Watched it for the first time in like 5 years and man, this movie is so good. The action, the characters, the visuals, everything. I really wish more action movies were like this. Also I wonder if the used squib effects :matt:
One of my fondest memories was going to see that one in the theater because my friends and I are all a bunch of movie nerds raised on shit like Fallout and Deathlands and Damnation Alley and, of course, the entire Mad Max film franchise.
We were losing our minds in that theater. When Furiosa attaches her "hand" to the face of.... I'm not gonna spoil it except to say "LET IT RIP!" we were levitating out of our goddamned chairs.
George Miller is a genius, and its not because he's singularly talented. He knows how to delegate and work with the talents of the people around him. His wife edited the film, and won the Academy Award for her work. I like to call them "The Georges" because its him and George Romero that really put the love of cinema into my head. Their work has a very tangible "humanity" that I've always loved, especially because their work specifically revolves around deconstructing society by analyzing the ways it could all fall apart. "There's gold in them there hills" as they do say.
As a superfan I was a little disappointed we didn't get to see a cameo by Bruce Spence in Fury Road because I really expected him to show up at some point. I fucking love that guy.
Agreed, first big budget action flick in ages that didn't stink to high heaven of focus groups
I liked how pissed off CHUDs got over the anti- human trafficking tone.
There's just a single false note in the entire movie as far as I'm concerned, the rest of it is perfect and impossible to improve.
I hate the scene where the obviously CGI steering wheel flies directly into the camera in slow motion.
Oh God that scene was very much "whoa check out that 3-D action!!" But other than that it was a great movie.
I thought the first mad max was supposed to be reactionary
He supported to be a cop that kills degenerate criminals
Yeah. And then they got much better.
I can't think of any other series of sci fi stories that's just like "Yeah, we're going to have lots of people with lots of kinds of disabilities and they're going to be important to the story for reasons that aren't about their disabilities. Mad Max 2 has an entire action scene where the Mechanic, who is parapalegic, is fighting from a turret in the back of the tanker. At one point he's set on fire and uses his catheter bag to put it out. It's just... part of the action sequence.
Other themes involve labor power, train, pig poop balls, feminism, unreliable guns, vroom vroom, anti-heroes, anti-villains, and capitalism.
The original really isn't even that good, and yeah has that reactionary bent. It was Mad Max 2 that made the franchise interesting for many reasons like you stated.
around the same time I also really enjoyed 'Prometheus' and I don't like scary/horror movies
