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Loomis Head of Station
Posts : 1413 Member Since : 2011-04-11
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:52 pm | |
| - Erica Ambler wrote:
I'll see it at some point, I'm sure, but I've been detached from the mainstream for a long time now. Judging by the trailers, FURY ROAD somehow manages to look both very mainstream and very arty, a feat that few flicks pull off. It'll be interesting to see how well it does, especially in the States. As I understand it, all the MAD MAXes did well enough over there (MAD MAX is, of course, one of the most profitable films of all time), but would it be correct to say that they're essentially cult movies as opposed to household-name mainstream blockbusters? Going by the tremendous online buzz, though, this fourth outing has the potential to be really big. |
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Harmsway Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:58 pm | |
| - Loomis wrote:
- Going by the tremendous online buzz, though, this fourth outing has the potential to be really big.
We'll see. Online buzz doesn't always translate to actual financial success (just look at Pacific Rim's performance stateside). If Fury Road succeeds in the USA, it will be on the strength of a smart advertising campaign and good word of mouth. |
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Loomis Head of Station
Posts : 1413 Member Since : 2011-04-11
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:46 pm | |
| - Harmsway wrote:
- Loomis wrote:
- Going by the tremendous online buzz, though, this fourth outing has the potential to be really big.
We'll see. Online buzz doesn't always translate to actual financial success (just look at Pacific Rim's performance stateside) Agreed. And to clarify: by "really big", I very much doubt that it'll gross nearly as much as, say, THE FORCE AWAKENS or SPECTRE. Still, the buzz surrounding FURY ROAD is perhaps a little surprising for a franchise that's been dormant for thirty years and was never really all that huge in the first place (Mad Max at his commercial height was still comfortably outgrossed by James Bond at more or less his commercial nadir, when BEYOND THUNDERDOME took some $36 million at the U.S. box office in the same year that A VIEW TO A KILL hauled in around $50 million). For whatever reasons, though, FURY ROAD does seem to be striking a chord with people. The omens look good. |
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CJB 00 Agent
Posts : 5498 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : 'Straya
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:02 am | |
| These green screen monstrosities need to start being classified as animated films. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:40 am | |
| - CJB wrote:
- These green screen monstrosities need to start being classified as animated films.
But... dark... gritty... deep. |
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CJB 00 Agent
Posts : 5498 Member Since : 2011-03-14 Location : 'Straya
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:49 am | |
| - Control wrote:
- CJB wrote:
- These green screen monstrosities need to start being classified as animated films.
But... dark... gritty... deep. The CGI Sand People need to know if they can trust Max. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:40 am | |
| Just rewatched the trailer. After 1:30 or so, I really didn't even know what I was looking at. I guess one could argue that's part of the intrigue...
Was any of this shot in a desert, or was it just on a set with playground sand and green screens? (Serious question, too.) |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:59 am | |
| - CJB wrote:
- These green screen monstrosities need to start being classified as animated films.
That's a big part of why I find most films from the last decade to be shit. |
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Harmsway Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:54 pm | |
| - Control wrote:
- Was any of this shot in a desert, or was it just on a set with playground sand and green screens? (Serious question, too.)
Nearly all of it was shot in the desert using real vehicles, which is why the shoot was absolute hell. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:25 pm | |
| 'From mastermind George Miller'.
I guess that means Hitchcock was the Supreme Being. Or would have been if only he hadn't been so damned hetrosexist.
Thank God women are here to put men right. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:17 pm | |
| - Erica Ambler wrote:
- 'From mastermind George Miller'.
I guess that means Hitchcock was the Supreme Being. Or would have been if only he hadn't been so damned hetrosexist. Shame they didn't use: FROM THE VISIONARY DIRECTOR OF HAPPY FEET HAPPY FEET TWO BABE: PIG IN THE CITY |
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Salomé Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3303 Member Since : 2011-03-17
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:36 pm | |
| - Erica Ambler wrote:
- 'From mastermind George Miller'.
I guess that means Hitchcock was the Supreme Being. Or would have been if only he hadn't been so damned hetrosexist.
Thank God women are here to put men right. But I like Hitch. :( |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:43 pm | |
| - Salomé wrote:
- But I like Hitch. :(
You're not allowed to, didn't you get the memo? Anyway, I like women putting me right, so we're all happy. Sort of. Though I agree with Brown that that Babe pisses all over Shadow of a Doubt. |
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Harmsway Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 2801 Member Since : 2011-08-22
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:01 pm | |
| - Control wrote:
- Erica Ambler wrote:
- 'From mastermind George Miller'.
I guess that means Hitchcock was the Supreme Being. Or would have been if only he hadn't been so damned hetrosexist.
Shame they didn't use:
FROM THE VISIONARY DIRECTOR OF HAPPY FEET HAPPY FEET TWO BABE: PIG IN THE CITY Look, I dislike all of those, but they are deeply, deeply weird in a way that your typical children's fare isn't. Which is to say: FURY ROAD may or may not be awful, but at least it won't be sanitized corporate product like Marvel. |
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Salomé Potential 00 Agent
Posts : 3303 Member Since : 2011-03-17
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:16 pm | |
| - Erica Ambler wrote:
- Salomé wrote:
- But I like Hitch. :(
You're not allowed to, didn't you get the memo?
Anyway, I like women putting me right, so we're all happy. Sort of.
Though I agree with Brown that that Babe pisses all over Shadow of a Doubt. All this talk about "Babe" made me realize that I have never actually seen that movie, beyond a couple of scenes I caught in a TV broadcast. Odd to think that - of all possible features - it turned out to be James Cromwell's "big break". |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:43 pm | |
| BABE: PIG IN THE CITY is one of the finest films of the 90s, up there with SHORT CUTS and BELOVED. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:53 pm | |
| - Largo's Shark wrote:
- BABE: PIG IN THE CITY is one of the finest films of the 90s, up there with SHORT CUTS and BELOVED.
Sharky's trolling again! |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:00 pm | |
| - Control wrote:
- Largo's Shark wrote:
- BABE: PIG IN THE CITY is one of the finest films of the 90s, up there with SHORT CUTS and BELOVED.
Sharky's trolling again!
No. Sharky's himself again. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:05 pm | |
| - Largo's Shark wrote:
- Control wrote:
- Largo's Shark wrote:
- BABE: PIG IN THE CITY is one of the finest films of the 90s, up there with SHORT CUTS and BELOVED.
Sharky's trolling again!
No. Sharky's himself again. More chameleon than shark. |
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Control 00 Agent
Posts : 5206 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Slumber, Inc.
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:05 pm | |
| I liked the BABE movie where the pig acted a lot like Joseph Stalin. That was a fun one. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:08 pm | |
| - Erica Ambler wrote:
- Largo's Shark wrote:
- Control wrote:
- Largo's Shark wrote:
- BABE: PIG IN THE CITY is one of the finest films of the 90s, up there with SHORT CUTS and BELOVED.
Sharky's trolling again!
No. Sharky's himself again. More chameleon than shark. Largo's Cuttlefish doesn't have the same ring to it. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:10 pm | |
| - Largo's Shark wrote:
- Largo's Cuttlefish doesn't have the same ring to it.
And Armond's bumboy would be offensive. |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:17 pm | |
| - Erica Ambler wrote:
- Largo's Shark wrote:
- Largo's Cuttlefish doesn't have the same ring to it.
And Armond's bumboy would be offensive. As would Schrader's knob jockey, in your case. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:24 pm | |
| Original thought is more important than right or wrong. When are you going to know your own mind?
Armond White’s Top 10 films of 1998
01. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg) 02. Beloved (Jonathan Demme) 03. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) 04. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman) 05. The Eel (Shohei Imamura) 06. Bulworth (Warren Beatty) 07. The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan) 08. Out of Sight (Steven Spielberg) 09. Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) 10. Shadrach (Susanna Styron)
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/white.html
Film Comment’s Best-Of-The-90s: Armond White, New York Press: Short Cuts—Altman's Olympian survey of modern Los Angeles is also a personal epic. It views American crisis that starts in bedrooms and spreads to the streets, cutting wide and deep through the decade of denial.
http://www.filmcomment.com/article/film-comments-best-of-the-90s-poll-part-four |
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Largo's Shark 00 Agent
Posts : 10588 Member Since : 2011-03-14
| Subject: Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:33 pm | |
| SHORT CUTS, BELOVED, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, and THE THIN RED LINE are all fine films, though I find SAVING PRIVATE RYAN highly problematic (it's never been one of my favourites of the Spielberg canon). I was taking the piss with BABE: PISS IN THE CITY, just to reassure everyone. Haven't seen the rest.
So what if I happen to agree with Armond on some counts? It used to be a lot worse, yaknow. |
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