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

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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

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.