Film No. 32 (2015) May 17th. 1:00 PM VMAX Innaloo.
"My world is reduced to a single instinct, survive. So I exist in this wasteland". (Mad Max's voiceover prelude).
Mad Max: Fury Road
Barton Fink, for me was a head f*ck of a film because of its overly indulgent script. Mad Max played with my head in the same way but definitely not because the dialogue was too deep. Watching two hours of non stop mayhem in a hot desert wasteland, while wearing 3D glasses certainly snapped me out of any lethargy I was feeling this day.
This is the 4th chapter in the Mad Max stable. The original Mad Max was made for under $1M but took many more millions. Accountants were queuing up to franchise George Miller's Road Warrior to bigger and better things. It was a look that it had the potential to be a money making machine. The idea of a lone indestructible warrior wandering a post atomic wasteland, embittered by the deaths of his wife and child and fighting for the causes of the downtrodden can be duplicated many times over.
Then there is Mad Max: Fury Road, a special effects feast told in the same way a comic strip might depict an unbelievable world supporting a super hero. The effects are amazing and even more so in 3D glasses but I would have liked to have been more emotionally invested. Here's why.
Max remains a lone warrior. Trouble finds him, it always does. He's taken captor by some wild tribe of misfits who rule some kingdom where water, fuel,white faced mutants and beautiful angelic women exist. Furiosa (Charlize Theron) wants out and she smuggles the women and fuel out of the kingdom in a tanker to find more serene pastures. The baddies give chase with their new prisoner Mad Max; he's strapped to the front of the vehicle. Max does what Max does to get out of his predicament and wins over Furiosa using eye contact and grunts. The chase across the desert is frenetic and unending. See I told you it was a head f*ck. And yes, he does survive. 7GUMS
Then there is Mad Max: Fury Road, a special effects feast told in the same way a comic strip might depict an unbelievable world supporting a super hero. The effects are amazing and even more so in 3D glasses but I would have liked to have been more emotionally invested. Here's why.
Max remains a lone warrior. Trouble finds him, it always does. He's taken captor by some wild tribe of misfits who rule some kingdom where water, fuel,white faced mutants and beautiful angelic women exist. Furiosa (Charlize Theron) wants out and she smuggles the women and fuel out of the kingdom in a tanker to find more serene pastures. The baddies give chase with their new prisoner Mad Max; he's strapped to the front of the vehicle. Max does what Max does to get out of his predicament and wins over Furiosa using eye contact and grunts. The chase across the desert is frenetic and unending. See I told you it was a head f*ck. And yes, he does survive. 7GUMS
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