FURIOSA

“are you not entertained?”

“FUCK YEAH!”

“i saw a failure of satisfyingly creative imagination with violent motorized floor shows that while artful didn’t match my expectations and sometimes was over my stupid imaginary credibility line.”

“LOL”

the solarpunk Green Place is a million times less cool than I had imagined it

Yeah, I disagree with that. For me, the lasting image of the Green Place is of Furiosa plucking the peach. The actual community is barely shown and what we see works unobtrusively. We get what we need from the symbolism of the opening shots.

yeah, it's literally a place that is green! what else could you want?

it's not like it was, err, a brown place

more like green screen place

i hope the next Mad Max is in space

Mad Max: Fury Starship

why did dementus have nipple clamps in the scene where he confronts joe with his ultimatum? (the scene where he’s got the mayor of gastown at the point of a harpoon?) and then they pull out leaving bloody splotches?? i did not understand

even after I've seen it as much as I have, a lot of that scene goes by too quickly for me. i was confused on that as well, unless he was just mocking The People Eater, which...hurtful

yeah that scene is a lot… scrotus screaming, deals being proposed and quashed… the mayor just kind of accidentally dying for no reason.. and dementus ends up with way less than he came for but walks off like he’s just pulled off the deal of the century

why did dementus have nipple clamps in the scene where he confronts joe with his ultimatum? (the scene where he’s got the mayor of gastown at the point of a harpoon?) and then they pull out leaving bloody splotches?? i did not understand

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand),

It was rushed and quasi-miraculous.

lol

not to mention the star of the movie changing captors, just another chit in the negotiations

i wanted the peach scene to be in smellovision because nothing is more enticing and full of optimistic pleasure than the smell of perfectly luscious ripe peach nectar, but i assume i hoped for too much

Luca Guadagnino takes notes

this thread is hilarious: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadMax/comments/1d813e5/im_still_confused_as_to_why_imortan_joe_was_cool/

have they not heard about the male gaze and the male blindness that happens when you turn into a fury from hell instead of a precocious youth/presumptive bride

Finally saw this: I was felled by COVID during opening week & it took a while to recover

Fucking YES.
Loved it.

my favorite things in no order
- Dementus’s completely stupid & useless show-off chariot
- Hemsworth channelling Geoffrey Rush via Barry Humphries, the posh-ocker was very convincing, kinda forgot it was Hemsworth after a while
- the way Dementus’ white robes turn blood red from the flare and stay that way

- Anya Taylor Joy’s EYES, great casting, she is like a silent movie actress, the way you ~feel~ her even just witnessing literally anything.

- TIM ROGERS CAMEO (lead singer of aussie band you am i) i recognized him right away and loled my head off

- Lachy Hulme did a bangup job doing double duty as Rizzdale Pell & Immortan Joe. I wasn’t sure if they could pull that off but it really worked

- the bloodied arm stump hanging from the chain in the sunset holyyyy shit

- shoutout Broken Hill back in the saddle. Same location as Mad Max 2 <3

Overall just what a great self-contained story AND a great way to fill in the character beats of Furiosa. The pure vengeance of her “My childhood. My mother. I WANT THEM BACK” is so real, so biblical, so deep and harrowing and weirdly beautiful in its purity. And the payoff too, super satisfying in its grotesquerie.

And the way Miller continues to reference the endlessly repeating cycle of the trauma of seeing, of bearing witness to unimaginable torture … i mean i am sorry that George had to see what he saw during his early years as an EMT but also kinda thank you for that because the viscerality is still as real as it was in that first movie 40+ years ago.

TIM ROGERS CAMEO

did you notice who the smeg was

YESS! love an umbilical brother <3

also the backstory behind War Pup is classic George Miller being the kindest man on earth stuff

https://collider.com/furiosa-cast-quaden-bayles-viral-george-miller-mad-max/

I liked Furiosa more than I expected to. I muttered "this rules" to myself many times.

I only watched Fury Road once in its original run, and I'm sort of glad to not have had any real expectations for this one. I thought it would be fun and it was fun.

The end credits rehash was a nice refresher for fake fans like me tbh.

also i mean again, reiterating similar praise from Fury Road - just such a masterclass in editing & camera placement for action and stunts — just so balletic and the way the camera points your eye to where you need to look so that you don’t lose the rhythm of what’s happening

another thing I like about this is the saturday morning cartoon feel of all these colorful villains talking in a cave lair

this was way too long tbh, for all that i liked everything they did

they just needed to do a lot less of it, like an hour less

also

the action felt and sounded distant compared to fury road.

im not even sure seeing it on the big screen made that much of a difference

Uh

https://www.cbr.com/furiosa-nathan-jones-fictional/

That's really sad. I imagine those trolls mostly didn't see the film. Where is that rage being stoked up now? Tiktok, 4chan? A variety of places?

Is this the whole "depicting bad things is endorsing them" thing again?

Was it me or was that a Mad Max cameo with his Pursuit Special near the end? Was it not him who returned Furiosa to the Citadel?

It was him, yeah -- credits confirmed it -- but I guess the implication was he just sat up there and went "Huh, that's odd," and then went on his way. (Allegedly the other screenplay/story Miller has ready for this whole miniMax cycle is called The Wasteland and is about exactly what Max was doing there in the runup to Fury Road, but we'll see if that ever happens now.)

yeah, both me and mk2 blurted out loud : 'hang on, that's mad max .. '
loved the sneaky cameo ..

i literally yelled “MAX” in my theatre screening lol

i am a five year old

I definitely saw that part as it was Max who saved her

I don't think Max is handing her over to the human parts scavenger cave people!

I agree that it was probably just a little cameo to show he's out there in the wasteland prior to Fury Road

I took it more as she would have just died out there if not for some mysterious intervention

honestly, I think the History Men are doing a fair bit of unreliable narration in this part of the franchise

print the legend (on your own skin)

Mad Max saving a one-armed Furiosa and having no recollection of her years later, even for a drifter like him, would be some real Kenobi tv series shit.

i took it as an easter egg, hey, there's our Max. don't think we're meant to know who saved her. she was far enough away from her pursuers that anybody that came along could have taken her back.

Fair enough - just odd editing encouraging some ambiguous conclusions to be drawn! Either way, I was geeked at the cameo

i only take my orders from octobeard

Challenging my authority

I feel like Max seems less mad as this series goes on and we keep meeting crazier characters

Crazy parking situation at the theater, preceded by stressful planning/confusion as to whether or not we would be able to use the tickets we’d bought. Mall is mobbed and out of hand. Get in there: get to the bathroom, get to seats. Both of us start to mellow out and anticipate previews- and then are told that the movie is cancelled because AC isn’t working in this theater. Which must have been the case in other theaters, because the guest services line was such a nightmare that we left without a refund.

Between that and the fact that local theaters are cutting back on this movie, a library rental is probably how I’ll ultimately see it.

Who cares about watching a dystopian movie, you're living it

lol true

Furious: A Cinema Max Saga

Heh Ned

I sometimes wonder what the theater going experience is like now for people who go 4-8 times per month — cancellations, audiences, etc etc

(But that’s another thread, of course)

are you wondering about people who go that few times?

lol the movie was like $18 a ticket and i took my 18 and 20 yr old kids and they bought poison treats. so if they pulled Raymond's situation without a refund i would have been uh pretty agitatious. Agitatious Hunt3r is my madmax avatar name.

otoh furiosa was in like 3 or 4 screens of the multiplex and our seats were like, (p)leather recliners? which is fucked up and that's not what i want anyway and the entire main room (80-100 seats? dunno) was empty but for us, i think there were people in the upstairs luxury suite or something they had and... wtf. i tried hard, focused on enjoying the movie and i did, though i'll think hard about doing that again.

ha can you tell i'm not cinema guy

“ Agitatious Hunt3r” is a nickname that should come with a land trident or something

Raymond and anyone else interested: I can't emphasize enough the lack of stress at a screening before noon or on weekday afternoons. If your job and family permit it, do it! I watch at least four movies a month and have never dealt with lines or kids.