Mad Max: Fury Road - Lions and Tigers and Tom Hardy and Teal and Orange Oh My

In which we anticipate then celebrate debate etc the cinematic dust-storm that is George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road

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i might buy my tickets tomorrow

Hi My Name Is Tom Hardy I Am Reportedly Very 'Difficult' I Like Long Walks on the Beach and Talking in a Weird Pinchy Voice

It's all I can do not to camp out in front of the movie theater now

brb going to watch trailers at 0.25 speed

Was looking for tickets earlier this evening.

i saw some on sale for thursday may 14th at 10 pm on fandango

I rewatched Mad Max last weekend...gonna rewatch Mad Max 2 this weekend (fuck you all, that's what it's called)

Have been reading interviews that George did last year for publicity etc, trying to find any hint that it's not going to be everything I hope for. So far, so good.

I also read that one of the guys who wrote the screenplay was an extra in the original Mad Max.

hi. IS IT HERE YET IS IT HERE YET IS IT HERE YET

only 22 hours 36 minutes to go

oh and two weeks

hate u

A friend is very concerned that this is coming out the same day as Pitch Perfect 2, considering taking the day off.

tom hardy is one of those people whose face i can't fix in my mind... he looks different in every photo and film i've seen.

i'm trying not to get excited about this since, well, it's not like miller's batting average is 1000%. and it's been a long time since he's made an action movie (and FWIW i count "babe: pig in the city" as an action movie, or half of one anyway).

i guess there are no reviews of this yet, heh? weird to think that many if not most contemporary critics were in short pants when the last (and kind of underrated) mad max film came out.

miller is an interesting director... mad max 2 and lorenzo's oil are two of my favorite films, and they're by the same guy... but they really couldn't be farther apart.

not to mention happy feet

babe is fking great

He didn't do Babe 1

well he co-wrote and produced it

sic do u have some kind of radar for erroneous statements or

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

Pig In The City is a really good movie, Babe is a competent+ kids story

just repping for Miller in this lets-hope-we-get-the-good-Miller thread

Doing a Morbs and not touching this most pointless of remakes.

it's not a remake

Funny how it feels like one.

a+ morbs impersonation

its where my life is going.

Harsh.

legit enjoyed the trailer, and that's more than enough; I have no desire to/will never see this

Striking. Hadn't heard about this before, at least.

http://io9.com/vagina-monologues-writer-eve-ensler-consulted-on-mad-ma-1701967087

yeah i just read that over the weekend, v interesting layer!

Making the rounds on twitter:

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didn't even know there was a 3d version

can 3d be over now except for novelty 3d silliness like Drive Angry?

huh. i read an interview where he talked about shooting some 3d stuff

maybe it didnt turn out the way they wanted?

imo 3d is a horrible gimmick unless the movie is made specifically to be awesome in 3d

felt bad, my coworker went to see Avengers on the largest screen/soundsystem that the newest local theater has and he said the 3d glasses make it less interesting than a non-3d feature on a smaller screen! I'd have to agree.

so the early reviews are overwhelmingly positive and they all note the emphasis on real stuntwork, explosions, etc

few complaints that there isn't much story/character development but it seems like that was by design

first two were not super heavy on that either, those dont worry me as much

just as long as its FUCKIN COOL

pleasebegreatpleasebegreatpleasebegreat

everyone hold hands and form a circle

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article20487258.html
“We also spent a huge amount of time on spatial awareness — making sure the viewer could follow the action and understand what was happening. There has to be a strong causal connection from one shot to the next, just the same way that in music, there has to be a connection from one note to the next. Otherwise it’s just noise.

👏👏👏👏👏

YEEES PLEAAAAASE

be still my heart

<3 this is giving me so much hope

plz dont suck

http://www.villagevoice.com/2015-05-06/film/mad-max-fury-road-review/

But Fury Road somehow is. In the era of greenscreened blockbusters, we have an R-rated studio release on which a 70-year-old director blew hundreds of millions of dollars crashing real cars into each other in Namibia. You know the charge that Furious 7 feels like what you would get if you asked a Hot Wheel-loving ten-year-old to work out the beats of a screenplay? Fury Road is what the kid might dream up at fourteen, stoned at the motocross, keyed up on Mountain Dew and old Conan comics, except instead of writing a script he's lighting those Hot Wheels on fire and chucking them at your face. He's also, touchingly, a feminist and eager for you to know it. Plus he's tireless, touched with some genius, and you would not believe just how many of those cars he has to throw.

oh.... oh my god

:D

*gulp*

so the early reviews are overwhelmingly positive and they all note the emphasis on real stuntwork, explosions, etc

few complaints that there isn't much story/character development but it seems like that was by design

yeah, the reviews are pretty ecstatic. i am fucking stoked.

i need to catch my S.O. up on the previous films before we go see this in the theater.

is there a good blu-ray of The Road Warrior yet? the one I saw a few years ago was kind of "meh."

this is gonna rule

100% so far on RT! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/

There was a 2013 Road Warrior Blu-Ray that got good reviews. I've been thinking about picking that up along with the new Shout Factory Blu-Ray of Mad Max; you can get both from deepdiscount.com for $20 US.

This is just one of those things I’m gonna see no matter what. Fury Road earned enough goodwill from me.

Final shot: Tom Hardy stumbling through the sand and dust.. "Hello... my name is Max, and I'm looking for gazzoline."

need I remind everyone the initial reaction to the Fury Road trailers when they dropped, it was far from "omg looks amazing" itt

I strongly disliked Fury Road on first viewing. I came around on it eventually, but it's still my second-least-favorite Max movie, just nudging out Beyond Thunderdome. And I'm already against this one because, as I said elsewhere, there's no universe in which Anya Taylor-Joy grows up to be Charlize Theron. Yeah yeah, actors play roles, but as performers they do two different things; it's like asking the guitarist from Coldplay to sub in on a Slayer tour.

yeah CG slightly troubling but very possible it will be improved for the film, and the trailer still looks pretty cool regardless. I can't wait

xp I wasn't crazy about Fury Road either, I thought some of it was silly and I didn't understand the supermodels in the desert part

They were Immortan Joe’s sex slaves. That’s why they were dressed like that and looked like that

yeah idk if you mean that plot point didn’t make sense, but it’s pretty well spelled-out that they were Immortan Joe’s captives because he was trying to have a semi-normal child. Furiosa takes them with her during the escape for obvious reasons

his adult children in the movie are pretty cool flunkies, though

I just remember expecting Fury Road to be a passable entry in the series and a "cool to have you back" type of thing based on the trailer, but feeling it looked a little 'try hard', and getting to the theatre and just being like....in heaven

think I saw it five times in the theatre in only three weeks

the best part about fury road was simply dropping you in and letting you figure everything out, almost but not quite putting you in max's position as far as that goes.

"Piss: ok"

it was the first rated-R movie we showed the kid, several weeks back. he's been quoting it ever since. it's actually a fairly soft entry into R movies, for a 12 yr old.

Had no idea this was even being filmed yet. I hope it does things Fury Road avoided, such as a grander scope and more varied settings. It runs the risk of Phantom Menacing the story and ruining the mystique with exposition, but I adored Fury Road so much this one's a guaranteed visit to the theater, even if the reviews might be a bit soft on it.

xp you really can follow the plot visually. even the craziest chase scenes with acrobats and several things happening at once have very specific visual throughlines

the local theater was showing clips from other post-apocalyptic movies before the showing of Fury Road. I remember that UK-set movie Doomsday was one of the clips and it was just such visual garbage compared to what I was about to see

I took my dad one night and an hour in he told me "I have no idea what's going on" and asked afterward "isn't it good to have, y'know, a story?", but he was always very traditionalist when it came to film narratives. everything had to be linear and spelled out.

think also perhaps we were eased into the storytelling style of Mad Max by the previous movies, where the original MM had the closest thing to a structured storyline and then eased more full-throatedly into the full-on atmospheric worldbuilding by MM2.

A big reason some people find Fury Road perplexing is that it tells its story almost entirely through visuals, it reminds me of silent films. So many newer action films overload you on exposition, which I think people have gotten used to listening to while they scroll at home. It's unusual to have a film that you have to be looking at the entire time to understand what's happening.

Exactly, it expresses through immersion. It also rewards repeat viewings and diving into the details of each scene or even frame. In the video game sphere you have games like Elden Ring that are inscrutable and don't explain anything to you in a direct way, and I bet the same people perplexed by Fury Road probably would feel similarly about From Software games too

btw I hadnt noticed before but splendid falls from the war rig and dies because she slips on the blood from the wound she received from max's bullet

― nomar

as I said elsewhere, there's no universe in which Anya Taylor-Joy grows up to be Charlize Theron

at least we know for sure that Mel Gibson grew up to look like Tom Hardy

Hardy sucks too, FTR. He's one of the worst actors currently working, and Theron saved Fury Road from him.

rong

is hemsworth’s nose practical or CGI?

hardy was perfect for it. up himself, selfish, oddly timid yet fearless when it really mattered

He’s also super hot.

One of the best aspects of "Fury Road" was the bait and switch of dangling out Hardy/Max as its main character, but revealing that it's really mostly Furiosa's story, and she's a much stronger lead (in every sense). Maybe this new one, ostensibly about Furiosa, will turn out to be Max, subverting expectations once again.

Something that gives me hope, aside from Miller's track record, is iirc he did a ton of secondary story development for the last one, and iirc the Furiosa backstory was part of that development. Or maybe I am making that up. Regardless, this seems kind of like video game DLC, for better or for worse, but probably for the better.

By 2010, Miller intended to shoot Fury Road and Furiosa b2b, but dropped Furiosa when the rains cancelled that shoot and production moved to Namibia.

In 2015, he wanted shoot Furiosa and another spin-off or Hardy Max b2b, but Warner Brothers decided it made more sense to delay the 70-year-old man's production process by refusing to pay him for Fury Road, and by the time the legals were settled, he dropped the second one.

(circa 2002, Miller was planning to direct Fury Road at the same time as Happy Feet, shooting live-action during the day and reviewing animation at night.)

I bet the same people perplexed by Fury Road probably would feel similarly about From Software games too

― octobeard, Friday, December 1, 2023 8:31 PM (yesterday)

I recall somebody of a games forum saying Fury Road and Shadow Of The Colossus were pretentious for having a story

For NOT having a story

Just finished the oral history, it's very good. Not much scandal beyond the revelations that a lot of the crew didn't quite get Miller's vision but went with it anyway, a meddling exec forced the end of production before they filmed anything at the citadel and we only got those scenes because someone new took over and gave them the go-ahead to finish, and while Tom and Charlize weren't best pals (she seems like a true pro, he seems...methody), it also doesn't sound like it was a complete disaster. If anything, the book made me more in awe of Miller's achievement, how he just had the whole thing storyboarded out and the full vision in his head the whole time.

This is still maybe the only movie that not only do I rewatch with great regularity, but one where as soon as it's over I just want to start it again. Maybe it really does help that it's such a visually told story, and I spot new things every single time. Furiosa's journey at the beginning, everything being communicated w/her decision-making through Theron's eyes and subtle glances into the rearview mirror, waiting for the right moment. That kind of thing.

I also read the oral history! I loved it, but I wished it was juicier, and I wouldn’t have minded drilling wayyyy down into the details of the set design, camera rigging etc. And Tom Hardy’s quotes all sounded like they’d been written by his agent. When you hear what a genius Miller is etc it’s kind of hard to understand how he could make something like 3000 Years of Longing.

i liked 3000 years of longing!

Somebody had to!

I’m with dmac.

I liked it too. Not a perfect film but inventive and a good yarn.

thumbs up for me too

I have noticed that when I say I liked TTYOL certain friends clear their throats and change the subject.

we watched it the other night & enjoyed it

I also liked 3000 YOLo, a completely-in-character project for the producer / writer / director of Lorenzo’s Oil, The Witches Of Eastwick, Babe, Happy Feet, Flirting, Bangkok Hilton and 40,000 Years Of Dreaming.

Yeah, 3000 years of longing is great - not the total achievement that Fury Road is, but what is?

On top of everything else, it's one of the few films that acknowledged -- wordlessly but effectively! -- that 1) the pandemic happened and 2) people are still reacting to it as they do. Too rare in film/TV in general!

definitely of a piece with the fable-like qualities of Mad Max

also a genuinely great portrayal of raw horniness from Swinton

Having worked in Swinton it took me a while to work that one out. Prestwich is possibly hornier, idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1NszGIuNo

New thread!

FURIOSA

rewatching and this was way funnier than i remembered. the part where max is wordlessly pulling each gun from every nook of furiosa's semi was hilarious.

yes that part was too good

I just rewatched Fury Road a few nights ago, hesitantly. my wife really wanted to watch it after seeing Furiosa, even though our "home setup" is a laptop screen lol. still an amazing movie though I would have loved to see it in a theater again. I had the exact thought as you Western - funnier than I remembered. I'd also forgotten that the opening scene with Max haunted by the voices is pretty goofy, similar to the fable style to Furiosa