Mad Max 4 - Fury Road
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Well that’s a whole other thread! I would consider as a petrolhead’s film any film that someone who is really into cars would enjoy because it features the thing they love in some significant way or another. The whole film needn’t be one long car chase.
Drive is about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. In a couple of wonderful (but admittedly all too short) scenes it manages to capture the danger and excitement of driving a getaway car and being in a car chase in a thrillingly realistic way. I therefore consider it a petrolhead’s film. It is also a superb film in many other respects, particularly its soundtrack.
Films like Bullitt or the French Connection are often hailed as great “car movies”, but you’ll watch a lot of non-car related stuff before or after you get to the famous car chases. Ditto more obscure stuff like Fear is the Key, the Seven-Ups or To Live and Die in LA.
Mad Max: Fury Road was actually very unusual in having such a high car content (if you can call the crazy vehicles in the film cars) and yet not being sh*t. For that alone it deserves to be celebrated in my view.
ETA: I forgot about Rush, which post-dates Drive and was clearly also good.
Drive is about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. In a couple of wonderful (but admittedly all too short) scenes it manages to capture the danger and excitement of driving a getaway car and being in a car chase in a thrillingly realistic way. I therefore consider it a petrolhead’s film. It is also a superb film in many other respects, particularly its soundtrack.
Films like Bullitt or the French Connection are often hailed as great “car movies”, but you’ll watch a lot of non-car related stuff before or after you get to the famous car chases. Ditto more obscure stuff like Fear is the Key, the Seven-Ups or To Live and Die in LA.
Mad Max: Fury Road was actually very unusual in having such a high car content (if you can call the crazy vehicles in the film cars) and yet not being sh*t. For that alone it deserves to be celebrated in my view.
ETA: I forgot about Rush, which post-dates Drive and was clearly also good.
gadgetmac said:
Can't agree. The logical conclusion to that argument is that every film that has a getaway sequence in it is a petrolheads film.
Me eitherTo live and die in la has One of the best and possibly even best car chase scenes. The tension is epic if you watch the whole movie. Not sure it will have the same impact without the surprises.
Doesn't make it a petrol heads film. Very under rated I've never heard of it referred to as a car film.
Fear is the key has been and is imo.
Edited by Pesty on Tuesday 9th June 01:19
I don’t consider every film with a getaway scene to be a “car film” or a “petrolhead’s movie”, but if it’s a particularly good one, then I think it can fairly be considered as such. I can’t see the distinction between Bullitt, To Live and Die in LA, or Fear is the Key. They are all films which are not “about” cars, but which, like Drive, briefly feature memorable car chases. They, along with Drive, regularly feature on (entirely subjective) lists of the top “car films”.
If you define a petrolhead’s film as only being films about cars, then you will have a pretty short list of films, and you will be able to count the number of good ones on one hand.
Ultimately this is all fairly subjective and a question of degree. Filmmakers seem so often to have made a hash of capturing cars on film that I’m just glad when anyone manages to do it properly, however briefly.
If you define a petrolhead’s film as only being films about cars, then you will have a pretty short list of films, and you will be able to count the number of good ones on one hand.
Ultimately this is all fairly subjective and a question of degree. Filmmakers seem so often to have made a hash of capturing cars on film that I’m just glad when anyone manages to do it properly, however briefly.
As much as I love Drive, it is most certainly not a petrol head movie. You would be forgiven for thinking it was though had you watched the trailer for it, and most of the stick it was getting both here and the wider community was from people expecting it to be something like The Fast and the Furious.
Brigand said:
As much as I love Drive, it is most certainly not a petrol head movie. You would be forgiven for thinking it was though had you watched the trailer for it, and most of the stick it was getting both here and the wider community was from people expecting it to be something like The Fast and the Furious.
...or even the original DriveR film which was much more of a petrolheads flick.rubystone said:
Saw it tonight. Liked the cars, great to see Peter Stringfellow as the baddie. Charlize sexy as ever and Hardy reprising Bane. I liked the fact it wasn't a CGI fest too.
It was better than the new Avengers movie, but that's hardly a difficult bar to raise. But enough hints to old Mad Max to keep the fans happy.
But Mad Max 2 is still comfortably the daddy.
It was better than the new Avengers movie, but that's hardly a difficult bar to raise. But enough hints to old Mad Max to keep the fans happy.
But Mad Max 2 is still comfortably the daddy.
I actually believed you. Good spot
Really enjoyed Fury Road, but Hardy's Max was not the strongest character. Theron was excellent.
I still think the original film was the best. Set in a society on the edge of collapse there was enough familiarity to make the loss of law and order edgy and unsettling. The car chases from the opening scene to the extended section at the end have a raw realism that the other films don't have.
That said I still like the Road Warrior, but the style is a step change from the first. I would really like to see a Mad Max 1.5 (as someone else here mentioned). I'd really like to know the story that bridges the gap between the first two films (and I'd quite like to pretend the third never existed...)
I still think the original film was the best. Set in a society on the edge of collapse there was enough familiarity to make the loss of law and order edgy and unsettling. The car chases from the opening scene to the extended section at the end have a raw realism that the other films don't have.
That said I still like the Road Warrior, but the style is a step change from the first. I would really like to see a Mad Max 1.5 (as someone else here mentioned). I'd really like to know the story that bridges the gap between the first two films (and I'd quite like to pretend the third never existed...)
I haven't read any of this thread so don't know what the general opinion is but having just sat through what to me was 1 long car chase with precious little plot,Fury road has to be 1 of the worst films I've seen in a long time.
The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
V8covin said:
I haven't read any of this thread so don't know what the general opinion is but having just sat through what to me was 1 long car chase with precious little plot,Fury road has to be 1 of the worst films I've seen in a long time.
The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
I didn't read this.The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
V8covin said:
I haven't read any of this thread so don't know what the general opinion is but having just sat through what to me was 1 long car chase with precious little plot,Fury road has to be 1 of the worst films I've seen in a long time.
The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
Makes you wonder what they'll do for the sequel, maybe add an extra turn, a few extra cars for another 2 hour road runner cartoon.The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
Halb said:
V8covin said:
I haven't read any of this thread so don't know what the general opinion is but having just sat through what to me was 1 long car chase with precious little plot,Fury road has to be 1 of the worst films I've seen in a long time.
The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
Makes you wonder what they'll do for the sequel, maybe add an extra turn, a few extra cars for another 2 hour road runner cartoon.The only redeeming factor being the interesting vehicles.
It doesn't deserve to have Mad Max in it's title.
Made it to 1.02mis ....What a pile of steaming horse piss.
Cars - good
Stunts - good
Plot - crap
Acting - f
king horrendous !!!
Maybe it would have been better at the cinema? I got bored after half hour though and really had enough after an hour. I've tried watching it 3 times over the last few weeks. It's crap, just one long drawn out car chase.
Cars - good
Stunts - good
Plot - crap
Acting - f
king horrendous !!! Maybe it would have been better at the cinema? I got bored after half hour though and really had enough after an hour. I've tried watching it 3 times over the last few weeks. It's crap, just one long drawn out car chase.
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