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Mad Max: Fury Road |OT| What a Lovely Day | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 89
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crimzonflame
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I feel the exact same way. The more I think about the film, the more I like it. Blade Runner was the same way.
TheClimaxan
Member
Saw it twice this weekend and I still can't stop thinking about it. What a fucking blast.
Incendiary
Banned
I think part of it is that the entire movie is so high octane with so much sensory overload, you can't quite process all the awesome contained in the movie without a little time. I thought it was good after exiting the theater on Friday, realized it was great on Saturday, and after seeing it a second time today I think it's fucking awesome and one of the best movies I've seen in the last decade.
Holy shit, what am I reading? This is one of the craziest things ive ever read on this site and that's saying a lot
Discotheque
Banned
If he said second best he would be right tho. Shit on the world and story all you like but it was the clearest and most visceral large scale action setpiece I've seen until fury road
Marvel and man of steel been trying their hand at it and they pale in comparison to that final battle in avatar, crazy stuff
No it's not, Avatar has fantastic action sequences. James Cameron is the Godking of action. No amount of hate some of you people spew at that movie will change these facts.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
my girlfriend and i came out of this movie pumped even though it was midnight. it was quite funny. we both felt like we were in the middle of a run or something, eyes wide open. amazing movie start to finish
BronsonLee
Member
Jesus Christ, I looked up the box office stuff on Avatar on a whim, and it almost made 3 billion dollars?! What the hell
And yo, there's a reason Cameron is the only guy (IIRC) in the goddamn 2 billion dollar club. They may not be your bag, but Titanic and Avatar were both legit as fuck, especially Avatar, set piece wise
And yo, there's a reason Cameron is the only guy (IIRC) in the goddamn 2 billion dollar club. They may not be your bag, but Titanic and Avatar were both legit as fuck, especially Avatar, set piece wise
Discotheque
Banned
Dat unanimous agreement
BronsonLee
Member
I don't remember the last time a huge blockbuster was unanimously reviewed in a positive way. Even the biggest ones have had some flack, but beyond a few negative ones, everyone is seemingly saying the same thing. That it gets better for them -after- they leave!
This.
Though he is right that there's nothing that has topped it (until Fury Road), but that's more due to the shit that has come out since then more than Avatar having memorable sequences. Dude didn't even use the best part of the Horner score from War in the final battle. They were good and well shot, like you said, but they weren't his best work. Still, aging JC is still better than most out there in that department. The same can be said about George now too apparently lol.
My reaction to this movie:
Probably the most action per second in a 2 hour movie yet as far as I can remember... maybe Raid 1 is close. God damn that was car mayhem porn and all so well shot and choreographed. Miller used those sets, the cars and the stuntmen really well.... quite a few of those car chases could easily be among top 10 best car chases of all time. Great soundtrack, great visual design, great action. Had a blast with the movie.
That said I am surprised at the extremely high RT score as I expected quite a few people to just straight up hate the movie. It has almost too much of the same type of action which is car chases in a desert even though Miller tried to up the ante with each single car chase. Not enough character development (especially for Max) for some people. This movie is made for people like me but if my mom saw it she would think it would be among the worst movies she has ever seen and going by some of the comments passed after I left the theater by other folks she wouldn't be the only one.
Also people need to ease off the "best action movie of all time" hyperbole. Let the movie settle in before making claims like that.
Probably the most action per second in a 2 hour movie yet as far as I can remember... maybe Raid 1 is close. God damn that was car mayhem porn and all so well shot and choreographed. Miller used those sets, the cars and the stuntmen really well.... quite a few of those car chases could easily be among top 10 best car chases of all time. Great soundtrack, great visual design, great action. Had a blast with the movie.
That said I am surprised at the extremely high RT score as I expected quite a few people to just straight up hate the movie. It has almost too much of the same type of action which is car chases in a desert even though Miller tried to up the ante with each single car chase. Not enough character development (especially for Max) for some people. This movie is made for people like me but if my mom saw it she would think it would be among the worst movies she has ever seen and going by some of the comments passed after I left the theater by other folks she wouldn't be the only one.
Also people need to ease off the "best action movie of all time" hyperbole. Let the movie settle in before making claims like that.
It's 20 minutes of insanity. First, alien dragonriders fight against warships in the air, alien army vs. human army in the ground. Alien-rhinos steamroll army humans, hundreds of alien dragons steamroll the warships. And then a final battle between a giant mech that wields its own giant knife against an alien riding a giant panther, culminating in a knife fight between mech-rider and another alien. This is craziest thing I've typed on this forum. And it's all shot expertly. Only Mad Max reaches this levels of crazy. I really can't believe are trying to put it down.
nhlducks35
Member
Long ass line here at a Edwards theater
One of those movies.
Upon viewing: That was great.
A few days later: That movie is a classic.
BronsonLee
Member
I feel like if you tried to describe the final chase scene of Fury Road your head would explode
But ya, don't fuck with Avatar, yo. I didn't like the movie from a story perspective, but christ on sale..
Eh, it's just shallow I think. I don't believe anyone actually thinks that.
Mad Max's finale was pretty damn great, and I agree with others that it comes close.
Fuck we're spoiled with good films.
Discotheque
Banned
If I fronted a rock band I'd be calling up the engineers and ordering one of those vehicles
It was so....brutal legend/metalocalypse
I still can't believe the car was fully functional, as in, it actually had a fully functional sound system and the guy is playing for real, he practiced for months to be able to play while the car is in motion.
This movie is not for everyone, my friends went and I hated it, and that is ok, but it's ridiculous to call this movie being "fake".
Wow, ok this just about signals the end of this line of discussion, haha.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Terminator, Terminator 2 and Aliens which are 3 of my favorite. :] Even his "minor" stuff is quite solid in the action department, such as The Abyss and True Lies. I still remember a couple of sequences in the Abyss which were great and I haven't seen this one in over 5+ years (it doesn't even have a Bluray version yet). Avatar had solid action sequences which were clear, concise and well shot, which is a rarity in modern film making.
I have this theory that him and Miller are still excellent because they learned how to create action sequences with a tiny budget and practical effects in the beginning of their career (which spurred their creativity in making them work and be as memorable as possible).
You didn't even get the part where Jake is flipping around tossing grenades in the ship while on it.
I just got back from the big-big screen 2D showing at my local theater. I was happy to see other people in the theater on a Sunday night show, there weren't many people at the theater in general.
Holy shit.
This movie was everything I wanted it to be. At the first fade to black I realized I had a big stupid grin on my face for the entire first part. My friend and I were both very pleased, and a good number of people in the theater stayed through the credits so I think they all knew exactly what they came for.
It was a really... really hard drive home for me... I had to go past a road detail and try not to fly down the highway I was so amped. Ha. Now I have to try to get the fence sitters I know to go.
Holy shit.
This movie was everything I wanted it to be. At the first fade to black I realized I had a big stupid grin on my face for the entire first part. My friend and I were both very pleased, and a good number of people in the theater stayed through the credits so I think they all knew exactly what they came for.
It was a really... really hard drive home for me... I had to go past a road detail and try not to fly down the highway I was so amped. Ha. Now I have to try to get the fence sitters I know to go.
Im obviously exaggerating to emphasis the point that Avatar's action was very well done...Cause it WAS very well done. haha.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Nothing memorable? Okay. Just from the last 20 mins alone...
I'm with him though. I don't doubt that it was competent and well-directed, but I don't remember a damn thing about the final battle besides the Mech showdown. I just didn't care about the characters enough to be "into" the action.
Anyway, Mad Max is still fucking awesome and we can all agree it's some of the best action on film in the last 20 years.
Mad Max, I can't even, man. I can't even try.
Don't forget he was blindfolded too
Atraveller
Banned
Oh yes, I can't get the movie out of my head for the past two days.
Just saw it. It was pretty dope. Didn't have the same "I JUST SAW GOD" reaction that a lot of you guys did, but I liked it a lot. Pretty impressive stunts/fx. Gorgeous color palette. Wished they pushed harder on the R rating, definitely felt like Miller held back on some things. Max was more integral than I thought he'd be, given some of the impressions here. It was definitely mainly Furiosa's show, but it was more Furiosa + Max than I expected, which was nice. Hardy and Theron's disdain for each other really shone through :lol But it works for the story.
Did anyone else think the camera was very jerky and stuttery a lot? Like the framerate had dropped or something? I couldn't tell if it was a deliberate camera effect or just the projector fucking up. The showing I wanted to see at the theater I wanted was sold out, so I had to settle for a different place with a smaller, shittier screen. The ads that played before the movie were stuttering a lot, like they were streaming them off Youtube or something, which makes me think the projector just fucked it up during the movie too.
edit - just looked back on the last page, seems that it was deliberate. Can't say I was a fan of it, distracted me throughout the whole film. Ah well.
Did anyone else think the camera was very jerky and stuttery a lot? Like the framerate had dropped or something? I couldn't tell if it was a deliberate camera effect or just the projector fucking up. The showing I wanted to see at the theater I wanted was sold out, so I had to settle for a different place with a smaller, shittier screen. The ads that played before the movie were stuttering a lot, like they were streaming them off Youtube or something, which makes me think the projector just fucked it up during the movie too.
edit - just looked back on the last page, seems that it was deliberate. Can't say I was a fan of it, distracted me throughout the whole film. Ah well.
The changing framerate was on purpose.
It was a little weird for me, sometimes it seemed like the movie was skipping random frames in totally unassuming shots.
BronsonLee
Member
So much shit happens that if you tried to describe it, it'd probably be comparable to the length of a damn thesis
ALL THIS SHIT HAPPENING
Discotheque
Banned
i thought it was used to great effect at the start when
he's being chased in the citadel and he's running through his hallucinations, that was really cool
That's fine, that's cool, when you can tell it's on purpose the achieved effect is great. But at other times you were looking at a show of Max's face with nothing going on really and suddenly the movie skips a frame. It's like it was having frame-pacing issues like a video game would LOL. Like Blader I was also wondering if there was something wrong with the projection.
BronsonLee
Member
I'm worried I might burn out on this movie like I did Gravity..
But I gotta see it again. Maybe at Movie Tavern.
But I gotta see it again. Maybe at Movie Tavern.
Discotheque
Banned
i've seen it thrice, I'm a mad man. now no more for me until the bluray is out. and funnily enough the rewatches did not hurt the film at all (nor did my attention span waver)
it's one of those films that has my mind racing after i've seen it (in a good way, not negatively like it has been for like almost every other blockbuster in years)
BronsonLee
Member
It's weird how rewatchable it is. The plot is simple and the length is perfect. And it's always got my full and undivided attention the whole way through. I saw a screening and I saw it on opening night, and I'm still totally down to watch it right now if someone asked.
Fuck, man. I need that BluRay.
I think this movie will be much more rewatchable than Gravity. I love Gravity but when rewatching it I just skip through all the slow scenes to see the action scenes, since the slow scenes are a bit dull to me these days having seen it multiple times. Don't think I'll have that problem with Mad Max.
Avatar would be one of the last blockbuster movies that I would watch for action. I dont remember ever hearing anyone saying that avatar is one of their go-to movies for action. I mean saying Avatar has the best action of the last decade? Ridiculous. I will not stand for such blasphemy
Mad Max alone shits on it for action, not to mention many other films.