Mad Max remake
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Perhaps action flicks aren't your thing, ric.
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haha. i would disagree but maybe you're right at some level
let me just quote an edit I put in at the end there because it sums up a lot about what I think is going on
haha. i would disagree but maybe you're right at some level
let me just quote an edit I put in at the end there because it sums up a lot about what I think is going on
everybody is just gushing over the materials integrity and the feminist line etc and that stuff is cool and awesome but a lot of shit is getting overlooked simply because the movie avoids a lot of traps and stupid shit that plagues a lot of (action) films nowadays
like this movie is 'astonishing' if fast and furious 2 is your bar. for what it's worth a site that thinks everyone should watch Snowpiercer doesn't even give this movie the highest praise I've seen. we're entering an era where the intellectuals are more concerned with jacking off their own ego (and writing about it) than watching a quality film and appreciating what it is and what is not
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honestly some of the worst film criticism i've ever read
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Best action movie I've seen since The Raid
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Watched it again. Only thing I didn't like is that dude had a paracord bracelet.
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Seems like you didn't enjoy it for a lot of pretty didactic reasons. I'm not sure how you can enjoy genre fiction at all if you can't suspend disbelief for a majority of the things you listed, which are pretty small details to be upset about in a Mad Max movie of all things. What have you seen in recent years that tops this?
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the hulk wasn't in it = ric didn't cry
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I was thinking about this the other day (The Raid 1+2 v Mad Max). It's unavoidable.agony wrote:Best action movie I've seen since The Raid
I personally like stabbings and kung-fu more than cars and explosions - but I can respect that many people would prefer the latter.
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The Raid movies might end up as our time's equivalent of the Man With No Name Trilogy or Woo's run in the late 80s-early 90s, so it's a totally apt and inevitable comparison. It's very much apples and oranges and I don't think it's even possible to compare MM to Raids on a direct 1-1 level, thinking about them together is more just mental accounting of the stuff that's going to the very very top shelf of the genre.Comedy Quaddafi wrote:I was thinking about this the other day (The Raid 1+2 v Mad Max). It's unavoidable.agony wrote:Best action movie I've seen since The Raid
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seriously though dont let me rain on your parade.
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and here's your dirt dirt winner for 2015.
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@alpha
hahahahaha
if last year the cleveland browns had somehow limped into the superbowl and the arizona cardinals had somehow limped into the superbowl no one would reasonably think 'well yeah this is the matchup between the two best teams in the league'
i mean thats all im saying here
hahahahaha
if last year the cleveland browns had somehow limped into the superbowl and the arizona cardinals had somehow limped into the superbowl no one would reasonably think 'well yeah this is the matchup between the two best teams in the league'
i mean thats all im saying here
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I really did not take any of that away from the movie. The conclusion you drew about the villain still plays into the themes of movie.
I'm really not sure what they established and didn't follow up on that was of any consequence. There's a lot of subtle detail that goes into 'worldbuilding' (gonna go punch myself in the balls for ever typing that word) that I didn't even really consciously pick up on til I thought about it after (mostly design stuff) but nothing that I felt was distracting or needed to be followed up on. From what you typed, I'd think you'd accidently walked into Prometheus.
I love you ric, but if you were anyone else, I'd probably put you on ignore because imo that is such an off-base read on what the movie presented. Dirt Dirt indeed.
I'm really not sure what they established and didn't follow up on that was of any consequence. There's a lot of subtle detail that goes into 'worldbuilding' (gonna go punch myself in the balls for ever typing that word) that I didn't even really consciously pick up on til I thought about it after (mostly design stuff) but nothing that I felt was distracting or needed to be followed up on. From what you typed, I'd think you'd accidently walked into Prometheus.
I love you ric, but if you were anyone else, I'd probably put you on ignore because imo that is such an off-base read on what the movie presented. Dirt Dirt indeed.
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I think ric makes some fair points here and there, particularly about the final battle with Immortan Joe. Honestly, it happened so fast I still have no idea how he was killed beyond the macro level of him getting his face ripped off. That said, it didn't really bother me that much that it did happen so fast.
That said, you're hugely nitpicking here, ric. The writing was phenomenal, and I can't recall a movie that had the pace this did. Was it perfect, no, but it's probably the best film Martin has ever made which is truly remarkable given his age. Like it or not, this is a very strong movie in any year.
That said, you're hugely nitpicking here, ric. The writing was phenomenal, and I can't recall a movie that had the pace this did. Was it perfect, no, but it's probably the best film Martin has ever made which is truly remarkable given his age. Like it or not, this is a very strong movie in any year.
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i have a buddy who i think went to the ric school of film critiquery. just sit back and enjoy the fucking show for what it is. dudes acting like they don't like it...
go put on your crocs and take an introspective stroll. off a cliff. homos.
go put on your crocs and take an introspective stroll. off a cliff. homos.
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@seagrams
haha allright fair enough i guess. its just one mans opinion. i just want to bring it down to earth a little
ill exit thread momentarily
@jamrage
its an awesome movie. the pacing and writing is really sweet. ultimately this film shoots for the moon but just gets pulled back down to earth. if they can clean up the consistency of the look and just neutralize retarded moments it would be so hard to have anything to say against this movie but the retarded shit breaks the spell
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hahaha i feel it
peace bros
haha allright fair enough i guess. its just one mans opinion. i just want to bring it down to earth a little
ill exit thread momentarily
@jamrage
its an awesome movie. the pacing and writing is really sweet. ultimately this film shoots for the moon but just gets pulled back down to earth. if they can clean up the consistency of the look and just neutralize retarded moments it would be so hard to have anything to say against this movie but the retarded shit breaks the spell
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hahaha i feel it
peace bros
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Now I feel like I partook in running off the Armond White of this thread
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came back in to see updates
i just googled that dude. dont worry about it man. im not hating the movie at all nor am i merely being contrarian
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i just googled that dude. dont worry about it man. im not hating the movie at all nor am i merely being contrarian
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Lol I don't think you're just being contrarian at all. I didn't intend that to be a diss, just don't want to chase off the one dude who isn't going 'FUCK YEAH THIS IS THE BEST SHIT EVER' just for not doing that
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Ha, yeah noticed that right at the end.Ramen wrote:Watched it again. Only thing I didn't like is that dude had a paracord bracelet.
Then I realized he was wearing a form of webbing the latter part of the movie. Where that came from I have no idea.
Ref The Raid, this is the only film that got me even comparing another movie to The Raid. Which got me thinking about other action flicks of a similar breed.
Now I'm watching Dredd
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Probably the greatest film related blog on tumblr.
lol @ randomly having "ryan gosling" in the tags.
lol @ randomly having "ryan gosling" in the tags.
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Gosling is in the tags because its a rip of the the gosling "hey girl" meme
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Oh, it's one of those cheeky Nando's type things. I take it all back.
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This is way cooler
B-roll footage of the stunt work, love behind the scenes shit like this
B-roll footage of the stunt work, love behind the scenes shit like this
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and here's the peacemaker without its shell
from another great article
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from another great article
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that soundtrack is awesome. great percussion holy shit
that soundtrack is awesome. great percussion holy shit
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The Big Bird Cage >Who would have thought that “women in prison” films, one of the most despised exploitation movie subgenres, would become so influential? And yet, stealthily, the films have permeated popular culture in recent years. Orange is the New Black has garnered widespread acclaim for both its storytelling and its diverse cast; the Australian series Wentworth set new standards for brutality on the small screen. And now, Mad Max: Fury Road is winning accolades from virtually everyone for its high-octane vision of feminist heroism and patriarchy upended.
Fury Road hasn’t generally been thought of as a WIP film. But much of it has been lifted directly from that genre. The whole movie is organised around a prison escape. Furiosa (Charlize Theron) is freeing a group of women from sex slavery at the hands of the evil patriarch Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). The fact that those freed prisoners all look like supermodels dressed in lingerie is a standard WIP trope. So is their growing battle-hardened resourcefulness and, for that matter, their commitment to feminist revolution. The end of the film is foreshadowed directly in Jonathan Demme’s cult WIP classic Caged Heat.
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my friend kept interrupting in the first half hour like "what? there is absolutely no plot exposition at all, this is ridiculous" and "what the fuck is that guy in the guitar doing!?"
i just said in my loudest whisper voice: "SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF AND JUST ENJOY THE RIDE"
best movie experience in a long time...well fuck, i guess since fast 7, but yea, this was exactly what i wanted when i saw the trailers/heard about the release and thought I'd get times ten
i just said in my loudest whisper voice: "SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF AND JUST ENJOY THE RIDE"
best movie experience in a long time...well fuck, i guess since fast 7, but yea, this was exactly what i wanted when i saw the trailers/heard about the release and thought I'd get times ten
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