Mad Max: Fury Road - Lions and Tigers and Tom Hardy and Teal and Orange Oh My

Hah, my working-the-early-shift-club lets-meet-for-a-pint-or-a-film-at-4:30-before-she-returns-home-to-partner-and-two-small-kids is SO STOKED for this.

add 'friend' after the second dashpocalypse there.

this is playing at 7 pm tonight in town. gonna go with rufus. he's 12. i was 13 when i saw road warrior on the big screen.

SEEING IT TONIGHT AAARGH

this is playing at 7 pm tonight in town. gonna go with rufus. he's 12. i was 13 when i saw road warrior on the big screen.

arse.

it's a 15 certificate here, so i cant take mk2 as he is 12.

they don't let younger ones in with a parent?

those here, UK, are rated 12A

in the US, it's up to the theater's discretion but generally kids can go to any film if accompanied by an adult

NC-17 they don't let kids into. though i can't remember the last time i even saw an NC-17 movie at the movies.

true

i remember when i went and saw Kids in Philly they actually carded me. first and only time that ever happened, i think.

i made my dad take me to see The Jerk when i was a kid. first R rated movie that i HAD to see.

There was a really awkward moment when I was a kid where I was meeting a group of friends at the theater to see a Jackie Chan film, Rumble in the Bronx, I think, and the theater was not letting us in because it was rated R. My parents hadn't quite wandered off and they volunteered to hang out and see the movie with us.

I was kind of mortified, but in retrospect, that was a pretty cool move. Everyone there had seen lots of Jackie Chan -- two of the dudes were born in China and had a giant pile of eighth-generation bootlegs that you had to basically ride the "tracking" button to watch.

me and a friend went to King Ralph on a Saturday matinee and we were the only people in the theater so we threw our shoes at the screen just to see what would happen

i got turned away from a screening of heat (15 cert) when i was 13

jokes on them, because 15 years later i torrented it

xxpost -- and...what happened?

When I was about 12, I saw an arthouse double-feature of Time After Time (PG) and Altered States (R). As the lights went down on the second movie, I was like - wow, I'm getting away with this!

ned - the debate was whether the screen was a cloth-like hanging screen or if it was mounted on a wall, through shoe-based, peer-reviewed research we observed significant billowing of the screen when we through our shoes at john goodman's down-to-earth, feather-ruffling, fish-out-of-water visage. based on these results, we determined that the screen was, in fact, hanging cloth with space behind it.

dying

lol @matt

"shoe-based, peer-reviewed research"

pretty friggin' relentless. definitely made the quiet scenes the quietest scenes on earth. also, i gotta say, Junkie XL might have been the star of this movie for me! it was REALLY loud where i saw it in a really cool way. the stabbiness of the music was really stabby. so cool. there were like 15 people in my backwoods movie house. rufus dug it.

:D

saddest thing i saw tonight was the trailer for new terminator movie. so so sad. guessing it would be the exact opposite of the new mad max experience.

there are some longer trailers that make it look better & more ott, i am somewhat interested

arnold looks like he's 150 years old.

yep

Is it like the terminator playing chess with death or something

seeing this tomorrow if it kills me

it's just every terminator bit mishmashed together judging from the trailer i saw. an endless loop of i'll be back silver cop nonsense that will eventually make me hate movies i used to love.

yeah, new terminator looks gubbidge. the film that will kill me is mad max.

i wish i was more of a charlize fan. she's fine in this i've just never warmed up to her. she could be anyone kinda. like, it's hard for me to think of her in other movies she's made. i know i've seen some. i guess her dirty fingernails oscar bid Monster stands out the most.

you should see Young Adult.

um this movie was completely amazing

ugh can't see it till next week

This movie was utterly bonkers and as much an heir to the first three as a continuation of the insanity MIller brought to "Babe 2."

omg guys there are people here IN COSTUME

loool awesome

every single thing about this movie is perfect

Well, a lil' too much ramping, and I prefer a post-apocalypse minus machine guns, but yeah, it's overwhelmingly pretty badass. At least three or four things (probably more) that made me think, huh, I've never seen anything like that before.

The dark undercurrent of sexual politics is what seals it for me. The most valuable commodity around is no longer oil but simply healthy ovaries.

Also, the first of these movies iirc where so many people have either mutated or have cancer.

this was awesome, made my week practically

gah this is making me so happy

living in a world where a new mad max sequel is not shit

1) this was astonishing. every criticism i make should be read in light of that statement.
2) miller was right about the action scenes (that is to say, 90% of the movie) being unusually spatially coherent. for that reason, they were a ton more involving than the usual. but there were some moments i thought went by too quickly, and one was a fairly important one: when the bad guy was killed.
3) i missed color! i mean, it's not like the previous films were "meet me in st. louis" or anything, but i think that miller got kind of seduced by the possibilities of the digital intermediate, and when everything wasn't yellow-and-blue, it was just blue. i have no problem with non-realistic color schemes, but compared to so many other things in this movie, it was dull.
4) kind of wished hardy was just a wee bit more conventionally charismatic here. he seems to taking a page from the christian bale-as-batman book and gruffly mumbled most of his lines in a hard-to-place accent. i see that there was an arc to that, and he not only spoke more lines but spoke them a bit more clearly as the film went on. but that arc could have been a bit more pronounced, i guess.
5) score was pretty pedestrian, but serviceable.
6) ending was -- perhaps inevitably -- a bit rushed/a letdown after what came before.

as for the good things, i hardly know where to start. i guess i'll note that i was surprised by how emotionally affected i was by a few moments. charlize theron realizing that you can't go home again. and the nicholas hoult subplot was very affecting.

was also thinking about how, despite a number of gestures at world-building (such as that epigram at the end), this had so little exposition. we pass through what appear to be several semi-isolated civilizations, and we learn almost nothing about them. compare that to something like the star wars prequels, where the films' entire reason for being seems to be to elaborate these unique worlds (and thus the plot has to hop around among a million different places, to the point of distraction). there were so many suggestive things sketched in this film, but because it was so single-mindedly (and awesomely) dedicated to the mechanics of the chase, they are sketches only.

blah blah blah.

time to revisit this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaTgQkG3Mmc

i let go of my teal-and-orange objections almost immediately, seemed clear that it was 100% intentional, kinda like accepting the convention of today but turning it up to 11 to demonstrate that unless you're going to turn it up to 11, don't even fucking do it. very much in the spirit of many things in the movie (the design work especially - holy shit, all that design, everywhere, such generosity with STUFF even when you were only going to see it for maybe eight seconds total). felt like when it was night and everything was blue, blue blue blue blue and then for no real reason they have one little YELLOW lantern lit up in the front seat, that was the tip-off that he's clowning the cliche.

was really impressed and moved by the badass nearly all-female hero squad. they just fucking ruled. and no T2 bullshit where badass fucking linda hamilton can shoot the T-1000, and shoot it and shoot it but ohhhhhhhhhh no she's outta bullets, arnold has to finish the job.

well sure the teal and orange was unusually motivated here: sky and sand, basically. but i still thought it introduced some visual dullness that wasn't evident in the other choices miller & co made.

er, i mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBTdfAkqGU

I am so fuckin psyched for this