sic do u have some kind of radar for erroneous statements or
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 May 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 1 May 2015 06:49 (nine years ago) link
Pig In The City is a really good movie, Babe is a competent+ kids story
just repping for Miller in this lets-hope-we-get-the-good-Miller thread
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Friday, 1 May 2015 07:33 (nine years ago) link
Doing a Morbs and not touching this most pointless of remakes.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2015 09:07 (nine years ago) link
it's not a remake
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 1 May 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
Funny how it feels like one.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2015 09:29 (nine years ago) link
a+ morbs impersonation
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 1 May 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link
its where my life is going.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 May 2015 09:49 (nine years ago) link
Harsh.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 1 May 2015 09:50 (nine years ago) link
legit enjoyed the trailer, and that's more than enough; I have no desire to/will never see this
― johnny crunch, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
Striking. Hadn't heard about this before, at least.
http://io9.com/vagina-monologues-writer-eve-ensler-consulted-on-mad-ma-1701967087
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
yeah i just read that over the weekend, v interesting layer!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Making the rounds on twitter:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEXiKejUMAAE6Bi.png
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
didn't even know there was a 3d version
can 3d be over now except for novelty 3d silliness like Drive Angry?
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
huh. i read an interview where he talked about shooting some 3d stuff
maybe it didnt turn out the way they wanted?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
imo 3d is a horrible gimmick unless the movie is made specifically to be awesome in 3d
felt bad, my coworker went to see Avengers on the largest screen/soundsystem that the newest local theater has and he said the 3d glasses make it less interesting than a non-3d feature on a smaller screen! I'd have to agree.
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 7 May 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
so the early reviews are overwhelmingly positive and they all note the emphasis on real stuntwork, explosions, etc
few complaints that there isn't much story/character development but it seems like that was by design
― Number None, Monday, 11 May 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
first two were not super heavy on that either, those dont worry me as much
just as long as its FUCKIN COOL
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
pleasebegreatpleasebegreatpleasebegreat
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 May 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
everyone hold hands and form a circle
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article20487258.html“We also spent a huge amount of time on spatial awareness — making sure the viewer could follow the action and understand what was happening. There has to be a strong causal connection from one shot to the next, just the same way that in music, there has to be a connection from one note to the next. Otherwise it’s just noise.
👏👏👏👏👏
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 May 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
YEEES PLEAAAAASE
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 11 May 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
be still my heart
― goole, Monday, 11 May 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
<3 this is giving me so much hope
plz dont suck
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-05-06/film/mad-max-fury-road-review/
But Fury Road somehow is. In the era of greenscreened blockbusters, we have an R-rated studio release on which a 70-year-old director blew hundreds of millions of dollars crashing real cars into each other in Namibia. You know the charge that Furious 7 feels like what you would get if you asked a Hot Wheel-loving ten-year-old to work out the beats of a screenplay? Fury Road is what the kid might dream up at fourteen, stoned at the motocross, keyed up on Mountain Dew and old Conan comics, except instead of writing a script he's lighting those Hot Wheels on fire and chucking them at your face. He's also, touchingly, a feminist and eager for you to know it. Plus he's tireless, touched with some genius, and you would not believe just how many of those cars he has to throw.
oh.... oh my god
― goole, Monday, 11 May 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
:D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
*gulp*
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 11 May 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
so the early reviews are overwhelmingly positive and they all note the emphasis on real stuntwork, explosions, etcfew complaints that there isn't much story/character development but it seems like that was by design
yeah, the reviews are pretty ecstatic. i am fucking stoked.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 11 May 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
i need to catch my S.O. up on the previous films before we go see this in the theater.
is there a good blu-ray of The Road Warrior yet? the one I saw a few years ago was kind of "meh."
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 11 May 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
this is gonna rule
― the late great, Monday, 11 May 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
100% so far on RT! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/
― schwantz, Monday, 11 May 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
There was a 2013 Road Warrior Blu-Ray that got good reviews. I've been thinking about picking that up along with the new Shout Factory Blu-Ray of Mad Max; you can get both from deepdiscount.com for $20 US.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
xxpost warner has a single blurayrecently discontinued but still avail & cheapish at $14 on amazon
it's a p dece version, i have it myself
otherwise it's only avail as a combo trilogy
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
They made 150 cars!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkawcew2u8
― schwantz, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/review/fury-road-mad-max-roars-triumphantly-back-theaters-219393
man, it's been a while since i was this pumped for a movie. gonna see this on the biggest screen i can find (though not in 3-D).
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
MRAs won't let us have nice things http://www.avclub.com/article/mad-men-mad-mad-max-having-mad-women-219391
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/05/12/furious-about-furiosa-misogynists-are-losing-it-over-charlize-therons-starring-role-in-mad-max-fury-road/
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
haha that just makes it all the sweeter.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
tbh women kicking men's collective ass is one of the things that makes this movie great, so
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
thats what i'm totally looking forward to! in addition to general chaos, explosions, dystopian beauty, etc.
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
the less assholes at this movie the better
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
otm
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
every now and then I think some of the MRA folks (the less insane ones) have half of a point about something, and then they go and get apoplectic about something like this and it's like ::handwave::
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
badass mad max film making pissbabies cry, fuck yeah
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
I want this movie to make some major asshole money.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
i think by r-rated standards it should do really well, it also appears to be getting a veritable orgy of good reviews (has a 90 on metacritic)
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
yes, we know you really want age of adeline to succeed.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
xpost
just bought tickets for tomorrow night, stocked for the madness
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
tried to convince mr veg to do thurs night but no good theaters are showing it close enough to us, so saturday it is
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
xp you really can follow the plot visually. even the craziest chase scenes with acrobats and several things happening at once have very specific visual throughlinesthe local theater was showing clips from other post-apocalyptic movies before the showing of Fury Road. I remember that UK-set movie Doomsday was one of the clips and it was just such visual garbage compared to what I was about to see
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:51 (five months ago) link
I took my dad one night and an hour in he told me "I have no idea what's going on" and asked afterward "isn't it good to have, y'know, a story?", but he was always very traditionalist when it came to film narratives. everything had to be linear and spelled out.
think also perhaps we were eased into the storytelling style of Mad Max by the previous movies, where the original MM had the closest thing to a structured storyline and then eased more full-throatedly into the full-on atmospheric worldbuilding by MM2.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 December 2023 19:58 (five months ago) link
A big reason some people find Fury Road perplexing is that it tells its story almost entirely through visuals, it reminds me of silent films. So many newer action films overload you on exposition, which I think people have gotten used to listening to while they scroll at home. It's unusual to have a film that you have to be looking at the entire time to understand what's happening.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:23 (five months ago) link
Exactly, it expresses through immersion. It also rewards repeat viewings and diving into the details of each scene or even frame. In the video game sphere you have games like Elden Ring that are inscrutable and don't explain anything to you in a direct way, and I bet the same people perplexed by Fury Road probably would feel similarly about From Software games too
― octobeard, Friday, 1 December 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
btw I hadnt noticed before but splendid falls from the war rig and dies because she slips on the blood from the wound she received from max's bullet
― nomar
― omar little, Friday, 1 December 2023 20:34 (five months ago) link
as I said elsewhere, there's no universe in which Anya Taylor-Joy grows up to be Charlize Theron
at least we know for sure that Mel Gibson grew up to look like Tom Hardy
― bae (sic), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:50 (five months ago) link
Hardy sucks too, FTR. He's one of the worst actors currently working, and Theron saved Fury Road from him.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:52 (five months ago) link
rong
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:55 (five months ago) link
is hemsworth’s nose practical or CGI?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 December 2023 22:17 (five months ago) link
hardy was perfect for it. up himself, selfish, oddly timid yet fearless when it really mattered
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 December 2023 22:20 (five months ago) link
He’s also super hot.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 2 December 2023 14:38 (five months ago) link
One of the best aspects of "Fury Road" was the bait and switch of dangling out Hardy/Max as its main character, but revealing that it's really mostly Furiosa's story, and she's a much stronger lead (in every sense). Maybe this new one, ostensibly about Furiosa, will turn out to be Max, subverting expectations once again.
Something that gives me hope, aside from Miller's track record, is iirc he did a ton of secondary story development for the last one, and iirc the Furiosa backstory was part of that development. Or maybe I am making that up. Regardless, this seems kind of like video game DLC, for better or for worse, but probably for the better.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 December 2023 14:57 (five months ago) link
By 2010, Miller intended to shoot Fury Road and Furiosa b2b, but dropped Furiosa when the rains cancelled that shoot and production moved to Namibia.
In 2015, he wanted shoot Furiosa and another spin-off or Hardy Max b2b, but Warner Brothers decided it made more sense to delay the 70-year-old man's production process by refusing to pay him for Fury Road, and by the time the legals were settled, he dropped the second one.
(circa 2002, Miller was planning to direct Fury Road at the same time as Happy Feet, shooting live-action during the day and reviewing animation at night.)
― bae (sic), Saturday, 2 December 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
I bet the same people perplexed by Fury Road probably would feel similarly about From Software games too
― octobeard, Friday, December 1, 2023 8:31 PM (yesterday)
I recall somebody of a games forum saying Fury Road and Shadow Of The Colossus were pretentious for having a story
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 December 2023 23:33 (five months ago) link
For NOT having a story
Just finished the oral history, it's very good. Not much scandal beyond the revelations that a lot of the crew didn't quite get Miller's vision but went with it anyway, a meddling exec forced the end of production before they filmed anything at the citadel and we only got those scenes because someone new took over and gave them the go-ahead to finish, and while Tom and Charlize weren't best pals (she seems like a true pro, he seems...methody), it also doesn't sound like it was a complete disaster. If anything, the book made me more in awe of Miller's achievement, how he just had the whole thing storyboarded out and the full vision in his head the whole time.
This is still maybe the only movie that not only do I rewatch with great regularity, but one where as soon as it's over I just want to start it again. Maybe it really does help that it's such a visually told story, and I spot new things every single time. Furiosa's journey at the beginning, everything being communicated w/her decision-making through Theron's eyes and subtle glances into the rearview mirror, waiting for the right moment. That kind of thing.
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2024 04:36 (three months ago) link
I also read the oral history! I loved it, but I wished it was juicier, and I wouldn’t have minded drilling wayyyy down into the details of the set design, camera rigging etc. And Tom Hardy’s quotes all sounded like they’d been written by his agent. When you hear what a genius Miller is etc it’s kind of hard to understand how he could make something like 3000 Years of Longing.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 January 2024 09:47 (three months ago) link
i liked 3000 years of longing!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 January 2024 11:42 (three months ago) link
Somebody had to!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 January 2024 11:53 (three months ago) link
I’m with dmac.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 January 2024 13:41 (three months ago) link
I liked it too. Not a perfect film but inventive and a good yarn.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:26 (three months ago) link
thumbs up for me too
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:27 (three months ago) link
I have noticed that when I say I liked TTYOL certain friends clear their throats and change the subject.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2024 14:28 (three months ago) link
we watched it the other night & enjoyed it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 January 2024 15:45 (three months ago) link
I also liked 3000 YOLo, a completely-in-character project for the producer / writer / director of Lorenzo’s Oil, The Witches Of Eastwick, Babe, Happy Feet, Flirting, Bangkok Hilton and 40,000 Years Of Dreaming.
― bae (sic), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:09 (three months ago) link
Yeah, 3000 years of longing is great - not the total achievement that Fury Road is, but what is?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:05 (three months ago) link
On top of everything else, it's one of the few films that acknowledged -- wordlessly but effectively! -- that 1) the pandemic happened and 2) people are still reacting to it as they do. Too rare in film/TV in general!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 January 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
definitely of a piece with the fable-like qualities of Mad Max
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 5 January 2024 14:44 (three months ago) link
also a genuinely great portrayal of raw horniness from Swinton
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 12 January 2024 23:13 (three months ago) link
Having worked in Swinton it took me a while to work that one out. Prestwich is possibly hornier, idk
― kinder, Saturday, 13 January 2024 10:59 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1NszGIuNo
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:38 (one month ago) link
New thread!
FURIOSA
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:39 (one month ago) link