Not even the small screen can contain the brilliance of this film. Truly a singular masterpiece.
Khoi Vinh’s friends’ reviews of Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
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while genuinely sort of a masterpiece of emotional traumas and desperate need for survival, as well as a genius way of silent storytelling, my main dislike of this film is that it’s not afraid to make you uncomfortable. while this works well, in some places, there’s a lot that makes someone shift in their seat a bit too much. maybe that’s why it’s a masterpiece. i don’t really know. my second gripe is that i really have a hard time…
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Made me very emotional this time around, for some reason.
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Upgrading to five stars on my first rewatch since this came out... an example of an action film that is almost entirely action sequences, yet makes space for its characters. Incredible, grotesque production and character design makes this world too interesting to look away from.
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Not only is this the most ridiculously dialled-up-to-seventeen-out-of-ten amazing thrilling action, amazing can’t-believe-that’s-real effects and production design etc (the guitar!?!), and fascinating + cool worldbuilding. It’s also super compassionate and trauma-informed and with sound consciousness of social dynamics. It sounds ridiculous but mad max 4 honestly is a contender for one of the best movies of all time!
Oh, and imagine how much even better it would be if you actually liked cars!Two quotes that stood out to me…
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My favorite action movie so far.
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Wanted to check in with it post Furiosa, and I think the prequel does slightly deepen the emotional weight of this movie. I cried like six times. I was on a plane so I think that counts for 3.5 cries on the ground.
Somehow saying “perfect movie” feels like underselling it. “Perfect” implies it exists in a fixed form, but every time I watch it, the movie changes and grows. Also it is more than just a movie. It feels like movement everyone else is too chickenshit to follow.
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Nice to be reminded that there are perfect things in this world, in every way. Somehow both one of the most strange, hyper-specific, bombastically designed and intricately, lyrically photographed post-apocalyptic gearhead/metalhead worlds ever committed to film (that the audience is trusted to figure out the history of entirely through accumulation of weird, lived-in detail), as well as a clockwork feat of propulsive, economic action purity that essentially expands the iconic big-rig-as-western-stagecoach chase finale of The Road Warrior into a feature…
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Prep for Furiosa.
The world destroyed. Mad Max: Fury Road is a film of metal and fire, where there is a drought of comfort and justice. Everyone is just living to survive. What George Miller created in Mad Max: Fury Road is a world clearly thought out from top to bottom, crafted through years of dedication and imagination. Formally the film is daring, built upon various editing tempos that speed up and slow down alongside a story structure that tells…
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still struggle to comprehend how human beings were able to create something like this.
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one of those movies where the first time i saw it i was like hm i can tell this isnt working for me because it’s a me problem. my bad yall #accountability. very sick + legible car choreography
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Prepping for Furiosa. This gets better on each watch. The sustained manic pacing is just masterful.
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