Mad Max: Fury Road (obligatory spoiler warning) (Page 4 of 4)

A sequel that is completely self-contained?

How refreshing.

Seeing it for the second time today, I can only confirm that there's no point in going to see this movie in a theater if said theater has a shitty sound system. This time around - unlike the first time I saw it - the volume was good, and it changed my experience entirely. The sheer intensity of the bigger action parts of this film had me filled with adrenaline, almost breathless. I couldn't believe it. Walking out, I only wanted to get back in for a third viewing.

Fuck, this movie is amazing. Having spent the last week digesting breakdowns and talks about the VFX, I find the work done on it absolutely insane. It's seamless, the kind of VFX I love. I'm so happy they went with such colorful aesethics (which wasn't the case in the first place; early promo pictures show a more traditional gritty post-apocalyptic style). The night sequence is stunning, and is somewhat impressive when you know it was shot in overexposed day-for-night.

To anyone who still hasn't seen it, because they don't trust action movies, because they don't know the first thing about Mad Max, because waiting for the bluray seems good enough; trust me, it's not. See it in a theater, with full volume. It completely stands alone, everything you need to know is explained through world-building or just a tiny bit of smart exposition. And it's knowledge you specifically need for this story, because frankly, Fury Road doesn't care about the other movies, it does its own thing.

And it's nothing like the Avengers or some other random action flick. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's redefining the genre or anything like that, it's probably too early to tell and I don't want to be over-enthusiastic about it. But damn, that's one hell of a ride, and far from being empty of character development.

Finally managed to see this, my cousin and brother in law being the only others in the theater. Very fun. The most interesting aspect was HOW they showed the madness. Quite nice, with no details needed or given. Only the ghost girl calling him "Daddy" (iirc) seemed wrong. Was his kid that old in the first one? I can retcon it to being a girl who adopted him at some point, but that line wasn't needed.

Fairly sure. Chronology and continuity isn't something they've been overly concerned with in this series.

The original Max trilogy is a self-contained story with a beginning middle and end.  Fury Road's not a sequel, it's a reboot that uses some of the same elements, like the tanker chase from Max 2 and the extreme post-apocalypse world-building of Max 3.     Fury Road starts right about where Max 2/Road Warrior did, but then just goes off in an entirely new direction.

There are a lot of little references to the originals - certain costumes, the music box, etc, but there's no need to figure out how Fury Road fits into the original timeline, because it doesn't.

Went back and watched Mad Max 2 and then watched Fury Road again and saw the music box!  What I liked was that it was such a quick kind of offhand shot and didn't draw attention to itself with big neon lights that said "HEY FANS THIS IS A REFERENCE ISN'T THIS COOL!"

Apparently the prevailing theory is that Tom Hardy is playing the kid from the second one...

Watched this film last week with a couple of ADD teenagers (I'm a mentor through my church).

They loved it, and not just the action. They really enjoyed the character stuff and the world-building.

Such a good movie.