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Fast And Furious - Perfect Popcorn Picture
The fast and furious franchise is by no means one of the greatest of all time and the films are never of astounding acting or revolutionary direction however they forfill their purpose perfectly. This franchise reason for continuation is that it’s a popcorn flick which suits the summer movie season. It has mass appeal because of its gigantic action scenes which they manage to continuously up the anti of. Each next instalment has you wondering how they will make an even bigger spectical.
Whilst the acting isn’t going to get any Oscar nominations the cast has a great chemistry (when they aren’t fighting one another backstage) which pushes the running message of family. The film also has a clear understanding of who are its stars (The Rock, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker [may he rest in peace] and the newcomer Jason Statham) yet it doesn’t let them overshadow the secondary characters (Tyrese, Ludicrous, Michelle Rodriguez). I do believe they have added too many characters into the franchise making it hard for everyone to be unique and have character development. Yet having so many characters means their is more representation of each demographic, this means more people are going to show up to watch your movie as they are reflected in it. I think that this franchise shows Hollywood how you can have diversity (in both race and gender) without it feeling like tokenism.
From the first film which focused on the realistic aspects of the world of underground street racing it was Fast Five which breathed life into this B rated franchise. It did this by making it unrealistic; and by adding The Rock. These impossible aspects is what turned the franchise into a popcorn series and made it reach the heights that it has today.
Being a popcorn picture is not a bad thing after all the Fast and Furious franchise just keeps making more and more money with the mose recent instalment (Fate of the Furious) earning over a billion at the box office, guaranteeing the franchises future. Also by being a popcorn picture you’re more likely to have a fanbase which means more movies, more money. Who wouldn’t want that?
That moment when you finally understand what it means for someone to be so pretty it hurts
Lets be real...
...Charlize Theron looked amazing tonight.
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Elizabeth B.
"We are not things… We are not things!"
The reviews are finally in! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is an explosive, high-octane, runaway hit with a surprising yet refreshingly strong and welcome feminist message among film critics! Have no fear: this truly is a very LOVELY DAY!
"A relentless action spectacle that will dazzle audiences with its visceral torque and blazing vehicular madness... [George Miller] takes a traditionally testosterone-fueled series and reimagines it as a kind of feminist manifesto with much on its mind... 'Fury Road' might be the most intense and bruising action ride of the year, but the film also moves like a speeding maniac in possession of big and provocative ideas — ideas it scatters out the window while it’s moving at breakneck speeds... Come for the blistering, full-tilt action, stay for the thought-provoking consideration of the post-apocalypse... ‘Fury Road’ is ultimately a satisfying and ferocious piece of machinery; its batshit badassness should provoke primal screams of joy in even the most ardent and hardcore action purists."
— Rodrigo Perez @ The Playlist
"In a movie season exhaustingly cluttered with never-ending superhero sagas and reboots, ‘Fury Road’ arrives, despite its pedigree, as a daring, fascinating, thrilling jolt of original energy. It’s invigorating the way a big cinema spectacular should be, reveling in the medium’s towering possibilities, and transporting us to a thoroughly realized world that’s wholly unlike our own... We’re not talking about a particularly profound film here—survival is its chief big, blockish theme—but it is the rare mega-budget movie that has both heft and playfulness; it’s dark but fun, a churning orgy of sand and fire that pirouettes with balletic grace. It’s startlingly well-choreographed, impossibly nimble for all its heavy metal-and-bone construction... The film’s musculature is both lean and intricate, to supremely satisfying effect. It’s a crunching, grinding thing, ornate and ludicrous, that somehow still glides. ‘Fury Road’ is a bracing, nervy, weirdo adventure that more than lives up to its beautifully cut trailers. I doubt there will be a more rousing potential blockbuster released this summer. Go see it. It’s maddeningly good."
— Richard Lawson @ Vanity Fair
"In any other movie those women would be background noise, showing up just to be menaced/sexually assaulted. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ isn’t any other movie, and the Five Wives — Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton — each get their own character arcs and moments, and each react to their situation differently. Some fight, some cower, some want to return to the familiarity of their abuse, but all react as humans, not as plot devices. “We Are Not Things,” they write on the wall of their chamber before escaping. This is where the film’s surprising feminism shines through. Max isn’t the savior of these women, Furiosa is. It’s about women helping women, and Max is there as a (reluctant) ally. There’s a question that lingers over the whole film, “Who killed the world?,” and the answer, of course, is men. And they continue to grind it down ever further, and so Furiosa takes the women away in search of a Green Place, where a woman warrior group known as the Vulvani live. In the world of ‘Mad Max’, women can have traditional female qualities—they’re life givers, they’re caretakers—while also kicking copious amounts of ass and riding around on cool motorcycles."
— Devin Faraci @ Badass Digest
"We live in an era in which the word ‘awesome’ can be used to describe a fast food sandwich, so perhaps we have either become immune to hyperbole, or perhaps our standards are far too low. In either case, into this jaded epoch power-slides ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, a film that actively tries to be one of the greatest action movies ever made, and actually succeeds... Let that sink in. George Miller’s long-awaited fourth film in the ‘Mad Max’ series achieves what few action movies even dare to attempt: a nerve-jangling adrenaline freakout, packed to the gills with amazing (and real) stunt work, exciting characters, luxurious cinematography and manic detail... It’s smart and thoughtful but more than anything else, it is an experience that must be seen to be believed. No hyperbole, no joke: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is the real deal, the kind of superlative action filmmaking that rips away at our collective acceptance of mediocrity. The bar has been raised, and it is the definition of awesome."
— William Bibbiani @ Crave Online
"’Mad Max: Fury Road’ may well be the “Götterdämerung” of drive-in movies. It has its roots in the Western and the post-apocalyptic road-rage action saga, but it also feels like an epic mic-drop, where Miller dares anyone else to follow in his tire treads.... If nothing else, this could be the movie that kills the blue-and-orange color scheme, if only because no one else is ever going to blue-and-orange as hard as ‘Fury Road’ does... Despite the testosterone on display here, it’s girl power that fuels a great deal of ‘Fury Road’, with some indelible moments provided by a talented ensemble of actresses both young and more experienced... Miller redefined action cinema with ‘The Road Warrior’, and it’s no stretch to suggest that ‘Fury Road’ ups the ante on what the genre might deliver in the future."
— Alonso Duralde @ The Wrap
"What compounds the fun is Fury Road’s wholesale rejection of the generally accepted blockbuster code of conduct, which dictates that expensive films have to be marketable to teenagers but still watchable by eight-year-olds in order to maximise box-office returns... Enormous, naked women are milked like cattle, dwarfs are hoisted on palanquins, and men as pale and gaunt as Méliès aliens are knocked out, gnawed on, sawn up and catapulted through explosions. Imagine if Cirque du Soleil reenacted a Hieronymus Bosch painting and someone set the theatre on fire. This is more or less what Miller has come up with... Few people, surely, were expecting robust feminism from the new ‘Mad Max’ film – yet here we are, and Theron’s character is far from the only instance of it. See also Immortan’s escaping wives, who may be young and sylphlike, but are the opposite of damsels in distress, and play an instrumental part in their own dash for freedom..."
— Robbie Collin @ The Daily Telegraph
"All these goofy, psychotic tribes outfitted like thrash-metal gladiators battling over the last dregs of petrol in jerry-built hot-rods. The brand name refers not only to its tortured hero — it is a statement of intent. And now, with $150 million-plus change at his disposal and the devil’s gleam in his eye, Miller has surely achieved maximum madness... Miller has put all the money, all the perverse and poetic flights of his imagination, on the screen. The scope is more operatic, the attitude still punk rock. It’s almost as if a petrol-head David Lynch has been given license to despoil the homogenised blueprint of the modern blockbuster. Racing into a gigantic, surreal sandstorm, the pursuit is assaulted by forks of lightning, tornadoes and scarlet fireballs, an echo of the nuclear holocaust that has left the world mad... ‘Fury Road’ is a defiantly, at times deliriously, cinematic experience. Utilising 3,500 storyboards, 480 hours of raw footage, multiple frame rates, handhelds, swooping cranes, crash zooms, a blithe disregard for the personal safety of a garrison of stuntmen and the tangible bulk of real metal being hurled about at ridiculous speeds, he has created a symphony of destruction. IMAX will melt your brain."
— Ian Nathan @ Empire Magazine
"Vastly more complex on a technical scale but simpler on a conceptual one, “Fury Road” is, for all intents and purposes, a two-hour car chase interrupted by a brief stretch of anxious downtime, and realized with the sort of deranged grandiosity that confirms Miller’s franchise has entered its decadent phase. All the more remarkable, then, that the movie still manages to retain its focus, achieving at once a shrewd distillation and a ferocious acceleration of its predecessors’ sensibility. There is gargantuan excess here, to be sure — and no shortage of madness — but there is also an astonishing level of discipline... The feminist undercurrents rippling through this movie are by turns sincere, calculated and teasingly tongue-in-cheek: Our first good glimpse of the Wives, clad in skimpy white rags and gathered around a water spout, plays like a vision out of “Girls Gone Wild: Coed Car Wash.” Even when they join in the fight, it can be hard to tell where erotic fantasy ends and empowerment fantasy begins, which is very much in keeping with the film’s unapologetically grindhouse attitude. Yet if “Fury Road” doesn’t deliver as pure a hit of girl-power retribution as say, Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof,” it’s hard not to respect the dramatic stature with which Miller elevates his female characters; Huntington-Whiteley and Kravitz, in particular, embody the sort of quiet defiance that ensures these women, though victimized, are never reduced to mere victims."
— Justin Chang @ Variety
"The first two [Mad Max] features ran barely 90 minutes, and it takes guts and real confidence to dare push a straight chase film with very little dialogue to two hours. But Miller has pulled it off by coming up with innumerable new elements to keep the action compelling: The pitiless mindset of a brutish-minded society; bending poles sticking up from vehicles that allow marauders atop them to by lowered into enemy trucks for hand-to-hand combat; an insane heavy metal guitarist affixed to one of the Citadel's rigs, whose raucous wailing and flame-throwing ability perfectly express this world's extremity; and a central woman, missing one arm, who's as tough-minded as any man but also retains a special link to a remote society of women she intends to find..."
— Todd McCarthy @ The Hollywood Reporter
"Extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the top, George Miller has revived his ‘Mad Max’ punk-western franchise as a bizarre convoy chase action-thriller in the post-apocalyptic desert... It’s like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ revamped by Hieronymus Bosch, with a dab of Robert Rodríguez’s ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’... Dialogue is at a minimum, and when Max says anything it is usually preceded by an eccentric rumbling, mumbling mmmm sound, like a macho Mr. Bean. He is impassive, to say the least: the nearest Tom Hardy’s Max comes to an emotional outburst is when Splendid does something very brave while hanging on to the side of the truck. Max gives her a little smile and boyish thumbs-up. It’s the Mad Max equivalent of hugging her and declaiming: “Darling, your courage is magnificent.” And when Nux wishes to express defiance or euphoria, he sprays his mouth with silver-grey paint, to make his face look even more like a skull. That is pretty dysfunctional..."
— Peter Bradshaw @ The Guardian
"The first act of the film is where most of the money shots from the trailer come from, and we are clued in quickly to something rather shocking: Max isn’t the main character. Oh sure, he’s there in one form or another for the duration of the picture, but the primary action figure is Ms. Theron. Even when Max goes from a bystander to an aggressive participant, the focus remains on Theron’s would-be rescuer, and all of her charges are given agency and sympathy. You may have heard that George Miller brought in ‘Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler to consult on the film and wow does it show. ‘Fury Road’ is not a film that just uses the notion of human sex slavery for topical seasoning and/or an excuse to show quivering young girls half-naked in shipping containers or cages. It is very much about the notion of a world that has ditched most of the remnants of so-called civilized society yet has kept the patriarchal system that keeps women under the thumb of arbitrarily designated male rulers and consigns them to be no more than (often unwilling) breeders. If you’ve read me for any length of time, you’ve heard me whine about the quantity and quality of female characters in mainstream motion pictures. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is everything I say I want."
— Scott Mendelson @ Forbes
"Who KILLED the world?" "Our babies will NOT be warlords!" "We are NOT things!"
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The Five Wives of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad
Riley Keough as Capable
Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing
Abbey Lee as The Dag
Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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So Mad Max: Fury Road and Snowpiercer are basically complementary post-apocalyptic films that share a lot of socio-political themes and complex characters. Don't believe me? Well...
There's the totally badass chief protagonist without a left forearm who wants to defeat the antagonist ruling over the oppressed (Curtis Everett and Imperator Furiosa).
There's the taciturn secondary protagonist who is also great but really lets the chief protagonist do all the cool shit (Max Rockatansky and Namgoong Minsoo).
There's the brutal antagonist who abuses a position of power to control the lower class and not to mention having a really hideous set of false teeth (Minister Mason and Immortan Joe).
There's the gung-ho and eager-to-please adorable younger sidekick who ends up dying for a good cause (Nux and Edgar).
There's also the supporting female character who's never portrayed in a sexualized manner, and who's a bit weird and eccentric and has a heightened sense of awareness that allows her to see things before other people (Yona Minsoo and The Dag).
MY AMAZING FURY ROAD FAMILY YAS!
“My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.” - Mad Max: Fury Road
If you could only see The beast you've made of me I held it in, but now it seems You've set it running free The saints can't help me now The ropes have been unbound I hunt for you with bloody feet Across the hallowed ground
Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road x Harry Potter Headcanons
Imperator Furiosa
Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor. Gryffindor alum. Also a legacy member of the Vuvalini Vixens, an international and award-winning all-female Quidditch team where her mother, Mary Jo Bassa, served as lead Chaser for two decades. She is very famous in the Wizarding world because she successfully defeated a very evil Dark Wizard named Immortan Joe when she encountered him during her gap year travels in the Wasteland where he controlled an army of deranged warlocks and established a very dangerous Death cult that preyed on virginal witches. However, it was in this famous battle that she also lost her left arm due to a very powerful Severing Curse that Immortan Joe aimed at her. Undeterred by her irreversible injury, she promptly fashioned herself a fully-functional mechanical arm that never fails to impress the kids at Hogwarts. She has a slight discomfort teaching classroom theory, but definitely shines when it comes to demonstrating the practical spells in her classes. She's considered as one of the more popular teachers among the students at Hogwarts, and is fair and objective when it comes to grading students. but has a zero-tolerance policy when she catches students bullying others, especially if the victims are girls.
Max Rockatansky
Transfiguration instructor. Slytherin alum. Several rumors surround Professor Rockatansky due to his very taciturn personality and tendency to avoid socializing with his students or colleagues outside of classes. Some say he's a werewolf, even though he's been spotted several times in public during full moon nights. Some say he works undercover for the Ministry of Magic as an Unspeakable, hence his secretive and isolated nature. But the most popular story surrounding his mystique (though still largely viewed as unproven hearsay) is that he went slightly mad from the heat after accidentally Apparating himself to the Australian Outback desert and was unable to get back home for more a month, thus earning him the nickname of "Mad Max" among the students, though they use it more as an affectionate term since the students respect and admire him despite his reserved nature. He's actually quite nice and engaging whenever he's teaching classes, and has been known to crack a smile or two (and delivering rather awkward thumbs-up gestures) whenever his students successfully perform rather complicated spellwork. And even though he and Professor Furiosa share a strictly professional working relationship, that has not stopped the student body of Hogwarts from making good-natured comments about them looking really cute together.
The Splendid Angharad
Seventh Year student. Head Girl. Gryffindor. Angharad is the leader of a popular all-girls clique in the school known simply as The Five. While most girls blessed with genetically good looks would be shallow and self-centered mean girls who make fun of other people, Angharad is actually a friendly and caring pureblood witch who is well-liked by most everyone in Hogwarts. She's a very vocal advocate for student rights, regardless of their Wizarding blood status, and takes her duties as the school's Head Girl very seriously. An unfortunate Potions accident during her Fourth Year has left part of her face and arms permanently covered in a webbed pattern of scars, but this physical deformity has not diminished her inner beauty and as a result, many of the underclassmen girls look up to her as a strong and aspirational figure for positive self-esteem because she refuses to hide her scars underneath glamour or concealment charms. Besides being one of Hogwarts’ top academic students, the school administration also approves of Angharad's many helpful initiatives she has enacted over the years like setting up tutoring sessions for students having difficulties with the curriculum and strengthening international academic relations with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang by establishing an annual cultural exchange program. Needless to say, there is no doubt as to why a lot of people often call her "Splendid".
Capable
Seventh Year student. Prefect. Gryffindor. Capable is considered as the second-in-command of the Five and is also Angharad's best friend since childhood. Living up to her name, Capable is highly skilled in the magical arts—with a natural affinity for Transfiguration and Astronomy—and is known to be exceptionally talented at fixing broken things without the use of magic since she grew up in a Muggle household where her parents work as service repair attendants. Because of this, she is the school's top student when it comes to Muggle Studies and she usually fields a lot of questions from curious pureblood students about how things work outside of the Wizarding world. Apart from her responsibilities as a Prefect, Capable is the president of several extracurricular clubs and is the go-to senior student chaperone whenever the Hogwarts underclassmen take regular field trips to the Muggle world. Although she’s not as sporty as Toast, Capable was the one who introduced, adapted, and popularized the concept of cheerleading for school Quidditch, and thus, all four Houses now have permanent Quidditch Cheerleading squads. She is also responsible for taking over Angharad's duties whenever her best friend is busy with other important engagements or is otherwise sick with illness. Despite being a good girl at heart, Capable is slightly prone to being attracted to guys with a bit of a bad boy streak in them.
The Dag
Sixth Year student. Slytherin. Out of the Five, the Dag has earned a reputation for being the most eccentric student in school despite her otherworldly good looks. Originally from Beauxbatons, she transferred to Hogwarts during her Third Year when she became good friends with Angharad while the latter was on a summer holiday in France with her parents. The Dag is fiercely proud of her Veela heritage (from her mother's side) although she largely feels she could do without the constant unwanted attention that boys with no sense of boundaries often place upon her due to her inherent allure. Both serene and cynical, the Dag is a fascinating amalgamation of personalities and often surprises people by doing things that are in contrast to her exterior beauty. Unlike many other girls in the school, the Dag is interested in the most esoteric of things, dresses in a very singular style, moves with a charming mixture of grace and awkwardness, and often speaks in strange turns of phrases that range from poetic (she often describes incoming trouble as "furious fixations") to head-scratchingly crude (she can deliver the harshest of insults in her own brand of slang). And apart from Divination, the Dag consistently gets Outstanding marks when it comes to Herbology, and she is usually found reading books about magical and Muggle plants by the greenhouses or at the edge of the Forbidden Forest whenever she likes to spend some time alone.
Toast the Knowing
Sixth Year student. Quidditch Team Seeker. Ravenclaw. Despite having a tough-as-nails personality indicative of a Gryffindor student, Toast is one of Ravenclaw's best assets and has earned her moniker of "The Knowing" for many reasons. Both book smart and street smart, Toast is a reliable source of information on various topics and the other members of the Five often seek her knowledge and input whenever they do group study sessions together. Outside of her impressive academic abilities, Toast is one of the most talented Seekers that Hogwarts has ever produced, and she hopes to one day join the Vuvalini Vixens as a first-string team player after she graduates since Professor Furiosa has confided to Toast that she will give the team her glowing recommendation. Should a career in professional Quidditch not be in the cards for her, Toast is ready to execute her backup career plan of becoming a top female wandmaker since it is very rare in the Wizarding world for witches to pursue wandmaking as a skilled profession. Despite her petite frame, Toast can handle student bullies twice her size with or without the use of her wand. While her social circle primarily consists of Quidditch boys from all four Hogwarts houses, Toast is still able to get in touch with her feminine side by spending quality girl time with the rest of the Five during weekends or regular trips to Hogsmeade.
Cheedo the Fragile
Fifth Year student. Hufflepuff. As the youngest of the Five, Cheedo is largely protected by the elder members of her clique since she gets a significant amount of (mostly unwarranted) attention from hormonal boys apart from The Dag. Though she was nicknamed "Fragile" during her early years in Hogwarts (she often cried a lot due to homesickness), Cheedo has considerably toughened up as she grew older and has been known to hold her own ground whenever her best friends aren't around; using her facade of fragility to her advantage whenever bullies try to pull a fast one on her. Boasting a formidable combination of brains and beauty, Cheedo has emerged as one of Hufflepuff's star students and is often credited for earning the most points for her House every year. And ever since Capable established Quidditch Cheerleading in Hogwarts, Cheedo has tried out for the Hufflepuff team and is on track to becoming the House’s squad captain when she ascends to her Seventh Year. She also often volunteers to be the head of any committee whenever Angharad announces plans to host fun events on the school's social calendar since this allows Cheedo to showcase her leadership abilities, take on more serious responsibilities outside of classes, and prove to herself and to others that her nickname does not define who she is as a person.
Nux
Seventh Year student. Quidditch Team Chaser. Slytherin. Known for being the fastest and the most dangerous broom rider in Hogwarts, Nux has also gained school notoriety since he was a transfer student from Durmstrang during his Fourth Year. Having entered the school midway through a typical Hogwarts student's academic tenure, Nux initially had a hard time fitting in with the rest of the student body until he showed up for the Slytherin Quidditch Team tryouts where he easily defeated the competition with his death-defying broom riding and Chasing skills. Since then, he has charmed most of the Hogwarts students with his impressive Quidditch talents (along with his rakish yet boyish good looks) and is largely credited for conceiving popular battle cries on the field which has evolved into now-legendary school catchphrases ("I live! I die! I live again!" and "Witness me!") that the Slytherin Quidditch Cheerleading squad loves to incorporate in their routines. Despite his knowledge and objectively keen interest in the Dark Arts due to being educated in Durmstrang, Nux has never once been inclined to use such negative forces in his magical studies or in everyday life. And while he does engage in typical shenanigans that is expected of mischievous adolescent boys like him, Nux has demonstrated remarkable restraint when it comes to improving his slightly mediocre grades and immature behavior considering that he hopes to catch the attention of a certain red-headed member of Hogwarts' most esteemed social group.
I cannot deny that my heart has greatly desired this...
