But I can't. That was the best movie of the franchise, hands-down, no question.
I also like the idea that it doesn't fit in the series. It has a old-school Heavy Metal magazine feel to it, where continuity isn't actually a thing.
9.5/10, will watch a million times.
That movie is fucking great.
Not that it made me happy, but I was really impressed with the random death of someone who was built up to be a "makes it to the end" character.
Hmmm maybe that will have to go on the menu for this weekend.
I thought it was quite excellent too, but I haven't watched any of the other Mad Max movies and am a sucker for Charlize Theron.
I caught part of a bootleg that happened to be playing at a friend's place. Saw the last 20 min or so, but it WAS impressive. I'd watch the whole thing, but I don't watch a lot of movies these days. No TV, been like 6 years. Don't miss it much, but have to visit with friends to watch cool movies and/or get culture trolled.
I will never forget the dude that shouted "MY DEATH!!!"
That gave me an awkward rage-boner. The movie was beautifully shot and performed!
I loved it.Get this, Immortan Joe was the same guy who played toecutter from the first film.
I freaking loved that movie. I am very glad that my housemate has a fuckhuge TV that I can put it on when I get the Blu-Ray.
I saw Fury Road and then Jurassic World in the same weekend. It wasn't even a fair comparison.
That was, indeed, hardly fair. Jurassic World is okay. It's a fun little derp movie.
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on September 19, 2015, 11:10:37 PM
That was, indeed, hardly fair. Jurassic World is okay. It's a fun little derp movie.
I saw Jurassic Park on the bus in Peru (the intercity buses are nicer than U.S. airplanes, and have better food, too) in Spanish with Spanish subtitles, and the great thing is that as little Spanish as I speak, it was fine because the dialogue was 100% irrelevant to the movie.
Especially if you've seen the original Jurassic Park, as they're exactly the same movie.
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2015, 11:38:56 PM
Especially if you've seen the original Jurassic Park, as they're exactly the same movie.
Yes, with loyal pet velociraptors and a history of failure.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on September 19, 2015, 11:35:25 PM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on September 19, 2015, 11:10:37 PM
That was, indeed, hardly fair. Jurassic World is okay. It's a fun little derp movie.
I saw Jurassic Park on the bus in Peru (the intercity buses are nicer than U.S. airplanes, and have better food, too) in Spanish with Spanish subtitles, and the great thing is that as little Spanish as I speak, it was fine because the dialogue was 100% irrelevant to the movie.
I know, right? :lol:
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2015, 11:38:56 PM
Especially if you've seen the original Jurassic Park, as they're exactly the same movie.
I know, right? :lulz:
I've got to see it again. I went into the theater when it came out expecting to be mildly amused and left it waving a knife out the window of a car screaming "DON'T WEAR MY HAT HEY DON'T WEAR MY HAT" while my driver blew like three stop signs. It was so much fun.
I thought the movie was an accurate prediction of life in California when the state finally dries up and is reclaimed by the desert.
Quote from: Nast on September 21, 2015, 12:51:16 AM
I thought the movie was an accurate prediction of life in California when the state finally dries up and is reclaimed by the desert Australia today.
Quote from: Cain on September 21, 2015, 04:23:01 AM
Quote from: Nast on September 21, 2015, 12:51:16 AM
I thought the movie was an accurate prediction of life in California when the state finally dries up and is reclaimed by the desert Australia today.
:lulz:
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.
Quote from: Faust on September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.
Yeah, the world of Mad Max is fucked. Even beyond what nuclear war usually implies.
I did like that half of Terry Pratchett's Fourecks was based on Mad Max, while the other half was based on Crocodile Dundee.
Quote from: Cain on September 22, 2015, 01:23:53 AM
I did like that half of Terry Pratchett's Fourecks was based on Mad Max, while the other half was based on Crocodile Dundee.
I didn't read that, but did read the GURPS Discworld write-up for "Ecksecksecksecks". Horse-drawn war buggies and fierce competition for hay if remember right.
And drop bears.
Quote from: President Television on September 22, 2015, 01:16:39 AM
Quote from: Faust on September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.
Yeah, the world of Mad Max is fucked. Even beyond what nuclear war usually implies.
I like that even the nature of the catastrophe is mutable.
Been too long since I saw the earlier ones but I was talking with a co-worker about how I couldn't figure out how civilization fell such from the first to thunderdome that the kids din't know what some tech was, along with a few adults. Co-worker pointed out that everything was already fucked for a very, very long time in the first one, that Max was in an area that the effects were slow/unseen.
So now I have to watch the first again.
Quote from: Trivial Notgeil on September 22, 2015, 05:43:06 AM
Been too long since I saw the earlier ones but I was talking with a co-worker about how I couldn't figure out how civilization fell such from the first to thunderdome that the kids din't know what some tech was, along with a few adults. Co-worker pointed out that everything was already fucked for a very, very long time in the first one, that Max was in an area that the effects were slow/unseen.
So now I have to watch the first again.
Fast forward through the middle bit. Right after he quits his job. It's LONG.
Also, the kids in Thunderdome were very young when their plane crashed, so you can date that one to about 8 years after the Big Whoops.
Quote from: Faust on September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.
Wow! I didn't catch that at all. That's pretty genius. :)
But is that the dystopia we're getting? OH, NOOOO, we're getting stuck with fucking waterworld!
WATERWORLD!!!
:argh!:
Quote from: Emo Howard on September 23, 2015, 01:24:41 AM
But is that the dystopia we're getting? OH, NOOOO, we're getting stuck with fucking waterworld!
WATERWORLD!!!
:argh!:
May not be valid in California.
Not if these Tsunami warnings hold true.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 23, 2015, 05:13:06 AM
Not if these Tsunami warnings hold true.
ALL OF THESE THINGS
AND ALSO ON FIRE AT THE SAME TIME
BECAUSE CALIFORNIA!
its the price we pay for never having to deal with winter.
So I got to watch the whole movie last night and I'm STILL haunted by the elements of the story AND ALSO the amazing portrayal and cinematography. That's not to mention the symbolic aspects.
I loved everything about this movie. Everything. I was literally on the edge of my seat and took the storyteller gravely seriously when I realized that the style was a granite hard realism full of purely human insanity, and Max lost his boot. Never mind the lead up or the other aspects of the plot. The stark and unforgiving reality of how things actually function in survival scenarios and the sheer attention to physics and medicine and unequal ontology held me, perhaps somewhat literally, spellbound. I stopped eating and my friends had to call my name several times to get my attention as the bowl went around. I started to feel like Max, with an alien reality barging in at inconvenient moments. I haven't had a movie do this to me for a very, very long time.
I know the thread is a bit older, but BUMP!!