MAD MAX - Fury Road

[Dave (imported)]

I almost thought that I would write a review crapping all over this movie.

It is two giant car chases in the desert with those apocalyptic vehicles -- one at the start and another at the end with a middle section of quiet to explain itself.

To the movie's credit this is all stunt work and no CGI. That's all the cars and trucks and motorcycles and all the wild screaming fights, the jumping around and the crazy driving in the desert.

It is Entertaining (with a capital E) if you like car crashes and the wildness of the first two MAD MAX movies.

This isn't THUNDERDOME, that has too many people that aren't crazy and is too civilized. No, all of these people are crazed by the desert and the lack of water and the mutant children and the weird dying "Imperators" who run the place.

An Imperator (a woman with a mechanical arm) wants to take the only breeding women to the "green" place. That's part one. Lots of violent and weirdness to keep the audience happy.

The middle is the discovery that the "green" place doesn't exist.

The final sequence is the road back to the "place with water" and it is a chase that tops the first chase.

And no CGI.

So if you like car crashes, real stunts, crazy people, brutal deaths, ugly deaths, and really squeamishly ugly deaths, then you'll love MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.

Get the popcorn and the beer and/or get buzzed big time and let the demolition derby begin ... because, after all, why shouldn't only one vehicle survive?

[Riverwind (imported)]

Oh my, I was going to let this one pass quietly in the night but now I think I will at least watch it once, not in a theater but maybe on netflex or some other free service.

Thanks again for a great review of a movie.

River

[Dave (imported)]

The bigger the screen the better.

It's a festival of Mad Max and it does have a plot and a point and a reasonably satisfying ending.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I will sit real close to the screen and turn the headset on full to get that feeling of the theater where the sound is way to high, I will even put my monitor on a stand so I must crane my neck a bit just to see it.

[foxytaur (imported)]

this movie = winner, guys stop bashing it, its great, it reflects what would happen when the social order breaks down, people fighting for resources and the law of the land becomes more akin to neighboring warlords fighting for control.

Story wise it may not be as great as the second film but please, its amazing. I watched this film with my dad and he was very hyped for it.We snuck a few A & W burgers into the movie theatre, he was wearing his "Lord Humungus" helmet he got from years back when a friend of his welded one for him. Great times man, great times.

NB= the flame throwing guitarist made it funny as hell lol

[Dave (imported)]

I caught more of the story the second time because I wasn't looking at all the stunts and vehicles and guys on poles and war machines.

It actually does make some sort of apocalyptic sense.

The flaming guitar is quite a sight.

Guys on 12 or 15 foot poles mounted on motorcycles are also impressive.

[Paolo]

I never got over "Thunderdome".

To this day, the words "Mad Max" make me cringe.

[Dave (imported)]

I never got over "Thunderdome".

To this day, the words "Mad Max" make me cringe.

This isn't THUNDERDOME.

This movie is written in the mold of the first two Mad Max movies rather than as THUNDERDOME which wanted to close the trilogy for Mel Gibson. That's what the history of the movie was when it was conceived and presented. Mel Gibson wanted to end Mad Max because he didn't want to perform the role. He had aspirations of a bigger career. And I can't blame him for that. In the middle of that trilogy, he did star in several outstanding dramas. However, FURY ROAD isn't a closer to the trilogy. It more like a third installment of a franchise with options for more.

To tell the truth, as a closer to a trilogy, I thought THUNDERDOME was OK. However, it lost all the wild and crazy aspects of the original Road Warrior and Mad Max movies that it came from. It got too involved in solving the apocalypse rather than merely demonstrating it.

I will say that Dr Dealgood's quote "Right now, I've got two men, two men with a gut full of fear. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... dyin' times here!" is just one of those lines in movies that will live forever.

FURY ROAD isn't that.

[kgone1982 (imported)]

My son is totally into it. In fact he imports total wrecks, takes them apart and rebuilds them for customers all over the US. MadMaxCars.com shows what he has and has done. Several if his builds were used for movies. I'll wait and see the movie at his house.

[Dave (imported)]

You will have fun with that movie.

The cars are "prickly" and that's something you have to see to understand.