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If we're gonna be honest, I think they brought out his character really well. The guy's main motivation ever since the last 10 minutes of the 1st movie is just to survive in his PTSD-addled state and not have to deal with weirdos, which apparently in a post-apocalyptic hellscape are difficult to avoid. He's a hero in the most involuntary, reluctant way possible, and I think this movie showed that really well. Especially with the part where
Spoiler
he's trying to save someone's life with a blood transfusion
...you can tell it's not because he loves these people, or deeply cares about them, because he hasn't really cared about anyone since his family died...he's doing it because he wants that person to survive, and so the people that care about her don't have to go through the same pain he's going through.
Anyway, this movie was phenomenal and fun and visually beautiful and it made me want to drive into a brick wall once I left the theater. In a good way.
P.S. Just in case anyone's on the fence on whether to see this movie or not: there are multiple scenes that involve a guy on a car with 50 speakers playing a guitar that doubles as a flamethrower. It's worth a matinee showing just for that.
I've always taken the movies as Max sort of seeking out death but also having to put up a fight before he gets it. I know it isn't the widely accepted theory, but I think there's still the shakily stable world somewhere there that we saw in Mad Max. He became a killer at the end of that movie and just started driving out into the wastes beyond the line the military holds keeping folks like Humungus and Immortan Joe from wiping out the few remaining civilized spots trying to rebuild the world because he sees that as a place he belonged. Furioso said she had been gone 21 years. Clearly somewhere there is still someone running real machine shops and whatnot for their to be parts for Immorten Joe's vehicles for the nuclear war to have taken place at least 21 years before. Anyways I feel like eventually provided the movies keep making money, maybe Max can make peace with who he is, and head back to that sliver of the old world he has been hiding from all this time.
We watched it in 3-D and it was the best movie I have ever seen at the theatres!! I think my mouth was open the whole time watching it.
We are big time Mad Max fans and have watched the other 3 movies over and over. If you're a fan and like to be entertained then watch this movie!
Awesome...awesome...awesome.....
SPOILERS if you haven't seen the movie--don't read this!
I saw it today--not in 3D--but still thought it was epic...more akin to the original Mad Max--
can't say that Hardy was better than Gipson--movies are different--special effects and stunts more sophisticated and stunning...
I thought Charlize Theron was stronger/more effective/more empathetic in her character than Tom Hardy as Max--
but I think the movie is constructed more in her POV---
Max becomes her agent in working toward her goal--vs his goal--
even at the end when he suggests the change it is to bring about HER desire--not his...
Max is stoic 98% of the time---that plus manic super-human killing prowess...
Charlize does show emotion for others and grief for her own loss....
the movie isn't really constructed to let us feel what Max feels--the glimpses of the little girl and the other ghosts that lie beneath his consciousness are not developed well enough for a connect-the-dot back story to create a sense of loss really (IMO). Furiosa's show of grief is much more visceral and personal...IMO because she was striving for reunion and redemption...
For Max there was no reunion--even at the end--he was still an outsider and moving away from what might become Paradise...
of course that is the premise of his iconography...
I wanted to point to any of you who were on the fence about going to see this film. This is NOT a remake of the old Mad Max movies. Its a continuation of mad max's journey through the after affects of trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Anyway...stop hanging on the fence and go see the movie!!! It'll be the best theatre money you've ever spent. This isn't just for guys either! I'm a girl and I LOVED it and so did my female co-workers!!
Is there any difference between watching it in IMAX 3D and normal 2D?
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