Mad Max Truckasaurus

Mad Max Shit Wrecker

Mad Max Thunderstruck

Mad Max Devil's Land

Mad Max Coalition of Chaos

Mad Max Imerator's Revenge

Mad Max 2 Electric Boogaloo ; )

Don't forget the spin-offs and tie-ins

Mario Kart: Road Fury

I have yet to see a Guillermo del Toro movie that doesn't completely "meh" me.

Don't understand the love for the guy. Then again, I have yet to see Pan's Labyrinth.
Hmm... this sounds very appealing. I have been waiting for a movie like that, but still have yet to find one. Even The Raid had more plot than I would have liked.

When I go to an action movie, I want to become jaded with nonstop action, darn it!!! Don't try and "plot" at me if you know darn well that you aren't good at it.

I have yet to know who that is ;-)

Director of Pacific Rim, Blade II, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and a few other films. He was also going to be helping out with Silent Hills before Konami in their infinite wisdom shot it down. I guess originally he was going to be part of The Hobbit movies as well.

For some reason the internet goes ga-ga over him, but I've never really been impressed. The movies of his I've seen are just kind of meh. Good, not great.

If all you've seen of him are his Hollywood efforts I can see why you wouldn't be impressed. They are hardly a testament to his real skills. I like Hellboy II, but that's mostly for the impressive visuals. His best movies by far are Cronos, The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth. Smart, serious, beautifull and scary. He's one of those directors who seem to work best away from big studios, franchises and overblown budgets.

The reason so many people love him so much however does not seem to be those movies (I don't even believe they are so well known), but rather his enthusiasm for all the "geeky" stuff- fantasy, comics, big robots punching things. People just seem to be rooting for a guy they see as "one of them" in the hollywood crowd, and while I may not be a big fan of his hollywood efforts, he does seem to have genuine love for things like Pacific Rim, so while I myself might not get the appeal of that movie, I can see while enthusiasts of the genre find his enthusiasm contagious and endearing.

Ahh, ok. Well, I actually own Pan's Labryinth, so I should probably watch it some time.

You should remedy that, as I also feel the same about most of his work, but man that movie is fucking ace. The creature design, story, setting, and characters just gel so well as they usually don't in his other flicks.

Pacific Rim was the only other one of his I kind of liked but mainly for being a silly popcorn action flick.

I liked the movie a lot but I felt it was a little too non-stop action focused. I could have used some more character moments and pauses in the action. Even The Road Warrior, the classic this is based on and which is known as a non-stop action film, had a ton more downtime than this. It's almost like too much action ruins the action, it's no longer special or exciting when it's all you see.

Still, really enjoyed it overall.

I just got to see that movie at may 16, during Art Night - after wandering around city for literally 10 hours non stop it was sure nice experience to watch nice, long and action packed no brainer for two hours.
I liked it.

This was basically my experience tonight. A friend (who'd already seen it twice) took me to see it, and damned if I wasn't entertained for two solid hours (well, minus however long I was fuming at the guy behind me whose knees were jammed into the back of my seat :/ ). The movie was a bit of a rough start for me, as the Mad Max series never really appealed to me (I don't believe I've ever seen any of the previous three films all the way through, and certainly haven't even seen parts of them in more than twenty years), and the intro is rather...visceral, I guess would be a way I would describe it, and very unusual in a lot of ways (though I expect some of the stylistic oddities might hark back to some of the earlier films). It took me a while to get a feel for the world, to get into it, but once I did, it had me. I didn't so much exit the theater afterwards as I was spat out the other end of the film, exhausted. But in a good way. :)

Watch it. Mad Max: Fury Road is mostly doing, not talking, and the only thing even resembling exposition is in the voice-over at the start of the film. But the amazing thing about the movie is that despite this, everything the characters do makes perfect sense (though everything they do is also kind of insane, because they're living in an insane world). It's a masterclass in creating intelligible characters and showing the world in such a way that it can be understood without explanation.

So, I've finally seen it. I have to say, I didn't think it can really live up to the hype. And as it started, for a while I stll though that it's visually well done, but not that good overall. It's only once Max meets Furiosa that I really got into the movie, and I have to say, I'm really impressed with how well the movie develops the realtionship between the characters, with minimal dialogue and never letting it kill the action adn the tension, while still providing a good emotianl centre for the film, so that we can get invested enought o actually care about what happens, not just watch the action for the pretty pictures.

And holy shit, are they pretty. It really is a visually stunning film. A great movie in every way. relentless, impressive action, it really stands apart from all the squicky clean Marvel movies that have become the model for todays blockbusters. Who would have thought that a franchise returning after 30 years would feel so fresh?

My reservations about Theron/Furiosa and her overshadowing Max were fortunately proven wrong. They make for a great pair of main characters, one overshadowing the other. Still, if I have a complaint, it's that I didn't really buy Tom Hardy as Max. It's not that he did something wrong, but I just never saw Max in him. He didn't look or sound like Max. There were maybe a few glimpses, but overall he might have been any Man With No Name. Recastin an iconic character is tricky, and Hardy didn't exactly do for Max what Karl Urban did for Dr. McCoy (honestly Urban is so close to DeForest Kelly in that role it's almost scary) I do wonder how Heath Ledger would have pulled it off.

Also, I know it was the intention to go for batshit crazy, but the guitarist and his mobile tower of sound was a little much. Everything else was crazy, but also kind of made sense in this bizzare world. This was just silly. But that's a very minor point.

I loved the movie and I hope we get the sequel.

Actually, I thought about that a little bit, and it might make a bit more sense than it appears to initially. Just think on it for a second, music accompanying a war party is an extremely old and quite proven concept, especially for a fanatical society believing their leader to be a god. It would be a big sign of power and supremacy constantly boosting morale, while at the same time intimidating enemies. And... You know, it woul have to be bloody loud. I think the reason we find it so weird is because modern armies are no longer accompanied by marching bands, nor do they sing "Ye Who Are Warriors of God" while marching at their enemy.

I got that that probably was the idea, but it just seems ridiculously impractical for a chase like this. I'd totally get it if they took it going to war, but dragging the whole concert rig for a high speed chase just felt over the top. For me it was that little bit of "now you're just trying too hard". But like I said, it's a minor point, a nitpick of no consequence.