From Mastermind Stanley Kramer

July 15, 2015 2:29 PM

It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road
posted by brundlefly (26 comments total)

This is beautiful.
posted by The Whelk at 2:44 PM on July 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

Not mediocre in any sense. Lovely, in fact.
posted by The Nutmeg of Consolation at 3:05 PM on July 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

I watch, I laugh, I watch again.
posted by saturday_morning at 3:08 PM on July 15, 2015 [9 favorites]

A good idea executed with greatness.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:17 PM on July 15, 2015 [4 favorites]

I'd pay to see a Thomas Hardy / Spencer Tracey cage fight.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:21 PM on July 15, 2015 [1 favorite]

Holy crap that was a fantastic edit.
posted by Spatch at 3:41 PM on July 15, 2015 [1 favorite]

My day is made, sir.
posted by vrakatar at 3:54 PM on July 15, 2015

Where is that opening??? I gotta see it now!!!
posted by njohnson23 at 3:59 PM on July 15, 2015

So good.
posted by SkinnerSan at 4:17 PM on July 15, 2015

in 1964, when I was 11, I went on my own, maybe for the first time, to see a movie. It was the original 'It's a mad X3 world' at the local bijou. I remember that it was an afternoon show, and the ticket probably cost 37 1/2 'Agorot' (or 'grushim' in Hebrew). I was sitting toward the end of the small theater. I was laughing so hard and so loud that the usher kept coming to my row, and threatened to throw me out if I don't turn it down.
A few months ago I was at exactly the same spot with my daughter, and in the corner where the old Orot cinema was, there stood a regular apartment building.
Now I want to see this movie again so bad.
posted by growabrain at 4:46 PM on July 15, 2015 [9 favorites]

Sweet. As an aside, Jonathan Winters tearing up that garage is my favorite film sequence of all time.
posted by CincyBlues at 5:01 PM on July 15, 2015 [3 favorites]

Oh what a day. What a lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely day.
posted by grimjeer at 6:06 PM on July 15, 2015 [1 favorite]

Such a great movie; I have such a thing for those giant bloated road-show extravaganzas from the sixties.
posted by octothorpe at 6:32 PM on July 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

This is perfect.
posted by putzface_dickman at 7:27 PM on July 15, 2015

Two things I love! (In the case of IAMMMMW, so much I bought the domain and put up a little tribute site, years back.)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:49 PM on July 15, 2015 [1 favorite]

I didn't really think that the Mad Max dialog really worked very well with It's a Mad, Mad, though. IAMMMMW, is such a joyous, fun film, I didn't really like having it weighed down by all that modern grim-darkness of Mad Max.
posted by octothorpe at 8:07 PM on July 15, 2015

I haven't even watched it with the sound on and I'm loving it. Nothing to do with the fact that I watched the Fury Road trailer every day for about a month and can recite every line and sound effect from memory, I'm sure.
posted by misterbee at 9:12 PM on July 15, 2015

That color is glorious!
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:35 PM on July 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

The reviewer in the New Yorker(a glowing review at that!) said the real roots of Fury Road are in silent cinema, specifically the daring doo of such physical bright lights as Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd etc.

Trying to think of another spectacle that owed so much to silent film what popped into my head first was It's A Mad Mad Mad World.

So yeah, a perfect fit, as it were, between two films that are more similiar than one might think at first glance.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 10:43 PM on July 15, 2015 [4 favorites]

Filed under the-sort-of-thing-I-usually-hate-and-yet-not-this-time.
posted by the bricabrac man at 4:39 AM on July 16, 2015

The reviewer in the New Yorker(a glowing review at that!) said the real roots of Fury Road are in silent cinema

The Blu-Ray is going to have a silent version of the film, as well as a black and white version.
posted by Mick at 5:52 AM on July 16, 2015 [1 favorite]

That color is glorious!

Isn't it though? Looks very Kodachrome. The Internets tell me it's Technicolor, but I don't know enough about film process to know how specific that really is. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was also super widescreen, shot in a crazy-wide 2.75:1 ratio and presented with some novel projection technology.

Mad Max: Fury Road also has amazing cinematography, but it's not as generously obvious because the palette is so brown and muddy. I'm excited for the rumored black-and-white version in home video release.
posted by Nelson at 7:55 AM on July 16, 2015

It's so much fun to watch films from the fifties and sixties when there was so much bright color in the pallet. I loved The Matrix and O Brother Where art Thou but after fifteen years of grim and serious desaturated color schemes, it's restorative to go back and watch something that has actual colors in it.
posted by octothorpe at 8:41 AM on July 16, 2015 [2 favorites]

The Internets tell me it's Technicolor,

Which leads me to learn that Technicolor is NOT a kind of film, but a beam-split and filtered process for filming and projecting color images with B&W film.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:09 AM on July 16, 2015

The 'IAMMMMW' trailer's worth a few minutes of your time. (That cast!)
posted by On the Corner at 12:29 AM on July 17, 2015

ROAD WARS - The Imperator Strikes Back. It's the Star Wars/Fury Road mash up you didn't realize you needed to see.

Now I need to see ones for Lawrence of Arabia, Indiana Jones, and Monty Python.
posted by euphorb at 8:08 AM on July 19, 2015 [1 favorite]