Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Started by quanchi11237 pages

Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
How? What would you prefer?
Character progression and a buildup to the action. It reminded me of the repetitive nonsense that was in Man of Steel. I simply didn't care and found it to be boring.

You don't like anything not Harry Potter,MCU or NuTrek.

Originally posted by playa1258
You don't like anything not Harry Potter,MCU or NuTrek.
You left out Lord of the Rings, Nightmare on Elm Street, Transformers the cartoon movie, Tron Legacy, Departed, Scarface, Star Wars, Etc. just to name a few. One thing I will do is admit a movie stinks if it does stink to me.

Originally posted by playa1258
You don't like anything not Harry Potter,MCU or NuTrek.

Really? Sad.

And he doesn't like any of the old franchises unless they do a new version.

Originally posted by Kazenji
And he doesn't like any of the old franchises unless they do a new version.
I can't stand the new Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc. I also love the original Transformers cartoons not the current films or cartoons. If you're going to quote me be accurate.

Originally posted by Kazenji
And he doesn't like any of the old franchises unless they do a new version.

😂 wow.

Originally posted by Zack M
😂 wow.
Originally posted by quanchi112
I can't stand the new Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc. I also love the original Transformers cartoons not the current films or cartoons. If you're going to quote me be accurate.
I win.

😂

Originally posted by quanchi112
I just posted multiple other posters who felt it was lame. It isn't the minority. It was shit.

A minority can be several people.

If you felt those comments somehow justified your internet rants, just let me tell you it's more of a confirmation of bias thing than anything else. But I don't doubt of your honesty.

Originally posted by Bentley
A minority can be several people.

If you felt those comments somehow justified your internet rants, just let me tell you it's more of a confirmation of bias thing than anything else. But I don't doubt of your honesty.

It wasn't just a few it was a lot. I honestly can't for the life of me see how anyone could enjoy this snooze fest.

Originally posted by quanchi112
It wasn't just a few it was a lot. I honestly can't for the life of me see how anyone could enjoy this snooze fest.

As I said, I don't doubt your honesty, but some people don't need forced storylines to enjoy action films (an average plot for such films is quite artificial when it comes down to it).

Originally posted by Bentley
As I said, I don't doubt your honesty, but some people don't need forced storylines to enjoy action films (an average plot for such films is quite artificial when it comes down to it).
The action itself is lame. The main villain was defeated easily as well. What did you really like about this film ?

Originally posted by quanchi112
The action itself is lame. The main villain was defeated easily as well. What did you really like about this film ?

Again, the very notion of a main villain needing to lead to some epic combat is just an action trope that is about plot.

The action sequences, lot's of stuff going on at once, pretty much sliming plot down to actually show you stuff happening. Beautiful scenes, quick progression, deep characters that aren't about the talk but about the walk. Great coreography. All this done to an impressive scale. You know, action stuff.

Originally posted by Bentley
Again, the very notion of a main villain needing to lead to some epic combat is just an action trope that is about plot.

The action sequences, lot's of stuff going on at once, pretty much sliming plot down to actually show you stuff happening. Beautiful scenes, quick progression, deep characters that aren't about the talk but about the walk. Great coreography. All this done to an impressive scale. You know, action stuff.

I thought it was repetitive and didn't really build up. We see the villain easily defeated in an action film. That's lame to me. Might as well watch a Steven S. film in which he casually defeats the main villain when he confronts them. Lame.

Originally posted by quanchi112
I thought it was repetitive and didn't really build up. We see the villain easily defeated in an action film. That's lame to me. Might as well watch a Steven S. film in which he casually defeats the main villain when he confronts them. Lame.

So do you think there wasn't any effort into getting to the villain and surviving the ordeal?

Personally I think that forcing every villain to become the same kind of cookie cutter challenge is silly anyways. Besides we both know evil people being cool is just a macho teen mentality poured into plots to artificially up the stakes of otherwise lacking adventures. In real life the difficulty isn't videogame like.

Originally posted by Bentley
So do you think there wasn't any effort into getting to the villain and surviving the ordeal?

Personally I think that forcing every villain to become the same kind of cookie cutter challenge is silly anyways. Besides we both know evil people being cool is just a macho teen mentality poured into plots to artificially up the stakes of otherwise lacking adventures. In real life the difficulty isn't videogame like.

I didn't think the confrontation with the main villain built up because he was dead before you knew it once he got close. This is fiction so I expect the villain to live up to the challenge in an action flick. Lame.

AFI's top 10 films of 2015:

THE BIG SHORT
BRIDGE OF SPIES
CAROL
INSIDE OUT
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
ROOM
SPOTLIGHT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Loved it personally. Despite their being so many characters on screen they did a really good job of giving them all strong personalities and chose well the ones that you got to see cover a range throughout the movie.

A lot of the tropes like "shiny and chrome" and witnessing one another really played into giving the film its own life as a part of the Mad Max series. It felt like the movie connected with the rest without stealing from them or representing them in a way that took anything from the old ones.

Honestly the only weakness was that because of how well the film brought so many characters to life it became impossible to spend a lot of time on any individuals, though that's not a weakness that's a negative for the movie. I enjoyed the scale of things like the storm, the way that I'm assuming intentionally the shots captured the death of almost everyone killed, playing both to the witnessing but also to the fact that there is a cost to conflict.

As to their being no final epic battle, I think the last car chase through the canyon covers that. They had to fight through waves of the grease boys and take on the son before they brought it to an end, and it's not like a physical confrontation hand-to-hand is the only way to have a strong resolution. That's just small-minded.

Great movie, watched it multiple times.

Originally posted by Ascendancy

As to their being no final epic battle, I think the last car chase through the canyon covers that. They had to fight through waves of the grease boys and take on the son before they brought it to an end, and it's not like a physical confrontation hand-to-hand is the only way to have a strong resolution. That's just small-minded.

Great movie, watched it multiple times.

That's kinda the point some people didn't understand.
There was no need for a final epic battle.
Not every aspect of Max's life has to end with a fight scene.

This movie was more about redemption & salvation, not good vs evil.

*there. I have forever shamed myself with that typo.