I like to think the ending was changed because, with Charlize and Tom on a platform 50 feet above the ground with no railings, they couldn't guarantee that one of them wouldn't be pushed off.
Hey thanks for the shoutout! I gotta correct you on a few things though, hope you don't mind: 5:07 Fury Road was never meant to be a 3D anime. That's Furiosa. They developed it alongside Fury Road and a Mad Max game back then, the idea being to release them all in 3 different formats. So Fury Road was the live action film, Furiosa was the 3D anime (made by Mahiro Maeda), and the game made by Miller and Cory Barlog known for God of War. Their stories were all connected. They never finished the game, WB and Avalanche picked up the pieces and made the 2015 game out of that. Furiosa was a 3D anime at first, then a short live action film, and now it's a new movie we're gonna see next month! 20:40 That skull was definitely not made as a reference to the Gyrocaptain. I talked to the guy who made it (Olivier Pauwels), but I don't think he wants this myth to be debunked. It is a real human skull though with real teeth from a wild pig. 21:34 Ok this is hilarious because I talked to John Howard and his casting is directly connected to Bert Newton. There's a whole story to it and I'll get to it within this decade but you can ask him about it, he'll tell you :) Brilliant video once again, can't wait for your take on Furiosa! Cheers!
When two stuntpeople get married, instead of a bouquet the bride throws a stick of dynamite over her shoulder while the bride and groom walk away, and when the church explodes they don't turn around.
I honestly had no idea Australia had so much culture. For some reason I just assumed they only consumed UK and American culture. Who would've thought convicts could figure out film cameras.
I just heard a quote a reviewer said about this, "I can't believe this movie isn't still being made and that multiple people aren't dead because of it." It just feels like a triumph all around.
They don't give a shit how good a film is. Their #1 concern is how much money it will make them. And maybe they were right in this case. But luckily George Miller actually cared about the art.
Well for those early films Miller got a lot of people to risk killing themselves or causing serious, irreparable bodily harm to themselves, then didn't pay them or paid them peanuts; so fuck him too.
For anyone who tries to complain that there are no character arcs in general and for Max in particular, I'm going to disabuse you of that notion really quick: 1. Max's character arc is all about rediscovering humanity and connection with other people. He directly states in the beginning that he's reduced to survival instinct; he's basically a feral animal. The way Furiosa gets him to allow everyone on the War Rig is not by telling him about how far he can get with the truck or how bad Immortan Joe is, it's about getting the muzzle off his face, which is an immediate concern that computes for him. He initially doesn't tell Furiosa his name (and amusingly, she chooses to call him "Fool") because it doesn't matter. By the end, he's not only recovered enough to be able to plan ahead and come up with the scheme to take the Citadel, but he tells Furiosa his name before the end. 2. Furiosa is all about redemption and reclaiming the life that was stolen from her. She's clearly had to do fucked up things in order to become an Imperator, and rescuing the Brides and getting back to the Green Place become her all consuming goals. She has to learn to trust Max and, eventually, move beyond the despair of discovering the Green Place is gone. Her childhood is gone. Her innocence is lost. They cannot be recovered. However, she can build a new life as an adult; it may not be as ideal as the Green Place was, but she'll have friends and still be in a comfortable position at the Citadel. She gets her redemption, and her justice, as Immortan Joe's replacement. 3. Nux. Yes, Nux. Nux is a War Boy, part of a death cult built on a foundation of toxic masculinity. The closest thing he has to a friend is Slit, which still comes across as a very chest thumping, angry rivalry more than anything. His goal is a glorious death; dying while doing Immortan Joe's bidding is the only way he can access paradise. However, he fails at this and hits a wall of despair similar to Furiosa's. And in that moment, when all is lost to him, he's shown actual tenderness and empathy by Capable. It's the first time he's ever experienced such treatment, and it's like water in the desert-he immediately latches onto it and drinks from it fully, and becomes loyal to Capable and the others from then on. By the end of the movie, he's lost the desire to die and instead has something to live for- a future life with Capable. And just as he's ready to begin that life, Rictus literally rips it out from underneath him. At that point, in a cruel twist of irony, Nux has the opportunity to die that glorious death. His final, choked out "Witness me" says it all. This is no longer what he *wants,* but it's what he *needs* to do. He flips the War Rig, killing himself and stopping Joe's convoy from pursuing everyone. It's a beautiful tragedy. So there you go, there's the essay on Fury Road's character arcs. If you read this far, congratulations. You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
Y'know, as much as I love Fury Road, it never actually occurred to me that Nux spends the majority of the movie trying to die, failing, and then only after he has a reason to live he ends up getting the kind of death he wanted at the beginning of the film.
@@benh3518 exactly. It's beautifully tragic and ironic, and almost speaks to Capable saying it wasn't his destiny to die previously. It was his destiny to die saving the Max gang.
Excellently worded and beautifully explained. I like this movie and have watched it a couple of times and since first watch always liked Nux exactly for what you just described, but honestly the real intricacies of the arc of both Max and Furiosa completely flew over my bald head. I liked their characyers but never saw them as you described them. Thank You and have a Nice Day!
Fun Fact for the etymologically inclined: to "fang it" comes from Juan Manuel FANGIO, an Argentinian Formula One driver who won five world championships in the 50s
It's funny how Fury Road makes The Road Warrior's already impressive truck chase sequence look tame by comparison. This movie starts itself at 11 and somehow ends up at 15 by the final act.
My mother is a cinephile who enjoys all genres; we've seen all kinds of movies together in the theater since I was a little kid. We saw MMFR for her 76th birthday. Both of us were astonished and hugely entertained. The audience was great, too, I rarely hear that much cheering and it had been decades since I'd heard applause at the end. We did our usual dinner and discuss after. As she watched she'd figured out that the film flowed so well because of the character framing. She's definitely the reason I became a movie geek.
Say hi to Your Mom! She's definitely a Lady and a Connoisseur, it's beautiful that she got to share all her love for movies with you and that that made a positive impact in you. Have a Nice Day!
Damn, I never knew Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy couldn’t get along making this, that’s kind of sad. They played off each other so well, you didn’t get that feeling at all
Oh I knew - it was a big part of behind the scene stories. Which, in retrospect, gives their first fight a degree of "venting one's frustration" realism.
Did you know that the Green Place originally featured blue plants in an earlier script but was thrown out due to logistical issues. This is what caused the working title of this movie to be “Blue Harvest”
Another little known fact is that in that earlier script they had actually written a new protagonist to carry on the Mad Max Legacy and he was simply known as 'Rodney'
There are lots of storyboards in the Art of Fury Road book, but I wish they had released a storyboard "novelization" of the movie. What makes it doubly interesting is that Max clearly looks like Mel Gibson in a lot of them, so you can imagine what might have been if 911 and the War in Afghanistan hadn't delayed the film for a decade.
This is one of those rare cases in which ADR doesn’t just repair the movie, but improves it. All the dialog sounds so bizarre and it feels a part of the world.
I feel the same way, these people just don’t talk much surely. Max especially. I think his weird accent is because look at him at the start of the film, he’s practically feral. How many years has it been since he’s had an actual conversation with someone else?
I like the audacity of Warner Bros acting claiming Miller broke his agreement somehow by delivering an R-rated movie, considering how well-known it is that Miller prepared both a PG-13 and R-rated cut for the movie that they audience tested separately.
George Miller did actually make a pilot of a mad max tv show, called Mad Maxine. It was based on Max's sister and was to be played by Nicole Kidman and in world was a sequel to BMX bandits, Maxine was to roam the wasteland on her BMX but Turbo Kid stole the idea.
Little Easter egg in the film - the spiky cars were a little homage to the Australian cult classic, The Cars that Ate Paris. Which is 100% worth a watch if you haven't already. And probably worth a re-watch if you have.
The editing of that trailer along with the score backing it was sublime. I love that you had zero clue what the movie was about (other than Max being in it obviously) but instead sold us that: This is what the movie will look like. This is the kind of bonkers mayhem to expect (and god did they undersell that...some movies that teaser would've been the best stuff). How does everything tie together? The imagery, characters...Max...? Come watch the movie!
I love that the CGI wasn't added yet to a few scenes when the trailer was made, so there are several scenes that look completely different from the final film.
I'm gonna check it out because honestly it wouldn't be the first time I went to check on someting that Maso said or referenced. And surely is not gonna be the last!
It would never happen, but I wish they'd had Mel Gibson back for this. I liked how the world of Mad Max progressed in the originals as Max aged. This one would have been great with an older Max who was one of the few left who remembered how things used to be, a bit like Immortan Joe.
Honestly, I’d love to see an anthology Mad Max, where there’s like three different stories involving Max in one movie. One featuring Tom Hardy as a current Max, one featuring Mel Gibson as an old grizzled Max, and one to experiment with, maybe cast a young Max to play out between the first and second movie. But have it played out like that Batman “have a got a story for you”, where it seems connected, like there’s a continuity, but there are also very obvious inconsistencies between narrators.
I’m absolutely not a Mel Gibson fan but I do think he deserves a little credit for supporting the movie seemingly for free. Maybe they paid him but from an outside perspective it seems like he just liked the movie and wasn’t bitter about the recast.
I just want to say, this SHOULD have been a blockbuster, the year this came out I had a kid and went through a divorce (classic wife takes everything situation) and this movie was amazing! Wasn't able to afford the time to see it in the theaters, but watched it with my dad and since then bought the dvd, Blu-ray and vod, this movie DESERVES to be a cult classic and has earned its place in the mad max universe!!!
I was working at a movie theater box office when this movie came out. At the same time as a dog movie called "Max". So I always had to get clarification if they were ordering tickets for "Max" or "Mad Max".
I only caught this film at the cinema because my mate got free tix. I had no interest in it. Holy hell, best movie of 2015 and one of my all time faves.
I mean, if you want an "Anime Mad Max" there's a two part music video out by Sturgil Simpson that is essentially that. The songs are "A Good Look" and "Sing Along"
1. To this day i still think "what's up with the stilts guys?" and go to bed knowing i will never have the answer. 2. Would be fun if in the end they decide to Recast Madthew Max again and just roll with the whole "That's how people picture him since he is a Post-Apocalypse Folk hero".
I hecking love this movie. Like the originals, real stunts really add to the immersion. $185m to produce one of the greatest movies of its time. Marvel: $200m for mulitple tv shows a lot of people don’t watch or care for.
John Howard starred in the girl from tomorrow, along with Katherine Cullen, who happened to play the feral child in mad max 3. The girl from tomorrow also happened to be the first VFX work from the studio animal logic, who are also responsible for happy feet. Strangely enough I was working there when they were filming Peter rabbit, and the film crew had just wrapped fury road a few weeks earlier.
The 'porcupine car' is a direct homage to the movie 'The Cars That Ate Paris' (1974), which was directed by George Miller's mate and fellow Aussie Peter Weir.
Regarding that point at the end, I could see a story about the end of Max's life. It'll be the same kind of 'stranger come to town' story as the others, but it would end with Max's death. Because it feels like that's a story that would exist, in the meta-universe of the films where people tell the stories of Max, or perhaps just make something up. It could even be titled as such, released as "Mad Max dies". I can even imagine the role filled by Mel Gibson. I know clever writers can put a less athletically inclined Max into plenty of danger that rewards his quick thinking, character judgement, and many decades of experience more than his ability to run from explosions. Gibson gets to film a cool movie, a subset of an online fandom get to feel vindicated and smug about it, the studio gets some free publicity, and I get to watch Mel Gibson die. It's a win all around!
I'm surprised you didn't touch upon the music score and just how it fits so perfectly wit the epic nature of the visuals. Honestly, I think the score and visuals synchronized together is what make this the grand spectacle it is!
Speaking of bad ass wife editors, I have to get on my occasional soap box and hype Marcia Lucas, who does not get ANY love from a fan base she help create.
My favorites would be Scorsese's long-time editor - Thelma Schoonmaker - and Quentin Tarantino's editor for his first 6 movies - Sally Menke (R.I.P.). They are both incredible and a BIG part of both directors' success.
At the end when furiosa opens the water valve, the cynical part of me always cant help but think "you know theres probably a reason joe didnt keep it on 24/7. They're gonna run out of water in a day now and all die".
I always headcanoned that she eventually implemented a proper piping system, so instead of dumping a bunch of it all over the rocks and making people scramble for it, nothing gets wasted and everyone gets access. I took her opening it initially to be more symbolic than long term practicality.
The best thing for the continuity of Mad Max is that he is some mythological hero whos stories are told at campfires accross the Wasteland. Was he real? Did these events happen as described? Who knows! Is he some.... ageless being who is cursed to suffer the eternal nightmare of the wasteland
I know this is a crazy take, but watching the first two Mad Max movies actually made me like Fury Road a little less. The first two could be so disturbing and graphic at times, the first having those nomads that almost reminded me of A Clockwork Orange, and the second having the raiders decorate their cars with human corpses and limbs. Both groups r*ping and killing whoever they could get their hands on. It was genuinely unsettling to watch, and made me actually scared for whoever they happened to be chasing in any given scene. In Fury Road I never felt that fear. The bald guys were cool, their culture interesting, and the spectacle truly unparalleled, but it lacked that bite that the first two movies had imo. I never worried for Max or anyone else, and was excited by the action scenes rather than nervous. Hell, I found out that in the UK, Fury Road was only rated 15, and tbh barring one or two scenes, I’m surprised it was rated R anywhere. Obviously it’s not like the movie *needs* gore or disturbing imagery. It’s an excellent movie in its own right and perfected, imo, the aesthetic of the Mad Max world. But I can’t help but wish that the edge of the first two Mad Max movies had been brought to Fury Road. Though I can’t imagine a movie getting away with some of the scenes in those movies today, at least not without a lot of pushback.
Funny, Fury Road and 300 *do* compare in a way, because they are both essentially campfire stories with clear exaggerations and mythmaking as compared to whatever "historically" happened. Fury Road is a story being told centuries in the future by the "History Men," and 300 is a story being told by the captain who was forced by Leonidas to leave in order to tell everyone what happened.
Saw this at the cinema last week, first time I've seen it on the big screen, missed it originally but seen it twice a year at least at home. Amazing at the cinema, an incredible experience.
Watched this movie for the first time since theaters last night. I had forgotten how absolutely jaw dropping this movie is. Honestly one of the greatest movies OF ALL TIME
I got a Blu Ray set of all four movies. I had seen the trilogy many times but not Fury Road. We decided to watch them as a family over a few days. This was the first time my son saw any of them and when we finished Fury Road he said it didn't have the heart of the first three. I have to agree. It's a spectacular action film and feels like it's from the same world. It is extremely hard to see Hardy as the same person as the Max in the first three, like harder than Solo. Mel's Max changes but that's character development. To say these are campfire stories might make more sense when there are more of them but for now it's the trilogy and the other one.
Random Egoraptor appearance. I watched this movie for the first time 2 weeks ago, and I liked it. It was bright, but dark. And we all understand that Max isn't the lead, but they had him in it cause it's set in the Mad Max world.
Blown away by the opening scene of this movie. Grew up watching and loving all the mad max’s and to get to watch one day 1 release at the cinema was an absolutely brilliant memory. The vibration at the cinemas of the engines was absolutely mental.
It makes sense that this movie was meant to be watchable as a silent film. I watched it for the first time in German (which I do not speak) and the experience suffered not at all.
You're telling me this movie that takes a turn part way through to turn out to be about a group of women fighting for their rights is widely hated? That doesn't sound like the internet I know!
i love the folk hero of the wasteland theory, that that's why his age doesn't really change and why small details change from story to story, because his adventures are being passed around orally
I've read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction, seen a lot of post-apocalyptic films and played and collect post-apocalyptic tabletop role-playing games. The genre has had a major impact on my life. I design and build post-apocalyptic weapons and armour as a hobby. And without hesitation I will say that Fury Road is the best post-apocalyptic movie ever made. It is also the best feminist action movie ever made. Just a brilliant film.
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I like to think the ending was changed because, with Charlize and Tom on a platform 50 feet above the ground with no railings, they couldn't guarantee that one of them wouldn't be pushed off.
Hahaha!!!
Critical thinking from the director, he really knew what he was doing!
Hey thanks for the shoutout!
I gotta correct you on a few things though, hope you don't mind:
5:07
Fury Road was never meant to be a 3D anime. That's Furiosa. They developed it alongside Fury Road and a Mad Max game back then, the idea being to release them all in 3 different formats. So Fury Road was the live action film, Furiosa was the 3D anime (made by Mahiro Maeda), and the game made by Miller and Cory Barlog known for God of War. Their stories were all connected. They never finished the game, WB and Avalanche picked up the pieces and made the 2015 game out of that. Furiosa was a 3D anime at first, then a short live action film, and now it's a new movie we're gonna see next month!
20:40
That skull was definitely not made as a reference to the Gyrocaptain. I talked to the guy who made it (Olivier Pauwels), but I don't think he wants this myth to be debunked. It is a real human skull though with real teeth from a wild pig.
21:34
Ok this is hilarious because I talked to John Howard and his casting is directly connected to Bert Newton. There's a whole story to it and I'll get to it within this decade but you can ask him about it, he'll tell you :)
Brilliant video once again, can't wait for your take on Furiosa!
Cheers!
Thank you for the vital information.
haha get wrecked mr. sunday poo-vies
The rest of my day is going to be consumed with figuring out how I can donate my rotting skull into a crazy ass action movie
@@jakemaas7806 You can try animals. They take pets too.
I was hoping they would give you a shoutout, amazing channel with amazing quality!
When two stuntpeople get married, instead of a bouquet the bride throws a stick of dynamite over her shoulder while the bride and groom walk away, and when the church explodes they don't turn around.
The women who Doesn’t get caught in the explosion, gets married next!
@@zaczane the others get Darwined
"Cool people don't look at explosions..." lol
They walk away in slow motion as the church explodes.
sounds like a level from the game Blood
The highlight of the movie was that guy playing the flaming guitar on the truck with the percussion playing on the back.
Spoilers!
Car spoilers. That was the highlight.
*DOOF WARRIOR BABBYYYYEEEE*
When he first appeared we joyfully screamed like we just saw a game winning 3 pointer
The dude who played the guitar ended up marrying Riley Keough, one of the brides in the film
@@ANGELOFDARKification That was actually another one of the stunt performers. And she's Elvis' granddaughter!
Caravan of Garbage is slowly becoming just a way for James and Maso to drop obscure local references
This is precisely all I want
@@wilsonsecaur1015 That shot of the Fakari rugs bit was pure gold. Plus Norm from Life be in it.
Personally,l don’t mind this.
I honestly had no idea Australia had so much culture. For some reason I just assumed they only consumed UK and American culture. Who would've thought convicts could figure out film cameras.
Yes please
I just heard a quote a reviewer said about this, "I can't believe this movie isn't still being made and that multiple people aren't dead because of it." It just feels like a triumph all around.
"I just heard a quote a reviewer said about this..."
3:07 The quote was by director Steven Soderbergh.
@@redlightmax Good catch!
No way WBs legal defense was essentially 'We wanted you to make a bad Max Max but actually you made a good Mad Max' 😭
Every movie lately is just Mel brooks' the producers come to life
Well, worse but not necessarily bad. It would have absolutely made more money if it was pg-13 even if it wasn't as good
They totally would.
They don't give a shit how good a film is. Their #1 concern is how much money it will make them. And maybe they were right in this case. But luckily George Miller actually cared about the art.
Well for those early films Miller got a lot of people to risk killing themselves or causing serious, irreparable bodily harm to themselves, then didn't pay them or paid them peanuts; so fuck him too.
For anyone who tries to complain that there are no character arcs in general and for Max in particular, I'm going to disabuse you of that notion really quick:
1. Max's character arc is all about rediscovering humanity and connection with other people. He directly states in the beginning that he's reduced to survival instinct; he's basically a feral animal. The way Furiosa gets him to allow everyone on the War Rig is not by telling him about how far he can get with the truck or how bad Immortan Joe is, it's about getting the muzzle off his face, which is an immediate concern that computes for him. He initially doesn't tell Furiosa his name (and amusingly, she chooses to call him "Fool") because it doesn't matter. By the end, he's not only recovered enough to be able to plan ahead and come up with the scheme to take the Citadel, but he tells Furiosa his name before the end.
2. Furiosa is all about redemption and reclaiming the life that was stolen from her. She's clearly had to do fucked up things in order to become an Imperator, and rescuing the Brides and getting back to the Green Place become her all consuming goals. She has to learn to trust Max and, eventually, move beyond the despair of discovering the Green Place is gone. Her childhood is gone. Her innocence is lost. They cannot be recovered. However, she can build a new life as an adult; it may not be as ideal as the Green Place was, but she'll have friends and still be in a comfortable position at the Citadel. She gets her redemption, and her justice, as Immortan Joe's replacement.
3. Nux. Yes, Nux. Nux is a War Boy, part of a death cult built on a foundation of toxic masculinity. The closest thing he has to a friend is Slit, which still comes across as a very chest thumping, angry rivalry more than anything. His goal is a glorious death; dying while doing Immortan Joe's bidding is the only way he can access paradise. However, he fails at this and hits a wall of despair similar to Furiosa's. And in that moment, when all is lost to him, he's shown actual tenderness and empathy by Capable. It's the first time he's ever experienced such treatment, and it's like water in the desert-he immediately latches onto it and drinks from it fully, and becomes loyal to Capable and the others from then on. By the end of the movie, he's lost the desire to die and instead has something to live for- a future life with Capable. And just as he's ready to begin that life, Rictus literally rips it out from underneath him. At that point, in a cruel twist of irony, Nux has the opportunity to die that glorious death. His final, choked out "Witness me" says it all. This is no longer what he *wants,* but it's what he *needs* to do. He flips the War Rig, killing himself and stopping Joe's convoy from pursuing everyone. It's a beautiful tragedy.
So there you go, there's the essay on Fury Road's character arcs. If you read this far, congratulations. You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
Nice, thanks for this.
Y'know, as much as I love Fury Road, it never actually occurred to me that Nux spends the majority of the movie trying to die, failing, and then only after he has a reason to live he ends up getting the kind of death he wanted at the beginning of the film.
@@benh3518 exactly. It's beautifully tragic and ironic, and almost speaks to Capable saying it wasn't his destiny to die previously. It was his destiny to die saving the Max gang.
Excellently worded and beautifully explained. I like this movie and have watched it a couple of times and since first watch always liked Nux exactly for what you just described, but honestly the real intricacies of the arc of both Max and Furiosa completely flew over my bald head. I liked their characyers but never saw them as you described them. Thank You and have a Nice Day!
@WatsonGreen_ what does that have to do with my comment?
Fun Fact for the etymologically inclined: to "fang it" comes from Juan Manuel FANGIO, an Argentinian Formula One driver who won five world championships in the 50s
That's the worst Blue Harvest joke yet. C'mon, at least try.
@@mahna_mahna "blue harvest" is what your mum calls it after edging me for 6 hours
@@Novur If it comes out blue, talk to your doctor.
@@Novur Also, I didn't know you were into septuagenarians. I'm just glad she's keeping active.
Gilfs are where it's at homeslice, never underestimate experience
It's funny how Fury Road makes The Road Warrior's already impressive truck chase sequence look tame by comparison. This movie starts itself at 11 and somehow ends up at 15 by the final act.
fury road made a mockary of the whole aesthetic.
My mother is a cinephile who enjoys all genres; we've seen all kinds of movies together in the theater since I was a little kid.
We saw MMFR for her 76th birthday. Both of us were astonished and hugely entertained. The audience was great, too, I rarely hear that much cheering and it had been decades since I'd heard applause at the end.
We did our usual dinner and discuss after. As she watched she'd figured out that the film flowed so well because of the character framing. She's definitely the reason I became a movie geek.
Say hi to Your Mom! She's definitely a Lady and a Connoisseur, it's beautiful that she got to share all her love for movies with you and that that made a positive impact in you.
Have a Nice Day!
I am once again on my knees, begging for the fifth element caravan of garbage!!
Didn't they already do that?
Nevermind I just checked and they didn't. Swear I heard them talking about it though maybe I'm mistaken lol
Yes
And war of the worlds
Yes yes and yes
Damn, I never knew Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy couldn’t get along making this, that’s kind of sad. They played off each other so well, you didn’t get that feeling at all
That's why they're ACTORS. You can act out a part even if you hate the person next to you
They barely interacted in the movie what are you talking about?
They clashed, but they didn't dislike each other, it was just a stressful shoot,
Oh I knew - it was a big part of behind the scene stories. Which, in retrospect, gives their first fight a degree of "venting one's frustration" realism.
At least they've made up since.
Did you know that the Green Place originally featured blue plants in an earlier script but was thrown out due to logistical issues. This is what caused the working title of this movie to be “Blue Harvest”
Too obvious, James needs to bring this joke back to show you plebs haw its done
He did it again.
I knew immediately where that was going and I still smiled
Another little known fact is that in that earlier script they had actually written a new protagonist to carry on the Mad Max Legacy and he was simply known as 'Rodney'
Such trivia about the Green Place needs a special name--we could call it "Green Trivia"
What I love about this movie is that *they storyboarded EVERY SINGLE SHOT* - that's why it looks so well composed and cinematically intentional.
There are lots of storyboards in the Art of Fury Road book, but I wish they had released a storyboard "novelization" of the movie. What makes it doubly interesting is that Max clearly looks like Mel Gibson in a lot of them, so you can imagine what might have been if 911 and the War in Afghanistan hadn't delayed the film for a decade.
@@derkeheath5172aka just a comic.
@@derkeheath5172The art of the matrix has the every storyboard in it and it's excellent
Note for anyone looking for the animation when talking about a "Ghibli Mad Max"
Pud Pud is some random uploader on TH-cam. The work is Flip Flappers.
You guys make me proud to be Australian and I’m not even Australian.
5 more alternate names for the brides: Milo, Tim Tam, Fairy Bread, Bunnings Snag, big glass of Vegemite
Mad trivia you missed: during one of Max's visions, you can briefly see the shot of Toecutter's bulging eyes from the first movie
I'm disturbed by how much Tom Hardy is looking like actual cannibal Shia Labeouf recently.
He looks like Tyrese Gibson 😊😅😂.
"Actual" ? What did I miss?
@@AmarisFrede a great song/video.
@@AmarisFrede "Shia LaBeouf Live" by Rob Cantor
Agreed.
I just wanted to say that Ben did a good drawing... That is all.
This is one of those rare cases in which ADR doesn’t just repair the movie, but improves it. All the dialog sounds so bizarre and it feels a part of the world.
I feel the same way, these people just don’t talk much surely. Max especially. I think his weird accent is because look at him at the start of the film, he’s practically feral. How many years has it been since he’s had an actual conversation with someone else?
ADR?
@@tomtripp5417automated dialogue replacement.
Basically all dialogue is recorded afterwards and lip synched over the film
I can't imagine the audio would be great on set, all those engines and crashing and metal
Mason’s Bane sounds more like Bane from Harley Quinn than Hardy’s Bane
At least he's cribbing from the best version of Bane to date.
based editor throwing in FLIP FLAPPERS for the animation segment, YURI ROAD was a goated edit!
ikr Flip Flapper's a great watch
I like the audacity of Warner Bros acting claiming Miller broke his agreement somehow by delivering an R-rated movie, considering how well-known it is that Miller prepared both a PG-13 and R-rated cut for the movie that they audience tested separately.
George Miller did actually make a pilot of a mad max tv show, called Mad Maxine. It was based on Max's sister and was to be played by Nicole Kidman and in world was a sequel to BMX bandits, Maxine was to roam the wasteland on her BMX but Turbo Kid stole the idea.
Worth the like for Mason's fantastic Jesus reference
Little Easter egg in the film - the spiky cars were a little homage to the Australian cult classic, The Cars that Ate Paris. Which is 100% worth a watch if you haven't already. And probably worth a re-watch if you have.
Man I would’ve LOVED to have seen Heath Ledger as Max. Such a tragedy on so many levels.
3:43 genius level clip deployment by the editor there
that first fury road teaser is almost as good as the movie. perfect way to sell the film, i knew then and there it was gonna be fuckin crazy good.
Yes. I dreamed about it after I saw it for the first time
The editing of that trailer along with the score backing it was sublime. I love that you had zero clue what the movie was about (other than Max being in it obviously) but instead sold us that:
This is what the movie will look like.
This is the kind of bonkers mayhem to expect (and god did they undersell that...some movies that teaser would've been the best stuff).
How does everything tie together? The imagery, characters...Max...? Come watch the movie!
I love that the CGI wasn't added yet to a few scenes when the trailer was made, so there are several scenes that look completely different from the final film.
@@derkeheath5172 Not only that, but they also hadn't completed the color grading, so it looked weirdly desaturated compared to the final movie.
The fact MASO knows about CLEOPATRA 2525 makes me love that man more. The Man's a legend!
I'm gonna check it out because honestly it wouldn't be the first time I went to check on someting that Maso said or referenced. And surely is not gonna be the last!
The clips of that show made it look like a pxrn parody of a film that never existed.
Dropping a lot of early/mid 2000's scifi there.
My head canon of mad max chronology is Mad Max, Road Warrior, Mad Max (the most recent Game), Fury Road, Beyond Thunderdome
Needs Furiosa between 1 and 2 (although I thinknit might start before and end after 2).
It would never happen, but I wish they'd had Mel Gibson back for this. I liked how the world of Mad Max progressed in the originals as Max aged. This one would have been great with an older Max who was one of the few left who remembered how things used to be, a bit like Immortan Joe.
Mad Max is a legend. It's about a man who isn't good, but turns up and does good.
“I couldn’t hear you… over the wind” 😂😂😂
Honestly, I’d love to see an anthology Mad Max, where there’s like three different stories involving Max in one movie. One featuring Tom Hardy as a current Max, one featuring Mel Gibson as an old grizzled Max, and one to experiment with, maybe cast a young Max to play out between the first and second movie. But have it played out like that Batman “have a got a story for you”, where it seems connected, like there’s a continuity, but there are also very obvious inconsistencies between narrators.
This movie skyrocketed to my top 5 when it came out and has stayed there since. Absolute classic
I don't think anyone has a more sheer burning hatred for his own comment section than James.
Maybe the guy was already deaf
I’m absolutely not a Mel Gibson fan but I do think he deserves a little credit for supporting the movie seemingly for free.
Maybe they paid him but from an outside perspective it seems like he just liked the movie and wasn’t bitter about the recast.
I feel like I'm now a quarter Australian after watching these videos
I just want to say, this SHOULD have been a blockbuster, the year this came out I had a kid and went through a divorce (classic wife takes everything situation) and this movie was amazing! Wasn't able to afford the time to see it in the theaters, but watched it with my dad and since then bought the dvd, Blu-ray and vod, this movie DESERVES to be a cult classic and has earned its place in the mad max universe!!!
Can't wait for Triviosa. When you inevitably do a Furiousa CoG.
You got to do Furiousa in this format
"I just long for an era" is a MOOD
"Old Man Mad Madthew Max" should be the rolling title of the fifth Mad Max film. lol
21:23 i love Ben peppering in Smosh clips, a very entertaining crossover you probably wouldn't see otherwise
My theory is that Tom Hardy's Max actually met the Old Max and heard his stories so much that he slowly became Max as the old one died somewhere.
I wonder which of the editors is including all the Doctor Who clips all the time😂
My instinct is Laurence
Doesn't matter, more!
thanks for the rewatch on the Mad Max films - just rewatched them all this month prepping for Furiosa!
Furiosa should be called Madame Max
I believe that the Mad Max series is among the finest work Mr Sunday Movies has done.
I was working at a movie theater box office when this movie came out. At the same time as a dog movie called "Max". So I always had to get clarification if they were ordering tickets for "Max" or "Mad Max".
I only caught this film at the cinema because my mate got free tix. I had no interest in it. Holy hell, best movie of 2015 and one of my all time faves.
Already listened to the audio only. Came to this to see the amazing Mad Max anime.
Spectacular.
I mean, if you want an "Anime Mad Max" there's a two part music video out by Sturgil Simpson that is essentially that.
The songs are "A Good Look" and "Sing Along"
It's been done. They call it Fist of the North Star.
1. To this day i still think "what's up with the stilts guys?" and go to bed knowing i will never have the answer.
2. Would be fun if in the end they decide to Recast Madthew Max again and just roll with the whole "That's how people picture him since he is a Post-Apocalypse Folk hero".
If the explosions and stunts were mostly cgi, this movie wouldn't look as awesome as it looks!
I hecking love this movie. Like the originals, real stunts really add to the immersion.
$185m to produce one of the greatest movies of its time.
Marvel: $200m for mulitple tv shows a lot of people don’t watch or care for.
My favorite part was when Max said, "You're making me mad. You won't like me when I'm mad." And then he maxed out his Mad meter.
John Howard starred in the girl from tomorrow, along with Katherine Cullen, who happened to play the feral child in mad max 3.
The girl from tomorrow also happened to be the first VFX work from the studio animal logic, who are also responsible for happy feet.
Strangely enough I was working there when they were filming Peter rabbit, and the film crew had just wrapped fury road a few weeks earlier.
Man, Mel Gibson and his wife were really made for each other, huh
BDG and Patrick with their shoes?! I'm here for it
Time will show that Fury Road is possibly the best action movie ever made.
The 'porcupine car' is a direct homage to the movie 'The Cars That Ate Paris' (1974), which was directed by George Miller's mate and fellow Aussie Peter Weir.
Such a bizarre movie. It wasn't a movie I enjoyed a whole lot while watching it, but it has really stuck with me.
If you like Teal and Orange, you’re in for a treat.
A Mad Max with Gibson as a new villain? It would tick all the boxes and get free publicity through the sheer audacity and Miller could pull it off!!!
If they do an "old man Max", they shoud just cast Hugh Jackman instead of Gibson. Or... wait 15 years and keep Hardy.
Regarding that point at the end, I could see a story about the end of Max's life. It'll be the same kind of 'stranger come to town' story as the others, but it would end with Max's death.
Because it feels like that's a story that would exist, in the meta-universe of the films where people tell the stories of Max, or perhaps just make something up.
It could even be titled as such, released as "Mad Max dies".
I can even imagine the role filled by Mel Gibson. I know clever writers can put a less athletically inclined Max into plenty of danger that rewards his quick thinking, character judgement, and many decades of experience more than his ability to run from explosions.
Gibson gets to film a cool movie, a subset of an online fandom get to feel vindicated and smug about it, the studio gets some free publicity, and I get to watch Mel Gibson die.
It's a win all around!
In support of local references I was at Bell St Maccas today, and once saw Pete Moon at MIFF
Oh hell ya planet of the apes, feels like you’ve already done it but damn I’m excited
Ayyyyy Brian David Gilbert spotted!
I'm surprised you didn't touch upon the music score and just how it fits so perfectly wit the epic nature of the visuals. Honestly, I think the score and visuals synchronized together is what make this the grand spectacle it is!
3:44 The inclusion of the family from Get Out is incredible, Ben and Lawrence continue to hit it out of the park!
Speaking of bad ass wife editors, I have to get on my occasional soap box and hype Marcia Lucas, who does not get ANY love from a fan base she help create.
My favorites would be Scorsese's long-time editor - Thelma Schoonmaker - and Quentin Tarantino's editor for his first 6 movies - Sally Menke (R.I.P.). They are both incredible and a BIG part of both directors' success.
I said this last week but the colour grading on this film is staggering.
At the end when furiosa opens the water valve, the cynical part of me always cant help but think "you know theres probably a reason joe didnt keep it on 24/7. They're gonna run out of water in a day now and all die".
I always headcanoned that she eventually implemented a proper piping system, so instead of dumping a bunch of it all over the rocks and making people scramble for it, nothing gets wasted and everyone gets access. I took her opening it initially to be more symbolic than long term practicality.
The best thing for the continuity of Mad Max is that he is some mythological hero whos stories are told at campfires accross the Wasteland. Was he real? Did these events happen as described? Who knows! Is he some.... ageless being who is cursed to suffer the eternal nightmare of the wasteland
Ah we've reached it, the only Mad Max I watched and the only one I knew existed prior to this series
I know this is a crazy take, but watching the first two Mad Max movies actually made me like Fury Road a little less.
The first two could be so disturbing and graphic at times, the first having those nomads that almost reminded me of A Clockwork Orange, and the second having the raiders decorate their cars with human corpses and limbs. Both groups r*ping and killing whoever they could get their hands on. It was genuinely unsettling to watch, and made me actually scared for whoever they happened to be chasing in any given scene.
In Fury Road I never felt that fear. The bald guys were cool, their culture interesting, and the spectacle truly unparalleled, but it lacked that bite that the first two movies had imo. I never worried for Max or anyone else, and was excited by the action scenes rather than nervous. Hell, I found out that in the UK, Fury Road was only rated 15, and tbh barring one or two scenes, I’m surprised it was rated R anywhere.
Obviously it’s not like the movie *needs* gore or disturbing imagery. It’s an excellent movie in its own right and perfected, imo, the aesthetic of the Mad Max world. But I can’t help but wish that the edge of the first two Mad Max movies had been brought to Fury Road.
Though I can’t imagine a movie getting away with some of the scenes in those movies today, at least not without a lot of pushback.
17:35 I had the exact same reaction to that shot first time I saw it
Fury Road, 300 and bad boys 2 are the holy trinity of action movies that don’t need to make sense as long as they look cool
Funny, Fury Road and 300 *do* compare in a way, because they are both essentially campfire stories with clear exaggerations and mythmaking as compared to whatever "historically" happened. Fury Road is a story being told centuries in the future by the "History Men," and 300 is a story being told by the captain who was forced by Leonidas to leave in order to tell everyone what happened.
@@thelastholdout and bad boys 2 is being told as a deposition to see if Marcus and Mike were in breach of any laws
4:50 Mason with a great John Lennon impression there.
i really love how many deep cut australia references you guys have been adding in to the commentary, really makes me feel like im there
Saw this at the cinema last week, first time I've seen it on the big screen, missed it originally but seen it twice a year at least at home. Amazing at the cinema, an incredible experience.
I just long for an era. I don't know what it is! But I miss it, or I wish it was here!
Watched this movie for the first time since theaters last night. I had forgotten how absolutely jaw dropping this movie is. Honestly one of the greatest movies OF ALL TIME
I got a Blu Ray set of all four movies. I had seen the trilogy many times but not Fury Road. We decided to watch them as a family over a few days. This was the first time my son saw any of them and when we finished Fury Road he said it didn't have the heart of the first three. I have to agree. It's a spectacular action film and feels like it's from the same world. It is extremely hard to see Hardy as the same person as the Max in the first three, like harder than Solo. Mel's Max changes but that's character development. To say these are campfire stories might make more sense when there are more of them but for now it's the trilogy and the other one.
Random Egoraptor appearance.
I watched this movie for the first time 2 weeks ago, and I liked it. It was bright, but dark. And we all understand that Max isn't the lead, but they had him in it cause it's set in the Mad Max world.
Please do the dollars trilogy (fistful of dollars, a few dollars more, and the good, the bad, and the ugly)
Blown away by the opening scene of this movie. Grew up watching and loving all the mad max’s and to get to watch one day 1 release at the cinema was an absolutely brilliant memory.
The vibration at the cinemas of the engines was absolutely mental.
Charlize: "Fuck you!"
Tom: "What did you say?"
Charlize: "I'M UNDER ATTACK AND REQUIRE PROTECTION!!"
Probably started channeling bronson in that moment which would scare anyone honestly.
It makes sense that this movie was meant to be watchable as a silent film. I watched it for the first time in German (which I do not speak) and the experience suffered not at all.
7:24 Thumbs up for that Egoraptor reaction woooow
I always think of The Fugitive as the grandfather of the "Guy just passing though and saves the day." TV
fury road is actually the only mad max movie i like and i grew up with the originals
Love how mason just wants to name the brides after 'shapes' biscuits
You're telling me this movie that takes a turn part way through to turn out to be about a group of women fighting for their rights is widely hated? That doesn't sound like the internet I know!
i love the folk hero of the wasteland theory, that that's why his age doesn't really change and why small details change from story to story, because his adventures are being passed around orally
I've read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction, seen a lot of post-apocalyptic films and played and collect post-apocalyptic tabletop role-playing games. The genre has had a major impact on my life. I design and build post-apocalyptic weapons and armour as a hobby. And without hesitation I will say that Fury Road is the best post-apocalyptic movie ever made. It is also the best feminist action movie ever made. Just a brilliant film.