Mad Max 4 - Fury Road

[Negative Creep]

Available for pre order now. The special edition looks pretty awesome but I've settled with the regualr Blu Ray

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/mad-max-fury-road/...

[Don]

I wanted to be excited about this.

I went to Mad Max 2 in the cinema with my father when I was sixteen. Loved it.

...but the awful reviews came in and I just couldn't be arsed. Sad. I'll watch it when it gets onto Netflix.

[Negative Creep]

Terrible reviews? It's on 89% at Metacritic and 98% at Rotten Tomatoes which for an action film is incredible

[p1stonhead]

I was going to say! It's had almost universal acclaim.

[JonRB]

p1stonhead said:

I was going to say! It's had almost universal acclaim.

Universal acclaim, apart from the people in this very thread and all over the internet as a whole who say it's just one long boring car chase with crappy acting, you mean?

[Negative Creep]

You mean the vocal minority you'll find with any film no matter how well regarded it is? Currently rated an 8.4 on IMBD as well, which puts it at number 75 of their all time list, but what do all those viewers and critics know?

[JonRB]

Negative Creep said:

You mean the vocal minority you'll find with any film no matter how well regarded it is? Currently rated an 8.4 on IMBD as well, which puts it at number 75 of their all time list, but what do all those viewers and critics know?

Fair comment. Vocal minorities can be pretty vocal.

Conceded.

[Halb]

JonRB said:

p1stonhead said:

I was going to say! It's had almost universal acclaim.

Universal acclaim, apart from the people in this very thread and all over the internet as a whole who say it's just one long boring car chase with crappy acting, you mean?

Yeah it's certainly not got universal acclaim. I think it's high scores relate to wildly over-scoring in those that do like it. I think the pro-feminist thing helped there.

[richtea78]

I really don't understand people here at times. Apart from the obvious contrarians that is

[Halb]

richtea78 said:

I really don't understand people here at times. Apart from the obvious contrarians that is

Yes you do, and no they aren't

[JonRB]

Halb said:

richtea78 said:

I really don't understand people here at times. Apart from the obvious contrarians that is

Yes you do, and no they aren't

[richtea78]

Moaning about the acting in an action film? That's petty, if it was 12 Years a Slave I'd get it.

In other news Pacific Rim is just big robots fighting monsters

[JonRB]

richtea78 said:

In other news Pacific Rim is just big robots fighting monsters

fking excellent film. Says what it is going to be and then delivers.

Mind you, no baggage on previous versions either. Which is unusual in today's reboot culture.

[Halb]

Good acting is always required for a film, action or not. An action film with poor acting is like a student film. It's just st. Not that Fury Road has bad acting, apart from a lazy phoned-in performance by the eponymous hero. I like quality stuff, not haphazard, lazy film-making.
But a film needs a story, or it's just a music video.

[wjb]

I love car/action films, but I thought it was awful.

[griffin dai]

Each to their own chaps

I finished it early this morning, sorry guys. It was crap.

[Negative Creep]

JonRB said:

richtea78 said:

In other news Pacific Rim is just big robots fighting monsters

fking excellent film. Says what it is going to be and then delivers.

Mind you, no baggage on previous versions either. Which is unusual in today's reboot culture.

Pacific Rim is the film that Transformers should have been

[JonRB]

Negative Creep said:

Pacific Rim is the film that Transformers should have been

Be that as it may, it didn't purport to be.

[Halb]

Not seen it, so I've got that treat when it pops up on telly, whenever.

[Bullett]

Pacific Rim was terrible. I knew it wasn't going deep and meaningful but it failed to meet the low standard I had expected from it. I mean you shouldn't be able to fail to with a giant robots fight giant monsters but this somehow managed it.