My wife told me it was a good movie that I would not like.
She got me to watch Danish Girl last weekend. I'm just going to say that this is not the type of movie I really like. I did not care much for this movie. I see that the acting was very good and all, but it's just not for me. I do not recommend seeing this movie.
JoeMcKim wrote:Did either of you see any of the previous Mad Max movies prior to seeing Fury Road? Just asking because maybe what you were expecting the movie to be isn't what the series is really known for.
I didn't even know there were other Mad Max movies until reading your comment, so no.
I should also clarify that I also did not know there was a Mad Max series. I actually never heard of Mad Max ever until this movie. Mad Max is a thing? Maybe I needed that context - that Mad Max is an actual thing. Maybe you had to be familiar with it to enjoy it? Maybe it was like Root Beer to a European (that's a funny thing to do btw - give some European dude a Dad's root beer and watch his reaction).
After seeing some 655 hours of origin stories in the last 10 years, I thought it was rad to be grabbed by the balls, told to sit down, shut up, and watch [expletive] blow up in an interesting story very well told.
I've never seen The Road Warrior either. Or, more accurately, I've never even heard of the Road Warrior. I'm starting to see why I didn't like that movie.
The history on Mad Max, to my knowledge, is that nobody in the US paid much attention until The Road Warrior aired on NBC a year or so after the theatrical release. Thunderdome, though, was fairly popular. Tina Turner was famous again by that point, and her song from the movie was also popular. Not sure if Gibson had started to be a big deal by then or not.
- Edited to be less repetitious. I should never post from the phone.
