsure what you're referring to there.
MoonsaultSlayer
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Some of the best movies have very obvious special effects.
Simplifying your opinion isn't the problem, it's the baseless generalized statements you posted in some of your criticisms.
Just stick to the part where you found it boring and leave out the "history will vindicate me about my opinion" crap.
Once you pull in the appeals to the majority and add in a smugness that your opinion is ahead of its time and will be exonerated by history, you begin to cross over into the territory of underhandedly insulting those that don't agree with your opinions.
You wonder why people are piling on you and not others criticizing the movie? Look no further then this post.
nhlducks35
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Gonna see this again today with my sister
Nothing but endless salt in his post.
HIGH DEF JEFF
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I do not agree at all.
I said this earlier but half of the track is wasted on the bad guy trying to drive up rocks and through a hole.
Hope it does good this weekend, I went to a 3-D screen on Saturday and besides my wife, there was one other person in the entire theater. Lot of people going to see that pitch perfect movie at least from what I heard when I was getting my tickets. Hopefully just had to do with my local theater and the timing (5:30) it was a great movie, probably the best action movie I have seen in a very long time.
BronsonLee
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It gets lots of play during the movie, IIRC. I definitely didn't think it was wasted.
MoG EclipsE
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There's no reason for anyone to be insulted. Either you like it or you don't...
ViewtifulJC
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Seeing it again. Old ladies in front of me asking for Mad Max. Must've heard grandmas kick ass in here
When you underhandedly insult others opinions by suggesting your opinion will be vindicated by history and there's will not, it certainly is insulting.
I'm not sure anyone likes that sort of passive aggressiveness but maybe you hang out with a different crowd.
PhoncipleBone
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Word must be spread about how kick ass the women are in the film. People want more awesome women kicking ass on the screen, and damn does this movie deliver it.
BroggieDoge
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Anyone have a good quality screenshot of the nux scene where he gets spray painted CHROME!!!
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Tom Hardy apologizing to Miller.Heartfelt stuff. You can tell everyone had a fucking nightmare making this.
When did he do that? Edit never mind. Just saw an article.
Incendiary
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I love John Wick and Dredd, but this movie is entirely a different kind of action. Maybe the only other similarity is a muted protagonist.
ViewtifulJC
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Slixshot
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JetBlackPanda
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Please no...
SkylineRKR
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Nolan is a great director that just chases a different kind of action movie. TDK is still the most impressive piece of film I've seen in cinema. Ofcourse Ledger carried it big time, but god damn.
I'd like to see Miller make a Die Hard 6 though. That franchise needs to go back to the roots. Real stunts, no CG and a setting where things just happen and McClane happens to be.
I'd like to see Miller make a Die Hard 6 though. That franchise needs to go back to the roots. Real stunts, no CG and a setting where things just happen and McClane happens to be.
I think the franchise that would best serve having George Miller at the helm is "Fist of the North Star."
Bruce Willis is ghost directing that franchise and has the worst ideas about it. When Die Hard 6 happens it will be as bad as the last two.
Insane Metal
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Fucking NO. Come on stop joking.
brandonh83
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The last one was terrible (being kind with that too) but I really liked Live Free just fine.
SkylineRKR
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It felt to me that Bruce is just going through the motions and collecting his paycheck. Especially in 5 he was so fucking boring. I saw that piece of shit in cinema. The only plus it has over its prequel is that the gore was back.
Live Free was a shell of a Die Hard film, fuck all Die Hard about it. Plus Timothy Olyphant is one of the worst 'enemies' of the franchise - you go from Hans Gruber, Colonel Stewart and Simon Gruber to a moaning hacker.
"McClane just stooooop! Nooooooooo"
I will admit A Good Day To Die Hard is much, muuuuch worse but let's not pretend Live Free.....is a good Die Hard flick either.
Ugh, fucking ugh. Fuck Live Free and Die Hard, fuck A Good Day To Die Hard and especially fuck Bruce Willis.
*rant over*
Apologies for the huge rant and it's not intended to be a rant at you brandonh83. Being a huge Die Hard fan and a huge fan of the first 3 going from those to the recent ones....yeah. It leaves me furious just thinking about it and how Bruce Willis just doesn't care anymore
ViewtifulJC
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Die Hard 1 > 3 > 4 > 2 >>>> 5
SkylineRKR
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I have the BR collection of DH. The first is still so, so fucking good.
But even the somewhat disliked second one... cut Harlin some slack. That movie has the true Die Hard feel, it was just bigger and more OTT. He did a far better job than Wiseman and Moore did.
Olyphant nearly ruined Live Free, as I don't think its a bad movie per se.
For me its 1>3>2>4>my own ass>5
But even the somewhat disliked second one... cut Harlin some slack. That movie has the true Die Hard feel, it was just bigger and more OTT. He did a far better job than Wiseman and Moore did.
Olyphant nearly ruined Live Free, as I don't think its a bad movie per se.
For me its 1>3>2>4>my own ass>5
Discotheque
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Die Hard 1 > 3 > 2...burn the rest
2 gets a lot of a shit for being similar to 1 storyline wise but I don't mind that and I love it just as much as 1. Harlins stages many great action scenes (Annex Skywalk for instance) and I think he's generally a very underrated action director, Bruce Willis is at the top of his game as the wonderfully sweary McClane and the villains are great fun and utter bastards who you love to hate. Some excellent one liners too. I honestly can't think of anything good about 4 or 5. They neutered McClanes characters, the actions scenes are poor and the villains are godawful. I remember watching the supposed 'hard' version of Die Hard 4, it felt like some awful hack job done in the editing room rather than stuff they had genuinely filmed/left out.
Anyway I won't derail the thread any further, sorry!
Been watching the original Mad Max again today, still really like that film. Might watch Road Warrior after
Anyway I won't derail the thread any further, sorry!
Been watching the original Mad Max again today, still really like that film. Might watch Road Warrior after
What's REALLY killing my hype is this Die Hard talk.
Film was dope. Good thing I didn't see it when reviews started dropping/this thread picked up earlier this week, or else there would be no way I would have enjoyed it.
I'm annoyed. I want to see this again immediately.
Any potential for an elaborate director's cut?
Film was dope. Good thing I didn't see it when reviews started dropping/this thread picked up earlier this week, or else there would be no way I would have enjoyed it.
I'm annoyed. I want to see this again immediately.
Any potential for an elaborate director's cut?
The Dutch Slayer
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Simo
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Hard to say. I know of a few scenes cut all mostly involving
Immortan Joe. From the B-roll footage and trailers there were more scenes with him.
Not to mention some of the flashbacks and narration that got axed from the test screenings.
Bobby Roberts
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I'm pretty sure this is Miller's cut, isn't it? If it's not in the film, it's because he didn't want it there.
I believe that's the case.
I believe that's the case.
RustyNails
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Gravity is not overrated. Just a gaggle of internet nerds screeching their contrarian creds, similar to what you're trying to do here with Mad Max. I understand if Mad Max isn't your cup of tea but you're quite heavily invested in this for some reason. The problem with art is that there are people that think Mona Lisa (or any other critically acclaimed art) is an overrated piece of steaming dump too and there is nothing anyone can do about it. You just ignore the crazy man and his underdeveloped taste buds, and most of us are here doing the same. But capitalizing the word "boring" doesn't make your argument any better.
maquiladora
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Miller said in an interview that there was very little cut from the final film. They had this story-boarded in detail before the script was even written. The reason why there are so many hours of footage is because of the multiple cameras they had set up to capture all the action from different angles.
Tizoc
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This is amazing.