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adgy-san said:
Review: Dazzling 'Mad Max: Fury Road' is a can't miss thrill
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Reviews are coming in. Damn, 98% already at Rotten Tomatoes with almost 60 reviews in! Be awesome if that holds. But I'm seeing it either way- it just looks awesome.

Saw Avengers while I was overseas in east Asia. Really liked it. Felt like a movie more for fans of the comics but Spader and Downey Jr were just so f'in great I think everyone would like. I guess big dilemma this weekend is.... take the wife to Fury Road? ...or get her into the AoU?... neither of which she's seen. Decisions, decisions... /dots
 
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Might Be The Best Action Movie Of The Last 10 Years
http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2015/05...e-the-best-action-movie-of-the-last-10-years/

I squealed with joy at this, as I did many moments of Fury Road, and in fact, hardly any note I jotted down during the film wasn’t followed by three exclamation points. A BLIND MUTANT PLAYING A DOUBLE NECKED FLAME SHOOTING GUITAR HOLY *****! Miller has managed to make Mad Max smarter and more sophisticated without losing the series’ panache or ***** you charm, and with modern action camera work and choreography that manages to be frenetic without obfuscating. I hope a hundred shakey cam hacks see this and immediately jiggle themselves to death.

For a long time, I could never understand the meaning of the word “decadent.” I’d always hear it used to describe a rich cake or a hard-partying rock band, but then when it’d show up in English class vocab lessons, it supposedly meant “characterizing a state of deterioration, or decay.” How could the same word describe both incredible excess yet also penurious decline? With Fury Road, it suddenly makes sense. There’s nothing like a state of lack to make you revel in what you do have, even worship it. Fury Road manages to combine bleakness with excess, and in a way that feels entirely logical. Resources have all dried up and scavenging is the only way to survive – why wouldn’t you roam the desert in murder convoys of flame-spewing muscle car frankensteins driven by cancer-riddled suicide warriors?

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it just makes sense that a suicidal death cult would develop, and Fury Road‘s is so creatively realized that you’d accept it for its novelty value even if you couldn’t explain it. I’m going on and on about the logic of it all, but the “War Dogs” huff silver spray paint to pump themselves up (sort of like the Viking “berserker” myths, or Somalis chewing khat) and name their protruding tumors like pets (Nux has even drawn smiley faces on his). It’s visual brilliance, pure and simple. Fury Road‘s creative excesses are glorious, but entirely earned, such that the adult intellectual in me wants to jump right into the mosh pit with my punk rock teenage self screaming HOW *****ING COOL IS THAT???
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When i got our tix this morning I saw that this was playing in D-Box. If anyone has the lower back/kidneys to withstand 2 hours of getting their innards re- arranged...you HAVE to tell us about it. And LetTigerIn will be pleased to know it's playing at the laser Imax at the Chinese theater.
 
Was this the Mad Max thread? If so I saw it today.

This was one of the single greatest films I have ever seen. I am still trying to rationalize what I saw. This is truly a Miller film - everything about it is classic George Miller. Visually stunning. Unhalting action. The first action sequence was one of the best I have ever seen.

Hope you all like it as well as I did and Charlize should at least get an Oscar nod.
 
jerseydevil said:
I am unsure how I felt about Fury Road. Is there such a thing as too much?
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I don't totally disagree with you but as with some other of his movies Miller is not ashamed of what this movie is. This movie was an action movie. A chase movie. Like Road Warrior. Where else could he have gone? I freaking loved this movie and was completely overwhelmed. It is truly the next story in the tale of Max.
 
I may be overwhelmed. I want to and NEED to see again. Just to be able to take a breath and SEE it. One thing though...this isn't Gibson's Max. This really isn't even his movie. That belongs to Furiosa/Theron. Hardy plays Max as a cipher. Almost a passive character in all the goings on. I think that is what had me struggling to connect. Say what you want about Gibson, but he OWNED that part, and it really was gonna take something MORE for Hardy to fill them shoes. Nicholas Hoult was pretty strong though.
 
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