[YMS] So I just saw Mad Max: Fury Road
and it was a lot of fun.
If I were rating this movie based on how much fun I had i'd be giving it a nine out of ten.
But alas, I rate movies based on what I feel the quality of the film is.
So no, i'm not docking points because I had fun watching it.
I just genuinely feel as though the movie is a fun seven out of ten.
There were a lot of aspects in the film that were genuinely impressive.
The cinematography was pretty great!
The computer generated imagery was used sparingly.
There were some parts that didn't feel visually quite real,
but for the most part it wasn't enough to take anybody out of the movie.
And most of all it was just fucking fun!
It was like if Death Race Three wasn't a massive piece of shit.
I'm not going to complain that there wasn't really much to the story
because anybody can tell that the movie wasn't really trying to be heavily story driven.
In all honesty if a movie is going for the the cool and fun factor i'd rather it dosen't spend an eternity
dicking around in between the cool and fun scenes.
In Mad Max: Fury Road the story was just enough so the cool and fun scenes didn't feel stupid and pointless.
I like how over the top and ridiculous it was and I wouldn't want the movie to be any other way.
In fact I hope the next movie goes even further.
Believe it or not I was reminded of army of darkness during the fight scene with the chain and the struggle for the gun.
There were a few things that irked me about the presentation of the movie but they were fairly minimal.
There were a few of those family flashback hallucination shots that were a little cheesy.
And yea, I know we're talking about the same movie where theres a dude on top of the car playing electric guitar
riding to his fucking death.
but I think its important to differentiate between cheese during something fun and cool and
cheese during something that's supposed to be dramatic and serous.
As someone that does a lot of editing there were a few things that were distracting and took me out of the film for a bit.
When slow footage is sped up to make it look fast, some people just see slow footage sped up to make it look fast.
Trust me it happens more times in this movie than you think.
During some of the dialog characters were basically whispering to each other, but they're inside a giant moving vehicle.
and theres no shortage of ear basting engine sounds during scenes where we see the exterior of the vehicles.
But during the serious talk time in the vehicles the volume of the engine is turned down so low
in post that literally that's all I can think about anymore.
[Imperator Furiosa] I was born there.
[Max Rockatansky] so why'd you leave?
[Imperator Furiosa] I didn't.
I was taken as a child.
stolen.
[YMS] it doesn't destroy the movie, all i'm saying is that when somethings in the environment that's so un-ironically
unnatural it is a little distracting.
And keeping consistent with what I said earlier, remember that these serious talk scenes are supposed to be serious.
Meaning that distractions like those wouldn't be as much of an issue if they were during the cool and fun scenes.
I have the exact same issue in any movie where the characters are in a supposedly loud club but they don't have to talk over the music.
The worst example I could think of would be from an indie movie called A Midsummer Night's Rave.
[Chad] I know how thirsty you fine DJs can get.
[Elena] Thank you chad.
[Chad] (breathes in) Enjoy.
[Elena] Thanks!
[YMS] The best example I could think of would be from David Finchers The social Network.
[Mark] You ever think about that girl?
[Billy] What girl?
[Mark] The-the girl from high school who was, did the lacrosse thing.
[billy] No!
[YMS] When a director has that much forethought to get the actors to shout in a silent room before the audio is added in in post production,
it impresses me enough to be giving the movie extra points.
And remember that a perfect ten rating is not a default that only goes lower if you find issues with the movie.
A default rating for me is a five out of ten, and any achievements that the film has to offer bring it higher.
And iv'e gotta say I was impressed by what the film had to offer.
Having seen the first two Mad Max films a long time ago this one was a lot more entertaining.
If there's one thing I remember about those older ones its that they had a much slower pace.
That and the villans were comically homosexual.
Should society get enraged over the sexual orientation or gender of the villains or heroes?
No!
I honestly wish I could have watched Mad Max fury road without all of those click-bait websites making a big fuss over the characters genders.
Because to me this movie had nothing to do with gender issues at all.
You could have swapped the genders of literally every character except the pregnant one and I wouldn't have felt any different about the movie.
Having a specific gender or sexual orientation being portrayed in a positive or negative light in a film might affect me more if it was
hmm, I don't know, not set in a post apocalyptic fantasy world where everyone, including then main character, has lost their fucking minds.
A group of men or a group of women or a group of gay people should not be taken as an accurate reflection of society.
They're just these things called characters.
And well it is possible that George Miller wrote this screenplay with the explicit intention of painting certain genders in certain lights,
at no point did it feel forced and out of place.
Why don't we just view people as human beings again?
Oh right. Its because anger sells and the one way to get everybody arguing at eachother over something
is to turn it into a gender issue. I forgot.
And yes the click-bait websites are just as guilty as the idiot they were quoting, who by the way never actually saw the movie before writing it.
You realize you can find idiots saying stupid shit about anything on the internet and that by putting them on a pedestal
you're essentially generating the controversy yourselves?
Doesn't matter. money.
Gender debates are the new big thing right now so we'll jump on literally any opportunity to get you
fired up about them so you'll share the link and give us money.
When I have criticisms to make about a film, I try to keep my criticisms in line with film making and presentation.
Have we forgotten how to do that?
Anyway forgive me for making that last part of my review more so a review on other peoples reviews.
Overall I really liked Mad Max.
I think that seven out of ten is a reasonable rating to give it.
Who knows, I might even bump it up to an eight the next time I see it.
If you watch the trailer and think that looks like a lot of fun,
then you'll probably have a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.
It was like an amusement park ride.
It was like riding the fun-coaster in fun-land.
It was a hot fun sunday.
Fun fun. Fun fun fun
fun fun.
It was fun.
Mad Max: Fun Road.
Fun out of ten.
Fun.
Fun fun.
fun fun.
fun fun fun.
FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN!
FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN!
[YMS] I can hold out my middle finger.
HAHAHA! This guy is the real definition...
AW IS THAT A DOG?
How can I honk and flip off people?
YES!
Okay, lets go.
Im sorry mark I know youre watching.
HAHAHAHA!