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My first thought after the hype of the movie died down for me was that Fury Road was potentially going to kill the franchise.
The only smart step was to dial it back a notch imo. because the only other step would be to crank it up to 11 because sequels need to be bigger with more action. my fear was that Mad Max would probably wind up becoming Fast and The Furious: Desert edition.
Though i can still see the suits stepping in now because of it's commercial and critical success and start breathing down Millers neck so much that he just walks away and they turn it into a generic Hollywood blockbuster anyway.
Though i can still see the suits stepping in now because of it's commercial and critical success and start breathing down Millers neck so much that he just walks away and they turn it into a generic Hollywood blockbuster anyway.
Update: December 23, 2015 Quentin Tarantino Names MAD MAX: FURY ROAD His Favorite Film of 2015
Quentin Tarantino hasn’t seen that many films this year, which is understandable. He spent much of his time finishing up work on The Hateful Eight and preparing both a 70mm road show and a cut for the film’s wider release, in addition to making the press rounds to promote his film. But, out of the films he has seen, he deems George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road the best of the year.
French outlet Premiere caught up with Tarantino on the red carpet for an international release of The Hateful Eight and asked for the filmmaker’s top film of 2015. “It would have to be the Mad Max movie, Fury Road.” He continued:
"I got a print of Mad Max on 35mm and I watched it in my house, and I had it all weekend and I ended up watching it three different times, and I resisted seeing it for a while because I was like, ‘Mad Max without Mel Gibson? Forget that!’ In a world where Mel Gibson exists, how can you cast Tom Hardy? So, I even wanted to get all defiant about it and #NotMyMax. Then I saw the movie and, ‘Okay, it’s terrific,’ and he’s pretty good in it, I have to admit."
The National Board of Review gave Fury Road the same honor, while the film has been included on the shortlists for Best Score and Best VFX for the 2016 Oscars. In addition, Fury Road was named one of AFI’s 10 best films of the year, received 13 nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards, and two Golden Globe nominations.
Update: December 23, 2015 Quentin Tarantino Names MAD MAX: FURY ROAD His Favorite Film of 2015
Quentin Tarantino hasn’t seen that many films this year, which is understandable. He spent much of his time finishing up work on The Hateful Eight and preparing both a 70mm road show and a cut for the film’s wider release, in addition to making the press rounds to promote his film. But, out of the films he has seen, he deems George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road the best of the year.
French outlet Premiere caught up with Tarantino on the red carpet for an international release of The Hateful Eight and asked for the filmmaker’s top film of 2015. “It would have to be the Mad Max movie, Fury Road.” He continued:
"I got a print of Mad Max on 35mm and I watched it in my house, and I had it all weekend and I ended up watching it three different times, and I resisted seeing it for a while because I was like, ‘Mad Max without Mel Gibson? Forget that!’ In a world where Mel Gibson exists, how can you cast Tom Hardy? So, I even wanted to get all defiant about it and #NotMyMax. Then I saw the movie and, ‘Okay, it’s terrific,’ and he’s pretty good in it, I have to admit."
The National Board of Review gave Fury Road the same honor, while the film has been included on the shortlists for Best Score and Best VFX for the 2016 Oscars. In addition, Fury Road was named one of AFI’s 10 best films of the year, received 13 nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards, and two Golden Globe nominations.
I agree with him, my top 3 in no order are Mad Max, Star Wars and Sicario. Gonna see Hateful Eight in 70mm tomorrow maybe that will be up there as well.
Fury Road didn't win yet, it just nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture. The 73rd Golden Globes hasn't happened yet. It'll air on January 10, 2016.
If you're talking about the Oscars, they haven't announced the nominations yet. The nominations will be announced on January 14, 2016. I think Fury Road has a great chance of being nominated for Best Picture.
Fury Road didn't win yet, it just nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture. The 73rd Golden Globes hasn't happened yet. It'll air on January 10, 2016.
I was one of the few people that didn't like this movie as much as the rest of the crowd, and i usually like QT flicks (mostly due to dialogue and plot which Fury Road lacked) so that's where my surprise comes from.
IMAX means screens are bigger; native IMAX is taller rather than wider, but films translated into IMAX are not and as a result you may notice quite a bit of unused screen on top and bottom of frame, like letterbox format on old CRT televisions. This would be even more pronounced, watching H8TEFUL on IMAX. That's an exceptionally wide movie on a screen meant to be tall.
Thanks. So doesn't sound like a lot of theatres are equipped to show it in 70mm. Guess that's why Tarantino was pissed he was bumped from that theatre in L.A for Star Wars?
Ehh, it was pretty good. Not the "defining action movie of our time" I had heard about, though. It's creative, and has a bunch of nice scenes, but nothing I'm willing to hang my hat on as "the best the genre has to offer". I guess I just don't get the hype.
At the end of the day, it's just a good Mad Max flick, which is fine, but understand that I was lead to believe that it was more than that. I don't get what separates this flick from the rest of the pack. The vehicle designs really stood out, as did the costumes and weapons. The story was fine and served it's purpose...hmph...perhaps I'm underwhelmed due to lofty expectations
When the action slowed down, was I the only one who thought it looked cheap as fuck? There are some scenes that look like straight to video, blue screened garbage.
I don't know. Don't want to judge it too harshly quite yet. I guess it accomplished what it set out to do, but I was expecting a lot more considering all the hype.
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