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I was going to say "I saw this on Monday and it was awesome", but I guess the ship has sailed on that line of discussion.

 streamdragon wrote:
I was going to say "I saw this on Monday and it was awesome", but I guess the ship has sailed on that line of discussion.

Nah it's still pretty awesome.

Saw it today myself. All I can say is..

Just saw it. Pretty great movie, although I didn't think they did Max's character justice. However, it gave me a huge urge to buy some cars and Orkify them. Minus the humans, everythijg was Orky. WAAAAAAAGH!!!!

At first the thing I was most disappointed with was Tom Hardy's performance, namely that his accent yo-yos throughout the film.

But, after viewing it a couple of times I've actually changed my opinion and think it's something of a masterclass (!)

You have to think that Max is living in a post-apoc world, his family taken from him violently, his world reduced to 'fire and blood' (and eating lizards). Actually, the Jonny Depp-PoTC-style of blinking at the sunlight and 'a few screws loose' is precisely what he would be like.

Hopefully going for a third, final viewing before the film leaves the pictures!

After watching it three times, I can say that I love the film more and more.

I love the little quips Hardy spits out from time to time, like when he complains that 'First they take my blood, then they take my god-damn car!'

Yeah, Tom Hardy's performance as Mad Max is easily as good as Mel Gibson's if not better.

I saw it two days ago.

Plus points: nods to previous films (having Hugh Keays-Byrne back as the badguy - Toecutter in MM, Immorten Joe in FR).

Couldn't understand a word that Tom Hardy (Max) said (out of the handful he did say). So about the same for his performance as Bane. I know they looped HK-B's dialogue (ADR) and indeed, it's not unusual to do so when loud ambient noise interferes (like honking big engine noise - or rain).

For all the ludicrous car porn, there was something missing. Story.

MM had it. Road Warrior had it. It got lost 'twixt there and the fury road.

Go see "Kingsmen" instead. Much better action movie.

 chromedog wrote:
I saw it two days ago.

Plus points: nods to previous films (having Hugh Keays-Byrne back as the badguy - Toecutter in MM, Immorten Joe in FR).

Couldn't understand a word that Tom Hardy (Max) said (out of the handful he did say). So about the same for his performance as Bane. I know they looped HK-B's dialogue (ADR) and indeed, it's not unusual to do so when loud ambient noise interferes (like honking big engine noise - or rain).

For all the ludicrous car porn, there was something missing. Story.

MM had it. Road Warrior had it. It got lost 'twixt there and the fury road.

Go see "Kingsmen" instead. Much better action movie.

What story were you looking for? The women freed themselves, fought off their captors, and took the fortress as their home. It was told in a very straightforward and simple way. Was there not enough dialogue?

The movie is great at show, don't tell, something Hollywood in general could learn a whole lot more about. You don't need to be told about this crazy cult they're a part of, they show it, quite effectively, in a few scenes.

It also moves along at a steady pace with plenty of pauses in between without losing overall momentum.

As for Max himself, he's a broken man, a shell of his former self. When he finally tells Furiosa his name, the way he says it, it almost sounds like he needed to remind himself of this more.

"Hey, head.. Say bye-bye to the neck! DECAPITO!"

The story I was looking for?

How about the one that made the 20+ years of waiting to be worth it.

Not that I had baited breath or anything ... I gave up on wanting the 3rd mad max movie years ago (Thunderdome is nought but a weird group hallucination. It never happened).

This story isn't about Max though, this is the first one he himself narrates.

 BrookM wrote:
This story isn't about Max though, this is the first one he himself narrates.

Took me a while to notice that he wasn't the center of this film. I went back and watched the original trilogy again and realized he wasn't narrating in those (how could I have forgotten?). Then I came back and watched it again.

It wad more enjoyable the second time around.

 chromedog wrote:
The story I was looking for?

How about the one that made the 20+ years of waiting to be worth it.

Not that I had baited breath or anything ... I gave up on wanting the 3rd mad max movie years ago (Thunderdome is nought but a weird group hallucination. It never happened).

Fury Road was The Road Warrior 2.0. You can't really get much more Mad Max than that.

Overall, I don't think Fury Road is a lot different than 2 and 3 with regard to Max. In both of those films, he was very much a reluctant hero dragged along by events before finally deciding to lend his help. Max tends to haunt his films (at least since the original) rather than star as the main attraction.

I like this interpretation where all mad max is about is set in modern times, but it just what happens to aussies in the outback

Loved the movie an not it is not a pro feminist movie it exactly the opposite.
Spoilers

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Loved the movie an not it is not a pro feminist movie it exactly the opposite.
Spoilers

Spoiler:

The pregnant girls steals Max's lime light and gets punished for it.
Mad max steps in because the weak women cannot escape on their own.
Then Mad max shows them the way to proceed, because the women cannot think outside the box.
Male must sacrifice himself so females can escape.
Furiosa must be saved by max because she couldn't fence off an mediocre attack by a man.
As females are set on the right path Mad max work is done, and goes on his merry way to save more weak women

I get the feeling you may be trying to stir up trouble.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Loved the movie an not it is not a pro feminist movie it exactly the opposite.
Spoilers

Spoiler:

The pregnant girls steals Max's lime light and gets punished for it.
Mad max steps in because the weak women cannot escape on their own.
Then Mad max shows them the way to proceed, because the women cannot think outside the box.
Male must sacrifice himself so females can escape.
Furiosa must be saved by max because she couldn't fence off an mediocre attack by a man.
As females are set on the right path Mad max work is done, and goes on his merry way to save more weak women

I get the feeling you may be trying to stir up trouble.

No it really depends on which colored glasses you look at the movie, or it is like reading a horoscope and only take the positive things that apply to you.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Loved the movie an not it is not a pro feminist movie it exactly the opposite.
Spoilers

Spoiler:

The pregnant girls steals Max's lime light and gets punished for it.
Mad max steps in because the weak women cannot escape on their own.
Then Mad max shows them the way to proceed, because the women cannot think outside the box.
Male must sacrifice himself so females can escape.
Furiosa must be saved by max because she couldn't fence off an mediocre attack by a man.
As females are set on the right path Mad max work is done, and goes on his merry way to save more weak women

Ignoring the sillier ones in your list (like lime light stealing whatever the hell that meant), you actually give a good summary of how Fury Road could have been just another action movie full of chauvinist fantasy. But as I already said, it actually works as a feminist film because it strips out so many of the cliches that would disempower the women - you don't get the woman falling for the man when she realises how virile he is, nor does the woman turn hopeless in the last act so Max can save her.

Someone in the "limelight" is someone who has all the attention focused upon them. The specific scene being referred to is when Splendid was hanging on to the side of the War Rig, and ultimately fell under the wheels.