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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 5, 2015 17:39:33 GMT -5
It was marketed really poorly. They made it look like it was going to be like 'The Book of Eli' I enjoyed it more the 2nd time when I turned my brain off, but if someone is expecting a story driven film, they are going to hate it. It drove me crazy the first time when I saw when Tom Hardy's character just grunting, instead of talking. "There is no little where we come from" meanwhile behind them water is just being needlessly wasted as it just pours out of the truck. Also, if you are expecting a deep story, and a guy is playing guitar on a truck for what broke down to be about 30 consecutive hours in the films time, you're going to be confused. Not everyone heard of Mad Max prior. It's good reviews would have been way better if it just simply marketed itself as fun mindless film. No it wasn't. It was marketed exactly as it was. And Book of Eli sucks. Yeah, truth. I remember tweeting "Mad Max: WTFury Road" and "From the pharmacologists who brought you Viagra, we now present Mad Max: Fury Road" before the movie even officially screened. Marketing did actually seem pretty dead on. I love sophisticated s***. I love artsy s***. I might even go so far as to say I prefer it. Mad Max: Fury Road is still one of the year's best films. It knows exactly what it is and delivers exactly that without compromise with creative things never seen before in the way it was presented on screen. (Heck, that's art in itself.) Also, it reignites the apocalyptic wasteland genre, which was getting quite samey and "Book of Eli'ish."
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 5, 2015 17:44:27 GMT -5
One of my favourite films of the year.
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Post by wallabylikeyou on Oct 5, 2015 17:56:05 GMT -5
If I could just put my snob hat on, it needs to be understood that film is a visual medium, and that there was plenty of story in Fury Road told quite cohesively despite the lack of words.
It's a mistake to believe that a lot of plot automatically means there's a good story. Michael Bay films for example are often accused of having no plot, when that's actually not really true. His first Transformers movie for example, is packed with 'plot', but its totally incoherent.
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Post by Some Guy on Oct 5, 2015 17:58:59 GMT -5
No it wasn't. It was marketed exactly as it was. And Book of Eli sucks. Yeah, truth. I remember tweeting "Mad Max: WTFury Road" and "From the pharmacologists who brought you Viagra, we now present Mad Max: Fury Road" before the movie even officially screened. Marketing did actually seem pretty dead on. I love sophisticated s***. I love artsy s***. I might even go so far as to say I prefer it. Mad Max: Fury Road is still one of the year's best films. It knows exactly what it is and delivers exactly that without compromise with creative things never seen before in the way it was presented on screen. (Heck, that's art in itself.) Also, it reignites the apocalyptic wasteland genre, which was getting quite samey and "Book of Eli'ish." I'm up to 78 movies released this year that I've seen, and I'd call it the best so far.
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Post by Some Guy on Oct 5, 2015 18:15:26 GMT -5
I'm up to 78 movies released this year that I've seen, and I'd call it the best so far. Adding you as a friend on here. Marking out for you in this thread. 70- or 80- something here and so far still in my Top 10, a rarity for an action film. Hey, action movies are capable of being in the top 10 in most years. What is your best so far this year?
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Post by Red Impact on Oct 5, 2015 21:01:26 GMT -5
It's a reminder that Big Dumb Action Movies don't have to suck.
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Post by StormanReigns on Oct 5, 2015 23:07:11 GMT -5
It was marketed really poorly. They made it look like it was going to be like 'The Book of Eli' I enjoyed it more the 2nd time when I turned my brain off, but if someone is expecting a story driven film, they are going to hate it. It drove me crazy the first time when I saw when Tom Hardy's character just grunting, instead of talking. "There is no little where we come from" meanwhile behind them water is just being needlessly wasted as it just pours out of the truck. Also, if you are expecting a deep story, and a guy is playing guitar on a truck for what broke down to be about 30 consecutive hours in the films time, you're going to be confused. Not everyone heard of Mad Max prior. It's good reviews would have been way better if it just simply marketed itself as fun mindless film. No it wasn't. It was marketed exactly as it was. And Book of Eli sucks. lol the studio admitted they marketed wrong. Also: "Movies I don't like suck" You came to this thread to troll, and you really suck at it.
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Post by Some Guy on Oct 5, 2015 23:20:50 GMT -5
No it wasn't. It was marketed exactly as it was. And Book of Eli sucks. lol the studio admitted they marketed wrong. Also: "Movies I don't like suck" You came to this thread to troll, and you really suck at it. No I didn't. I came to this thread because I love Mad Max, and I don't see how your complaints make any sense. Even George Miller admitted before the movie came out that the trailers were so good he was afraid that the movie wouldn't live up to them. The trailers pretty much showed a constant kinetic energy (which the movie had), batshit action (which the movie had), a fairly silent Max (which it had), a badass Charlize Theron (which it had) and general ridiculousness (which it had). The Cinemascore was very high, the critics went apeshit over it, it's rated very highly on IMDB, and it made a pretty decent amount of money for an R Rated action movie based on a series mostly relegated to a cult following.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 5, 2015 23:48:20 GMT -5
lol the studio admitted they marketed wrong. You got a source on that? I've tried every possible search, and all it turned up was the Men's Rights dumbasses protesting the film's feminist agenda, and Forbes praising Warner Bros. for how the movie was marketed.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Oct 6, 2015 7:26:37 GMT -5
Brilliant film, best action film of the last decade. Trailer was awesome in fact let's take a look at the trailer again !
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Post by Bad Moon on Oct 6, 2015 9:07:11 GMT -5
I'm not usually the kind of pretentious asshole who goes "If you don't get it it's not a problem in the film, it's a problem with you" but if you seriously had trouble following the story of Fury Road you might be mentally handicapped. This is not a complicated plot, this had barely more storyline than even your average wrestling angle and it was perfect.
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Post by Hurbster on Oct 6, 2015 15:15:53 GMT -5
They made a film length road movie exciting and gripping for it's entire run time.
And, at least in the UK the advertising was, cars, storms, bloke on front of car with mask and guy shooting flames from his guitar.
Ne pretentious bull there whatsoever.
Liked the fact that the guy playing Immortan Joe also played Toecutter. And in one of the dream sequences we get that classic shot of Toecutters' eyes from the first film.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Oct 6, 2015 16:07:56 GMT -5
I'm confused by the idea that the film's promotion was misleading. Prior to seeing Fury Road, my only familiarity with Mad Max was it was a film series starring Mel Gibson in an apocalyptic wasteland and that according to my friends, "Beyond Thunderdome sucked". I knew nothing of the plot or tone of the previous movies, and in fact only found out there were actually three of them a couple weeks before Fury Road came out (I always thought there were only two and Beyond Thunderdome was apparently an example of a bad sequel to a good original).
Yet, I agreed to see this one based on the trailers alone and got exactly what I wanted. Fun, fast paced that never lost its flow, neat plot/premise that was presented subtly enough you could easily look past it if you were just there for the action. If anything, I felt it surpassed my expectations set by the trailers, though I admit some of that might have been me worrying about walking into this installment having seen none before it, and if that would impede my ability to enjoy it.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Oct 6, 2015 17:54:53 GMT -5
Never heard a thing about any misleading marketing nonsense until this thread, and I don't believe it.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Oct 6, 2015 18:04:19 GMT -5
It drove me crazy the first time when I saw when Tom Hardy's character just grunting, instead of talking. To be fair, The Feral Kid never did have a firm grasp of language.
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Post by Some Guy on Oct 6, 2015 18:32:10 GMT -5
It drove me crazy the first time when I saw when Tom Hardy's character just grunting, instead of talking. To be fair, The Feral Kid never did have a firm grasp of language. DO NOT BRING THAT THEORY INTO MY MAD MAX!
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 6, 2015 18:32:15 GMT -5
Brilliant film, best action film of the last decade. Trailer was awesome in fact let's take a look at the trailer again ! Yeah, not sure how anybody could say that trailer isn't an accurate representation of the final film.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 6, 2015 19:16:04 GMT -5
Yeah, I gotta quibble with the marketing being a bait and switch too. It looked EXACTLY like what it was. I will say,the trailers didn't do it justice, as I thought it'd be really mediocre; but I knew exactly the sort of flick it would be at least.
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Post by BRV on Oct 7, 2015 10:15:39 GMT -5
It was a movie that featured about 90 minutes worth of wild chase scenes, brutal violence, and a man playing a guitar that shot f***ing fire out of it. It is the ultimate "turn your brain off for the next two hours, kick your feet back, and enjoy" popcorn action movie, right up there with the likes of "Con-Air" and "Commando". It goes to show that the action movie is far from dead.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 10:57:59 GMT -5
Part of me wonders if the era of the big action film hasn't affected people's expectations for what an action film should be.
If the stakes aren't propsteriously high, people have a hard time being engaged it seems.
Its not enough for 5 or 6 people's lives to be affected/in danger, the ENTIRE PLANET has to be on the brink of extinction for audiences to really seem to give a damn.
Even the idea of redemption or a reckoning are kind of lost themes in action films, unless they're paired with the entire population of the United States potentially being exploded or something.
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