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[YMS] So I just saw Mad Max: Fury Road and
it was a lot of fun. If I were rating this

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movie based on how much fun I had I'd be giving
it a nine out of ten. But alas, I rate movies

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based on what I feel the quality of the film
is, so no I'm not docking points because I

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had fun watching it, I just genuinely feel
as though the movie's a fun seven out of ten.

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There were a lot of aspects of the film that
were genuinely impressive, the cinematography

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was pretty great, the computer generated imagery
was used sparingly, there were some parts

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that didn't feel visually quite real but for
the most part it wasn't enough to take anybody

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out of the movie, and most of all it was just
fucking fun! It was like if Death Race 3 wasn't

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a massive piece of shit. I'm not going to
complain that there wasn't really much to

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the story, because anybody can tell that the
movie wasn't really trying to be heavily story

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driven. In all honesty if a movie is going
for the cool and fun factor I'd rather have

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it be like this one where it doesn't spend
an eternity dicking around in between the

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cool and fun scenes. In Mad Max: Fury Road
the story was just enough so that the cool

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and fun scenes didn't feel stupid and pointless.
I like how over-the-top and ridiculous it

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was and I wouldn't want the movie to be any
other way. In fact I hope the next movie goes

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even further. Believe it or not I was reminded
of Army of Darkness during the fight scene

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with the chain and the struggle for the gun.
There are a few things that irked me about

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the presentation of the movie but they were
fairly minimal. There were a few of those

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family flashback hallucination shots that
were a little cheesy, and yeah I know we're

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talking about the same movie where there's
a dude on top of the car playing electric

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guitar riding to his fucking death, but I
think it's important to differentiate between

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cheese during something fun and cool, and
cheese during something that's supposed to

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be dramatic and serious; as someone that does
a lot of editing there were a few things that

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were distracting and took me out of the film
for a bit. When slow footage is sped up to

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make it look fast some people just see slow
footage sped up to make it look fast. Trust

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me it happens more times in this movie than
you think. During some of the dialogue, characters

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were basically whispering to each other, but
they're inside a giant moving vehicle, and

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there's no shortage of earblasting engine
sounds during scenes where we see the exterior

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of the vehicles, but during the serious talk
time in the vehicles the volume of the engine

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is turned down so low in post that literally
that's all I can think about anymore:

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[Clip] I was born there.
[Clip] Why'd you leave?

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[Clip] I didn't. I was taken as a child. Stolen.
[YMS] It doesn't destroy the movie, all I'm

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saying is that when something's in the environment
that's so unironically unnatural, it is a

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little distracting. And keeping consistant
with what I said earlier, remember that these

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serious talk scenes are supposed to be serious,
meaning that distractions like those wouldn't

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be as much of an issue if they were during
the cool and fun scenes. I had the exact same

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issue in any movie where the characters are
in a supposedly loud club but they don't have

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to talk over the music. The worst example
I can think of would be from an indie movie

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called A Midsummer Night's Rave:
[Clip] I know how thirsty aspiring DJ's can

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get.
[Clip] Thank you [inaudible]

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[YMS] The best example I could think of would
be from David Fincher's The Social Network:

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[Clip] You ever think about that girl?
[Clip] What girl?

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[Clip] The girl from high school who was with
the lacrosse thing.

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[Clip] No.
[YMS] When a director has that much forethought to

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get the actors to shout in a silent room before the audio
is added in in post production, it impresses

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me enough to be giving the movie extra points.
And remember that a perfect ten rating is

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not a default that only goes lower if you
find issues with the movie, a default rating

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for me is five out of ten and then any achievements
that a film has to offer bring it higher.

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And I've gotta say I was impressed by what
the film had to offer. Having seen the first

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two Mad Max a long time ago, this one was
a lot more entertaining. If there's one thing

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I remember about those older ones, it's that
they had a much slower pace. That and the

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villains were comically homosexual. Should
society get enraged over the sexual orientation

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or gender of the villains or heroes? No. I
honestly wish I could have watched Mad Max:

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Fury Road without all of those clickbait websites
making a big fuss over the character's genders,

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because to me this movie had nothing to do
with gender issues at all. You could have

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swapped the genders of literally every character
except the pregnant one and I wouldn't have

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felt any different about the movie. Having
a specific gender or sexual orientation being

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portrayed in a positive or negative light
in a film might affect me more if it was,

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hm, I don't know, not set in a post-apocalyptic
fantasy world where everyone including the

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main character has lost their fucking minds?
A group of men or a group of women or a group

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of gay people should not be taken as an accurate
reflection of society. They're just these

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things called "characters", and while it is
possible that George Miller wrote this screenplay

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with the explicit intent of painting certain
genders in certain lights, at no point did

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it feel forced and out of place. Why don't
we just view people as human beings again?

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Oh right, it's because anger sells and the
one way to get everybody arguing at each other

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over something is to turn it into a gender
issue, I forgot. And yes the clickbait websites

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are just as guilty as the idiot they were
quoting, who by the way never actually saw

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the movie before writing it. You realise you
can find people saying stupid shit about anything

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on the Internet, and that by putting them
on a pedestal you're essentially generating

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the controversy yourselves? Doesn't matter,
money. Gender debates are the new big thing

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right now, so we'll jump on literally any
opportunity to get you fired up about them

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so you'll share the link and give us money.
When I have criticisms to make about a film,

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I try to keep my criticisms in line with filmmaking
and presentation. Have we forgotten how to

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do that? Anyway, forgive me for making that
last part of my review moreso a review on

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other peoples' reviews; overall I really liked
Mad Max. I think that seven out of ten is

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a reasonable rating to give it. Who knows,
I might even bump it up to an eight the next

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time I see it. If you watched the trailer
and think that looks like a lot of fun, then you'll

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probably have a lot of fun. It was a lot of
fun. It was like an amusement park ride. It

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was like riding the fun coaster in fun land.
It was a hot fun sundae. Fun fun, fun fun

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fun fun fun. It was fun. Mad Max: Fun Road:
fun out of ten. Fun fun fun, fun fun! Fun

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fun fun fun fun. Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!

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Subtitles by Steven Smith (blha303/suudo)

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mark ;_;

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wtf laugh