Mad Max 4 - Fury Road

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Negative Creep

24,942 posts

226 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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Blu Ray arrived this morning. Only gets better with a second viewing, and you can see how much care and though has gone into every last detail. It sinhes through that it's the type of film made with passion, not money or the desire to sell merchandise, in mind.

james_tigerwoods

16,287 posts

196 months

Wednesday 14th October 2015
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Just watched this and, I'll be honest, I had precisely no idea what was going on half the time, the dialogue was inaudible at times but I enjoyed the car bits. Visually brilliant.

Don't know if this has been linked to either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L67BiENzYs

thetapeworm

11,189 posts

238 months

Wednesday 14th October 2015
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james_tigerwoods said:
Don't know if this has been linked to either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L67BiENzYs
Two posts up smile

Worth repeating though.

james_tigerwoods

16,287 posts

196 months

Wednesday 14th October 2015
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thetapeworm said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Don't know if this has been linked to either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L67BiENzYs
Two posts up smile

Worth repeating though.
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Sorry, it was late and I was on my phone smile

JagLover

42,262 posts

234 months

Saturday 16th January 2016
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davepoth said:
I think many may have confused "plot" with "exposition". A lot of stuff was going on, it just wasn't spelled out for people who are too busy texting to pay attention.
This

This was the highest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes of 2015 and has an Oscar nomination for best picture and director (unusually for the genre).

It didn't achieve this without having a plot.

Plot does not need to be people sitting around talking for five minutes and explaining everything.

The culture of the "war boys" is established in a few scenes far more vivid and powerful than any lame exposition.

Now this was not a perfect movie and personally, in today's age of "political" movie reviewing, I think the Feminism angle added a bit to the score. It is a 9/10 movie rather than the 10/10 that movies like Terminator 2 and Aliens delivered.

Don't let anyone say though that it hasn't got plot or character development purely because they didn't do an "origins story" or shoe horned in family issues or a romance sub-plot. This is story telling at its purest, primarily through the visual medium, and one of the best directed action movies.

Someone posted a link to an article saying it was a miracle this was made and you can think of all the ways it could have been ruined. From casting Mel (seriously there becomes an age where it becomes ludicrous in an action movie) to making it all about iconic props rather than story.

JagLover

42,262 posts

234 months

Saturday 16th January 2016
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james_tigerwoods said:
Just watched this and, I'll be honest, I had precisely no idea what was going on half the time, the dialogue was inaudible at times
Don't know if you watched this on Blu-Ray but allot of them are like that.

I had to turn this up to 60 to hear the dialogue properly and they do that so the loud bits become extremely loud biggrin

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Saturday 16th January 2016
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Oscar nominations are largely affect by how much money the studios push into courting the voters. Though there has to be something there to begin with and I won't take any artistic licence away from the spectacle of the stunts and action sequences from Mad Max. It was certainly cinematic.

I think the question over age of an action hero is interesting. The 60's Batman, Adam West seriously thought he could play Batman in 1989. Cruise is currently in his 50's approaching 60. I reckon so long as you look like you can run, jump and thump someone, it'll hold. Gibson looked very good in Edge of Darkness, but that was filmed 6 years ago.

richtea78

5,574 posts

157 months

Saturday 16th January 2016
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If you look at most of the Oscar categories it's nominated in and the other contenders, I could see it beating a lot of them

However I thought 12 Years a Slave was rubbish and look how well that did

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Saturday 16th January 2016
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road#A...

Looking at that, it'll get a good haul. I don't see it winning the top prize.

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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Is this movie actually worth watching? Everything I read just makes me - "not bothered"...and I liked the previous films...!

checkmate91

851 posts

172 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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I watched it on a flight back from Dubai a couple of months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Not the best cinematic experience but the beer trolley was very welcome. I also watched the latest Terminator film and whilst the girl was quite cute the film was utter nonsense.

The Hypno-Toad

12,246 posts

204 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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Halb said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road#A...

Looking at that, it'll get a good haul. I don't see it winning the top prize.
Agreed, But I think its terrific that it has been nominated for so many categories.

DrTre

12,955 posts

231 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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Don said:
Is this movie actually worth watching? Everything I read just makes me - "not bothered"...and I liked the previous films...!
Depends, I'm surprised to see it trashed so much on here.

Doesn't really have anything to do with the first three except in costume/vehicles (and even then, they're turned up to 11)

Granted it is a little incessant and perhaps 20 mins too long (which is an affliction of most films nowadays IMO) but some of the stunts and the chase scenes are absolutely brilliant.

I sat through it with a stupid grin on my face for two hours.

wisbech

2,939 posts

120 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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Don said:
Is this movie actually worth watching? Everything I read just makes me - "not bothered"...and I liked the previous films...!
Best action film since Aliens in my opinion. So, yeah, worth watching.



g4ry13

16,887 posts

254 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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Don said:
Is this movie actually worth watching? Everything I read just makes me - "not bothered"...and I liked the previous films...!
I'd say definitely not. Certainly don't pay for it.

If you've just had a frontal lobotomy and feel like watching something loud and easy to follow then it's perfect.

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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JagLover said:
This

This was the highest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes of 2015 and has an Oscar nomination for best picture and director (unusually for the genre).

I see it picked up 9 awards in the Critics Choice Awards (http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/) over the weekend - must say I was quite surprised, I enjoyed it for what it was, but wouldn't have it pegged as a cinematic masterpiece!

JagLover

42,262 posts

234 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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Pickled said:
I see it picked up 9 awards in the Critics Choice Awards (http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/) over the weekend - must say I was quite surprised, I enjoyed it for what it was, but wouldn't have it pegged as a cinematic masterpiece!
I've copied from that link the awards it won and they are not that surprising.

It isn't a masterpiece but it was a very good action movie with extremely good directing and visual effects.


BEST DIRECTOR: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTION MOVIE: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Tom Hardy – Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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JagLover said:
I've copied from that link the awards it won and they are not that surprising.

It isn't a masterpiece but it was a very good action movie with extremely good directing and visual effects.


BEST DIRECTOR: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTION MOVIE: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Tom Hardy – Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road
Awards for effects I'd agree with, but best actor in an action movie? I love Tom Hardy but he was hardly stellar in Fury Road, ditto Charlize Theron, maybe it was a case that there weren't many films in the action category to choose from last year. I'd go as far to say if Capt. American 2 had been released a year later Fury Road wouldn't have got half the awards it has.

smithyithy

7,188 posts

117 months

Tuesday 19th January 2016
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Agree with the above re awards.

I watched it last night, and to be honest, found it boring.

The visuals, effects, style etc were all fantastic - it was a great looking movie, but apart from that it was pretty one dimensional. Best actor awards seem bizarre to me as they didn't do a fat lot of acting in the actual film, dialogue was very short and vague, I mean 90% of the film was just those two driving / shooting.

Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Tuesday 19th January 2016
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Best hair and make-up? You mean a number one cut or mohican and a can of spray paint or a handful of axle grease? OK...
And best actor and actress? Again, not a great deal of acting, particularly in Tom Hardy's case.

But that aside it's a good enough watch if nothing particularly special. It's certainly no award winner, although the vehicles deserve special mention as they are all truly mental and we'd all love to be driving one on our morning commute each day (but which one though...).