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[MrCunningham]

Fury Road was my most anticipated movie of 2015, and I was worried that it would disappoint. I was so hyped for this film when it was originally announced back in 2003 when it was staring Mel Gibson as Max. I love the original series and The Road Warrior is still one of my favorite films of all time. As the years rolled on and the film was forgotten by me. When the movie was re-announced, I was worried that all of the delays and filming issues would have dulled this film to the point of it being a hard to watch. But George Miller crushed my expectations, and I think Fury Road is a legitimate piece of art.

and as much as I enjoyed The Force Awakens, Fury Road was the superior soft reboot/ franchise continuation of 2015.

Watching the live action filmed scenes without the post CG and additional effects, fucking incredible.

 

[Fallout-NL]

When I read comments like this I'm further convinced there can be such a thing as wrong opinions.

That was never a question.

 

[KKRT00]

Yup on all counts. I wanted to note my favorite blink and you miss it character moment in the film, which Zabka was kind enough to .gif last year:

The more you look, the more you see. But first you gotta look.

Its mind blowing to me that people so rarely catch stuff like that.
Movie has so many detail that it make every rerun very enjoyable even if you only want to see crazy action sequences all over again
Character and visual details are very strong points of this movie, not only action sequences.

 

[Barkley's Justice]

This was by far one of the most intense cinema experiences I've every encountered.

 

[daviyoung]

Loved the action, especially the bike chase. God, want to watch it all again now.

 

[MrCunningham]

This was by far one of the most intense cinema experiences I've every encountered.

When you break this movie down, it literally is just the Chariot race from Ben-Hur (uh, the '50s movie) stretched into a two hour film. But it does such a great job of building a world around this one long chase/

The world building is pretty spectacular and the final chase scene has so many great elements that just come together, especially when you think about how many characters you become acquainted with before this sequence takes place. So many lesser characters with their own motives, all the different sub factions of characters. It really adds a lot of weight when you pay attention to all the relations that these characters have to each other and how they all changed during the course of the movie.

The Road Warrior did this too, but this is on a even grander scale.

 

[Arkanius]

One of the movies of the decade for me.

 

[Bedlam]

I'd just like to note that the shots of sand billowing up and flowing over the war rig, to smother the engine fire, was just stunningly beautiful. The film is packed with such (practically shot) moments, but that one has stood out to me from the first viewing. Beautiful carnage, and beauty amidst the carnage.

(That and I made this thread last year. )

I just got goosebumps watching that part - still, despite having seen the movie half a dozen times by now.

I've seen it 3 times in different cinemas (even outdoors), bought the bluray immediately when it came out (I haven't actually bought a movie in years) and watched it several times already and the cool moments still work. Amazing.

Truly one of the best action movies ever made and a modern classic.

 

[Theecliff]

One of my problems with it. And the quick cuts and shakey cam.

Because it's filmed in the way modern films are filmed. I'm glad they did actual effects but it was totally filmed in a modern way. In which those effects are diminished. It looks CG.

The physicality of non CG effects isn't there.

the film uses quick cuts for some scenes but doesn't use shakey cam - it seems like you're conflating the two together. almost every shot in fury road is center framed. it certainly isn't shot in the way that most modern films are:

http://vashivisuals.com/the-editing-of-mad-max-fury-road/

This was an edict passed down directly from director George Miller. Over the walkie talkies during every scene he could be heard saying “Put the cross hairs on her nose! Put the cross hairs on the gun!” This was to protect the footage for editorial and to ensure that the entire high speed film would be easily digestible with both eyes and brain. Every new shot that slammed onto the screen must occupy the same space as the previous shot. This is by no means a new technique, but by shooting the entire film in this way, Margaret Sixel could amplify and accelerate scenes, cut as fast as possible with the confident knowledge that the visual information would be understood.

as a result it's much more visually readable than most other modern action films. here's a comparison with other examples of films that use quick cuts:

http://vashivisuals.com/the-fastest_cut/

 

[MrCunningham]

the film uses quick cuts for some scenes but doesn't use shakey cam - it seems like you're conflating the two together. almost every shot in fury road is center framed.

http://vashivisuals.com/the-editing-of-mad-max-fury-road/

I do remember reading somewhere that there were a few Go Pro shots in the film that were used for vehicle interiors. But as a whole, there wasn't really any shakey cam moments.

 

[DieH@rd]

This video shows the madness that is Mad Max: Fury Road without cgi.

To think that they actualy did all this stuff is totaly crazy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfm4gvxNW_o&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, I saw that footage many times when movie got released. It shows why the goverment and people of Namibia were angry at Miller for fucking up the piece of desert they got permision to shoot on. Amazing achievement.

It deservedly got 6 Oscar wins, and nominations for best movie and best director.

On top of that no one was serious hurt.

The only real injury they had was one of the new [young] crewmembers who snuck in into that back-mounted car on the very back end of the War Rig, who wanted to experience first hand the scene when that car gets ripped off. The stunt crash went a bit off, and the dude got injured. He could have died.

BD bonus foorage abot filming is great, but more impressive is this talk about the whole production
https://vimeo.com/127381179

 

[DieH@rd]

Practical effects > cgi.

The movie still has over 2 thousand CGI shots, including the mixing and matching of face and lip movement of Charlize between several shots. One of the most common yells of Miller on sets were "we'll fix it in post!".

 

[Protome]

Bloody hell, I always assumed the guys hanging on the bendy poles off the cars was all CG.

 

[-shadow-]

As someone who's never seen any of the films including this one, this looks really well done. The stunt of the guys on the poles, cars flipping all ovet the place, trucks exploding, trucks crashing into one another. I wonder what it looks like with the CG.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Still mind blowing

 

[Fluvian]

There should be an oscar for stunt co-ordination, and this movie should win it every year.

 

[Red]

Because it's filmed in the way modern films are filmed. I'm glad they did actual effects but it was totally filmed in a modern way. In which those effects are diminished. It looks CG.

The physicality of non CG effects isn't there.

Fwiw, I thought Fury Road was filmed much more competently than most modern action films. It did a great job communicating motion and direction, and always kept the action steady and focused.

 

[Erebus]

Too bad it was such a boring film.

mediocre

 

[heliosRAzi]

Yup on all counts. I wanted to note my favorite blink and you miss it character moment in the film, which Zabka was kind enough to .gif last year:

The more you look, the more you see. But first you gotta look.

There's also that scene when Max was missing his snipes. Furiosa came up behind him, asks Mad Max for the gun, and he gives it to her.

Except she never verbalizes anything. It's all wordless.

 

[Freewheelin']

The best action film of the last 25 years and a genuine masterpiece. It's fucking mental that a 71 year old director took a break after doing some kids films, and coming back to show up all the other action directors with an absolute tour de force :lol It's like he never left!

 

[Cappa]

Too bad it was such a boring film.

You can't make a statement like this without elaborating. Can't blame people for saying it's just a bait post, because it pretty much is.

 

[Zakalwe]

I'd just like to note that the shots of sand billowing up and flowing over the war rig, to smother the engine fire, was just stunningly beautiful. The film is packed with such (practically shot) moments, but that one has stood out to me from the first viewing. Beautiful carnage, and beauty amidst the carnage.

(That and I made this thread last year. )

The music during this sequence is incredible, too. It's relentlessly epic without being overbearing, it makes every little moment of action even cooler.

 

[JoeBoy101]

Relevant note to the crazyness of Fury Road's stunts. The stunt director was Guy Norris.

In 1980, Norris turned 21 while preparing for his first film gig: George Miller’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior—a movie, he says, that “took all those stunts we did in Evel Knievel-style thrill shows and put them on steroids.” Mad Max 2’s low-budget, brutal action style grabbed sci-fi by the scruff of its neck and dragged it down from the space opera stratosphere.

One day, Norris suggested a trick he’d done dozens of times before: a “cannonball” motorcycle stunt. He would ride a speeding motorcycle straight into a wrecked dune buggy, then soar into a ditch filled with what one behind-the-scenes documentary accurately claimed was “the most reliable and advanced cushion yet devised: a huge mound of empty cardboard boxes.”

Only, instead of flying over the wreckage like Superman, Norris’s knee clipped the top of the buggy and he whirligigged like a marionette shot from a catapult. Despite the boxes, he says. “I broke my femur.” (Still, Norris limped to the set a couple days later and shot his final fight with Mel Gibson, propping his broken leg on a box just outside of the camera’s frame.)

Full article here.

As someone who's never seen any of the films including this one, this looks really well done. The stunt of the guys on the poles, cars flipping all ovet the place, trucks exploding, trucks crashing into one another. I wonder what it looks like with the CG.

Seriously, you're missing out. The essentials are The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) and this one Fury Road. After those two movies, you'll realize how limp other modern action movies feel. WAAAYYYyyy too much reliance on CGI for one.

 

[ugoo18]

Truly one of the greats in action, George Miller and his entire crew absolutely outdid themselves in Fury Road. A pure kinetic adrenaline rush of a movie.

 

[Jawmuncher]

I agree with the latter that the film was gorgeous and the special effects top notch. Everything else? Meh. Saw it in theaters and have no intention of ever seeing it again.

However I can understand why so many others like it. Mainly since it is true we don't get films like this anymore.

 

[Zombine]

The only problem I have with Fury Road is that it makes all 3 other movies look really shitty.

 

[Discotheque]

The only problem I have with Fury Road is that it makes all 3 other movies look really shitty.

nah 2 is hella solid still.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

You can't make a statement like this without elaborating. Can't blame people for saying it's just a bait post, because it pretty much is.

Or people can stop beeing so laughable sensitive about this movie ¯_(&#12484_/¯

I think its a very good movies btw.

 

[Zombine]

nah 2 is hella solid still.

Don't get me wrong, I still love this series. Fury Road is just so big that it even makes Mad Max 2 look underwhelming. I enjoy watching the collapse of society from 1 to the full blown apocalypse of Fury Road.

Also, over the years I've grown to feel like 2 just sort of "ends." It never really builds up to much other than a little skirmish.

 

[MrToughPants]

Too bad it was such a boring film.

Have to agree.

 

[zoukka]

This was by far one of the most intense cinema experiences I've every encountered.

One of those yeah. For me personally Interstellar was more intense however. I was really in that fucking wormhole.

 

[D6AMIA6N]

If you didn't see it in the theater, you played yourself.gif

Seriously though, I went in with no expectation and a fair bit of skepticism, but was blown away within the first 20 minutes. One of my all time favorite movies.

 

[RS4-]

I really to see this again, but on a 500ft screen.

 

[Gozer the Gozerian]

Don't get me wrong, I still love this series. Fury Road is just so big that it even makes Mad Max 2 look underwhelming. I enjoy watching the collapse of society from 1 to the full blown apocalypse of Fury Road.

Also, over the years I've grown to feel like 2 just sort of "ends." It never really builds up to much other than a little skirmish.

Ya I still have a lot of nostalgia for 2 but the pacing is really weird.

 

[TheDinoman]

Saw this film recently on Blu-ray, insanely well made.

I think it's a bit odd that the same guy who made something like Mad Max is also the same guy behind a bunch of talking pig and penguin movies lol

 

[GSG Flash]

This movie is so fucking good. It's gonna be the first movie I watch on my new home theater.

 

[M.W.]

Too bad it was such a boring film.

It's drab, alright.

 

[2MF]

Saw this film recently on Blu-ray, insanely well made.

I think it's a bit odd that the same guy who made something like Mad Max is also the same guy behind a bunch of talking pig and penguin movies lol

Specialization is for insects. I think it's great that he can make different kinds of movies.

 

[biggersmaller]

Although disagree with, there are criticisms of this movie I can comprehend, but fucking boring? Boring.

Were not enough cities leveled or famous landmarks destroyed? Was Max not wisecracking enough? Should there have been more licensed music? Did it bore people that the action wasn't a battle to defend all humanity? Maybe it needed a gratuitous sex scene?

 

[Hamster Plugin]

Although disagree with, there are criticisms of this movie I can comprehend, but fucking boring? Boring.

Were not enough cities leveled or famous landmarks destroyed? Was Max not wisecracking enough? Should there have been more licensed music? Did it bore people that the action wasn't a battle to defend all humanity? Maybe it needed a gratuitous sex scene?

I found the plot to be a little too simple. The following 3 sentences spoil the entire movie:

Spoiler

Furiosa and wives need to escape the Citadel to "the green place". The green place is no longer there. So they go back and take over the Citadel instead.

It wasn't boring IMO, but all the "greatest film of all time ever made" comments on GAF before I went to watch the movie made it disappoint.

 

[AdventureRacing]

I found the plot to be a little too simple. The following 3 sentences spoil the entire movie:

Spoiler

Furiosa and wives need to escape the Citadel to "the green place". The green place is no longer there. So they go back and take over the Citadel instead.

It wasn't boring IMO, but all the "greatest film of all time ever made" comments on GAF before I went to watch the movie made it disappoint.

You can break down almost all movies in such a simplistic way, it proves nothing. Also those 3 sentences absolutely don't spoil the whole movie. The plot itself is simple but there is plenty of complexity within that which is true of many of the all time great films. A story doesn't have to be complex to be good.

 

[Messofanego]

One of my problems with it. And the quick cuts and shakey cam.

Shakey cam? I don't even remember any. The quick cuts were done very well, especially because of center framing so you never lost sight of what was going on in split seconds.

If you hate quick cuts absolutely, you must hate Edgar Wright films.

 

[Boney]

Yeah saw this last year when it got the home release.

The composition of the shots, filming everything in motion and how fucking crazy the stunts make the movie like nothing else out there. It's so good and so well made your jaw drops more by the minute.

Mad props to all of the crew for making one of the most technically impressive movies ever.

People that complain about having a simple story disgust me and I bet they think something like Inception is amazing barf

 

[D1renegade]

Incredible stuff.

One of my favorite movies

 

[Cosmozone]

The video was already mentioned in the OT back then but it's great to see newer reactions as well. It's also on the blu-ray. Even liked the raw footage of the war rig crash more than the film version. The camera is so beautifully close. Big props to all stuntmen and -women who were involved in this. All the dust flying in your face must've been extremely uncomfortable.

About the film, I can see why it won't click with many people. For so long, the audiences have been groomed on how a movie is supposed to be to be entertaining. That feature length car chase concept breaks the mold pretty hard. Usually there are exposition/story/character development parts that take turns with the "brains off, look at the pictures" type action sequences. Many people are sure bound to think, wow, still action, when comes more story already?

I remember when I was played when watching it for the first time. I was like "Um, those two faceless goons are talking to each other? That's weird." Later the characters naturally grew on me, trying to accomplish great feats to give their short half-lives a meaning. It's just badass. I really like it when a movie contains so many details that mesh with each other so well. It's different to the more common big plot/exposure points method but it's great. The boot mini-arc. The blood donation duality concept. The pacifistic undertones. The war-rig depicted as a living, breathing being. Bullet farmer depicted as the epitome of a perverted law-system. Immortan's fear for his legacy.

It was a delight for me the rewatch the movie and discover new details every time. I ... think I have to do it again ... tonight...

 

[Theecliff]

Shakey cam? I don't even remember any. The quick cuts were done very well, especially because of center framing so you never lost sight of what was going on in split seconds.

If you hate quick cuts absolutely, you must hate Edgar Wright films.

haha, we basically posted the same thing in response to that comment

the film uses quick cuts for some scenes but doesn't use shakey cam - it seems like you're conflating the two together. almost every shot in fury road is center framed. it certainly isn't shot in the way that most modern films are:

http://vashivisuals.com/the-editing-of-mad-max-fury-road/



as a result it's much more visually readable than most other modern action films. here's a comparison with other examples of films that use quick cuts:

http://vashivisuals.com/the-fastest_cut/

 

[jroc74]

Amazing.

 

[geardo]

It was the best action film since the eighties heyday. Every person in this thread who says it's boring or bad needs to back that shit up, otherwise they're obviously just trolling.

 

[byropoint]

Incredible. Best action movie I've watched in a long time.

 

[okdakor]

The movie still has over 2 thousand CGI shots, including the mixing and matching of face and lip movement of Charlize between several shots. One of the most common yells of Miller on sets were "we'll fix it in post!".

3 other vids about the effects :

https://vimeo.com/135155489
https://vimeo.com/152659670
https://vimeo.com/132806170