Mad Max: Fury Road
May. 16th, 2015 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdSo, many years ago, before I moved to Seattle, I saw the beginning of some movie (possibly "The Hidden"?) that started with a few minutes of cold open action scene that sort of kept going and going but then the action scene was over and it went on being a regular movie and stuff. And I remember talking to someone at the time and agreeing that it would be fun to see a movie that was just entirely made up of that kind of nonstop action.
Mad Max: Fury Road is that movie.
It starts off pretty peacefully with a nice view of the desert and then a few minutes after the last twitch of a lizard's tail, it turns into two hours of almost non-stop intense action scenes. This is very possibly the best action movie I've *ever* seen.
If you like chase scenes, violence, knock-down fights, guns, explosions, people on the ends of long swinging poles going back and forth that are mounted on vehicles that are traveling at high speed in the desert (much of the film was done with practical fx), people harpooning tanker vehicles, fucked up body modifications, taiko drummers on trucks, bullets, and knives, and if you appreciate a movie that passes the Bechdel test with *flying* colors (twelve female characters on the screen at the same time all talking to each other)... Go see this movie. Also, I imagine Burners might particularly appreciate some of the desert vehicle and flamethrower aesthetic.
I spent a big chunk of the movie with my mouth agape because it was almost nonstop insanity.
Mad Max: Fury Road is that movie.
It starts off pretty peacefully with a nice view of the desert and then a few minutes after the last twitch of a lizard's tail, it turns into two hours of almost non-stop intense action scenes. This is very possibly the best action movie I've *ever* seen.
If you like chase scenes, violence, knock-down fights, guns, explosions, people on the ends of long swinging poles going back and forth that are mounted on vehicles that are traveling at high speed in the desert (much of the film was done with practical fx), people harpooning tanker vehicles, fucked up body modifications, taiko drummers on trucks, bullets, and knives, and if you appreciate a movie that passes the Bechdel test with *flying* colors (twelve female characters on the screen at the same time all talking to each other)... Go see this movie. Also, I imagine Burners might particularly appreciate some of the desert vehicle and flamethrower aesthetic.
I spent a big chunk of the movie with my mouth agape because it was almost nonstop insanity.
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Date: 2015-05-17 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-05-18 01:54 am (UTC)Afterwards I explained to my son that the massive Kettle Drums were amazing and he corrected me that they were Tom Toms as there was no adjusting them. He would fit right in...
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Date: 2015-05-18 02:11 pm (UTC)this is funny: (hell yes am I going to see it in the theater!)
http://www.avclub.com/article/mad-men-mad-mad-max-having-mad-women-219391
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Date: 2015-05-18 02:52 pm (UTC)for those of you playing at home, 1. the director is the same guy who directed the other three movies, and 2. it's australian.