TWP Podcast - MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (Best Action Film In Years?)

TWP Podcast - MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (Best Action Film In Years?)

This week The Weekly Planet team are all about Mad Max: Fury Road! Plus we get into the new Supergirl trailer, Batman V Superman, Planet Of The Apes, DC's Legends Of Tomorrow, Underworld 5 and more!

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By MrSundayMovies - May 19, 2015 07:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Mad Max
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McGee
McGee - 5/19/2015, 7:46 AM

Underworld?
McGee
McGee - 5/19/2015, 7:47 AM
Yeah! What the Drunk said!

No, DrunkenNukem.
BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 5/19/2015, 7:52 AM
This movie and The Dark Knight Trilogy are the best action movies in years. Add Kingsman to that as well.
SpiderFraud
SpiderFraud - 5/19/2015, 7:57 AM
The Raid 1/2 + Mad Max Fury Road = The Only Modern Day Action Movies You Will Ever Need.
BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 5/19/2015, 7:58 AM
I thought the character development and plot were subtlety there. Every character felt in some way developed, and the plot was there as well. I don't see how it is hard to see.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/19/2015, 7:59 AM
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 8:18 AM
TANG!!!!
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 8:22 AM
Still saving a seat for ya @bropous
:)
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 8:25 AM
Mad max>>>every cbm since TDK

Its excellent.

After a half dozen of:
Tony stark is a dick to everyone/his tech is stolen or gets out of control/ a villain or antagonist with a justifiable gripe against him/ a brief moment of candor where he realises his hubris has put him and others in danger/ builds a new gadget/pledges he's seen the error of his ways/ goes back to being a dick.

Im glad to see something else.
:)
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 8:33 AM
@Gusto-

Those are my favorite chips!
They go PERFECT with "black olive and strawberry" ice cream!
;)
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 5/19/2015, 8:35 AM
One of the best movies in years
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 8:35 AM
The most surprising characer arc to me was that goofy warrior slave who started out worshipping "immortal joe"
He ended up very sympathetic
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 8:39 AM
Being the fourth max movie i dont mind at all that furiosa about stole the movie.
We alreay know max.
LEOSTRATOR
LEOSTRATOR - 5/19/2015, 8:53 AM
I doubt this is better than any Raid movie. Who honestly consider the TDK trilogy an action movie, more like a dark soap drama.

@fettastic

If they don't add anything different and new to the franchise, I'll wait and save my money. Thanks for the low down.
maxx
maxx - 5/19/2015, 9:33 AM
@JorL5150

It is the best since TDK. I still love the MCU but it is formulaic, and Fury Road was not just a different fantasy film, it was solid storytelling and brilliant filmmaking. Right on bud.
gaikinger
gaikinger - 5/19/2015, 9:37 AM
Dredd + Fury Road, now thats a double feature!
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 10:05 AM
@maxx

Exactly. Mad max made me bored with the usual summer popcorn movies
Kind of already was.

@gaiking
DREDD should have been more violent.
;)
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 5/19/2015, 11:09 AM
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD....

Speechless.
ManThing
ManThing - 5/19/2015, 12:05 PM
It was a great movie and I would recommend it to anyone.

BUT what people are saying about too much Furiosa and not enough Max is pretty much accurate. I totally get why Miller did it that way, but at the same time if you make a movie about a character it should be about that character.

ManThing
ManThing - 5/19/2015, 12:10 PM
@ fettastic: You don't understand Mad Max.
When it comes to story telling and plot, you just can't ask too much from these films. That has never been it's strong point and it's not supposed to be.
It's MEANT to be a simple, harsh tale of a lone warrior in the apocalypse. And the strength of them lays entirely in the atmosphere, the harshness, the desperation, and the insane action are the goods.

And character study too takes a bit of a back seat. Max is a shell of a man. When you take a warrior and rip his heart out what you have left is a living, breathing siege engine; the fight is all that's left. So there's not a lot to learn about him.
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 12:26 PM
Seeing it again thursday
MyNameIsKhan
MyNameIsKhan - 5/19/2015, 12:57 PM
Haven't seen any of The Raid movies but IMO Fury Road is the best action flick I've seen in years.
CCR
CCR - 5/19/2015, 1:16 PM
Yes the movie was pretty damn awesome....and imo tops The Road Warrior, the best of the originals. Lots of blood and fire in basically one long, crazy car chase. And the soundtrack/guitar guy was INSANE!!! You're missing out if not seeing it in the theater, just saying.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 5/19/2015, 3:21 PM
@fettastic

I think you missed the point if you're going to rip on the plot. The plot was simple on purpose, but despite that it was still very interesting and it made sense why people would do what they would do.

The characters were developed great too and they all fit seamlessly into this world.

A redo of the 3rd act of The Road Warrior? Well, yes it was!!
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/19/2015, 5:47 PM
GREAT MOVIE!!!
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 6:31 PM
Marvelite-

It just means im seeing the same thing over and over with that series
And its the "BIG BIG YOURE NOT COOL IF YOU DONT WORSHIP" series that max is competing with this last week
JorL5150
JorL5150 - 5/19/2015, 6:31 PM
Also-
Did you get your TANG today?
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