@ED-SKaR
A blank page leaves even more open to speculation.
It has to provide something to build on, in order to be better than literally nothing.
I guess maybe I’m just an idiot to fail to see what new ideas it brings to the table, but I really feel that if you’ve seen a few post-apoc movies before, there is very little to ‘build on’ that you haven’t already seen.
Maybe those other movies aren’t as enjoyable to watch, but you can still debate the concepts afterwards, if perhaps with a ‘Of course, the idiotic writer threw in this magic handwave, but if we ignore that’ on occasion (depending on just how bad a movie you find as an alternative)
So, again, I maintain my opinion that Mad Max is enjoyable for the execution, not the content.
Since the content’s already been used, in various forms, in less popular movies.
And the execution only works if you like the kind of action and violence and such that the movie uses.
I can enjoy even genres I usually don’t like if they surprise me with twists on old cliches, relatable characters with realistic flaws, and other ‘good storywriting’.
But if you take someone who usually only watches quiet romantic comedies and show them Mad Max, they most likely won’t like it - even though they might enjoy some other primarily-action movie.
It’s an action movie, and it’s pretty much all it is.
Please allow me to completely disagree with you. The one reason why Fury road is one of my favourite films of all time is the same reason why Battle Royale is on that same list:
You watch either of those two films once, and you see ‘just’ an action movie. Lots of deaths and stunts and gunfire. It’s all very visually exciting and leaves your heart rate up.
But then you leave the cinema/computer/tv and you potter off, and you start thinking about it. and you see the bits left untold, because mad max doesn’t bother with any of that silly exposition, it makes you work it out for yourself.
Battle Royale is a deep and intellectual film behind all the action, and Mad Max has deep visual exposition that makes you think for yourself.
But hey, you don’t have to like that, everyones different and we all like different things. Fury road is my thing.
Witness!
Speaking as someone who liked the movie, I do see how some wouldn’t.
It’s an action movie, and it’s pretty much all it is.
A post-apoc action movie at that, with cars and a fairly ‘dull’ atmosphere - not dull as in boring, dull as in neither particularly bright nor dark enough to cross into ‘grimdark’ and be appealing by how horrible it is.
If you’re not ‘immersed’ sufficiently by big action scenes, a lot of the movie is spent sitting there waiting for the next small bit of plot to happen, or one of the rare ‘events’ that aren’t just more action.
Chances are good that the people who didn’t like Avatar and didn’t at least like the action scenes of the second Matrix movie would also not like Fury Road.
Though, I guess in both those cases there are reasons to be ‘soured’ on the movie before the action starts, so it’s not a 100% accurate test.
Point is, however; Not everyone likes over-the-top action as the sole point of the movie.
And from what I saw of the first Mad Max movie (at least I’m pretty sure it was the first, since ‘Max’ starts out fairly normal and decidedly non-Mad), the series hasn’t always just been action - something I felt detracted from my enjoyment, but it still means others might have liked the original and felt this one lacked something.
Personally?
I’d want Mad Max to be a series, so that we could have lengthier plots and exposition.
A western equivalent to an anime in the Mecha genre.
We kind of had western Mecha show, but it was still using actual giant robots.
I want to see it done with home-brewed cars in the dark future of the Mad Max world.
I feel like the western series-makers, whoever they are, do ‘dark futures’ better than Japan.
Not even sure who makes western series; I know MLP is Canadian, and I believe Code Lyoko is French, but beyond that I don’t know.
Doubtful it’s anyone Scandinavian; We make good games, if perhaps somewhat niche (‘Dreamfall: The Longest Journey’ comes to mind), but you can’t trust us with anything else artistic.
@Blissey1
Don’t waste your breath mate. Some people prefer 50 shades of shit to Fallout: Road War edition. They just don’t know what a good thing is.
No way we’ll convince them of what they are missing out on here. All we can do is witness the movies awesomeness and answer the call of Valhala.
@Nightweaver20xx
That’s another big plus for the movie. All those crazy ass looking cars? They actually built them and they actually work. That guitar flamethrower? They actually built it and it actually works. Those guys swinging back and forth on those pendulum cars? they actually did that.
@AaronMk
They are truly niche movies designed for a very specific audience, not something for everyone. It certainly wasn’t my favorite movie, but knowing that most of what they did in it are practical, rather than CGI, special effects, was nothing short of amazing.
I enjoy the Mad Max movies but I have to admit that they do indeed lack a good deal of exposition. As said before they’re largely visually-oriented movies then dialog driven where in some way the setting and plot has to be explained. The conditions of the world are never really spelled out in Mad Max as I remember and things are just sort of falling apart as the movies go.
And then there’s all the car chase porn across all the movies.
I wouldn’t call it poor writing. But I suppose it is selective to who watches it. I get the impression a lot of people would be very turned off and confused at the lack of exposition on the nuclear and resource wars that was pretty much the background of the first Mad Max. But even then I don’t remember if that movie even made mention of it, it certainly had the elements but it never explained why they’re there. You got to infer it yourself.
It’s one of the jaunting things when I tried to get into Mad Max before, trying to figure out how or why there was such a massive difference in setting between Mad Max and Road Warrior.
@Drefsab
Some people just wouldn’t know a good movie if they got run over by one. I mean, there are theoretically speaking, people out there who thought the Twilight movies where remotely watchable. Even good.
