Mad Max: Fury Road - Caravan of Garbage

Mel Gibson is out and Tom Hardy is in! Mad Max finally returned after a 30 year hiatus with Fury Road. This time around he's tangled himself up with Immortan Joe, a warlord of the wastelands on a vengeful quest to retrieve his stolen brides from Charlize Theron's Furiosa. And it turns out it's a pretty good movie with all its stunts and cars and punching and explosions and whatever. Thanks for checking out our review










#MadMax #Furiosa

[MadMaxBible]

Hey thanks for the shoutout!
I gotta correct you on a few things though, hope you don't mind:
5:07
Fury Road was never meant to be a 3D anime. That's Furiosa. They developed it alongside Fury Road and a Mad Max game back then, the idea being to release them all in 3 different formats. So Fury Road was the live action film, Furiosa was the 3D anime (made by Mahiro Maeda), and the game made by Miller and Cory Barlog known for God of War. Their stories were all connected. They never finished the game, WB and Avalanche picked up the pieces and made the 2015 game out of that. Furiosa was a 3D anime at first, then a short live action film, and now it's a new movie we're gonna see next month!
20:40
That skull was definitely not made as a reference to the Gyrocaptain. I talked to the guy who made it (Olivier Pauwels), but I don't think he wants this myth to be debunked. It is a real human skull though with real teeth from a wild pig.
21:34
Ok this is hilarious because I talked to John Howard and his casting is directly connected to Bert Newton. There's a whole story to it and I'll get to it within this decade but you can ask him about it, he'll tell you :)
Brilliant video once again, can't wait for your take on Furiosa!
Cheers!

[ThendDoctor]

I like to think the ending was changed because, with Charlize and Tom on a platform 50 feet above the ground with no railings, they couldn't guarantee that one of them wouldn't be pushed off.

[lrrroftheplanetomicronpersei]

Caravan of Garbage is slowly becoming just a way for James and Maso to drop obscure local references

[teddy-flhm]

I feel incredibly betrayed in learning that his name is in fact Max Rockatansky and not Madthew Max

[jameseglavin]

The Danny Devito shaking his head meme is an amazing addition to the editing language of this channel, kudos to the editors for being consistently amazing

[godlaydying]

When two stuntpeople get married, instead of a bouquet the bride throws a stick of dynamite over her shoulder while the bride and groom walk away, and when the church explodes they don't turn around.

[thelastholdout]

For anyone who tries to complain that there are no character arcs in general and for Max in particular, I'm going to disabuse you of that notion really quick:

1. Max's character arc is all about rediscovering humanity and connection with other people. He directly states in the beginning that he's reduced to survival instinct; he's basically a feral animal. The way Furiosa gets him to allow everyone on the War Rig is not by telling him about how far he can get with the truck or how bad Immortan Joe is, it's about getting the muzzle off his face, which is an immediate concern that computes for him. He initially doesn't tell Furiosa his name (and amusingly, she chooses to call him "Fool") because it doesn't matter. By the end, he's not only recovered enough to be able to plan ahead and come up with the scheme to take the Citadel, but he tells Furiosa his name before the end.

2. Furiosa is all about redemption and reclaiming the life that was stolen from her. She's clearly had to do fucked up things in order to become an Imperator, and rescuing the Brides and getting back to the Green Place become her all consuming goals. She has to learn to trust Max and, eventually, move beyond the despair of discovering the Green Place is gone. Her childhood is gone. Her innocence is lost. They cannot be recovered. However, she can build a new life as an adult; it may not be as ideal as the Green Place was, but she'll have friends and still be in a comfortable position at the Citadel. She gets her redemption, and her justice, as Immortan Joe's replacement.

3. Nux. Yes, Nux. Nux is a War Boy, part of a death cult built on a foundation of toxic masculinity. The closest thing he has to a friend is Slit, which still comes across as a very chest thumping, angry rivalry more than anything. His goal is a glorious death; dying while doing Immortan Joe's bidding is the only way he can access paradise. However, he fails at this and hits a wall of despair similar to Furiosa's. And in that moment, when all is lost to him, he's shown actual tenderness and empathy by Capable. It's the first time he's ever experienced such treatment, and it's like water in the desert-he immediately latches onto it and drinks from it fully, and becomes loyal to Capable and the others from then on. By the end of the movie, he's lost the desire to die and instead has something to live for- a future life with Capable. And just as he's ready to begin that life, Rictus literally rips it out from underneath him. At that point, in a cruel twist of irony, Nux has the opportunity to die that glorious death. His final, choked out "Witness me" says it all. This is no longer what he *wants, * but it's what he *needs* to do. He flips the War Rig, killing himself and stopping Joe's convoy from pursuing everyone. It's a beautiful tragedy.

So there you go, there's the essay on Fury Road's character arcs. If you read this far, congratulations. You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

[wstine]

The highlight of the movie was that guy playing the flaming guitar on the truck with the percussion playing on the back.

[samusfan]

I just heard a quote a reviewer said about this, "I can't believe this movie isn't still being made and that multiple people aren't dead because of it." It just feels like a triumph all around.

[MetalheadSean]

No way WBs legal defense was essentially 'We wanted you to make a bad Max Max but actually you made a good Mad Max' 😭

[Novur]

Fun Fact for the etymologically inclined: to "fang it" comes from Juan Manuel FANGIO, an Argentinian Formula One driver who won five world championships in the 50s

[mbryson]

My mother is a cinephile who enjoys all genres; we've seen all kinds of movies together in the theater since I was a little kid.

We saw MMFR for her 76th birthday. Both of us were astonished and hugely entertained. The audience was great, too, I rarely hear that much cheering and it had been decades since I'd heard applause at the end.

We did our usual dinner and discuss after. As she watched she'd figured out that the film flowed so well because of the character framing. She's definitely the reason I became a movie geek.

[ShatteredAutomaton]

My favorite Australian slang is when the girl looks back at Joe and says "shlanga"

[logandh]

Damn, I never knew Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy couldn’t get along making this, that’s kind of sad. They played off each other so well, you didn’t get that feeling at all

[benwasserman]

It's funny how Fury Road makes The Road Warrior's already impressive truck chase sequence look tame by comparison. This movie starts itself at 11 and somehow ends up at 15 by the final act.

[colecrewreview]

Did you know that the Green Place originally featured blue plants in an earlier script but was thrown out due to logistical issues. This is what caused the working title of this movie to be “Blue Harvest”

[FordFourD-aka-FordD]

What I love about this movie is that *they storyboarded EVERY SINGLE SHOT* — that's why it looks so well composed and cinematically intentional.

[cadd]

I am once again on my knees, begging for the fifth element caravan of garbage!!

[conorkirbymacguill]

I wrote a final essay in uni on how this movie could be viewed as an inversion of the abduction of helen myth, with Immortan Joe rallying fellow warlords to pursue and take back his wives being akin to Menelaus and the greek kings pursuing paris

[themindofceline]

I like to think that max' unplacable accent is the result of him being on his own and not having talked to anyone in so long