Fury Road · 5:42pm Sep 23rd, 2019
Finally got around to seeing that. I was stupidly busy when it was in theaters, then I forgot about it. Always heard it's fantastic.
Well... it certainly is!
That's the full embrasure of the insane, surreal, post-apocalyptic world in a mythical format that we needed! None of the preaching and guilt-tripping and other ideological baggage... just weird people trying to survive what could be termed as a literal hellscape. Even the weirdest of them felt like actual people, they all had some subtleties to them. Many of them had complete character arcs.
And through it all, there's the mysterious vagabond Max himself, who ends up the center of everything when he's simply trying to get away from it all. He can't help himself but to try and help because, despite the endless misery and mayhem all around him, there's a spark of decency at his core. He has all the qualities of a leader, and clearly wishes he didn't! It makes for a fantastic internally-conflicted character study within the overarching plot. And it's all SHOWN, not spelled out for the audience. You come to understand through SEEING what he does, rather than him making a list of his woes.
The effects were almost completely seamless. So many of them were practical effects merely touched up with CGI (the BEST way to use CGI, in my opinion), and they served to ENHANCE the story, rather than replace or stand-in for the story.
I've seen all the Mad Max flicks, since I was around when the first came out 40 years ago. This is, by a large measure, the best of them all. It's one of the only cases where a reboot/late sequel absolutely overpowers its predecessors. It takes what the previous movies tried to do, and creates an authentic modern legend. Max is our Hercules, our Jason, our Odysseus in this movie.
Truly, this is a movie which lives up to its hype.
I completely agree that it is an absolutely amazing movie, but no mention of a huge part of what made it amazing, Imperator Furiosa?
Completely agree!
5125782 There was too much to comment on, so I just mentioned the central themed character from every movie. He's so much of a mythic wanderer here, and simply leaves when his task is complete.
The movie plays out like a visualization of someone telling an epic tale around the fireside to wide-eyed youths. You know, back in the day when kids weren't wusses and could take blood and guts.
When I was a kid, WE would watch stuff like "The Howling", Halloween", Poltergeist", "Nightmare on Elm Street", and "Friday the 13th"... and only pee our pants a little!
Huh, I would have expected you to hate it for its simplicity story-wise.
5126150 The story doesn't have to be convoluted. I prefer a simple story that makes sense in its internal continuity rather than some sloppy rigmarole that ends with Bran Muffin as king.