The inconsistencies between the movies is due to Miller's belief that each film is supposed to be a story told at a post apocalyptic camp fire. That's why Max has his car and seems to be young even though it has been years since the apocalypse.
J Greg There is a fantastic conversation in the okay Mad Max game from a couple of years ago where it basically says point blank that Max is a mythic figure rather than an actual person.
I personally like the idea that max is an idea, that the max from the first 3 is the same, but he died and this max took his name, though that does kinda fuck the fact that he say the bad guy from the first film so fuck it, who actually knows?
Also, it looked like he was just running on adrenaline at that point. They literally called him feral before, and that shot kinda proved them right. Like, I’m not sure if he *could* speak at that moment. Like he was kinda too hopped up and could only work out grunts and stuff as a result
Watch The Overcoat on youtube. The silent film. Even though it has Russian sub titles, you don't need them. Amazing film. Great actors in it we've never seen before...or again. Great screenplay writing doesn't have a lot of dialogue. Raymond Chandler learned a great deal writing Double Indemnity with Billy Wilder. He realized he was a novel writer, and not a screenplay writer. After about a year he said one of his best scenes he wrote only had someone mumbling. Because he wrote so much into the looks on the faces. Read Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. The most cinematic writing I've ever come across. Not the dialogue. The presentation. A master. Really in a class by itself.
degree7 I have to agree on the 'overshadowed' aspect of your statement, you could even take Max out of this movie altogether and it probably wouldn't be that different!
Fun fact: Warner Brothers made the Mad Max games without consent of the original creator they also use concept in story bits without his permission too and, the game contains spoilers to potential Mad Max sequels
I actually love the lack of explanations in the movie. Mostly this is due to the visuals being so damn good that I can piece together a general outline for what happened in the backstory, and then get on with the meat of the main story. As for why the people rip apart Joe, my interpretation is that some of them wanted to kill him, others wanted a piece of their holy icon. Because as it was pointed out, he did give the people water, albeit in a stingy way. What surprised me the most about Joe was that he was a smart villain. When he could've shot Organic Mechanic for playing with his dead son's umbilical, he didn't. Because Organic is apparently a good doctor. He keeps Corpus Callosum around as an advisor, and he genuinely cares for the Warboys, even if it's in a utilitarian sense.
@@robertlogan5354 But it becomes more and more difficult for modern audiences aka young people to understand what is going on on screen it seems to me. When I see some criticisms about the new Star Wars movies for example ... oh boy, are some people stupid when it comes to understanding visual storytelling or piecing together the story in their heads as well as general interpreting things beyond what is spoken out loud or told in a text crawl...almost sad to watch honestly...
Uh Decker the point of the movie or one plot point is that Max doesn't speak or says very little because the countless years in the Wasteland where everyday could be his last has made him essentially a feral animal. He even mentions it in the monologue, where he says people have been reduced to a basic instinct, survive. Hence the reason he doesn't speak, since he's more animal than man.
Ive always taken it as Max hasnt spoken to real people in so long, he legit struggles to remember how. His voice, when he does, is rough and can only manage short sentences for the same reason.
Also, I think one of the common complaints about this movie, that being that it's barely even about Max, is kinda stupid. Other than the first one, the movies are exactly that. Max stumbles into other people's problems, shit happens, and he moves on.
Brennan Hearn other people's problems yes, but he was always THE main character in spirit and in writing. Though I like this movie it is painfully obvious how much max actually mattered to it
@@FinanceMan Yes, their dastardly agenda to show how kick ass explosions and practical effects can be! What villains they are! Seriously, no one has ever given two shits about whatever "message" a Mad Max movie has. They come for the turn-your-brain-off fun and the crazy setting.
The harshest truth about the use of mostly practical effects and stunts is knowing that at least 2 real world Interceptors (Ford Falcons) were destroyed. Of course like most things these days, everything is either black or white, we can't have greys I guess. It was never said Fury Road was all practical effects. It was simply said that cgi was used to enhance the story- you know, like it should be used, and that many effects were done real world whenever possible. So cars slamming into one another had a visceral weight and look that can't be replicated via computer, but the bodies and explosions and little flourishes were added in post to *enhance* the effects, not replace them
+Cyril You'd think they would use replicas considering how much money that would save, because the real '73 XB Falcons aren't exactly cheap for how old they are, and there wasn't that many of them made. Also, its funny how they look to be the only Australian cars in the movie.
Actually, the "banker" is the Gas Baron or whatever. That is who the water run was for to begin with. It is HIS water that is in the tanker. The bullet farmer just came along for shits and giggles.
According to the prequel comic, Max got the new Interceptor after the events of Beyond Thunderdome and owned a V8 from a thunderdome fight at Gas Town. Then the pissed off guys that lost tried to fuck with him, a woman asked Max to help her save her daughter Glory (the little girl that appears in the flashbacks of the movie) from the thugs but in the final battle both of them died and Max drove off in the wasteland on his new car.
Decker deliberately steers clear of political matters for the most part, and whenever he does broach them he tends to speak rather factually and neutrally- wisely so, given the shitstorms they usually bring with them. However, of the few comments I have heard him make, I can gather that what he hates is bullshit, and that can be found on all sides.
Some of the visions are characters from the videogame. In early development, the videogame was supposed to be a prequel to Fury Road. However... That idea was scrapped, but they still left some of the references in the movie.
AT 33:00 in your postscript from memory she was clearing out the dust/sand from the air filter ... no air, no fuel burny burny the girls would have been hot and dusty so why not have a quick rinse :D
The continuity is meant to be kinda loosey goosey, due to being based off the book A Canticle for Leibowitz. Think of it like a mystical tale or the Animatrix stories, the flow of time is less important than the one story with changing worlds and similar characters :) Addition: THANK YOU for addressing the side bullshit and just giving the facts rather than throwing five minutes of philosophical tripe at the screen. You gained my respect there sir (y)
Although the action in this film was very good, my main complaint was I thought it was called "Mad Max: Fury Road. It seamed that it should've been called "Charlize Theron's Character: Fury Road. It seemed almost as though the film put Max's character on the side to Charlize's character.
Decker, the answer on the interceptor, is in the movie, if you pay attention to one scene. Watch closely when Slit is drivijg the car, during the race back to the Citadel. Pay close attention to the brake pedal, when he tries to speed up, between the People Eater's rig, and the war rig. Wide brake pedal, and no clutch. In MM and MM2, the car is a stick. In MMFR, it's an automatic. Also, the car lacks the supercharger switch, and the supercharger is always running, when the engine is. So that question is easy to answer, just from watching the movie.
Was I the only one thinking that while Nux was sitting there, getting his lips played with, that his internal voice-over was saying "Don't be creepy! Don't be creepy!" After all, Nicholas Hoult was R in Warm Bodies.
I miss the old Decker like this. The couch. The yellow wall. The best audio. And he feels like he's actually having fun instead of the green screen madness and...the video game stuff he's doing now...sigh...
"The first snag came in 2001..." Yes, but really the first snag came in 1983 when Byron Kennedy died in a helicopter crash. After his friend and Max co-conspirator's death, Miller lost interest in Beyond Thunderdome. He brought on George Ogilvie who "co-directed". Miller says he doesn't remember making Beyond Thunderdome, which should say something for his involvement. Anyway, the point is that it wasn't until another 15 or so years had passed that Miller was emotionally distant enough to face Mad Max again. And then everything else got in the way.
The reason max doesn't talk much was because they originally going to have Mel Gibson play the version of max that went insane and feral acting more like an animal than a human. Him being chained up by the warboys was also changed as max was meant to be their tracker when chasing down the warrig. The ending was going to be Mel's last time playing max as he was going to stay at the compound with furiousa (love interest) and have it end with him finding a home and regaining his humanity
He`s haunted by memories, who they were and why they show up in his mind isn`t important, it`s just to show his torment. In my oh so very, VERY humble opinion ;)
"I feel like I broke into Fort Knox just to use the give a penny, take a penny tray!" - Greatest line to voice one's frustration that I've heard in years. Also, thank you so much for calling out the "MRAs are pissed about Fury Road" bullshit, especially pointing out how Return of Kings isn't even an 'MRA site'. I've had to sit through observing the insanity of identity politics for the last two years (much to the detriment of my own sanity I might add), and it always shocked me how journalists fail to simply take a quick look at the Return of King's web site, where (unless I'm mistaken) ROK actually spell it out in the site's FAQ that they are *not* MRAs. Whatever happened to journalists doing simple things like a basic fact-check?[/rant]
I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel, been watching your reviews for the past week. You remind me of the Nostalgia Critic in his prime, funny and on point with the critiquing. Only difference being he's practically bald and you look ready to go into a guitar solo in a song about vikings and shit. Anyways keep up the good work, I hope you do a review for Hardcore Henry in the future.
The flashbacks I just assumed were maybe some settlers that Max abandoned or failed in some other respect? The kid I think is Max's damaged mental state quite literally fusing his wife and son together as a single entity. I've heard a fan theory this movie takes place in an alternate timeline where Papagallo's rig was destroyed and all the survivors were killed by Wez, Max being haunted by all their deaths. Also, apparently the Green Place is the oasis from Beyond Thunderdome.
Yeah, the retconned details are a bit confusing unless you (like me) believe the theory that Fury Road is the true sequel to the first Mad Max, while Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome are merely stories told by other inhabitants of the Wastelands.
or what if what if he really is a child from the new world we saw in thunder dome but when he got old enough and put in charge of guarding he failed and that's why he sees those people he failed and if you're curious of why he calls himself max maybe he started a new life and named himself after his own hero max rockatansky
I've been three times in a theater to see that, when it came on a DVD I've watched it 10 times in the first week. There aren't many movies I love as much as I do MMFR. Tha sparse storytelling is very well balanced with visual storytelling and it just makes all the scenes feel more meaty, enriched with details. Even the sound mixing has some suprising depth to it, like the wives' dialogue is mixed in a way you hear them all around, like some kind of ghost choir. All this, and more, from the director of "Happy feet" :P:P:P
23:54 I think this scene establishes why Max didn't get much attention in the movie. Max at this point in time is a nigh unstoppable machine that has been through trial after trial in the wasteland that he has become an ultimate warrior albeit an unhinged one. Also there isn't much really left for Max to do, he got his revenge in the first movie, learned that he cannot trust others in the second and in the third reignites his want to help others. In this one he is just a passenger to Furiosa and the Mother's story helping them to achieve their goals by providing his skills. This scene shows that we don't really need to know what Max did there because we all know that Max is just that badass.
But, but, what about Aliens?!? Didn't Ellen Ripley having a vagina totally ruin that movie too? Also, let's not even get started with Sarah Conner in T2! :-P
Fun facts: before Mel Gibson was going to be an even more mad max. The beginning was going to be old max rambling crazily. He turned his vehicle into another interceptor to remind him of his life. His only connection to what is right(police officer). He’s then captured and so on. He then helps furiosa because he thinks it can ease his mind. He then falls in love with furiosa and stays at the citadel. One of the original screenwriters even said he was surprised at the new ending.
@@kellywilson-lawson1857 More than just being wind burned and parched. By this point, he had been alone so long, running from his demons, that he has almost become feral. He hasn't spoken to another person, in so long, that he has almost forgotten how to. It's a fairly common thing, in people who survive on their own, long term. Even just a few months of being solitary, in a prison, will have the same effect, which is why so many states limit the amount of time someone, other than the worst of the worst, never spend more than a couple weeks, in segregation.
I think they had him driving the interceptor because if he did that wicked flip in Papagallo’s twin-engined thingamajig, the car he was left with at the end of The Road Warrior... his head would have fallen off.
As it is here, you can legally import vehicles from other countries, that are 25 years old, or older, so long as they pass the Australian certification process, and safety inspections. Not cheap, but it can be done, and most come from RH drive countries, but there are plenty of Yank Tanks there as well. The Fleetmaster the War Rig body came from was a 1948 model, and the first gen HMMWV was first produced in the early 80s. I remember the Corps switching over to them around 1986 or so, so first gens would qualify. Hell, there's a RH drive Chevy C10, 73 to 79 range, in the original MM. Toecutter is riding in the back, with his bike, one of several sent by Kawasaki, for the film, when he flags down Bubba Zanetti, to go back to the wrecked Impala, to retrieve Johnny the Boy. And Bubba was right. He certainly was no Night Rider.
I was just going through older reviews of Fury Road to get a new perspective on the film and what you said is really true: this film feels like a sequel to a much larger story never told, and now we're getting that story. Furiosa (and The Wasteland hopefully). It's interesting that George Miller decided to present this trilogy starting with the last one in the series: Fury Road, after he'd established everything already. That's why there's so much lore for this film but you gotta dig really deep to get to the info. At least now we'll be shown what that whole wasteland is about, in about 2 months.
Aren't the ghosts in Max's head just all the people who have died while he was meant to be helping them in the past? Like, the movie's way of saying that he wanders from shitshow to shitshow like from movies 1 to 2 to 3 and then a bunch of other adventures where people he was meant to be helping didn't always make it, and he always ends up alone, then eventually making it to 4.
Max clearly somehow found another interceptor. The original had two gas tanks in back and this one has 1. And the spoiler is missing and the headlights, while broken out are not smashed in with the front-end molding from the beginning chase in the Road Warrior.
This may be a harsh choice of words, but IMO Decker is way better off without the influence of that overrated nihilist clown. NC's humor became pretentious years ago and it would be a shame to see another reviewer go down the same path due to such an alliance. Why do I state this? As it is, to me Decker Shado is what Doug Walker used to be during the early days preceding his fall from grace, an actually funny internet personality who doesn't conjure bloated fake skits to successfully bring himself across to the audience. Seriously, Decker, steer clear of the Nostalgia Critic. Why? You are still actually legit.
+Dinoslay NC was pretty good at first, he really fall into a decay when became famous and his show turn into some shitty sketch show and SNL-type parody show. But the old NC was hillarious!
Also also, the specters in Max's mind are another thin explained in ONE tie-in comic where he tries to help some people and fails them and everyone dies.
Super late reply, but I'm glad someone else did the research to know that the "MRA uproar" wasn't actually an MRA, nor was it truly an uproar since it was just one original article. It makes NC's Fury Road review my least favorite of his.
+silverclawedwolf and somehow managed to get his hands in the same leather uniform that Max wore, sorry but that theory is near to un-existent since the feral kid grew up, somehow learned to speak and became the leader of the tribe, unlikely when you are wandering around...
Decker do you ever plan on reviewing and horror movies about bigfoot. I know you did a review for snowbeast a while ago but there are lots of good ones about bigfoot.Plus the assylum (i know how to spell it but this way is more realistic) made a movie about bigfoot and WE ALL LOVE THE ASYLUM FOR THEIR GREAT MOVIES *sarcasm*. You don't have to review any if you don't want to but if you ever do that would be cool. Anyways this review was really funny, keep up the great work.
I actually got the the depth of the movie's universe from the get go so I think the movie holds up on its own just fine. You can just figure how everything works.
This review is better than Nostalgia Critic's. First of all, DECKER ACTUALLY SHOWS CLIPS FROM THE FILM AND ACTUALLY SPEAKS OF THE PLOT OF THE STORY AND OFFERS REASONABLE CRITIQUES.
The NC was manly trying to avoid the copy right nazis of TH-cam and I really liked the way he reviewed the movie not only paying homage to the other mad max movies though his retrospective discussion with curioussosa. Basically saying to all the idiots that boycotted this movie because max was working with another person and it was a woman. Dudes he done both those before main times before
good work as always Decker. I'm gonna try my best to work you into my monthly Patreon payments. you deserve it. one of the best reviewers online and very deserving of any success you get!!! keep up the work my man!
The inconsistencies are because the story was never told from the perspective of Max. He's a folk hero who's stories are told by the people around him and passed down. He's a legend first and foremost. The true story of Max is unimportant in the end.
Loved this, but I think that Decker got a bit caught up in the "Days" timeline. When I watched the movie I had the impression that this was meant to intentionally muddle the timeline, setting this story apart from from any canon, almost a one-shot and encapsulated episode.
the movie is not meant to be taken seriously. it really is an art action movie. its all about the vibe and the intensity of the audiovisual experience. it doesn't matter how realistic it is. shame that people want a 'serious' movie.
I wish they wouldn't explain the crucial details of movies in comics and cartoons. Lucas did the same thing with the PT, as if all the viewers still watch cartoons.
Funny thing that they call their drivers Imperator (Emperor in latin). By the way is that radiation burns or something on Splendid's face (the pregnant one who fall off the rig) ?
I don't get the whole feminest and menimist thing, don't get me wrong I respect their opinions, its a damn good film stop worrying about small things and have fun XD.
+TheOldManBob You forget this is America people bitched about Gods of Egypt for not having enough racial diversity but I saw black people all over that movie
***** Considering the fact as far as I know that Egyptians have never been depicted as black in ANYTHING no I cant its just people bitching because the media told them to
***** So everyone in Africa is black. Never seen an Egyptian painting depicting themselves as black. And in the end a number of the characters in the movies are GOD if your gonna try and slap race on something that can appear as pretty much anything your a damn fool
Plus Id rather have movie characters cast as the best person for it not to fulfill racial quotas that do nothing but appease morons that dont have the faintest idea about actual racism and fail completely to see racism is a 2 way road
Ancient Egyptians were NOT Black! Their ethnicity was closest to Turks, Armenians and Syrians today! Nubians were NOT Egyptians, They were from lands such as Sudan and Ethiopia! They traded with the Ancient Egyptians but they were NOT Egyptians!
Please review the Death Race movies. Just FYI Death Race is the third in the timeline taking place after Death Race 2 and Death Race 3 Inferno. Death Race 4 is being filmed.
+cubesolver64 Ah, I was just looking for a nice science fiction/action movie or two to fill some weeks leading up to the summer special. Can't fit the whole series, but I do believe at least one (The remake with Statham sounds interesting to me) can be done before the summer kicks off.
What I love is when you buy a new DVD and the Cinavia code 3 message pops up, despite it being an actual real professional copy of the movie. I went through weeks of emails back and forth with Wal Mart over this, believing they were duped into distributing Mexican bootleg copies of Fast & Furious 8.
comics explain that he rebuilt the interceptor between the third and and this movie but its understandable not a lot of regular movie goers would know that. You can see little different things like a tank missing on his ford falcon and the back finns are missing too. I completely wish that they showed all this in a movie but oh well i kind of like that it gives you more to find out about the series
"Problem with that is the plot ended up with the depth of a road runner cartoon" I don't give a shit the road runner cartoons were always my favorite cartoon when I was growing up
I’m wondering how max still had the strength for carrying around nux. he’s being drained of blood and not being fed or given water and out in the hot desert with no cover over his head
They're using the areas in Australia to show a more apocalyptic style. Like all of civilization has been turned to dust kinda look That's why none of the actors have a accent of any sort
I'm such a dork about this film that I have the symbol of the War Boys tattooed on my upper chest, shaded as though it was branding. It was my seventh tattoo and I've never regretted it, despite my interest in Mad Max waxing and waning since I had it done.
+james woods Ah, that might be interesting. Of course, the last game tie-in I saw that explained things for a movie was Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions... that.. didn't go over so well... Eh, either way Mad Max the game is half price on Steam right now.
+james woods Problem is I was looking at the system requirements, and the minimum graphics card memory is 2gb, reccomended 3gb. I've got a 5850, with only 1gb of memory. So.. yeah.. still gotta save up for a video card upgrade.
So you did address the elephant in the room. lol sorry I wasn't being an ass I was talking about the little elephant you used in the opening of the vid. Great reviews man.
The inconsistencies between the movies is due to Miller's belief that each film is supposed to be a story told at a post apocalyptic camp fire. That's why Max has his car and seems to be young even though it has been years since the apocalypse.
J Greg There is a fantastic conversation in the okay Mad Max game from a couple of years ago where it basically says point blank that Max is a mythic figure rather than an actual person.
I personally like the idea that max is an idea, that the max from the first 3 is the same, but he died and this max took his name, though that does kinda fuck the fact that he say the bad guy from the first film so fuck it, who actually knows?
Well the second movie was told as a campfire story by the mute wild kid...
In what? Cave drawings?
Exactly. Fury Road isn't a sequel as much as people think.
"Use your words Max…"
Dude, he's had one Hell of a day
I don't think he's really in the mood for chit-chat
Also, it looked like he was just running on adrenaline at that point. They literally called him feral before, and that shot kinda proved them right. Like, I’m not sure if he *could* speak at that moment. Like he was kinda too hopped up and could only work out grunts and stuff as a result
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Mad Max: Fury Road is a prime example of what action cinema should be if not cinema in general: it is visual storytelling.
Watch The Overcoat on youtube. The silent film. Even though it has Russian sub titles, you don't need them. Amazing film. Great actors in it we've never seen before...or again. Great screenplay writing doesn't have a lot of dialogue. Raymond Chandler learned a great deal writing Double Indemnity with Billy Wilder. He realized he was a novel writer, and not a screenplay writer. After about a year he said one of his best scenes he wrote only had someone mumbling. Because he wrote so much into the looks on the faces. Read Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. The most cinematic writing I've ever come across. Not the dialogue. The presentation. A master. Really in a class by itself.
James Lonogan That was a great movie!
sclogse1 Thanks! I'll check it out.
degree7
That's definitely one of the reasons I consider Fury Road INCREDIBLY overrated (fans of the movie, please don't kill me)!
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I have to agree on the 'overshadowed' aspect of your statement, you could even take Max out of this movie altogether and it probably wouldn't be that different!
If you wanted to see Gas Town, too bad. You have to play the game for that.
***** I agree, great game.
Fun fact: Warner Brothers made the Mad Max games without consent of the original creator they also use concept in story bits without his permission too and, the game contains spoilers to potential Mad Max sequels
The Magnum Opus is the best car ever.
its actually a prequel
Another Mortal have you even seen the original 3 madmax movies
This movie was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 6 of them. That's pretty damn good for an action movie.
this movie is bull crap. oscars or not. at least for me. i will rather watch water world with costner nominated on strawberries or something...
I actually love the lack of explanations in the movie. Mostly this is due to the visuals being so damn good that I can piece together a general outline for what happened in the backstory, and then get on with the meat of the main story.
As for why the people rip apart Joe, my interpretation is that some of them wanted to kill him, others wanted a piece of their holy icon. Because as it was pointed out, he did give the people water, albeit in a stingy way. What surprised me the most about Joe was that he was a smart villain. When he could've shot Organic Mechanic for playing with his dead son's umbilical, he didn't. Because Organic is apparently a good doctor. He keeps Corpus Callosum around as an advisor, and he genuinely cares for the Warboys, even if it's in a utilitarian sense.
I didn’t find a lack of explanation in the movie it just wasn’t spoken explanation
@@salenebrom6476 Fair point, you've phrased it better.
'show, don't tell'
it's one of the things that you can do with a visual medium.
@@robertlogan5354 But it becomes more and more difficult for modern audiences aka young people to understand what is going on on screen it seems to me. When I see some criticisms about the new Star Wars movies for example ... oh boy, are some people stupid when it comes to understanding visual storytelling or piecing together the story in their heads as well as general interpreting things beyond what is spoken out loud or told in a text crawl...almost sad to watch honestly...
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Uh Decker the point of the movie or one plot point is that Max doesn't speak or says very little because the countless years in the Wasteland where everyday could be his last has made him essentially a feral animal.
He even mentions it in the monologue, where he says people have been reduced to a basic instinct, survive. Hence the reason he doesn't speak, since he's more animal than man.
Wait wait wait. You're telling me....that MAD Max is actually MAD in this movie unlike the other movies?
I think he comes off as pretty unstable in the second one.
SAD MAX
The question is if he’s been mad the entire time
Ive always taken it as Max hasnt spoken to real people in so long, he legit struggles to remember how. His voice, when he does, is rough and can only manage short sentences for the same reason.
Also, I think one of the common complaints about this movie, that being that it's barely even about Max, is kinda stupid. Other than the first one, the movies are exactly that. Max stumbles into other people's problems, shit happens, and he moves on.
Brennan Hearn other people's problems yes, but he was always THE main character in spirit and in writing. Though I like this movie it is painfully obvious how much max actually mattered to it
tanner norwood yeah they made it a giant feminist motion picture which is really annoying when they try to shove agenda down your throat
Well this will probably be shown during the sequel. I'm through with this mad max garbage.
Right this movie had nothing to do with Mad Max, they should change the title
@@FinanceMan Yes, their dastardly agenda to show how kick ass explosions and practical effects can be! What villains they are!
Seriously, no one has ever given two shits about whatever "message" a Mad Max movie has. They come for the turn-your-brain-off fun and the crazy setting.
Actor Hugh Keays-Byrne passed away December 1 2020. RIP Immortan Joe Toecutter may you ride to the gates of Valhalla all shiny and chrome!
The harshest truth about the use of mostly practical effects and stunts is knowing that at least 2 real world Interceptors (Ford Falcons) were destroyed.
Of course like most things these days, everything is either black or white, we can't have greys I guess. It was never said Fury Road was all practical effects. It was simply said that cgi was used to enhance the story- you know, like it should be used, and that many effects were done real world whenever possible. So cars slamming into one another had a visceral weight and look that can't be replicated via computer, but the bodies and explosions and little flourishes were added in post to *enhance* the effects, not replace them
+Cyril
You'd think they would use replicas considering how much money that would save, because the real '73 XB Falcons aren't exactly cheap for how old they are, and there wasn't that many of them made.
Also, its funny how they look to be the only Australian cars in the movie.
Actually, the "banker" is the Gas Baron or whatever. That is who the water run was for to begin with. It is HIS water that is in the tanker. The bullet farmer just came along for shits and giggles.
+BigGator5 i think the bullet farm is a relative to joe if IRC
Schwartzbruder1 Could very well be.
+BigGator5 its not water its mother´s milk...
+Dragonfury3000 I stand corrected.
BigGator5 yummy milk
According to the prequel comic, Max got the new Interceptor after the events of Beyond Thunderdome and owned a V8 from a thunderdome fight at Gas Town. Then the pissed off guys that lost tried to fuck with him, a woman asked Max to help her save her daughter Glory (the little girl that appears in the flashbacks of the movie) from the thugs but in the final battle both of them died and Max drove off in the wasteland on his new car.
"Fucking misogynist!" That was the funniest thing I've ever heard an elephant in the room say. BTW, who said that?
The Michael Idk but it was hilarious too because he debunks stupid feminist arguments every now and then and he gets hate from people sometimes
You clearly don't get satire. Decker is very progressive and he clearly hates MRA's
Decker deliberately steers clear of political matters for the most part, and whenever he does broach them he tends to speak rather factually and neutrally- wisely so, given the shitstorms they usually bring with them.
However, of the few comments I have heard him make, I can gather that what he hates is bullshit, and that can be found on all sides.
Of course it can be found in both sides. Yet he does makes jokes about Trump more often than not.
Very neutral ones.
The salt flats are the dried up oceans.
Some of the visions are characters from the videogame. In early development, the videogame was supposed to be a prequel to Fury Road. However... That idea was scrapped, but they still left some of the references in the movie.
AT 33:00 in your postscript from memory she was clearing out the dust/sand from the air filter ... no air, no fuel burny burny the girls would have been hot and dusty so why not have a quick rinse :D
The continuity is meant to be kinda loosey goosey, due to being based off the book A Canticle for Leibowitz. Think of it like a mystical tale or the Animatrix stories, the flow of time is less important than the one story with changing worlds and similar characters :)
Addition: THANK YOU for addressing the side bullshit and just giving the facts rather than throwing five minutes of philosophical tripe at the screen. You gained my respect there sir (y)
Although the action in this film was very good, my main complaint was I thought it was called "Mad Max: Fury Road.
It seamed that it should've been called "Charlize Theron's Character: Fury Road. It seemed almost as though the film put Max's character on the side to Charlize's character.
The interceptor must be cursed after that 1st explosion in Mad Max 2.
Decker, the answer on the interceptor, is in the movie, if you pay attention to one scene. Watch closely when Slit is drivijg the car, during the race back to the Citadel. Pay close attention to the brake pedal, when he tries to speed up, between the People Eater's rig, and the war rig.
Wide brake pedal, and no clutch.
In MM and MM2, the car is a stick. In MMFR, it's an automatic. Also, the car lacks the supercharger switch, and the supercharger is always running, when the engine is.
So that question is easy to answer, just from watching the movie.
Its not that there is no plot...its that everyone in the apocalypse is completely insane
Was I the only one thinking that while Nux was sitting there, getting his lips played with, that his internal voice-over was saying "Don't be creepy! Don't be creepy!"
After all, Nicholas Hoult was R in Warm Bodies.
I miss the old Decker like this. The couch. The yellow wall. The best audio. And he feels like he's actually having fun instead of the green screen madness and...the video game stuff he's doing now...sigh...
the sandstorm plugged the air filters she had to wait out the storm
"The first snag came in 2001..."
Yes, but really the first snag came in 1983 when Byron Kennedy died in a helicopter crash. After his friend and Max co-conspirator's death, Miller lost interest in Beyond Thunderdome. He brought on George Ogilvie who "co-directed". Miller says he doesn't remember making Beyond Thunderdome, which should say something for his involvement.
Anyway, the point is that it wasn't until another 15 or so years had passed that Miller was emotionally distant enough to face Mad Max again.
And then everything else got in the way.
The reason max doesn't talk much was because they originally going to have Mel Gibson play the version of max that went insane and feral acting more like an animal than a human. Him being chained up by the warboys was also changed as max was meant to be their tracker when chasing down the warrig.
The ending was going to be Mel's last time playing max as he was going to stay at the compound with furiousa (love interest) and have it end with him finding a home and regaining his humanity
He`s haunted by memories, who they were and why they show up in his mind isn`t important, it`s just to show his torment.
In my oh so very, VERY humble opinion ;)
"I feel like I broke into Fort Knox just to use the give a penny, take a penny tray!" - Greatest line to voice one's frustration that I've heard in years.
Also, thank you so much for calling out the "MRAs are pissed about Fury Road" bullshit, especially pointing out how Return of Kings isn't even an 'MRA site'. I've had to sit through observing the insanity of identity politics for the last two years (much to the detriment of my own sanity I might add), and it always shocked me how journalists fail to simply take a quick look at the Return of King's web site, where (unless I'm mistaken) ROK actually spell it out in the site's FAQ that they are *not* MRAs. Whatever happened to journalists doing simple things like a basic fact-check?[/rant]
It’s only gotten worse in 6 years lol now both sides have managed to become mainstream and loud and annoying
10:09 I had the exact same reaction when I saw this scene as they say great minds think alike
6:00 Was this produced by Michael Bay?
I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel, been watching your reviews for the past week. You remind me of the Nostalgia Critic in his prime, funny and on point with the critiquing. Only difference being he's practically bald and you look ready to go into a guitar solo in a song about vikings and shit. Anyways keep up the good work, I hope you do a review for Hardcore Henry in the future.
The flashbacks I just assumed were maybe some settlers that Max abandoned or failed in some other respect? The kid I think is Max's damaged mental state quite literally fusing his wife and son together as a single entity. I've heard a fan theory this movie takes place in an alternate timeline where Papagallo's rig was destroyed and all the survivors were killed by Wez, Max being haunted by all their deaths. Also, apparently the Green Place is the oasis from Beyond Thunderdome.
Yeah, the retconned details are a bit confusing unless you (like me) believe the theory that Fury Road is the true sequel to the first Mad Max, while Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome are merely stories told by other inhabitants of the Wastelands.
I think there all stories like how people said stories around the fire
or what if what if he really is a child from the new world we saw in thunder dome but when he got old enough and put in charge of guarding he failed and that's why he sees those people he failed and if you're curious of why he calls himself max maybe he started a new life and named himself after his own hero max rockatansky
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I've been three times in a theater to see that, when it came on a DVD I've watched it 10 times in the first week. There aren't many movies I love as much as I do MMFR. Tha sparse storytelling is very well balanced with visual storytelling and it just makes all the scenes feel more meaty, enriched with details. Even the sound mixing has some suprising depth to it, like the wives' dialogue is mixed in a way you hear them all around, like some kind of ghost choir.
All this, and more, from the director of "Happy feet" :P:P:P
23:54 I think this scene establishes why Max didn't get much attention in the movie.
Max at this point in time is a nigh unstoppable machine that has been through trial after trial in the wasteland that he has become an ultimate warrior albeit an unhinged one. Also there isn't much really left for Max to do, he got his revenge in the first movie, learned that he cannot trust others in the second and in the third reignites his want to help others.
In this one he is just a passenger to Furiosa and the Mother's story helping them to achieve their goals by providing his skills.
This scene shows that we don't really need to know what Max did there because we all know that Max is just that badass.
Now that the Elephant in the room is dealt with. xD
But, but, what about Aliens?!? Didn't Ellen Ripley having a vagina totally ruin that movie too? Also, let's not even get started with Sarah Conner in T2! :-P
@Outtheredude ?
Fun facts: before Mel Gibson was going to be an even more mad max. The beginning was going to be old max rambling crazily. He turned his vehicle into another interceptor to remind him of his life. His only connection to what is right(police officer). He’s then captured and so on. He then helps furiosa because he thinks it can ease his mind. He then falls in love with furiosa and stays at the citadel. One of the original screenwriters even said he was surprised at the new ending.
one of my favorite reviews from you, it's greatly entertaining
In the comics Max rebuild his car from scratch
That dumpster with "No babies" written on it is a prime example of the old phrase, "Every sign has a story"
I figured Max's "muzzle" prevented speech. Did he do any talking at all while wearing it?
+Kevin D
He said "water" "chain" "that`s my jacket" "you get in" "we wait" "i`ll go"... he did speak with it...
Yeah he can speak with it it's just he hasn't had anything to drink for a few hours
He did speak during the first chase.
@@kellywilson-lawson1857 More than just being wind burned and parched. By this point, he had been alone so long, running from his demons, that he has almost become feral. He hasn't spoken to another person, in so long, that he has almost forgotten how to.
It's a fairly common thing, in people who survive on their own, long term. Even just a few months of being solitary, in a prison, will have the same effect, which is why so many states limit the amount of time someone, other than the worst of the worst, never spend more than a couple weeks, in segregation.
I think they had him driving the interceptor because if he did that wicked flip in Papagallo’s twin-engined thingamajig, the car he was left with at the end of The Road Warrior... his head would have fallen off.
Why are some of the cars left side drive if they’re in Australia?
As it is here, you can legally import vehicles from other countries, that are 25 years old, or older, so long as they pass the Australian certification process, and safety inspections. Not cheap, but it can be done, and most come from RH drive countries, but there are plenty of Yank Tanks there as well.
The Fleetmaster the War Rig body came from was a 1948 model, and the first gen HMMWV was first produced in the early 80s. I remember the Corps switching over to them around 1986 or so, so first gens would qualify.
Hell, there's a RH drive Chevy C10, 73 to 79 range, in the original MM. Toecutter is riding in the back, with his bike, one of several sent by Kawasaki, for the film, when he flags down Bubba Zanetti, to go back to the wrecked Impala, to retrieve Johnny the Boy.
And Bubba was right. He certainly was no Night Rider.
I was just going through older reviews of Fury Road to get a new perspective on the film and what you said is really true: this film feels like a sequel to a much larger story never told, and now we're getting that story. Furiosa (and The Wasteland hopefully). It's interesting that George Miller decided to present this trilogy starting with the last one in the series: Fury Road, after he'd established everything already. That's why there's so much lore for this film but you gotta dig really deep to get to the info. At least now we'll be shown what that whole wasteland is about, in about 2 months.
Aren't the ghosts in Max's head just all the people who have died while he was meant to be helping them in the past? Like, the movie's way of saying that he wanders from shitshow to shitshow like from movies 1 to 2 to 3 and then a bunch of other adventures where people he was meant to be helping didn't always make it, and he always ends up alone, then eventually making it to 4.
Max clearly somehow found another interceptor. The original had two gas tanks in back and this one has 1. And the spoiler is missing and the headlights, while broken out are not smashed in with the front-end molding from the beginning chase in the Road Warrior.
decker should do a crossover with nostalgia critic
+dennis day yeah He should
yup
This may be a harsh choice of words, but IMO Decker is way better off without the influence of that overrated nihilist clown. NC's humor became pretentious years ago and it would be a shame to see another reviewer go down the same path due to such an alliance. Why do I state this? As it is, to me Decker Shado is what Doug Walker used to be during the early days preceding his fall from grace, an actually funny internet personality who doesn't conjure bloated fake skits to successfully bring himself across to the audience. Seriously, Decker, steer clear of the Nostalgia Critic. Why? You are still actually legit.
+Dinoslay NC was pretty good at first, he really fall into a decay when became famous and his show turn into some shitty sketch show and SNL-type parody show.
But the old NC was hillarious!
that's just
Cool fact, Furiosa's original second-in-command, the one who asked about going to Gas Town, is a retired SAS trooper. Badass!
Also also, the specters in Max's mind are another thin explained in ONE tie-in comic where he tries to help some people and fails them and everyone dies.
He started going crazy in the game when a friend and a kid he got attached to died in his arms and nearly drove his car off a cliff deliberately
Super late reply, but I'm glad someone else did the research to know that the "MRA uproar" wasn't actually an MRA, nor was it truly an uproar since it was just one original article. It makes NC's Fury Road review my least favorite of his.
I request some of the SyFy original shit like Dinoshark,Sharknado,Dinocroc,and Ghost Shark :P
Sam I second that motion
I prefer the theory that the Max we see in this movie is actually the kid from Road Warrior who grew up following after Max.
+silverclawedwolf
and somehow managed to get his hands in the same leather uniform that Max wore, sorry but that theory is near to un-existent since the feral kid grew up, somehow learned to speak and became the leader of the tribe, unlikely when you are wandering around...
Great review. review "breakdown" with Kurt Russell very under rated movie and a lot of people still aint seen it.
Hell yeah! One of my favorites.
What's that creature at 24:00 /a mutation!!!???????
Would of been cool to see Mel come back once again as Max
It's not an Interceptor, it's a Pursuit Special. The cars in the 1st part of the movie were Interceptors.
actually portraying the MRA-drama correctly...
i am glad i am subbed to you good sir. and i will recommend you to my friends.
26:28 ... where the hell did you get the idea that they'd be travelling at 100mph? lol
I love that he reveals his name at the end of the movie
Decker do you ever plan on reviewing and horror movies about bigfoot. I know you did a review for snowbeast a while ago but there are lots of good ones about bigfoot.Plus the assylum (i know how to spell it but this way is more realistic) made a movie about bigfoot and WE ALL LOVE THE ASYLUM FOR THEIR GREAT MOVIES *sarcasm*. You don't have to review any if you don't want to but if you ever do that would be cool. Anyways this review was really funny, keep up the great work.
Great review, Decker. This movie is awesome.
Now that I know Decker's stance on external material explaining a movie's plot, I really want to see what he thinks about Fallen Kingdom.
I actually got the the depth of the movie's universe from the get go so I think the movie holds up on its own just fine. You can just figure how everything works.
Do the movie from 1990 Arachnophobia.
7:37 I know who they are! They’re the plot threads for the sequel!
I don't know the court issue, but if you're sued and win don't you get the court/defense costs back from the prosecuting party?
This review is better than Nostalgia Critic's.
First of all, DECKER ACTUALLY SHOWS CLIPS FROM THE FILM AND ACTUALLY SPEAKS OF THE PLOT OF THE STORY AND OFFERS REASONABLE CRITIQUES.
The NC was manly trying to avoid the copy right nazis of TH-cam and I really liked the way he reviewed the movie not only paying homage to the other mad max movies though his retrospective discussion with curioussosa. Basically saying to all the idiots that boycotted this movie because max was working with another person and it was a woman. Dudes he done both those before main times before
good work as always Decker. I'm gonna try my best to work you into my monthly Patreon payments. you deserve it. one of the best reviewers online and very deserving of any success you get!!! keep up the work my man!
31:05 The depth of any story is not in the world. It's in the plot.
You’re supposed to also be mad about Max’s situation as well.
The inconsistencies are because the story was never told from the perspective of Max. He's a folk hero who's stories are told by the people around him and passed down. He's a legend first and foremost. The true story of Max is unimportant in the end.
Initial monologue: is that Max or Batman?
Cool vid man. Quick question, what was that stuff u sprayed on ur face at the end? That little gag was pretty inventive :)
Loved this, but I think that Decker got a bit caught up in the "Days" timeline. When I watched the movie I had the impression that this was meant to intentionally muddle the timeline, setting this story apart from from any canon, almost a one-shot and encapsulated episode.
the movie is not meant to be taken seriously. it really is an art action movie. its all about the vibe and the intensity of the audiovisual experience. it doesn't matter how realistic it is. shame that people want a 'serious' movie.
I wish they wouldn't explain the crucial details of movies in comics and cartoons. Lucas did the same thing with the PT, as if all the viewers still watch cartoons.
Funny thing that they call their drivers Imperator (Emperor in latin). By the way is that radiation burns or something on Splendid's face (the pregnant one who fall off the rig) ?
Furiousa is going to 'Gas Town' (Which is in sight of the Citadel) with a small trailer already containing 3000 litres of Gusoline. Please explain?
I don't get the whole feminest and menimist thing, don't get me wrong I respect their opinions, its a damn good film stop worrying about small things and have fun XD.
+TheOldManBob You forget this is America people bitched about Gods of Egypt for not having enough racial diversity but I saw black people all over that movie
***** Considering the fact as far as I know that Egyptians have never been depicted as black in ANYTHING no I cant its just people bitching because the media told them to
***** So everyone in Africa is black. Never seen an Egyptian painting depicting themselves as black. And in the end a number of the characters in the movies are GOD if your gonna try and slap race on something that can appear as pretty much anything your a damn fool
Plus Id rather have movie characters cast as the best person for it not to fulfill racial quotas that do nothing but appease morons that dont have the faintest idea about actual racism and fail completely to see racism is a 2 way road
Ancient Egyptians were NOT Black! Their ethnicity was closest to Turks, Armenians and Syrians today! Nubians were NOT Egyptians, They were from lands such as Sudan and Ethiopia! They traded with the Ancient Egyptians but they were NOT Egyptians!
That was the Magnum Opus Max was driving in the beginnning after losing the Black on Black, the game that came out was a prequel to Fury Road.
Please review the Death Race movies. Just FYI Death Race is the third in the timeline taking place after Death Race 2 and Death Race 3 Inferno. Death Race 4 is being filmed.
+cubesolver64 Ah, I was just looking for a nice science fiction/action movie or two to fill some weeks leading up to the summer special. Can't fit the whole series, but I do believe at least one (The remake with Statham sounds interesting to me) can be done before the summer kicks off.
+Decker Shado have you ever considered, a Friday 13 marathon? That would/could be a loooong and interesting, summer special ;-)
There's a theory that this version of Max is the Ferrell kid from a road Warrior
hey decker have you ever considered reviewing Dead Snow or Pontypool, those movies are great. (indie, zombie, horror)
Your "Elephant in the Room" is better than the Nostalgia Critic's.
What I love is when you buy a new DVD and the Cinavia code 3 message pops up, despite it being an actual real professional copy of the movie. I went through weeks of emails back and forth with Wal Mart over this, believing they were duped into distributing Mexican bootleg copies of Fast & Furious 8.
Why did Max speck later on but not when he was chained?
comics explain that he rebuilt the interceptor between the third and and this movie but its understandable not a lot of regular movie goers would know that. You can see little different things like a tank missing on his ford falcon and the back finns are missing too. I completely wish that they showed all this in a movie but oh well i kind of like that it gives you more to find out about the series
"Problem with that is the plot ended up with the depth of a road runner cartoon"
I don't give a shit the road runner cartoons were always my favorite cartoon when I was growing up
Mad Max is always a stand alone. A reinvention of itself. Never look at the previous films. Nothing is leading on from the last. And never will.
i love your way of explaining the movies, very entertaining and fun!
I think the law on ripping should be changed. allow sharing of anything under 720 x 512 .
Hey Decker any chance you could review Clive Barker's Nightbreed?
I’m wondering how max still had the strength for carrying around nux. he’s being drained of blood and not being fed or given water and out in the hot desert with no cover over his head
Possibly adrenaline
How many mesas are there in Australia and why do half the characters speak in an American accents
They're using the areas in Australia to show a more apocalyptic style. Like all of civilization has been turned to dust kinda look
That's why none of the actors have a accent of any sort
Aside from Furiosa, what characters have American accents?
I'm such a dork about this film that I have the symbol of the War Boys tattooed on my upper chest, shaded as though it was branding. It was my seventh tattoo and I've never regretted it, despite my interest in Mad Max waxing and waning since I had it done.
btw hate to say this but there is also a videogame tie in. where in the game they explain the visions and "ghosts"
+james woods Ah, that might be interesting. Of course, the last game tie-in I saw that explained things for a movie was Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions... that.. didn't go over so well... Eh, either way Mad Max the game is half price on Steam right now.
+Decker Shado well....I think I smell a new decker let's play lol
+james woods Problem is I was looking at the system requirements, and the minimum graphics card memory is 2gb, reccomended 3gb. I've got a 5850, with only 1gb of memory. So.. yeah.. still gotta save up for a video card upgrade.
+Decker Shado well that sucks
So you did address the elephant in the room. lol sorry I wasn't being an ass I was talking about the little elephant you used in the opening of the vid. Great reviews man.