Mad Max: Fury Road

Calamity Panfan · #1

The fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise comes out this Friday, and it's getting some prettystellar reviews. Which makes sense because the trailer looked incredible:

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Anyone seeing this soon? I promised one of my friends I wouldn't see it without her but I CAN'T WAIT THIS IS GONNA BE SO **** DOPE

#2

FINE SHUT UP PANFAN I'LL POST HERE

http://www.avclub.com/article/mad-men-m ... men-219391

babby children whining that this is feminist propaganda under the disguise of awesome action

good

ScottyMcGee · #3

There's a lot of furious Mad Max threads going around.

Deepfake · #4

2 mad 2 max

Calamity Panfan · #5

THIS MOVIE IS SO RAD OMG

HOLY F***ING HELL I CAN'T GET OVER THE RADNESS

Deepfake · #6

I plan to see it sometime very soon. Love the visual aspects. I will have to judge the story for myself.

ScottyMcGee · #7

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United Nations · #8

^I was just coming to this thread to post that.

StarryPeach · #9

I saw it earlier tonight. I enjoyed it. I'd post more about it but I don't want to ruin other people's expectations of the movie. :nod:

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #10

[QUOTE="Loot, post: 1534044, member: 21459"]
babby children whining that this is feminist propaganda under the disguise of awesome action[/QUOTE]

It is.

Calamity Panfan · #11

[QUOTE="I REALLY HATE POKEMON!, post: 1535099, member: 18119"]It is.[/QUOTE]

it in no way is

at all

like one bit

#12

Even if it is it doesn't matter because everyone loves it anyway. Even user scores are high for this one.

Too bad I only see movies with friends. :I

#13

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #14

[QUOTE="Wu-Tang Panfan, post: 1535126, member: 29448"]it in no way is

at all

like one bit[/QUOTE]

But The Game Overthinker said it is. I haven't seen it, though.

I think it probably is from what I can gather. If people like it then good for them regardless.

#15

So I just went to see Road Fury: Max Mad

It's really good. It stands on its own which is good for a movie franchise that hasn't been visited in years. Every character from the most important to some of the people you only see for five minutes are given enough characterization that you remember all of them. The action was easy to follow, there are moments when everything ramps up to eleven but the slower moments don't suffer because of it.

Everything works in this movie. EVERYTHING. It's the standard I want all movies to look at, knowing full well they'll never achieve it.

[QUOTE="I REALLY HATE POKEMON!, post: 1535186, member: 18119"]But The Game Overthinker said it is. I haven't seen it, though.[/QUOTE]

Oh, **** Moviebob.

United Nations · #16

[QUOTE="I REALLY HATE POKEMON!, post: 1535186, member: 18119"]But The Game Overthinker said it is. I haven't seen it, though.

I think it probably is from what I can gather. If people like it then good for them regardless.[/QUOTE]
...so you haven't even seen it? Shut up.

#17

Boy, you know, I'm a little keen to see this, by sheer virtue of the RedLetterMedia guys saying it's one of the best action movies they've seen in years. I mean, I'd better hurry up and watch the originals, here (or had I better not? Or does it not matter a single toss? One ponders. Heck, it can't be hard to puzzle out what's going on. It's post-apocalyptic 'Borderlands'-ass biz-----------dun have to be a genius to figure out what's what, do you.) (You know, I'll watch the originals first-------got nothing to lose, and, you know, maybe they're rad!)

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #18

[QUOTE="User Name, post: 1535219, member: 31164"]...so you haven't even seen it? Shut up.[/QUOTE]

Why? I watched trailers, scenes, reviews and synopsis, everything short of watching it. It isn't like I don't know anything about it.

Calamity Panfan · #19

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1535223, member: 17381"]Boy, you know, I'm a little keen to see this, by sheer virtue of the RedLetterMedia guys saying it's one of the best action movies they've seen in years. I mean, I'd better hurry up and watch the originals, here (or had I better not? Or does it not matter a single toss? One ponders. Heck, it can't be hard to puzzle out what's going on. It's post-apocalyptic 'Borderlands'-ass biz-----------dun have to be a genius to figure out what's what, do you.) (You know, I'll watch the originals first-------got nothing to lose, and, you know, maybe they're rad!)[/QUOTE]

Mad Max doesn't really have much of a continuity outside of the character Max, so it really doesn't matter if you see them in order or not. Most of my group of friends (myself included) that saw it never saw the originals and we all agreed it's hella rad.

Though I'm definitely at least checking out The Road Warrior soon

Calamity Panfan · #20

gonna address some of the "feminist propaganda" stuff here, spoilering stuff because I will address some major plot points:

[spoiler]First off, calling the movie "propaganda" assumes that the movie has a message, and even considering all the "who killed the world?" stuff, I really don't think this movie has much of a message beyond "WOAH LOOK AT THIS RAD **** HAPPENING." The "who killed the world?" just gives us more of a look of the motives of the female characters in the movie and gives them more backstory. If you come out of the movie saying "wow i can't believe how much this movie pandered to feminazis and SJWs" instead of "HOLY **** THERE WAS A DUDE PLAYING A FLAMETHROWING GUITAR ON A TRUCK MADE OF AMPLIFIERS" you probably read way too much into action movies. Not to say these types movies can't have underlying messages but their main focus is entertainment (Avatar might have underlying environmentalist messages but the movie is still more about HOLY **** THE 3D EVERYTHING IS SO PRETTY than it is about saving the planet) and even if you don't agree with the "politics" of the movie you can still enjoy it a lot.

Second, it's a good thing the movie focused on Furiosa instead of Max. I'd be saying the same thing if the movie focused on a character of either sex instead of Max so long as they were interesting. This isn't to diss Max, but he's not all that interesting. He's just a dude driven by survival and haunted by his past. Max is used as a character to see the crazy, ****-up dystopian society through, and that's how he works best. And to the critics who say "THE MOVIE IS CALLED MAD MAX BUT IT'S ABOUT SOMEBODY ELSE," it's not like this is a rare thing in movies/books/games/culture at all! It's been done for years! Saying that a movie called Mad Max being about another character is false advertising is like saying that Zelda games falsely advertise because the main character is Link. I wouldn't even say Furiosa's the main character. The main character of this movie is the world that the characters inhabit, and the characters simply flesh out the world and add to its incredible detail.

Third, and this is why I spoilered my argument. Yes, you can see the messages of "Who killed the world?" all over and that might scream MEN ARE BAD MONSTERS to a lot of people. They said this because they were going to go to this perfect utopian society of women. But guess what? THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN FAILED AND NEARLY DIED OFF. There were like what, 6 of them left when Max, Furiosa and the gang caught up with them? And the majority of THOSE women died in the final fight. So if the movie is saying that society would be better if women were in charge, then it doesn't do a good job. If anything it says that there needs to be collaboration between the two.

Which leads me to my next point, the women play a large part in the movie, but the people screaming "FEMINIST PROPAGANDA" seem to ignore the acts of Max and Nux throughout the film. The women probably would've all died if not for the help of Max and Nux. So to say "this movie has no respect for men" ignores TWO OF THE **** MAIN CHARACTERS COMPLETELY[/spoiler]