Test audience screenings 7/30 & 12/8 (Spoilers)

[Stamper]

It's closer in tone and style to Thunderdome than MM2

What? Means there are kids and there is no chase?

MM2 has some very goofy tone too, if you take out the chase and the bad guys, all the stuff inside the camp is... campy.

[roadwarriormfp]

It's closer in tone and style to Thunderdome than MM2

What? Means there are kids and there is no chase?

MM2 has some very goofy tone too, if you take out the chase and the bad guys, all the stuff inside the camp is... campy.

No maybe he means instead of annoying kids theres annoying prissy females???

[pauli77]

It's closer in tone and style to Thunderdome than MM2

What? Means there are kids and there is no chase?

MM2 has some very goofy tone too, if you take out the chase and the bad guys, all the stuff inside the camp is... campy.

No maybe he means instead of annoying kids theres annoying prissy females???

Haha I laughed out loud at that.

A few of my fears have been confirmed here but it sounds like a good action film.

I wonder, what did you mean about hardy not been for everyone and been unpredictable? He was one thing I had nailed on for been good.

[MachRider]

It's closer in tone and style to Thunderdome than MM2

What? Means there are kids and there is no chase?

MM2 has some very goofy tone too, if you take out the chase and the bad guys, all the stuff inside the camp is... campy.

I think he meant the general style which is more... stylish I guess... While MM2 is more gritty. But has to do more with lower budget and Byron Kennedy influence than Miller's vision. Miller has always seen it as TD/FR over the top style.

Comic and campy elements are integral part of MM movies. Fifi, Cundalini, Gyro, Pigkiller are all great comic characters. Something like that balances nicely with rest of the story. MM2 without gyro is not MM2 anymore.
I would be disapointed if FR was all badassery and no jokes.

Problem is Thunderdome sometimes went full-out slapstick comedy, mainly with anything Ironbar related and that horrible pan-in-the-face moment. That's just ridiculous and completely shark-jumping. Hope there is none of that in Fury Road.

[DGSimo]

Asked my friend and he said it was a different cut than April's screening. Some changes are noticeable like Max's V.O was a lot clearer this time. I've tried asking if he could talk about anything else so hopefully, given the timezone, I'll hear from him later.

[NuffTorque]

I heard the train makes a reappearance, and its full of snakes, and when they travel through the tornado type winds, There are sharks falling out of the sky attacking the bad gang members.

[pauli77]

It's closer in tone and style to Thunderdome than MM2

What? Means there are kids and there is no chase?

MM2 has some very goofy tone too, if you take out the chase and the bad guys, all the stuff inside the camp is... campy.

I think he meant the general style which is more... stylish I guess... While MM2 is more gritty. But has to do more with lower budget and Byron Kennedy influence than Miller's vision. Miller has always seen it as TD/FR over the top style.

Comic and campy elements are integral part of MM movies. Fifi, Cundalini, Gyro, Pigkiller are all great comic characters. Something like that balances nicely with rest of the story. MM2 without gyro is not MM2 anymore.
I would be disapointed if FR was all badassery and no jokes.

Problem is Thunderdome sometimes went full-out slapstick comedy, mainly with anything Ironbar related and that horrible pan-in-the-face moment. That's just ridiculous and completely shark-jumping. Hope there is none of that in Fury Road.

Good points. Mad Max has always had cartoonish, comic book elements. Humungus is straight out of He-Man lol.

Though I've watched Thunderdome a few times recently and I think it's a fantastic kids film.

[ajs]

I hate these test screenings. The producers usually get average Joe's off the street who end up getting the movie changed based on their reactions. You can't have average Joe's test screening these types of movies you need genre fans.

[DGSimo]

But It's the average Joe's they need their butts in theaters for this to be a success.

[blackmocco]

No, no kids like Thunderdome but there are times in the movie, where stuff gets so over-the-top that the movie wobbles a bit. Particularly with Hardy's performance, where I couldn't tell whether he was playing it for laughs or not sometimes. He looks the part for sure, but don't know if he's enough to center the movie. Not going to lie, found myself wondering what the movie would have been like with Mel on board. It's really Furiosa's story, all told. Max joins that story.

There were problems for me with the movie, sorry to say. And after a night's kip, those problems are more on my mind than the stuff that's fucking awesome because tidying up some f/x and doing some editing isn't going to help. But I'm also trying to temper those problems with the insane expectations I had waiting almost thirty years for a new Mad Max movie. I can say this: The reboot element doesn't bother me as much as it will some of you, nor do the sci-fi elements, as my SECOND most anticipated movie of all time was Dredd from 2012. All I can tell you is I came out of that one buzzing, and with FR it was more like "what the fuck have I just watched...?" Haha! Went for food and a beer after with a buddy and also MM freak and we clearly felt the same about what we had seen.

Let me be clear, lest I sound like I didn't like it: I VERY MUCH LIKED IT. I can't say with my hand on heart that I loved it yet because I'm really still thinking about it but I'm very, very eager to see it again. Please understand - and it's extremely difficult to do this without going into spoilers - it's a big movie with a lot of concepts and ideas and visuals. Overwhelmingly so, in places. Yes, to the luddites out there, there's quite a bit of CG in here, but as far as I could tell, it's more landscape manipulation then anything else.

If anything, even with some reservations, I'm glad Miller let loose for this. It's certainly something very, very unique and special.