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

<3 this is giving me so much hope

plz dont suck

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

:D

*gulp*

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

yeah, the reviews are pretty ecstatic. i am fucking stoked.

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."

this is gonna rule

100% so far on RT! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/

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.

xxpost warner has a single bluray
recently 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

They made 150 cars!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkawcew2u8

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).

MRAs won't let us have nice things http://www.avclub.com/article/mad-men-mad-mad-max-having-mad-women-219391

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/05/12/furious-about-furiosa-misogynists-are-losing-it-over-charlize-therons-starring-role-in-mad-max-fury-road/

haha that just makes it all the sweeter.

tbh women kicking men's collective ass is one of the things that makes this movie great, so

thats what i'm totally looking forward to! in addition to general chaos, explosions, dystopian beauty, etc.

the less assholes at this movie the better

otm

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::

badass mad max film making pissbabies cry, fuck yeah

I want this movie to make some major asshole money.

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)

yes, we know you really want age of adeline to succeed.

xpost

just bought tickets for tomorrow night, stocked for the madness

tried to convince mr veg to do thurs night but no good theaters are showing it close enough to us, so saturday it is

i am psyched enough to try for thursday night but i don't really like lines/huge crowds so... maybe sunday AM?

that's when I usually go to the ci-na-mah

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2011/10/20/1319104367922/Mothers-and-babies-wait-f-007.jpg

I want this movie to make some major asshole money.

McCarthy should do alright out of it.

23 hours 32 minutes ...

i have seen exactly 3 non-kids movies in the theater in the last 5-6 years (inception, iron man, the color of noise amphetamine reptile documentary) but i was pretty stoked about this already and the reviews plus the MRA babies are pushing me over the edge, hope i can get tickets on friday

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?

we watched it the other night & enjoyed it

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.

Yeah, 3000 years of longing is great - not the total achievement that Fury Road is, but what is?

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!

definitely of a piece with the fable-like qualities of Mad Max

also a genuinely great portrayal of raw horniness from Swinton

Having worked in Swinton it took me a while to work that one out. Prestwich is possibly hornier, idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1NszGIuNo

New thread!

FURIOSA