Mad Max: Fury Road

Stu4U · May 21, 2015 01:34 AM

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I DIE

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Gerkinman · May 21, 2015 01:43 AM

So it made almost half as much on its opening weekend as what Pitch Perfect made, in the states anyway.

We don't deserve good movies.

I saw it by the way, I can't remember the last time I came out of the Cinema smiling, but I know for a fact its been at least 5 or 6 years and this is the movie that brought that old smile back. What a thrill. I forgot what it was like to actually be excited while watching a film.

rtil · May 21, 2015 05:18 AM

Quote from: Gerkinman on May 21, 2015 01:43 AM
So it made almost half as much on its opening weekend as what Pitch Perfect made, in the states anyway.

We don't deserve good movies.

I saw it by the way, I can't remember the last time I came out of the Cinema smiling, but I know for a fact its been at least 5 or 6 years and this is the movie that brought that old smile back. What a thrill. I forgot what it was like to actually be excited while watching a film.

i feel the same way about the excitement regarding live action films. and i can't remember the last time a movie exceeded my expectations.

the next movie i'm genuinely excited for is the force awakens, but it's going to have a hard time topping mad max in terms of enjoyment.

as far as the box office numbers, well, pitch 2 has a more recent prequel to thank for its popularity and appeals to a wider audience. a $40M opening and $110M worldwide take for a $150M budget is pretty good. and hopefully word of mouth will carry it further than a normal theatrical run.

in fact, on monday, mad max made more money than pitch 2.

unfortunately it will have to compete with san andreas, but honestly do disaster films even have that much appeal or draw any more? the theme is so tired and overdone. watching the trailer felt like a film that should have come out 10 years ago.

dilly · May 22, 2015 05:51 AM

I think there has been a disaster movie every summer for the past few years, especially with the hype "day after tomorrow" brought

rtil · May 22, 2015 06:16 AM

yeah but i mean will people go see it. no one i know seems interested in seeing san andreas. the whole theater scoffed when it was shown before mad max

Gerkinman · May 22, 2015 02:57 PM

You got the San Andreas trailer? We just got Vacation, Pixels and Entourage... :/

SrsSam77 · May 22, 2015 05:06 PM

All I got was a preview about this horrendous looking woman struggling to cope with the fact a man called her back the day after they fukt
I wish i was joking

rtil · May 22, 2015 11:53 PM

Quote from: Gerkinman on May 22, 2015 02:57 PM
You got the San Andreas trailer? We just got Vacation, Pixels and Entourage... :/

you're not missing out

but the trailer for entourage was worse

Bamyasi · May 23, 2015 06:20 AM

I didn't think the Entourage trailer looked that bad.

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rtil · May 23, 2015 11:31 PM

Quote from: Bamyasi on May 23, 2015 06:20 AM
I didn't think the Entourage trailer looked that bad.

if it was supposed to be funny it totally lost me

then again it's just not my kind of movie, also every time i see mark wahlberg i think of The Happening and how unspeakably bad it was

bd648 · May 24, 2015 01:45 AM

so i finally saw this movie and i really really enjoyed it. the grandma motorcycles and the prosthetic arm were very nice. lots of small things that really added detail were included too which i loved (the badges on the chest-piece being circuit boards and the (albeit rare) recognition that reloading is a thing. I will say that the cgi scene at the canyon the second time around was really really jarring and not a high point. the practical effects were awesome though. I too saw it in 3d and thought it was a decent addition but nothing to note. still a fantastic movie.

SrsSam77 · May 25, 2015 01:42 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hDPmTvqob0
this is going to either be terribly good or terribly bad
I'm hoping for the former so I may have the true post-australian experience I deserve

Stu4U · May 25, 2015 02:33 AM

wasn't fallout 4 announced recently too?

valiums · May 25, 2015 06:35 AM

I JUST SAW IT
GREAT MOVIE
YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKED BEST
ALL THE LITTLE WORLD-BUILDY SHIT
IT WAS GREAT
THEY DID THE HAND THING
LIKE THIS > XXXX
THAT WAS GREAT
THE RELIGIOUS CRAP
IT WAS ALL GOOD
THE SETTING WAS TOTES BULLSHIT
BUT IT FELT REAL
SHIT WAS COHERENT AND CONSISTENT
IT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE SOME HALF-ASSED SHIT THEY PULLED OUT FIVE MINUTES BEFORE FILMING
EVERYTHING WORKED TOGETHER
THE MACHINES, THE VEHICLES, THE CONTRAPTIONS
HOLY SHIT
FUCKING REAL AS FUCK
FUNCTIONAL LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER
THIS SHIT WORKS
AND THE CULTURE
THE WORDS AND THE WAY PEOPLE INTERACTED AS PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF ACTORS INTERACTING AS CHARACTERS
OH MY GOD
IT WAS RIDICULOUS BUT IT FELT GENUINE AS FUCK
GREAT
IT WAS GREAT
AND THE SEXISM THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERY MOVIE LIKE IT HAS?
HA HA WHAT??
THAT'S RIGHT, FUCK YOU
NONE
NONE THAT I CARE ABOUT
I THOUGHT IT COULDN'T BE DONE
BUT IT WAS
AND I SAW IT
AND IT WAS GREAT
AND THE EXPLOSIONS
VERY GOOD

rtil · May 25, 2015 10:01 AM

Quote from: valiums on May 25, 2015 06:35 AM
THEY DID THE HAND THING
LIKE THIS > XXXX

shit's gettin me hyped to see it again tmrw

round 2 boys

slack · May 25, 2015 08:13 PM

ok i am going to see this movie today, in just over an hour from this moment

i've never seen any commercials for it, nor have i seen the other movies before it

but reading this thread has me hyped but still, as i said, i've never seen a trailer or anything of the like

SrsSam77 · May 25, 2015 08:25 PM

Quote from: valiums on May 25, 2015 06:35 AM
THE SETTING WAS TOTES BULLSHIT
BUT IT FELT REAL
SHIT WAS COHERENT AND CONSISTENT
IT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE SOME HALF-ASSED SHIT THEY PULLED OUT FIVE MINUTES BEFORE FILMING

I think I remember reading something that when production started the director only had a handful of crudely drawn storyboards and no script at all
This is the power of post-australianism

Bamyasi · May 25, 2015 09:25 PM

Seeing it a third time made me realize the only way it might have possibly been improved would have been had they [spoiler]cut out the score from the final chase scene and let it just have been the sound of the motors (like the chariot race in Ben-Hur). Then again, it would have been jarring to cut the music in when they needed it at the slow-motion Nux self-sacrifice part.[/spoiler]

valiums · May 26, 2015 12:16 AM

Quote from: SrsSam77 on May 25, 2015 08:25 PM
I think I remember reading something that when production started the director only had a handful of crudely drawn storyboards and no script at all
This is the power of post-australianism

slack · May 26, 2015 09:57 PM

what a fantastic movie, i cannot believe how many moving parts were on screen at once, i mean for real

how did they even do it