Mad Max: Fury Road

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Saw it last night. Easily one of my favourite movies in the last 20 years.

Yah, but you're a feminist.

[troutman]

Little touches that I liked:

Max finding the guy a boot

The wet nurses - so bizarre

The grafitti written around the royal bedroom

The knife hidden in the war rig

The "bait"

Furiosa smearing the black grease on her forehead

The crow people on stilts

How the old women paid their respects

19 Bat#### Moments In “Mad Max: Fury Road” We Can’t Stop Talking About

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton...ay#.jyZPXk6y7L

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by troutman

Little touches that I liked:
How the old women paid their respects

Refresh my memory please.

[FlameOn]

I thought the action and cinematography were great. It was like one giant rush of explosions and flipping cars melting my face.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

Refresh my memory please.

Extending their hands from their hearts to the sky.

[iLoveLamp]

Just got back from seeing it, it was insane. One huge climax all the way through. I thought the costumes and makeup were really awesome! Soundtrack was good. The effects and stunts were good obviously. Favourite movie of the year by far (I haven't seen that many, to be fair)

[J Diddy]

I saw it last night with the wife. She only watches documentaries so I was surprised to hear her say that she loved it. I thought it was really well done and a lot of fun. They can pretty much retire the action genre now. It will be a while before anyone can top this one.

[PsYcNeT]

Very cool interview with the production designer talking about Coma The Doof:

http://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-...-colin-gibson/

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Very cool interview with the production designer talking about Coma The Doof:

http://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-...-colin-gibson/

This is insane

MTV: So wait, the whole thing actually worked?

Gibson: You bet your sweet… George — unfortunately — doesn’t like things that don’t work. I have in the past built him props that I thought were just supposed to be props, and then he goes, “Okay, plug it in now.”
The first version of the guitar which — I think I put too much into the flame thrower, not enough into the reverb. And yes, the flame throwing guitar did have to operate, did have to play, the PA system did have to work and the drummers… Unfortunately, I did get practice in all positions and I’ve got to tell you, the drumming was very uncomfortable at 70 [kilometers] an hour, eating sand.

To build an actual guitar-slash-flamethrower and have it work, then actually play it while riding a giant stack of speakers rolling at 70 kph. That has to be one of the craziest real life stunts ever done for a movie

[Burninator]

I love the attention to detail with all the crazy vehicles.

Spoiler!

More photos here.
http://vehicleshowcase.madmaxmovie.com/

[Hemi-Cuda]

Doof Wagon may be one of my favorite names for anything ever

[getbak]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

I saw it last night with the wife. She only watches documentaries so I was surprised to hear her say that she loved it.

Did you get her to watch it by telling her that it's a documentary about everyday life in Australia?

It is.

[dammage79]

What. A. Fracking. Movie!!!

How I feel:

[AcGold]

Decent movie, good action but could have used a better story. It was centred around Furiosa not Max at all and for that it suffered.

Spoiler!

the protagonist slowly walks away with no resolution to his personal story, come on.

[troutman]

I don't understand the 160 days to cross the salt? Australia is 4,000 km across at the widest distance. Traveling at 70 km/h, the trip is 57 hours?

Perth to Durban is about 8,000 km. Sydney to Santiago is 11,000 km.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by troutman

I don't understand the 160 days to cross the salt? Australia is 4,000 km across at the widest distance. Traveling at 70 km/h, the trip is 57 hours?

I think it was that they had enough resources to travel for 160 days.

I don't think anyone knew how far the salt flats would go.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by AcGold

Decent movie, good action but could have used a better story. It was centred around Furiosa not Max at all and for that it suffered.

Spoiler!

the protagonist slowly walks away with no resolution to his personal story, come on.

Is the spoiler supposed to be in green text?

[AcGold]

Did you not watch the movie? The whole thing is about Furiosa and ends with Max fading away into nothingness. Why must you be obtuse?

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by AcGold

Did you not watch the movie? The whole thing is about Furiosa and ends with Max fading away into nothingness. Why must you be obtuse?

I get why Miller did this though, because Max is literally the most boring person in any of the movies.

Max is an empty vessel that that the film flows through. He is an incidental person who good at killing/not dying and nothing else. The Mad Max films (all 4) aren't carried by Max at all. He's a bland man in an exciting world. Max is there for the audience to project themselves into because he's a blank slate.

The movies are less "Mad Max doing stuff" and more "Mad Max not dying and watching other people do stuff". This is nothing new, and I'm not sure why people are surprised by this.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by troutman

I don't understand the 160 days to cross the salt? Australia is 4,000 km across at the widest distance. Traveling at 70 km/h, the trip is 57 hours?

I thought the salt plains were meant to be what's left of the ocean? Fits with Australia topography, where the 'green place' is in the very east, and beyond that, salty nothingness.