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V012's avatar

V012

(1979) Hey, let's give this George Miller guy 300,000 and see what he comes up with.

(1981) Wow. Not bad. Here, have 4.5 million

Hm. This guy doesn't seem too bad at making films. Let's wait a while before we give him anymore.

(2013) Okay. Fine. Here's 150 million. Have fun, kid

(2015) HOLY. SHIT.
8 years 10 months ago
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Jordan95

Exhilarating, frenetic, visually inventive and utterly insane, Fury Road is definitely an experience. George Miller, unlike most contemporary directors, gives you all the important information about the film's crazy post-apocalyptic world through creative and incredibly detailed visual storytelling. There is no unnecessary exposition or forced conflicts between the characters.

Tom Hardy gives another of his typically intense performances as Max. Communicating mostly through grunts and whispering utterances, he provides a more tormented and unstable version of the character than Gibson. Charlize Theron gives a commanding and strong performance as Imperator Furiosa, who actually proves to be the film's main character.

John Seale's breathtaking cinematography also proves essential to establishing this ravaged world, with an abundance of saturated oranges and blues. The action, as the trailers repeatedly proved, is deranged, excessive and jaw-dropping. With the exception of a couple of brief moments, it always maintains visual geography, a fact I always appreciate. There's an insane amount of world building, far more than in the previous Mad Max installments, and there's also a guy with a FLAME-THROWING guitar, who's there for the only reason that it looks cool and completely demented.

It's actually fascinating that a film of this scale, visual creativity, all-around craziness and with a feminist approach got financed by a major studio and with a $150 million budget no less.
8 years 10 months ago
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lachyas

What a film! WHAT A LOVELY FILM!
8 years 10 months ago
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Cadeicus

It's like Fast and Furious, but good.
8 years 10 months ago
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God

This was so crazy and fun. George Miller did an amazing job with the camera work. I'm in love.
8 years 10 months ago
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RoastMutton10

By far the maddest of the Mad Max films. Loved it. I was initially skeptical about the lack of Gibson but Hardy kills it.
8 years 10 months ago
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dorkusmalorkus

The trailers didn't entice me. The premise made me pause. It was only the phenomenal reviews I read that convinced me to go. And all I can say is this: wow. Just wow. Best action movie I've seen in years. Awesome stunts, impressive action, and surprisingly well-developed and varied characters. The world of Mad Max is surprisingly intricate and layered, with enough nuance and detail on which to build several conversations.

Just really, really great entertainment. Best of all, it has a heart and a brain, making it pleasure of the non-guilty variety. Two thumbs up.

It even passes the Bechdel test.
8 years 10 months ago
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bulmer

Believe the hype, Mad Max is phenomenal. It is basically one long chase scene, and it will barely give you time to catch your breath the entire two-hour ride. The air that it does offer are some moments of well-timed dark humor at the crude and totally miserable conditions of life in the cutthroat wasteland where the film is set. Even though the tension stays redlined, it still leaves you wanting more and looking forward to the inevitable next installment, which has actually already been written.

Apparently Tom Hardy has signed on for FOUR Mad Max movies, with director George Miller planning on also doing at least the 2nd and 3rd, both of which were mapped out at the same time the 1st was written. They will have a lot to live up to though, because this movie is going to be hugely influential. I couldn't tell you how many times I shook my head in disbelief at just how ridiculously insane some of the scenes were.

Miller said in an interview that he uses about 90% practical special effects as opposed to computer-generated, and it really goes a long way in immersing the viewer in this grimy post-apocalyptic world, as the prosthetics are top-notch grotesque and the stunts (by Cirque de Soleil performers and Olympic athletes no less) are just ridiculous. Not to mention the explosions, which are frequent, but still satisfying as they build up like a fireworks show with great “grand finale” payoffs.

It’s refreshing to see that not only can the 4th installment in a seemingly forgotten movie series turn out to be good, but it can be groundbreaking and original. I was was sucked into this movie, just totally absorbed, which doesn’t happen very often as my mind tends to wander. But right from the very first scene this movie grabs you, shakes you to the core, and doesn’t ease its grip until the credits roll.
8 years 10 months ago
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shawbin

Does this movie live up to the trailers and the hype? Yes, yes it does.

A 2-hour roadtrip through the insanity of Mad Max brings ever increasing returns as the creativity and chaos continues to grow as the movie progresses. There's no end to the little world-building touches that background the ferocious vitality of the action. Practical effects that make everything look "real" and a light-touch on exposition means that nothing is clunkily spelled out for you, like most mediocre action movies do. The action is non-stop, exhilarating, and a whole lot of fun. George Miller created a world that you absolutely don't want to live in, but absolutely do want to watch.

We dedicated the show to it, spoiler free, and you can listen to it here. http://cinereelists.com/wp-content/uploads/shows/cinereelists_124.mp3
8 years 10 months ago
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palefire

It's amazing how much more immersive real props and clever costuming/make up are than CGI. This movie feels like a graphic novel coming alive in its sheer commitment to fleshing out a bleak and deranged world. The cinematography is also a big winner, with fast frames, giving the film an overall manic feeling. Very original take on the action genre.
8 years 7 months ago
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aeng

This movie, is action pure. The best action movie of 2010's so far. Actors, camera, Make-Up, special effects etc.. are in perfect harmony here, great job Mr. Miller.
8 years 9 months ago
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fonz

UPDATE-REWATCH 9 MONTHS LATER:
If there is one thing this movie has taught me, it is that you can be pushing 70 years old, without a live-action directorial credit in almost two decades and still make a fresh action movie full of deeper meaning than most Oscar bait.

Rewatching this in the theater for the first time since its initial release, I made the attempt to fragment my mind and watch it in black and white with just the musical score. With about twenty five minutes of dialogue, George Miller delivers a masterclass in visual filmmaking that should set the new standard for what an action movie can be. The only problem is that unless you have a fantastic set-up at home, the best (and only) way to truly experience this masterpiece is in the theater.

ORIGINAL THOUGHTS:
Eleven hours later and I'm still trying to turn my brain back on. But you know what, I have a mindless low paying job, so it's not like I need my higher faculties today anyways.
8 years 10 months ago
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Tiago Costa

The fourth installment of George Miller’s rambunctious postapocalyptic saga arrives in theaters like a tornado tearing through a tea party. In an age of weightless spectacles that studios whittle down from visions to products, here’s a movie that feels like it was made by kidnapping $150 million of Warner Bros.’ money, absconding with it to the Namibian desert, and sending footage back to Hollywood like the amputated body parts of a ransomed hostage.
8 years 2 months ago
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jmars

or, There and Back Again
8 years 4 months ago
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Siskoid

Does every genre movie have to spawn a gendrist controversy? Mad Max: Fury Road made the news for the fringe men's rights movement (as in "bowel ____") calling it feminism taken too far because apparently they support the idea of keeping sex slaves, and reject the idea that women should be given roles in action films (or films at all). But it's not even as if the Mad Max universe didn't already contain "Amazons", or do these douchebags not consider Thunderdome's Warlord Tina Turner canon? Quite beyond this manufactured "controversy" is the fact that yes, this is the story of Charleze Theron's character Furiosa. Max gets caught up in events she engineers, and helps HER achieve HER ends. I don't see it as a problem, in large part because Theron is so watchable. It's really a two-hander and the real injustice, if there is one, is that he's got his name in the title and she doesn't (although she kind of does). Now, the critics have been unanimous in calling this a high bar in action film making, and while I think they're laying it on a bit thick (maybe because I've consumed so much Asian cinema), it IS of a high standard. It does car chases the way The Raid: Redemption does fighting. It's relentless, but somehow still sketches in its characters and allows several of them to "arc" satisfyingly. And while Max is secondary to Furiosa, he still has agency, still has an impact on her, and lets her have an impact on him. Director George Miller offers elans of artiness, but also comic book humor, painting a world that's brutal, but beautiful, and that embraces its ridiculousness.
8 years 9 months ago

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