|
Is there footage online yet of Max's "ah, she gets it" reaction to the one Vuvalini lady when she realizes what his final plan is? It would make a pretty awesome avatar methinks. edit: page 2 Furiosa snypa
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 15:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 06:39 |
|
|
dik-dik posted:Cool. Gonna grab it then. Might as well have all my hobbies meld in to one, shiny and chrome. If they come out with some Mad Max themed climbing gear I'm super hosed. Nice av! 
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 15:25
|
|
|
splifyphus posted:Was the spray paint on the mouth thing some kind of upper or addictive religious sacrament? Their tendency to use it in combat made me wonder if it was another part of Joe's power mechanisms. I was also unsure about the breast milk, was it also being used as a carrot or was he just trying to rehabilitate his grotesque spawn? I think the milk was just part of a trade/tithe to Gastown in exchange for goods and services. You have to assume that if there are people, there are children, and they will need something to help them grow into adulthood. Of course, the post-apocalyptic answer is likely that it is a precious luxury for the warlords to be able to drink something other than water.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 15:27
|
|
|
I watched it for a third time last night before it exits my theatre, and this time the sound was a little better. I heard lines I didn't before, and was amazed at how everything fit together so nicely. Nearly everything important is explained, without an info dump, and without an audience surrogate character. I love this movie. For me, Mad Max: The Wasteland cannot come soon enough. I hope Max is paired with another new actor or actress that throws down as hard as Theron did.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 15:30
|
|
|
sean10mm posted:Yeah, it's the cover of an old Yes album. Likewise, Fury Road is the cover of a Meat Loaf album. 
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 15:40
|
|
|
ShineDog posted:They're untrained in film, if a character doesn't up and say I FEEL BAD BECAUSE I DID THIS THING AND NOW I HAVE LEARNED then it barely gets noticed and thematic issues like the films regularly reinforced themes of trust and how it can empowers or be exploited don't exist. Very true.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:09
|
|
|
Milky Moor posted:I had that EXACT thought when I first saw a trailer for Avatar all those years ago. It's crazy how similar it is. Albion was really neat. It was a pretty common thing you'd see in sci-fi from the 60s/70s. A lot of Frank Herbert's work is similar also like The Heaven Makers. In that one the aliens the corporate "convince aliens that we're awesome so we can get a good exploitative business deal out of them" protagonist deals with are even tall blue skinned folks that commune via head/hair genitals. EmptyVessel posted:That visual aesthetic is straight out of Roger Dean which pushes its origin back to the 70s. This x 3425896245. Bungie has always been heavily inspired by this. Even man of the armors and backgrounds we see in Destiny are stolen from 70s art Ralph McQuarrie did for Star Wars.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:14
|
|
|
Does anyone have an avatar-sized Coma-Doof gif? I want to get it with "Don't be a Bard," they said "Bards are lame," they said
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:15
|
|
|
I took a quick look at the IMDB message board for Fury Road, out of idle curiosity more than anything else. :facepalm:
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:17
|
|
|
GazChap posted:I took a quick look at the IMDB message board for Fury Road, out of idle curiosity more than anything else. Why does the guy from the Borderlands cover help them escape at the end instead of killing them for Immortan Joe?
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:18
|
|
|
Neo Rasa posted:Why does the guy from the Borderlands cover help them escape at the end instead of killing them for Immortan Joe? Why do Pretty Ladys run from Joe? Joe am clearly love them. And why Max give Fury Osha gun if he no like her?
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:30
|
|
|
Why DID they want to run away from Joe? He seems like a nice guy.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:36
|
|
|
WoodrowSkillson posted:I'm not following this, the first halo was in like what, 2002-2003? Avatar was a number of years later. I do not think cameron was looking to Halo for inspiration but i guess its possible
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:46
|
|
|
IronicDongz posted:Avatar are ripping off the aesthetic of the marines from Aliens.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:48
|
|
|
Saw this over the weekend and I honestly can't stop thinking about it. What an amazing film. Also I put on the soundtrack in the car in the way to work this morning and had to stop myself from going 90 while sticking my head out the window and screaming. Probably going to see it in 3D sometime later this week.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:59
|
|
|
Everblight posted:Can James Cameron even rip himself off? Actually looking back I think it might be more accurate to say that Aliens more or less started the look, and then Halo influenced it enough to affect Avatar. Looking at the airships from each is sort of watching a progression of a form:   Aliens,   Halo,   Avatar. I think Halo mostly brought in chopper-esque things and then in Avatar everything just gets bigger.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 16:59
|
|
|
IronicDongz posted:In a sense, I suppose? It's derivative, anyways. I imagine it would be rather hard for the 20-something animators and designers working on avatar to completely turn off the portion of their brains that played Halo
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:01
|
|
|
There is a moment near the climax of the film where Rictus is slamming Max around and the impacts synch up with beats on the soundtrack that is one of the most amazing integrations of a movie score that I can remember.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:01
|
|
|
WoodrowSkillson posted:I imagine it would be rather hard for the 20-something animators and designers working on avatar to completely turn off the portion of their brains that played Halo Looking at Avatar images has mostly just made me want to watch Mad Max a second time. I really hope it brings about a revival in practical effects.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:06
|
|
|
Efexeye posted:There is a moment near the climax of the film where Rictus is slamming Max around and the impacts synch up with beats on the soundtrack that is one of the most amazing integrations of a movie score that I can remember. The soundtrack is amazing by itself. You can actually hear the Doof Warrior fade in and out on some tracks as you did in the actual movie. Brothers in Arms gives me goosebumps to listen to.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:09
|
|
|
I could have sworn I heard a rumor that Stan Winston's old crew is doing a sci-fi or horror movie that's 100% practical effects.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:10
|
|
|
I don't really understand the complaints about the soundtrack swelling in emotional moments, either, since that's what movies...do? Furiosa's anguish at realizing the Green Place is gone was pretty well handled, I thought.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:19
|
|
|
Something neat about the "errors" in Max's visions is that they're all from his perspective. Ie: He didn't witness his wife getting run down, or even look at her body, so he imagined it as a big truck. His last experience in Road Warrior was crashing the rig - so he probably figures he got all those people killed, too.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:23
|
|
|
moths posted:Something neat about the "errors" in Max's visions is that they're all from his perspective. Ie: He didn't witness his wife getting run down, or even look at her body, so he imagined it as a big truck. His last experience in Road Warrior was crashing the rig - so he probably figures he got all those people killed, too. It's possible he forgot the gender of his kid. It's been a long time.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:31
|
|
|
 Although was Mrs. Max holding the baby in his vision?
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:35
|
|
|
Efexeye posted:I don't really understand the complaints about the soundtrack swelling in emotional moments, either, since that's what movies...do? Furiosa's anguish at realizing the Green Place is gone was pretty well handled, I thought. It was very well handled. One of the things I liked best was that Furiosa, as the principal character and driver of the plot, was the main focus of that segment. The movie didn't have anyone patting her shoulder or saying "There there", no attempt by any other character to steal the spotlight and make the tragedy about them -Max bringing up how he'd lost his family, or the Many Mothers voicing some toothless platitude about how home is where your loved ones are... No, everything was laser focused on Furiosa, allowing her to mourn her lost dream in peace. It was a highly respectful moment... and a depressingly rare one, now that TV is bigger and there's all this pressure to clutter things up with tons of words.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:36
|
|
|
I forget who it was in this thread, but thank you to whoever pointed out that the warboys salute is them making the shape of a V8 engine with their hands. It's my favorite easily overlooked detail.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:39
|
|
|
Snak posted:It's possible he forgot the gender of his kid. It's been a long time. Sometimes the girl calls him "Max" instead of "papa" which suggests that perhaps he wasn't her father and his memories are muddled up.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:41
|
|
|
Steve Yun posted:Sometimes the girl calls him "Max" instead of "papa" which suggests that perhaps he wasn't her father and his memories are muddled up. yeah I don't really have a problem with it. Besides, if he is haunted by actual memories, he could just be remembering a little girl calling for her papa, not necessarily to Max.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:45
|
|
|
TerminalBlue posted:Totally all that, yes. Though with the whole name part, he says it to (essentially unconscious)Furiosa as a gesture of trust, but then sorta realizes he's actually admitting to himself that he has a name other than Mr. Survivorman: The Man With a Single Instinct. He just had to say it to somebody else to get to that point. It was brief, but great. Also, the entire narrative starts out with him introducing himself as Max to the audience (whoever they may be). So a full circle?
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:51
|
|
|
dik-dik posted:God, this movie has ruined me for unnecessary dialogue. This web series pilot is I looked at it several times over the few minutes it took to get the text the way I liked and I'm seriously not sure how I didn't notice that. WITNESS ME spell poorly 
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:56
|
|
as gently caress
|
So Nux sees that Slit is pouring nitro into his car's intake. Furiosa points out that they're going to try to get in front in order to spike the War Rig's wheels. Nux decides he's going to put nitro into the war rig to speed it up as well. Furiosa says "Don't blow my engines." Nux and Slit compete to see who can boost their cars more. Nux accidentally swallows some and can't hack it, so Max takes over. Seeing Nux fail, Slit beats his chest like King Kong. Despite Max's best effort, the Interceptor pulls ahead and spikes the wheels. One of the Vuvalini snipes the driver of the Interceptor. Then one of the engines overheats. Nitro-boosting the cars was a testosterone-fueled dick measuring contest, and (like Rictus and Bullet Farmer shooting randomly at the air) was all for naught. They got their wheels spiked anyways, the engine overheated despite Furiosa warning Nux not to do it, and the only reason why they won the exchange is because one of the women thought outside of the rules of "playing the game" and shot the Interceptor's driver. A pretty neat parable about useless displays of male power told entirely through action. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 17:59 on May 26, 2015 |
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 17:56
|
|
|
dreffen posted:WITNESS ME spell poorly
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:12
|
|
|
Snak posted:I forget who it was in this thread, but thank you to whoever pointed out that the warboys salute is them making the shape of a V8 engine with their hands. It's my favorite easily overlooked detail. And thank YOU for re-mentioning it as I indeed overlooked it. Now, what is the significance of the many mothers' gesture? Where they sort of gently reach out and it looks like they're grasping something then pulling towards their heart. Is it as simple as I think it is, a symbolic expression of peacefully reaching out to take what's dearest to us?
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:13
|
|
|
Ersatz posted:Given the context, I'm in the "misspelling is funny and appropriate" camp. It's all I can see now and it bothers me a bunch. I cannot believe that I didn't notice.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:14
|
|
|
Don't forget in Max's flashbacks there's a black guy with dreadlocks we've never seen before. And it's Furiosa telling us the story, so of all the campfire tall tales of the road warrior maybe sometimes he has a daughter and Goose was a black guy.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:24
|
|
|
Not sure if it matters, but I'm pretty sure the black guy was aboriginal rather than African. So it's entirely possible this the flashes are meant to reference unseen adventures Max had before Fury Road but not featured in previous movies. As one or more aboriginal communities surviving the apocalypse wouldn't seem unlikely.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:45
|
|
|
Dasilodavi posted:And thank YOU for re-mentioning it as I indeed overlooked it. Yeah, it's a juxtapositional thing. The War Boys yell and scream and worship a literal object as their symbol of devotion, whereas the many mothers' gesture is about showing respect for a human life. "You are gone, but we keep you close to our heart", kind of thing. They're also about killing with one bullet, while the War Boys are about throwing explosives and fire and bullets at a thing until it dies. EDIT: Which all comes to a head when Nux makes his sacrifice and whispers "Witness" to an actual person and not just like a triumphant yell, and Capable responds with the mothers' gesture to him. Nux is able to fulfill his destiny in a way he never imagined possible, and Capable has the exact way to say what she needs to say to him even though they're too far away for words. Crappy Jack fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 26, 2015 |
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:50
|
|
|
Yeah, wasn't sure since he may have been an extra they cast in Africa while filming and have no idea how to be a polite liberal with such a distinction. But I still like to think he's Furiosa's story version of Goose. Or maybe Papagallo.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 18:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 06:39 |
|
|
I keep forgetting they filmed it in Africa, as opposed to Austrailia.
Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 19:46 on May 26, 2015 |
|
#
?
May 26, 2015 19:02
|
|
