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I love Tom Hardy, it gets great reviews, but I'm pretty much of the thinking wtf?
Your not alone. I too thought it was a big pile of *!%#
Didn't enjoy it. Just sat here watching the original Mad Max now, much betterer
Thoroughly enjoyed it, and I usually hate car chases 
Thought it looked stunning, but it didn't do anything else for me.
Mindless action just simple entertainment.
Load of rubbish.
It's not just you, it only has a rotten tomatoes score of 97% and metacritic score of 90% so there must be at least a couple of dozen other people that didn't think it was INCREDIBLY AWESOME like right-thinking folks.
Looked good, OK film, far better than the bilge that is Spectre.
yeah, it's just you.
I watched it, but can't remember anything about it.
Make of that what you will.
Seen it twice and both times left me going meh, just doesn't work for me
Ming just watched Spectre again and enjoyed it more than first time.
What Drac said
I liked it - ridiculous, for sure, but sometimes I quite like things blowing up all over the place.
love mad max films. Mel is ace.
this was total shit.
Came out of the cinema needing a stiff drink, was pretty intense.
Not sure that it translates to a smaller screen, but am more than happy to watch it again.
Is this the new one? Absolute shite. It's everything I hate about a film. No plot whatsoever. Even the best action movies need a story. It's 2 hours of mindless CGI.
So you missed the story then?
New mad max lets drive over there to meet some old ladies then drive back.
Awful film that is pointless
New mad max lets drive over there to meet some old ladies then drive back.
😆
So you missed the story then?
I'm sure someone in the film maybe talked about a story or something. But it definitely bypassed me.
I thought it was crap as well. Just didn't see the point of it.
I'm sure someone in the film maybe talked about a story or something. But it definitely bypassed me.
Not sure that's the films fault.
Yep, I gave up when it was 2/3 through and went to bed........
I was disappoint. Too many "going full speed, change up a gear go faster" scenes. Err, why weren't you in that gear before??!
Well that post went better than expected. However we've sat here and watched till the end. I do wish the synopsis on sky had said
😆New mad max lets drive over there to meet some old ladies then drive back.
I thought Charlize Theron was a lot more like Max from the original films than Tom Hardy.
Saying that though, I still really enjoyed it at the cinema.
I'm sure someone in the film maybe talked about a story or something. But it definitely bypassed me.
Not sure that's the films fault.
If the film is hideously boring from start to finish, then I would argue that it is 😉
loved it.
But not everything is for everyone. Just because you didn't like a piece of music/film/comedy doesn't mean it isn't good.
2 hours of mindless CGI
You'd actually be surprised how little was actually CGI, George Miller doesn't really like CGI.
Loved the film, like tinker tailor isn't a film about spying but the complicated relationships between people mad max isn't really about the cars. It's a great story and perhaps a fine bond audition for Tom Hardy
You'd actually be surprised how little was actually CGI, George Miller doesn't really like CGI.
You must have seen an uncut version.
I enjoyed it, and was surprised I did. I don't normally like stuff blowing up constantly films. But I'd had a bad week and it was just full on fast and loud. I think one of the reasons I liked it is that it reminds me of graphic novels and comics of my youth. Sparse dialogue against a stylised backdrop. Not big and endless exposition that comes with modern high concept sci-fi.
As I said I was surprised, my normal film watching is more likely to be the lives of others or hunger or the machinist to name three films I've watched in the last few weeks and enjoyed
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Wow, somebody didn't enjoy a film that lots of other people did. [i]There's[/i] a surprise. 🙄
2 hours of mindless CGI
fin25 is right - a lot of Mad Max was done with physical stunts, not CGI.
I wasn't entirely persuaded by the plot, but I was completely bowled over by how well the whole thing was done and how gorgeous it looked.
Apparently it is to be released in [url= http://www.slashfilm.com/fury-road-black-and-white-version/ ]black & white[/url], which Miller likes the idea of very much.
We spent a lot of time in DI (digital intermediate), and we had a very fine colorist, Eric Whipp. One thing I’ve noticed is that the default position for everyone is to de-saturate post-apocalyptic movies. There’s only two ways to go, make them black and white — [b]the best version of this movie is black and white[/b], but people reserve that for art movies now. The other version is to really go all-out on the color. The usual teal and orange thing? That’s all the colors we had to work with. The desert’s orange and the sky is teal, and we either could de-saturate it, or crank it up, to differentiate the movie. Plus, it can get really tiring watching this dull, de-saturated color, unless you go all the way out and make it black and white.
🙂
I saw it on an airplane. I thought it was actually really very good and a lot better than I was expecting.
And it's currently romping through the Oscars list, most successful film this year.
You have to scroll down through all the big Oscars first though to find out which ones it won.
Must give it another try - think I got through 30 minutes or so and gave up. Post-apoc is probably my favourite genre so I must be missing something.
fin25 is right - a lot of Mad Max was done with physical stunts, not CGI.
Eh? It has loads of CGI in it. Not that I mind that in films as there's some things really can't be done without it.
If you haven't seen it yet, start a fire in your garden, then throw loads of dolls on it. Same thing.
I fast-forwarded through most of it. But then I'm old school, and like things like plots that make sense, character development etc. And I am pretty sure that Tom Hardy chap attended Joey's "Smell The Fart" school of acting. You know, staring into the middle distance with a "who dropped that one" expression.
However, it wasn't nearly as rubbish as Mad Max 3 now was it ?
However, it wasn't nearly as rubbish as Mad Max 3 now was it ?
Loved that as a kid but then I seen it as an adult, I even tried again the other day. Yeah it's not good it has some good scenes in it but sploilt by others.
I thought it was pretty pants - the first half was decent enough but when they finally get away from the pursuers it's like the writers just ran out of ideas so the second half has them retracing their route and going through the same stuff as the first half.