Originally posted by: empire
Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
Originally posted by: deathrock83
Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
2 hours of the most creative destruction I have ever seen.
Very cool, throughout. The visual work is so over the top that it burns itself into your mind and keeps replaying.
I agree completely, dude. I am curious to know if you have any complaints or criticisms that will not spoil anything for those who have not yet seen it. So far I only have a few people to talk Mad Max with!
No complaints, at all. Certainly the strongest of the Mad Max films, IMO. Read a really cool fan theory that this max is actually the feral kid from Road Warrior taking up the mantle, since that lets the years of events all stay canonical. If that is intended by Miller it is a very cool way to tie it all together.
At the end of the Road Warrior, the narrator who reveals himself to be the feral kid, says he becomes the leader of the northern tribe. It's just fan theory.
Also Miller said he's putting a black and white version of the movie on the blu ray, that should be interesting.
I think it's a pretty strong fan theory, as things go, though.
Based on the "day count" tattoo that Max gets -- it works out to 33 years, exactly -- I'm guessing is their way of counting the "post apocalypse" time (in days from the nukes, rather than years).
In other canon, Road Warrior is 2 years BEFORE the nukes go off, and Thunderdome is 15 years AFTER Road Warrior, so this puts Fury Road around 20 years AFTER Thunderdome.
The Feral Kid would be roughly the right age, and it would make a great tie-in with the early trilogy, on top of the "classic gear" that Mad Max wears and uses.
And I don't think any of that invalidates the final monologue of Road Warrior.
Think about the first 3 movies as showing the world going to hell, and no matter what Max does things only ever get worse.
And this movie is the turning point where the Feral Kid starts reassembling civilization and ultimately becomes the leader that people need.
