Fury Road: holy bejesus.

I need to see again to orient myself with the actual lead of the movie. I had three big complaints:

1) lack of Australian accents. It just didn't seem like Mad Max without that

2) Tom Hardy. Love the man, think he's a brilliant actor, but it seemed like the combination of his fear in stepping in MG's shoes, the lack of a script, TH's confusion over GM's vision, Charlize Theron's replacement of Max as the lead and focus, and GM's focus on storyboard over script led to a rather nothing role. I think the scene where Max acts as a sniper stand for Furiosa says it all about Max's role and significance in the movie. I feel kind of bad for Tom about that. M

3) crappy dialogue. Again, this movie really does feel good unscripted. Like so much time was spent on the storyboard, visuals, and cinematography that the quiet beats were left to the actors to improv, and that these actors weren't used to improv, which led to cliche a trite dialogue about hooking up blood bags and redemption and hope.

That said, I adored Nux, and the fight in the beginning when he's unconscious and being jerked around is extra wooby inducing in retrospect. As well as still being hilarious.

I haven't seen Fury Road yet, but a former student posted this and now I simply Must. Just. See. It.

I nearly came to blows with someone close to me today when I said that I was seeing Fury Road as an anti-MRA action. SHE went into a rant about what is wrong with women.

Fortunately, we were able to stop the fight before it messed up both our lives, but it was a close run thing.

I'm galvanized in my desire to see it now.

My number 1 reason though is that the Mad Max films were my ex-husband's all time favorite and I'm nostalgic for that MM love.

Wow, Fury Road is some movie. My ears are still ringing.

One hella chase scene after another, and kickass women all over the place. Although I could have wished that more of the older women survived.

I want to check the cast list; if they shot in Oz, there may be some Farscape alumni on the cast...

if they shot in Oz, there may be some Farscape alumni on the cast...

Yep. The Keeper of the Seeds was Melissa Jaffer (Noranti) and Immortan Joe was Hugh Keays-Byrne (Grunchik).

All the Mad Max movies feature Farscape folk.

HAH! I knew I recognized her! Just missed the third eye in her forehead...

I could have done with more Valkyrie, she was fierce (and younger than I thought!).

Did she get to re-use the Noranti wig? It would fit in the Mad Max setting.

I enjoyed Mad Max muchly. Despite the fact it seemed like one long fight from start to end, it didn't bore me, where many other movies might have. I think it was because it was a lot of little fights that resolved quickly (in comparison to other, bloated movies ::age of ultron::), interspersed with more personal insight and character building. And I liked that there wasn't a lot of dialogue. Plus, one of my staff said she thought they did a great job with the scoring, the music always seemed to match the mood to where you almost didn't realize there was any.

I loved the theme of redemption, and in particular, Nux. OMG, Nux. Nooooo! And even more "Ho, Shit!" was that he was played by Nicholas Hoult. NO WAY. Fantastic, just fantastic.

Yeah, Sail, he was my favorite character.