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 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Jihadin let's do battle!

Your screwed for I have Hadji as my co-pilot

So, with renewed interested, will GW bring back Gorkamorka to cash in?

I think the best part about this film was the rolling metal concert, with flamethrower guitar. Orks got nuffin' on humanity.

Ticket acquired, although all this baz luhrmann talk has got me concerned lol

It was glorious.

So many things that had me thinking Admech machine cult, and the rolling heavy metal concert was awesome.

 Slaanesh-Devotee wrote:
So, with renewed interested, will GW bring back Gorkamorka to cash in?

Probably not, but I did come out of thinking I need to kitbash some Ork trukks

 gorgon wrote:
So you're fretting about two words in a movie review done by some TV bozo, even as GLOWING reviews continue to pour in for this film?

I have to question whether you're worthy to see it in the first place. Max is disappointed in you and thinks you should grow a pair.

When I asked him about it Max called me sugar tits and starting talking about the jews. The apocalypse has been rough on Max.

When the two words are Baz Luhrmann, it's worth fretting about. Hopefully the reviewer, who I don't know, was an idiot and used Luhrmann to describe anything that's over the top. But anyhow, I've been pumped about this film for a long time now, it's traditional to have a freakout and worry if it will actually be any good just before it's released.


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 Swastakowey wrote:
However, it was better than the first Mad Max which I could not for the life of me understand. I gathered he was a cop trying to hold justice in the outback Judge Dread style but even then.

The first film is an odd thing. It's basically just another film in the fairly brief period of Ozploitation - where thanks to some favourable government rules and really cheap local talent Australia was able to make films really cheaply, and they found that the best return on low budget was trashy, high violence nonsense.

So Mad Max was made. Basically George Miller, the director, thought car accidents and road fatalities would be pretty good source of film carnage. To give that a plot, he took the basic 'lone cop battles criminal lunatics with no help from the system', and then instead of having shootouts in the city, he set it in the outback to justify the car chases. To make the over the top story more believable he added the bit about fuel shortages leading to social collapse.

The film made a stupid amount of money, so they went and made a sequel that's basically a completely different kind of movie.

Definitely watch this at the cinema though.

Cool. Got my plans sorted for Saturday night.

Great to hear some of the feedback on the film.

 Flashman wrote:

 Slaanesh-Devotee wrote:
So, with renewed interested, will GW bring back Gorkamorka to cash in?

Probably not, but I did come out of thinking I need to kitbash some Ork trukks

You may be interested in this, sir

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wordforgegames/the-devils-run-route-666

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
Jihadin let's do battle!

Oh man its a Mardi Gras Transformer!

I have heard good buzz from people I trust. B-movie lovers.

They have never steered me wrong... well except maybe Starcrash..... or Ator : The Fighting Eagle.... or possibly The Undertaker and his Pals.... or maybe when they suggested.... oh nevermind.

It was a 120 minute nerdgasm for me. Loved every bit of it.

Make sure to bring a mop and bucket

Rather than just following the in style of the old films It built a lot on the genre that it started. The originals set the genre standard that later movies, rpgs and comics expanded on but never quite broke the mold on IMO. Fury Road was like taking all of those efforts back to school and showing them how it should be done, it takes all the craziness of more modern stuff like Borderlands and casts it back into the original Mad Max setting. It was way over the top and crazy in a way that the original movies hinted at but had been held back on due to ratings, low budgets, and technical constraints. This seemed to be much more in line with the vision he'd started with but was able to grow and mature by not having to reign anything in. The budget allowed for some absolutely amazing visuals in the movie and the restrained use of CGI was a really nice touch that helped make everything feel much more real.

I thought the movie was 2 hours long?

Or are you saying 30 minutes of it wasn't any good?

Whole thing was great, I got the run time mixed up since most movies are 90 min nowdays.

Ah, no worries then - and good to hear!

I'm going to try and see this ASAP!

Just got back, I'd give it 9/10 GO SEE THIS MOVIE

My one fear when watching the film was that the action seemed to be winding down towards the end and we weren't going to get another glorious set piece of metal on metal carnage to match the earlier scenes.

This fear turned out to be unfounded and at the point where the film could have ended naturally (and very boringly), they literally turn around and do it all again

Now if only there were some kind of miniatures game taking advantage of all this good press.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/648042.page

Is the 3D worth it in this film? My wife can't do 3D, but this seems like one of those movies where the 3D might actually be decent.

 jasper76 wrote:
Is the 3D worth it in this film? My wife can't do 3D, but this seems like one of those movies where the 3D might actually be decent.

I was forced to see it in 3d, I would have much prefered it non-3d.

 Crablezworth wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
Is the 3D worth it in this film? My wife can't do 3D, but this seems like one of those movies where the 3D might actually be decent.

I was forced to see it in 3d, I would have much prefered it non-3d.

Just saw in 3D, the 3D eftects were nothing special.

But the movie was awesome. Definitely worth seeing. Like the Road Warrior on crack.

Question: the original Mad Max trilogy depict a linear progression of sorts, both in terms of character development - ie Max's journey from 'normal' to burnt out and back out again and in terms of societal decay - the first film takes part in a society of sorts, albeit one that is collapsing and degrading. Does this new film show any of that 'back story' about Max and the world in which he lives or does it jump straight into the full bore insanity of the second film with armoured fuel tankers and a re-imagined Lord Humungous?

 filbert wrote:
Question: the original Mad Max trilogy depict a linear progression of sorts, both in terms of character development - ie Max's journey from 'normal' to burnt out and back out again and in terms of societal decay - the first film takes part in a society of sorts, albeit one that is collapsing and degrading. Does this new film show any of that 'back story' about Max and the world in which he lives or does it jump straight into the full bore insanity of the second film with armoured fuel tankers and a re-imagined Lord Humungous?

The movie discusses the past through narration, and there are flashbacks, but it begins after society has already broken down into the Road Warrior-type environment.

If you liked the first films, don't even think twice. Just go see it. You won't be disappointed.

 filbert wrote:
Question: the original Mad Max trilogy depict a linear progression of sorts, both in terms of character development - ie Max's journey from 'normal' to burnt out and back out again and in terms of societal decay - the first film takes part in a society of sorts, albeit one that is collapsing and degrading. Does this new film show any of that 'back story' about Max and the world in which he lives or does it jump straight into the full bore insanity of the second film with armoured fuel tankers and a re-imagined Lord Humungous?

Yeah, they touch on the backstory in very quick (i.e. less than a second) flashbacks which has clearly affected his mental stability (he is definitely a bit mad in this one). Mostly though, this a spiritual sequel/remake to Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) with a much longer chase and if anything, the focus is just as much about Charlize Theron's character as Max himself.

It was ok.......I don't really see what all the fuss is about.

It wasn't as good as The Road Warrior. Albeit, it was better than Beyond thunderdome.

Mad Max in this, was completely underwhelming.

Don't get me wrong.. there were some truly interesting stuff in this, and It was a decent movie. I just don't see all the love it's getting.

I give it a B+



GG

 generalgrog wrote:
It was ok.......I don't really see what all the fuss is about.

It wasn't as good as The Road Warrior.

I'll say it. I thought Fury Road was better than any of the previous films.

And no butt floss, either (at least that I noticed)

 sebster wrote:
I've been excited about this film for a while. Real stunts and little CGI - awesome.

But then the review on the telly this morning had me a bit worried. The review was glowing, funnily enough, but the things it raved about had me worried. It said the Mad Max design was taken to the nth degree, pointing out the flamethrower guitar thing as a good example. It said it was like something Baz Luhrmann would make, and while the reviewer meant that as a compliment, anyone who's seen Australia or Moulin Rouge and isn't an awful, awful person knows that making anything in the style of Baz Luhrmann is not a good thing.

So hopefully it isn't too camp, or too ridiculous. I mean, don't get me wrong, I know how crazy much of The Road Warrior was, but there the insanity was all in the characters, who'd responded to the apocalypse by just not giving a gak anymore. The world itself was still pretty real (as much as you'd expect in an action movie, anyway). So now I’m a little worried that Miller has the feel right. But certainly not worried enough to not see the movie.

Well, I would say that they nailed it! Went to see it as a break today, and man... I just have never seen anything like this. They created an "ecosystem" where, with a little suspension of disbelief, everything actually makes sense in relation to one another.

I was thrilled with the movie! I will also say, it was not gory like I expected - the violence felt right at home for the nature of the movie. And it's basically like one big car chase...! Again, never seen anything like it, and I think they absolutely nailed what they were going for.

9.5 / 10 for me

Note: I have not seen the originals, and didn't feel like they were needed to have seen at all (although reading above I'm sure I would have understood more of the setting / backstory if I had).

When do I get a freaking sequel?

oh jeez that was great!

Best movie of 2015 thus far, imo.

just got back from watching this in 3D .... being someone who also plays Orks of course my mind went into overdrive ... so many ideas now .... all i could think of was Waaaaagh! most of the movie ...

overall awesome movie ...