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LTTP Mad Max Fury Road
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Amazing flick, possibly my favorite film of the last decade (if not longer). Just does everything so right. It's a film that shows up on HBO or wherever some times, and I always end up getting sucked in.
If/when I get a 4k HDR OLED TV, the UHD version of this flick will have to be the first thing I fire up on it.
Also pretty remarkable how Miller was able to drop back into action film making so well after doing a bunch of family movies.
If/when I get a 4k HDR OLED TV, the UHD version of this flick will have to be the first thing I fire up on it.
Also pretty remarkable how Miller was able to drop back into action film making so well after doing a bunch of family movies.
The villains i felt were very literally and philosophically angry relatives. Max found himself in the middle of a family spat and the motivations felt teal and personal.
Nobody was looking for a fountain of youth, or a map to a new world. They wanted to get away from an abusive relationship.
It was inspired and perfectly executed. In summary you are wrong. Good day sir!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
All-time top 3 action films.
Not to pick but this could be a case of Seinfelds not funny since the Max franchise created the "bog standard wasteland mutant" to begin with and just about everything post-apocolyptic with those kind of characters have been ripping off the Max movies since the early eighties.
uglysinner
Banned
A solid 8/10 dystopian action flick. Great popcorn entertainment.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Babe: Pig in the City is damn underrated. Such a fun and imaginative film. More people need to see it.
Easily. And I still strongly feel that the film's stature will only grow with time. Repeat viewings keep showing more layers to it and also show just how masterfully Miller and his crew put the thing together.
It is also one of the crowning achievements of science fiction world building for me as well. Fury Road felt like the culmination of Miller's dream. He finally had the experience, technology, and money to pull off the world he had always envisioned for the series.
Reminds me of a coworker that loved the film but felt it was ripping off Borderlands and other post apocalyptic things too much. Oh, that poor child. That was a fun time educating them about the influence of Mad Max and Road Warrior on everything.
They had seen the light on Fury Road, but the light shone brighter after telling them of the series' legacy.
RustyNails
Member
Top 2 for me.
close to the edge
Member
I can see that, for sure. I struggle to find anything wrong with this movie. Just take this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeAVncI7mQ I love the use of music (the Dies Irae from Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem) that goes with the line ("I AM THE CONDUCTOR OF THE CHOIR OF DEATH!") and the visuals.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Just saw it again yesterday.
Still one of my favourite movie.
Still one of my favourite movie.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
NullPointer
Member
I can't count how many times I've watched and rewatched the first 45 minutes. One of the greatest spectacles in cinema. The frenetic escape attempt, the ceremony of launching the War Rig, that long horizon speeding to Gas Town before the turn, Furiosa's raging turmoil just under the skin, the hydraulics and fire and spin-bladed battle with the hedgehogs, the storm wreaking glorious vengeful havoc and Max's relentless survival instincts throughout, just before finally toppling headlong into silence as the flare's light fades away into darkness, and about a thousand unspoken moments inbetween.
Always let out a long held breath as Max slowly pulls himself up out of the sand.
Just fucking perfect.
And watched it again just now because of this thread, and will catch up with the rest of the film a little later today.
Those drums are still playing in my head.
Always let out a long held breath as Max slowly pulls himself up out of the sand.
Just fucking perfect.
And watched it again just now because of this thread, and will catch up with the rest of the film a little later today.
Those drums are still playing in my head.
highrider
Banned
Haha, I mean I'm not expecting loads of support on a dissenting opinion about this film. In Road Warrior they were scary, but it grew stale in Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road didn't evolve the formula at all. If anything it kind of regressed. So despite your involvement with my favorite videogame, You're Wrong!!
All the more reason, I think to do something a little more interesting.. But hey.
toadsworth
Banned
This is easily my favorite film of all time. I just love it to bits. Every time someone asks what movie should we watch I always bring it up, it is endlessly entertaining.
Incandenza
Banned
It's a masterpiece of minimalist world-building. It says so much with so little.
I'm basically with you. I don't share your criticisms, but on the whole; I don't get what the fuss is all about. Cinematography was incredible, and I found it to be enjoyable (and better than the rest of the series, except maybe 2). But everyone on GAF treats it like one of the best films ever made, top whatever action movies of all time, etc., etc., etc. on and on and it's nowhere near there for me. Probably doesn't rate in my top 20 action films. It's fun, I just wish I liked it as much as everyone else. I liked the world in the game more.
They're showing it in my area too, but it's the Black & Chrome Edition.
Yes, I have it up there with The Dark Knight, and better than anything Marvel has done.
Just an outrageously gorgeous and action filled movie
SaniOYOYOY
Member
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Yeah that's what I was talking about. Got the film on Bluray asap but never got round to watching the black and chrome version.
sixteen-bit
Member
This movie was so fun
This isn't a minority Gaf opinion. The film was critically acclaimed absolutely everywhere. Many of the most reputable reviewers and film sites/magazines had it as either their number 1 or in their top 3. It's unfortunate you weren't that into it.
Death Metalist
Member
One of the few movies I had to go and watch a few times in theaters. It has been a while since I've seen a segment from a film that made me want to yell from all the exhilaration. It's so good. Also, plus 1 for these ridiculous closeups, really added a punch to those chase scenes.
What a godlike film in every aspect.
What a godlike film in every aspect.
Prism Sentence
Banned
Only movie I've gone to the theater to watch twice since The Avengers.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
I adore this film, but as an action movie, would you really put it above the likes of Robocop, Terminator/T2, Aliens, Die Hard, and Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Prism Sentence
Banned
Termintor isn't really an action movie. Robocop isn't beloved for its action. T2 and Aliens should make the list. The other two...
Nah.
Yes obviously; do you not?
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Perfect in every way!
For a movie relatively little spoken dialogue it is so quotable.
For a movie relatively little spoken dialogue it is so quotable.
Soldiussnaku
Member
The sandstorm part, and the immediate events before it and after is a fucking timeless piece of art and filmmaking.
It's not just the colours, which of course are fantastically well used, but the framing of shots, sounds, fighting, action, struggle and sheer compelling insanity that happens when they are in the great monster.
Like others said it says so much with so little, case in point, fucking thunderstorms within giant sandstorms, that alone tells you, without a single line uttered, just how damn broken the world is. Which then ties into what max says, that everyone is broken in their own way after what happened at 'the beginning'.
Just magnificent film making of the highest order.
It's not just the colours, which of course are fantastically well used, but the framing of shots, sounds, fighting, action, struggle and sheer compelling insanity that happens when they are in the great monster.
Like others said it says so much with so little, case in point, fucking thunderstorms within giant sandstorms, that alone tells you, without a single line uttered, just how damn broken the world is. Which then ties into what max says, that everyone is broken in their own way after what happened at 'the beginning'.
Just magnificent film making of the highest order.
Net_Wrecker
Member
I know for a lot of people it's sacrilege to ever mention new movies alongside the classics, but Fury Road is just as good if not better than most of the best action movies ever made. Straight up. Every frame is filled with details, and every beat feels meticulously planned and lands perfectly. It's a movie built to be rewatched and last. Simultaneously feels like something that fell out of the sky from the 80s, and also from a future we don't deserve.
I had the same thought. Watched Mad Max. It was bad. Skip it.
The only interesting thing about it is that it takes place in some weird low-key dystopia they really only hint at.
timetokill
Banned
Certainly above Robocop, and easily in the conversation with the rest, yeah.
Fancyarcher
Member
Yeah, it's fantastic, and it was great to see a lot of practicals happening on screen in addition to the CGI. Gonna give Miller props. The first half is pure adrenaline.
Max actually opens the film, and has the most screentime, plus he gets more to go in the climax compared to Furiosa. The actual complaint that Max is a supporting character in his own film, is something I've never really gotten, especially after actually seeing the film, but each to their own of course.
Max actually opens the film, and has the most screentime, plus he gets more to go in the climax compared to Furiosa. The actual complaint that Max is a supporting character in his own film, is something I've never really gotten, especially after actually seeing the film, but each to their own of course.
Fancyarcher
Member
The first Mad Max film actually had a lot of production problems behind the scenes especially with how it was funded. I don't consider it a great film, but there's a reason why one might consider it a "bad" film. I'd say it's worth at least a viewing though.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
One of the few movies I had to go and watch a few times in theaters. It has been a while since I've seen a segment from a film that made me want to yell from all the exhilaration. It's so good. Also, plus 1 for these ridiculous closeups, really added a punch to those chase scenes.
What a godlike film in every aspect.
I love how much the action in the scene directly ties into the music playing. Here the revving of the bikes and going through the air matches and is picked up by the ebbs and flows of the music. Then the whine of supercharger does the same to swell the music at the climax. it's just a masterclass.
Before that Furiosa banging on the airfilter which starts the bass and leads to the music coming in, or the drums in the war party blending in and out with the music.
Mighty Chin
Banned
Mad Max: There and Back Again.
Discotheque
Banned
God level. Seeing the screening of this a few days prior to release was one of the best theater experiences I ever had.
Literally when the opening titles happened I was already thinking to myself *holy shit, I think I'm watching a future classic action movie right now*
such relentless energy to it all, and the attention to detail was well done too. Road Warrior was one of my favorite action movies growing up, but I didn't think Miller would return 30 years later from Mad Max 3 and deliver something that felt as well made as 80s action classics but with a modern paint job. Usually you expect people to get rusty with age or lose that spark.
a heavy metal masterpiece tbh. that scene when furiosa and max start to cooperate when the bikers are chasing them is one of the best action scenes ever the music and just the synergy they all have...whew.
The praise from the circles that normally don't care for genre fare (Cannes for example) made a lot of sense, on a technical level its so well made.
the excessive color filtering was cool as well. the night-time blue scenes made me wish James Cameron made a future war Terminator movie before Salvation happened.
Literally when the opening titles happened I was already thinking to myself *holy shit, I think I'm watching a future classic action movie right now*
such relentless energy to it all, and the attention to detail was well done too. Road Warrior was one of my favorite action movies growing up, but I didn't think Miller would return 30 years later from Mad Max 3 and deliver something that felt as well made as 80s action classics but with a modern paint job. Usually you expect people to get rusty with age or lose that spark.
a heavy metal masterpiece tbh. that scene when furiosa and max start to cooperate when the bikers are chasing them is one of the best action scenes ever the music and just the synergy they all have...whew.
The praise from the circles that normally don't care for genre fare (Cannes for example) made a lot of sense, on a technical level its so well made.
the excessive color filtering was cool as well. the night-time blue scenes made me wish James Cameron made a future war Terminator movie before Salvation happened.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
Die Hard and Raiders aren't on the list for top action movies of all time?
I'd argue both of them are better action films (and better films period) than anything else I named save possibly T2.
Honestly, I'd put Fury Road ahead of nearly all those movies on a list of my own personal favorites.
But if we're talking which actions films belong above it (not just for the action, but which films in the action genre are better films), I'd put Raiders, Die Hard, and T2 above it.
Raiders is a masterpiece. Die Hard reinvented the action genre and spawned countless copycats. And Terminator 2 had amazing set-pieces, pacing, and character development that's rarely seen in an action flick. Tell me you had dry eyes when Arnold gave the thumbs up as he lowered himself into the molten steel.
That's not to take anything away from Fury Road. It's in a league of its own when it comes to visual storytelling, spectacle (the whole thing is a car chase, ffs), and stunt work unseen since Jackie Chan's heyday. It's a fantastic film, and one I keep going back to again and again.
Gun to my head, I'd probably put it in my top three favorite movies of all time. But if asked to name the best, it's certainly in the conversation, but I couldn't say top three.
But that's just me. And who the fuck am I?
Discotheque
Banned
aside from movies in its own franchise this reminded me of Raiders of the Lost Ark the most. the final setpiece in particular with Max hopping car to car punching and dodging shit, it was classic Indiana Jones.
mattwhite924
Member
Now it's totally worth watching again as the Black and Chrome version.
Rhomega Beta
Member
I'd like to know this as well. I've seen the poster, and that's all I really know about it.
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