Brónach 1,302 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 stale direction of a script... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Saw that Max Max is 99% fresh on RT. One bad review out of 107? Can't wait to see this on Friday night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,379 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16439&p=1126085 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I wonder how self-conscious that one reviewer feels right about now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,379 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 HahaI'm sure a few more negative reviews will come in this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I wonder how self-conscious that one reviewer feels right about now.He probably feels great, as most critics do when their opinion defies the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Like Alex! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Yes, but he seems to suffer from masochism based on some of the movies he subjects himself to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller (2015)This movie is absolutely insane. Loved it!9/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 And the score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 It actually featured some decent cues in the quieter moments! As for the action material, well, don't expect much variation. As was mentioned by Koko, it's very similar to the action music from Man Of Steel: lots of drums, drums, drums... on a loop. It gets the job done, and even works rather well in the film, but it's not something I'd listen to away from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 455 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 stale direction of a script...I don't think Burton is that great of a director. He has a great eye for production design and visuals, but he doesn't invest himself in giving clear direction to his actors. The quality of his movies ultimately hinges on the scripts.I can see why a lot of people don't like Alice in Wonderland, but I find it enjoyable in places. More entertainment value than Dark Shadows for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Ex MachinaGrey had a point with this one, there's nothing necessarily original or particularly striking here to add to the genre. But having said that, the film handles all its ideas, philosophical references and Kubrick/Blade Runner homages with such keen deftness that it makes the whole affair justified. And while it played more like an elegant exercise in well-crafted sci-fi than a "brilliant masterpiece", you can't help but appreciate it. It's a very good directorial debut for Garland, and I found it enjoyable to the last minute. Just don't go in expecting something more daring like Under the Skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller (2015)This movie is absolutely insane. Loved it!9/10It was dumb but in a wonderfully messy way. And Miller knows: prolonged truck and tank battles montaged in kinetic fashion can entertain any boy or man for 2 hours, so he dispensed with any notion of story or expositional dialogue which is probably a good thing. The only thing i found wretched was the adagio music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Oh and good score too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 noYet he directed Ed Wood so well and got great performances from the cast.Sure he's more known for his visuals, but he obviously has no problem communicating with actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,348 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I agree, Drax. You could say that movies like Alice In Wonderland are bad because here he lost himself in CGI. Yes, Burton is not the most 'stable' director out but he occasionally has outbursts of brilliance. Every 10 years or so he makes a great movie. That's more than Ridley Scott can say these days (read: these past decades).The crowd goes "Hear, hear"...Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 PS: in the cinema, i saw trailers for a new TERMINATOR movie, ANT-MAN, JURASSIC WORLD and one about Adam Sandler being chased by Pac-Man. Are these movies made by brain-damaged martians? I seriously can't believe any halfway decent human filmmaker would spent years of his life on such irritating (and maniacally loud) crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,348 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 These are studio movies and the line of directors that are willing to make them is very, very long. In an ideal world those movies would not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 That doesn't puzzle me as much as that they are still considerable audiences perfectly willing to shell out 14€ (the steep price for a 3-D showing of MAD MAX) for movie that aren't even movies but videogame outtakes (i left out HITMAN, another movie incredibility). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 It consequentially felt like a comic adaptation of the old Mel Gibson movies. The movie almost lost me early on with the post-nuclear sandstorm sequence but soon found its footing with the escape of the women posse. I'm not too sure about Max even being in it - he's more like a TANK GIRL sidekick in this one - but why bother? The giant rods the freak henchmen use for fetching the girls were fucking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,379 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Mad Max isn't the main character in his own movie? Why? Whose idea was that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 That doesn't necesarily look like a bad idea to me. He can also be the type of characters that's used by the film to run into other characters.I'm really angry because they haven't released it here in subtitled version, so I don't know what to do. On one hand, it probably isn't the kind of film that suffers a lot for it, but on the other hand I've refused for years to see dubbed films at the cinema. Aaaaagh. I want to live somewhere else.I guess I'll watch instead the original trilogy. On my laptop, because I have no other way of seeing anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,298 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Mad Max isn't the main character in his own movie?Why?Whose idea was that?I wouldn't say Max is deliberately sidelined or anything. It's just more of an ensemble than the other movies, it kind of naturally comes out of the story. He and Furiosa are basically co-leading characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,298 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 For sure! And her big moments are a lot more charged than his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 About the lack of expositional dialogue: I agree. In fact, I thought that with just a few shots, Miller did a wonderfully job at setting up his universe, and in a more effective way than he would have with characters just explaining to us what's going on.The film almost fees like the reverse of a Chris Nolan movie in how it allows the visuals rather then the dialogue to tell the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Mad Max isn't the main character in his own movie?Why?Whose idea was that?Thats not unusual Max has always been more or less a bystander in these films, fighting for survival rather then anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Exactly. He's just an observer, a cypher, an audience surrogate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Mad Max isn't the main character in his own movie?Why?Whose idea was that?Well, he is.He's just not the loudest one. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Max is a man of few words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Yeah, and he's really struggling with those few as well, it seems.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I think Gibson had about 12 lines of dialogue in The Road Warrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,379 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I've never seen any of the films so I have no idea what they are like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I enjoyed the first one on Netflix a few months ago. It's a revenge western based in post-apocalyptic Australia. I haven't seen the other two, but a colleague always quoted Thunderdome. Two men enter, one man leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I love all three Mad Max films. They defined the post-apocalyptic landscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 So you will like this one, too.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,348 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 About the lack of expositional dialogue: I agree. In fact, I thought that with just a few shots, Miller did a wonderfully job at setting up his universe, and in a more effective way than he would have with characters just explaining to us what's going on.The film almost fees like the reverse of a Chris Nolan movie in how it allows the visuals rather then the dialogue to tell the story.Yep. Cremers should love it in that regard!Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is one of Zack Snyder's favorite movies but I rewatched it and I didn't think it was that good. I liked the Mad Max franchise at the time but I never was a big fan. Maybe this Fury Road is some kind of update to Road Warrior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Zach Snyder will love Fury Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Who cares about what Snyder thinks?Cremers will love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Is Cremers the new Ebert?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 No. Cremers is the new Snyder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Cremers is the new Ebert.But with a jaw line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 You don't know that! Did you actually see a picture of him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 He doesn't really have a face, judging from his avatar.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Doesn't surprise me. He doesn't want to tell people how they should feel about him. He has a blank face so people who see him can cast their own emotions on his face and experience him differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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