"I cannot strongly recommend enough that you see Mad Max: Fury Road while it is in theaters."
"It is not a typical action movie. Plus, the action is exquisitely, magnificently, gorgeously done."
"I can see where one might get [the impression that the movie is just explosions and human depravity], as there are some brilliantly vivid depictions of both. But it is a very human story about redemption, the need to be free, the determination to keep fighting against evil in the face of certain doom, and about how men should fight FOR women, not ABOUT them. The women do some hellacious fighting of their own as well. In the same way that Harry Potter is a story about friendship, love, and sacrifice, told in the context of magic, wizards, and enchantments, Fury Road is a story of humans fighting for their most basic human right, freedom from tyranny, in the context of a gorgeously displayed wasteland. I'm telling you, you have to trust me.
"If y'all see it and are dissatisfied, I'll send you a check to cover your tickets"
.......
Aaaaaand, I use his words because I have none of my own.
It's the only film I've seen that takes full advantage of the medium and produces a work of art that cannot be translated into any other medium.
Or maybe it was an experience so different from every other movie experience that I don't know how to describe it.
When I think about the movie, I feel the same way I feel about the Old Testament- it's so full of the truth of the human story that it makes me feel all the emotions.
The movie appealed so well to the truth of reality that Logan and I didn't have anything to talk about after we saw it, except how awesome it was. And that's a first for us. We usually talk about movies for hours after we see them, because we see them from different perspectives. Fury Road was so precise in it's storytelling that we had nothing to discuss. Every scene we brought up just made us both go quite again and say, "Wow."
It's the first movie either of us has ever seen that did not have blatant lies in it. In fact, I have yet to identify even a subtle lie from that movie....
I'm going to have to think about this one for a long time.
There has to be a way to articulate why everyone says it's worth watching.
And, I mean, the cars and stunts were real:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-12/every-killer-car-in-mad-max-fury-road-explained
