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Mad Max: Fury Road -

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Feels like i'm the last person in the world to watch this. I've not seen any of the other Mad Max's in years and i was never a massive fan of them as a kid (maybe i'd like them more now) so i didn't have any of the problems the fans of those seem to have; Tom Hardy didn't play Max right and whatever else. I just took it on its own merits and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Thought both Max and Furiosa were great, i suppose i can see peoples problems with Max if he wasn't similar enough to Mel Gibsons version but i really don't get why some didn't like Furiosa, i liked her alot. I enjoyed them starting to trust and understand each other more, i think their relationship was one of my favourite things in the film actually. Nicholas Hoult surprised me i thought he was good, i actually didn't realize it was him until the Immortan looked at me part, loved how persistent and seriously brainwashed he was; he was good insight into all of the war boys mentalities. Joe was a pretty good villain, i liked how despite him being in power through brainwashing/using these younger people to do his bidding he was willing to go out and retrieve his wives himself and he was pretty intimidating. There was something weird that i liked about the fact he completely cared about his wives and unborn children despite being easily able to replace them; i thought that was a good touch how he tried to save Argharad (sp?) and how he swerved out of the way of her when she fell in front of his vehicle. Loved how nasty and crazy most of the characters were; actually how nasty,crazy and horrible the world was in general. This made the pursuit geniunely exciting because the idea of them getting caught be these horrible, brutal people was terrifying. Think the score helped a good deal towards that as well. Excellent action too, action isn't something that important to me anymore but i thought it was great how this knew exactly what it wanted to be and it never shyed away from it; with constant excitement all the way through. Some parts were a bit tedious to me like the fight between Furiosa and Max when they first met; it went on way too long (the whole scene the fighting parts weren't that long) but thankfully there wasn't too much of that that would've ruined the film for me. Spectacular visuals as well. Also just want to say that crazy guy playing the guitar was the best character, every time it cut to him i cracked up