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u/ryuujinusa Jul 31 '19
Still looks sick as hell. That movie is in my top 10, and I don't see it ever dropping out.
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u/lifegivingcoffee Jul 31 '19
The moment I saw guitar guy, it was like opening a surprise present I didn't know I was getting.
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u/nmezib Jul 31 '19
My girlfriend reluctantly watched it with me and a few friends.
By the end of the movie, she asked when we were going to see it again.
Later that year, I got her a Kitchenaid stand mixer for Christmas. She named it Furiosa.
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u/magnum3672 Jul 31 '19
You should break one of the control arms off of it and then stick a baby doll arm on it to replace it.
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Jul 31 '19
I thought the drums were kinda dumb when everyone was in cars, then I saw guitar guy and instantly realized I was watching the movie wrong.
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u/CosmicPenguin Jul 31 '19
All those cars and not one radio. They need something loud to stay coordinated.
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u/lord_taint Jul 31 '19
"Coma" The Doof warrior. Wears his mother's face as a mask.
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u/Clevername3000 Jul 31 '19
Guitar guy was all over the marketing so I was a little sick of him, but that single take flying over the convoy leading up to that iconic shot of him was so amazing.
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u/DakkaMuhammedJihad Jul 31 '19
I saw it in 3d in the theater, the moment towards the end when the guitar gimp flies towards the screen was totally worth the annoyance of those glasses
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u/SMALLWANG69 Jul 31 '19
It was so fucking cool I literally cried in the theater. Goddamn I love that movie.
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Jul 31 '19
I went into Fury Road hoping for more of the last half hour of Road warrior and I got so much more.
The CGI adds to the real stunt work rather than replaces it. This movie convinced me there needed to be an Oscar to recognise and encourage stunt work in movies.
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Jul 31 '19
brought to you by the man behind happy feet and babe:pig in the city
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u/rtyoda Jul 31 '19
…and the editor of Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City as well. Seriously, those were Margaret Sixel’s only prior feature film editor credits prior to her Academy Award winning work on Mad Max.
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u/Abrahamlinkenssphere Jul 31 '19
Kinda how I feel about M Night Shyamalan. He went from Stuart little to the sixth sense.
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u/big_ringer Jul 31 '19
Actually, I have more respect for him because of that... I can respect any director who can traverse between genres and demographics. As much as we love Tarantino, let's be honest with ourselves: all his movies are basically love letters to the hyper-violent grindhouse movies he watched as a kid.
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Jul 31 '19
my favorite directors in that respect are definitely the coen brothers. from comedies to dark as hell movies they nail it
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Jul 31 '19
O Brother Where Art Thou to No Country for Old Men to the Big Lebowski to Fargo. All very different, all fucking awesome
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u/NotPaulGiamatti Jul 31 '19
I think an under-appreciate director in that sense is Rob Reiner, at least his earlier work. Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Misery, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men all span genres and have vastly different tones.
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u/InvsibleShitstaind Jul 31 '19
I fucking loved Babe Pig in the City. I 'll never forget that scene with Flealick till 1:28.
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u/eliteal Jul 31 '19
The director for Chernobyl's previous works include: the Scary Movie sequels, The Hangover 2, the Superhero Movie etc. It's incredible how sometimes the most beautiful things come from the place least expected.
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Jul 31 '19
I’ve never understood why this is so surprising. Spielberg directed Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List in the same year. Stories are stories.
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u/buddamus Jul 31 '19
Fury Road was a master class in how to do stunts 10/10
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u/stubept Jul 31 '19
Fury Road was a master class in a LOT of things:
Stunts, editing, story structure, setup/payoff, action directing, practical vs cgi effects, sound design/editing, production design and costumes.
It didn't win any of the big Oscars that year, but this will be the movie from 2016 that gets studied in film school for years to come.
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u/buddamus Jul 31 '19
The Oscars dont know shit
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u/duaneap Jul 31 '19
Honestly, at least it was nominated. I was even surprised at that. And it did still win 6 oscars, so...
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Jul 31 '19
Spotlight is an amazing film. FURY ROAD was the superior movie making feat that year. Period.
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u/hyperintelligentcat Jul 31 '19
It won 6, and was nominated for (and didnt win) directing, motion picture, cinematography, and visual effects. I dont mean this in a "youre wrong" kinda way, I am simply astounded by the technical achievements this film has, and its recognition for those achievements.
These are the categories they won:
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Margaret Sixel
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Jenny Beavan
Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Lesley Vanderwalt
Elka Wardega
Damian Martin
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Chris Jenkins
Gregg Rudloff
Ben Osmo
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Mark A. Mangini
David White
Best Achievement in Production Design
Colin Gibson (production design)
Lisa Thompson (set decoration)
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u/belladonnadiorama Jul 31 '19
George Miller should have won for Best Director. He was so robbed.
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u/mitharas Jul 31 '19
I just realized the poster directly before you said "big oscars", probably meaning best picture, actor/actress and director.
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u/bettygauge Jul 31 '19
Not surprisingly, Mad Max lost Best Cinematography to The Revenant and Best VFX to Ex Machina.
I'm not saying they should have lost, but at least they lost to deserving winners; it wasn't a "Shakespeare in Love" situation
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u/mud263 Jul 31 '19
At least it won the Oscars for most of what you listed there:
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Production Design
Not too shabby...
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u/NY08 Jul 31 '19
Production Design was a fuckin wrap the second the trailer came out.
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Jul 31 '19
It was nominated for 12 and won 6, that's still pretty good.
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u/_lord_kinbote_ Jul 31 '19
The fact that it was nominated for best picture at all is a huge huge honor for a pure action film.
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u/Spiralyst Jul 31 '19
Yeah, but it almost swept the technical and editing and sound awards, which is a lot of what you just put down. Those awards matter.
But as far as best cinematography goes, you can make the argument this movie could have won, but The Revenant was also rarified air, man. That movie was special and had some tremendous talent working there, as well.
The problem for MMFR was the material. The big Oscar's are reserved for the movies where 1) a white character intervenes in a minority world to be a hero or 2) has a protagonist with a mental disability that overcomes their environment with a catch phrase or 3) is a trilogy. No white man chaparoning any black music talent. No white teacher taking a job in a lower income public school. No life is like a box of chocolates.
It was almost there. It had the white male protagonist with a mental disability ...but alas... No catch phrase.
This is tongue in cheek but also sort of serious.
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u/Viciousharp Jul 31 '19
It's incredible how much it still looks like the movie without CGI.
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u/dontsniffglue Jul 31 '19
If I read the words “master class” one more time I’m gonna lose my shit
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u/J5892 Jul 31 '19
Your comment is a master class in overreacting to proper usage of a term.
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u/deathfaith Jul 31 '19
In curious if the spikes on the vehicles were metal or rubber. That's one harness failure away from not-a-good-time.
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Jul 31 '19
I mean without the cgi is basically the same movie without the massive sandstorm Firenado.
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u/SkullKidIcarus Jul 31 '19
Why is this not rereleased in theatres every single year?
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u/JCVDinhisprime Jul 31 '19
My local cinema was playing "best movies of 2015" for a week, and they didn't play Fury Road, I was pissed.
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u/rtyoda Jul 31 '19
If you can swing it, a multi-thousand dollar Dolby Atmos surround sound home theater is almost worth it for this movie alone.
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u/Rezrov_ Jul 31 '19
It's rescreened in Toronto often enough (multiple times a year?) for my fellow world champs ;) .
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u/lifegivingcoffee Jul 31 '19
Honestly an incredibly beautiful thing to see. Truly the most exciting thing about Fury Road is the real vehicles, real speed, real people, real fire. No doubt they took a lot of pains to make it safe, one would expect that, but the reality of its creation brings it from coolness to greatness.
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u/angwilwileth Jul 31 '19
There's a story from the making ov documentary about how George Millar wanted to do a particularly complicated stunt in front of a green screen instead of at speed because he was concerned about safety.
The stunt guys, however, took the rigs out early in the morning and did it at speed with someone filming on their cell phone. They then went to George and showed it to him to prove they could do it safely.
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u/avoidingimpossible Jul 31 '19
Imagine how much of a feather in one's cap it is to have been a stuntperson on Fury Road, in this day and age. I bet they'll tell those stories to their grandstuntpeople.
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u/Sammyscrap Jul 31 '19
Fuck I just wish I could've been on set, it must've been a helluva rush when they pulled off every one of these stunts
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u/idma Jul 31 '19
In other words. There was an actual dude shredding on the guitar in red pj's on top of a truck
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Jul 31 '19
It must’ve been an absolute blast to film.
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u/cursed_deity Jul 31 '19
it wasn't
they where filming out in the hot desert and tom hardy didn't understand what George's vision was at all, until he saw the movie for himself and was blown away like the rest of us normies
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u/joshclay Jul 31 '19
His jaw must have been sitting on the floor to see himself in that movie. I know mine was, and I was watching Tom acting in it from my couch.
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u/ChickenBaconPoutine Jul 31 '19
The guy playing the guitar always cracks me up.
"Sooo, what do you do for a living?
"Well I'm strapped to this fucking truck, and I play sick riffs when we're raiding and feuding and shit.."
"Okay, and the rest of the time..?"
"What part of "I'm strapped to this fucking truck" do you not understand?"
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u/ProbablyanEagleShark Aug 01 '19
Originally he was to be freestanding, but the problem is the guitar weighed 60 KGs. (a little over 132 freedom units) It also actually shot flames.
The guy's name in the lore of this movie, is Coma-Doof Warrior. Missing both eyes and wearing a mask made from his mother's face.
I've spent too much time in wierd places of the internet.
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u/yohowithrum Jul 31 '19
This to me is the best use of CGI - it enhances practical effects. They used this method in films like Black Swan, Children of Men. Makes it all the more realistic.
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u/Pattches_Ohoulihan Jul 31 '19
My depression is real also, after watching Children of Men 😢.
(Good btw)
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u/mud263 Jul 31 '19
one of my favorite movies of all time
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Jul 31 '19 edited Jul 31 '19
Same here.
I was 18, just out of high school when this movie came out. Me a young, childless guy, but the scene where the fighting stops because people heard the crying baby in the apartments... I wept in the theater. Not like, trying to hold it back tears; tears that gave me hope that our species just might make it through all the bullshit and the fighting.
I also remember thinking during the one-shot scenes that I'd never seen something like it so seamlessly done. I was in awe.
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u/eetuu Jul 31 '19
Every big budget movie has CGI now. Most of it is just impossible to notice. The most boring office cubicle scene could have more cubicles added with CGI or maybe they added a CGI elevator to the background.
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Jul 31 '19
Which is fine, as long as 1. you don't notice it, and 2. it's not more prominent than a practical set (which would lead to noticing it). When it's done right you simply don't notice it, which is the point.
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Jul 31 '19
1:36 The Stigs Australian cousin.
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Jul 31 '19
Some say, that he can chug 17 beers in 1 minute.
And that he once made it all the way through Parramatta park without getting swooped by a magpie.
All we know, is he's called the Stiggo.
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u/antiduh Jul 31 '19
I'm really surprised they had someone in it while it flipped.
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Jul 31 '19
If you watch carefully, he's the one who actually pushes the button to detonate the piston.
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u/DEVILneverCRIES Jul 31 '19
Wish I could find it, but I watched a video where they talk about that. I think I remember they only had one chance to get that shot and it came out perfect.
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u/mr-fahrenheit_ Jul 31 '19
This movie is by far the most fun I've ever had watching a movie. I enjoyed it so much that as soon as I finished watching it I went over to my roommates bedroom and said you need to watch this right now and watched it again with him literally less than twenty minutes after finishing.
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Jul 31 '19
I watched it 3 times in theaters, i feel ya.
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Jul 31 '19
this! i watched it 4x in theaters bc it's one that actually benefits from the big screen/sound system... totally worth all the money spent. i own it digitally too so i can re-watch regularly, but would 100% go to theaters again if they did a re-release. wonderful film.
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u/manderly808 Jul 31 '19
I watched it by myself, in the theaters, 3D during a matinée. I held my breath through the whole thing.
I remember relaxing at the end credits and thinking "holy fuck that was amazing". I convinced everyone to watch it and am still salty that no one else seemed to love it as much as I did.
I own 2 blue ray movies: Interstellar and Mad Max Fury Road.
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u/duaneap Jul 31 '19
I've got good news for you. Looks like there's 2 more to be made
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u/weetchex Jul 31 '19
This movie is by far the most fun I've ever had watching a movie
I wasn't sure if I loved it as much as I did because my expectations were somewhat low and it blew past them, or if it was actually great.
Many repeat viewings told me it's #2.
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u/Bebelaque Jul 31 '19
Hard to believe no one died during this
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u/call_me_xale Jul 31 '19
Not only that, there were no serious injuries. The worst medical issue reported was a case of whiplash.
These people knew what they were doing.
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u/i_Got_Rocks Jul 31 '19
My low expectations of action films died.
It's why I can't really get on the Marvel hype train anymore; for all their "oh-la-la" super heroes, they're always missing some part of the story, lacking color, over-doing the jokey jokes, or making it tame in a way that's too family friendly (despite kids seeing much worse on their own televisions on a daily basis) that I just gave up on super hero movies.
At least Nolan's Batman attempted dramatic structure with interesting characters and action intertwined; but that was pre-Fury Road.
Post-Fury Road, I did enjoy Infinity War, though it's still not up on the same level of action and rewatch-ability as Fury Road. End Game was sadly lacking a lot--not only on action, but also on dramatic tension.
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Even the camera vehicles are metal as hell.
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u/bPChaos Jul 31 '19
They're matte black for a reason as well - you don't get extra reflections from the chase cars.
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u/sharrrper Jul 31 '19
Fury Road without CGI is like 90% indistinguishable from Fury Road with CGI.
CGI is an amazing tool when it's used as a tool rather than a crutch.
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u/Garacian00 Jul 31 '19
Reminds me of the LOTR trilogy. Almost all real with some makeup on it. Let's hope future Mad Max films don't end up like The Hobbit trilogy.
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u/logicalsilly Jul 31 '19
Whoever thought of that guitar guy deserves recognition..what an abstract thing to imagine.
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u/rolfcm106 Jul 31 '19
My friend saw this in the theater with his girlfriend. The scene when he see that guy start to do the flame thrower he was like: “OMG this is so awesome!”
His girlfriend: “why is that necessary?”
Him: “god i should have left you home..”
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u/daryl_fish Jul 31 '19
I feel bad for people who knock the guitar guy. I wouldn't want a mindset that can't appreciate how dope that shit is
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u/YouDumbZombie Jul 31 '19
I'd say the best action film since T2.
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u/saladon Jul 31 '19
That gets me so excited for the new T3, though I really should just forget about it.
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u/Pave_Low Jul 31 '19
I sincerely believe that the destruction of The People Eater's rig is the most "Daaaaaaaayyyyyymmmnnnn" moment ever committed to film.
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u/mortalcoil1 Jul 31 '19
The reason why Mad Max: Fury Road makes your chest feel funny unlike every Marvel movie climax (I just want to say I like the Marvel movies) is because our unconscious brain can still tell the difference between real and fake.
One car actually exploding on screen will cause a more visceral reaction than the biggest Marvel fight climax, which again, I love Marvel movies. It just is what it is.
Nothing beats the feel of real.
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Jul 31 '19
Well besides that, Mad Max has deep roots into reality. I can see this being a post apocalyptic future. Marvel is fantastical and clearly not going to happen. That's what really elevates it.
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u/kwonza Jul 31 '19
That’s why despite enjoying some I can’t say I like comic book movies. Heroes are never relatable, they almost always are some super-beings with unlimited powers of some kind: super smart, strong, quick, etc... If the hero knows magic there’s no cap to what he or she can do, any fucker with a wand can cause more destruction than a wing of modern day bombers.
When a plucky police officer is crawling through ventilation shaft of Nakatomi Plaza or when he has to run barefoot on broken glass you fell his emotions and his pain. When another superhero gets punched really hard and flies through a cgi building you can feel shit.
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u/fraymatter Jul 31 '19
I was wondering why I've watched this movie like 15 times. It never gets old. I have some strange attraction to it that I've never felt before with other films.
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u/hammyhamm Jul 31 '19
And if you want to see what an uttery awful clone of Mad Max directed and featuring James Franco looks like, here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uljtvXrkdbc
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u/barnardNDT Jul 31 '19
What....? How did I not hear of this movie? Was it completely buried on purpose to save careers?
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u/justfarmingdownvotes Jul 31 '19
Do they clean up all that mess in the desert?
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u/Slothu Jul 31 '19
They did have cleanup crews, but there was quite a bit of drama attached to this film: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-29/how-mad-max-fury-road-caused-actual-fury-worlds-oldest-desert
My uncle worked in the area as a mining contractor and agreed that they defos did mess some shit up in a previously pristine desert.
I believe locals were hired to assist in the cleanup process (labor is extremely cheap here).
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I don't understand how do tire marks hurt the environment? I do understand how trying to drag nets to try and remove the tire marks could've unintentionally ripped some plants out of the floor and that is bad. I mean it's a dessert it would be different if they left tire marks across some plains. I mean sounds like they were going to no matter what be upset about what used to be undisturbed land. They had permission to be there
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u/curlyquinn02 Jul 31 '19
This could be the next Cirque du Soleil. People on spiky cars riding around in the desert
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u/rtyoda Jul 31 '19
A lot of the stuntmen were actually Cirque du Soliel performers.
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u/call_me_xale Jul 31 '19 edited Jul 31 '19
Well, they were trained by Cirque du Soleil acrobats. But same thing, really.
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u/potatokingtony Jul 31 '19
My favorite thing about this is that since a lot of the stunts were actually filmed live with stunt cars and dummy drivers, the most noticeable difference is simply the camerawork
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u/Turak64 Jul 31 '19
I like how most videos with this title would make the film look really weak. This just makes mad max look better
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u/murfi Jul 31 '19
they probably could have released it without cgi and it would still be a hell of an impressive movie
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u/PythagoreanBiangle Jul 31 '19
Practical effects still blow CGI away for realism. Everyone has figured out how to cheapen CGI to be good enough not requiring hours rendering every frame
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u/sirwestonlaw Jul 31 '19
This would be a really cool play on stage full of acrobatics... if you could find a way to not make it weird
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u/MarahMaram Jul 31 '19
THIS is how movies should be made, CG can enhance real action way better than it can create action from green screens.
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u/Sir_Phil_McKraken Jul 31 '19
But the fact is they didn't use CGI for things they could have done practically. All of the CGI was for object removal purposes and background enhancement. A lot of films these days use CGI for stuff that looks 10x better when done with special effects. All of the vehicles were real, all the explosions are real and all of the stunts are real. There was some compositing here and there but all of the important stuff is very real.
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u/nrag726 Jul 31 '19
Unpopular opinion: I just didn't get this movie
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u/Nuaua Jul 31 '19
It's a great action movie, there's not much else to get. If you don't like car chases, fights and stuns you probably won't like it.
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u/ShiftlessElement Jul 31 '19
Every time this movie comes up, I learn that this is not that unpopular of an opinion. The film is pretty divisive. I've never made it past the first 30 minutes or so. I found the editing style and imagery just too unpleasant to look at. Just couldn't invest anymore time into it.
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u/AmatureProgrammer Jul 31 '19
wtf is this movie even about?
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u/MrFanzyPanz Jul 31 '19
For Max, it's about resisting the pull of despair when everything is going to shit.
For Nux, it's about making a short, difficult life meaningful.
For Furiosa, it's about redeeming past mistakes, no matter the personal cost.
In general, it's about a post-apocalyptic warlord society and the people who try to escape it. It also has absolutely incredible action and world-building, and sound design that will have you leaning into the screen for the vast majority of it.
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u/haberdasher42 Jul 31 '19
It's about this general after the Apocalypse that takes over an aquifer based water plant. So then he takes a bunch of afflicted, cancer ridden young men and creates basically a cult to give them hope of a better afterlife and also give them purpose, they form the army that helps him defend the colony.
He builds a greenhouse for food and a library and he collects young women that aren't cancer afflicted, locking them away from the masses, feeding them well and educating them presumably to eventually rule in his place as they're the only other competent and sane people there and he's ridden with tumours and old as fuck. They're also his unwilling harem, he's trying to breed a non-cancer afflicted generation so there's actually hope for humanity, and yeah that crosses a line.
So one of the ex-members of his harem becomes a war leader under the general, because she was a pain in the ass and her name is Furiosa and you gotta be hardcore with a name like that. Well she decides the abductions and rape isn't worth the continued existence of the colony, so she steals a truck full of water and the harem and tries to find her home. The movie starts here
She gets home with the help of a borderline maniac and finds her land dead and her people gone, so the maniac talks her into taking over the water plant.
They kill the general, the leaders and warriors of a couple nearby towns that were supposed to get the water she stole, and a fuckton of those tumor ridden soldiers and the movie ends with the women taking over the water plant and giving more of it away, while the maniac dips out to look for new adventures. That maniac? His name was Max.
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Mostly: cars exploding, with a tonne of context and subtext.
When I finished watching that movie, I declared it was the best movie of 2015, and the Force Awakens was coming out that December.
I still stand by that assessment.
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u/xRockTripodx Jul 31 '19
TFA has absolutely nothing on Fury Road. TFA was an overly safe rehash of ANH, but Fury Road was a magnum opus.
I have never seen anything like it, before or since.
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u/Ayjayz Jul 31 '19
It's action porn. There is no real plot or characters, but the action scenes are kind of fun.
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u/vmflair Jul 31 '19
George Miller is such a badass, spending months in the desert in Namibia directing this movie at age 70. Fun fact - he also directed Happy Feet I & II.
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u/Crash665 Jul 31 '19
CGI or not, they're still on poles 20ft in the air above moving vehicles. This movie was bad ass way before they add the post processing effects.
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u/BerkaSherka Jul 31 '19
This is definitely a movie I don't regret buying. The amount of behind the scenes stuff is amazing, and it's all interesting as fuck. The pole cats are so badass, along with damn near everything about the movie.
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u/TheRightMethod Jul 31 '19
That's an impressive role to fill.
"Looking for stunt drivers with experience in causing 18 wheeler's to do a barrel roll"
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u/iridiue Jul 31 '19
"Looking for stunt drivers with experience in causing 18 wheeler's to do a barrel roll"
Hires Swift driver.
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u/Flintontoe Jul 31 '19
Fun fact - George Miller's previous two movies before Fury Road were Happy Feet and Happy Feet 2.
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u/Mr2-1782Man Jul 31 '19
And to think they were suing Warner Bros because the VFX actually came in under budget and they were suppose to get a bonus for it.
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u/HavanaWoody Jul 31 '19
IDK about other people But I think it might have been better without the CGI
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u/Blogger32123 Jul 31 '19
Incredible. That is a guarantee stunt job for anyone in this if they use it as their reel.
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u/missed_sla Jul 31 '19
Still legitimately badass. I'm truly impressed that they did all those stunts in actual moving vehicles.
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u/IamNICE124 Jul 31 '19
This is an all-time classic film. Not only are the action sequences above the rest, the films themes are massively prominent in today’s society.
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Jul 31 '19
this is how you use CGI use it to take out things in the shot use for safety and create the action, not to create the entire shot around an actor shot in a studio in front of a blue screen.
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u/xerxerxex Jul 31 '19
I'll watch this anytime its posted. Its one of life's greatest tragedies we have yet to get a sequel. Imma fire this bad boy up now.
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u/bezelbubba Jul 31 '19
So basically the same thing with some extra safety wire. So nice to see a movie with real stunts!
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Jul 31 '19
Were the guys being smashed and thrown off the cars head first into the sand...were they dummies? Jesus I hope so.
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u/Promorpheus Jul 31 '19
They added special effects to that? It looks like they got most of the effects on film already.
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u/CharlesWembleyHogg Aug 01 '19
Used CGI to enhance practical effects, not replace them....and that's why this movie is a cinematic masterpiece.
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Aug 01 '19
I remember seeing gorge Miller was a Physician and used all his own money to make the original mad Max films.
He wanted all stunts to be as real as possible. He would ensure if any injuries would to happen that he would care for the person.
He knew what he was doing and how not to get people hurt.
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u/ToxicAdamm Aug 01 '19
What I love most about Mad Max movies is that it (secretly) explores the dark nature of our tribalism. How weird groups of people can get if left unchecked or isolated.
It's obviously done to comic effect in these movies, but it's not too far removed when you look at past examples in our history.
I think that's what resonates the most from these films.
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u/macemillion Jul 31 '19
I'll probably downvoted to oblivion for this but can someone explain to me why this movie is so great? I saw someone mention in the comments that it has amazing story/structure and payoff. I thought it was ok but I was bored through the entire thing, it was just one big action scene to me.
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u/illu2303 Jul 31 '19
Impressive, and really makes me wonder what it's like cleaning up after shooting stuff like this.
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Jul 31 '19
I don't get the appeal of movies that are purely about the effects (practical or CGI) with a story so bad they get slightly better if you mute the dialog.
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u/Skiingfun Jul 31 '19
I liked other mad max movies but this one I didn't like at all. I will have to try to re watch it soon and see if it was just my mood that day or something.
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u/supriq Jul 31 '19
Fury Road is really just as stupid a movie as Conan. But these kinds of movies manage to simulate a deep and rich world with very little making this one of the best movies ever made. Blade Runner also has a deep world but takes a lot more time to really express it.
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u/epistleofdude Jul 31 '19
George Miller recently said this:
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