Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 2

[DarkKnight88]

The first film is one huge cliche. Not anything about it is fresh. Hollywood had made that film many times, and to far better results. Hollywood never made The Road Warrior.

Summing up the first film as "one huge cliche" shows that you never actually sat down to watch it. Painting it in broad strokes like that also shows you missed most of the film. The fact that you're willing to forgive Road Warrior for the same faults you find in Mad Max is telling. Please name me some Hollywood films that look/sound/have action like the first Mad Max before 1979.

I like Road Warrior, but don't sell the first film short cause you can't remember it. It was very fresh at the time.

 

[DyeLorean]

I don't know anything about the Mad Max series, but the trailer for the new one looks like a gritty version of the desert sequence in Speed Racer.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I don't give a damn if the first film is a cliche. It is still a damn good flick.

Some folks just like arguing over petty ****.

Sweet lawd.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

This makes me glad the net didn't exist back when these movies were being made.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Summing up the first film as "one huge cliche" shows that you never actually sat down to watch it. Painting it in broad strokes like that also shows you missed most of the film. The fact that you're willing to forgive Road Warrior for the same faults you find in Mad Max is telling. Please name me some Hollywood films that look/sound/have action like the first Mad Max before 1979.

I like Road Warrior, but don't sell the first film short cause you can't remember it. It was very fresh at the time.

I saw it twice rather recently actually. The beauty of Netflix. I don't forgive The Road Warrior for the same faults, as The Road Warrior doesn't have those faults.

In terms of sound, I couldn't find many that weren't super low rent. Mad Max has poor sound design and quality in general. In terms of look, it looks like most 70's exploitation films, just you know worse. And in terms of action, I'd suggest something like Bullitt or The French Connection.

In no way was Mad Max fresh. The setting prevented that as much as the story.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I don't give a damn if the first film is a cliche. It is still a damn good flick.

Some folks just like arguing over petty ****.

Sweet lawd.

I don't think the first film is a damn good flick Sam. Not in the slightest. I don't like Thunderdome either.

This makes me glad the net didn't exist back when these movies were being made.

So you prefer not to have net exist today either? Just so you wouldn't have to hear differing opinions on a film? t:

 

[TheComicbookKid]

So you prefer not to have net exist today either? Just so you wouldn't have to hear differing opinions on a film? t:

Stop telling me how to feel!!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Stop telling me how to feel!!

I was just a question.


But I am demanding your love for the internet!!!!

 

[Warhammer]

Isn't The Road Warrior considered one of the greatest sequels ever?

 

[Marvin]

Isn't The Road Warrior considered one of the greatest sequels ever?

Probably.
Surely in the action genre.
In that Aliens/T2/Empire/Khan grouping of better than the originals and pop culture status.

 

[Octoberist]

I liked the first Mad Max, but keep in mind, it's more of a precursor to what's to come (the wastelands). You know it's a smaller indie movie with a big vision, plus it's a slower burn than the other two.

I DO like it's more dytopian vs post-apocalyptic. Society is there for the most part: You got the police force, Max has a family with a house.

 

[Warhammer]

Probably.
Surely in the action genre.
In that Aliens/T2/Empire/Khan grouping of better than the originals and pop culture status.

Yeah, I've seen a bunch of "Top ___ Best Sequels Ever" lists and along with those mentioned above as well as The Godfather Part II and The Dark Knight, I almost always see The Road Warrior.

 

[Octoberist]

I think The Road Warrior is a more complete vision that Miller was tying to capture in the first film but didn't have the resources.

 

[Warhammer]

I think The Road Warrior is a more complete vision that Miller was tying to capture in the first film but didn't have the resources.

If The Road Warrior was his complete vision with the resources of the time, then we are in for a treat with this one. When I saw the newest trailer on the big screen the other day, I went from thinking "Eh, I guess I'll see this movie" to "Holy s***, I will be there on opening night".

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Probably.
Surely in the action genre.
In that Aliens/T2/Empire/Khan grouping of better than the originals and pop culture status.

I don't think Aliens quite qualifies. Not because it isn't great, it is. But there is a situation where you'd see just as many pick Alien as Aliens. Though of course, they are quite different.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I think The Road Warrior is a more complete vision that Miller was tying to capture in the first film but didn't have the resources.

Then what is Fury Road?

 

[Octoberist]

His orgasm

 

[DarthSkywalker]

His orgasm

I hope not. I want him to make those sequels he has in mind.

 

[Sawyer]

I love the first Mad Max, though. I love that it was firmly in the middle ground between the regular, everyday world and the S&M post-apocalypse world that we see in the other movies. It hasn't totally gone to s*** yet, but there's obviously something off.

Plus, Toecutter.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I am more of a Humungus kind of guy.

 

[Sawyer]

I am more of a Humungus kind of guy.

You're more of a wrong kind of guy.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

You're more of a wrong kind of guy.

I will not continue this conversation with a meanie.

 

[Brother Jack]

Isn't The Road Warrior considered one of the greatest sequels ever?

It's barely a sequel though. It has almost no connective tissue to the first movie. Max's backstory with his family and everything is implied in the movie so there's almost no story information contained in the first film that's pertinent in Road Warrior. You can take the world and the characters at face value from the little prologue at the beginning and the threadbare way it is all presented.

 

[Sawyer]

I will not continue this conversation with a meanie.

There there

*rubs DarthSkywalker soothingly with a broom*

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Somehow that works for it strangely. You really can enjoy it both ways. I've shown RW to a bunch of people who never saw MAX and they still love it, yet you can also enjoy it as the next chapter in Max's drifting away into the wastelands away form civilization.