Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga |OT| Hell Hath No Fury Like An Imperator Scorned

[Tom_Cody]

Does this have any exclusive features in IMAX? Special aspect ratio, was any of it shot in IMAX, etc?

I'm buying my ticket now and the Dolby showtime is better for me, but I will go with IMAX if I have a special reason to do so. TBH I really like the Dolby theater near me, so I usually favor that unless there are exclusive IMAX features.

 

[Lotus]

I can't decide if I should rewatch Fury Road before or after this movie

 

[Sanjuro]

Does this have any exclusive features in IMAX? Special aspect ratio, was any of it shot in IMAX, etc?

I'm buying my ticket now and the Dolby showtime is better for me, but I will go with IMAX if I have a special reason to do so. TBH I really like the Dolby theater near me, so I usually favor that unless there are exclusive IMAX features.

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It doesn't change ratios.

I can't decide if I should rewatch Fury Road before or after this movie

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I actually preferred watching it after.

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The end credits are essentially a montage of some of Fury Road's best moments.

 

[west]

It was good, but never reached the heights of Fury Road or Road Warrior for me. While Fury Road had immaculate world building, this only stands on it's shoulders, but does not really surprise in any way or bring anything new to the table. You kind of know how it will end as well, so it lacks tension.

Still, alot of fun. And the leads where great. Several incredible action scenes, but undermined but the lack of a thight plot.

The soundtrack felt oddly minimalistic.

 

[Temtastic Muns]

The soundtrack felt oddly minimalistic.

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So, nothing on the level of, say, Brothers in Arms?

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[Reversed]

Witnessing tomorrow night

 

[Binabik15]

Just saw this. It's great. A few rough edges, maybe, but great. Can't comment on the acting, went to a preview showing and that was only available in German. At times Hemsworth felt a bit like goofy Thor, but that might've been the voice actor.

I certainly didn't feel like there wasn't enough action. Fury Road gets going and does not stop, which has its own charm, but I started a rewatch last week and didn't get far. I know all the explosions and chases already, so I started browsing and decided to stop. This has more breathers in between, tons of weird shit* snd some really, really fucked up gore

Overall pretty damn happy that this wasn't just Fury Road 2: Longer and Uncut.


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I have a million ideas to steal for Warhammer minis

 

[west]

So, nothing on the level of, say, Brothers in Arms?

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Sadly no, unless the soundmix was off in the Dolby Theater. I actively noticed several moments where it felt like "this action scene should have a score, right?" But it was just engine noises. There where also some reused motives from Fury Road.

 

[BWoog]

I saw this earlier in the week and I loved it. While it's not as great as Fury Road, boy is it close. There is one major MAJOR caveat though:

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The green screen is LAUGHABLE at times, like really REALLY bad.

 

[xyla]

Loved the world building this one added - for some I thought it would have way less action too but it was packed!

Also enjoyed the beginning and that it took way longer than I expected.

 

[Slaythe]

Typically not my kind of movie and the trailers looked like unmitigated ass, so I have to say, just saw this and It's probably as good as it can get for what they wanted to do. Solid, well made.

Can't imagine anybody that's a fan of the setting wouldn't love this.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

I saw this earlier in the week and I loved it. While it's not as great as Fury Road, boy is it close. There is one major MAJOR caveat though:

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The green screen is LAUGHABLE at times, like really REALLY bad.

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So it's not just the trailers. Damn. That was a huge concern.

 

[pokeystaples]

I saw this earlier in the week and I loved it. While it's not as great as Fury Road, boy is it close. There is one major MAJOR caveat though:

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The green screen is LAUGHABLE at times, like really REALLY bad.

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Figured this would be the case. Sucks, but still watching it.

 

[BWoog]

Figured this would be the case. Sucks, but still watching it.

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It's honestly a minor complaint, it didn't ruin the movie in any way but it's totally noticeable.

 

[CloudWolf]

Fantastic movie. Completely different in vibe than Fury Road though, so be warned.

Anyhow, I loved how this fully embraced the mythological aspect of the Mad Max films. More than ever it becomes abundantly clear this is not a story that's meant to be taken literal, more like a story that has been passed down through the generations. Some stuff looks like it came straight out of a Wagnerian opera or a comic book lol, especially Chris Hemsworth's Dementus on his motorbike chariot.

 

[Aloysius]

Should I have my partner watch Fury Road first are they good to see this without seeing Fury Road?

 

[luca]

Just came out of my showing. Absolutely loved it and it exceeded all of my expectations. Just utterly wow. It's a toss up as to which I like better of Furiosa and Fury Road for now.

I got a few questions.
1) Who was the guy standing on the cliff eating while watching Furiosa drive by? Was that supposed to be Max?
2) What was the significance of the tree growing from human bodies? Does it mean they can rebuild the world on dead bodies since the soil must be too dry to grow greenery? Why did she plant the seed at the Citadel that she's leaving anyway?
3) Why did Furiosa run away from Rektus just to stay at the Citadel as time passed? She just didn't like Rektus and didn't wanna be a wife?
4) Was that archive footage of Charlize Theron at the end when we see her freeing the wives?

Are the three classic Mad Max movies in any way connected to the new ones? Are these a continuation or do they function as a reboot?

 

[Fright Zone]

Got tickets to the biggest IMAX in London on Saturday.

Cant wait. Fury Road was so unexpected for me, went to see it in a whim and it just blew me away, one of my best ever cinema experiences and probably my favourite action film of all time.

 

[Osahi]

Enjoyed it a lot last night. It's definitely different from Fury Road in terms of vibe and tone. While Fury Road is one relentless and perfectly paced chase, this is still a focused but a way more broader feeling story (it has chapters and spans 15 years or so), that takes more time to set-up the world and its inner workings (It sure has a 'prequel feeling' because of this, it often feels like you're watching the backstory and lore that simmers in the background of Fury Road). But it all works really well, and I'm actually happy Miller didn't go for a second Fury Road-esque high octane action movie. It's not that there is no action, because most of it's runtime still seems devoted to chases and battles. And while Miller (rightfully so) doen't reinvent the wheel in these scenes, they are absolutely brilliant. There is just no one who frames and edits action like Miller does. While it's often frantic you never lose sight of what is happening, and every action sequence is carefully build up as a story of its own. It's pretty damn amazing.

And of course the film is packed with beautiful shots that due to the saturated grading often feel otherworldly. It looks way better than the trailers, though there are some rough greenscreen shots here and there.

 

[Saifu]

is there a post-credit scene that we should sit for?

 

[Osahi]

is there a post-credit scene that we should sit for?

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Yes and no.

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During the end credits you get a series of short shots of Fury Road, telling 'what happens next'. It ends about halfway through the credits. Then at the very end there is one shot that isn't worth staying seated for at all. It's just a close-up of a hood ornament

 

[darksider321]

Just came out of my showing. Absolutely loved it and it exceeded all of my expectations. Just utterly wow. It's a toss up as to which I like better of Furiosa and Fury Road for now.

I got a few questions.
1) Who was the guy standing on the cliff eating while watching Furiosa drive by? Was that supposed to be Max?
2) What was the significance of the tree growing from human bodies? Does it mean they can rebuild the world on dead bodies since the soil must be too dry to grow greenery? Why did she plant the seed at the Citadel that she's leaving anyway?
3) Why did Furiosa run away from Rektus just to stay at the Citadel as time passed? She just didn't like Rektus and didn't wanna be a wife?
4) Was that archive footage of Charlize Theron at the end when we see her freeing the wives?

Are the three classic Mad Max movies in any way connected to the new ones? Are these a continuation or do they function as a reboot?

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I can answer for question 3. I mean considering the fate of the wives, why wouldn't she run away? In the case of why she stayed, well she would have been likely hunted down if she even attempted to steal a vehicle. It was better in her case to survive staying in the citadel and work her way up as shown in the movie.

 

[CloudWolf]

Just came out of my showing. Absolutely loved it and it exceeded all of my expectations. Just utterly wow. It's a toss up as to which I like better of Furiosa and Fury Road for now.

I got a few questions.
1) Who was the guy standing on the cliff eating while watching Furiosa drive by? Was that supposed to be Max?
2) What was the significance of the tree growing from human bodies? Does it mean they can rebuild the world on dead bodies since the soil must be too dry to grow greenery? Why did she plant the seed at the Citadel that she's leaving anyway?
3) Why did Furiosa run away from Rektus just to stay at the Citadel as time passed? She just didn't like Rektus and didn't wanna be a wife?
4) Was that archive footage of Charlize Theron at the end when we see her freeing the wives?

Are the three classic Mad Max movies in any way connected to the new ones? Are these a continuation or do they function as a reboot?

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1) Yes, that was clearly supposed to be Max. He's framed the exact same way as in the beginning of Fury Road.

2) It's just a case of poetic revenge. He killed her mother and stole her away from the Green Place because he was looking for it and in death, she brings part of The Green Place to him. One thing to note is that all Mad Max films, and especially this one, are more mythological than literal, so it makes sense she would "kill" him like this.

3) Probably figured correctly that running away as a child would get her killed or raped very fast. While staying at the Citadel could provide opportunities.

4) Not sure, could be, but I think it's new footage (and not Theron)

As for your question regarding the Mad Max franchise. None of the Mad Max films are reboots (as Max Rockatansky is always clearly the same guy, even in Fury Road he mentions his background from the first movie), but also none of them are direct continuations of each other.

The Mad Max films, except the first one, are more like tales people tell in the future about this mythical figure called Max who helped their society at one point (or in this movie, the myth about Furiosa's rise). The stories are not really meant to be taken literal, which is why you get stuff like the Wasteland looking completely different with each movie, the timeline completely shifting and Max himself being seemingly ageless (in Fury Road for example, he would've been several decades older than most other characters in the movie).

Furiosa is the first Mad Max movie that is explicitly set in the same kind of story-environment as a previous film (Fury Road) and even then you can see differences in how the characters acts between stories (most obvious with Rictus and Immortan Joe).

 

[west]

Should I have my partner watch Fury Road first are they good to see this without seeing Fury Road?

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This feels like a prequel in it's truest sense. As in, I think it would be ideal to see Furiosa before Fury Road tbh, since it's mostly building up to the payoff that is Fury Road.

 

[Ashhong]

Does this have any exclusive features in IMAX? Special aspect ratio, was any of it shot in IMAX, etc?

I'm buying my ticket now and the Dolby showtime is better for me, but I will go with IMAX if I have a special reason to do so. TBH I really like the Dolby theater near me, so I usually favor that unless there are exclusive IMAX features.

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Everything I've read says there are no IMAX scenes at all and it's filmed in 2.39:1 so I'm picking Dolby. IMAX might be a little larger of a screen but I like the Dolby screen quality and audio. I'll just sit a little closer

 

[west]

2) What was the significance of the tree growing from human bodies? Does it mean they can rebuild the world on dead bodies since the soil must be too dry to grow greenery? Why did she plant the seed at the Citadel that she's leaving anyway?

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The movie goes out of it's way to show that the story changed and got embellished as time passed. The narrator is not reliable so the version with the tree is just what the legend ended up as. We will never know what happened really. It's a nice nod to the story teller in Road Warrior as well

 

[Vinimaw]

Loved it.
Clearly an IMAX experience. The theater was shaking so much.
Not Fury Road level, but definitly over the top action and great characters.

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Special mention for young Furiosa actress that get so much screen time !

 

[Binabik15]

Just came out of my showing. Absolutely loved it and it exceeded all of my expectations. Just utterly wow. It's a toss up as to which I like better of Furiosa and Fury Road for now.

I got a few questions.
1) Who was the guy standing on the cliff eating while watching Furiosa drive by? Was that supposed to be Max?
2) What was the significance of the tree growing from human bodies? Does it mean they can rebuild the world on dead bodies since the soil must be too dry to grow greenery? Why did she plant the seed at the Citadel that she's leaving anyway?
3) Why did Furiosa run away from Rektus just to stay at the Citadel as time passed? She just didn't like Rektus and didn't wanna be a wife?
4) Was that archive footage of Charlize Theron at the end when we see her freeing the wives?

Are the three classic Mad Max movies in any way connected to the new ones? Are these a continuation or do they function as a reboot?

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1) I think you're right, though it'd be a bit weird with the timeline to be there twice.

2) Is straight up

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torture porn. They can already grow plants in the soil on the Citadel hills, even if it'd work to plant stuff in humans it'd be a ridiculous waste of resources keeping the human alive. Killing someone and turn them into compost would be easier soil to grow and not wast food and water. She was just torturing the guy. Probably a throwback to some ancient Asian torture method of having sharpened bamboo grow under someone. Not sure if it was the best use of her seed that she promised to grow in the Green Place, but it'S certainly a big FUCK YOU :D And knowing what we know from Fury Road, there wasn't arable soil left in the Green Place

I don't think too hard about what makes sense in those movies.

 

[xyla]

Just came out of my showing. Absolutely loved it and it exceeded all of my expectations. Just utterly wow. It's a toss up as to which I like better of Furiosa and Fury Road for now.

I got a few questions.
1) Who was the guy standing on the cliff eating while watching Furiosa drive by? Was that supposed to be Max?
2) What was the significance of the tree growing from human bodies? Does it mean they can rebuild the world on dead bodies since the soil must be too dry to grow greenery? Why did she plant the seed at the Citadel that she's leaving anyway?
3) Why did Furiosa run away from Rektus just to stay at the Citadel as time passed? She just didn't like Rektus and didn't wanna be a wife?
4) Was that archive footage of Charlize Theron at the end when we see her freeing the wives?

Are the three classic Mad Max movies in any way connected to the new ones? Are these a continuation or do they function as a reboot?

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2) For one, it's Dementus who's supposed to be there, being kept alive and slowly nourishing this tree. On a poetic level, she wanted her childhood back - this fruit is what is connected to her childhood. It's the one thing Furiosa is introduced to us with and the seed of that fruit is so precious to her that she has kept it all her life.
And now that it's back, she can move on from this place

3) It's not 100% clear to me if Rektus was trying to bond to her because he's basically a child or if he is a pedophile. Furiosa got what that room is about very fast and had already met Immortan Joe before. I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to end up as his wife, especially considering the world she's from.

4) I don't think so, it's basically a bookend between the movies after 5 years have passed. From what I got from the movie - 15 years since she arrived at the citadel as a kid and since she hunted down Dementus, then another 5 years in which he was fed to the tree and she planned to get the remaining wifes out.

Basically all/most Mad Max movies are being told by History Men as legends - so they are all unreliable which is why it isn't really important that the timeline doesn't add up. It's basically "just roll with it" the movie series because otherwise, Max wass there when the apocalypse started and he's still around 40 years old after 40 years have passed in this world.

Few furtherb thoughts: I love that this series in general trusts the viewer with a lot of information visually that isn't explained a lot - for example She looses the arm that has the tattoes and that was her main navigation back home. Works story wise and methaphorically. The crows are also used in this movie and get mentioned in Fury Road. Nobody says "take a shortcut so we can catch up to ...".

Also just loved how people keep getting sniped and how it's edited First guy basically drives into the camera, there's a red flash and we see him fall from a different perspective

And Furiosas relationship with the sniper rifle and how she gets better with it over the two movies is basically a small plot in itself is also fantastic!
Same with action scenes that we have already seen similarly in Fury Road and the camera just keeps a bit of distance to frame it differently.

Last thought right now - a few shots were basically an Army of Darkness homage The scene where she builds her new arm is so close to Ash, it has to be intentional

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

Cannot wait to watch this on Friday. I picked up the Mad Max 4k UHD boxset to rewatch them all before Furiosa. They all look and sound fantastic in 4k, really enjoyed going through them all again.

Mad Max - 7/10 - Better than I remembered, long time since I watched it but held up pretty well, with some decent car stunts, despite the story being a bit messy.
Mad Max 2 - 9/10 - An absolute classic with some great action.
Mad Max 3 - 6/10 - Still the worst in the series but has some fun moments.
Fury Road - 10/10 - Simply incredible, jaw dropping action and stunning visuals, it doesn't get much better than this.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Everything I've read says there are no IMAX scenes at all and it's filmed in 2.39:1 so I'm picking Dolby. IMAX might be a little larger of a screen but I like the Dolby screen quality and audio. I'll just sit a little closer

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Yeah same, but it's not like I dislike IMAX. It is a 1A versus 1B situation, both great options. I ended up buying my ticket for Dolby this time. Based on the trailers I think this is going to look great in Dolby Vision HDR.

 

[luca]

I can answer for question 3. I mean considering the fate of the wives, why wouldn't she run away? In the case of why she stayed, well she would have been likely hunted down if she even attempted to steal a vehicle. It was better in her case to survive staying in the citadel and work her way up as shown in the movie.

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1) Yes, that was clearly supposed to be Max. He's framed the exact same way as in the beginning of Fury Road.

2) It's just a case of poetic revenge. He killed her mother and stole her away from the Green Place because he was looking for it and in death, she brings part of The Green Place to him. One thing to note is that all Mad Max films, and especially this one, are more mythological than literal, so it makes sense she would "kill" him like this.

3) Probably figured correctly that running away as a child would get her killed or raped very fast. While staying at the Citadel could provide opportunities.

4) Not sure, could be, but I think it's new footage (and not Theron)

As for your question regarding the Mad Max franchise. None of the Mad Max films are reboots (as Max Rockatansky is always clearly the same guy, even in Fury Road he mentions his background from the first movie), but also none of them are direct continuations of each other.

The Mad Max films, except the first one, are more like tales people tell in the future about this mythical figure called Max who helped their society at one point (or in this movie, the myth about Furiosa's rise). The stories are not really meant to be taken literal, which is why you get stuff like the Wasteland looking completely different with each movie, the timeline completely shifting and Max himself being seemingly ageless (in Fury Road for example, he would've been several decades older than most other characters in the movie).

Furiosa is the first Mad Max movie that is explicitly set in the same kind of story-environment as a previous film (Fury Road) and even then you can see differences in how the characters acts between stories (most obvious with Rictus and Immortan Joe).

Click to shrink...

Spoiler

The movie goes out of it's way to show that the story changed and got embellished as time passed. The narrator is not reliable so the version with the tree is just what the legend ended up as. We will never know what happened really. It's a nice nod to the story teller in Road Warrior as well

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1) I think you're right, though it'd be a bit weird with the timeline to be there twice.

2) Is straight up

Spoiler

torture porn. They can already grow plants in the soil on the Citadel hills, even if it'd work to plant stuff in humans it'd be a ridiculous waste of resources keeping the human alive. Killing someone and turn them into compost would be easier soil to grow and not wast food and water. She was just torturing the guy. Probably a throwback to some ancient Asian torture method of having sharpened bamboo grow under someone. Not sure if it was the best use of her seed that she promised to grow in the Green Place, but it'S certainly a big FUCK YOU :D And knowing what we know from Fury Road, there wasn't arable soil left in the Green Place

I don't think too hard about what makes sense in those movies.

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2) For one, it's Dementus who's supposed to be there, being kept alive and slowly nourishing this tree. On a poetic level, she wanted her childhood back - this fruit is what is connected to her childhood. It's the one thing Furiosa is introduced to us with and the seed of that fruit is so precious to her that she has kept it all her life.
And now that it's back, she can move on from this place

3) It's not 100% clear to me if Rektus was trying to bond to her because he's basically a child or if he is a pedophile. Furiosa got what that room is about very fast and had already met Immortan Joe before. I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to end up as his wife, especially considering the world she's from.

4) I don't think so, it's basically a bookend between the movies after 5 years have passed. From what I got from the movie - 15 years since she arrived at the citadel as a kid and since she hunted down Dementus, then another 5 years in which he was fed to the tree and she planned to get the remaining wifes out.

Basically all/most Mad Max movies are being told by History Men as legends - so they are all unreliable which is why it isn't really important that the timeline doesn't add up. It's basically "just roll with it" the movie series because otherwise, Max wass there when the apocalypse started and he's still around 40 years old after 40 years have passed in this world.

Few furtherb thoughts: I love that this series in general trusts the viewer with a lot of information visually that isn't explained a lot - for example She looses the arm that has the tattoes and that was her main navigation back home. Works story wise and methaphorically. The crows are also used in this movie and get mentioned in Fury Road. Nobody says "take a shortcut so we can catch up to ...".

Also just loved how people keep getting sniped and how it's edited First guy basically drives into the camera, there's a red flash and we see him fall from a different perspective

And Furiosas relationship with the sniper rifle and how she gets better with it over the two movies is basically a small plot in itself is also fantastic!
Same with action scenes that we have already seen similarly in Fury Road and the camera just keeps a bit of distance to frame it differently.

Last thought right now - a few shots were basically an Army of Darkness homage The scene where she builds her new arm is so close to Ash, it has to be intentional

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Thank you guys for all these answers, it's all I was hoping for. I didn't know the Mad Max franchise was told through unreliable narrators but I love it when stories does that. So I've just ordered the Mad Max Anthology 4K Blu-ray set. I'll be watching the first 3 movies for the first time soon.

1) About this one. Are we to take it that this shot of Max looking over the desert from the cliff is the exact same scene from the opening of Fury Road? Because isn't it a different setting? In Fury Road he's at a hill and he drives down from it in his car. While in Furiosa he's on a cliff much higher up from the landscape.

2) Wow, I hadn't picked up on on that guy being Dementus the tree was growing from. I guess it's just one of many possibilities of what happened to him right? Since it's a story told by someone. And she have to keep him alive for the tree to not die? And is it the same kinda tree as the one she plucked apples from in the beginning?

Also, I don't quite remember this from Fury Road but how did she know how to find the Green Place if she had lost her arm and in extension her map?

 

[Solo]

Haven't seen the movie yet but listening to the score in isolation and it's......mediocre! It's more ambient or incidental this time, there's nothing kicking you in the teeth like Brothers in Arms, and the best bits of it are when it references flourishes of the Fury Road score.

Also in rewatching Fury Road, it's still 10/10, GOAT'd etc., but goddamn, it has to be the insanely rare case of a movie being a rousing success in spite of its (ostensible) lead performance. What the hell was Tom Hardy doing again? He has the physicality but he's basically Daffy Duck. Hardy has kinda become that weird voice choice guy for me. Bane broke him or something. What a weird, unsuccessful performance. Thankfully it's Charlize's movie through and through and she's amazing in it.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

Also in rewatching Fury Road, it's still 10/10, GOAT'd etc., but goddamn, it has to be the insanely rare case of a movie being a rousing success in spite of its (ostensible) lead performance. What the hell was Tom Hardy doing again? He has the physicality but he's basically Daffy Duck. Hardy has kinda become that weird voice choice guy for me. Bane broke him or something. What a weird, unsuccessful performance. Thankfully it's Charlize's movie through and through and she's amazing in it.

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It kinda fits the character though, Max isn't a big talker anyway, so it's not like they needed Hardy to do much other than do some physical stuff, while most of the other characters push the story forward, a lot like Mad Max 2 really.

 

[Disco]

Tom Hardy rules in fury road and he was basically wile e coyote in the movie too. An appropriately cartoonish performance given how the film presented itself with little need for dialogue for him and the slapstick stunt work at times

 

[Zor]

What the hell was Tom Hardy doing again? He has the physicality but he's basically Daffy Duck. Hardy has kinda become that weird voice choice guy for me.

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Max has been on his own in the wasteland for a very long time with nothing but his thoughts and memories and nothing else. Over the course of the film he's quite literally learning to find his voice and self again ("Max... my name is Max"), so the weird delivery and cadence works for this interpretation of the character. Remember that in VO he sounds calm and straightforward (ie, his inner voice), but speaking openly in the film he's largely curt and weird up to the end (lots of grunts and clearing throat, groggy, etc).

I think it works really well, and I'm someone kinda done with Hardy's voice decisions (see also: The Bikeriders).

 

[Solo]

Oh god The Bikeriders, when I watched that trailer I was just waiting to hear what ridiculous voice Hardy would do this time and he didn't disappoint lol

 

[CloudWolf]

Thank you guys for all these answers, it's all I was hoping for. I didn't know the Mad Max franchise was told through unreliable narrators but I love it when stories does that. So I've just ordered the Mad Max Anthology 4K Blu-ray set. I'll be watching the first 3 movies for the first time soon.

1) About this one. Are we to take it that this shot of Max looking over the desert from the cliff is the exact same scene from the opening of Fury Road? Because isn't it a different setting? In Fury Road he's at a hill and he drives down from it in his car. While in Furiosa he's on a cliff much higher up from the landscape.

2) Wow, I hadn't picked up on on that guy being Dementus the tree was growing from. I guess it's just one of many possibilities of what happened to him right? Since it's a story told by someone. And she have to keep him alive for the tree to not die? And is it the same kinda tree as the one she plucked apples from in the beginning?

Also, I don't quite remember this from Fury Road but how did she know how to find the Green Place if she had lost her arm and in extension her map?

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1) It's not meant to be the exact same scene as that wouldn't fit with the timeline at all (even beyond the regular Mad Max timeline shenanigans), it's probably more like "Max traveled through here before and he saw Furiosa crawling towards the Citadel". It's definitely meant to evoke the opening scene of Fury Road though.

As for The Green Place, she's been studying that arm for years, so she probably has a vague idea of where to go and in Fury Road she doesn't actually precisely know where The Green Place is. She just knows the general direction she has to go and then completely misses the fact that she already drove through there.

 

[Zor]

Oh god The Bikeriders, when I watched that trailer I was just waiting to hear what ridiculous voice Hardy would do this time and he didn't disappoint lol

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I love that director so, so much and then hearing Hardy talk in the trailer I was like.... oh ffs....

 

[Osahi]

1) About this one. Are we to take it that this shot of Max looking over the desert from the cliff is the exact same scene from the opening of Fury Road? Because isn't it a different setting? In Fury Road he's at a hill and he drives down from it in his car. While in Furiosa he's on a cliff much higher up from the landscape.

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the guy playing Max is the stunt double of Hardy from Fury Road btw, to drive it further home it's him. It's just a nod, not the start of Fury Road though it's close enough so you'd recognise him as Max

 

[entut1]

Also in rewatching Fury Road, it's still 10/10, GOAT'd etc., but goddamn, it has to be the insanely rare case of a movie being a rousing success in spite of its (ostensible) lead performance. What the hell was Tom Hardy doing again? He has the physicality but he's basically Daffy Duck. Hardy has kinda become that weird voice choice guy for me. Bane broke him or something. What a weird, unsuccessful performance. Thankfully it's Charlize's movie through and through and she's amazing in it.

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Completely disagree. It's a great and fitting voice performance for the story.

 

[Wigdogger]

Completely disagree. It's a great and fitting voice performance for the story.

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Exactly. I think the whole point is that Max is being carried through this odyssey that's got other characters. And the movie basically is Furiosa's movie (in all but name), and that's kind of the point. He's carried through this cacophony of noise and danger and manages to help some people out along the way, while remembering some small sparks of who he is.

 

[luca]

1) It's not meant to be the exact same scene as that wouldn't fit with the timeline at all (even beyond the regular Mad Max timeline shenanigans), it's probably more like "Max traveled through here before and he saw Furiosa crawling towards the Citadel". It's definitely meant to evoke the opening scene of Fury Road though.

As for The Green Place, she's been studying that arm for years, so she probably has a vague idea of where to go and in Fury Road she doesn't actually precisely know where The Green Place is. She just knows the general direction she has to go and then completely misses the fact that she already drove through there.

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1) Ohhh, I couldn't figure out what it was about the timeline that didn't fit. Is it because 5 years passes from Furiosa catches Dementus to letting the tree grow out, before she decides to free the wives.

2) Yeah, this fits. I remember it now that you mention it.

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the guy playing Max is the stunt double of Hardy from Fury Road btw, to drive it further home it's him. It's just a nod, not the start of Fury Road though it's close enough so you'd recognise him as Max

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Didn't know this, so cool though!

 

[Solo]

Exactly. I think the whole point is that Max is being carried through this odyssey that's got other characters. And the movie basically is Furiosa's movie (in all but name), and that's kind of the point. He's carried through this cacophony of noise and danger and manages to help some people out along the way, while remembering some small sparks of who he is.

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I don't have an issue with Max's role in the story though, or any part of that, nor do I have an issue with him essentially being mute and learning to communicate again. I just think Hardy gave a poor performance/ is the weakest part of the movie. Thankfully he isn't counted on to carry the movie so it really doesn't matter at all.

 

[ExInferus]

I love that director so, so much and then hearing Hardy talk in the trailer I was like.... oh ffs....

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apparently the character is

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obsessed with Brando

 

[Zor]

apparently the character is

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obsessed with Brando

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That's actually great if true lol

 

[FRANKEINSTEIN]

I watched Fury Road last night and have tickets for me and my 2 sons for tomorrow.

 

[NameUser]

Fury Road was one of the craziest movie theater experiences ever for me. My mouth was literally open through most of the run time.

 

[spookyduzt]

Going to see it again in an hour, can't wait.

Regal Crown Club has the bus sized IMAX poster up for redemption if you've got the points.

https://regalcrownclub.regmovies.com/furiosa-imax-bus-shelter-48-x-70-poster.html

 

[iHeartGameDev]

Wow -- just watched this interview and considered opening a new thread about it because it was so clever:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SIAG1ZgRo

I had seen a lot of reviews stating how similar Alyla Brown and Anya looked and what great casting it was. While I'm sure there are similarities, apparently Miller and co. took a composite of ATJ's face and one of Alyla's, and then had a dial that would blend between the two. It started out around 35% and by the time they were going to change actors, the dial was up to 80%.

Such a cool use of tech