Mad Max: Fury Road. 97% on RT and 9.0 on IMDB

Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller returns to the franchise that put him and Mel Gibson in the Hollywood map and delivers a chapter of the saga in gargantuan epic proportions. All the $150 million budget is there on the screen with the fantastic stunts, colossal explosions, neat special effects, great costumes, make-up and sets as well an army of revamped cars, trucks and motorcycles to be crashed and demolished for our entertainment. The little plot the film has sandwiched between action sequences involves our hero Max, who suffers from psychotic episodes of audio visual hallucinations, but somehow can still perform heroic deeds, who unwillingly gets involved with his female equal, Furiosa (Charlize Theron in her most memorable role in many years), a one-armed mercenary who betrays the big boss and rans away with all the boss breeders (wives) in search of the mythical 'Green place'. We get to know more Furiosa than about Max or any other character in the film. While Miller's film is a big spectacular demolition derby that at times feels like overkill, certain aspects didn't made much sense and felt rushed, like the 'bad guy' that keeps surviving over and over and our heroes just don't shoot him in the head every time they had a chance like they do with the others (of course Miller was saving him for the turn around events mid way through the movie). Yes, Hardy has equal screen time as Theron, but he spends a good chunk of the first part of the film being in a cage or chained to a vehicle. Theron saves his ass a few times too. And yes, there is a lot of 'girl power' in this film, but that makes it better, doesn't hurt it a bit. Very good film, but I cannot say is the best film of the year. It stands next to The Road Warrior as the second best Mad Max film in the series. And that is a great compliment. 8/10

 

Trivia:
Do you know that model/actress Riley Keough, who plays one of the Five Wives in the movie (the red hair one) is actually the granddaughter of Elvis Presley?

 

this review accurate? http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=mad_max_hell_yeah

 

PHP:

It's actually two guys.

 

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:: Yeah is mostly accurate, but he enjoyed it way more than me for all the profanity he spits in the review, which is the closest to a cinematc 'FUCK ME HARDER!!!!' review I have ever read! :l2:

 

My main complain about Hardy's new Max is that he doesn't connect the way Gibson's Max did with subtle minimal flashes of humanity that made you think and empathize with his battle-worn, numbed shell of a man that in a brief second showed traces of humanity, like in the scene below.

 

I like Hardy, but Mel definitely had more charisma. People forget how fun of an actor he was for a good 15 years or so.

Hardy's a bit more stonefaced. Still effective, but different.

 

I hate what the media & Hollywood did to Mel Gibson, that ostracized him to the point he has barely work after his lamentable comments made under the influence of alcohol. Like if any drunk person has ever said or done anything stupid and regrettable before...but they did forgave Roman Polanski for something worst though. :boohoo:

 

If you work in Holywood, don't fuck with the Jews.

 

He didn't received any backlash for The Passion of The Christ from Hollywood or the media, except from some critics that labeled the film as sadistic. That film made him more rich than all his previous film roles combined since he personally financed the whole budget of $25 million, but the film ended grossing $611 million worldwide. That motivated him to do the same with Apocalypto which cost him $40 million. That film was not as successful, but still was profitable at $120 million worldwide. Gibson doesn't need to work again with all the money he made from those two films, but the offers stopped after the 'Melgate'.

 

I know you're going to pretend you already knew this, but in regards to your reply he apparently used practically no CGI making this film.

 

There was plenty of CGI on display here. I'm sure they did a lot of the actual stunts, but they were certainly dressed up with lots of special effects. Either that or there's 100 dead stuntmen laying in a shallow grave somewhere.

 

I read that Miller used practical effects for the most part, not CGI (used only to erase wires & cables), and yes, those acrobatic flying warboys were actual stuntmen, not CGI.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/...behind-its-most-insane-stunts-20150518?page=2

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Mad Max: Fury Road has made $118 million on the domestic market and $165 million on the foreign market. Worldwide total is now $283 million. Movie could make $400 million and possibly even more.

 

Still an average movie.

 

The movie isn't as good as the critics say. But still, it is a good movie.

 

Agreed. 5.5/10 for me, and my girlfriend was less than thrilled with it as well. Another all style and no substance film. IMO the lack of a stronger story detracts from the film and I have no interest in seeing it again.

 

What crazy animal girl?? :scratcher:

 

:l1: tell me that you are joking! don't you know that the 'Feral Kid' in 'The Road Warrior' is a freaking BOY??? Didn't you paid attention to the MALE NARRATOR at the end when, in a close-up to the face of the Feral Kid he says after talking about the future 'in time I myself became the leader...." ? Actor Emil Minty was 8 years old when HE played the Feral Kid. I guess Feral Kid turned transvestite, had a sex operation and became Furiosa??? ::

grown-up Emil Minty posing with his Feral Kid boomerang

 

Why don't you just admit "I was wrong" instead of replying with an 'adult' rebuke? :nono: Junior High? Yup. I talk, think and behave like it is still 1975!
Have a nice day!

 

:l1:

 

Besides being a vague admission, the rest of your 'adult' indignation felt like a counter attack for being caught being 100% wrong.

But don't pay more attention to my juvenile responses and have a peace & love moment, brother.