movies

[JoeMcKim]

Recording on my DVR Mad Max and The Road Warrior to get me ready to go see Mad Max Fury Road, probably will see it around Monday.

[Schlich]

ESPN is going to be making a new season of 30 for 30

http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/new-30- ... -daly.html

[Schlich]

just got back from mad max. one word of advice: hold on to your asses.

[cardinalkarp]

I've been sick all GD week & have watched a couple movies...both being average to boring.

Unbroken - I get that it was a true story and all, but christ....they could've cut out a good 45 minutes. It just went on and on to a point of a complete bore.

The Wedding Ringer - Set the bar low on this one & actually had me laughing a bit more than I thought I would, I could've been a bit delirious.

[The Third Man]

Mad Max: Fury Road is exactly what you hope and expect it to be: a 2-hour long car chase that establishes a fleshed-out universe and characters with clear personalities and motivations while hardly ever letting its foot off the throttle. It's an absolute model of combining efficient storytelling with maximalist spectacle. I can't believe George Miller got $150 million to make this. Thank god he did.

[go birds]

I've been sick all GD week & have watched a couple movies...both being average to boring.

Unbroken - I get that it was a true story and all, but christ....they could've cut out a good 45 minutes. It just went on and on to a point of a complete bore.

The Wedding Ringer - Set the bar low on this one & actually had me laughing a bit more than I thought I would, I could've been a bit delirious.

Kevin Hart is prolly one of my favorite comedians going right now. I remember i got roped into going to the theater to see Ride Along thinking it would be a dreadful experience, but ended up enjoying it and LOLing at times.

When i saw the previews for Wedding Ringer, i cringed, but knew i'd end up watching it at some point because it seems kevin hart cant do no wrong.

[ghostrunner]

Mad Max: Fury Road is exactly what you hope and expect it to be: a 2-hour long car chase that establishes a fleshed-out universe and characters with clear personalities and motivations while hardly ever letting its foot off the throttle. It's an absolute model of combining efficient storytelling with maximalist spectacle. I can't believe George Miller got $150 million to make this. Thank god he did.

100% agree. Easily the most imaginative blockbuster movie I've seen in a long time, even though it's a James Bond style reset/reboot. I just kept being happy and amazed.

[SHOW]

They are in fact wasting gas and ammunition. Guys strapped to flexible, counterweighted poles and slave guitar players make no practical sense whatsoever and it just doesn't matter. It's ridiculous and yet it's grounded enough that I could just let it go. It helps that they don't give you time to think about it.

If I had to nitpick, I winced a little at the mothers all being super-attractive. Felt a little too token-ish to me and took me out of it for a minute. The one time in the movie where it felt like Hollywood got a note in.

Hardy is just as good as Gibson as Max. Not better or worse, just different. He plays the tough guy but you don't feel like he has some supernatural level of control and calm like an Eastwood character, and he's not dropping Hollywood style one-liners. Some of that's to Miller's credit, because Max has always been that way, even in Thunderdome when he had more lines. He just barely gives enough of a damn about himself to keep living, but a concern for others always overwhelms him.

Also, very grateful we didn't get the origin retold. We get what are literally flashbacks and it's more than enough.

[go birds]

Mad Max: Fury Road is exactly what you hope and expect it to be: a 2-hour long car chase that establishes a fleshed-out universe and characters with clear personalities and motivations while hardly ever letting its foot off the throttle. It's an absolute model of combining efficient storytelling with maximalist spectacle. I can't believe George Miller got $150 million to make this. Thank god he did.

100% agree. Easily the most imaginative blockbuster movie I've seen in a long time, even though it's a James Bond style reset/reboot. I just kept being happy and amazed.

[SHOW]

They are in fact wasting gas and ammunition. Guys strapped to flexible, counterweighted poles and slave guitar players make no practical sense whatsoever and it just doesn't matter. It's ridiculous and yet it's grounded enough that I could just let it go. It helps that they don't give you time to think about it.

If I had to nitpick, I winced a little at the mothers all being super-attractive. Felt a little too token-ish to me and took me out of it for a minute. The one time in the movie where it felt like Hollywood got a note in.

Hardy is just as good as Gibson as Max. Not better or worse, just different. He plays the tough guy but you don't feel like he has some supernatural level of control and calm like an Eastwood character, and he's not dropping Hollywood style one-liners. Some of that's to Miller's credit, because Max has always been that way, even in Thunderdome when he had more lines. He just barely gives enough of a damn about himself to keep living, but a concern for others always overwhelms him.

Also, very grateful we didn't get the origin retold. We get what are literally flashbacks and it's more than enough.

It was my understanding that fury road wasn't a reboot/reset, but it takes place somewhere in between the 3 movies...am i wrong on this?

[ghostrunner]

And god, the previews were terrible. San Andreas - how many times can this exact movie get made? Fantastic Four - I saw enough of the first one to know it was terrible, and it looks like they're making the exact same movie all over again. Then an awful looking Vin Diesel movie where he plays a witch hunter.

The Vacation reboot was actually the best of the bunch. Looks like they're going for a Gremlins 2-style, self-mocking thing and the jokes all landed.

[ghostrunner]

Mad Max: Fury Road is exactly what you hope and expect it to be: a 2-hour long car chase that establishes a fleshed-out universe and characters with clear personalities and motivations while hardly ever letting its foot off the throttle. It's an absolute model of combining efficient storytelling with maximalist spectacle. I can't believe George Miller got $150 million to make this. Thank god he did.

100% agree. Easily the most imaginative blockbuster movie I've seen in a long time, even though it's a James Bond style reset/reboot. I just kept being happy and amazed.

[SHOW]

They are in fact wasting gas and ammunition. Guys strapped to flexible, counterweighted poles and slave guitar players make no practical sense whatsoever and it just doesn't matter. It's ridiculous and yet it's grounded enough that I could just let it go. It helps that they don't give you time to think about it.

If I had to nitpick, I winced a little at the mothers all being super-attractive. Felt a little too token-ish to me and took me out of it for a minute. The one time in the movie where it felt like Hollywood got a note in.

Hardy is just as good as Gibson as Max. Not better or worse, just different. He plays the tough guy but you don't feel like he has some supernatural level of control and calm like an Eastwood character, and he's not dropping Hollywood style one-liners. Some of that's to Miller's credit, because Max has always been that way, even in Thunderdome when he had more lines. He just barely gives enough of a damn about himself to keep living, but a concern for others always overwhelms him.

Also, very grateful we didn't get the origin retold. We get what are literally flashbacks and it's more than enough.

It was my understanding that fury road wasn't a reboot/reset, but it takes place somewhere in between the 3 movies...am i wrong on this?

As far as I could tell there's no direct reference to anything that happened in the other movies, aside from the first one arguably. There are some characters he sees in flashes back to, but none of them are recognizable to me as being specifically from the other movies. It's been a long time since I've seen Road Warrior though. It just gives the impression that he's been doing this a long time and has seen a lot of people die along the way.