Mad Max: Fury Road (1 Viewer)

[KarmaPolice]

Bottom line is when I saw mad max in the theater I was blown away the whole movie unlike any movie in a long time. Isn't that what movies are supposed to do? Entertain?

Yup. At this point it just seems to be people saying it's not worthy of an academy nom. I can be a movie, tv snob for sure but I think this movie covered enough basis to be deserve critical acclaim and a box office hit.

With this expanded field thing they have done should be on the list for sure.

Fury Road only did a little better than break even at the box office.

Had to look that up, that was a surprise. 150 Mil to make.

Number 20 last year just behind San Andreas and weirdly enough one spot of ahead of The Rocky Horror Picture Show WTF.

Oof.

 

[dparker713]

Just finished watching it and I thought it was pretty bad. I'm sure it's more impressive in the theaters, but the chase sequences just got boring. Reminded me of Bad Boys 2, the final Matrix film and the zod v superman brawl. There was nothing fun and there was no reason to give a crap about anything.

I paused 30 minutes in to get another beer and couldn't believe there was still another hour left.

 

[Zow]

Just finished watching it and I thought it was pretty bad. I'm sure it's more impressive in the theaters, but the chase sequences just got boring. Reminded me of Bad Boys 2, the final Matrix film

and the zod v superman brawl. There was nothing fun and there was no reason to give a crap about anything.

I paused 30 minutes in to get another beer and couldn't believe there was still another hour left.

Your subjective opinion is wrong.

 

[msommer]

It belongs in the best picture nom for some of its technical achievements like special efx, sound, music, direction just like gravity did. There are other things that make a great picture besides dialog. Does it deserve to win? Probably not but out definitely deserved a nom

No.

IMO Best Picture should be an accumulation of all the other awards and categories. Like I said before a best picture nom should have good directing, acting, sound, story, etc.. If a picture only does a couple of those, it should be nominated in those individual categories. I said it before, but a movie like Ex Machina checked off far more of those categories than Mad Max.

except the fact the movie was boring as hell

I thought Ex Machina was a superb movie. Beautiful filming, good plot (a little too predictable), great acting.

I liked it a lot. And at the same time I liked Fury Road better.

No right or wrong when it comes to taste.

Except Titanic. That was an abomination.

 

[msommer]

I dunno because this movie was much better than the movies you listed. If you dont think it is than I understand why you don't think it should be nominated. Alot of people disagree

Why is it that much better than the ones I listed?

better action, awesome directing, great use of music, cinematography, and kept me entertained the entire movie. Edge of my seat for ninety minutes.

Fair enough - no surprise that it just comes down to what you like to look at on screen. To me the action in something like Mission Impossible looks a lot better, I even liked the look of Force Awakens more. IMO all the movies I listed, maybe besides Snowpiercer, had some laughs or something resembling a better story. Last year, Edge of Tomorrow was so much more entertaining to me than this one was. I think after about 30mins or so of Mad Max I realized I was just going to get the exact same chase for 60 more minutes, folded my arms, and wondered what everybody was slobbering over.

I thought the latest installment of Mission Impossible was starting to look tired and in need of retirement. Good fun, though but on a downward slope for sure.

 

[Sabertooth]

Some people are thinker or readers, others are doers. I think Mad Max spoke more to doers.

 

[Zow]

Some people are thinker or readers, others are doers. I think Mad Max spoke more to doers.

Sweet backhanded compliment. Thinkers and readers (or, put differently, "smart and sophisticated people") can enjoy things that are just pure, somewhat mindless fun. And mad max is the epitome of that.

In looking at this question, mad Max's nomination reminds me of Boise state like 8-10 years ago when they were going undefeated and the bcs didn't know what to do with them. Certainly they're knocked down a peg due to their weak conference. But they were the best weak conference team cfb had ever seen. So, it's right to give them some accolades. And when they beat Oklahoma that was awesome.

Similarly, action movies are probably considered a weaker genre of movies and will be immediately viewed differently for consideration for best picture. But mad max, like Boise state, is the best pure action movie we have probably ever seen. So, it deserves a nod and at least the grouping with the top dramas or quirky "thinking" movies that usually dominate the category. And, naturally, we have the snobs that are annoyed by its inclusion.

 

[Zow]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

 

[Sabertooth]

I agree with that. Jump into the Kubrick thread. It's just one wall of text after another.

 

[Sabertooth]

Some people are thinker or readers, others are doers. I think Mad Max spoke more to doers.

Sweet backhanded compliment.Thinkers and readers (or, put differently, "smart and sophisticated people") can enjoy things that are just pure, somewhat mindless fun. And mad max is the epitome of that.

In looking at this question, mad Max's nomination reminds me of Boise state like 8-10 years ago when they were going undefeated and the bcs didn't know what to do with them. Certainly they're knocked down a peg due to their weak conference. But they were the best weak conference team cfb had ever seen. So, it's right to give them some accolades. And when they beat Oklahoma that was awesome.

Similarly, action movies are probably considered a weaker genre of movies and will be immediately viewed differently for consideration for best picture. But mad max, like Boise state, is the best pure action movie we have probably ever seen. So, it deserves a nod and at least the grouping with the top dramas or quirky "thinking" movies that usually dominate the category. And, naturally, we have the snobs that are annoyed by its inclusion.

Or put another way "physically weak and inert people"

 

[brun]

Thought it was fun and entertaining, but if it had been significantly shorter I wouldn't have felt like I was missing anything.

 

[cockroach]

I enjoyed this movie a lot in the theaters. Even remember my GF and I thinking at the end, "That was fun! We'll have to catch it again when it comes out on DVD/torrents"

Finally got around to watching it again last night and it was nowhere as good to me for some reason. I ended up not pausing it to go to the bathroom and get a snack and when I got back I probably only watched another 10 min and put on something else.

I've gotten more physically weak and inert over the last 6-8 months though.... so that probably explains why I enjoyed it less.

 

[packersfan]

Just finished watching it and I thought it was pretty bad. I'm sure it's more impressive in the theaters, but the chase sequences just got boring. Reminded me of Bad Boys 2, the final Matrix film and the zod v superman brawl. There was nothing fun and there was no reason to give a crap about anything.

I paused 30 minutes in to get another beer and couldn't believe there was still another hour left.

Yup. I honestly can't believe anyone could watch this film and The Road Warrior and think this is better.

 

[cockroach]

is this like fast and the furious?

I think Vin Diesel and Paul Walker both have more fully developed characters in their first film than Max had in this one. This was an epic waste of Hardy's talent. Theron is good but since I didn't care about her character at all the fact she's the lead character and the entire story is essentially about her the movie really went nowhere for me.

The action scenes often felt cartoonish, especially the earlier one where Max is on the front of a car. I couldn't take any of it seriously or enjoy it because it looked so ridiculous with the hyper-speeded up filming. I thought all of them paled to the greatness of The Road Warrior and even the first film. Those two films felt real with their action scenes. There's even one scene in the first film where one of the stuntmen was actually hit in the head by a motorcycle and that stayed in the film.

This was something that bugged me last night that I didn't really notice in the theater. I had to check during one fight scene that I didn't accidentally put it in 1.5x speed because you could tell that it was slightly sped up

 

[Chadstroma]

The speeding things up is something done in the original series too, right?

 

[dparker713]

But mad max, like Boise state, is the best pure action movie we have probably ever seen. So, it deserves a nod and at least the grouping with the top dramas or quirky "thinking" movies that usually dominate the category. And, naturally, we have the snobs that are annoyed by its inclusion.

You're insane. Best action movie ever? Not even close. Hell, John Wick was better. That was hardly a thinking movie, but it was fun.

 

[Sabertooth]

I enjoyed this movie a lot in the theaters. Even remember my GF and I thinking at the end, "That was fun! We'll have to catch it again when it comes out on DVD/torrents"

Finally got around to watching it again last night and it was nowhere as good to me for some reason. I ended up not pausing it to go to the bathroom and get a snack and when I got back I probably only watched another 10 min and put on something else.

I've gotten more physically weak and inert over the last 6-8 months though.... so that probably explains why I enjoyed it less.

Perhaps you just became more smart and sophisticated.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

Couldn't agree less

 

[packersfan]

is this like fast and the furious?

I think Vin Diesel and Paul Walker both have more fully developed characters in their first film than Max had in this one. This was an epic waste of Hardy's talent. Theron is good but since I didn't care about her character at all the fact she's the lead character and the entire story is essentially about her the movie really went nowhere for me.

The action scenes often felt cartoonish, especially the earlier one where Max is on the front of a car. I couldn't take any of it seriously or enjoy it because it looked so ridiculous with the hyper-speeded up filming. I thought all of them paled to the greatness of The Road Warrior and even the first film. Those two films felt real with their action scenes. There's even one scene in the first film where one of the stuntmen was actually hit in the head by a motorcycle and that stayed in the film.

This was something that bugged me last night that I didn't really notice in the theater. I had to check during one fight scene that I didn't accidentally put it in 1.5x speed because you could tell that it was slightly sped up

I thought the entire scene where Max is on the front of the car was laughable. I don't have a problem with suspension of belief but the entire look of that scene just made me laugh due to how fake it all was. It reminded me of the Yoda fight scenes in the hideous Star Wars prequels that were so cartoonish it was impossible to do anything but laugh at how awful they were.

 

[packersfan]

The speeding things up is something done in the original series too, right?

Not to this extent and I don't recall entire scenes being filmed that way. A couple of quick shots here and there but not extended scenes like in this film.

 

[The Gator]

is this like fast and the furious?

I think Vin Diesel and Paul Walker both have more fully developed characters in their first film than Max had in this one. This was an epic waste of Hardy's talent. Theron is good but since I didn't care about her character at all the fact she's the lead character and the entire story is essentially about her the movie really went nowhere for me.

The action scenes often felt cartoonish, especially the earlier one where Max is on the front of a car. I couldn't take any of it seriously or enjoy it because it looked so ridiculous with the hyper-speeded up filming. I thought all of them paled to the greatness of The Road Warrior and even the first film. Those two films felt real with their action scenes. There's even one scene in the first film where one of the stuntmen was actually hit in the head by a motorcycle and that stayed in the film.

This was something that bugged me last night that I didn't really notice in the theater. I had to check during one fight scene that I didn't accidentally put it in 1.5x speed because you could tell that it was slightly sped up

I thought the entire scene where Max is on the front of the car was laughable. I don't have a problem with suspension of belief but the entire look of that scene just made me laugh due to how fake it all was. It reminded me of the Yoda fight scenes in the hideous Star Wars prequels that were so cartoonish it was impossible to do anything but laugh at how awful they were.

Watch the behind the scenes, it's more real than you think.

 

[packersfan]

is this like fast and the furious?

I think Vin Diesel and Paul Walker both have more fully developed characters in their first film than Max had in this one. This was an epic waste of Hardy's talent. Theron is good but since I didn't care about her character at all the fact she's the lead character and the entire story is essentially about her the movie really went nowhere for me.

The action scenes often felt cartoonish, especially the earlier one where Max is on the front of a car. I couldn't take any of it seriously or enjoy it because it looked so ridiculous with the hyper-speeded up filming. I thought all of them paled to the greatness of The Road Warrior and even the first film. Those two films felt real with their action scenes. There's even one scene in the first film where one of the stuntmen was actually hit in the head by a motorcycle and that stayed in the film.

This was something that bugged me last night that I didn't really notice in the theater. I had to check during one fight scene that I didn't accidentally put it in 1.5x speed because you could tell that it was slightly sped up

I thought the entire scene where Max is on the front of the car was laughable. I don't have a problem with suspension of belief but the entire look of that scene just made me laugh due to how fake it all was. It reminded me of the Yoda fight scenes in the hideous Star Wars prequels that were so cartoonish it was impossible to do anything but laugh at how awful they were.

Watch the behind the scenes, it's more real than you think.

Perhaps but it looked so fake it took me out of the moment. I have a feeling Miller was going for a hyper-sensitized sense of realism and it didn't work for me. And that was near the beginning of the movie so almost from the start he failed to bring me in. The rest of the movie never really got better for me.

 

[cockroach]

I enjoyed this movie a lot in the theaters. Even remember my GF and I thinking at the end, "That was fun! We'll have to catch it again when it comes out on DVD/torrents"

Finally got around to watching it again last night and it was nowhere as good to me for some reason. I ended up not pausing it to go to the bathroom and get a snack and when I got back I probably only watched another 10 min and put on something else.

I've gotten more physically weak and inert over the last 6-8 months though.... so that probably explains why I enjoyed it less.

Perhaps you just became more smart and sophisticated.

Doubt I'm any more smarters and I'm only a bit phisticated... I just don't think I was in the right mood... and I did sort of force myself to watch it as I know I want to watch it again, I just keep putting it off.

I definitely think anyone going in with "best film" expectations from the nomination will probably be disappointed. But anytime you're watching a movie and Charlize is the 6th or 7th hottest chick on the screen (even if she does have a shaved head and one arm) you're watching a good movie.

 

[Zow]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If

somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

Couldn't agree less

Sure you could. You could completely disagree.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If

somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

Couldn't agree less

Sure you could. You could completely disagree.

Ok. I disagree, just not completely.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

Your brain has been on a Carnival cruise for over 30 years.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

 

[packersfan]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

 

[packersfan]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

 

[Sabertooth]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Isnt this basically what MMA is?

 

[The General]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

Watching Gladiator recently the "plot character" stuff was pretty corny.

Opening battle scene was still amazing.

 

[Zow]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

Your brain has been on a Carnival cruise for over 30 years.

Your face has been featured at a carnival for over 40 years.

 

[identikit]

The jerk store called I see....

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Also at movies "speaking" to people. If somebody needs a movie to "speak" to him, that's probably the person who needs to do more actual thinking and reading. Movies are a vacation for your brain. Or at least they should be.

Your brain has been on a Carnival cruise for over 30 years.

Your face has been featured at a carnival for over 40 years.

That one will be hard to top.

 

[Worm]

This was Furiosa's film. Max is the central character of the world, of the series, but this was her film and her battle.

Between the brief intro monologue, the flashbacks, and Max's actions, I think he was developed appropriately. You know who he is. You don't know his whole backstory, but you can say the same about some new Star Wars characters. That doesn't make them bad, underdeveloped characters. Just my opinion.

You just think it's Furiosa's movie because she did most of the driving. Tom Hardy did a lot of the heavy lifting.

It was her story, not his.

 

[Zow]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

Gladiator had a more intricate story for sure and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't necessarily call it "stronger."

MMFR had a simple story that, in my opinion obviously, was sound enough to care about the characters and to understand their motivations. Mad Max's character had been developed from the previous three movies so I really didn't need to know anymore about him -- he's just essentially a mentally jacked up wanderer ("mad" max) in a post-apocalyptic hell who has been emotionally wrecked by the loss of his family but who still has enough good in him to help when needed. The furiosa/enslaved women/bad guy story was easily identifiable. WTF more was needed? I, frankly, was glad they didn't mush it up by having Max and furiosa develop a romantic relationship and I thought the furiosa trying to find the supposed sanctuary was the perfect sub-plot for the mad max universe.

 

[packersfan]

This was Furiosa's film. Max is the central character of the world, of the series, but this was her film and her battle.

Between the brief intro monologue, the flashbacks, and Max's actions, I think he was developed appropriately. You know who he is. You don't know his whole backstory, but you can say the same about some new Star Wars characters. That doesn't make them bad, underdeveloped characters. Just my opinion.

You just think it's Furiosa's movie because she did most of the driving. Tom Hardy did a lot of the heavy lifting.

It was her story, not his.

Yup. Max's character held no meaningful role in the story. Any male could have played that part. Were this not a Mad Max film that probably wouldn't have bothered me but since it was it really hurt the film in my opinion.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

Watching Gladiator recently the "plot character" stuff was pretty corny.

Opening battle scene was still amazing.

Oh it was heavy-handed for sure. BUT, as corny as it was, at you still had a reason to care about what happened to Maximus. I didn't give one rat's ### about any of the characters in MMFR because I knew nothing about them.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

Gladiator had a more intricate story for sure and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't necessarily call it "stronger."

MMFR had a simple story that, in my opinion obviously, was sound enough to care about the characters and to understand their motivations. Mad Max's character had been developed from the previous three movies so I really didn't need to know anymore about him -- he's just essentially a mentally jacked up wanderer ("mad" max) in a post-apocalyptic hell who has been emotionally wrecked by the loss of his family but who still has enough good in him to help when needed. The furiosa/enslaved women/bad guy story was easily identifiable. WTF more was needed? I, frankly, was glad they didn't mush it up by having Max and furiosa develop a romantic relationship and I thought the furiosa trying to find the supposed sanctuary was the perfect sub-plot for the mad max universe.

Uh...the 2015 Max is not the same as the Mel Gibson Max...in terms of the stories. This is a reboot.

 

[packersfan]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

Watching Gladiator recently the "plot character" stuff was pretty corny.

Opening battle scene was still amazing.

Oh it was heavy-handed for sure. BUT, as corny as it was, at you still had a reason to care about what happened to Maximus. I didn't give one rat's ### about any of the characters in MMFR because I knew nothing about them.

And the one character I do give a #### about had nothing meaningful to do in the story.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

And, for the record, whenever I hear "this is one of those movies where you just have to turn your brain off and enjoy it"

I translate it as

"this movie is pretty much a piece of #### or mediocre at best"

 

[The Gator]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

Gladiator had a more intricate story for sure and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't necessarily call it "stronger." MMFR had a simple story that, in my opinion obviously, was sound enough to care about the characters and to understand their motivations. Mad Max's character had been developed from the previous three movies so I really didn't need to know anymore about him -- he's just essentially a mentally jacked up wanderer ("mad" max) in a post-apocalyptic hell who has been emotionally wrecked by the loss of his family but who still has enough good in him to help when needed. The furiosa/enslaved women/bad guy story was easily identifiable. WTF more was needed? I, frankly, was glad they didn't mush it up by having Max and furiosa develop a romantic relationship and I thought the furiosa trying to find the supposed sanctuary was the perfect sub-plot for the mad max universe.

Uh...the 2015 Max is not the same as the Mel Gibson Max...in terms of the stories. This is a reboot.

Not true

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

Gladiator had a more intricate story for sure and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't necessarily call it "stronger." MMFR had a simple story that, in my opinion obviously, was sound enough to care about the characters and to understand their motivations. Mad Max's character had been developed from the previous three movies so I really didn't need to know anymore about him -- he's just essentially a mentally jacked up wanderer ("mad" max) in a post-apocalyptic hell who has been emotionally wrecked by the loss of his family but who still has enough good in him to help when needed. The furiosa/enslaved women/bad guy story was easily identifiable. WTF more was needed? I, frankly, was glad they didn't mush it up by having Max and furiosa develop a romantic relationship and I thought the furiosa trying to find the supposed sanctuary was the perfect sub-plot for the mad max universe.

Uh...the 2015 Max is not the same as the Mel Gibson Max...in terms of the stories. This is a reboot.

Not true

So it is a sequel?

 

[packersfan]

If someone told me there was a new movie out starring Charlize Theron as a woman in the future who frees imprisoned women being used for breeding I might think that's a film maybe I'll watch some day in the future if I can't find anything else to watch.

For me, a Mad Max film comes with the bar set a lot higher than that which is why this film was such a gigantic disappointment for me.

 

[Ladsud]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

Gladiator had a more intricate story for sure and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't necessarily call it "stronger." MMFR had a simple story that, in my opinion obviously, was sound enough to care about the characters and to understand their motivations. Mad Max's character had been developed from the previous three movies so I really didn't need to know anymore about him -- he's just essentially a mentally jacked up wanderer ("mad" max) in a post-apocalyptic hell who has been emotionally wrecked by the loss of his family but who still has enough good in him to help when needed. The furiosa/enslaved women/bad guy story was easily identifiable. WTF more was needed? I, frankly, was glad they didn't mush it up by having Max and furiosa develop a romantic relationship and I thought the furiosa trying to find the supposed sanctuary was the perfect sub-plot for the mad max universe.

Uh...the 2015 Max is not the same as the Mel Gibson Max...in terms of the stories. This is a reboot.

Not true

So it is a sequel?

From what Ive read its the same Max, Miller wants Max to always be a 30 something year old man but its the same guy.

 

[The Gator]

Question for those of you who think that MMFR didn't need more story/plot/character development/etc.

What did you think about "Gladiator" (2000)?

Would it have been a better movie if they had removed 75% of the story and just had fight after fight for most of the film?

I'm not among the group you're posing the question to but I always thought Gladiator was overrated too. Better than Fury Road but not Best Picture worthy in my opinion.

Right. I mean I would guess that Gladiator is/was a pretty popular movie with people in same demographic that really liked MMFY.

And I don't remember people saying "It was really good. Great fight scenes and stunts and stuff but I didn't give a crap about his family or that emperor dude. I just wanted blood and guts."

Yeah Gladiator had a much stronger story without a doubt.

Gladiator had a more intricate story for sure and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't necessarily call it "stronger." MMFR had a simple story that, in my opinion obviously, was sound enough to care about the characters and to understand their motivations. Mad Max's character had been developed from the previous three movies so I really didn't need to know anymore about him -- he's just essentially a mentally jacked up wanderer ("mad" max) in a post-apocalyptic hell who has been emotionally wrecked by the loss of his family but who still has enough good in him to help when needed. The furiosa/enslaved women/bad guy story was easily identifiable. WTF more was needed? I, frankly, was glad they didn't mush it up by having Max and furiosa develop a romantic relationship and I thought the furiosa trying to find the supposed sanctuary was the perfect sub-plot for the mad max universe.

Uh...the 2015 Max is not the same as the Mel Gibson Max...in terms of the stories. This is a reboot.

Not true

So it is a sequel?

Not really either... Miller said it was made to "stand on it's own" but said if you put a gun to his head it would come after Thunderdome.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Is Fury Road a Remake, Prequel or Sequel?It’s not a prequel, and very definitely not a remake. The sequel question is slightly more difficult to answer. Writer/director George Miller calls it a “revisiting.” This is kind of a sequel to the previous Mad Max films, but think of it like a new James Bond film after the actor has just changed over.

We’re conditioned to think of series of movies as being part of an explicit chronology, but that’s not how this one works. There was talk at one point of Fury Road being a film set between The Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but it doesn’t play that way at all.

Tom Hardy said,

We have to take it differently as George is taking it. It’s a relaunch and revisit to the world. An entire restructuring. That’s not to say that it’s not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but it’s a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to date by 30 years.

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Miller said at SXSW this year,

It’s sort of a revisit. The [previous] three films exist in no real clear chronology, because they were always conceived as different films.

 

[packersfan]

I would've guessed if there had to be a timeline this would've come between the first film and The Road Warrior. Max in this film is still tortured by losing his family in this film. The Road Warrior was a lot about him moving beyond that stage of living and he'd pretty much gotten past it completely by the time Thunderdome rolled around. At least it wasn't torturing him so much.

 

[The Gator]

Is Fury Road a Remake, Prequel or Sequel?

Its not a prequel, and very definitely not a remake. The sequel question is slightly more difficult to answer. Writer/director George Miller calls it a revisiting. This is kind of a sequel to the previous Mad Max films, but think of it like a new James Bond film after the actor has just changed over.

Were conditioned to think of series of movies as being part of an explicit chronology, but thats not how this one works. There was talk at one point of Fury Road being a film set between The Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but it doesnt play that way at all.

Tom Hardy said,

We have to take it differently as George is taking it. Its a relaunch and revisit to the world. An entire restructuring. Thats not to say that its not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but its a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to date by 30 years.

Miller said at SXSW this year,

Its sort of a revisit. The [previous] three films exist in no real clear chronology, because they were always conceived as different films.

That's literally exactly what I said