MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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"This movie is making me very thirsty"
"DO NOT BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER..."
And the entire Citadel society collapses and dies because no one has the brutaly difficult discipline to hard ration the water... 😔😆
@@mokane86 actually Joe took over the citadel from another tribe ... Maybe now there can be peace
DAM great comment :D
cough cough DUNE cough
@@skoomamuch356 Yes! The hype must flow.
Films like this are once-in-a-lifetime. This is the Mad Max movie George Miller always wanted to make, and it was over a decade in the making.
@callmecatalyst My understanding is Miller's attempts to film it began in the 2000s, but you're right that the idea came much earlier.
George always wanted to make this, but he had to make happy feet first lol
@@bonchbonch The first attempt was in the early 90s with Mel Gibson.. They even started construction on a lot of the vehicles, but things fell through.
@@hk_802 It's amazing how far back it goes. From what I've read, Miller got the first idea for the film in 1987.
@@hk_802 there was a lot of them with Mel Gibson…. They were the original greats…. But this one was good
"Sounds like Bane."
Lol, you are 100% correct.
“Bane” is used in Shakespeare’s MACBETH. It means “chaos.”
@@jasongerrard8940 I hope he wasn't married to his sister
Have to admit that was a quick pick up, I wouldn't have connected the voices nearly so quick.
Ironic how they also have Tom Hardy, who also played Bane….
@@osmanyousif7849 What I found most interesting is that he spends the first third of the film in a mask. I'm surprised that Cassie didn't pick up on that detail since she caught the vocal similarity so fast.
Unironically one of the greatest film experiences ever made. George Miller was 70 years old when he directed this. And cooler still, his wife, also 70-ish, was the film editor on this. These two septuagenarians made one of the most incredible cinematic experiences ever. And they are currently in production on a film prequel centering entirely around Furiosa.
From what I heard, he asked his wife, who never edited a movie in her life, with a little guidance, because he knew it would create a different feel through pacing and timing.
Either way, it worked and the editing was awesome.
And Happy Feet and Babe lol
Define septuagenarian for me please...
Good word use by the way 🤘
You touched on the prequel. As much as I love the Mad Max universe, I’d like to see a movie about Aunty Entity over Furiosa
@@butlercorp I don't disagree that there is a lot of cool backstory to mine there.
“I need this chase to stop….” Yeah that’s not this movie :)
I think I said that in a Star Wars movie once.
"Her heart is gonna stop..." Damn, was a ride just watching the reaction!
Hahaha... exactly. The entire movie is a chase and it's spectacular. I don't typically go for nonstop action, but I enjoy the hell out of this one.
Maybe people could suggest movies they think Cassie would like and not movies they like
@@BrianNIL Good point. Something random, I think she'll enjoy Legends of the Fall..
Max leaves cause he is the Road Warrior. He can fight to solve problems and help to bring peace or fix what's broken, but he can't enjoy the result. Always on the Road in search of his better self. Archetypal hero.
tormented anti-hero
Just like Nanny McPhee! ;P
Just because you are a good fighter doesn't mean you can deal with hundreds of people all breathing down your neck about what they want. It's to manage even five people effectively much less dozens. You have to delegate problems to people who can handle them and hope that the people that can handle them exist which often they don't exist or you don't have them on your team.
He doesnt want anyone to care for because he'll just lose them and let them down. But hes a good guy so hes always saving people. Its the great conundrum of Mad Max, he is who he is, a good guy, but cant handle losing all those he saves.
@@DaveWeston I've never seen anyone make this comparrison but by god it's so fitting xD
The best behind-the-scenes fact of this movie is when they first built the truck for the guitar and showed it to the director he said "that looks great! can't wait to hear it!" and was disappointed when he learned it made no sound and the plan was to add the sound in post.... so they rebuilt it and made it functional.
Ok, that's hilarious.
I heard the guitar was over 100 pounds.
Okay that makes even more sense why it was also on a rig (besides just not having the Doof Warrior's arms fall off for holding anything of ANY weight literally nonstop). But it also makes that image of the guitar snapping back and forth on its cables when Max is using it as a weapon even scarier 😨
Personally my fav behind the scenes fact is Tom Hardy saying he was scared about being the polecat and summarizing it as "well he strapped me onto it anyways." and then his voice rising 18 octaves to finish his thought with "ᶦᵗ ʷᵃˢ ˢᶜᵃʳʸ 😅🥺😅 ᶦᵗ ʷᵃˢ ˢᶜᵃʳʸ!"
A hilarious BTS fact of this movie is that Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron fucking hated each other during the entire shooting lolol
@@oxide9679 Yeah but it's hanging on a bunch of chords so I guess that makes up for it lol
Your reaction to the trailer for Mad Max is exactly my wife's reaction. Then I dragged her to it in the theater. As we were leaving the theater, she turned to me and said "You know we are going to go see that again right?"
Its surprising accessible. And converts a lot of people. Its complex but simple, graphic but humorous, technical but simple. I love the range the movie works in.
Ironically, my wife dragged ME. She's a keeper.
Mad Max: Fury Road is an absolute master class of visual storytelling.
Yes, "show don't tell" in a nutshell
And character design.
Apparently the entire film was storyboarded before they even had a script. Show don't tell taken to the max.
Max Max 2 is the best.
It’s also a masterclass in action. Everything is center frame, no shaky cam to hide awful choreography.
George Miller would be so proud to hear you call this, "The most insane thing I've ever seen!"
Yes he's the guy who made Babe and Happy feet 🤣
@@diha2271 babe was metal AF
@@diha2271 I’m still sad he didn’t get to make “Justice League Mortal”
@@unevenstreets1182 I don't give a damn about capesh*t
She said "most intense thing ever", not "insane". FYI.
Director George MIller is an old school director in that he likes to hint and allude to the world and its history, but not explicitly explain things. Which is a thing I kind of miss in movies. Nowadays, EVERYTHING has to be explained. Who, what, when, where, why, how, before the story even starts. Mad Max just drops you in the middle of the world and you have to just figure things out as you go along. It's similar in a way to George Lucas and the first Star Wars. One of the most craziest lines in that first film when it came out was when Luke asks Obi Wan, "You fought in the Clone Wars?" I remember as a kid hearing that line and immediately sitting up like, "Wait what!? WHAT!? Clone Wars!? What the hell is that!? Were they fighting clones? Is Obi Wan a clone!?" All these questions, yet in the first film, it's literally just a throwaway sentence that Luke asks. Similarly, a scene that reminds me of that in this film is that short scene when they're driving past some swampy looking area and some people are walking on long sticks, covered in green. When I saw that, I was like, "Wait what? The hell is that? Who are they!? Why are they doing that!?" And the film just keeps going.
Like I said, that's something I honestly miss in films. Because it makes these movies feel much bigger. As if there's an entire world, a universe around the film, and what we're seeing is actually just a small part of it. It makes you ask questions like how did the world get to this state, why is the bad guy the way he is? Questions like those are part of the reason why a film like Star Wars, and the original Max Max's were so popular. Because you leave the theater and feel like if you wanted to, you can still "live' in that world by asking these questions. Too many movies nowadays I feel have the problem where they can have a ton of lore and explanation, but they ultimately feel very small, because everything is explained. I know pretty much everything there is to know and there's not much beyond the edges of the screen.
True! And then Lucas ruined it all by explaining EVERYTHING too much.
@@aspect57 be careful what you wish for, right? At this point I'm always amazed when people say they want to learn more about some reference in a movie like this, because no you don't. The explanation is never, ever satisfying, and virtually always a disappointment in the middle of a bad movie. Off the top of my head, the only movie I've seen that fleshes out a satisfying backstory for a previous film/character/etc is Godfather 2.
The first two films in the series (“Mad Max” and “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) really tell the backstory to Max. The first film in particular shows why Max is the way he is. George Miller is truly one of the most incredible film directors.
What about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome? It’s like everyone’s forgotten there’s three films before this one
@@brendanfalvy1281 Max's truck in Thunderdome is awesome
The Mad Max films before this were 100% Australian films. so they wernt crazy over the top cinamatic like this one was. this one was joint Australian and American.
@@brendanfalvy1281 Thunderdome is good, but I think the original and then MM2 brings us up to how Max’s character is in Fury Road.
Babe is an amazing film. Its very dark and I appreciate it infinitely more as an adult
Beginning of the video: "don't be mad if I don't like it..."
End of the video: "please don't be over, please don't be over!"
😂
@callmecatalyst The movie is awe inspiring but I wouldn't watch it again unless I actually felt like I didn't remember it very well or if somebody else hadn't seen it I would rewatch it with them just to share the experience with them.
@robert punu Oh, gdi. Flat earthier stuff is funny but holy crap is there a sever lack of knowledge of astrophysics.
@robert punu Go work at NASA then. Actually, forget that where is the end of the world?
Still one of the best movie in terms of "show, don't tell". And there's not a single wasted breath.
Neo classic
One of my favourite parts of the film, among many, is that they do some of the best world building with zero exposition, enough information that you can work it out on your own
Never forget that George Miller also directed Babe, Babe : Pig in the city, and Happy Feet! He has the most fascinating IMDB of all time!
Yeah that's a very Australian filmography.
Not to mention Lorenzo's Oil... you'd never be able to guess these two movies shared the same director with 1000 guesses if your life depended on it.
@@JesseJ588 wow...Lorenzo's oil! Haven't heard that in a long time. Miller sure does have range... 👍
I love the use of the Doof warrior (the guitar guy) in this movie. He is essentially a bugler for the army. Since the roar of the engines are so loud using a guitar with amps to give orders is brilliant. Great movie all around.
Exactly what I was going to point out. Since they don't have radios, the only way of getting orders across is by loud sounds and the Doof Warrior can make the most chords with his guitar for all the different orders needed.
Once the music cranks, it's war time.
Its like how military units used to each have their own drummer boy, and they had their own beats to relay commands and orders. How else do you communicate amongst the loud noise and chaos in the days before radios or electricity, or in the post apocalypse too
Riley Keough (Capable) actually married the stuntman….
this movie is absolutely relentless, every second is soaked in adrenaline, and every frame is a masterpiece painting
Australian director and cinematographer, what else is there to say.
Man, this is the best description of the movie I've seen so far. I'm going to use this to describe the movie to others who haven't seen it yet :) Bravo
@@Escayargo just trying my best, thanks!
@@talentedmrcollins4923 That nationalism is for insipidly uncultured bell ends?
@@RealityIsTheNow that’s not very polite. Are you having your period?
"Oh. My. Gosh. This is the most insane thing I've ever seen." That quote perfectly sums up Mad Max Fury road.
heh same with the 3 other films
Some movies you need a nap after watching. Not many, but this is one of them.
You could say its... ALL GAS NO BRAKES
Took my entire Women's Comic Book Club to the theater for this, and we've screened it twice since. Hands down best movie experience I've ever had, and I've been a Mad Max fiend since I saw the original trilogy way too young
Which is kinda funny, given this is a brutally anti-reminist film below the thin veneer of 'gurl powah'.
@@no-xr8wv why anti-feminist though?
@@no-xr8wv Sarcasm is not a good way to get your point across. Or you are just really bad at spelling and not that bright. I'm not sure what your point is. I love the film and director. If you are unsure about George Miller's bona fides try watching The Witches of Eastwick. Read the cast list first so that you don't ruin the plot. You don't need to know anything else.
One of my most emotional moments reading the book about this film was when George Miller asked Eve Ensler to meet with the Wives to give them perspective of what their life might have been like, what the stakes were in running from their enslavement.
There were about 20 of us, between 14 and 55, all genre fans but not all ACTION fans. The mom who sat in front of me was definitely a hard-core genre sf/f nerd but not on the action side. Seeing her react to this in theater was almost as good as Cassie!!! I had an incredibly thoughtful conversation with her after.
I could talk for hours about this franchise and DEFINITELY recommend the artbook and special features.
I've heard it said that Max is basically a legendary figure. Tales of him are told and retold throughout the wasteland so his exploits grow over time. If you watch the other movies with this in mind they are easier to understand.
I like the idea of what i once read in comments: Max is a legend, not even necessarely ONE person but different ones with some possible similarities in their background, a kind of hero shaped by the stories told about 'him' through those movies, as stories which would be told late evening at the bonfire. Thats how he can be different in the movies (different actors for example) and seem to not age or not carry over his bad knee from the other movies to this one, and so on.
@@mrnice81That's kind of how I viewed Fury Road from the beginning; like, this is not the Mad Max I know, this is another man who people referr to as the legend of Mad Max when they retell this story because he exhibits similar features, but he clearly looks different and is both age- and continuity-resistant. I know they want this movie to be canonized as the original Max, but honestly, imo it works a lot better when you view him the "legend"-way. ^^
@@Egobyte83 I know I’m way late to this, but there’s a theory I like that this Max is actually the older version of the feral kid from Road Warrior. Considering he mostly speaks in grunts and harsh vocalizations, and he would’ve somewhat adopted the ways of Mel Gibson’s Max
@@dr.k8610 this is pretty much the only theory that makes sense, because its clear that the warboys and the brides are born after the collapse of society while max here cant be more then maybe a decade older then the warboys in their 20s.
“Where’s he gonna go??!”
To find his car, and get accidentally involved in another epic tale…because of losing his car😏
Happens to him more often than one would think.
@@edisonlima4647 lol yeah
And perhaps adopt a dog, join some aviator in a hostile partnership (Damn! I wish Bruce Spence shows up in a sequel.) or befriend some feral children.
Just the ordinary staple ingredients in a Mad Max story...
Yeah also Max is a cool guy but I dont think he would be an effective governor. I dont think he can "make things better" lol. He drives fast and kills savages.
Sounds like "Dude, where's my car" on crack, steroids and pure adrenaline.
The beautiful thing about the Mad Max movies are, they're all stories of Max. They're like legends told around a campfire. None of them are interconnected except through Max, and all of them have different storytellers. Sorta like "Hey, I have a Mad Max story.... did you hear about Max going against the Warboys?" You should see the others, but especially The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.
Well, the first one is the origin story and probably not one of the campfire stories.
@@donkfail1 "do you know the story of the Road Warrior? They say, when the World still existed, he was a guardian of the roads, catching those with insane blood running through their engines...."
It can be a helluva of a camp fire story
I think George Miller said Max is like Hercules where he has many adventures and legends
Max is the least important part of every Mad Max movie, he's just the vessel through which we enter and discover this world.
@@donkfail1 The first film is also the only one that isn't told from an outside perspective. Even Fury Road technically has a separate storyteller with the quote from the First History Man.
Nux saying witness me at the end is one of the most moving parts of this movie
Btw that red head is Elvis Presslys granddaughter
I love the allegory of Max having been a "bloodbag" against his will at the beginning, and then it ending with him giving his blood to Furiosa willing to save her.
He willingly gives blood and tells her his name. You could say he... opens his heart to her.
His blood makes Nux into a hero as well
@@piratetv1 Yup, I like how at first Nux thinks he has the blood of a crazy man (which is kind of true) but he also definitley at the core, has the blood of a hero now.
I'm proud of you for being on this journey, where you're willing to watch movies you would NEVER have watched before, and are open enough to be surprised by them. Very few people are so open.
If this movie had nothing more going for it than being the weirdest, most insane film ever, that is reason enough to watch it... at least once. But Fury Road is also wickedly compelling, and handles what is essentially non-stop action with a level of focus and craft rarely seen.
Tom Hardy had grave misgivings about this movie before release. He couldn't imagine it shaping into something so cohesive and moving. When he finally saw the final cut, he apologized to George Miller. All that chaos came together into something truly spectacular.
There are maybe a handful of directors in the world who could pull something like this off. Who understand telling a story visually well enough to make it cohesive. None of them are as insane as Miller. Like 80% at least of the story is told without words. It's names of people and places. The textures and details on cars and outfits. It's glances and gestures. The camera work on this is as good as camera work gets. And the editing. Keeping your eye where the action is by directing from left to right, and back right to left without jumping around... it is mental.
"I didn't realize this was a remake..." Nope, not a remake. The 4th film in the portfolio.
It's KIND of a reboot of Road Warrior. This definitely is not the same Max as in the first 3.
I think it's great that the only thing she remembers from the trailer was Guitar Guy, the character with no lines of dialogue, and barely any screen time, yet is one of the most memorable side characters in cinema history.
"Sounds like Bane"
It is Bane haha.
This movie is an absolute masterpiece. So many layers beyond just "we are running away from a cult leader."
Bane: Of course….
27:18 That shot of Max going left to right on the pole with the exploding truck in the background. My jaw dropped in the cinema.. it is one of the finest shots ever created
It really is so unique.
Yeah, this! I remember seeing that the first time and just being stunned, like I couldn't imagine how they pulled all of that off and how truly spectacular it looks. Action genius right there!
It honestly looks like a Charlie Chaplin scene. I was just amazed by every scene could be an Epic photograph.
@@jessereyna6662 Nearly every single frame of this movie could be a comic book frame or a freaking poster.
One of the most bonkers parts is that the only CGI in that shot is just to add the sides of the canyon. Everything else is practical.
There's a fun detail I only noticed second time I watched it - whenever Max aims a firearm, he misses. When he just shoots in pure reaction, he always hits. Furiosa is the exact opposite. Fun little "opposites" gag.
The movie is so full of gags its really funny actually just a total masterpiece how it manages subtlety with bombast is great
It’s been said Australia has “car culture” the way America has “gun culture”. This is why their post-apocalypse looks like this.
Fang it!
Yeah not sure how common it is in America but pretty much every single country road here has one or more roadside memorials to young people who died there.
@@Freshie207 There are a lot of them here, but it is limited where they can be put, and they can only stay for a certain amount of time.
We have had about 40,000 a year die in car wrecks here every year for many decades, back to the 1950s at least.
The roads would be lined with shrines if they were put up anywhere someone died and they then stayed forever.
The US invented car culture.
There is much more of a car culture here than a gun culture.
There are a lot of guns, and 99.999+ percent of them are on a shelf or in a safe or a closet somewhere, where they have been, where they stay.
Most people, the vast majority, with guns, never or almost never shoot them.
Only jackasses who never saw a gun think there is a "gun culture" here.
We have as much of a gun culture as we do a hammer and nails culture, or a screwdriver culture, or an umbrella culture.
Cars on the other hand, including trucks and other vehicles, are in every driveway and garage and line city streets 24/7/365, and almost all of them get driven many times a week, typically daily several times.
Nick McGinley
I wasn’t aware there was a large political lobby dedicated to screwdrivers 🤦🏻
As a gun owner myself I think it’s best you don’t make these notions public as you’re really making an asinine argument
They're making a prequel titled "Furiosa" by the same director, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, pretty excited for this one, especially for this cast
For real!?
the 2nd film in the trilogy is on hold thanks Geaorge Ramero
So Anya Taylor-Joy is playing a young furiosa? Hmm 🤔 that’s kind an odd casting for a young version of a character played by Charlize Theron imo.
@@jeremyroberts8822 Anja obviously is going to play the young furiosa, not yet emperator, but a hostage, a slave captured and taken from her village of Many Mothers. I can see her in that, considering Split
@@PodreyJenkin138 what would be a better plot than she turned it into a paradise would be, her attempts to make things better leads to bad results. Say the water source they were waisting was running out. This would lead to interesting concepts that doing what is thought of as the right thing to do may some times lead to bad outcomes. Obviously in a post apocalyptic world, a source of water is more valuable than any monetary possession, and opening up the valves was extremely wasteful, but they did it because they wanted to wash away the elements of oppression. So it would have brought up an interesting theme about survival under oppression vs freedom and consequences. That’s just my idea.
I think we get a pretty good idea of Furiosa's back story from the little clues in the movie. If you look close, you'll notice that Furiosa is wearing a white bit of fabric beneath her armor, the same fabric as the wives. I think she and her mother were kidnapped, and her mother died on the third day protecting her, something that Furiosa blames herself for. I think she was a wife initially (she does ask Immortan if he remembers her, after all), but when she lost an arm and was no longer flawless, she was cast out of that life. But she kept that fabric for a reason, as a reminder of the women who were still being held captive as things, and so she worked to join the war boys so she'd be in a good situation to form a plan to get the rest of the wives out. She wanted to save them the way she couldn't save her mother.
That's a such a cool interpretation!
i remember reading somewhere that she was demoted from being a bride because she was infertile, but i don't know if that's just a headcanon or actual canon!
Furiosa was a wife but was infertile and so became an imperator. After riktus iirc almost got frisky with one of the wives, Furiosa was made their watcher, which is when the escape was concocted.
@@asperhes No, she lost her arm in a battle. You'll see that in the upcoming Furiosa film.
The bike scene is one of my favourite action scenes of all time. The music, the clever way they put out the fire and the way the war rig is almost "alive" the way it "breathes" afterwards, the way Max and Furiosa both silently work in unison...just awesome.
Definitely one of my favorite parts as well. I also really liked the "second wind" moment when Furiosa pulls the knife out of her side and Max knocks the arrow out of his hand.
And the music!!!! Just thinking about “Brothers in Arms” gets my heart racing, hahaha
George Miller is the only director that I've seen making poetry out of a modern action movie, and Fury Road in particular despite all the violent crazyness and all, is a beautiful movie and a beautiful story
33:05 - In case no one's mentioned this yet, the iconic scene where Furiosa stumbles dejectedly over the sand dune and falls to her knees on the wind scoured crest wasn't in the original script. Charlize Theron suggested it as her character's reaction to finding out that the utopian green place was gone, an oasis poisoned by the creeping toxicity of the soil. Miller agreed and the resulting moment in the film created a perfect nexus point to significantly elevated and humanised an already intensely powerful movie.
One of the greatest productions ever put to film. The choreography of the drivers, the lighting, the effects, sound, and editing.... just tremendously well done.
I loved Mad Max: Fury Road, but the Mel Gibson Mad Max movies will always have a special place in my heart! Especially The Road Warrior.
Road Warrior and Fury Road are both amazing. The other two Gibson ones never aged that well for me.
That's a masterpiece!
Ya man Only Mel Gibson Is Mad Max to me. I grew up in Canada during the Australian film invasion of the late 70s early 80s. The films of George Miller and Peter Weir and Mel Gibson starring in many of their movies, are more a part of my teen years then John Hughes. My favorite Aussie flick will always be "The Man From Snowy River".
*Pee-Wee's Big Adventure* is an action movie beyond all action movies.
i mean it's not like it was a different director that took on fury road.
I love how this is pretty much one of the most heavy metal, hardcore, supra-action packed movies to be nominated for 10 oscars, let alone winning 6.
Arguably the greatest action film ever made. If you care about the Oscars, they used to nominate action movies a lot more than they do now. Ivanhoe, Adventures of Robin Hood, Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Blood, etc. They still do, but the genre has bent a lot, from The Fugitive to LOTR to Master and Commander to this.
That sandstorm!
@@tomshea8382 Not really. There were hardly any action movies since the 60's nominated for best picture.
@@TequilaToothpick That's what I fucking said.
"Why isn't he just like 'Hey! I'll help you guys. You seem to be escaping the bald people camp.'" 😁
Today's Cassie-ism. 😁
I've seen over two thousand movies, and this is very possibly the greatest pure action film of all time.
I've seen over 7,000 movies....and I concur!
it's number 1 for me. it's a non stop action flick that makes you cry.. how the heck did he do that.
I've seen 15 thousand movies and this is the best movie I even seen.
yeah i agree. i dont usuallt like action films. explosions dont impress me. but this is ruthless from start to finish.
I've seen 30,000 movies, and without a doubt, this is the best action movie of all time.
Fun Fact: The redheaded wife of Immorten Joe is played by Riley Keough, who in real life is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, and thus the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, and, her real life husband is the guy in the red long johns playing the guitar that spits fire.
From telling your friend : “I’m never gonna watch this” to literally crying at the end of the movie. What an arc 😂
That is more compelling arc than we get in like 99% of movies made today.
I said the same thing after I saw the trailer. Now it's one of my all time favourite movies, I was lucky to get to see it in a brand new, state of the art theater, and it was amazing !
This film should win an oscar every year.
The movie feels so intense because the cars and stunts are real, even the explosions and the jumping dirt bikes are real.
Crazy pretty much sums up the Mad Max film series. The first three movies staring Mel Gibson are classics, and highly influential in the realm of post-apocalyptic fiction. I’d recommend seeing them so that you can get a little more backstory behind Max, and a better sense of this dystopian world he inhabits. The director, George Miller, had been trying to make a fourth Mad Max film for years, but the project had long been stuck in development hell. I’d say it was worth the wait though, because this is one of the greatest action movies ever made!
2:56-3:16 The War Boys are are indeed human, but as a result of radiation fallout from the war, many end up developing cancer, like Nux. This is why they consistently require blood transfusions from unwilling donors such as Max. Since Immortan Joe uses white powder as medication, the war boys cover themselves in white powder as tribute to Joe because they were brought up to view him as their messiah. Since they aren’t expected to live long being “half-lives,” their only purpose is to fight and die. The War Boys often inhale chrome paint as a drug to get high in anticipation of death.
7:13 Furiosa is an Imperator. That was a title given to Commanders in the ancient Roman Republic. She is regarded as Immortan Joe’s top military commander. According to Charlize Theron, Furiosa was originally intended to be one of Joe’s wives, but it turned out that she couldn’t breed children. They are planning a prequel film about Furiosa which is scheduled to be released in 2023. Mad Max: The Wasteland is also scheduled to come out that same year to continue Max’s story.
They have actually already started with the production of Furiosa prequel, but the next Mad Max movie will only start production when they're done with that. So I suspect it will release at least 3 or 4 years after Furiosa.
postponed to 2024
And the director was 72 when he made this. Most directors lose their edge in old age, but damn, than man has just gotten better. I hope he lives long enough to finish Furiosa.
I've never seen that face on you when the opening credits dropped. "What did I just see?!" Proud of you for this.
You know it was a great movie when you hear at the same time "I don't what I just saw" and crying over the redemption of the warboy. You just get pulled in and really feel it and he really did redeem himself.
Not a remake. A stand-alone take on the universe. They're not exactly sequels per Miller himself, but they do work as such in many ways.
"I need this chase to stop" LOL, don't worry, it stops when the credits roll
Alfred Hitchcock spoke of “pure cinema”. Where very little is said with dialog but the actors portray the story so well, it moves you without so many words. At least not the reliance on them.
Every time I rewatch this movie I always notice something new that tells a story. Like when the platform that lowered the War-Rig tanker is being raised back up after Furiosa leaves, you can see a little girl standing in the center of it. So even if Furiosa and the wives escape it doesn't fix anything, Immortan Joe is just going to get more wives and hurt more people.
Valhalla Rising fits that bill.
I very much disagree about this movie being "pure cinema". It's very well made, but at its core it's not much more than an action blockbuster. The story is thin, and there's not much to be said in the movie besides "protect the environment".
@Zombie Well I'll just say I disagree. In my opinion pure cinema makes one continue to think of things even after leaving the theatre (or finishing the movie). Fury Road doesn't do that for me. A movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey does, and it's incredibly complex.
Alfred Hitchcock obviously wasn't on about drivel like this, he was way more intelligent than this films plot. Alfred was a genius and if you've watched his films or read his books you'll know that he wouldn't consider this as pure cinema, not even in the slightest. Alfred wrote masterful stories that left alot to the imagination and dialogue that told the story without having to explain it to the reader or viewer. To compare Hitchcock with this movie is hilarious, and just goes to show how shallow a person you are to compare him with this movie. Most of this is CGI and there's no intelligent plot whatsoever. So cut the crap and just accept what it is...modern day rubbish... Entertaining yes, but certainly not pure cinema, at least not in the way you'd like to think and compare it with Hitchcock.
Mad Max 2 was the best movie in the franchise anyway, Mel Gibson is Mad Max... End of.
I always love that people go into this movie with an "omg action movie" but come out actually crying. Great film. Furiosa rips hard!
This movie is a masterpiece in several ways, but it’s the Editing that blows my mind. It’s cut together so amazingly.
"Sounds like Bane." It is. Same actor plays Bane and Max (Tom Hardy)
I had to rewind it cause I started cracking up.
I was like funny you should say that.
Yup
it doesn't matter who he is, all that matters is his plan.
He's surprisingly not that big of a guy
"I want to know... how they did that."
Well, you see, George Miller is a crazy man, and an amazing director. They did a lot of that, FOR REAL. They got circus performers to do that work, swinging back and forth on the poles. The Guitar player's guitar actually worked, as both a guitar AND a flame thrower (because George Miller insisted that it work.) The movie does have CGI in it, but only accentuate the real things that are happening.
George Miller also made the Happy Feet movies, and Babe 2: Pig in the City. But, definitely check out Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Maybe Twilight Zone: The Movie. One of the segments was directed by George Miller.
Yes, they used mostly CGI to enhance the sky and the scenery, made some compositing work for some sequences that would have been too dangerous otherwise (like the tanker-rig exploding in the middle of the other vehicles) and, of course, the digital removing of Theron's arm
The fact that they really made all of those crazy cars, shipped them out to a desert, and destroyed them while stuntmen were actually on them is insane to me... how no one died during production is kind of amazing
Ya see, George Miller is what we in the Industry like to call...
Completely fucking insane
@@vsGoliath96 yeah, also kind of funny how babe and happy feet is from him too^^
@@vsGoliath96 nah hes just a real one :D
I love that gentle scene between Capable and Nux when she comforts him.
Watching you get into the movie was really really fun, Fury Road is one of my favorite movies of ALL time!
What a great reaction. It took guts to see a film this far out of your comfort zone and boy did it pay off. Imagine seeing this spectacle on the big screen!
I saw it on the big screen. Just incredible start to end.
It never occurred to me before, but seeing the Max-movies in reverse-order might be a good way to go.
Going backwards, the production-quality steps down each time, but the backstory of Max increases each time. Watching that way, someone might not mind the lowering of budget over time because they're getting increasingly invested in the character.
Just a thought.
The danger is someone might go into the first three expecting more of the same thus not enjoying it as much.
@@wmpratt2010 I was thinking that if they were forewarned about that then it might not matter as much to them, and it'd be offset by their increasing investment in the character of Max. :/
Almost like treating the original trilogy like prequels lol for those new to Mad Max.
I have to disagree, you Have to watch the first one first, otherwise what's the point, you have no idea why he's Mad. Although I don't think the Popcorn queen would like it very much.
This was my very first mad max movie. I'll test your theory.
The way to appreciate the Mad Max series is to start from the beginning, when he’s just a cop, and follow the series in order, as the world gets crazier and crazier in every film.
Sadly the first one really isn't that good though.
@@steventyler3985 I agree with you to a point but it tells the beginning of the story.
@@an.american I agree with you, you cant really appreciate the Mad Max franchise unless you know his story from the beginning, to know why he is the way he is in Fury Road
@@steventyler3985 first one is my favorite, but of course the real star to a gearhead like me is the interceptor
I still remember the feeling watching this in the theaters at the midnight premier. There were moments people just cheered, especially when Imorton Joe dies, the whole theater erupted in applause. What a visual action masterpiece this movie is.
The only movie to make me cry during a goddamn car chase scene because of how absolutely perfect it was
I honestly don't think I have seen as much of a character arc or growth in any character as Nux.
It was an absolute joy to watch you go from not being sure about what you were getting into, to hating Nux, to getting sucked into the story and caring about all our heroes, even the unlikely turn from Nux. I had tears running down my face watching you watch the movie.
Nux was my favorite character, and the relationship between and Capable was so, so important to me. Loved it!
George millers wife won an Oscar for the editing is so awesome. This action film was the best thing to come out in the last 2 decades. Aside from Zack Snyders 300. I remember being in the movie theater watching it morsov was the best part everyone saying " get up get up " the guy that jumped saying " witness me " 🤣
Nailed it, "what is this?" is probably the most apt reaction. Pace never lets up, but such an amazing ride and glad you jumped in.
"What is this nightmare ?"
Yes that sums up the movie pretty well
Nightmare? This is action heaven!
@@jp3813 I don't mean it in a bad way
The story is kinda scary like a nightmare
They're all fighting for their lives etc
@@Dexterinette Tell that to the first replier.
Well, there is a theory that it IS a nightmare, that Max is actually insane and the events of the movies are all in his head, which is why A) Everything is so over the top bonkers, and B) Why certain people always seem to keep reappearing (Immortan Joe is played by the same actor who played Toe-Cutter, the villain from the first Mad Max)
24:07
Laughed way harder than I should have, honestly surprised someone who seems so innocent noticed and knew right away.
^this! 🤯 LOL
What you know she could be wilder then we think.
@@laigron7884 sure, but that is exactly why it's a shock to hear. Though, I wouldn't put money on that, my money is still on innocent but more knowledgeable than expected when it comes to that.
This might be my favorite of your reactions, definitely the one I’ve rewatched the most
Imagine watching this on the big screen. It was one of the most intense experiences I’ve ever had. And it was so awesome!
With all the cars and explosions, pole vaults, racing into the sandstorm... I almost cried with joy in the film theatre :D
I don't think any other movie in my life ever got such a firm grip on me at the cinema.
It was amazing. A full on... experience.
I agree. Watching it in theaters I finally got to experience what so many action films claimed in a cliche way. “Not stop thrills.” “Edge of you seat action!” Yeah I literally found myself on the edge of my theater seat during the first chase sequence, and felt a sigh of relief that I could finally take a breath after the sand storm cut to black
When I went to cinema to watch this movie I knew it how much of masterpiece it would be for all the positive reviews, from people I trust, I had read that time, but nobody in the movie theater expected that was this good, it was really fun to see their faces
It's one of the few movies I've seen twice in theater
Because of the cognitive overload, I needed to watch it a second time to really catch everything
One of the very few movie I felt exhausted after watching it too
Fun fact the actor that played immortan Joe is the same actor that played the baddie from the first Mad Max film.
The late Hugh Keyes-Byrne
What's fun about that?
@@Jutrzen ....really...... Why...just why dude.
“I am speechless”
Yup. Pretty much anyone watching it the first time.
Imagine Furiosa. She spent her whole life, working her way up the ranks as an obedient soldier, to take the only possible moment to defect. And her discovery of the green place being long dead utterly destroyed her. Powerful moment indeed.
The character of max is a wanderer, getting reluctantly brought into helping innocents. A legendary archetype.
Watching this movie in theaters completely blew me away it was such an awesome experience
The great thing about this movie was they didn't drown you in backstory and explanation. They trusted the audience enough to put the pieces together and just enjoy learning about the world as it happens
"Sounds like Bane." Well, it is (Tom Hardy).
Quite a ride, this movie. Wasn't sure how you'd take this one, but if a film is good enough it should overcome normal genre preferences.
The first three movies are pretty good too; the third one gets a lot of flak, but I'd rate it alongside the others. George Miller, the director of all the films in the series, also made Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City (another underrated film).
Tom Hardy's voice sounds weird in this movie at various times
Lord of the rings too
I think this is one of your best so far. The first time I saw Fury Road in the theater my reaction was kind of similar to yours. I had seen the first 2 Max Max films, and yet it took a while for me to get used to the insane world. There were a lot of gross and "What?" moments. But in the end I was absolutely blown away by the incredible action, the utterly impressive film making, the awesome music by Junkie XL, and the minimal but effective development of the characters. I admit that the ending usually makes me cry. I would put in the top 10 (maybe top 5) Action films ever made. It's certainly a favorite of mine. Thank you for reminding me of it and for giving me a chance to see it with fresher eyes.
I thought a great tie-in was that the main bad guy is the same actor who played the gang leader from the original Mad Max!
I saw this I think 8 times in the theater with a couple friends, and everytime we came away with new things to talk about. One thing that came out of it was that in every battle, with every crash, somewhere in it you always are that there's a human cost.
For Tom Hardy fans I recommend Locke, underrated movie. Basically the entire movie takes place in a car with Tom showing his acting chops. No action, purely dialogue. It's an interesting concept and def worth a watch.
It's basically a stage play on wheels. They literally put Tom Hardy in a car and had him drive 80 minutes from Birmingham to London as they filmed him. The actors who played his family and coworkers were just sitting in a room somewhere and when they were directed to, they would pick up the phone and call Tom, talking to him in character as he was driving.
Went from "I'm never watching that movie." to obviously loving the hell out of it. Great reaction. Fantastic movie.
Mad Max never stays in one place. He travels the wasteland, helps people and fades back into the sand
“They’ve gotten very creative with vehicles”
Mad max in a nutshell
This is one of the best action movies I've ever seen. A masterclass in world building.
But Mad Max was secondary character.
Watch more movies.
@@LeMaqnifique There's certainly a decent amount of world building if someone cares to look.
@@LeMaqnifique I don't disagree, and obviously the world has already been built here over the three previous movies, but there is a surprising depth to the subtle little touches that lead to pretty excellent world building here.
@@SkyForgeVideos name a better action movie...
This is one of your best reaction videos yet. That was really fun.
Seeing this at the cinema twice provided me with two of the best film experiences of my life.
The movie that my wife and I saw on our first date in 2015. Both left with an adrenaline rush. Your reaction was quite similar to hers. What an amazing film.
I imagine one of you was driving the car while the other one stood on top playing a flamethrower guitar because that's the only way to drive cars as far as I know.
Easily the best film of 2015. And one of the best theater experiences I've ever had. I remember clearly my first viewing, I was sitting next to an older gentleman, we politely said hello when he got there late and had to sit next to me in a rush.
Then we proceeded to have our respective minds blown repeatedly throughout this 'insanity" as you so aptly named it. Oos and aahs from the entire audience, it was like we had all become one single mind enraptured by Miller's spectacle. He is truly one of the most talented directors around.
Once it was over that gentleman and I talked for a few minutes, and during that entire conversation it was like we were the same age, just a couple kids whose jaws were forcibly dropped by irresistible greatness. "Witness me!". Boy did we witness!
As it turns out, the guy jamming out on the guitar on top of the Doof Wagon (yes that is that truck's canonical name) actually has a purpose. Basically, the convoy has to work in some kind of sync, but in this world, all infrastructure is gone and whatever tech is left is rotting away. So how do you get orders to your convoy? The flares help, but in close formation like that, they aren't very effective. So the guitarist plays his tune over the roar of 30 V8 engines, and the tempo and style of playing corresponds to how the rest of the group is meant to drive.
You notice how in the swamp scene, when the convoy stops to clear the minefield, the guitarist's playing slows down too? How fast he plays tells the rest of the drivers how fast they are expected to go, like a metal bugle boy. Solutions like this are par for the course in the world of Mad Max.
That is consistent with how drakkars operate (other vessels as well) in viking culture, which is a concept that was taken and is influential in this kind of "clan", along with the concept of warriors going to Valhalla if they had a "honorable" death in combat. Instead of a drum, they had huge speakers and metal like style in their play, which is another thing that the Scandinavians are known for, extreme metal.
Truly one of the great movies of the last ten years.
Max is a wanderer. He finds his purpose in the places where people need help, even if he tells himself he's just trying to survive. In my head canon, he may still roam the wastelands, but he knows that the citadel is in good hands, and he will have home there when he's ready to rest. You can get a lot of his backstory from the original Mad Max film, but it's a very sad story.
Furiosa is one of the best female characters ever written, right up there with Ellen Ripley from "Alien".
And without any piece o feminist garbage propagada like in Avenger endgame or x-man dark phoenix.
@@david2012slayer This is a fundamentally feminist film, you just only notice the shoddily written feminist films because that is your intellectual level.
@@Esafc-lb2sg No because they usually do really bad in box office lmao like the Ghostbusters remake, the remake of Charlie’s Angels, Oceans 8, or the Batwoman TV show, nothing to do with intellect, just political agenda’s being shit all over universes created to give people joy.
@@Esafc-lb2sg Not saying feminism is bad but the way they’ve forcefully inserted their agenda into movies has just made people dislike it more.
@@Janterran You’ve misunderstood my comment, I was trying to say that David hadn’t noticed that this film is fiercely feminist and is forcing it’s view on the audience. This is good, it’s a fantastic political film. So his comment about ‘feminist garbage’ is both offensively stupid and offensively incorrect.
Cassie: Seems they've gotten very innovative with vehicles.
😂😂😂
I love watching these because it allows me to see them for the first time again in a way which is amazing :D Thank You!
There is virtually no CGI in this movie....the nuclear storm scene is about the only place CGI is used. This movie is a masterclass of real stunt work and visual action....and a lesson to so many action directors. Aussie film makers.....keepin' it real.
From hating spooky boi Nux to gasping in awe at his noble sacrifice. I love this movie and your reaction!
I forgot how insane this movie was, just so damn action packed the whole time
my fav movie of 2015!saw it on the biggest screen with the best sound at my local cinema, everything shook lotsa times!
This is the one movie that literally does not stop. It just is relentless. Which in a way is perfect, because that's the world. It's kill or be killed. You don't have time to think or debate morals. And the chaotic non-stop pace feels like that would.
@@bernhardtsen74 still it's best!
Fun fact: originaly the movie was going to be set in the sand dunes of western australia but the week before filming started it rained really heavily and turned the red sandy wastland into a field covered in flowers... so they couldn't film there.
Your reactions are basically the audiences reaction on opening night in a nutshell. I’ll never forget how wild it was seeing this stuff on the big screen for the first time, and having the whole theatre reacting similarly with some crazy combination of awe, wonder, giddiness and borderline disbelief that I don’t think will ever be matched.
Honestly one of the funnest theatre experiences ever, and a pretty much perfect summer blockbuster.
I love it when a director trusts the audience to look within their own knowledge or to look up the aspects of the world. The back story is that you have had to seen the original films
Each film stands on its own. You don't need any anal retentive backstory, nor to have seen the others. The notion of these being campfire stories leaves so much room for future variations, using different actors. There is literally no requirement for Max to be the same person or for anything to be consistent from story to story. Like Hercules or Paul Bunyan or the Knights of the Round Table, the character of Max and his encounters become infinitely mutable depending on the narrator. And the fanboys want to limit this to a real world person with a specific timeline and backstory. Silly buggers.
I need to watch this again. My wife and I were blown away seeing this on the big screen. It's probably the most adrenaline packed action movie of all time.
that quiet "witness me...." gets me every time.
" It seems they have gotten very innovative with vehicles." LOL
With a high tolerance for crazy action films, I laughed out loud many times in the theater due to how wild it is. If you do a 90s action bracket, you'll raise that tolerance even more.