Mad Max is in a movie about Furiosa
August 25, 2015 4:53 PM   Subscribe

 
Just saw this on YouTube! Excellent timing.

It must be so cool to have that guy's voice. He could say anything at all and make people believe it, because he sounds so serious.
posted by Kevin Street at 5:07 PM on August 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


I was all ready to be all huffy and I have to say, where's the lie? This was great.

Tom Hardy's emotive grunting is a thing of beauty.
posted by Windigo at 5:20 PM on August 25, 2015 [4 favorites]


That was great, but hearing “Army of Drackness” was just perfect.

We need more typos in that voice!
posted by subliminable at 5:31 PM on August 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


I had my MEDIOCRE all ready to go, but that was actually quite funny.
posted by nubs at 5:54 PM on August 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


"There has got to be a more efficient way to distribute that."
posted by Flashman at 5:59 PM on August 25, 2015 [9 favorites]


I've seen other films since which were sort of okay, but let's face it they were all garbage by comparison.
posted by Artw at 6:04 PM on August 25, 2015 [15 favorites]


Ah, another week, another Mad Max thread. Good times.

On a related note: Fury Road retold as Heiroglyphs.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 6:05 PM on August 25, 2015 [6 favorites]


I did not know about Honest Trailer before. Now I stand before an abyss of lost weekends.
posted by Bringer Tom at 6:32 PM on August 25, 2015 [3 favorites]


This was funny. I feel like a lot of people want Honest Trailers to just be negative, but that's not really fair and they're usually at their best on good movies.
posted by dogwalker at 6:34 PM on August 25, 2015 [3 favorites]


They usually come off as negative to me, but this one was great for its sheer love of the movie.

Fury Road is just amazing. Completely ridiculous on some levels, as HT pointed out, but you just don't care because the movie manages to be so badass and moving.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:08 PM on August 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


For me the one negative of Fury Road is the narrower, more limited storyline compared to the first three. Really, there just isn't that much story there. What happens is great, and the themes are deeper and more mature, I and like how much is implied rather than told, but the overt narrative mostly consists of they go out and they come back.

The Road Warrior may not be able to come near it for visual intensity but in many respects it's just plain more movie.

Now before I get strung up for blasphemy I'm not saying it's less good a movie than any of the first three, just that by some metrics there's less going on and on some level it felt sort of incomplete.
posted by George_Spiggott at 7:48 PM on August 25, 2015


There's a shit ton of story in the development of Max and Furiosa's relationship and their individual redemptions.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:02 PM on August 25, 2015 [2 favorites]


the overt narrative mostly consists of they go out and they come back.

Now I am torn between two mashups:

Mad Max: There and Back Again

or

The Hobbit: Fury Road
posted by nubs at 8:56 PM on August 25, 2015 [21 favorites]


The Hobbit: Furry Feet
posted by brundlefly at 9:52 PM on August 25, 2015 [5 favorites]


but the overt narrative mostly consists of they go out and they come back.

Honestly curious about why people see this as an insufficient plot, because that's the basic structure all road trip stories (like idk the Odyssey) use as a device to show personal growth in their characters, but that's... not everything that happens in that movie. They go out, kill all the previous leaders in the desert, and come back to take over in a total coup and social revolution. Did people miss the part where Furiosa and Max and the wives personally took out all three leaders of the fucked up little city-states they're running away from, and then came back to rule over their cities?
posted by moonlight on vermont at 10:12 PM on August 25, 2015 [9 favorites]


I think people are conflating the plot of the film with the motion of the vehicles. Yes, the war rig drives a long way in a straight line then comes back the way it came, but that's not all that happens in the film.
posted by brundlefly at 10:24 PM on August 25, 2015 [4 favorites]


It's not a straight line, they made a left.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:45 PM on August 25, 2015 [20 favorites]


They stop for a bit too!
posted by Artw at 11:54 PM on August 25, 2015 [5 favorites]


I can't think of a way Fury Road would have been improved by a Max other than the burned out, 3/4-insane one played by Hardy, who I think is at least as charismatic as Gibson was in his salad days. (And with a love of puppies instead of fanatical devotion to the catholic church! We all win!)

(I have seen three pretty good movies this summer, so I'm happy.

Great:
Fury Road: Fantastic.
Ant Man: Charming; probably the best Marvel movie, definitely at least on par with Guardians of the Galaxy.

Very Good:
Inside Out: Surprisingly touching and fun, despite my conviction that Joy was Betty Rubble for the first few minutes.)

posted by maxwelton at 12:06 AM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]


Inside Out: Fury Road is the mashup I want to see.

WHAT A JOYFUL DAY
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 2:07 AM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]


It's not a straight line, they made a left.

And they go straight back, don't they? They don't go to the road and turn right. So, technically it's a triangle. Some old Greek mathematicians got a whole career out of a triangle.
posted by Grangousier at 3:17 AM on August 26, 2015 [6 favorites]


Some orchestra musicians, too.
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:48 AM on August 26, 2015 [6 favorites]


Shiny and chrome.
posted by carmicha at 5:31 AM on August 26, 2015 [4 favorites]


I read the whole recent Vulture interview with Tarantino waiting for him to reference Fury Road. I can only assume it's one of the movies he's not watched (while catching up on HIMYM and The Newsroom, apparently).
posted by Gin and Broadband at 5:32 AM on August 26, 2015



Now before I get strung up for blasphemy

No, you'll just be told you're....MEDIOCRE
posted by Windigo at 5:56 AM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]


For me the one negative of Fury Road is the narrower, more limited storyline compared to the first three.

Also, I don't get this point of view. Road Warrior was essentially the same plot of Fury, i.e. drive this rig to this point. All the films, except the first one, were about making or going to a better place in an unjust world.

It's like saying Fury Road is a 2 hour car chase. Yeah, that's essentially true, but only if you ignore most of what's going in the rest of the movie. It's all about a man and a woman coming coming to view each other as equals in a society that views them as unequal. And the only way they reach that mutual place of respect is when the male approaches the female as a default equal.

Max does seemingly very little because there's not much for him to do. He's already in that enlightened state of mind and because of that, the toppling of the patriarchy is successful.

Plus, it's one of the best car chases and fights (Max, Furiosa, Nux and the women) ever seen on the big screen.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:23 AM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]


"About a War Boy" -- Ha! Wow, Nicholas Hoult grew up fast.
posted by A dead Quaker at 6:33 AM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]


The selective cutting of the scenes where the rig is just rumbling along with Max running after it were perfection.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 7:16 AM on August 26, 2015


The setup and selective cut of Furiosa crying over Terminator Genisys is a thing of pure beauty.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:49 AM on August 26, 2015 [3 favorites]


There's a shit ton of story in the development of Max and Furiosa's relationship and their individual redemptions.

Yeah, at the core, it is a story about redemption. Both Max and Furiosa are explicit in stating that is what they are seeking. Both are doing it by running away. Max has been doing it for a long time and (I don't think he gets enough credit for this) is the one to realize that they can’t keep running away. The point is that redemption is going to be found by turning and facing your demons and tormentors.

So the fact that they drive away and then turn around and come back is just the structure of the film underlining that point.
posted by nubs at 8:04 AM on August 26, 2015 [3 favorites]


Honest Trailers is hilarious. It's possible to both think Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the best action movies of the decade and also mock some of the silliness of it. (For me, it was the "Real Housewives of the Citadel" line that made me actually laugh out loud.) If you want to overthink this plate of beans, our Fanfare discussion has been good.

It's fair for Honest Trailers to poke fun at George Miller being the director of Babe: Pig in the City. But if you haven't seen that film, it is truly excellent and worth watching. The first Babe was great and heartwarming and fun. This sequel was great and chilling and grim, more of a 19th century fairy tale kind of story. Surprisingly good.
posted by Nelson at 8:40 AM on August 26, 2015 [4 favorites]


I think without max they were going to run away into what was once the Pacific Ocean? And endless expanse of salt that would kill them at any rate.
posted by Artw at 8:44 AM on August 26, 2015


Something I finally caught on my [REDACTED]ed viewing: the little girl that Max hallucinates always calls him "Max" until he finally decides to rejoin the women and convince them to turn around. She then calls him "Pa". Redemption.
posted by Eddie Mars at 9:04 AM on August 26, 2015 [10 favorites]


I think without max they were going to run away into what was once the Pacific Ocean? And endless expanse of salt that would kill them at any rate.

Yes, Max spoke as though he knew what was out there, which makes sense.

But maaaaybe he should have mentioned that before they started off without him?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:14 AM on August 26, 2015


He had to do his needlepoint first.
posted by Artw at 9:17 AM on August 26, 2015 [3 favorites]


I'll second Nelson on Babe: Pig in the City. Great, great movie. Very strange.
posted by brundlefly at 9:20 AM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]


I always imagine Immortan Joe reading to his warboys as he tucks them in at night.


GOODNIGHT MUSH.
posted by gottabefunky at 9:26 AM on August 26, 2015 [3 favorites]


"Yes, Max spoke as though he knew what was out there, which makes sense."

If this is the fourth movie in a series that's about the life of a real man (and not just another story of the mythical Mad Max), then he's already seen the ruins of Sydney and knows that the ocean has receded way back.

Which implies that one heck of a nuclear winter might have started an ice age. Ironic that other places might be crushed under glaciers while Australia bakes to dust.
posted by Kevin Street at 9:28 AM on August 26, 2015


"Don't go out there! It's just a model shot!"
posted by Artw at 9:34 AM on August 26, 2015


Oh wait, he hasn't seen Sydney! That was the kids and Jedediah in Beyond Thunderdome. Max has just been wandering the wastes for years and years. Maybe he remembers what Australia used to look like, but that might not match up to the current reality very closely.
posted by Kevin Street at 9:38 AM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]


You're saying Max never really gets... Beyond the Thunderdome?
posted by Artw at 9:47 AM on August 26, 2015 [5 favorites]


I liked how it was quietly stated that Max has superpowers and he's not alone in that.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 10:45 AM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]


but the overt narrative mostly consists of they go out and they come back.

This is not as simple as it sounds.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:15 AM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]


One does not...
posted by Artw at 11:17 AM on August 26, 2015


The Hobbit: Fury Road

Thorin Mediocreshield.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2015 [3 favorites]


Gandalf the Chrome
posted by nubs at 2:52 PM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]


how it was quietly stated that Max has superpowers

In particular his blood seems to have restorative properties for those who get transfusions from him. Nothing Biblical about that, no siree.
posted by Bringer Tom at 2:52 PM on August 26, 2015


I was somewhat bothered by the transfusion scenes - how do you maintain a pressure gradient in a setup like that?
posted by Dr Dracator at 2:59 PM on August 26, 2015




In particular his blood seems to have restorative properties for those who get transfusions from him.


As noted on the tattoo the Organic Mechanic put on Max's back, he heals fast and can operate at high levels of activity for longer than usual periods. It sounded like there were others like him, people seemed to be roaming out in desert by themselves.

What a lovely world.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:41 PM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]


"he heals fast and can operate at high levels of activity for longer than usual periods"

I just assumed regular humans (like you, me or Max), who born before Nuclear apocalypse and have avoided the toxic death-traps that are most settlements in the waste, simply are a lot healthy than those who came after. It's not that Max has super powers, it's just that all the war pups are relatively weak.
posted by midmarch snowman at 4:27 PM on August 26, 2015 [3 favorites]






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