Immortan Joecutter wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 2:44 am
Let's face it: Thunderdome buried the original trilogy almost 40 years ago and Furiosa (...) I won't go on any further.
Not Thunderdome's fault. Thunderdome was a smash hit all over the world, and made Mad Max ultra-popular in many countries where he wasn't.
AquaCola wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 6:07 am
8 years dreaming about this film and I'm busy the week it comes out. I can't stop thinking about it. Is this what addiction feels like?
...yes, probably
Whaaat, you haven't watched the movie yet?? Do something about it! I am lucky, I took two weeks of holiday only to celebrate Furiosa in cinemas.
BRC1974 wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 11:59 pm
My bad. I edited my post.
Cheers!
I'm just frustrated I haven't seen it yet, but still I can't keep away from forum discussions about it, so it's sort of at my own risk I guess. Need to see it soon, while I can still retain some surprise.
Finally saw the film last night and posted my thoughts on it in another thread with a lot of spoilers, but if anyone is interested, I've adapted it to remove the spoilers here:
- Overall I thought it was superb.
- I'm amazed reading other places online that people think the first chapter was too long/baggy. I thought it was utterly brilliant and the part that gripped me the most. You're thrown straight into the world, and both the tension of what's unfolding, as well as the introduction to a part of this universe you haven't seen before, was mind-blowing to me and I was completely riveted.
- While the film isn't like Fury Road, in that it's not literally non-stop action, it's still more stuffed full of adrenaline than the vast majority of action films. When the film really goes for it, to me it totally matched Fury Road. Personally, I think the idea that this is slower and baggier than FR is somewhat true, but definitely overstated.
- It might be the most grotesque and sadistic of all the MM films. Dementus is larger than life and can be funny or cartoony, but he's unbelievably cruel and sadistic. Some other scenes and characters are quite gross and some of the images will stay with me. Definitely not for kids!
- I understand people complaining a bit about whether there's enough music, or enough memorable music in the film, but I must say it never really bothered me. Sure, it would've been nice if there'd been another "Brothers in Arms"-type piece from Tom Holkenborg, but the more restrained use of music also worked fine here for the most part I felt.
- Everyone is talking about Anya Taylor Joy's performance and she is really good, but Chris Hemsworth deserves more credit in my opinion. Thought he was great in this and manages to pull off being ludicrous, funny, totally despicable and yet sorrowful all at once. It's just as much Dementus' film as Furiosa's and he did more than his share of carrying the story.
- On the negative side, I thought that Praetorian Jack was less developed than he should've been. Still a good character, but just wasn't enough in my opinion.
- One other critical point - and it's a small one, but it really bothers me - is the way both Fury Road and Furiosa start. And it's not a spoiler because by 'start', I mean literally the opening credits. Those disembodied voices doing sort of news reports, or people saying "thermonuclear warfare" or "we have become half-life" are so clunky and bad to me. I'm quite sure they used the exact same clips at the beginning of both films. To me, they felt so false and hammy and tacked-on. Compare that to the elegant, haunting way that the world is established by the grown-up Feral Kid's voiceover and Brian May's funeral march score at the beginning of MM2. Both when I saw Fury Road and Furiosa it really jarred for me and felt both times like it was studio interference to insert clips for dummies of how the world fell. Especially because the rest of the two films are so well made and therefore this stood out to me.
- Overall, and I'll be in the minority saying this, I enjoyed this as much if not more than Fury Road. Don't get me wrong, FR was brilliant for what it was, but to me it was a radical departure from the feel of the original films and was more a pure-adrenaline film for the energy drink generation. While Furiosa still has some of that same feel as Fury Road, it was a half-step back towards MM2 or MMBT, in how it established the world, had at least some quieter moments, and was more epic in scope. Fury Road was a fantastic action film, but I love Mad Max for the parts and imagery of the series that haunted me. MM2 and (for all its flaws) MMBT were full of those haunting moments, and I feel that some images from Furiosa will stay with me longer than anything in Fury Road.
Sorry about the long post, but would love to hear what people think.
