Moggy wrote:All opinions are subjective. Some people think that Fury Road was a great movie and is deserving of a high score. Some people didn’t like it so much and so rate it lower.
That second group are wrong, blasphemous even. They are evil people that should not be tolerated and we should do our best to remove not just from the forum but from the whole of society. “A half decent action movie” should be more than enough evidence to convict you of this crime and you can expect a painful execution to be carried out shortly.
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Brerlappin wrote:Honestly if anyone wants to tell me why a 6-7/10 for Fury Road is wrong, im all ears. I dont mean that in an asshole way, i mean it legitimately, tell me what im missing here with this film because all i saw was a half decent action movie.
Right.Straight out of the gates I'm going say Fury Road is the best (not "one of the" THE) best action film ever made. I remembering exiting the cinema and being unable to speak. Me and my partner just sort of stuttered at each before collapsing into laughter. I haven't been so happy, so utterly blown away, after seeing a film since... I can't actually remember. It so good it's difficult to figure out what I liked the most: the live action stunt work, the imperceptible use of CGI, the cinematography, the world building, the narrative, the gender-politics... If I had to plump for one I'd go for the design of the whole thing.
The world Miller built is just insane. Literally. There are so many post-apocalyptic worlds out there these days, The Hunger Games, the Divergent films, The Maze Runner films, The Walking Dead show, that it's become boring.
So boring. They're usually grey (or brown), full of miserable people moping about hoping not to die. There's usually some extremely obvious allusion to real world politics, or global warming, or some anti-establishment agenda. Which is fine. But Mad Max... it's just as grim as these other worlds but it's yellow, and blue and white and loud and fast and brutal. It's violent, but the violence is messy and (seemingly) unrehearsed. The characters explain themselves through their actions, not hamfisted dialogue.
The War Boys for example: nothing is said of how they began or how Immortan Joe founded them, but you know enough through their reactions to him, through their clothes and their cars and their weapons. The story is told through these, and the action, more than dialogue. Everything, from the War Rig to the Doof Warrior to the ruins of the Green Place, tells you exactly what you need to know. If they set another 20 films in this universe I wouldn't get tired of it (assuming they were all of this quality).
The gender-politics of it were a complete surprise to me, and one of my favourite aspects too. I actually had no idea why it's called Mad Max at all (well, I do. Marketing) as this is Furiosa's film. And Charlize Theron kills it. She's equal parts stoic and scared, mother and child. The core idea of the film becomes the conflict between the matriarchy and patriarchy which is so rare these days, especially in action films which skew towards pleasing the male audience they're targeted at.
Then there's the action, which I can't really say too much about. You either love it or don't, but more than a few times I found myself laughing out loud as cars, real cars not CGI approximations, smashed each other to scrap, or motorbikes flew over tanker trucks going 60, or men on poles swung like demented metronomes. I just...loved it. Fell in love with it. Then there's all the rest; the music, the sound editing, the camera work. Everything. There was not a single thing I would change about Fury Road if given the chance. And I can think of about 3 films ever I can say that about.