Mad Max: Fury Road (1 Viewer)

[MaxThreshold]

Leaving the theatre and driving home in my mini-van was anti-climatic.

I told everyone at work how great the movie was and offered to drive for lunch. Nobody took me up on my offer. :(

 

[The General]

Leaving the theatre and driving home in my mini-van was anti-climatic.

 

[flapgreen]

Headed out now!

 

[flapgreen]

Leaving the theatre and driving home in my mini-van was anti-climatic.

 

[flapgreen]

The guy playing the guitar was freaking awesome.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

If everyone was forced to watch this and then play Grand Theft Auto for a couple of hours nobody would survive the drive to work.

Excellent flick

 

[Psychopav]

Sheer lunacy. Brilliant. I loved it. How many truly ####ed up movies do you get to see in a year? Amazing stunts, really weird, and campy in a way that few modern movies can achieve. I wish there were more movies like this.

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the guy with the guitar attached to bungee cords is going to be my go-to Halloween costume from now on.

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No ####. I thought that when I was driving home from the film

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All I could think was:

"Ok, devil dogs: lock and load. Bring all your ammo, because this is going to be one helluva fight. Let's roll! Wait...where the #### is the Drum/Guitar Heavy Metal Truck?! How the #### are we supposed to kick ### without the ####ing Drum/Guitar Heavy Metal Truck?!"

 

[Fly]

Went last night. Holy #### that was awesome. Not sure what else there is to say except go see it.

 

[Harry Manback]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

 

[The Future Champs]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

Awesome insane imaginative automotive/mechanical/war boy mayhem?

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

Awesome insane imaginative automotive/mechanical/war boy mayhem?

The only thing this movie lacked was boobies

 

[snogger]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

Bold part is why I enjoyed it as much as I did.. So tired of directors thinking they have to force feed us the plot.. Just let the movie do the work..

 

[Harry Manback]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

Awesome insane imaginative automotive/mechanical/war boy mayhem?

Yes, this too.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

This review summed up my enthusiasm for Mad Max:

With Fury Road, Mad Max roars triumphantly back into theaters

 

[5Rings]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

 

[nirad3]

I find it difficult to articulate exactly what about this movie made it so utterly fantastic.

The incredible cinematography? The use of color and different color tones? The lack of background narration/story telling and just let the action speak for itself? The fact that all the stunts were stunts, and virtually no CGI? That it felt raw and as "real" as it gets? I do not know, but hope someone more articulate than I will do it for me so I can regurgitate it to others.

It took you actually saying it here, but looking back... yeah, these are two huge pluses.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Did your daughter like it? I want to see it again and have been contemplating whether to take my 12 yr old daughter to it.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Did your daughter like it? I want to see it again and have been contemplating whether to take my 12 yr old daughter to it.

She did. She didn't love it, but she definitely enjoyed it.

 

[MaxThreshold]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Did your daughter like it? I want to see it again and have been contemplating whether to take my 12 yr old daughter to it.

She did. She didn't love it, but she definitely enjoyed it.

Not sure the 8 and 5 year old are ready for it, though.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Sorry to disagree. But I don't think a movie with the following scene is kid friendly:

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Watch a dead baby get cut out of his dead mother's womb. Not as graphic as it could have been, but pretty awful.

 

[TripItUp]

I'll rain on this parade.


Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

 

[Jules Winnfield]

I'll rain on this parade.

Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

What in Road Warrior was believable?

 

[TripItUp]

I'll rain on this parade.

Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

What in Road Warrior was believable?

All of it IMHO.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

I'll rain on this parade.

Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

What in Road Warrior was believable?

All of it IMHO.

Really? Wow

 

[TripItUp]

I'll rain on this parade.

Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

What in Road Warrior was believable?

All of it IMHO.

Really? Wow

what part isn't believable?

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

How about all the cars that appear to be intentionally designed to get the absolute worst gas performance possible ?

 

[AcerFC]

3d? Or is 2d fine. Maybe tomorrow

 

[flapgreen]

3D is worth it for this one. I can't think of any others that have been

 

[TheIronSheik]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Sorry to disagree. But I don't think a movie with the following scene is kid friendly:

Spoiler

Watch a dead baby get cut out of his dead mother's womb. Not as graphic as it could have been, but pretty awful.

I don't think that was that big of a deal mainly because:

Spoiler

They didn't directly show it. But I think this comes down to a judgment call. I'd be surprised if my daughter was even fully aware of what was happening in that scene. And even if she knew, I don't think it's worse than any other violence that's on TV or in the movies

 

[TheIronSheik]

I'll rain on this parade.

Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

I think I explained it in the other thread, but having a guy with a guitar is no different than what the people did before radios when they went into battle. They used drums and flags to signal to the troops on how to proceed. It was their only form of communication. The movie showed in the beginning that they signaled to the oil town using the sun and mirrors, so we know they didn't have radios. So using drums and a guitar with amplifiers can easily be explained as a way to control troop movement.

 

[Henry Ford]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

I'll rain on this parade.

Fury Road was too much action, not enough plot/story to be considered in the upper echelon of action movies IMHO.

Hell, I still don't know much about the main antagonist or second protagonist(Max.) There wasn't enough story here to really draw me in. Also, the guitarist/flamethrower guy and some other attributes made the movie a bit over the top for my taste, not as believable. When I watched the Road Warrior, I always thought "this could happen." You are either believable or totally out there(star wars) for me to be intrigued...movies in the middle tend to lose me.

Good, but not as great as Road Warrior, T2, Aliens and some of the other all time greats that have been mentioned in the same sentence.

And as I implied earlier, I'll take Ex Machina over Fury Road.

8.5 stars

ETA - a female biker clan surviving in the wasteland = not believable

What in Road Warrior was believable?

All of it IMHO.

Really? Wow

what part isn't believable?

maybe you are confusing the Road Warrior with the first Mad Max? I mean a bus is really going to stop a group of mad men from ramming through the compound and taking over?

 

[TheIronSheik]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Again, it depends on your kid. If they can handle it, this is nothing crazy. There were two scenes that really violent. And they really weren't anything worse than watching The Walking Dead. In fact, I didn't think they were even as bad. The violence I'm talking about is people fighting or falling off of moving cars into the sand. If you tone down those two scenes slightly and remove the breast pump scene, I think this movie gets a PG-13 rating. There was barely any dialogue, so I don't even remember that much cursing.

I

 

[Henry Ford]

Kid friendly?

Took my 11/8/5 year old boys to see Avengers last week. They have seen all the Marvel movies.

Took my 11 year old daughter. Pretty kid friendly. There's a scene in the beginning where some fat ladies are hooked up to breast feeding pumps. And then a naked lady (very far away, where you can't see anything.) Other than that, just violence.

Again, it depends on your kid. If they can handle it, this is nothing crazy. There were two scenes that really violent. And they really weren't anything worse than watching The Walking Dead. In fact, I didn't think they were even as bad. The violence I'm talking about is people fighting or falling off of moving cars into the sand. If you tone down those two scenes slightly and remove the breast pump scene, I think this movie gets a PG-13 rating. There was barely any dialogue, so I don't even remember that much cursing.

I

No, no, I'm just laughing at the general American thing we all do, there. It struck me as funny.

"Well, you should probably know it might not be kid friendly because of a shot of breasts. But other than that, there's just a lot of maniacal violence, so no worries."

 

[mr fancypants]

Here's the Maddox review (hint it kicks ###)

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

 

[Run It Up]

No, no, I'm just laughing at the general American thing we all do, there. It struck me as funny.

"Well, you should probably know it might not be kid friendly because of a shot of breasts. But other than that, there's just a lot of maniacal violence, so no worries."

Celebrate violence, but sex is the devil.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I think it's funny that people always think our way of thinking is wrong.

 

[Henry Ford]

No, no, I'm just laughing at the general American thing we all do, there. It struck me as funny.

"Well, you should probably know it might not be kid friendly because of a shot of breasts. But other than that, there's just a lot of maniacal violence, so no worries."

Celebrate violence, but sex is the devil.

I promise, the scene he's talking about is not sexual.

 

[Mario Kart]

I'd go see this movie.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/22/8646431/mario-kart-mad-max-fury-road-mash-up

 

[flapgreen]

I think it's funny that people always think our way of thinking is wrong.

Stupid Americans!

 

[BillyBarooo]

what a day, what a lovely day!

all time great? no, but a great way to spend a couple hours and lots of memorable scenes

 

[Henry Ford]

I think it's funny that people always think our way of thinking is wrong.

We're talking about pumping breast milk. And whether that's okay for little kids. You don't see anything funny about that?

 

[saintfool]

Total mess of a movie. Not sure I could recommend it to anyone. It's goofy fun but mostly I found it laughably bad.

 

[Chase Stuart]

I think it's funny that people always think our way of thinking is wrong.

We're talking about pumping breast milk. And whether that's okay for little kids. You don't see anything funny about that?

I don't have kids, but my initial reaction would be this movie is nowhere near appropriate for children.

 

[Chase Stuart]

Here's the Maddox review (hint it kicks ###)

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

Never heard of Maddox before, but that review was awesome. As was the movie.

 

[MaxThreshold]

Total mess of a movie. Not sure I could recommend it to anyone. It's goofy fun but mostly I found it laughably bad.

Oh my goodness.

How long have you hated America?

 

[dutch]

Total mess of a movie. Not sure I could recommend it to anyone. It's goofy fun but mostly I found it laughably bad.

Everyone has a different way of looking at things and as such you are certainly entitled to your own opinion but in this case I feel bad for all the people you will not be recommending this movie too as they may miss out on a kickass, action packed, brilliantly directed, beautifully filmed, well acted, tightly paced, post apocalyptic smorgasbord of fun and fury as has ever been put to film.

 

[Henry Ford]

I think it's funny that people always think our way of thinking is wrong.

We're talking about pumping breast milk. And whether that's okay for little kids. You don't see anything funny about that?

I don't have kids, but my initial reaction would be this movie is nowhere near appropriate for children.

I agree, but it's not because of milk pumping.

Spoiler

It's because the heavy metal guitarist is way too awesome for kids to comprehend.

 

[dutch]

I think it's funny that people always think our way of thinking is wrong.

We're talking about pumping breast milk. And whether that's okay for little kids. You don't see anything funny about that?

I don't have kids, but my initial reaction would be this movie is nowhere near appropriate for children.

I agree, but it's not because of milk pumping.

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It's because the heavy metal guitarist is way too awesome for kids to comprehend.

Spoiler

heavy metal shredding at it's finest!!