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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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crazy canuck

#39195
March 12, 2018, 01:27:00 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 12, 2018, 01:01:20 PM
I guess if you want to reduce a movie like that, you're not going to enjoy much of anything.

Romeo and Juliet - boy meets girl, fall in love and commit suicide. 

May have missed a couple of plot points.

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#39196
March 12, 2018, 03:52:57 PM
Quote from: The Brain on March 12, 2018, 03:09:34 AM
I didn't get Fury Road.

Thats because it's OK. Not the best action movie of this century.
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#39197
March 12, 2018, 03:53:50 PM
Godfather - mob boss gets shot, son gets whacked, other son takes over.
Godfather 2 - other bad guys plot against son, he turns the table and whacks them all, then has brother shot.

Hey this is fun.

Citizen Kane - jerk marries bad singer and builds opera house, says "rosebud" but it's just a McGuffin.
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Tamas

#39198
March 13, 2018, 03:16:38 AM
Fascination with the Mad Max movies have always puzzled me. They were ok at best, and most are boring.

Josquius

#39199
March 13, 2018, 03:25:03 AM
Some films are about visuals and style rather than plot.
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Eddie Teach

#39200
March 13, 2018, 05:00:27 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 13, 2018, 03:16:38 AM
Fascination with the Mad Max movies have always puzzled me. They were ok at best, and most are boring.

Way to change the subject.
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celedhring

#39201
March 13, 2018, 08:22:46 AM
You don't need lots of plot in order to have a good story. I think Fury Road manages that.

Certainly if you don't enjoy it that's totally fine.

garbon

#39202
March 13, 2018, 08:54:46 AM
Quote from: celedhring on March 13, 2018, 08:22:46 AM
You don't need lots of plot in order to have a good story. I think Fury Road manages that.

Certainly if you don't enjoy it that's totally fine.

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#39203
March 13, 2018, 11:00:57 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 13, 2018, 03:16:38 AM
Fascination with the Mad Max movies have always puzzled me. They were ok at best, and most are boring.

No one's talking about "the Mad Max movies". We're talking about Fury Road.
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Barrister

#39204
March 13, 2018, 11:09:34 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 13, 2018, 11:00:57 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 13, 2018, 03:16:38 AM
Fascination with the Mad Max movies have always puzzled me. They were ok at best, and most are boring.

No one's talking about "the Mad Max movies". We're talking about Fury Road.

I kind-of agree with Tamas about Fury Road.  Maybe it was just the expectations game - from places like Languish I was told it was going to be some truly epic action movie.  I found it perfectly serviceable but kind of silly - Doof Warrior in particular.

As for "the Mad Max movies"...  Road Warrior and the first half of Beyond Thunderdome are excellent, and clearly more than "ok at best".  Second half of Thunderdome just kind of loses the plot and comes unglued, while the original Mad Max... is just a really low budget Australian 70s flick that I found hard to get into.
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Scipio

#39205
March 13, 2018, 11:25:37 AM
Fury Road is a mistake-free action film, just like John Wick. There are literally no technical errors, and the entire plot can be discerned if you watch the film with the volume off. It's a testament to disciplined film-making, and a rejection of the Michael Bay school of garbage editing and poorly structured sight-lines, frenetic actions scenes, and busy camera work.
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#39206
March 13, 2018, 11:27:02 AM
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The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Berkut

#39207
March 13, 2018, 11:34:12 AM
Quote from: Scipio on March 13, 2018, 11:25:37 AM
Fury Road is a mistake-free action film, just like John Wick. There are literally no technical errors, and the entire plot can be discerned if you watch the film with the volume off. It's a testament to disciplined film-making, and a rejection of the Michael Bay school of garbage editing and poorly structured sight-lines, frenetic actions scenes, and busy camera work.

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Josquius

#39208
March 13, 2018, 11:40:42 AM
John Wick.... Most legit excuse for a vengeful rampage ever.
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celedhring

#39209
March 13, 2018, 11:48:48 AM
Yeah, Fury Road has probably the best-directed action scenes since... Terminator 2? Everything's so clean, yet still dynamic. No bullshit quick editing for editing's sake, no bullshit camera shaking, the camera's always where it needs to be.

I love that film.
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