Mad Max: Fury Road MAIN TRAILER

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Yes, if they put a dozen of Cannon's 5D to shoot a stunt from every corner, it brings a huge amount of footage !

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A few brief reviews were posted here. Sounds pretty much like how blackmocco described it.

http://letterboxd.com/film/mad-max-fury ... /by/added/

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More from the Q&A. The last one I found very interesting.

6 Crazy, Cool Things We Just Learned About Mad Max: Fury Road

By Kyle Buchanan

There are a whole lot of wham-slam superhero movies coming this summer, but for action fans, there may be no more anticipated summer blockbuster than Mad Max: Fury Road. Those breathtaking trailers! That sterling cast, led by Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron! There's a lot to look forward to here, and last night in Los Angeles, the wait until Fury Road's May 15 release got a little shorter as director George Miller unveiled the movie to Los Angeles press. While our reactions are currently embargoed, one audience member allowed to speak off the cuff was Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, who joined Miller for a post-screening Q&A and raved, "I am totally in awe of this movie." And while what's on the screen impressed at least Wright, the stories Miller told about how it all came together seemed almost as unbelievable as what made it into the movie. Here are six things Miller said that produced an audible reaction from the crowd.

All those incredible stunts were done for real.

"We had to do it old-school," said Miller, after Wright praised the amazing stunts and car crashes that make up nearly every moment of Fury Road. "This is not a CG movie, we don't defy the laws of physics." For audiences used to summer movies slathered in subpar visual effects, the practical physicality of Fury Road may be startling, but that wasn't the only way Miller sought to differentiate his film from the legions of action-movie imitators spawned since Miller made his debut on 1979's franchise-starting Mad Max (then starring Mel Gibson). "One thing I've noticed is that the default position for everyone is to desaturate postapocalyptic movies," bemoaned Miller. "It can get really tiring watching this dull, desaturated color." Instead, Miller ensured that Fury Road's color scheme is as eye-popping as those stunts, with the teal of the desert sky and the orange of the explosions cranked up to hypersaturated heights.

The movie was essentially shot without a screenplay.

In many ways, Fury Road plays out as one long chase scene, with Max (Tom Hardy) and Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) fleeing across the desert as creepy, psychotic baddies pursue their secret cargo. Instead of committing all those action beats and dialogue to the page in a traditional way, then, Miller and a team of artists simply storyboarded the entirety of Fury Road in advance. "You don't have to write, 'look left,' 'look right,' or whatever … you can draw it," said Miller. "We sat in a room and basically laid out 3,500 panels. So much of the movie [we storyboarded] is what you saw today." That unorthodox approach wasn't always easy for his actors to comprehend, though. "There were times when I was like, 'George! What are we doing?!' Theron said to Entertainment Weekly. "We would show up with no scene numbers — we couldn’t even have a call sheet. And you look around and go, 'What the fuck is going on?!'"

There is an unbelievable amount of Mad Max: Fury Road footage that you'll never, ever see.

Despite all that advance planning, the makers of Fury Road had to endure a marathon shoot in Namibia, and they had plenty to show for their time. "This is ridiculous, but we shot 480 hours of footage," laughed Miller. "That's three weeks [of] continuous watching without sleep!" Miller would then send the footage to his editor, Margaret Sixel, "who happens to be my life's partner," he said. "I have to say, she's brainier than I am — she's really got a big brain. She's much more mathematical than I am, highly intuitive, and has got a low boredom threshold. Anything that's repetitive or slightly off, she'd say, 'Stop there.' She's the one person who can say it to me ... I can usually out-talk someone else!" Sixel had never edited an action film before, (even Miller hadn't helmed a live-action movie since 1998's Babe: Pig in the City), but the director gave her one maxim to live by: "If you cut it like those [other modern] action movies where everything's really really fast and it's an excuse for not respecting space or geography, it's a kind of visual noise. You want the notes to be clear."

Fury Road was nearly 15 years in the making.

Miller thought he was done with the franchise after making the three films that starred Mel Gibson, but soon enough, he had ideas for a fourth film that he couldn't keep at bay. Still, Fury Road proved discouragingly difficult to mount. "We wished to kick this off in 2001," said Miller. "It fell away. The American dollar collapsed with 9/11, the budget ballooned." After Miller spent the next few years exploring the notion of an entirely CG-animated Fury Road, he changed course, cast Tom Hardy, and tried to get the movie off the ground once more in 2011. "It rose again, [but] we had unprecedented rains in the outback of Australia," he said. "Where there was red desert, there was now flowers. Eventually, we waited a year for it to dry out, and it didn't, so we had to take everything from the east coast of Australia to the west coast of Namibia, where it never rains."

There is a logical reason that one of the bad guys has a flame-shooting guitar.

What better to motivate Fury Road's villainous army than a "rock rig" of musicians who ride alongside them and play decibel-shattering, adrenaline-pumping anthems? The back of the rig is occupied by four drummers, and the front is dominated by a guitarist — nicknamed the Doof Warrior — whose every heavy-metal lick is punctuated by flames shooting out of the top of his guitar neck. The only occasionally seen character is destined to be a fan favorite (and is already burning up Twitter), but Miller says he took a pretty grounded approach to conceiving that weapon of aural destruction: "You had to have something very loud [to compete with the noise of the battle], so he has this guitar — which is made from a hospital bedpan and a double-neck guitar — and he's got to have a weapon, so it becomes a flame thrower. It all hopefully has some sort of logic." And that logic applied to everything you'll see onscreen, from the biggest vehicles to the tiniest props. "It got to a point where if I picked up a prop, the person who made that prop or the performer working with that prop had to tell me its backstory," Miller said.

Miller was almost terrified of how good his movie's trailers were.

If you've spent the last few months obsessing over the amazing trailers for Fury Road, you're not alone: Every time a new version came in from the Warner Bros. marketing team, Miller was similarly awestruck. In fact, the advertising materials were so stunning that they began to worry the filmmaker now had to live up to even higher expectations. "I didn't want to peak with the trailer!" Miller told me after the Q&A. But he laughed, remembering how the creative impulse went both ways during post-production: "Sometimes we'd see the trailer and something was so good, like a sound cue ..." He grinned, using both hands to snatch at the air. "We'd just grab it!"

http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/6-crazy- ... ories.html

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Another opinion from last night's screenings.

So.... I saw this last night. I was sitting in my dorm, planning to go to class later in the evening, when my roommate almost scrolls past a Facebook post that's offering extra tickets to an early screening. Naturally, we jumped at the opportunity. We grabbed our coats, hustled down to the metro, and waited in line at the Chinese Grauman for two hours. The verdict?

This film is bat-shit crazy.

Not sure where to begin, because the film is so visually stimulating and well framed, combined with the non-stop action, that the entire film feels like a blur. I've only seen the original Mad Max (will see Road Warrior tomorrow!), but this film is pretty tonally different.

This world where this is set feels so weird, so stylized, so exaggerated, that I couldn't help but fall in love with it. I want to revisit this world again and again, just due to how stellar the visual design was. Seriously, this better be nominated for a shit load of Oscars. I'm talking Production Design, Costume, Make-up, Cinematography, the whole shebang. The scenes at night are so blue and so pretty.

Now, I need to see the film again just to let everything sink in again, but I thought the story was fine enough. Nothing complex, very simple. The character development is light, but honestly, I learned so much more about the characters through their make-up, costumes, actions, or facial expressions than I did through their dialogue.

And Charlize Theron stole the show for me. So damn cool.

This film is so pro-women, it's awesome. I LOVED how many bad-ass women they had in this film without making it seem forced or trite. The fact that Charlize DOESN'T have any sort of romantic flair with Hardy is great. A relationship that grows to be founded on mutual respect. Pay attention Hollywood!

All in all, I can't yet give a final verdict, but I came out feeling appropriately hyped, and hopefully my second viewing will be just as stimulating as the first.

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Looks like they're setting up everything for tomorrow's press junket and it's a fans/replica dream!

Sourced the photos from Instagram so the folks present in the photos is from their streams.

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Action was so insane and refreshingly awesome. My only complaints was that there were some story points that were a bit rushed and Immortan Joe could have been developed better, but my god was this a roller coaster ride trip through hell.

He's 100% Max from the other series. He's credited in the very beginning with "Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky".

I think he gives his own spin to the character. More grunts, and hes bit funnier or more of a badass.

Screening in LA. I honestly don't know, I have to see this again to decide if I like it more than The Road Warrior.

But if I had to rate the series:
Mad Max - 7/10
The Road Warror - 9/10
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - 6/10
Mad Max: Fury Road - 9/10


It isn't as "bloody" as those films, but its very violent. With a few edits I could see this movie being PG-13. Although it's probably the most violent of the Mad Max films, since they were never gory to begin with.


Well what do you want to know?

The story was fine but there was room for improvement, like the development of Immortan Joe. The action was like nothing I've seen before and I enjoyed every minute of it.

The acting from the leads was great, especially Charlize Theron. Her character will be the one everybody will be talking about, but thats nothing against Hardy as Max. Hes a man of few words, so of course Furiosa would have more lines, but Hardy has more screentime.

Soundtrack was one of my favorite parts, I am so going to buy it.

Very violent, but not gory at all. Might be my favorite of the series.

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Well that's good to hear... Or read.

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Tom kinda looks like Mel in this image

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The Organic Mechanic

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Looks like what blacmocco's said about the flashbacks is also seem by other people.