Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

This was one of the first movies I've seen in quite a while that I did not feel was not worthy of its hype. It was as good as people were making it out to be.

Here's some behind the scenes footage from the making-of.

 
Hmm, I guess I'm alone in not loving this movie. Went with my son, who really liked it, but for some reason I never got interested in the characters or the story.

I like a good action movie, and the first Mad Max film was excellent. This movie, however, was one long car chase with no real plot, characters who acted in random fashion, and the world the filmmaker built was, to me, unbelievable.

The special effects were good, probably the only thing I could recommend about this film.
 
I'm wondering what the other Mad Max movies were then if not one big car chase w/o any real plot? :)
 
Catching up on my movie backlog during this lull between television seasons.

This film is all they were saying it is. The feminist element is right in there, slugging it out with the testosterone-fueled, totally insane vehicular mayhem.

Not that I feel a need to put a masculine frame around a couple of strong female figures, but I would give two-handed Ripley a zero chance of winning any kind of match with a one-handed Furiosa. The woman was unstoppable.
Toby Frost said:
I don’t see why I should complain about some bloke on a truck made of amplifiers shooting flames from his guitar. Actually, that was cool.
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I must have been following the almost continuous chase scenes with a touch of boredom, because my eye was always drawn to this guy whenever he appeared. He was a fascinating spectacle, combining all the over-the-top enthusiasm of a NFL cheerleading mascot with the pyrotechnic mania of a Super Bowl halftime show. I was sorry to see him go, but at least his incendiary axe survived for a bit longer.
 
Although I didn't really like the movie (Cant pin down why mind). Theron was excellent, totally up there with my favourite character Ellen Ripley, The Furiosa is a fantastic character.

And yes that guy with the flame spitting guitar was a badass... Am I right in saying he also had a hammock on his truck! :D :D
 
After watching the film three times at the cinema (I then ran out of friends to take with me and was beginning to feel a bit sad) I felt that I wasn't spending enough time looking at converted battle-cars, so I bought a copy. It's a pretty good read if you're interested in concept art and that sort of thing.
 
ZombieWife said:
I'm wondering what the other Mad Max movies were then if not one big car chase w/o any real plot? :)
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It's years since I've seen Mad Max 3, so I can't comment on that one, but that doesn't describe either 1 or 2. Mad Max 2 has a fairly long chase scene near the end, but that's after quite a bit of setup in the middle.

We watched this one at the weekend, and it was OK until we got nearly to the end and then put up the display thingy on the DVD to see how much was left... and discovered we were really only half-way through. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it looked pretty good, but I'd expected something more than pretty much non-stop chasing and crashing. Ultimately, it became about as exciting as the three-hour-long fight on top of the truck in the Matrix movies, because I didn't really know enough about the characters to care what happened.
 
The first is like a low-budget cop drama, if I remember rightly, and the second is quite like a western, with bandits, a small town, and Max as a mysterious stranger. And I can't remember the third film either! Something about a train, and some kids (never a great sign, if you ask me) and a fat bald guy with a mohican, perhaps?
 
Boaz said:
FR is what Beyond Thunderdome should have been.
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I'm a bit late to the thread. I agree with most of Boaz's comments but not so much this one. I think Beyond The Thunderdome was a better film. Plus it had a significantly different story anyway.

I am definitely a Mad Max movie fan. I didn't like the Fury Road first chase sequence too much. Having Max strapped to the front of a car and all the chaos just went a bit too overboard so it wasn't really exciting for me. But after that I thought the movie improved a lot and was really entertaining. The long chase was great.

I slightly draw question over whether it was really a feminist movie, partly due to the scene with scantily clad models dancing around getting wet. Not saying I didn't like it. It was kind of done in a funny way but still..
 
Have to say I thought the film was visually impressive (as are pretty much all the Mad Max films), but it had about as much story as a Ladybird book...a very small Ladybird book.
 
Vertigo said:
Have to say I thought the film was visually impressive (as are pretty much all the Mad Max films), but it had about as much story as a Ladybird book...a very small Ladybird book.
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THIS! As they say on the Twitter
 
I flipped past Thunderdome last night and it reminded me just how disappointed I was in the new Mad Max. I was surprised that I didn't really enjoy the new film, because I like Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. It seemed lame to extend just the chase scene from the second film to full movie length. Adding idiotic characters like the guitar playing buffoon that (with his flame-throwing guitar) wasted gasoline in a world where gasoline is scarce made matters worse in my opinion. My brother really liked the film, but then Road Warrior is his favorite of the original 3 while Thunderdome is the one I tend to prefer. I think I read that they're supposed to do at least 2 more, maybe I'll like those better. Just my 2 cents.
 
Rewatching this as it's on TV right now, and was just thinking that although Max and Furiosa are the main characters, they basically have zero character development – they are who they are, and begin and end the film pretty much the same (which is fine, it's what the plot demands).

The one who gets the interesting character arc is Nicholas Hoult's Nux. He actually has the 'hero arc' in a way; he's searching for empty glory, meets the girl, falls in love, rises above his previous self, then sacrifices himself for true glory. There's a lovely personal arc there, and he – not the wives – provides the emotional side to the story.
 
I just watched this for the first time on the weekend and that was my biggest complaint, Juliana. The MCs had no real...anything. Nothing was really explained either...who was Max? Really, they drove in the desert, turned around and drove back.

But it did look cool, had some crazy action and was kind of fun to watch.

But I do like more meat to my movies than just action and effects.

It's funny because my wife and I both thought that the Warm Bodies guy was the best character.
 
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