My Review of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

[@EstebanGunn]

It's not just that the movie treats Max and Furiosa as equals, but that Max and Furiosa treat each other as equals.

[@Dave_AI]

I absolutely adored this movie....so much heart and I loved the fact that emotion and story are told through cinematography instead of exposition. The practicality of the stunts were a breath of fresh air in this environment of overly polished CG effects.

[@bportom]

I totally thought of Joan of Arc when I saw Furiosa! Especially when Furiosa falls to her knees in the desert when she realizes that the green place has long since passed and the screams to the heavens. Great reference!

[@xant8344]

This film is definitely consciously feminist. George Miller invited Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina Monologues, on as an advisor to the actors and she spent a week on set talking to them about issues of violence against women. Also the vagina monologues is a really good play

[@RoodeMenon]

There was a ton of CGI in this movie. If nobody noticed then it was done perfectly.

[@TheWaynos73]

Miller’s aware of cgi’s limitations. Great for creating exotic worlds and backgrounds but terrible on human beings in close ups.

[@ZombieZifiction]

i love how you review movies and compare them to old ass movies, no one else does that. when you compared furiosa's look to Maria Falconetti i was like :o thanks for reviewing this great review :)

[@filmonthemic860]

Haven't had this much fun with a movie like this since Guardians of the Galaxy. Great review, Great movie.

[@R2akaThuNDaChiCkeN]

MoneyMike Productions I walked out of the theater saying the same exact thing too! xD

[@catcalliope3737]

No bong on the counter 0/10. But seriously, this movie knocked my socks off because of its personality. The detail of the culture, ranging from attitudes and language to imprints on the roof of the War Rig, fills fills the world and its agents with character to an incredible depth. Furiosa is a terrific character whose gender informs but does not define her, which is something I don't think has been seen in an action movie lead in decades. Great review and glad you enjoyed the movie. "Made by human hands" is the perfect way to describe it.

[@spiderneil]

Great review. Someone said, good story telling is; Simple story, complex characters. It's refreshing that the character motivations are revealed through conflict not exposition.

[@iansmart4158]

Great Review, and I'm glad you see the merit in a minimalistic story unlike a lot of people who favor over explanation in stead of true visual storytelling.

[@erikghast3312]

Fury Road is amazing. Miller is a genius.\\

[@tfpp1]

I describe Fury Road this way: It's the most entertain movie where the plot is "Driving from point A to point B..." "...driving back from point B to point A" That's literally it hahaha

[@EagleBeagle4886]

I watched this just now again to hype myself up for the new one coming out 🎉🎉🎉

[@metalmanny666]

Mad Max is a blast. Hey, I came here for your animated hand gestures, but was mesmerized by those polka-dots. Great review babe!

[@deepfocuslens]

metalmanny666 Hahaha yea. That's my Ginger Rogers outfit. XD

[@metalmanny666]

deepfocuslens Add a vintage hair-do and we'll all be going bananas!

[@seven2eight2]

Another fantastic video. I haven't seen this yet (you thought you were late to the party) and I can't wait to after your review!

[@TheWaynos73]

Fury Road was the only movie I’ve seen in a cinema for a LONG time where wanted to see it in a cinema again straight away. I think I saw it 4 times.

[@MrCakir53]

I agree that mad max was good. Nothing but Fury road. Nothing else. Haha. Aside, you make a lot sense when it comes to movies. Like wow. Best commentary I watch on youtube.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I just saw this last night and it made me think to watch your review. My reaction was mostly positive, despite this film treading the line between rip-off and homage a little too overtly at times. One of the main visual influences I saw was Terry Gilliam and his penchant for Rube Goldberg apparatuses and bizarre skin afflictions (which I'm surprised you didn't mention given your professed admiration for his work). Also a more movie-specific callback for me was that Charlize's character almost directly referenced the Jill Layton truck-driving heroine in Brazil, both in appearance and attitude). I saw many Lynchian elements (the dwarf obviously, and the use of weird camera angles to give that uneasy vibe, and further odd juxtapositions, etc) as well as similarities to City of Lost Children and other films. I suppose that all the visual callbacks to other movies were cool, but somehow I didn't get the sense that the universe of symbols and motives hung together very well overall. In the Mad Max movies I've seen (I have to admit I never saw Thunderdome, so this could account for my confusion) the design of vehicles was much more utilitarian with a hint of the baroque vs this film, in which the comic-book exaggeration of every character and vehicle design became a little ridiculous. In a way, I envy you coming fresh to this film without the burden of the prior films in the series weighing you down. I'm sure that made a tremendous difference to how you experienced it. I guess the Mad Max franchise was always about high melodrama and camp, so I should have probably just relaxed and enjoyed the ride more than I did. Funny how the 'nothing new under the sun' adage applies with peculiar accuracy to the apocalypse, even though we were always taught the world can only end once....

[@R2akaThuNDaChiCkeN]

sweet! was waiting for this review! It was a refreshing movie experience. I hope Star Wars lives up to this level of quality haha.

[@syedhaider1675]

Totally love your reviews!

[@deepfocuslens]

Syed Haider Thanks! :)

[@loayprettyboy206]

+deepfocuslens yea best action movie since long time ago but the ideo it's the same from water world but its cool i watched it for 7 times action films just fucked up after late 90s nice rivew

[@mannygee005]

I gave a thumbs up for such a fantastic review. X )

[@vgovger4373]

There was CGI, it was mostly in background scenery and terrain.

[@Weird-City]

Your couch looks absolutely mahoosive!! Are you standing up there?Geez-Louise that's a big couch.

[@Weird-City]

+WeirdCityCitizen Oh yeah also - great review and I agree - movie was 10/10.

[@deepfocuslens]

+WeirdCityCitizen Hahaha no I'm sitting down beside it. But yeah it is an epic couch. It was a hand-me-down from family friends that happen to be kinda rich.

[@jefferyalberter9922]

I’m one of the few who didn’t care for it. The definitive Mad Max movie is and always will be The Road Warrior.

[@You2be4life]

Hi there. I’m glad I found your channel. Would you mind reviewing Room starring Brie Larsen? Thanks if you see this.

[@TobeyStarburst]

Great review! Great to see a girl liking this bad ass movie!

[@MatthewLedZepfan]

I really wanted to like Fury Road but I just couldn't latch on to any of the characters whatsoever. And the action scenes came off as repetitive and pointless since I didn't care about the characters. The movie had such great reviews that I expected to be much more interesting and intense on a dramatic level.

[@SNIFFMYBADGER]

How big is your sofa?

[@deepfocuslens]

SNIFFMYBADGER Pretty damn big. It's a hand me down from my parents' rich friends. Trying to get that thing up to the third floor of my apartment was like watching a three Stooges skit.

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

Damn has it already been 2 years since this movie came out? Stop it time, fucking stop... Anyway, the whole feminism angle is interesting, seeing as how rescuing the "damsels in distress" is a trope that certain feminists love to complain about. The main thing that kinda dug under my skin was how max was a 'blood bag' who just wanted water and the shackles cut off his face, and furiosa didn't give two fucks to try and reason with him to put the gun down before taking it and trying to blow his brains out (ironically shoving the gun barrel between his constraints to kill him while attempting to be all righteous by saving slaves), meanwhile, the women complain to max about how inhuman they were treated while clearly being the best treated people in the whole damned rotten place; And max was probably thinking, "bitches, they chained me up and were draining my blood after strapping me to the front of my own fucking car. Please, tell me about your first world post apocalyptic problems".

[@msmit152]

I really hated this movie...maybe it was because I had no context of the Mad Max series in general, but when I saw it I turned it off halfway through. There was no plot, and all I saw was people covered in dirt, driving and shooting at each other with rock music in the background. And now I see it on all these "best of the 21st century" lists and I'm thinking, "did I miss something?"

[@greytoeimp]

Yup

[@majorgrub1730]

You need TRT

[@MediabyAaron]

Mad Max is a feminist movie, and significantly better for it.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

+Media by Aaron Why does it have to be feminist, or androgynist, or IST of any kind? Why can't it just be a female positive, and male positive flick that doesn't muck about in political statements? To me feminism has become so polluted by confused people that can't discern the difference between their agenda and their own personal issues to such a ridiculous extent that the movement has lost all credibility. This is coming from a man that used to openly self-identify as a feminist. Now I don't want to be anywhere near the kind of behavior that calls itself feminism anymore.

[@MediabyAaron]

"Why can't it just be a female positive, and male positive flick that doesn't muck about in political statements?" That would make a feminist film right there. The rest of your comment seems to confuse feminists (I am assuming online ones) with the broader theory of feminism. That's not how your evaluate ideas.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Media by Aaron Forgive me for not being technically precise on a YT comment section. Good god. Mad Max is a pulpy, escapist, ridiculous extravaganza of violence and destruction with a few token changes to standard movie tropes involving females. These changes are really only skin-deep though, hence the selection of supermodel "breeders," and a female lead that pretty much looked the same way when she was their age. This movie is just hollywood spectacle engineered to create a lot of enthusiastic response from a young moviegoing audience that is starved for in-camera realism from a decade of CGI abuse by filmmakers. Despite the relatively sparing use of digital effects, this film is still very much part of a tradition of vacuous meaninglessness posing as emotional depth or social awareness. Make no mistake; this movie was created to make money, and a buzz about a "controversial" feminist message only serves that end.

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

I know this is an old thread, but Aaron, you do realize that what feminism is what feminists does right? For example, communism sounds great, but never quite pans out because socialist utopias are a pipe dream. Unfortunately, feminism is also often rooted in marxist principles, which you can see by looking into influential feminists like Bell Hooks who are largely responsible for 3rd wave feminism.

[@xant8344]

Yeah the film is definitely consciously feminist. George Miller invited Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina Monologues, on as an advisor to the actors and she spent a week on set talking to them about issues of violence against women. Also the vagina monologues is a really good play

[@dimitrikorsakov2570]

Feminism GROAN!

[@123rockfan]

5 years later and your comment is still stupid lol. Do you think Alien and Terminator is “feminism groan”?

[@vgovger4373]

They should just stop writing books and making movies, to many people waiting to be offended.

[@skabcat242]

What other cult classic movies have you not seen? Oh yeah, if you do watch any of the past mad max movies, skip thunderdome.

[@deepfocuslens]

skabcat242 Never saw any of the Rambo movies.

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

don't tell people that, jackass; I liked thunderdome and a lot of other people did too. it always irks me when people tell everyone else not to see something because they're projecting their own preferences onto everyone else.