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

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

i guess it's no danny collins

I'm usually one of those people who admires critics taking a stand against 98% Tomatometer blockbusters. But this time ...

or chappie

(facepalm)

Yet “Chappie” is invested with such humanity, such a seemingly effortless delicacy of feeling, that it makes one suspect that, even if movies continue in this machine direction, they’ll never fully give way to machines. When you get to the level of art, there’s a human strain that’s irreducible, that has to be there, or else there’s nothing.

lots of there there

chappie

effortless delicacy of feeling

mick lasalle makes more sense if you read it in andy rooney's voice

oh the overcranked camera is so unsubtle, thats why its awesome - totally a reminder of the first two films - and just makes everything seem more intense. relentless is the word.

actually sorry - technically its the opposite of overcranking isn't it? come on film scholars.