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re: Steven Soderbergh / ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Don’t Understand How 100's Of People Aren't Dead
Posted on 11/10/17 at 1:53 pm to SEClint
Posted on 11/10/17 at 1:53 pm to SEClint
George Miller made the best pure action movue I think ever made, The Road Warrior, in 1981 on a fraction of the budget of Fury Road.. He made the original Mad Max essentially as an Aussie Indy, B movie with a 23 yr old guy nobody had ever heard of as the star and basically invented a genre that influenced sci-fi and action movies for nearly 40 yrs.
The guy also wrote and directed fricking Babe. Miller is as big a directing talent as their is on the planet.
Fury Road took like 20 yrs to make and the movie was supposed to be a disaster with all the production delays and re-shoots, but it was not. I don't think it's as good as The Road Warrior and Hardy is not Mel, but it's also the most unique action film to come out in a long, long time...
The guy also wrote and directed fricking Babe. Miller is as big a directing talent as their is on the planet.
Fury Road took like 20 yrs to make and the movie was supposed to be a disaster with all the production delays and re-shoots, but it was not. I don't think it's as good as The Road Warrior and Hardy is not Mel, but it's also the most unique action film to come out in a long, long time...
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Posted on 11/10/17 at 1:57 pm to SCLSUMuddogs
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It's incredibly badass
^^^^^
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:02 pm to Jack Ruby
Hardy was great. I think Joel Edgerton would have been good too.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:03 pm to landhawg
It was entertaining sure....but "masterpiece" come on 
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:13 pm to gamatt53
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It was entertaining sure....but "masterpiece" come on
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:37 pm to gamatt53
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but "masterpiece" come on
There are action movies and then there are Action Movies.
A lot of the junk we were getting years ago had shaky cam with about a cut every half second. You could never understand the geometry of space. Where are the characters in relation to each other. And when the fighting started you could never tell who was the bad guy and who was the good guy because it was just a bunch of close ups of a punch or kick.
Well, Fury Road is to those action movies as The Beatles White Album is to Iggy Azelia’s New album.
There is SOOOOO much going on in frame that if you stare too hard at something then you’ll miss something else in the background. And the best thing about it is that it’s shot in relatively “long shots” so you can see the characters actually doing things instead of seeing them attempt to do something/quick cut away/cut back and they have done that action. In other words it’s like if Taken 2 actually made Liam Neeson jump over that fence.
Plus, it’s just such a beautiful film. There are a couple of CGI effects in there that look meh, but 99% of that movie is a “holy shite, did you see that” fest.
This movie is definitely and action masterpiece.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 3:02 pm to LesMiles BFF
I watched it hungover one morning and wasn't sure if I loved it or hated it.
But I could NOT turn away from it and was glad I watched it when I was done.
But I could NOT turn away from it and was glad I watched it when I was done.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 4:21 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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He would've strapped Firestorm and his flaming guitar to the front of a giant Batmobile.
Go on....
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:15 pm to LesMiles BFF
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There are action movies and then there are Action Movies.
This. Fury Road and Raid 1/2 are masterpieces
Posted on 11/10/17 at 6:11 pm to Carson123987
This film is definetly gaining itself as a cultural following also. If I remember, it did OK at the box office, but not super numbers that normally facilitates this kind of positive reaction and near unanimous praise from both critics and audiences alike.
Didn't something like Birdman or Spotlight also beat FURY road for best picture at the Oscars a couple yrs ago? Nobody even remembers those films just 2 yrs later, forget about 20.
Whatever Miller tapped into with Mad Max, just lasts... They're timeless films. Hell even Beyond Thunderdome, probably the weakest of all the Mad Max films, fricking invented words and phrases that we still use today...
"2 men enter, 1 man leaves" and the term "Thunderdome" itself.
frick it...I'm feeling Mad Max nestalgia all over now... How about this one for old times sake..
out of the ruins....
Edit: P.S. Mel has repaired his reputation enough, he should come back and do an old man Mad Max film set like 30 yrs further than Fury Road... It would absolutely work, especially with Gibson's now weathered face. It would be on of the few instances age actually helps an actor
Didn't something like Birdman or Spotlight also beat FURY road for best picture at the Oscars a couple yrs ago? Nobody even remembers those films just 2 yrs later, forget about 20.
Whatever Miller tapped into with Mad Max, just lasts... They're timeless films. Hell even Beyond Thunderdome, probably the weakest of all the Mad Max films, fricking invented words and phrases that we still use today...
"2 men enter, 1 man leaves" and the term "Thunderdome" itself.
frick it...I'm feeling Mad Max nestalgia all over now... How about this one for old times sake..
out of the ruins....
Edit: P.S. Mel has repaired his reputation enough, he should come back and do an old man Mad Max film set like 30 yrs further than Fury Road... It would absolutely work, especially with Gibson's now weathered face. It would be on of the few instances age actually helps an actor
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 6:20 pm to Jack Ruby
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Didn't something like Birdman or Spotlight also beat FURY road for best picture at the Oscars a couple yrs ago? Nobody even remembers those films just 2 yrs later
I enjoyed Birdman, but I know a lot of others didn't. Regardless, that wasn't the same year as Fury Road.
Spotlight beat it out and did so deservedly. Even if it hadn't, I still would have put Bridge of Spies and The Revenant over it. I enjoyed Fury Road, it was badass in the theater. But I'll probably never watch it again because I know I'll never be able to replicate that experience.
Saying no one remembers Spotlight now is a beyond moronic statement.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 7:03 pm to McCaigBro69
Completely agree. Spotlight is fantastic
And is on Netflix right now
And is on Netflix right now
Posted on 11/10/17 at 7:43 pm to McCaigBro69
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Saying no one remembers Spotlight now is a beyond moronic statement.
Is that the church pedophile movie? I don't know a single person who saw that.
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The Revenant
The desperate act of Leo? Remember when they put out a press release clarifying that there was not graphic bear rape in that movie?
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 7:44 pm
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