Im just happy the timeline is more established and the Feral Kid/Fury Road Max theory can come back.
I will die on this hill…
Wow, I’d say. Even the non-action scenes in that trailer look like CGI.
Reviews are starting to come out. The Guardian gives it high praise, calling it an “immersive, spectacular prequel.” And they like ATJ as an action hero. So…slight optimism from me?
The one negative review I’ve seen is from Owen Gleiberman, who is probably the stupidest major film critic currently working, so I think it’s safe to say the movie is at least pretty good.
I’m excited for this. I’ve heard it is quite different than Mad Max 4, but that is fine.
The BBC review I read was kind of lukewarm (3 out of 5 stars). E.g. was anyone really asking for a version of Mad Max: Fury Road with more backstory?
The game actually depressed me, it was so well made. All of the empty spaces and scraps of humanity just barely making it day to day.
Metacritic accounts for range in reviews. It has it at 82 overall right now out of 100.
Fury Road ended up with a 90 from Metacritic.
[Raises hand]
To be more specific, I didn’t want a version of Fury Road with more backstory. One of many great things about Fury Road was how it just jumped in with “here’s the world” and you learn the rules by seeing them in action, not by explanations. It’s the ultimate “show, don’t tell” example and including a backstory in that movie would have been to its detriment.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t want a different movie about that backstory. The BBC review comments, “what this means is that Furiosa sacrifices the runaway-train momentum of Fury Road in favour of slow, digressive world-building.” That’s a fair complaint if you are looking for another version of Fury Road. It’s a ridiculous complaint if you’re not looking for a repeat.
@Cervaise said it well back in December:
Based on the reviews I’ve seen, it sounds like this prediction was spot on.
In definitely looking forward to it. My only reservation is we know the general outline of Furiosas character arc. Fury Road did an awesome job of telling you enough about it to flesh out the character and tell her story without telling you everything. I’m not sure what the extra details are going to add to that?
But in the other hand before Fury Road I would never have predicted George Miller was going to knock it out the park and produce the best Max film by a country mile. So I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt here.
For those who may have missed it, this was the final trailer from a month ago:
As expected, CGI looks much better, much less obtrusive. ATJ doesn’t seem so overwhelmed.
Hemsworth seems to be having a blast.
Release is next Friday.
You know, I see him quite happily transitioning into a long career of playing villains.
I’m encouraged by the reviews, but I still think that trailer looks awful from a visual perspective. Obviously there was CGI in Fury Road, but the practical effects made it grounded. That trailer looks like a cartoon at parts.
Other parts gave me chills though, so I guess I’ll see what wins out in the end.
The main musical theme in that trailer is extremely reminiscent of another song I know, but I can’t remember what it is and it’s driving me fucking crazy…
All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan.
No, I just hummed it into Google and it’s Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World. Seems like an almost note-for-note copy, actually.
Oh, you are right. I mixed up the two riffs.
If you want to get a better sense of the style and radically expanded scope of this movie — and if you don’t mind having the (probable) structure of the whole film revealed — this five-minute forty-five-second preview has you covered.
Spoilerphobes beware.
Anya Taylor-Joy isn’t who I would have chosen, but then I don’t know who could have done “stone-cold badass” as a young woman. Maybe it’s the eyes.
Just got back from it. As the reviews point out, it’s very different than Fury Road. I liked it, but don’t think it’ll be nearly as iconic as Fury Road.
Anya Taylor Joy was fantastic and very much channeled the same energy as Charlize Theron. My main concern from the trailers is that it wouldn’t live up to Fury Road visually. It doesn’t, but it wasn’t as jarring as I thought it would be. Instead of S tier of Fury Road I’d go B+. Maybe some pacing issues, but I could live with it.