Mad Max: Fury Road

If you, for weird reasons, were a bit bummed out that Mad Max: Fury Road wasn’t high-profile enough to get its own rip-off from The Asylum, fret no longer: China’s got you covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iO-zjhHvg4

Some really nice photos of some of the vehicles they built for the movie - makes you appreciate the craft that went into the production design even more.

http://www.johnplatt.com.au/prod-mad-max-vehicles.html

My bunk. I’ll be in it.

For a while.

-Tom

Huh, think those exact cars were in the Mad Max game.

Anybody end up watching the Black and Chrome edition?

YES! I was lucky enough to catch a theatrical screening of it when it came out last year. Definitely my preferred version of the film.

Ahhh that would have been wicked cool. I watched it tonight finally. I really liked it. My only complaint is that the best looking scenes seemed to be the ones that were relatively still, but there is so much motion in this movie.

Now I need to watch it in color again to compare the two.

Awesome, I didn’t know the B/W edition came out. Gotta pick this one up, love the movie.

Apparently some time this year there will be another version of Black and Chrome released sans dialogue. Just the orchestral score and sound FX.

Around 5:00 mark.

Oh man, will it combine the last version as well onto one disk? Gonna wait for that.

No idea, I’m afraid.

Well looks like I’m going to end up buying it again. Well played, capitalism.

There’s not exactly a ton of dialogue to begin with, so this just seems a bit silly.

http://i.imgur.com/dVDJiez.gif

To the delight of fans, Miller has long had scripts for Mad Max 5 and 6 ready to shoot. But with his production company suing Warner Bros for unpaid earnings from Fury Road, they are now mired in litigation.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

https://i.imgur.com/eq2GBxB.gif

Warner really do seem to be be a crappy studio. Look at how they are mismanaging the DC movies. Then all that mess with turning the Hobbit movies into a trilogy and forcing major changes to make it more “marketable” (eg legolas & the elf-dwarf romance)…etc

Still, they they backed auteurs for Dunkirk, Fury Road, and co-produced Blade Runner 2049, which are probably the most experimental features to come from a major studio in years (the fact they don’t have a specialty division probably plays some role), so they’re okay in my book even with their recent missteps.

It sucks that George Miller is having to deal with this studio BS, but I’m going to be that guy who says it: I don’t mind if we don’t get any more Mad Max movies.

Fury Road was such a perfect bundle of awesome filmmaking: the writing, the set design, the staging of the action sequences, the cinematography, the pacing, the performances, the soundtrack. It was one of those self-contained lightning-in-a-bottle near miracles that defied expectation and brought me immense joy. I don’t need a follow up. I can just watch it again. And I will!

And the last thing I want to happen to this perfect bundle is having Max rescue the Lost Boys from a city ruled by Beyonce, or having Cara Delevingne spell out for us the early years of Furiosa to explain how she became a slave, or – worst of all – to have Max and Furiosa thrown together again for some kind of unlikely heroics against Immortan Joe’s surviving family.

I got what I wanted. More than what I wanted. I’m okay not getting more.

-Tom