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Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
Topic Started: May 15 2015, 09:37 AM (167 Views)
Russ
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Needs it's own thread. The RT critics are now 182 fresh, 2 rotten. I don't ever recall any RT review filled with so many superlatives or this much hyperbolic praise.

Let's kick things off with kc's comments from another thread..

kid charlemagne,May 15 2015
05:25 PM
FURY ROAD is a real rollercoaster of a movie. So much so that the film literally doesn't stop to take a breather until a full hour has passed, although this makes the film undeniably thrilling I wonder whether this is at the expense of character development and a proper emotional connection. The film has a surprising approach to which characters live or die but the film's pace means that even the death of liked characters doesn't hit particularly hard (except one, for reasons I won't spoil). As an additional consequence of this, I also wonder how much replay value this film has as it is essentially one very, very long action chase sequence.

Having said that, I hope that these potential criticisms are revealing (I'm still not saying these are definite flaws as I can think of reasons why the film is like this). FURY ROAD is a big budget reboot of a twenty year old franchise by the director of HAPPY FEET 2. I would never dream of criticising these kinds of elements with most of FR's contemporaries because they don't even get the essentials right. FURY ROAD does. Really right, stunningly so in fact.

There's CGI but it's only there to complement the ferocious stunt work. The colour scheme is that horrible cliche of orange and blue, but it makes sense: the desert sears and the sky mocks the characters with the colour of pure water. There's shaky cam and fast cuts but never at the expense of comprehension. Most of the heroes are women but unlike others the film accepts the physical reality (they have real trouble defeating the men - they have to shoot, hit with large objects, or wrong-foot them off a moving vehicle) without being condescending. And damn, is this film thrilling. Thrilling not just in action terms, but also in terms of ideas and images: the tribe appear to have been styled by people who looked at Lynch's treatment of the Harkonnens and decided it wasn't grotesque enough, the War Boys attached to long poles so they can dive into adjacent vehicles, the grenade spears, the harem room, and (I won't spoil this either) the reason why Max is tied to the front of Nux's car... the list just goes on and on.

Caveats aside, in every other aspect believe the hype. :fresh:


Seeing this tomorrow afternoon with Sergio and dissent. I am positively stoked.
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Continental Op
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My feminist girlfriend is dragging me to it tomorrow…415 RPX showing, non-3D.
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
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Shay Casey
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It's excellent on many levels. A masterwork of action filmmaking -- fast and intense without becoming chaotic. The action is character and story-driven. You know who is doing what and why they are doing it, and you care. Boy, do you ever.

Seriously, a 70-year-old man made this movie?!

I haven't had as giddy a cackle all year as I did when the electric guitar started spurting flame.
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Maxime G.
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Jesus, what's up with this film? My next-door neighbour, who has no idea I'm a film buff and with whom I rarely (if ever) chat, stopped me in our common stairs this afternoon to tell me that I absolutely had to see it as soon as possible.


Looking forward to following his (and everyone else's) recommendation tomorrow!
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