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Fury Road was a GD masterpiece
Fury Road was a GD masterpiece
It would be great to have you in the conversation! You have some catching up to do.Month 1: Steven Spielberg
Month 2: Martin Scorsese
Month 3: Billy Wilder
Month 4: Denis Villeneuve
Oh ####. I didn't know this was a thing here. I'm in.
It would be great to have you in the conversation! You have some catching up to do.Month 1: Steven Spielberg
Month 2: Martin Scorsese
Month 3: Billy Wilder
Month 4: Denis Villeneuve
Oh ####. I didn't know this was a thing here. I'm in.
Now also go to the horror countdown thread and let them know about what is and isn't horror...
Two sazarecs in, and fired up the original Mad Max. If I’ve never seen any, should I skip over this for one of the sequels?
(About 20 minutes in and these car chases are just boring the heck out of me. Is this what these movies are?)
Alright. Gave it another 15 minutes or so after my post before flipping on American Fiction. More my speed.Two sazarecs in, and fired up the original Mad Max. If I’ve never seen any, should I skip over this for one of the sequels?
(About 20 minutes in and these car chases are just boring the heck out of me. Is this what these movies are?)
Basically yes with increasingly more elaborate production values and some mythological mumbo jumbo.
I think you will enjoy some of next month, August, and Sept a bit more.Alright. Gave it another 15 minutes or so after my post before flipping on American Fiction. More my speed.Two sazarecs in, and fired up the original Mad Max. If I’ve never seen any, should I skip over this for one of the sequels?
(About 20 minutes in and these car chases are just boring the heck out of me. Is this what these movies are?)
Basically yes with increasingly more elaborate production values and some mythological mumbo jumbo.
Imo Fury Road is one of the best action movies ever. The rest of the series is ok. There’s no doubt Fury Road is the one to start with. You don’t need any backstory at allAlright. Gave it another 15 minutes or so after my post before flipping on American Fiction. More my speed.Two sazarecs in, and fired up the original Mad Max. If I’ve never seen any, should I skip over this for one of the sequels?
(About 20 minutes in and these car chases are just boring the heck out of me. Is this what these movies are?)
Basically yes with increasingly more elaborate production values and some mythological mumbo jumbo.
Ok, I just read the synopsis for Three Thousand Years of Longing. WTF? I just found what I am watching tonight.
Yep that is next on my watch list. The reviews on it are very mixed. Critics I respect have loved it and others hated it.Ok, I just read the synopsis for Three Thousand Years of Longing. WTF? I just found what I am watching tonight.
There is a clear throughline from Ford to Lean to Leone but I am not sure where it goes from there. Anyone? Connect the next dot for me.
Miller borrowed heavily but I do not believe he is the lineal chamo so to speak here.
So much of it is in the use of landscapes. The landscapes often dwarf the people themselves. Movies about people in worlds harsh lanscapes, forced to go to great extremes to survive and find meaning. An incredible patience in their storytelling. Always very deliberate with a way of being technically advanced visually without ever coming off as flashy. They aren't showboats but their films are so technically perfect, so visaully obsessed. Yet never soulless. Tarantino is too showy and too obsessed with pastiche (shout out to Wikkid). Carpenter is more Hawks to me and like QT, he's also very obsessed with genre/B movies. The Coens bring so much humor into their films. To me they are so much Preston Sturges- an truly American sense of humor but like the previous directors, they seemed to want to tap into so many past forms from Busby Berkley to The Big Sleep. Ford, Lean and Leone seem far more singular and foused to me.There is a clear throughline from Ford to Lean to Leone but I am not sure where it goes from there. Anyone? Connect the next dot for me.
Miller borrowed heavily but I do not believe he is the lineal champ so to speak here.
@Ilov80s have you ever expanded before on your Ford-Lean-Leone lineage? I don't understand what you're getting at. Even though they're on the same page of the phone book, there's a gap between Lean and Leone
I think Miller and a bunch of other modern filmmakers (e.g. Tarantino, Carpenter, the Coens) were influenced by Leone's films, both in visual style and their postmodernist twists on genre.