Mad Max: Fury Road
Jun. 8th, 2015 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkI finally saw Mad Max: Fury Road!
I didn't like the beginning of the movie, and I'm pretty sure a big reason for that was that the movie theater showed several horror movie trailers beforehand. I don't like horror movies. Then Mad Max opened with Max eating a raw two-headed lizard, which was disgusting; he'd apparently stood there and watched the horizon while being chased by war boys, which made him look stupid; and then there were several scenes with the ghosts who haunt Max, which I didn't enjoy watching.
In the beginning I also worried that the people who said the movie didn't have a lot of bloody/up&close violence had a different view of violence levels than I do, especially after the scenes where Max is put in front of a car driving through battle while being used as a blood donor. But that was pretty much the worst of it.
The movie was gorgeous! Especially the thunderstorm in the sandstorm, wow. Or driving through the night. The desert in general. Very compelling images, especially the war rig driving. Probably the prettiest apocalypse I've ever seen.
Furiosa is indeed amazing. I want so much backstory about her! She was stolen as a child and brought to the Citadel. Healthy beautiful women are obviously prized, so my guess is she lost her arm soon and started training to become a war rig driver instead. She's great with a rifle and a good fighter, but all other soldiers we see (the war boys) are male. Did she train with them? How did she become Imperator? And how did she get to know the wives?
I really liked the wives, though it was hard to separate them, especially at first. I only got one name during the movie (Angharad, who died), and just now when checking online I realized that I forgot one altogether. If I watch it again I'll pay more attention to them. I also wonder where they came from: they're relatively young, but healthy, so presumably not from the Citadel? Everyone else there seems to be sick in some way. Maybe they were captured in a raid, or bought.
Other people have already said smart things about how great it was to see an action movie centered on female protagonists and their journeys like that, and that's true. But while I was watching the movie, and for a while after that, it seemed absolutely normal. And then I saw posters for other movies that were clearly centered on male protagonists and marketed with girls as eye candy, and that was a sad reminder that unfortunately it's still something unusual.
LK complained that the plot was predictable, but I didn't watch the movie for the plot, so it didn't bother me at all. It wasn't stupid, that was enough for me. Simply a great action movie, exactly as promised. With a lot of explosions, a guy playing a flamethrower guitar on top of a car, and grandmothers on motorbikes.
I didn't like the beginning of the movie, and I'm pretty sure a big reason for that was that the movie theater showed several horror movie trailers beforehand. I don't like horror movies. Then Mad Max opened with Max eating a raw two-headed lizard, which was disgusting; he'd apparently stood there and watched the horizon while being chased by war boys, which made him look stupid; and then there were several scenes with the ghosts who haunt Max, which I didn't enjoy watching.
In the beginning I also worried that the people who said the movie didn't have a lot of bloody/up&close violence had a different view of violence levels than I do, especially after the scenes where Max is put in front of a car driving through battle while being used as a blood donor. But that was pretty much the worst of it.
The movie was gorgeous! Especially the thunderstorm in the sandstorm, wow. Or driving through the night. The desert in general. Very compelling images, especially the war rig driving. Probably the prettiest apocalypse I've ever seen.
Furiosa is indeed amazing. I want so much backstory about her! She was stolen as a child and brought to the Citadel. Healthy beautiful women are obviously prized, so my guess is she lost her arm soon and started training to become a war rig driver instead. She's great with a rifle and a good fighter, but all other soldiers we see (the war boys) are male. Did she train with them? How did she become Imperator? And how did she get to know the wives?
I really liked the wives, though it was hard to separate them, especially at first. I only got one name during the movie (Angharad, who died), and just now when checking online I realized that I forgot one altogether. If I watch it again I'll pay more attention to them. I also wonder where they came from: they're relatively young, but healthy, so presumably not from the Citadel? Everyone else there seems to be sick in some way. Maybe they were captured in a raid, or bought.
Other people have already said smart things about how great it was to see an action movie centered on female protagonists and their journeys like that, and that's true. But while I was watching the movie, and for a while after that, it seemed absolutely normal. And then I saw posters for other movies that were clearly centered on male protagonists and marketed with girls as eye candy, and that was a sad reminder that unfortunately it's still something unusual.
LK complained that the plot was predictable, but I didn't watch the movie for the plot, so it didn't bother me at all. It wasn't stupid, that was enough for me. Simply a great action movie, exactly as promised. With a lot of explosions, a guy playing a flamethrower guitar on top of a car, and grandmothers on motorbikes.
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Date: 2015-06-09 01:22 am (UTC)Totally agree wit you on the gorgeousness of the visuals, though. What a beautiful end-of-the-world.
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Date: 2015-06-09 10:59 am (UTC)This is one of the instances where I really appreciate Tumblr: I can look for pretty pictures & gifs there :)
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Date: 2015-06-09 04:29 pm (UTC)Was die Trilogie betrifft: ist halt so, wie mit Computerspielen. Wenn man das letzte Spiel einer Serie als erstes spielt, und all die Special Effects und visuellen Orgasmen gewöhnt ist, wird einem das Pixel-Startspiel der Serie bescheiden vorkommen. Ich würde die Filme trotzdem empfehlen, weil du a) herausfindest, *wo* alles spielt, *warum* alles so ist, wie es ist, und vor allem *wer* Max ist.
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Date: 2015-06-09 05:02 pm (UTC)Der Einzige aus unserer Gruppe, der die alte Trilogie kennt, war übrigens auch nicht begeistert von Fury Road ("warum "Mad Max"?, es ging ja überhaupt nicht um Max, die Verbindung war völlig unnötig.") Ich kenne zwar das Original nicht, aber generell ist mir bei Reboots (und das scheint mir Fury Road eher zu sein als eine Fortsetzung) wichtiger, dass die Atmosphäre und die Art des Films stimmen, als alle Details.
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Date: 2015-06-09 05:12 pm (UTC)Das hängt vom Film ab. Aber eine Serie, die so fokussiert auf den Protagonisten ist, dass sie sogar seinen Namen im Titel hat, muss für mich diesen Protagonisten weiterführen, oder ganz klar sagen, dass es sich einfach um eine weitere Geschichte aus dem selben Universum handelt.
Wie gesagt, für mich heißt der Kerl einfach nur zufällig Max, und hat mit dem Original nichts zu tun. Dann funktioniert der Film auch.