Movies of the good kind we have looked upon.

[Seth]

Just got back from Mad Max: Furious Road. It's a great fun movie. Incredible action. But it's not a Mad Max movie. No humour, Tom Hardy's Max was ridiculous, and Max wasn't even the main character. It should have just been another post apocalyptic movie. Only the cars and scenery were reminiscent of Mad Max. Dunno what possessed them to cast Tom Hardy and then have him act that way.

Profits.

[Animavore]

Haters gonna hate. I loved the new Mad Max movie (which I'm literally just after seeing, I'm having a quiet day in work and the cinema's next door). The HD, modern effects, subtle use of CGI and real-life action were blended together perfectly to bring out a vision of Mad Max which before would've been impossible. The action sequences were amazing and easily stand shoulder to shoulder with those of The Road Warrior.
I like the way the director didn't go for dark, edgy and grimy like a lot of new movies ad instead retained the campness of the early movies. The scenery is shot beautifully and at times reminds of Planet Earth only with road hogs tearing across the plain like a migratory herd.

Rev is wrong about everything he says.

[pErvinalia]

Apart from that last sentence, everything you say is right. But that doesn't automatically make it a part of the franchise. That can apply to any movie. The movie lacked a lot of the features that made the other Mad Max movies - that is, the movie being about Max, humour, and B-gradeness (although, it still managed to squeeze in a fair bit of b-grade* ). I really did enjoy the action sequences and without spoiling it for anyone, the setting for the action was edge of the seat all the way (I was concerned it would be tedious when I found out what that setting was prior to seeing the movie). Charlize Theron was brilliant, as usual. The script and Tom Hardy character really let it down though. I rank it a good movie all round, with some aspects of it brilliant, but it was that disparity between different elements of the movie that was a bit of a disappointment. And the fact that it really wasn't a Mad Max movie, simply a good post-apocalyptic movie.

* - This fact mirrors the other disparities in the movie. It was b-grade in parts and then it was Hollywood mega-budget in other parts. It really seemed like it was trying to be all things for all people.

[Seth]

Haters gonna hate. I loved the new Mad Max movie (which I'm literally just after seeing, I'm having a quiet day in work and the cinema's next door). The HD, modern effects, subtle use of CGI and real-life action were blended together perfectly to bring out a vision of Mad Max which before would've been impossible. The action sequences were amazing and easily stand shoulder to shoulder with those of The Road Warrior.
I like the way the director didn't go for dark, edgy and grimy like a lot of new movies ad instead retained the campness of the early movies. The scenery is shot beautifully and at times reminds of Planet Earth only with road hogs tearing across the plain like a migratory herd.

Rev is wrong about everything he says.

I really enjoyed "Fury Road." It was far more nuanced and had a better story line than any of the originals. And the blending of FX and reality was seamless...and I note that much of it was NOT CGI, but was live action.

[Animavore]

Haters gonna hate. I loved the new Mad Max movie (which I'm literally just after seeing, I'm having a quiet day in work and the cinema's next door). The HD, modern effects, subtle use of CGI and real-life action were blended together perfectly to bring out a vision of Mad Max which before would've been impossible. The action sequences were amazing and easily stand shoulder to shoulder with those of The Road Warrior.
I like the way the director didn't go for dark, edgy and grimy like a lot of new movies ad instead retained the campness of the early movies. The scenery is shot beautifully and at times reminds of Planet Earth only with road hogs tearing across the plain like a migratory herd.

Rev is wrong about everything he says.

I really enjoyed "Fury Road." It was far more nuanced and had a better story line than any of the originals. And the blending of FX and reality was seamless...and I note that much of it was NOT CGI, but was live action.

I think that it retained its original director has a lot to do with that. I can only imagine what Hollywood will do if they take over the franchise with a "reboot" or some shite. I was looking at the trailer for Jurassic World before the showing. Gone is the horror of the original, replaced by a Baysian (Michael Bay), CGI extravaganza, overkill.

[Animavore]

Holy shit! The main bad guy with the mask in Fury Road is the same bad guy (same actor) from the first movie!

[Ian]

I recently enjoyed Draft Day.

Fury was possibly the harshest war movie ever, but pretty well made.

Same with The Imitation Game, even though it had Oscar Bait written all over it.

Interstellar was a big, big letdown. A decent story (though it was paced like a turtle), except that it started off in yet another sci-fi dystopian future will minimal explanation of how things could believably get that way. That makes the whole thing no more credible than The Hunger Games.

In case you haven't noticed, I rarely catch movies while they're still in theaters.

[Seth]

Holy shit! The main bad guy with the mask in Fury Road is the same bad guy (same actor) from the first movie!

Toecutter

[Seth]

Haters gonna hate. I loved the new Mad Max movie (which I'm literally just after seeing, I'm having a quiet day in work and the cinema's next door). The HD, modern effects, subtle use of CGI and real-life action were blended together perfectly to bring out a vision of Mad Max which before would've been impossible. The action sequences were amazing and easily stand shoulder to shoulder with those of The Road Warrior.
I like the way the director didn't go for dark, edgy and grimy like a lot of new movies ad instead retained the campness of the early movies. The scenery is shot beautifully and at times reminds of Planet Earth only with road hogs tearing across the plain like a migratory herd.

Rev is wrong about everything he says.

I really enjoyed "Fury Road." It was far more nuanced and had a better story line than any of the originals. And the blending of FX and reality was seamless...and I note that much of it was NOT CGI, but was live action.

I think that it retained its original director has a lot to do with that. I can only imagine what Hollywood will do if they take over the franchise with a "reboot" or some shite. I was looking at the trailer for Jurassic World before the showing. Gone is the horror of the original, replaced by a Baysian (Michael Bay), CGI extravaganza, overkill.

Might be fun, but my feeling is that we should nuke the island from orbit. It's the only way to be sure....

[Animavore]

I watched a film called Kingsman the other day and this film had one of the most outrageous fight scenes, technically a massacre, I've ever seen. So I go to the internet after to see what people were saying about it because people getting outraged and offended is a source of humour to me. I like to fill my chalice with their embittered tears. So I look it up and there was some outrage indeed directed towards this film. Not at the incredible violence, mind you, but at an anal sex gag towards the end. An anal sex gag, I should point out, which was edited from the version I have and would not have known about it if I didn't look it up.

What is wrong with us as a species? Hyper-gratutious violence barely raises an eyelid, but say an arguably sexist joke and people lost their shit! It's like our moral priorities are exactly backwards.

[pErvinalia]

Just got back from seeing Inside Out with the kids. Very clever movie. I really recommend it if you've got kids, and perhaps even if you don't.

[Sean Hayden]

I watched Ex Machina last night. I like the ideas presented. However I didn't empathize much with Domhnall Glesson's character, which made important aspects of the movie odd because I think they were really counting on that. But the ideas and story are still fun to mull over.

[Seth]

Just saw "Max", about a MWD (war dog) sent to live with the teenage brother of a Marine killed in action. Moving and well done if less than Academy Award material. The action scenes with the dog are quite good and it's an emotional story worth seeing.

[cronus]

Found Transformers Age of Extinction at the Hospice Charity Shop on the corner. Rubbish really and hideously white except for the robots. Even the Chinese people, two I think, seemed to be faking their ethnicity to seem middle class American.

[tattuchu]

Loved Ant-Man ...but sure wish I could've seen Edgar Wright's original version of the film