I will agree that the villains were way more 2 dimensional in this film than any previous Mad Max, but to be fair, the story about Furiosa and the girls, which could have easily been a complete fucking disaster, was handled pretty well for a movie that was basically just an excuse to blow up some cars and toss some stuntmen around.

True. I swear though, half of Tom Script must have looked like this:


MAX: grunt

FURIOSA: So will you help us?!?

MAX: Grunt...grunt grunt! (unintelligable)

MAX: Grunt...?

FURIOSA: What?

MAX: Gruntity-grunt...OK!?!?

I ate some halluinogens and watched in 3D in the front row. Like, nothing much, just a cap, and had a few beers. So I loved it, and every time it slowed down enough for me to figure out what was going on I was thinking "I don't really need this.." Max's backstory is the one from the first Mad Max, but I kind of liked the fast paced and overwhelming linear action with no backstory. It's kind of like the opposite of Homer's Illiad: you get all these back stories for all these people, and then they all die and have nothing to do with the story's progression. I dunno, like Boba Fett, I think the back stories about all these colorful characters will be written over time, even they were only there for a minute or two.

I thought there was plenty of character development but it's presented to the viewer in a way they're not used to. Most Hollywood films spoon-feed you information, so the only way you know a character has changed is because they make a big speech at the end letting you know exactly what those changes were and why they happened.

Fury Road's backstory and character arcs are there, but they're communicated in expressions and implied in lines of dialog, so the film can build plot and character without losing its insane momentum.

Even if none of that was there, though, I'd still love this movie just for reminding Hollywood that it's possible to do some amazing stuff with real practical effects using actual physical objects, instead of having a former Shrek animator render a bunch of cartoon robots for Iron Man to beat up.

I thought it was somewhat entertaining but didn't leave much of an impression on me otherwise and I still don't get the hype. I don't know if backstory is necessary, but the best action movies usually at least have some memorable lines and scenery chewing. Fedex's dialogue example isn't an exaggeration.

I feel bad about possible "spoilers" but this isn't exactly one of those movies where you don't expect somewhat of an occam's razor M Night Shamamamalanafsh twist, but...









my favorite scene in a film with more badass action and mopeds and flaming double guitar dudes than most movies is where Max just goes off camera and does his thing while the ladies are waiting around.

Also this is just so cool. I'll probably get the DVD anyway, but it's stuff like this that I was expecting to have to wait months and months for.

For Xenocide *****

This movie is a great lesson in visual story telling. They could have done exactly the same film, but silent with no dialog at all and it still would have worked.

Yeah I plan on seeing it again in the theatre, but I'm just going to put together a nice mix for my mp3 player and listen to that on headphones. Throughout college I always knew someone who worked at a movie theatre so I never paid, and that's what I'd always do. I remember getting high and watching Jet Li's The One, listening to the (then) new Venetian Snares and it was actually pretty awesome.

I said it before, but it's kind of like Avatar, which has a similar metacritic score, even though it's an easy movie to pick apart. I didn't see it in theatres, but everyone I talked to who did was like a combination of "holy shit that was beautiful" and "holy shit that was the cheesiest story I've seen in a long time." "But, see it in theatres; it's a fucking movie boner if you ignore the plot.." sort of thing. And to me it just looked like a cinematic from new Unreal game so I passed.. not my thing. But what my thing is is everything that Mad Max has to offer visually.