I thought the spray was some kind of drug they were taking to hype up, doh
Saw it tonight.
Wow, that final sequence is one of the finest action sequences in film history. I loved this movie.
Well, there is a reason people huff paint after all.
Between the chroming and the extended scene of orally vaporizing the gas into the intakes for speed bursts, it’s easy to see why the Warboys have such short lifespans, even if they don’t look otherwise diseased. My lungs ached and my stomach turned just watching that.
Finally saw it, loved it. But what was up with the 160-day ride across the salt flats? I’ve seen the fan-wanks on how that distance is possible: the salt flats are the evaporated oceans (??), they drive only a few hours each day to avoid the heat (??), they drive back and forth a lot looking for an oasis (OK, I can maybe buy that one). And how can Furiosa say they have fuel and supplies for 160 days? The bikes had at most a couple 5-gallon jerry cans strapped on. Has fuel efficiency improved that much? Where are they hiding this 160-day supply of food and water?
I don’t demand reality in movies so I’m not bothered, but it did make me curious. This seemed like such a crazy exaggeration that I wonder why George Miller made it 160 days. The story would have worked fine with 10 days.
Point 1) it’s a Mad Max movie, let’s not overthink things.
Point 2) I’ve heard comments scattered through various places online and by friends that ‘guzzoline’ is in fact, not exactly gasoline - their idea is that it’s got a higher mpg-rating to it, otherwise, how the frack are all those giant engines racing flat out across the desert for three days without refueling every hour or so? If that is the case, the 160 days of ‘guzzoline’ for tiny little offroad bikes might not be so very much in volume after all, especially if they’re only able to travel for 4-6 hours each day. (I got nothing on the food/drink, other than to say by movie logic, food is unnecessary, and they did have a giant-ass truck at least 1/3 full of water, and 1/3 full of mothers’ milk.)
Point 3) does anyone think that Miller wouldn’t have the oceans boiled away into giant-ass salt flats if he thought it would be awesome?
Point 4) they had enough for 160 days of travel: nothing saying they all have to be in the same direction, or even all at the same time.
Point 5) let’s all remember that this is a Mad Max movie and not overthink things. 
Oh my God, that was awesome. I’m not even going to read the thread, to spare my brain from the asinine comments of nitpickers. Just wanted to say Fury Road is the best action movie I’ve seen since The Raid, maybe better.
I just checked IMDB, because I’m pretty sure that Fury Road is going to be a much more important, influential and ultimately successful film than Avengers 2, and sure enough, this week FR (3rd week of release) made $14.18M to A2’s (5th week) $11.40M.
I predict that A2 will be out of 1st run theaters before it’s 8th week, but FR will stick around until it’s 10th week or so. Word of mouth for this movie is huge, and I know at least 2 people who have seen it 3 times already.
Not a lot of nitpicks, and even those agree that it was mostly very shiny and chrome. 
I liked Road Warrior more, possibly Thunderdome as much, but this was pretty good.
According to the trivia section on IMDB that’s exactly what they were doing. Dunno how reliable that is but it was supposedly confirmed by the actor who played Immortan Joe.
I thougt they used the spray to make their mouth/teeth look like the chrome grille of a car…more of a war ritual than a drug thing.
Tom Hardy cleans up nicely.
The greatest, most interesting, most disturbing thing about this film was how it made me want to be there… It made me feel like whooping and hollering on top of an eight cylinder kill buggy while it pounds thru the sand and madness, I wanted to dive off a car with exploding spears while listening to a metal soundtrack being blasted out from a rock concert truck. All of that felt normal while watching this film. It was amazing.
I started another thread not knowing this was here. “Max” isn’t a searchable term.
“Fury Road” was the best action movie ever made. There, I said it.
Finally saw this yesterday.
For some reason it occurred to me that things kind of fit if Max is actually dead, doesn’t realize it himself, but is some sort of corporeal undead Ronin or something, wandering the world to try and help out those in need.
He seems to be in the same age grouping as Fioriosa, roughly, but he was a cop before the apocalypse happened, and she was kidnapped into slavery as a child–he should be at least as old as the Vuvlalini, who barely remember satellites.
(side note, even with no light pollution, would anything other than the old Iridium satellites really be visible?)
He’s able to be used as a blood doner, transferring blood for what had to have been a couple hours at least, go through a crash in a storm that should have killed anyone, and similar crashes did kill everyone other than him and the guy he was giving blood to. Then he went through all the fighting of the rest of the movie, with no real chance to recover from the donation (including one scene where he vanishes into the mist, explosions happen, and he wanders back with loot). Then he donates more blood. Even in a setting that is more “rule of cool” than “concerned with strict realism,” that is pretty far out there.
Heh, trying to make any kind of sense of the time-line in Mad Max is a short road to insanity. In reality, it would probably take generations for humanity to create whole new tribal societies worshipping totally new gods following an apocalyptic event.
Similarly, it is an established trope that action heroes are freakishly resilient.
Though I gotta admit, I am liking your undead theory. 
As for satellites - my family owns a cottage far from any light pollution; a common recreation is sitting on the dock on cloudless nights and watching satellites pass overhead … they are clearly visible.
I can’t remember where I read it, but one reviewer pointed out that this story does a rare and special thing: it makes the main character and the protagonist two different people, and it does it well. Mad Max is the main character, because we see the action through his point of view. Furiosa is the protagonist, because it is her decision making that drives the story forward. That makes so much sense to me (as well as clearing up my 30+ year haziness on the difference between the main character and protagonist, which persisted through years of humanities education.)
Oh, saw it, loved it, although I wish I’d “gotten” the Burning Man comparison while I was watching it. (I didn’t read the thread until today - and I find the first half full of hesitation and fear hilarious!) I found the Doof Warrior juuuuuuuuust a bit too over the top, and my distaste for him pulled me out of his scenes. Funny that. I loved the drummers behind him, but then when the camera panned to his side of the speaker stack, I felt a big let down and “come ON!” was all I could think. Too much. Too silly. I wish I could give him another chance, because in hindsight, I totally get the Burning Man/Spinal Tap/ goes to 11 thing. Fuck yeah!
There is lately much discussion about this aspect of Big Trouble in Little China and why it makes the movie awesome.
That’s on my list of Classics I Must Get Around To Seeing One Of These Days. 
Make sure you see it before they release the new version starring The Rock, and retroactively ruin the original.