OT - Spencer Hall's "Fury Road" review
I'd like to take a moment to link Spencer Hall's Mad Max: Fury Road review, because it is the finest piece of cultural literature I have ever read We all knew Spencer and the guys at EDSBS could write humerously about sports and Turkish Soccer. Turns out, he's a man with his finger on the pulse of the nation's cultural scene.
I implore you all, READ IT BECAUSE IT IS BARRENLY AWESOME LIKE THE SHAVED AND TATOOED DOME OF A POST APPOCOLYPTIC BLOOD DRINKING HELL DEMON PULLING OFF SOME EVEL KINEVEL SHIT BEFORE BLOWING UP IN MID AIR.
Hardy was so awesome in Warrior.
His takedown of Watch Dogs and Destiny with Jon Bois this week was pretty good. SB Nation is the shit.
I recently watched the original Mad Max. Sometime within the next week or so, I want to watch the The Road Warrior and then Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I will definitely be seeing Fury Road in the theatre.
The original Australian English or the American English re-dub? Probably the latter - the original theatrical version of it is entirely unintelligible.
I had no idea there was an American re-dub. My brain gradually developed the ability to decode the warped antipodean savagery that is Australian english over the course of six months living amongst the natives. Actually I took an Australian cinema class while I was there - my "easy" class, which I got the lowest grade in anyway - and Mad Max 2 was one of the films we broke down.
Just ignore Thunderdome.
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Where you at Hail-Storm, we talkin culture here!?!?
getting my tickets on my way home from work so I can have a decent seat tonight.
edit: It seems that Tom Hardy could dress as Bane and fit right in with the other cast
I really want to watch this movie but I haven't seen the first three. Will it still make sense to me? or should I marathon the first three movies before watching Fury Road?
Seconded. Anyone?
No you don't need to. There's no deep, intricate plot whatsoever. I haven't seen any of the others. I just saw it a few hours ago and it was fucking intense. Just nonstop action. Everything works. No cheesy lines. No cheesy romance. Great effects. Well worth seeing.
I don't think you need to see the originals to understand, on a cognitive level, what's going on. But as Spencer points out, the entire series pretty much operates on the level of your autonomic nervous system. So there's a chance that you might not get the world of Mad Max if you're expecting something cerebral, or an intricate plot. The world is insane, and it might seem absurd or nonsensical to the uninitiated - the first movie is like wading gradually into the shallow end of the crazy pool, and by the 2nd movie the ludicrosity machine has been set at 11 out of 10 and the handle broke off. My fiancee refuses to go see it with me, and that's all right because I don'tt hink she would appreciate it. But if you're digging the kind of things you're hearing about the movie, then I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Wow, this is an excellent point and honestly a fantastic summation of the Mad Max world as a whole.
Haven't seen it yet and I never saw the original.
But I'll be damned if Tom Hardy isn't the most underrated badass in Hollywood.
Bane? Unmeasurable amounts of badass
Tommy Conlon in Warrior? Badass fighting, war hero
Eames, Ricki Tarr, Handsom Bob the list goes on.
Can't wait to see Fury Road now.
Even knowing it's Spencer, I can't read all caps for more than a couple of "paragraphs."
The only negative reviews I've seen were one guy from the SF Examiner, some English guy, and of course, Armond White. Every single other review, from wide varieties of reviewers, is some variation on "holy shit" and "there's even a real story/theme here not just insane action"
OK.... I love Bane and all... but...
Seriously, bro. Are you fucking serious?
I'm going to see MM:FR this weekend. I am very, very excited. I love me some Tom Hardy. But, in all the reviews I've read thus far - they mention that he doesn't have many lines and that Theron steals the show. She's a wonderful actress, don't get me wrong. But "the best lead actor" with top billing on arguably the best movie of 2015 doesn't let anyone steal his show.
Harry's body of work is superb. From Bronson to Locke to Warrior to The Take.
I hope to check it out. I saw a TV spot a few days ago and it had a blurb saying "Best action movie ever." Now I know that blurbs are usually taken out of context, but I had to check Rotten Tomatoes. It was 98%. Impressive.
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Saw it last night and just...wow. It's incredibly kick-ass and all of the other things people say it is. Best pure action movie in a long time, and it's so much better knowing that it's mostly done with practical effects and real stunts instead of going the cg route. Hoping this will light a fire under things to get more recognition for stunt coordinators. Some of the things they do here are unreal.
I watched some of the behind-the-scenes stuff for Mad Max 2 the other day, I couldn't believe the danger their stunt crew were in basically all the time. There's a great crash where a motorcyclist hits a car wreck and goes cartwheeling towards the camera - well, turns out he was supposed to lift off the bike and clear the wreck, sailing safely into a pit filled with cardboard boxes. Instead, he broke his leg against the metal and starting flipping like a high velocity ragdoll at the mercy of physics. They kept the shot in the final cut, of course, because Mad Max.
There are a lot of action movies I don't care for, but this looks pretty good.
THIS IS THE MOST METAL MOVIE EVER. THIS MOVIE IS SO METAL THAT IT HAS MADE ITS OWN PLACE ON THE PERIODIC TABLE BETWEEN GOLD AND IRON AND LED THAT'S RIGHT LED WITHOUT AN A BECAUSE IT'S METAL, DO YOU UNERSTAND, METAL AND EVEN THOUGH GOLD AND IRON AND LED ARE NOT NEXT TO EACH OTHER ON THE PERIODIC TABLE THIS MOVIE PICKS THEM UP AND SLAPS THEM AROUND AND PUTS GOLD AND IRON AND LED WHEREVER THE HELL IT WANTS TO BECAUSE THIS IS THE MOST METAL MOVIE EVER.
I RIPPED MY SHIRT OFF HALFWAY THROUGH THIS MOVIE, TORE THE AISLE LIGHT FROM ITS SOCKET WITH MY TEETH, AND BRANDED MYSELF WITH ITS FILAMENT. I CLIMBED THE THEATER WALLS AND WATCHED HANGING FROM THE CEILING LIKE A BAT BECAUSE WHILE WATCHING THIS MOVIE MY FISTS BECAME POWERFUL ENOUGH TO PUNCH HANDHOLDS IN THE ANCIENT THEATER'S TRUE PLASTER WALLS. AS THE THEATER COLLAPSED AROUND ME I PLAYED ELECTRIC GUITAR UNTIL ONLY THE MOVIE SCREEN AND THE SKELETAL SOUND SYSTEM WERE STANDING. SOON THE BLASTING MUSIC SET EVERYTHING ABLAZE AND WE BURNED THROUGH THE NIGHT SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE STARS WHILE HORDES OF RAPTORS SWARMED AT THE BASE OF THE RUINS BECAUSE THIS IS THE MOST METAL MOVIE EVER.