Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

On a more relevant note, MM beat its studio weekend estimates both weeks by a decent amount, which is pretty rare.

I still haven't got out to see it. I had planned to last week with my bro, but something came up. I imagine the positive word of mouth is giving it a lot of staying power.

Arakkis_sl said:

Dear God, sucking time from the life of sperglords is one of the most satisfying things ever. I didn't see what you animals did to DickTrickle in the John Wick thread, but making him so preoccupied that he felt compelled to come into another thread to bitch about it is art.

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Yeah, it takes serious levels of anal annihilation to parachute into another thread and triple-down on the retard, yet here we are.

DickTrickle_sl said:

Except I was talked about in this thread about that other thread before I responded to that shit here, thus my invitation to respond. So, the preoccupation is elsewhere. Also, it's relevant since it's the same ridiculous nerd rage that Hoss is getting; there's so many Seans here, just a different pet love being criticized. Don't let reality get in the way of your circle jerk.

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oh god yes fuck my pussy

Mist_sl said:

Actually, plenty of plot and exposition if you paid attention.

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To be fair, the word 'exposition' kinda semantically slid to mean 'bad exposition': moments where you feel things are forced in order to explain something to you, often with very verbose scenes ("Bob, what's going on here?" "Yadda yadda yadda (x27)"). Fury Road is an example of good exposition, you feel like you are the witness of a world and have to connect the dots. But these dots are indeed exposition.

Kirun_sl said:

Yeah, it takes serious levels of anal annihilation to parachute into another thread and triple-down on the retard, yet here we are.

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Guys, guys, guys. I said his name and alluded to him. I'm am teh sorrz.

It is kinda funny that people are like "I LOVE DIS MOVIE ITS BEST" and then some one goes "I didn't like it that much cuz this" and then it's smear the queer for 5-10 pages. TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT OURSELVES, INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD GUYS! WE HAVE BECOME THE BULLIES SOME OF YOU WERE PROBABLY BEATEN UP BY AS KIDS!!

..not me though, I was cool as hell.

Haven't really seen anyone make the comparison much so I'm curious: do you guys like Fury Road better than The Road Warrior?

DickTrickle_sl said:

Haven't really seen anyone make the comparison much so I'm curious: do you guys like Fury Road better than The Road Warrior?

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no, both movies are equally good, but road warrior has a lot of nostalgia factor, when my parents were divorced its one of the first movies my dad and i watched on "his weekend". basically road warrior is an untouchable along with the thing, escape from new york, time bandits and all the other films we saw together when i was a kid.

Finally got around to seeing it so I could read the thread!

Maester Chuk_sl said:

there isnt something "wrong" with you if you didnt like it, its not a perfect movie, very few movies are. what it has that so many of us are nerdgasming over is a feel. it feels like a movie we grew up with as a kid, something like goonies or conan or raiders etc. and because it is mostly a throwback to the ways they made movies back in the 80s with real stuntmen and real effects you can actually picture yourself in the movie.
i dunno how old you are, but if you did not grow up with indy and arnold and rambo and spielberg's golden age its going to be hard for you to understand why this is such a wonderful film. i can just say sorry you missed such a glorious time in an era of cinematic history.

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I generally agree with you on our shared generation pop culture stuff and you're on the money here. It was actually fucking depressing to me to see this film and know that a movie like this can still be created. Yet all we get in big budget action movies are steaming piles of crap. And not that I want movies to feel like Speilbergian throwbacks all the time, though I get why it made you feel that way. But that the film just set out to be what it intended to be and nailed it without all the typical tropes and bogged down excuses for script.

*everything other people have said too. I knew it would have all been said now, but my reservations about this potentially being another Prometheus level let-down all quickly flew out the window. My seventeen year old son loved it to, so its not just a generational thing, but it really did harken back to how great movies seemed when I was a kid and saw shit like Raiders etc.

Also, this article:

Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

Famm_sl said:

Finally got around to seeing it so I could read the thread!



I generally agree with you on our shared generation pop culture stuff and you're on the money here. It was actually fucking depressing to me to see this film and know that a movie like this can still be created. Yet all we get in big budget action movies are steaming piles of crap. And not that I want movies to feel like Speilbergian throwbacks all the time, though I get why it made you feel that way. But that the film just set out to be what it intended to be and nailed it without all the typical tropes and bogged down excuses for script.

*everything other people have said too. I knew it would have all been said now, but my reservations about this potentially being another Prometheus level let-down all quickly flew out the window. My seventeen year old son loved it to, so its not just a generational thing, but it really did harken back to how great movies seemed when I was a kid and saw shit like Raiders etc.

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thanks man, i usually take a lot of shit for my opinions, especially on films, but i really really love movies. i mean i am even a big fan of silent movies, do you know anyone that gets giddy when a buster keaton film comes on TCM? well thats me, i love all the old directors and movie stars. a lot of it has to do with what my dad taught me about the films he grew up with and my grandparents loved going to see when they were dating, my grandma would tell me about watching bela lugosi play dracula on broadway as well. so of course i am a big lugosi/dracula fan.

anyway, from watching so many films i can tell what films fit what eras and what i think was awesome has more to do with how i felt when i saw it as well as the quality puit into the product. there are movies i saw as a kid that i fucking loved and i know they are shit movies, but because i felt a certain way as i saw them at that age it adds several points of enjoyment to it. films nowadays do VERY little for me, the best i can get is fun at the spectacle of superhero films or in rare instances i get callbacks to when i was a kid watching saturday morning tv or reading a comic book. i guess it as to do with getting older, buit i also think films are becoming less about the art and the fun and more about trying to fool me into paying for their shit

i assume thats what we all base our enjoyment of things on, how this made us feel and remember from our own experiences

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oh, and from that article you posted

Look, I know it makes sense to normal people that you would only let the creator of Mad Max make a new Mad Max movie, but Hollywood studio executives are not normal people. They're cocaine-addled lunatics who are terrified at the idea of losing potential box office revenue. From that viewpoint, hiring Miller is a legitimately risky decision. He's woefully out of practice, his last action film was mediocre anyways, he's 70 years old. there's no reason to suspect he could make a summer blockbuster, let alone a modern summer blockbuster, let along a goddamned action movie masterpiece. There are plenty of other movie directors out there who, while they may make crappy movies, still make movies that almost always make money. As nightmarish as it is to consider, from a studio exec's point of view, it would have been more fiscally responsible to give Fury Road over to a Brett Ratner or a Len Wiseman or one of their ilk.

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So I'll say it again - Mad Max: Fury Road shouldn't exist. It shouldn't have been possible. It certainly wasn't plausible. Hollywood executives are paid to prevent this sort of potential disaster from ever happening. And yet somehow, one 70-year-old man who had been stuck directing children's movies for two decades took a somewhat beloved franchise from the '80s and not only made one of the most badass movies of all time, but also created a legitimate masterpiece of the action genre.

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this is why i think Ant-man went from a movie that would have knocked everyone's socks off to a movie i dont even want to see anymore. ant man was never going to be made until edgar wright chose to make it as a passion project, he got thrown the fuck out of his own movie because the studio heads didnt trust him enough to keep things within the MCU. so fucking what, if it doesnt fit, you could have made it fit. thats what fucking writers are hired to do. you dont fire the visionary for making a film in his mind;s eye and then make it anyway because the buzz says that people wanted to see ant man. we wanted to see ant man but because edgar fucking wright was going to be at the helm. why wouldf i want to watch it now that you took away the only reason to go see it? fury road had to be made in only one way, by the man who made mad max a thing.

Mist_sl said:

I need to find out where I can get some chrome paint.

I want to ride forever in Valhalla.

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What a spray! What a lovely Spray!

Famm_sl said:

Also, this article:

Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

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haha nice.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

thanks man, i usually take a lot of shit for my opinions, especially on films, but i really really love movies.

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Eh, you're alright. There really were times way back in the old FoH days though when it felt like "astr0creep hates this movie? MUST SEE!" You've gotten better, or I was wrong, or I've gotten worse!

Olebass_sl said:

I was once neg bombed for saying some movie was just ok or some shit years back.

Now I just agree with everyone and say this movie was fucking awesome, even as good as Prometheus.
You have to remember, a fraction in this section is socially awkward people to begin with. Many of them wage forums battles with a bag of Cheetos in one hand and a orange dick in the other.
Post lightly and always wear gloves.

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You poor thing you. I think the socially awkward one is the person who changes their opinion based on negs. For some reason you think your opinion isn't allowed to be criticized.