FURY ROAD is doing great business at the Cocteau... and, indeed, all over Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the country. I saw it myself last night. It has got to be one of the most relentless action movies ever made, if not THE most intense. Pretty much non-stop from beginning to end.
I've often said that the climatic chase sequence at the end of THE ROAD WARRIOR was the best car chase scene ever put on film (it's what DAMNATION ALLEY should have been, as I once told Roger Zelazny -- who agreed). Well, FURY ROAD is the ROAR WARRIOR chase sequence with the dial turned up... not just to 11, but to 47 or some such.
Truth be told, I sometimes get bored during car chases. Not this one. It has a human context that gives it a power lacking in FAST & FURIOUS and TRANSFORMERS movies.
So, yes, I liked this one. A lot.
One thing I did miss, however. THE ROAD WARRIOR (a great film) and BEYOND THUNDERDOME (a good film with flaws) both ended with wonderful, moving, elegiac voice overs. The one from THUNDERDOME always brings a tear to my eye.
FURY ROAD has no similar elegy at the end. I missed that... the poetry of it, and the sense of triumph and tragedy that it left me with, a feeling that elevated the movie into myth.
Even so, it's a helluva movie.
See it at the Cocteau, if you can. (We'll be showing it for two more weeks, at least). But see it somewhere, regardless.
I've often said that the climatic chase sequence at the end of THE ROAD WARRIOR was the best car chase scene ever put on film (it's what DAMNATION ALLEY should have been, as I once told Roger Zelazny -- who agreed). Well, FURY ROAD is the ROAR WARRIOR chase sequence with the dial turned up... not just to 11, but to 47 or some such.
Truth be told, I sometimes get bored during car chases. Not this one. It has a human context that gives it a power lacking in FAST & FURIOUS and TRANSFORMERS movies.
So, yes, I liked this one. A lot.
One thing I did miss, however. THE ROAD WARRIOR (a great film) and BEYOND THUNDERDOME (a good film with flaws) both ended with wonderful, moving, elegiac voice overs. The one from THUNDERDOME always brings a tear to my eye.
FURY ROAD has no similar elegy at the end. I missed that... the poetry of it, and the sense of triumph and tragedy that it left me with, a feeling that elevated the movie into myth.
Even so, it's a helluva movie.
See it at the Cocteau, if you can. (We'll be showing it for two more weeks, at least). But see it somewhere, regardless.
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I think they might have gotten some inspiration from your work, Mr. Martin.
I'll have to hope that our little local theater gets it in. One of the disadvantages of living in Northern Ontario, with the closest city being a nearly two hour drive away.
But hey, I keep getting story ideas from the local area...
SCHLANGER!
He's quite ugly (sorry if your read this from the afterworld, Angelo Rossito, but you were great in that film, we love you :) ) and quite smart (an engineer who's running an entire city), which matches somehow the Tyrion I picture in my head.
Sorry George, I know you hate the Tyrion related questions, but I couldn't help myself, I rewatched Mad Max 3 very recently.
My wife saw the original trilogy last month, and we enjoyed this iteration's characters and intense action sequences just as much, if not more.
I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just say that there was one musical character whose concept was super interesting, but whose execution on screen seemed out of place with the rest of the film's aesthetic.
Pleased you felt compelled to post on a great film!
This enrages me more than Puppygate. Getting males to boycott the film because it's not a "proper" masculine film, full of brawny men shooting at each other, give me a break.
I thought it was a great bit of cinema and Miller has come back on top form.
FURY ROAD is hardly a radical feminist tract, no matter what the morons are claiming. Yes, it features one kickass women warrior in Charlize Theron's Furiosa. But the other female characters are classic damsels-in-distress, beautiful and scantily-clad sex slaves and unwilling "breeders" in desperate need of rescue. They do not remain victims throughout, true, several of them have moments of courage and redemption... but so does the War Boy. That's just Character Development 101.
Thumbs-up.
I definitely recommend this one to fans of Mad Max and to action fans in general.