"By my deeds I honor him... V8!" I love the engine worship religion in Fury Road. It's so fleshed out and nothing is ever told to us. Fingers raised overhead interlaced like pistons, spraying their teeth (grills) with chrome before they ride to valhalla, engine schemata scarred into chests, and Frankenstein vehicle mash-ups. It's post-apocalyptic viking dieselpunk 😎

@Deathbird_Mitch

3 ай бұрын

The engine worship as practically a main character started way back in Mad Max 1.

@Klee99zeno

3 ай бұрын

yes there is a holy shrine made of steering wheels, and each wheel is a a holy relic a person can hold.

@dozer11

3 ай бұрын

Agreed. The whole movie is showing us and not telling us. World building by what we see and not spoon feeding us exposition.

@dartigens10

3 ай бұрын

Chroming is sadly based off of something that actually happens (or used to happen) - paint sniffing used to be a horribly common thing in some parts of Australia, and I'm sure in other parts of the world. (I'm not sure if it's still as big of an issue, but it was a huge one when I was younger. Petrol sniffing as well, sadly.)

@LordVolkov

3 ай бұрын

@@dartigens10 Charlie, from Always Sunny, is often shiny and chrome for this reason 😉

"Fang it" is Australian slang for like "step on it!" or "let's go!" This movie is damn near perfect. The actor playing Immortan Joe also played the main villain in the first movie, "Mad Max". Thank you! Keep crushing it!

@zaphus

3 ай бұрын

I love "Fang it", a very Aussie bit of slang that I still like to use, comes from the name of the Italian F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio who was dominant in the 50's. I assume kids saw how fast he was and used his name to indicate fast acceleration. Up there with taking a 'Jezza', or more recently 'doing a Bradbury'

@michaelriddick7116

3 ай бұрын

The Toecutter from Mad Max!! :D

@shawn6669

2 ай бұрын

@@michaelriddick7116 The Bronze! They take our pride!!!!

The original trilogy defined the post-apocalyptic genre in the 80s. All of these have great names for characters: the night rider, the toe cutter, Master-blaster, Iron Bar, the people eater, Rictus, and of course Furiosa.

@josefstalin9678

3 ай бұрын

I love the name "Organic Mechanic" for immortan Joe's doctor. Definitely one of the best in the franchise

@tommc3622

3 ай бұрын

How can you leave out "The Lord Humongous" and his gangs of "gayboy berserkers" and "smegma crazies"!? 😆

@Klee99zeno

3 ай бұрын

@@tommc3622 - We could also mention the tribe of women called the Vulvalini,

@jonathanross149

3 ай бұрын

Pig Killer, Master Blaster, Auntie

This movie is perfect "show don't tell" storytelling. There is some brief exposition here and there, but there's so much more in the sets, props, vehicles, costumes, and even gestures. For example, when the Vuvalini (bike ladies) hear of the death of Furiosa's mother, they make this gesture of reaching out, grasping the air, and pulling it to their chest. They take the memory and/or spirit of their loved ones into their heart. Later, when Nux is about to make his sacrifice, he whispers "witness me" to Capable (redhead), which itself is a beautiful inversion of other shown storytelling. In response, Capable makes the same gesture that she saw the vuvalini make, she takes the spirit and memory of Nux into her heart. It's just fucking incredible storytelling.

Something great about the entire franchise is that every movie is basically a standalone movie. You don't necessarily need to watch them in order, as the only real connecting thread is that Max is a central character in each. I've heard an interesting theory that the 1st movie is told to us from Max's perspective, but every subsequent movie is told from the perspective of the people he met during a particular adventure, giving a sort of unreliable narration and separation between the films. So while every film is a sequel, they are all being told by different authors, in a sense.

@striderdavid

3 ай бұрын

I like this explanation! I've always thought of these movies as stories passed around or passed down by oral history. So the details don't line right up between the stories, different people remember different things or don't focus on certain aspects. Makes it feel like a post-apocalyptic mythology. I think it's a very cool way to frame the series, and gives the filmmaker more options!

@piratetv1

3 ай бұрын

That's true. They don't necessarily release in order. They're all stories about a mysterious stranger someone met at one point.

@jonathanross149

3 ай бұрын

I totally agree.

Seeing this in theaters, scenes like the sandstorm actually made me tear up. This movie was just so unashamedly big, loud and visceral in a way I hadn't felt in a long time.

The original Mad Max explains everything.

@tremorsfan

3 ай бұрын

Nobody reacts to that one.

@KlooKloo

3 ай бұрын

​@@tremorsfan Because it's a bad movie. Road Warrior is great and Beyond Thunderdome is good. None compare to Fury Road.

@sca88

3 ай бұрын

​@@tremorsfan Actually there's a few reactions but there should be more.

@tremorsfan

3 ай бұрын

@@KlooKloo Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad.

@KlooKloo

3 ай бұрын

@@tremorsfanthat's the definition of a bad movie

@ShanelleRiccio If you wanna know more about Max, then you gotta start at the beginning! Mad Max from 1979!

@chrisgobeil4751

3 ай бұрын

100%, see them all, starting with the original.

@Metzwerg74

3 ай бұрын

no word, more true, was ever spoken....

The old trilogy is good too, especially the second one “Road Warrior”

The video game is fun. It's a prequel. It also introduces the girl max sees in his visions. Not his daughter but her name is Glory. He couldn't save her. She's the grand daughter of Miss Giddy the history lady ( she's the one in the wives cave with the shutgun). Giddy has stories of the past tattooed all over her, and serves as a teacher

@Shovelheadtard

3 ай бұрын

I think I paid 5 bucks on sale years ago and I still do a few playthroughs every year. Simple but extremely satisfying.

@lachlangeorge8364

2 ай бұрын

Actually a bit more complicated than that. The game was made without Miller/the Mad Max team, but used a lot of common characters and concepts. So yeah, technically unrelated to the movies, even tho there's a lot of overlap. Mad Max Bible did a great video on it, highly recommended!!

"Is there a Mad Max videogame?" Yes. Mad Max 2015. It came out along side Fury Road. Really excellent sleeper hit no one really talks about. All platforms $20, goes on sale all the time for $10 or less.

@dozer11

3 ай бұрын

Agreed! The game was way better than expected.

@theaikidoka

3 ай бұрын

It isn't the story of this (or any other MM film) but it's own interpretation of the setting and character. It's got great world-building and a really fun set of car modification options. Well worth playing even if only for the chance to belt around the setting in a suped-up V8.

What's most inspiring ? George Miller was 70 years old when this movie was released. He also directed the prequel "Furiosa" which will come out this year. Magaret Sixl is back as editor.

@amy_grace

3 ай бұрын

Margaret Sixel the GOAT!!!

@Eidlones

3 ай бұрын

God I hope they improve the cg... that trailer was terrible, especially in comparison to Fury Road.

@maxpayne232

3 ай бұрын

@@Eidlones nope. Just looks a bit more modern than people prefer. A production like Fury Road will never happen again where they are in the desert for 160 days just shooting big stunts all the time. Also Fury Road wasn't as CGI free as most people say.

@Eidlones

3 ай бұрын

@@maxpayne232 No man... the Furiosa trailer is WAY too cg looking. When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a trailer for a game. Before I even saw it was for Furiosa.

@system0fadowner251

3 ай бұрын

​@Eidlones from what I understand the reason for so much cg is they weren't able to film on location for a lot of the production. I hope they clean it up more as well, but cg isn't a deal-breaker for me if the action is as well thought out as fury road and the visual tone is consistent.

23:35 I always interpreted this line as being basically about KZread. "Everyone in the old world had a show". Just like how 100s of millions of people have youtube channels. Even now-a-days it's a wild concept. 20 years ago people watched TV. In 2024, *WE* are the TV. We watch each other, normal ass people, everyday and way more often than produced content.

@piratetv1

3 ай бұрын

It's also about these stories. Each movie is someone telling a story about max. The road warrior was told by the feral child, beyond thunderdome was told by Savannah, this one was likely told by Furiosa

This movie is SO much environmental storytelling, it's the kinda movie you rewatch and rewatch, and it only gets better Valhalla is just the heaven-for-warriors in old Norse mythology (there is another one as well, it's complicated) - it's just showing a future warlord coopting various easy-to-grasp warrior-faiths to impose on his subjects, sort of tried and tested paths to success by copying ancient cultures. And yes, there's a Mad Max video game, related to this film, and it is very good (also very bleak, but in a beautiful way) Also, also, the movie was edited by the directors wife, they're a cute old couple

If you didn't love this film, we can't be friends.

@1974dormouse

3 ай бұрын

It was the worst mad max. He took a back seat in his own movie.

@LenOliver-yz6os

3 ай бұрын

@@1974dormouseThank you!!! facts!!!

@EmoDragracer

3 ай бұрын

Can't tell if this is bait or not...@@1974dormouse

@tommc3622

3 ай бұрын

If you didn't love this film, you don't love film.

@richardrobbins387

3 ай бұрын

​@tommc3622 Actual fact. Max, typically a loner, runs into some oppressed, broken yet courageous people and helps them make their situation better... Always walks away a hero. Done. This is THEIR story about him.

Not having the answers and hierarchy is the best part of this movie. No tedious exposition, just depth.

@jeffevans9853

3 ай бұрын

It's great. Most of the answers can be picked up or inferred from things happening, casual dialogue, or being seen on screen, without that exposition.

@commieRob

3 ай бұрын

Big facts! I'm very worried that the furiosa movie is going to Star wars prequel all the mystery out of this movie.

@kimaboe

3 ай бұрын

@@commieRob I went into this one with zero expectations, so I'll do my best to repeat that strategy. Even if they show the origin of some things, they are still jumping into the middle of the timeline here, afaik, so I'm sure there will still be lots of weirdness going on that we'll have to try to make sense of :p

You REALLY should watch the first 3 movies. Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It would be very Interesting to see your take on those movies from 1979, 1981, 1985.

You're a film nerd so I can't hold myself back from wanting to share a fun fact!: At 4:35, you see some camerawork running down close-quarters with Max, first behind him, and then ahead of him. That bit was filmed with a handheld camera rig called a "Movi" that was designed and made at the company I used to work at, Freefly, here in the Pacific Northwest! :) George Miller apparently wanted it because it doesn't require a big bulky backpack, it's just a big handle bar rig that's light enough for 1 cameraperson to manevor by themselves, and keep the shot steady even while you run with it! Black Panther also used our Movi, in the scene in the casino, on a boom arm, for the sweeping shot from the first floor to the second. These two moments in cinema filled me with such pride to see them when they came to theaters. Left the company since then to chase other stuff, but still hold that memory in my heart.

This film is the only time I've ever went back to the ticket booth after my first time seeing the film to go immediately watch it again. This should have been the film to finally get the Academy off its collective ass and add an Oscar category for stunt work, but alas.

@Metzwerg74

3 ай бұрын

instead they gave rachel ziegler an award for best action actress.... oscar is worth shit theese days...

Nux has the character arc in this film. Max is the feral child from Road Warrior. This film works so well because of "center framing". Blew my mind open and we all left the theater slowly shuffling out looking at each other like we had just been to the craziest metal show of our lives.

@reddogfrost8821

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I liked the "feral kid" theory too, till the next time I rewatched 'Road Warrior' & remembered that the Storyteller (narrator) of that one *is* the feral kid as an old man. Nowadays I like the "Immortal Max" theory. By the time of 'Fury Road', a century has passed since the first film. Some others are ridiculously old (if not as youthful or healthy as Max) and remember the time before, (if not clearly) but everyone has lost track of exactly how long ago the wars were. Mutations are common and inconsistent. Russian descendants populate deserts located in what was Australia. The oceans of the world are dry. And still, Max survives.

@piratetv1

3 ай бұрын

I think it's possible this max is the feral child. Max could be a legend represented by a bunch of people

this movie dose the original trilogy justice it is a fantastic movie especially the set designs and costumes not to mention the cars and truck fabrication. love this film so much. and yes there is a mad max video game came out in 2015.. the "War boys" need blood transfusions because of radiation poisoning.. i advise you to watch the trilogy of mad max with Mel gibson it will explain a lot.

@system0fadowner251

3 ай бұрын

I think this is by far the best Mad Max Miller has ever made. No disrespect to the og trilogy, of course, but this is just on an entirely different level for me.

My friend upon leaving the theater to his gf:"What did you think?" GF:"I don't know. It was like a 2 hour car chase." My friend: "I know! Wasn't it awesome?!"

The making of this movie was as insane, creative and exhausting as the movie itself, especially the post production. There were five drastically different cuts tested over two years. No-one knew which version to release and the studio was freaking out over the cost. In the end George Miller and his wife, who edited this behemoth, got their way and were able to release their preferred cut.

Speaking about movies that feature a "moving truck", one of the first "highway horror" or "vehicle horror" movies I ever saw was Duel (1971) Starring Dennis Weaver and directed by Stephen Spielberg!

This movie was a masterclass in show but don't tell. The amount of worldbuilding, character development, and lore established through just observation and context was amazing, almost in direct conflict with most modern movies which have to spell everything out for the audience. I pick up more and more each time I watch this movie.

Immortan Joe is played by the same actor who played "The Toecutter" in the very first Mad Max film... -- And while not the same character... It was absolutely wonderful to see him back in the franchise since 1979.

Fang It is a standard Aussie Slang we’ve used for decades. George Miller no doubt used it himself growing up in Oz.

The only thing that bugs me about these reactions is you aren't watching this on a bigger screen in 4k with Dolby Atmos sound. So worth it!

I happen to catch this on premiere at a drive-in movie theater with storm clouds and lightning rolling over the mountains.. It was incredibly epic to be in a car watching a movie about cars driving into a lightning storm.. during a lightning storm..

@piratetv1

3 ай бұрын

Agreed. Clear weather for me but watching in a car was perfect

I saw this in an imax cinema - I legit felt like I was having a heart attack at times. Brilliant experience though (once I realised I wasn't)

Pretty much the best action movie of this century, bar none. Every frame feels like a labor of love.

@Deathbird_Mitch

3 ай бұрын

Because it was around 90% practical over CG.

@brewdaly1873

3 ай бұрын

​​​@@Deathbird_Mitchnah, the quality of a movie has little to do with the amount of CGI vs practical. CG is just a tool, and when used correctly is hardly noticable, and there are absolutely amazing movies that are 100% CGI. And sometimes practical effects look shitty. Fury Road has almost as much CGI as the first Avengers movie (2,000 shots vs 2,200). By comparison, the first Jurassic Park had 60. It's not that they didn't use a lot of CGI, because they used a shit ton of it. It's that they were very smart with how they used it, on top of just being an expertly directed and edited film overall.

The same actor that plays Immortan Joe plays The Toecutter in the original Mad Max. And yes the MM game that came out a couple of years back is excellent.

Max's blood made Nux a hero. He has cancer and needs transfusions.

@andersonprimer

3 ай бұрын

Who else receives Max's blood? Furiosa

@piratetv1

3 ай бұрын

@@andersonprimer exactly. pure high octane

I think my best Mad Max fact is that two of the actors in the scifi series Farscape appear in Mad Max films 35 years apart. The Seed Lady's actress played Noranti in the later seasons of the series, and back in 1981 Virgina Hey played the Warrior Woman in The Road Warrior, and in Farscape she was Zhaan.

@xKagryx

3 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, that’s awesome, and it’s so obvious now that you’ve pointed it out!

@Patriot009

3 ай бұрын

Immortan Joe/Toecutter was played by Hugh Kaeys-Byrne, who played Grunchlk for a few episodes in Farscape season 2/3 Farscape trivia, the actor who played Stark also played one of the original agents in The Matrix

@Vaishino

3 ай бұрын

@@Patriot009 I had completely forgot about Grunchlk. Now I'm looking forward to those episode extra in the rewatch I'm doing

@kenparkerjr7044

3 ай бұрын

The redhead is Elvis's granddaughter.

If you watch the earlier movies, Max was a cop before the collapse. He loses everything and becomes a roamer. :( Thus, by now he's one of the few educated people left, and as a former cop, he has more knowledge of first-aid than most people. The Mad Max series does an excellent job of showing the stark difference between the educated people from before the collapse and the uneducated people born after the collapse.

Mad Max is an Australian post-apocalyptic and dystopian action film series and media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. It began in 1979 with Mad Max, and was followed by three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981, released in the United States as The Road Warrior), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Miller directed or co-directed all four films. Mel Gibson portrayed the titular character Max Rockatansky in the first three films, while Tom Hardy portrayed the character in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Valhalla is where warriors go after they die, in Norse mythology - more or less...

There are two types of people, those who say this is a masterpiece and those who are wrong 😀

Post apocalypse the world runs on three things. Gasoline, water, and violence.

There is a Mad Max video game and it is awesome.

Max begins the movie 'Reduced to one instinct: Survive.' He's barely human at that point. Just a vessel for blood. But as the movie continues, he grows his humanity back. First by working with others, then actually caring. The climax of that arc is that he is able to give himself a name. 'Max. My name is Max.' He's human again. Or at least close enough to it. But he's not quite redeemed, and maybe he never will be. So he wanders back into the wastes. He's 'better' now, but he still has to search. What he's looking for, he cannot find in Furiosa's new civilization.

The seed lady hasn't been living on seeds, but wayward travelers, she said she never met anyone she didn't kill. And she didn't have veggies. The unspoken thing was that they didn't waste any possible food. They were all cannibals.

the best part about this movie is that the guy who made it also made Happy Feet.

The scene where Max wakes up, at 20:54, roughly at 20:56, right before he wakes up, there is a snippet of a pair of bulging eyes. This is a clip from the original "Mad Max" film.

The "bandstand truck", as Shanelle calls it, is how Immortan Joe coordinates all those vehicles. It's not like they have radios. (Well, ok, they probably had them off-camera to coordinate stunts, but in-universe, they were coordinated by the guitarist.)

Don't let the title fool you, furiosa is the savior in this movie

Despite being the protagonist and the Title Character, this movie isn't about Max. It's about The Citadel, Furiosa, and Nux, with Nux's story, IMHO, being the most impressive. He went from a brainwashed fanatic that believed his only salvation was being Witnessed sacrificing himself to kill an enemy, to an actual individual who sacrificed himself to save a friend. Max is technically a side character in his own movie, and I think that actually works. Edit: Also, this is the 4th Mad Max movie, with the others being Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. And "Guzzline" originated from how one character in Road Warrior pronounced "gasoline", and it just became part of the canon.

Silver spray paint on their teeth = a chrome grille. Witness me! I used to be an LEO - most cars don't explode from a gasoline leak - they just catch fire and burn.

I saw this in 3D in the theater and it was fucking incredible! This is possibly the greatest action movie of all time.

@theghostofbabanovac7069

3 ай бұрын

If you really think this movie tops Terminator 2, Die Hard 1, Matrix (1999), Raiders of the Lost Ark etc. or even Mad Max 2 you must be delusional or probably haven't seen those yet.

@lemmypop1300

3 ай бұрын

@@theghostofbabanovac7069 It's still a fantastic movie and fits in that crowd rather nicely, but yeah, I still prefer the Road Warrior.

@noahdaub-evans9126

3 ай бұрын

@@theghostofbabanovac7069 Those are all fantastic movies, none of which I got to see in theaters.

The movie was actually created as 3,500 storyboard panels first before the screenplay was even written. It almost like a graphic novel made into a movie.

The black and chrome cut of this is so good, the way the director wanted it

@heyheyjk-la

3 ай бұрын

I saw that version on the big screen and it was amazing.

When you watch Babe 2: Pig in the City, and later find out that the director made Mad Max, it all makes sense.

the movies dont have too much continuity so i really like the theory that max has become a kind of folk hero of the wasteland, explaining why details get changed or left out except for striking, easy to visualize ones, i.e. his leg brace, leather jacket, and car.

One of the key points in all Mad Max films is that Max is not a hero. He's not even truly the protagonist. He's more like a drifter in an old western. He'll fight for the good guys when he's given no other choice, but mostly he just wants to be left alone. Despite the title, this isn't his story. It's Furiosa's. Max just happens to be wandering by.

I saw this in IMAX on my birthday, and it felt like it was made specifically for me. And it was so loud that I felt beat up after. A perfect moviegoing experience.

8:55 -- Hey Shan.. I know you're really into film making and effects and makeup.. The "Chrome spray" is PRACTIAL ... It's edible spray made by a company called Wilton for cake decorating..

This movie is the gold standard of "show, don't tell." No hamfisted exposition or narrative handholding.

The silver spray paint is a sort of drug that gives the Warboys a feeling of euphoria before they go into battle or their own deaths.

The actor who played Immortan Joe also played the villain in the original mad max. Bakery supply store ran out of silver cake spray after this movie came out because that is what they used in the movie.

This is an amazing film, I use it in some of the college courses I teach. The silver spray paint is symbolic, a link to the chrome of engine parts. The line "You will ride eternal shiny and chrome," suggests that in their warped version of Valhalla, they would fight on the highways of the afterlife forever and the paint was a representation of them and their cars (mounts) being one. They probably also got a high off the paint fumes as a bonus. In the real world, Valhalla is the place where Norse warriors would go if they died in combat, it was seen as an honor to die in battle and the only way to get to Valhalla. There they would fight every day, then be resurrected (if they "died,")to feast at night and fight again the next day. Immortan Joe's philosophy was an extension of the might makes right philosophy that destroyed the world. It allowed him to tell his "half-life war boys who are all dying from cancer from all the radiation that allowed him to keep control by promising that they would be able to earn their "reward" in the afterlife. In a nutshell, my take is that the film is a repudiation of toxic masculinity and argues the world needs a return to valuing women and not using their bodies as a commodity (as Immortan Joe did with his "wives" and the women making milk). Other hints are all throughout the film. Max and Furiosia working together to defend the cab of the truck without a word (suggesting men and women need to work in balance to improve the world), the bullet casings falling on Anghard's belly to juxtapose life and death, the line about bullets being anti seed "plant one and watch the thing die," Max washing the blood off with "mother's milk" (literally using a lifegiving fluid to wash away the aftermath of violence), and so many more. it is a visually beautiful and narratively complex film.

"What is that, a sand brake?" It's using the sand the smother the flames.

Yes, the MAD MAX video game is extremely fun. I never got tired of hitting the nitrous just a second before I plowed into another car.

Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for: Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Production Design Best Costume Design Best Makeup.

Mad Max has always been one of my favorite series of films. The action, stunts, locations... everything has been amazing. Not sure if you saw the other films, but Max was a cop who loses his wife and baby to a street gang. He loses his mind and goes on a rampage to get revenge, just as the world begins to fall apart. Basically, fuel begins to run out, governments fall apart, riots begin to escalate, and finally a nuclear war kills the world. And yes, there's a video game and it's one of the best movie games, in my opinion.

@vincentwilliams71

3 ай бұрын

why would you spoil a movie for a reactor like that??? dafuk,, smh.,.

I sure hope you'd seen the ORIGINAL Mad Max films before seeing this.. Max... Is more like the hero in stories told around campfires... Not one man.. But the idea of a man.. The "everyman" who gets thrown into the grinder and somehow comes out on top.. --- Now, lots of reactors watching this movie say at the end, "He's LEAVING?" --- Yes.. Because that is EXACTLY what a hero does.. They save the day.. And then fade. Because as one of the Batman films pointed out so truthfully... "Eventually you see yourself become the villain.."

“You are fighting the greatest fighter of all taeims” don’t know why his cadence is so satisfying to listen to

The stunts in this film are top notch. The story is pretty thin, but that's the beauty of it. It's a visual treat. Looking forward to seeing your face as you see some of these intense stunts.

If you want a chuckle, Conan did a cold open for his show when he went to Comic-Con in San Diego. 'Conan Hits Comic-Con® Mad Max-Style' :)

I love this film so much I have the jacket which I wear in the summer basically all the time. And everyone is jealous that they don’t have one. I look cool all the time.

The guitar and drums sent battle and movement orders to manage the war parties over the engine noise.

Fun fact: Australia was exactly like that in rural areas during the lockdown.

Yes, the Mad Max video game that came out around the time of this movie is excellent, a cult classic, dare I say!

the whole "max saga" takes place in post a ww3 australia. it very much chronicles the fall of society, as it loses its collective sanity. the original [mad max] and it's sequel [the road warrior] were about the days just before and a short time the "modern world" fell into chaos. the third movie [beyond thunderdome], is set "15yrs" after [road warrior] and we see the world has truly fallen. the director's been vague about if this is the same max, as the original movies, or if it's someone else using the name- as in max being an urban legend by this point. but the director's also said this movie COULD'VE taken place in those 15yrs between [road warrior] and [thunderdome]. many point to a retroactive cameo in [thunderdome] to be proof of this.

Saw in theaters twice. It was insane. I never paid much attention to cinematography or editing, but after watching a youtube breakdown on this movie a while back, it's pretty brilliant how they intentionally directed your eyes around the screen through all the chaos. I dig the vague lore of this movie. Their culture and religion always cracks me up, some weird amalgamation of Vikings and love for cars. "I send you to Valhalla shiny and chrome!" It makes me think that it just sorta came together through a smattering of random stuff they found after the apocalypse.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) is a prequal exploring how Furiosa became what she was in Fury Road.

When they enter the sand storm is one of the most beautiful pieces of film making I've ever seen.

You should watch the 1st 3 films: Mad Max was made with very little money, it's a biker film. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is my favorite Mad Max film. I rank it above Fury Road Max Max Beyond Thunderdome is disliked by many fans, but I personally like it.

This is one of the greatest cinematic experiences of my life. Seeing this in theaters was an absolute feast

This is Mad Max 4. The sin most reactors on KZread make is not watching the Mel Gibson trilogy. Which are just as awesome.. It's Max's origin story written and directed by the same guy.

@ShanelleRiccio

3 ай бұрын

I think it could be cool to go back for an origin story!

@TheJamieRamone

3 ай бұрын

@@ShanelleRiccio Yes please! 😁

I don't think anyone can come up with a better analogy of this film than " this is like the pyramids mixed with monster truck rally"! Effin brilliant!

for simplicity's sake, the wives names are: the splendid angharad (rip), capable (red head), the dag (white blonde and weird), toast the knowing (zoe kravitz), and cheedo the fragile (who brilliantly used her reputation against rictus to position herself to help during the climax)

In 2016, Fury Road became the first film of the Mad Max franchise to receive Academy Award recognition, winning six of its ten nominations.

Got on KZread to watch a video I've been waiting for all day, but this was the first recommendation that popped up, I guess that one will have to wait.

Yes, you should cover the original trilogy.

the big bald guy playing Rictus was a former wrestler Nathan Jones and he was also a former convict , they gave him a nick name "the collosus of bogo road"

They made a Black & Chrome edition that make the visuals pop even more.

@JoergWeida

3 ай бұрын

Yes, at first I thought why to do a black & white version, but after watching that edition I was stunned! The same goes for the Noir edition of "Logan". That edition also enhances the visuals!

@dartigens10

3 ай бұрын

I think that cut's also a 'silent' (no dialogue) cut too, which also makes it way clearer how much of the story is communicated visually. That you can still figure out what's going on without the dialogue is genius.

This director almost did his own Justice League movie but the writers strike that was happening at time forced it to get cancelled. It might have been awesome.

There is a mad max video game, and it has some fun trivia about it. Fury road was in development hell for a long time, and during that time a game company started making a mad max video game, taking inspiration from George Miller’s storyboards for the movie. The movie and game share a lot of the same details for this reason. Some examples include immortan Joe’s symbol (the flaming skull), the war rig, gas town, and the main villain of the game, although he goes by a different name, is very reminiscent of Joe

The last salute of the Jugger is a good Mad Maxian style of movie

I first got hooked on this franchise because of the second movie, The Road Warrior which inspired me to learn the protagonist's back-story in Mad Max. (Beyond Thunderdome was my least favorite of the original trilogy.) Although I'm not generally into reboots, and recasting of beloved characters, I make a notable exception for Mad Max: Fury Road. I would have to say that this movie far surpassed my expectations, (and the original trilogy), was true to the "motor-head" spirit of the original, and half the movie was the most tremendous, chase sequence ever set to film, (in my opinion)!

@shaun374

3 ай бұрын

Thunderdome was never meant to be a Mad Max movie. The studio forced the character in to draw in a bigger audience. That’s why the whole thing feels very different than the first two in tone, structure, and character.

“[Don’t get addicted to water], sounds like an abusive parent.” Someone finally gets it! It’s part of his control! Immortan Joe wasn’t responsible for the end of the world, but people like him were. Oh yeah, there’s a Mad Max game based on this movie, and it’s very fun. Although it’s not one with replayable levels unless you play the whole game over again. Most or maybe all War Boys are born with leukemia, which is why they’re called “half life”, so they need blood transfusions when they’re not feeling too good The comics were made for this movie, and each issue a prequel for Max, Furiosa, Joe and Nux. Max’s features the story about the litte girl he keeps seeing

Masterclass in world building. And a testament to the editing of you enjoyed the movie.

Best experience of the 2010s in theaters. Was also first experience in 3D since 2013's Gravity so it hit even more. I can't even put words together to express what I felt. I was bored on a sunday, went in blind, no trailers. A quote from Steven Soderbergh: " I just watched Mad Max: Fury Road again last week, and I tell you I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead."

You could start at the beginning with Mad Max 1979, but you can't go wrong with The Road Warrior either. Those are the important ones 😊

When Fury Road came out I had only seen the original Road Warrior movie. I went to the theater to watch Fury Road with only some knowledge of the movies. I figured it was a reboot of the original trilogy at first. I was amazed by how much of the movie was practical effects and real stunts. I love the post apocalyptic art style of the movie and how the war boys worship their cars and the way the cars are tricked out in the movie.

@13:20 "Yass B!tch, Kill Switch!" is the coolest thing I've heard in a while.

30:35 Furiosa hooked his lower jaw with a harpoon from the harpoon launcher on the back of Joe's monster truck, the same launcher they used earlier to rip the steering wheel off Furiosa's rig.

Since you asked - there is, in fact, a game that ties in with this movie! It's a pretty decent Arkham-style brawler with a strong vehicular combat system. Only complaint I have is the pacing as i expected it to be about a third longer than it is. Even so, it's good fun and I would highly recommend it (doubly so if you can get it on sale!)

Saw this on a big screen in 3d... yes, really happy.

I saw this film 8 times in theatres in tribute to V8. It was the most epic movie to hit the screen!