Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 6

[Fallen Angel]

Aren't most Mad Max films stand alone anyways? You can enjoy Fury Road without having seen any of the others.

Yes and no. Chronologically Fury Road is after Road Warrior and before Beyond Thunderdome.

 

[Golgo-13]

Weird thing to say about the fourth film in a series.

Fury Road is obvioulsy a re-boot/retcon. The originals are not in the same time line.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Fury Road is obvioulsy a re-boot/retcon. The originals are not in the same time line.

Err yeah they are. That's what they were saying all along.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Aren't most Mad Max films stand alone anyways? You can enjoy Fury Road without having seen any of the others.

Yes. The only real noticeable difference when watching them in order is how society declines further with each one and how less human/more animalistic Max becomes as time goes on.

 

[Golgo-13]

Err yeah they are. That's what they were saying all along.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Fury Road although can be seen as a self contained movie, it's not a reboot but in fact a sequel to Mad Max: Road Warrior.

 

[jmc]

I believe I said in this very thread a while back that if competition was weak this year Mad Max would be in with a chance. Not only did it get the nod it freakin' swept the nominations list. Very happy for this film. Images from it still resonate with me almost a year later.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Fury Road although can be seen as a self contained movie, it's not a reboot but in fact a sequel to Mad Max: Road Warrior.

Eh, Miller at cannes said it took place after Thunderdrome.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Eh, Miller at cannes said it took place after Thunderdrome.

Really? because he also said it's set before Beyond Thunderdome. Either way it's a sequel to Road Warrior.

 

[Sawyer]

Maybe it takes place before the first one.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Really? because he also said it's set before Beyond Thunderdome. Either way it's a sequel to Road Warrior.

*smokes from Gandalf pipe*

They all pretty much a self contained story each time.

 

[Voltron]

Well at least FR got some love and recognition from the Critics Choice awards.

They won for:
Best Director
Best Production Design
Best Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Hair & Makeup
Best Visual Effects
Best Actor In An Action Movie
Best Actress In An Action Movie
Best Action Movie

It's great that Charlize got recognition for Furiosa. I was surprised that Hardy won over Tom Cruise.

 

[Victarion]

Maybe it takes place before the first one.

Next you'll be trying to convince me that Immortan Joe is a revived Toecutter...

 

[aNarcHy2day]

Next you'll be trying to convince me that Immortan Joe is a revived Toecutter...

He isn't?

 

[Black Narcissus]

 

[Schlosser85]

Personally, I feel Hardy in FR is underrated and it was nice to see he won alongside Theron for Critics Choice.

They also nominated him for Legend and The Revenant, so maybe they just like them some Hardy.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

Yes. The only real noticeable difference when watching them in order is how society declines further with each one and how less human/more animalistic Max becomes as time goes on.

As someone who has never seen a mad max movie before my question is would you consider Max in this film more human or animalistic than in previous ones?

 

[Victarion]

Strikes me as more human. He was at his most animalistic toward the end of the first movie.

 

[C. Lee]

An idea about the movie I find interesting is the speculation that this Max is the "Feral Kid" from ROAD WARRIOR grown up.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

An idea about the movie I find interesting is the speculation that this Max is the "Feral Kid" from ROAD WARRIOR grown up.

That is interesting, Hardy even sounds like the guy who narrated Road Warrior as an older version of the character. I can't imagine it true, but it's a fun bit of speculation.

 

[DeGenerate10]

At the beginning of the movie it said Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky so I'm not sure how that works with the feral kid speculation.

 

[C. Lee]

At the beginning of the movie it said Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky so I'm not sure how that works with the feral kid speculation.

In the speculation stuff I read....it says the kid so idolized Max, that he takes his name and tries to dress and act like him. The idea of him being the kid and not Max partially comes from how things seem to have degraded so far (with the oceans drying up) and the extra 20+ years to give him time to grow up helps make that feasible.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

In the speculation stuff I read....it says the kid so idolized Max, that he takes his name and tries to dress and act like him. The idea of him being the kid and not Max partially comes from how things seem to have degraded so far (with the oceans drying up) and the extra 20+ years to give him time to grow up helps make that feasible.

It's certainly a fun bit of speculation, as the world of FR did seem much worse than even Thunderdome. But until Miller tells us different, he is the Max from the originals for me.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

It's certainly a fun bit of speculation, as the world of FR did seem much worse than even Thunderdome. But until Miller tells us different, he is the Max from the originals for me.

At the beginning of the film, Max says in a voice over that he was a cop before the end of the world. That would not have been true for the feral kid.

 

[C. Lee]

At the beginning of the film, Max says in a voice over that he was a cop before the end of the world. That would not have been true for the feral kid.

The speculation I read mentioned that.....it said that he could be saying that because he has so immersed himself in the idea of Max, that he is using everything about the original Max to continue and extend the myth of Mad Max.

And remember guys.....I'm not saying this is what I believe....just saying I read it and thought it was real interesting....it could be a neat take on the series.