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CG is used as it should be used IMO : to remove the safety rigs and nets from the image. You don't have CG avatars doing weird movements, you have only stuntmen or actors behaving in a realistic manner, well, because they're really there. And you protect them more than in the old days.
The difference can be summarized in SF elevator scene : first, Craig is really doing the jump, most probably with a safety rig and safety mattresses, removed by CG. And after, a CG Bond...
It's to expensive to catch again on the big screen but I'll certainly buying the Blu ray to add to it's haul, SPECTRE and The Force Awakens will have to go some to top this.
Yes, the way Miller used CG in the movie is how it should be: extend locations beyond how big they are, remove harnesses, safety rigs, wires, etc.
@Shardlake, I look forward to owning 'Fury Road' on blu-ray. In fact, they've already announced a Mad Max bundle containing all four films on blu-ray. I'll probably pick that up once 'Fury Road' is released, have myself a nice marathon of all of them. I can't imagine how great it's going to look in such a high quality, either.
I have to state again how much I love the way the original trilogy is so different film to film. =D>
Nor is it mine. But I keep telling myself that if I don't buy them all now, then I'll have one hell of a great purchase coming my way in a few months.
:))
PS just seen on IMDB that someone claims it has "zero replay value" so I am not the only one.
It certainly has replay value for me. (Haven't seen it the 2nd time yet, but really, really want to. Soon...) And humor, too - some of it very understated as was some of the acting (definitely the two leads - both totally awesome), but I liked it that way - no typical jokey lines that seem to be sort of required in action movies nowadays and often feel just silly or forced (most of the Marvel stuff for instance). It's obviously a matter of taste, though. I was giggling at times and grinning much of the rest of the time... :D
Maybe I'll watch Happy Feet tonight... ;)
The real stars of the film though, in my opinion were Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. Theron was badass and gave an amazing, powerful performance (I could even forgive her using her American accent, something I struggled to get past with Tina Turner in Thunderdome). Nicholas Hoult was great too, what I really liked about this film is how with his character, they took one of the usual Mad Max insane psychopath raider types and humanized him. He did a very good job and he had what was probably the funniest line in the film ("you can ask for more than just a jacket").
Need to watch it again to see where it stands. I think it's better than the first one and Thunderdome, and it's certainly more visually impressive than Road Warrior (bigger budget and modern film making means better action, sets, etc) but I think Road Warrior might have worked better, if that makes sense? Sort of flowed better, the story felt more natural (Max going from drifter looking out for himself to hero fighting off the bad guys in Fury Road felt kinda rushed to me, he had a vision then suddenly went back, whereas in Road Warrior, which follows the same basic structure, his transition felt more natural). But then Fury Road had a better villain and it felt like there was much more to the world in this one, the bigger budget really allowed Miller to go all out and properly unleash his vision. Not a hundred percent sure, but at the moment I think my ranking would be
1) The Road Warrior/Fury Road (Gibson>Hardy, and Road Warrior's story was better, but Fury Road was just so breathtaking, the action was amazing, the villain was great and the supporting cast were great, and the whole film was just so insane. Overall, at the moment, I think it balances out to a tie).
2) Mad Max
3) Beyond Thunderdome
Of course we can't. That's why I didn't ask what you meant. :)
Personally I never normally beforehand, with any movie, read longer reviews here or anywhere or watch any featurettes/making of stuff or movie clips (beyond trailers, though I often try to avoid them, too) or read/watch interviews with actors/director etc. If I want to see a movie I rather know as little about it in advance as possible (as a general rule - there are exceptions). I've seen people for instance watch interviews and read comments on YT and then complain about spoilers... which I think is ridiculous. Some self-control doesn't hurt... But I still wouldn't dare describe scenes or plot stuff here at this point in order to discuss it. Despite the fact that I wouldn't be reading a thread like this myself after the film's release until I had seen it. I don't know what the guidelines on that are here...?
As for the accents... not being a native speaker I don't pay that much attention and they rarely bother me. But an accent is not a fixed thing. An environment affects it. Normally that's other people, and how they speak, of course - one's accent would become more like that of the people around them... unless one would make an effort to retain their own accent or to otherwise speak differently from those around them ( - did Furiosa do that?). When a person spends most of their time away from people, like Max, then that has an effect, too. If you barely speak or spend time with people for years your accent has probably changed anyway. That would fit Hardy's Max, right? Not that he was trying to imitate Gibson, anyway, of course, and the character is written differently from what I understand, different times and all that... (like I said my memory is vague but it fits to what many people have said of the old Max compared to the new one).
Sometimes some movies are released months later in some countries than others, so there will always be a problem if people don't take responsibility of what they choose to read themselves. Blurting out plot twists or something like could always be a spoiler and should probably be in spoiler tags even when writing reviews and such years later. Any spoilers on movies not even out yet are another matter as well, of course.
(this includes me, btw. I'm seeing it asap)
In general though... I don't think a movie should even have to be out everywhere, since sometimes release dates are months later in some places... and movies arrive much later in smaller towns, and so on. I think the don't-read-the-thread-if-you-want-to avoid-spoilers should apply right away - speaking of general release, obviously, not some obscure festival showing very few people have an opportunity to see. If someone actually attends places like Berlinale or Cannes etc. then maybe it's wise to not prattle on about plots and stuff without inhibitions if the movie is not on general release. ;)
Soooo, @patb, what problem did you think there was with the structure? :)
EDIT: Also, here's eight cool bits of information from the filming of 'Mad Max: Fury Road':
http://www.slashfilm.com/fury-road-trivia/
As with Mad Max 2, its basically a Western and nothing wrong with that but it lacks depth IMHO and I cant see it creating the long term affection that the original two have.
I don't feel like there's any problem with that, though. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' seems like a pure genre film for me, and that's totally okay. I know that when I buy the film on blu-ray and put it into my PS4 and load it up and start playing it that I'm going to get some of the most insane, wackiest action sequences I've ever seen. Not only that, they'll be almost nonstop, filled with little bits of dry humor here and there, and it'll all be topped off with some really freaky and bizarre characters. That's fine with me. If I want something deeper, that's what a film like T2 is for.
...but seriously, T2 is perfection, haha.
Agree and disagree. I think there is definitely a plot as @Creasy47 notes above. It was also pretty clear as the movie developed that Furiosa and the wives were heroines and I don't know how you could watch the film unroll without having some kind of "emotional investment" that they, and MM, survived, free. I will give perhaps a bit on MM's character and the Citadel. There are tons who will see this movie who never saw the first 3 films, and it might have helped their sense of what was going on if MM's back story and the Citadel's had a small, quick bit of exposition in the very beginning. Maybe a brief text scroll at the very beginning, or some bit of dialogue that filled the audience in a bit. Still I loved the film and thought it was a brilliant adrenalin rush. I also thought the acting, including Hardy, were excellent.
+1.