Mad Max: Fury Road

I was disappointed that there wasn't a whacky flying machine or any flying machines in Mad Max: Fury Road.

My wife was highly critical of the first 5 minutes, and wishes it had started once the title card hit. Her view was that it was basically like having a 5 minute montage of Hicks joining the marines and going through basic training at the start of Aliens. He is a main character and it explains why he is there, but it isn't necessary for the story. I think she is right and it is likely that when we watch it in the future by skipping it (I would mainly do it as I don't like the way it was presented, with the editing and footage rushing through things).

I think this comes from the fact that she worked out sooner than most people that these are all adventures of Max at some point in his life, and that we don't need a whole bunch of movies in a chronological order, with transitions between scenarios. If a Conan story began with him locked in a dungeon, we wouldn't bat an eyelid, so why should we do any different for Max.

I saw Mad Max yesterday and The Avengers the day before. Max blew it away. Wonderful action movie.

Went to see Mad Max again over the weekend. Saw it in 3D this time and brought the wife. I loved it even more the second time watching it. She fucking hated it. I've drafted up some preliminary divorce papers...

Horrible movie! Should have never listened to Barnes! But it was my mistake Barnes only knows one thing games! Music and movies he is in La La land.

This movie should have been named, Mad Maxine! Charlene's character dominated while Max was a sidekick..Typical feminist influence and political correctness that is totally ruining entertainment today!

The music was horrible, the acting with the sole exception of Charlene was dreadful, the guy that played Max was a pussy...The villian could have been played by anyone including Matt Thrower...Awful, awful Awful...

Don't feed the troll, Precious.

Maybe Weeks accidentally saw a theatrical re-release of Fried Green Tomatoes?

Or he's just being a douche for douche's sake. That's the likely option.

I saw it last night and was blown away too. Spoiler alert in what follows..

There is lots to like about the film (I agree with all the positive things people have mentioned). One more thing for me is how the action by itself told a story, and this might explain the importance of the very first scene, Ancient. The film is a prison break that turns into universal liberation. First, a lone survivor claws his way out of a pit of grasping hands trying to pull him/her back down, but fails. The next action sequences are of small group trying to escape a bigger group, but there's nowhere to run to. And then the tilt: the only way to escape is to enter into the heart of what you are trying to escape. In the end, there's no escape unless everyone escapes. All that is told almost exclusively through the pure action of chase and escape. Fucking awesome and smart. In fact Barnes's intuition to compare this to the Matrix is totally right on.

The*Mad*Gamer wrote: Horrible movie! Should have never listened to Barnes! But it was my mistake Barnes only knows one thing games! Music and movies he is in La La land.

This movie should have been named, Mad Maxine! Charlene's character dominated while Max was a sidekick..Typical feminist influence and political correctness that is totally ruining entertainment today!

The music was horrible, the acting with the sole exception of Charlene was dreadful, the guy that played Max was a pussy...The villian could have been played by anyone including Matt Thrower...Awful, awful Awful...

Someone needs a hug!



A lot of my students didn't like it. They said they don't like movies that are unrealistic, that take place in the desert, and that there was no plot--just driving to the middle of nowhere and turning back around.

craniac wrote: A lot of my students didn't like it. They said they don't like movies that are unrealistic, that take place in the desert, and that there was no plot--just driving to the middle of nowhere and turning back around.

Tell them to turn off their goddamn phones and pay attention. Jesus, there are only like 20 lines of dialog in the movie. Listen to them and you'll see what the plot is and why they're driving.

Can't believe this "there was no plot!" bullshit. No wonder junk like Inception is treated as some kind of densely-packed mindbender.

I almost lost my mind all the people crapping on Gravity for not having a plot. Jesus...

Black Barney wrote: I almost lost my mind all the people crapping on Gravity for not having a plot. Jesus...

What was the plot to that movie?

People think that a "plot" has to be some kind of labyrinthine bullshit with a raft of characters, tons of locations, lots of exposition and a twist. A story that isn't fucking Lost, Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones is regarded as non-existent.

This is sad, because "a man walked down the road" is a story, it's a plot.

Fury Road does more with VISUAL storytelling than virtually any post- Alan Sorkin script. IGN ran this feature last week where they analyzed the opening sequence of the Road Warrior to demonstrate how much information is conveyed in it strictly through visuals. I guess people need to have it described to them...

Mad Dog wrote:

Black Barney wrote: I almost lost my mind all the people crapping on Gravity for not having a plot. Jesus...

What was the plot to that movie?

It's a disaster movie, there isn't one.