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

I am so fuckin psyched for this

Holy fucking shit this was INCREDIBLE! I am still on a high from it as this post will demonstrate.

It's up there with Road Warrior as the best in the series, the best action film in a decade and definitely my fave film of the year so far. I also can't think of a long awaited franchise return that anywhere near equals it.

The first 40 minutes are just so utterly relentless, so much overcranked camera, so much insanity, so much hilarity - this is directed by a 70 year old HELLO HOLLYWOOD WHERE ARE YOUR BALLS.

If you adore lovingly crafted 70s-80s classic hollywood sci-fi/fantasy, the amount of love put into the production and character design here will make you cry. And despite the craziness, there are also moments of real quiet beauty and reflection.

SEE THIS IN THE CINEMA! It is ridiculously incredible in every way!!!! Aaaargh I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN NOW.

Serious question: should I load up on booze or sugar or both?

you probably don't even need to!

this movie takes as long to get going with the action as the trailers do. maybe it takes the movie two seconds longer, i don't know.

there's brilliantly zero setup for what sets the chase in motion, it just sort of begins and we pick up the info we need quite clearly along the way. it's one long chase but there are like half a dozen parts to it, along with an incredible knockdown sorta three-sided fight near the beginning. there's one chase which is basically like…they're running from one group and that group falls off and immediately this second group is on them and…idk.

the character and vehicle designs are amazing. there's this supernaturally eerie moment when they're crossing what used to be a forest or something at night, and these people, uh. walk by and it's just a brilliant throwaway bit, just what you see and what the characters don't even mention or explain iirc.

i'm hard pressed to think of a better pure action movie in recent years or...decades?

this movie was fuckin awesome. i haven't read a single post in this thread. i accidentally bought ticket for the 3D version, though. 3D sucks

the ending was kinda bleh, though

tom hardy is great, i thought. it's an occasionally funny performance and a remarkable physical performace. charlize theron, man. sigourney weaver in aliens levels of good.

also loved the slightly more-aged-now Aussie character actors popping up here and there - accent wise the film the leads are very messy, but other than them it's all pretty bloody aussie.

one of the best chase bits = competing cars seeing who can suck up nitro from a can faster and spit it into their engines to gain the lead.

i want to take every single person i know to see this.

thought the 3d didn't get in the way too much, one or two fun little trickshots but overall not a big issue

are there like mad max comics or something that this was based on? b/c the world seemed way too developed for a blockbuster series reboot deal

Okay, if this is going to be "cool things that are in the film" I might peace out here, keep it down until the film has actually been out for 24 hours folks?

sucks that everyone died at the end tho

hated that they bought Jar Jar back for this one

Efforts to lower my expectations greatly appreciated (watches clock for next 10 hours)

accent wise the film the leads are very messy

theron was doing her american accent. hardy... i dunno. he sort of split the difference b/t aussie, brit, and mealy-mouthed something-or-other.

for cinephiles i caught at least three extremely rarified john ford references in this thing

actually one is sort of obvious

Stagecoach, I'm guessing?

is Tom Hardy nude in this

You're asking if we go beyond Thunderdong

recommend a double bill by retconing Locke as a pre-apocalypse prequel

there were so many suggestive things sketched in this film

I loved this, and thought it further underscored Miller's genius as a visual storyteller. There were so many little fleeting things in here with so little explanation, but unlike your usual Hollywood random chaos generators, they all made sense. For example, the hierarchy of the various civilizations, or the mechanics of the car chase people on those pole vault things, or the "blood banks," or the chrome spray paint, that chastity belt, the tattoo on Max's back, and so on. So many random, seemingly incidental details backed up or revealed through action rather than dialogue or exposition.

And yeah, lots of Stagecoach. Also, need to the note the flat-out fight choreography, too. Not just the car stuff, but all the stuff of people fighting while pinned down, or chained together, etc. Almost like Jackie Chan levels of invention.

I did sort of wish it was an all Aussie accent fest, but whatevs. Tina Turner set the stage for the evolution of post apocalyptic outback speech, and besides, this movie might as well take place on Mars.

I think many action film directors could learn a lot from studying Miller. The theater I was at has pre-show stuff on the screen that's mostly clips from other films that are either related or in the same general genre and some of the more recent clips including chase scenes had absolutely zero thrills compared to a ten second clip from The Road Warrior!

Not to mention the work the film did showing instead of telling. There were all kinds of background characters, places, and situations that had no expository dialogue but were completely clear in intent.

I almost blinked and missed Immortan Joe's defeat, but tbh having him get killed in a lightning quick flash of violence was kind of fitting

Something carried over from the first three that I appreciated is that the baddies essentially have no fear and show no pain. One of my fave moments from the second film comes when that henchman tries to catch the boomerang and loses his fingers. Everyone starts laughing at him, and then he, cradling his bloody hand, starts laughing, too. Or Ironbar in the third movie, who takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. The implication being, more or less, that if you've made it this far, it takes a lot to stop you, typically no less than an explosive car crash but usually much more than that. It also fits into the establishment of a society of survivors, some weak and totally helpless, the others strong and totally ruthless.

btw there's a joke in the wives' name scheme

Splendid
Capable
Fragile
Hope
Five Wives

I don't get it.

the fifth name choice is completely uninspired and is just called Five Wives

*one of these things is not like the other* music plays

That's not her name, though? At least I didn't think so.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad
Riley Keough as Capable
Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing
Abbey Lee as The Dag
Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile

I took them off Rotten Tomatoes, could be wrong! Or maybe Joe had different names for them

mea culpa, I have been misled by the errors of crowdsourced info

The joke's on you!

i guess her dirty fingernails oscar bid Monster stands out the most.

she won, you know

She's one of my favorite actors, and she's been in so much random stuff. And probably my favorite "Between Two Ferns," too. Totally game for good stuff and garbage alike.

Charlize Theron holding up the grand tradition of very good actors winning Oscars for their worst performances.

well I guess her turn in Arrested Development wasn't eligble

she is almost /too real/ in Young Adult

her life is kind of the complete opposite of that character's, which makes it more impressive

seeing in one hour. stoked

got my ticket for tonight!

so i totally missed the fact that Immortan Joe actor = Toecutter until reading a review after

I'm going tonight. Haven't been to the cinema in years.

ao scott says see it in 3D--is he wrong?

the director says not to see it in 3D. so... take your pick, i guess.

I was worried about seeing it like that but I thought it was totally fine in 3-D. but I'm planning on seeing it in 2-D, probably like five times.

dammit i'm going to be in the country all weekend.

might have to ramp the civic off a bridge abutment

Seeing this in a few hrs!

i'm not one of those people who gangs up on a critic who doesn't like some blockbuster i happen to like, but jeez mick lasalle: http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Clever-touches-enliven-two-hour-Mad-Max-6263383.php

(he's kind of infamously terrible anyway)

i mean there are a number of objections one could reasonably make to this film, and some other folks have made them. but i don't think mick lasalle gets cinema.

he does seem to have notice the subtle ramping/frame-rate shifts that at first i thought was the DCP going a little funny.

mick lasalle is a twit