Movies MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (Dragonlord's Review)

[WandySaku2]

It's fun. IMO that's what a movies foremost purpose is. I liked this movie for the same reason I liked Avatar, neither is trying to reinvent the wheel with some deep, transcendental plot or story. They are straight forward, supply you with thrills and pretty visuals. In my eyes, the WORST thing a movie can do is be boring, and they succeed by being the complete opposite of that.

My $0.02

 

[Jesus X]

Any one who was a fan of the previous trilogy sees fury road as a masterpiece of an action film with real stunts. Only film I have been to in years that got a standing ovation. I have been rewatching it on HBO looks even better than it did in theaters.

 

[Loiosh]

I actually liked this movie as a pure action movie but towards the end of it, I said to the wife- You know, there's not much about this that really makes it a "Mad Max" movie. They just used that name to sell tickets.

Then literally like 5 seconds later the guy says "My name is Max." Almost like the director realized people would be saying what I was saying at that point in the film.

Are you a fan of Mad Max movies? This one followed the formula right down the line.

I've been a huge fan since the eighties and felt this was a perfect Max movie.

 

[Seano]

Are you a fan of Mad Max movies? This one followed the formula right down the line.

I've been a huge fan since the eighties and felt this was a perfect Max movie.

Right but Mad max was a specific character. Mad Max wasn't really in it.

It'd be like making a batman movie with no batman in it and then some totally unrelated character calls himself batman in the last 5 minutes.

 

[Scerpi]

I agree. Loved the movie, but it could have used more Mad Max. Tom Hardy was very good for his "small" part

 

[Loiosh]

Right but Mad max was a specific character. Mad Max wasn't really in it.

It'd be like making a batman movie with no batman in it and then some totally unrelated character calls himself batman in the last 5 minutes.

Max has behaved very differently in every one of his movies depending on his circumstances. At the start of this one, his brain has been cracked. I am super nit-picky about characters I care about, I love Max, and I thought this one was incredible. I loved how they incorporated many Max mannerisms, including but not limited to the staccato movement and gestures.

It was a bit jarring how long he remained silent, but a huge part of the film was his state of mind, which was fractured.

I really loved this movie.

 

[Darwinambrosius]

BUT IT HAS A STRONG FEMALE LEAD

 

[Loiosh]

BUT IT HAS A STRONG FEMALE LEAD

And she was fucking awesome, even better than Virgina Hey.

 

[TSO]

Mad Max - Fury Road - OVERRATED?

Last night I was watching a few movies on my DVR to free up space and one was Mad Max that just recently showed up on one of the movie channels. I had high hopes for this because of the ratings and the actor and man IMHO it sucked!

I never understood why people liked it. It was just about the most enjoyable movie I've seen in a few years.

 

[Seano]

Max has behaved very differently in every one of his movies depending on his circumstances. At the start of this one, his brain has been cracked. I am super nit-picky about characters I care about, I love Max, and I thought this one was incredible. I loved how they incorporated many Max mannerisms, including but not limited to the staccato movement and gestures.

It was a bit jarring how long he remained silent, but a huge part of the film was his state of mind, which was fractured.

I really loved this movie.

I thought it was OK. But it wasn't really a mad max movie. It was set in that universe, sort of like Spider man and the X men are set in the same universe.

 

[Loiosh]

I thought it was OK. But it wasn't really a mad max movie. It was set in that universe, sort of like Spider man and the X men are set in the same universe.

Why wasn't it a Mad Max movie?

I'm a Max super fan and it absolutely felt like a Mad Max movie.

 

[Loiosh]

I never understood why people liked it. It was just about the most enjoyable movie I've seen in a few years.

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[Katsumi Yamada]

I watched it on my laptop the first time. it was still epic.

Probably best you didn't see it in imax 3d then or you would have grey matter oozing from your ears haha

 

[Anung Un Rama]

My favorite part of MMFR is the old lady dyin in the War Machine. Not because I like to see old ladies die, but the old bag playing that role really nailed it and Miller captured it perfectly: grace. Such an gem of a scene in such am amazing movie. Miller was really in the zone.

 

[Adamant]

70mm means the screen is exceptionally wide.

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.

I makes me wonder what a 70mm IMAX film would look like, where it's both legitimate 70mm and IMAX simultaneously. Is that even possible?


Also, what's the deal with this new 8K stuff we're hearing about? GOTG 2 is gonna film in 8K. All I know if that 4K > HD and 8K > 4K. I've heard that 8K is so real looking that it's as if you're looking out a window, the image is so stunningly clear. Is 8K better than IMAX?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I wanna see an IMAX Broadway play.

 

[Loiosh]

I wanna see an IMAX Broadway play.

 

[Loiosh]

IMAX is already 70mm wide, but I'm guessing you mean to inflate a 70mm wide picture to the width of IMAX, and then stretch the length accordingly so it's both ultra tall and ultra wide onscreen. There's just a lot that could go wrong with filming all of that.

I'm reading up on IMAX and there's a 180 DOME that might be more feasible.


I believe IMAX is in the neighborhood of 8K. 4K/8K is digital resolution, film is different. If you've seen an IMAX movie that was filmed in IMAX, yeah it's pretty stunning. I can only imagine digital is gonna get better too, and it'll be tack-sharp focus from the smallest iWatch to the hugest mother joke you can imagine.

Is there a reason you know so much about 70mm or did you just read up on it because you were interested?

 

[HereticBD]

Did the sped up sequences annoy anyone else? Looked really cheap. I don't have many complaints about the action, but those parts made me just think "why?".

 

[Anung Un Rama]

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