Nick Alexander Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Better than both movies. Quote Nick Alexander Keynote, Worship Leader, Comedian, Parodyist Host of the Prayer Meeting Podcast - your virtual worship oasis. (Subscribe) Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted August 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Russ Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 On Blu-Ray in less than a month! I expected to be waiting until the Christmas season! Quote --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to post Share on other sites
SDG Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Fury Road is now available for purchase via Amazon Instant and other services. I've now finally seen it twice, and the second viewing, along with all of the discussion around the film, has gone a long way toward reinforcing the positives and diminishing the negatives around my first impression of the film. This week I wrote a follow-up to my original review. In addition to the connections I draw below to recent news stories about the Islamic State and the Planned Parenthood undercover videos, I also write about sexism in Hollywood action movies and the objectification of women in advertising and pornography. "We are not things": Mad Max: Fury Road and commodifying human life In another movie, a line like “We are not things” could be a platitude, but in the context of vividly imagined atrocities with unnerving echoes of recent headlines, this simple affirmation is fraught with topical power that has only grown in the months since the film’s theatrical debut. Most obviously, the sexual enslavement of women by the monstrous leader of the cultish horde of the Citadel resonates with the sex slavery practices of the Islamic State newly highlighted in yesterday’s New York Times story by Rukmini Callimachi. In other respects, too, the Citadel cult suggests radical Islamism, especially its blend of fanatical religious fervor and nihilistic violence, with ignorant, brainwashed would-be martyrs ready to kill and die to be welcomed into paradise (here Valhalla) as well as its tyrannical social control and the crushing ignorance of its adherents, whom we discover can be quite human when separated from the system that formed them. The depiction of exploitative industrial commodification of bodily tissue has acquired new relevance in light of the ongoing release of undercover videos revealing how Planned Parenthood harvests and sells organs and even intact fetal cadavers, in some cases allegedly without maternal consent. (“Was it a male?” asks the villain as a character performs an emergency C-section on a dead or dying mother whose child has also died. “Your A-1 alpha prime,” confirms the surgeon, the “Organic Mechanic.” Viewers who have seen the Planned Parenthood videos may be reminded of the medical worker remarking “Another boy!” while processing post-abortion fetal tissue.) Quote “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” — Flannery O'ConnorWriting at the new Decent Films | Follow me on Twitter and Facebook Link to post Share on other sites
John Drew Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 (edited) Edited July 9, 2017 by John Drew Quote Formerly Baal_T'shuvah "Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much." - Maude Harold and Maude Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted August 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Attica Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 George Miller has more Mad Max films plannedBut although he’s planning out the next chapter in Max’s story, he emphasizes that it’ll be a while before the next film arrives. “I want to do a small film without special effects before I do any of that, just to do it quickly,” he told Top Gear. “We shot Fury Road for eight months… that’s a lot. Every day in the heat and the dust, doing these stunts, it’s very wearing. We’ve got two more planned, but at some point in the future.” Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tyler Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 The National Board of Review just named Fury Road its Best Film of the year. Quote It's the side effects that save us. --The National, "Graceless"Twitter Blog Link to post Share on other sites
Overstreet Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 Quote P.S. I COULD BE WRONG. Takin' 'er easy for all you sinners at lookingcloser.org. Also abiding at Facebook and Twitter. Link to post Share on other sites
morgan1098 Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 I don't see near as many movies as you reviewer guys, but I'd put Fury Road and Love and Mercy at the top of my list for this year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Arkadin Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Nice! I can get behind that selection. Quote I've Seen That Movie Too Link to post Share on other sites
Tyler Posted December 14, 2015 Report Share Posted December 14, 2015 Producer Doug Mitchell said the black-and-white version might come to theaters next year. Quote It's the side effects that save us. --The National, "Graceless"Twitter Blog Link to post Share on other sites
Evan C Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 My pick for Best Picture http://www.patheos.com/blogs/1morefilmblog/my-best-picture-choice-mad-max-fury-road/ Quote "Anyway, in general I love tragic artists, especially classical ones.""Even the forms for expressing truth can be multiform, and this is indeed necessary for the transmission of the Gospel in its timeless meaning."- Pope Francis, August 2013 interview with Antonio Spadaro Link to post Share on other sites
Buckeye Jones Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Kinda like a regular spambot that takes over the page, but not able to really overwhelm it. Quote I have Flickritis Link to post Share on other sites
John Drew Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 I have an awesome niece, who just gave me this belated Christmas gift! Quote Formerly Baal_T'shuvah "Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much." - Maude Harold and Maude Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Mayward Posted May 12, 2020 Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 This oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road is very interesting, and (at least for me) often quite touching. Quote cinemayward.com | twitter Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Posted May 14, 2020 Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 On 5/12/2020 at 5:19 PM, Joel Mayward said: This oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road is very interesting, and (at least for me) often quite touching. Thanks for passing that along; it's a great read. Much as I love Inception (and its understory of grieving a lifetime lived in a brief intense relationship meant a lot to me at the time), I nonetheless esteem Fury Road as the best action film of the 2010s. I can watch and rewatch that sucker, and remain gobsmacked by its world creation, stuntwork, oddball dialogue, and subtexts. It truly is a masterpiece. Quote To be an artist is never to avert one's eyes. - Akira Kurosawa https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularcinephile/ Link to post Share on other sites
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