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Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Dog wrote: I've always thought the first movie takes place at the start of the apocalypse. Things are starting to turn bad and lawless gangs are sprouting up, but mostly it hasn't reached the more isolated areas yet. People are still going about their business like everything is going to return to normal. Then shit really hits the fan after the first movie and we get the montage at the start of Road Warrior.
That's likely the perspective of somebody who saw the movies out of order. At the time that the original Mad Max was the only movie in the franchise, there was no perception of a collapse of civilization. There's no way that a slick attorney is getting a violent psycho out of trouble when civilization is falling apart.
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Shellhead wrote:
Mad Dog wrote: I've always thought the first movie takes place at the start of the apocalypse. Things are starting to turn bad and lawless gangs are sprouting up, but mostly it hasn't reached the more isolated areas yet. People are still going about their business like everything is going to return to normal. Then shit really hits the fan after the first movie and we get the montage at the start of Road Warrior.
That's likely the perspective of somebody who saw the movies out of order. At the time that the original Mad Max was the only movie in the franchise, there was no perception of a collapse of civilization. There's no way that a slick attorney is getting a violent psycho out of trouble when civilization is falling apart.
I'm kind of in the middle. I feel the original film is basically, "In the future, people are mostly dicks to each other... because malaise.... and crazy. They're really crazy." I half expected life to be a blend of the first two Mad Max movies by the time I was the age I am now.
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Michael Barnes wrote: On Shell's comments about Mad Max- the bit with the lawyer is all part of the vigilante genre, especially in the 1970s. A key component of those movies (again, think Dirty Harry and Death Wish) is a failure of the legal system...so it's important genre-wise for that lawyer to show up and get the gang member out while the cops are powerless to do anything about it.
Not only that, but the freed gang member then goes on and gets revenge by killing the main character's cop buddy.
I like how Max's leg wound at the end is addressed in future films with the metal brace. Not too sure about the part with the bike driving over his arm (probably broken by then) and yet he still manages to pick up and shoot his shotgun though. Typical of action movies I suppose.
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Shellhead wrote:
Mad Dog wrote: I've always thought the first movie takes place at the start of the apocalypse. Things are starting to turn bad and lawless gangs are sprouting up, but mostly it hasn't reached the more isolated areas yet. People are still going about their business like everything is going to return to normal. Then shit really hits the fan after the first movie and we get the montage at the start of Road Warrior.
That's likely the perspective of somebody who saw the movies out of order. At the time that the original Mad Max was the only movie in the franchise, there was no perception of a collapse of civilization. There's no way that a slick attorney is getting a violent psycho out of trouble when civilization is falling apart.
I have it on VHS. The blurb on the back clearly mentions the movie is post-apoc, which I found weird. It was probably written after Road Warrior.
Ok, so maybe not post-apoc, but straight apocalyptic!Mel Gibson sizzles in this cult classic that made him an international superstar. It is sometime in the near future. The interstate highways have become white line nightmares, the stage for a strange death game between nomad bikers and a handful of cops in supercharged cars with an abundance of weaponry. Weary of the carnage, top cop Max (Gibson) resigns from the force to travel cross-country with his wife and child. But just as the dark memories of the past are erased, a chance meeting with a renegade band of cyclists starts Max on a path of explosive vengeance. A brilliant mix of action and emotion, "Mad Max" brings a hazy vision of an apocalyptic world into stark, startling focus.
Here's a quote from IMDB:
The film is set in the near future of a bleak, dystopian and impoverished Australia that is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread oil shortages. (This is not explained in this film but in the sequel, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.) Central to the plot is a poorly-funded national police unit called the Main Force Patrol (MFP, derogatorily called "The Bronze" by their enemies), which struggles to protect the Outback's few remaining townspeople from violent motorcycle gangs. The MFP's "top pursuit man" is a young police officer, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), badge number MFP4073.
Another one from Rotten Tomatoes:
This stunning, post-apocalyptic action thriller from director George Miller stars Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a policeman in the near future who is tired of his job. Since the apocalypse, the lengthy, desolate stretches of highway in the Australian outback have become bloodstained battlegrounds. Max has seen too many innocents and fellow officers murdered by the bomb's savage offspring, bestial marauding bikers for whom killing, rape, and looting is a way of life.
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I'll write up a 5-second review. There's tons of stuff I want to talk aboot as well from this flick...
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Which, at the time, included such gems as Enzo Castellari's Warriors of the Wasteland, Land of Doom and 1990: Bronx Warriors.
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Too late. We're done with that now. Nobody has anything more to say about it. We're all about Aloha now.Black Barney wrote: OMG THAT MOVIE WAS AMAZING
I'll write up a 5-second review. There's tons of stuff I want to talk aboot as well from this flick...
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Ok, so yeah I want to talk about some spoiler-stuff from the movie. I probably shouldn't do it in my review comments. This thread makes more sense.
In my review, I mentionned how I thought the director was smart to leave certain things off-camera and some things just barely on camera (like the ripping off of half of one's face. That was JUST enough on camera to give you the whilies without being gratuitous).
*spoiler below*
The one scene where if it had been on camera I think would honestly have ruined the entire movie for some was the off-camera was the C-section. I was in a packed theatre and there were some people really having trouble with that scene. I think it's an important scene in the movie and isn't unnecessary. But honestly, if that scene was on-camera, I think some people would have walked out. i think it would have haunted me even.
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Black Barney wrote: The one scene where if it had been on camera I think would honestly have ruined the entire movie for some was the off-camera was the C-section. I was in a packed theatre and there were some people really having trouble with that scene. I think it's an important scene in the movie and isn't unnecessary. But honestly, if that scene was on-camera, I think some people would have walked out. i think it would have haunted me even.
What's funny about that scene is how I read a review before I saw the movie that referenced a "bloody birthing scene," and I was shocked at how relatively bloodless it actually was. All you see is a (dry) baby's foot and a short length of umbilical cord. That's it.
I liked the quick flash of showing Joe's death; it made the reveal of his corpse at the end have more impact, IMO.
Another off-camera bit that I loved was when Max picked up a gas can and left to dispatch the pursuing Bullet Farmer. The ambiguity of not knowing exactly what he did was great, and it was a nice bit of black comedy when the explosion is heard and shortly thereafter he nonchalantly comes trotting back with the gas can and someone else's blood on his face.
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Another scene that reveals a lot of depth, a lot of information.
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Yes. It is a slow burn vengeance film and much closer to the original Mad Max than Fury Road. It is in the first few years after the apocalypse so things haven't gone completely to hell.DukeofChutney wrote: Is The Rover post apoc?
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