Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:37 pm**

I recommend taping your mouth closed before watching this to prevent drooling on your shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:34 am**

That actually looks great!

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:54 am**

It's been described as a two hour chase.

I'm all about that.

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:35 pm**

Holy crap!

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:42 pm**

aTOMiC wrote:Holy crap!

I'll second that, and add a "WHOA!"

Posted: **Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:57 pm**

Fortunately for everyone involved, including people who are making the movie and the fans who will be watching it, it appears that they are trying to recapture the look and feel of Road Warrior, the movie which launched the entire "post apocalyptic wasteland" genre and was directly responsible for giving us both Wasteland and Fallout.

A fire tornado inside a sandstorm? Hell yes!

Posted: **Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:41 am**

that looks awesome. will def be seeing that in the theater.

Posted: **Tue Dec 23, 2014 5:59 am**

Had not heard of it. Saw trailer on big screen tonight. I was excited for maybe 10 seconds. Death Race. Ok, Death Race after the apocalypse. I have no desire to see it.

Posted: **Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:41 pm**

Another really awesome trailer. I'd have paid to see this trailer and then put 'very satisfied' in the survey.

Final MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Trailer is a Guitar-Shreddin' (And Flamin') Masterpiece!

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:45 am**

Sweeeeet!

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2015 2:39 am**

+JMJ+

Ba-da-ba-ba-ba, I'm lovin' it.

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2015 7:48 pm**

May is going to be an awesome month for movies. Mad Max directly influenced Fallout so it will be interesting to see how much Fallout now influences Mad Max. That large safe door with the Old World items inside is reminiscent--literally--of a Vault.

Also interesting: the primary antagonist's facial mask is a more feral version of Bane's was in another movie featuring Tom Hardy as a star.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:29 pm**

That is simply the most insane thing I've ever seen.

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2015 10:01 pm**

AintItCool.com wrote:And just like that, the summer’s over.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is an instant action classic. ... It’s all the best stuff of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THE ROAD WARRIOR, and DIE HARD wrapped neatly in a bow, and dropped in our laps ... Theron embodies the character heart and soul, and anything that Miller’s team throws at her, she chews up, spits out, and asks if that's all they got. ... Tom Hardy fills Mel Gibson’s shoes with ease and grace ... Action, instead of dialogue, defines character in FURY ROAD. ... We care for these disparate, and desperate, people ... MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is pure, unfiltered, triumphant cinema. You can taste it in your mouth when it’s over – the grit, the gasoline, and all the guts and the glory. This is one of the finest action films ever made. [link]

RottenTomatoes.com wrote:100%
Average Rating: 9.2/10
Reviews Counted: 34

Posted: **Sat May 16, 2015 9:10 pm**

Saw this on Thursday. Great film. One of the best. Barebones plot, minimal dialogue, but just stellar action start to finish. It's an insane, intense spectacle. Well worth seeing.

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2015 8:54 pm**

I just saw this again. It's a really gorgeous film, beautiful visuals, although a bit heavy on the orange-and-blue colour scheme that's so popular these days.

I could watch it over and over. If broadcast TV was still a thing, this would be one of those few films I'd always stop and watch if I spotted it playing.

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2015 6:13 pm**

After all the hype - and after how great the film actually turned out to be - I'd've thought more of you would be talking about it.

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2015 7:50 pm**

Going to see it next week--friends in all the Nine Worlds have recced the film.

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2015 8:02 pm**

I almost never see movies in the theater, but this one is tempting.

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2015 6:27 pm**

Haven't seen this yet, which is why I've had no comments.

But I did come across this Linden Avery reference in an opinion piece about the movie, which is just too unlikely to not share:

[Charlize Theron] is, in fact, the star of the show, with Hardy’s Max Rockatansky – identified by his full name for the first time in ages in the opening credits – relegated to a supporting role with very little plot or character relevance. He’s a helpless victim for the first half of the movie, then volunteer muscle for the second, and never threatens to become the protagonist of the story. Theron’s Imperator Furiosa drives the plot, makes all the plot-relevant character decisions (except for the highly implausible strategy Max suggests for the final act) and enjoys what little character development the script provides.

It’s an acute case of what I’ve long thought of as “Linden Avery Syndrome,” after the bait-and-switch protagonist who muscled the title character out of his own story in the second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. (By the way, why hasn’t Hollywood taken a crack at that series yet? It’s a film-friendly deconstruction of Lord of the Rings that had a zillion readers back in the day.) [link]

(I don't agree with most of the opinions in that article, including the one about Linden Avery. I guess MM:FR got some compliments for having non-helpless females, and so some sort of backlash was inevitable. It's just too bad that the Chosen was dragged into it.)

Kevin's Watch

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road