I used the search function and couldn't find anything on this and was pretty surprised, the original Mad Max movies were epic, well Beyond the Thunderdome was a bit lame lol but the first two are great.
Saw the new movie on Friday, overall I really enjoyed it, even with its flaws. I think Tom Hardy is pretty decent in most movies but I'm still not sure about him as Max, maybe I will need to watch it again, but I didn't think he was as convincing as he could have been, or maybe it's just because I was expecting the racist maniac Mel Gibson-esque Max. He still played a good part and I don't think there are many other people I'd have want to have seen as Max, it probably doesn't help that the dialogue for Max seemed even more limited than ever, but perhaps that is down to the characters ever increasing madness.
I thought Charlize Theron was pretty damn good as Furiosa, better than I was expecting so probably puts her in an even better light from my view, I didn't feel it was too overly cheese with a skinny little women being fairly hard as nails.
The movie didn't ever seem slow, plenty of action, all done well, it was quite a bit weirder/crazier than I thought it would be, however it did work so hey ho, they did well with the post-apocalyptic setting. Strangely I have only one huge criticism, that fucking Guitarist with the flamethrowing guitar, yeah okay I got the picture the first time you zoomed in on him, you don't need to keep doing it, the character looked cringey as fuck in his lame pose with his attention whoring guitar and every time they kept focusing on him in a scene I cringed hard to the point of anger, it was just silly and I would have been happy to see him die a lot sooner, it seemed like something a 12 year old would find cool. In fact I'm hoping someone with good editing skills will remove most of his pointless screen time and release a Mad Max: Fury Edit like the Phantom Edit was for removing Jar Jar Binks pointless cringey bullshit from Star Wars Episode 1 lol.
Anyone else think the guitar guy was the Jar Jar Binks of Fury Road? opinions on the movie? I think I am going to have to watch it again to get a stronger opinion to be honest, but I'd say it's worth a watch even if it's not the greatest of movies.
