Mad Max: High Octane Collection (1979-2015) / Mad Max: Fury Road in B&W (2015)

[Illy Scorsese]

I watched this once with the Color turned all the way down on my Pioneer Elite Kuro... And loved the experience.

Have watched it two more times since... Both times I have gone with the the Black and White. The second time I started in color... After 10 minutes was compelled to change.

You never would have convinced me of this after I initially saw it in the Theater.

I think I now definitively see the film in Black and White.

I will be all over this if they release it.

[Wally Q]

Originally Posted by LuckyDragon

George Lucas has nothing on George Miller as a filmmaker. And I can't believe so many fake movie fans there are who say they wouldn't be interested in a B&W version. If you loved the movie, you'd get it just to check it out and see Miller's preferred version. This movie is worth a double dip or two and I for one CANNOT WAIT for this re-release. Best Motion Picture of the Year and easily a candidate for Best Film of the Decades in my book.

[ThatOneGuy]

Originally Posted by Wally Q

George Lucas has nothing on George Miller as a filmmaker. And I can't believe so many fake movie fans there are who say they wouldn't be interested in a B&W version. If you loved the movie, you'd get it just to check it out and see Miller's preferred version. This movie is worth a double dip or two and I for one CANNOT WAIT for this re-release. Best Motion Picture of the Year and easily a candidate for Best Film of the Decades in my book.

Calm down there buddy. Just because you clearly love the film doesn't mean that the people who are not into the idea as much as you are, are fake movie fans of this film or films in general (which ever way you meant that).

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Wally Q

Best Motion Picture of the Year and easily a candidate for Best Film of the Decades in my book.

I agree. In fact, I keep thinking it might be the best action movie....ever. But then I tell myself that it's too soon and I have to wait a couple years before I start to compare it to older classics. Still, though...

[GoodAsBlu]

I already own the steelbook release, but this new release sounds interesting. I will pick it up, but not right away. File it under the "wait for a price drop".

[Dirk504]

Fury Road was awesome, and I really enjoyed it, but I think it's being overhyped. Die Hard is the best action film ever IMO.

I already bought the regular BR, so I won't be double dipping.

[Geoff D]

Agreed about Die Hard. But I still think Fury Road is a masterpiece.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by JimDiGriz

Forest Dump? Jeez that was a dump of a movie. Sickly sentimental bs.

I like sentimental bs!

I enjoyed Mad Max Fury Road but is it really any better than any of the Fast and Furious films [Fast Five being the series masterpiece]

I saw Fury Road in the theater with a friend who constantly complains about car chases in moves and bad mouths the F+F series.

and yet he loved loved loved this film. I walked out of the film and said to him, so, a movie with cars chasing cars in one direction then turning around and going back again is something you love but you detested Fast Five.

Really?

I enjoy mindless action films although Fast Five really wasn't mindless and was a fun, suspension of disbelief, heist film.

I loved the look of Fury Road and it didn't hurt to have that many hotties in it either [another hallmark of the F+F series, lots of scantily clad chicks]

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by levcore

Also this thread is the wrong place for a rant about the quality of the movie. There's a movie thread in the main forum or at a push there's the original blu ray thread for Fury Road. To come into this double dip thread and randomly start slagging the movie is just trolling... IMO.

You're right, so to amend my last post, I'm probably going to double dip. Not being able to buy the Steelbook [sold out] hurt, but getting the 3D for 10 helped heal the wound.

Should be interesting in B/W. Maybe in a B/W steelbook?

[asarg2001]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

I enjoyed Mad Max Fury Road but is it really any better than any of the Fast and Furious films [Fast Five being the series masterpiece]

Fury Road is thematically ambitious (it is about something) and ultra-sophisticated on a technical basis. Fast Five, the best F&F movie, is a well-done action comedy with one great action scene that doesn't touch the complexity of any 10 minute stretch in Fury Road. I will watch both once every couple of years for the foreseeable future, but Fury Road is miles ahead in terms of quality. The way the story and world develop through each intricate visual beat is masterful. It is truly one of the all time greats, in terms of vision, skill, and execution of the end product. And even if we call them both "just" car chase movies, Fury Road wins easily in the action department.

[Member-222782]

The only "complaint" I have about Fury Road is the film was perhaps a bit too Hollywood "glossy" with some of the special effects. The sandstorm, for instance, looked impossibly cartoonish, no thanks to the CGI. I love "The Road Warrior" not just because it's an awesome action film but because everything feels tangible and raw. There were real people performing those stunts in real locations without computers. There were real stunt guys on Fury Road but computers were used for much of the film. The end result, as good as it was, was still lessened somewhat by that.

[Dick Deckard]

Originally Posted by Dirk504

Fury Road was awesome, and I really enjoyed it, but I think it's being overhyped. Die Hard is the best action film ever IMO.

I already bought the regular BR, so I won't be double dipping.

My rank would be

1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. The Road Warrior

Fury Road is up there somewhere for me but not in the top 3.

I have yet to try the black and white experiment so I may do that one day. At first it didn't interest me but over time I have grown to be more open to the idea. I can't imagine it replacing the color version of the movie as my favorite though.

[Brian81]

Originally Posted by Wally Q

George Lucas has nothing on George Miller as a filmmaker. And I can't believe so many fake movie fans there are who say they wouldn't be interested in a B&W version. If you loved the movie, you'd get it just to check it out and see Miller's preferred version. This movie is worth a double dip or two and I for one CANNOT WAIT for this re-release. Best Motion Picture of the Year and easily a candidate for Best Film of the Decades in my book.

if the other three films in the series weren't in color, maybe i would be interested more...

[Brian81]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

You're right, so to amend my last post, I'm probably going to double dip. Not being able to buy the Steelbook [sold out] hurt, but getting the 3D for 10 helped heal the wound.

Should be interesting in B/W. Maybe in a B/W steelbook?

$10, when?

BTW, I just noticed the price graph is no longer on this site, to monitor historical price changes on Amazon?

[Klownicle]

Originally Posted by H.E. Pennypacker

If the creator and director himself says that it is HIS favorite, how can it be a waste? Do you know more about the film than the one who brought it to you in the first place?

I'm stoked! I've held off because I knew this would be happening sooner or later. I can't WAIT to have it and watch it. Sounds beautiful

Just like George Lucas's version/vision of Star Wars eh? The color added much to the emotion of the film, I'd be hard pressed to believe a black and white version would do more except to milk it.

[ThatOneGuy]

Originally Posted by Klownicle

Just like George Lucas's version/vision of Star Wars eh? The color added much to the emotion of the film, I'd be hard pressed to believe a black and white version would do more except to milk it.

Ehh, the film barely focused on colors. Miller even said that it is only really two colors used in the film. A film like Amelie added emotion to the film with the use of colors, Fury Road it was just used as a theme.

A world ravaged by an apocalypse and there is barely any water, just desert, is going to be a world of brown.

[Oniros]

While I didn't like the movie very much. A B&W cut of a modern film seems pretty neat. You don't see that every day.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by John Klein

Ehh, the film barely focused on colors. Miller even said that it is only really two colors used in the film. A film like Amelie added emotion to the film with the use of colors, Fury Road it was just used as a theme.

A world ravaged by an apocalypse and there is barely any water, just desert, is going to be a world of brown.

Miller said he just had teal and orange to work with, to be exact. But yeah, so many people go on about the colour but it's pushed to such extremes in both directions that it almost becomes duochrome, if that makes sense, so it's only stop removed from outright monochrome. Don't get me wrong, even I'll miss the gorgeous blue night scenes (shot day for night just like-a da olden days) but other than that I can't say that the colour of the film had some major effect on me.

[ThatOneGuy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Miller said he just had teal and orange to work with, to be exact. But yeah, so many people go on about the colour but it's pushed to such extremes in both directions that it almost becomes duochrome, if that makes sense, so it's only stop removed from outright monochrome. Don't get me wrong, even I'll miss the gorgeous blue night scenes (shot day for night just like-a da olden days) but other than that I can't say that the colour of the film had some major effect on me.

The famous Teal and Orange color scheme.

[Partyslammer]

Warner Bros is the King of recycling movies on physical media. I think I'll save the $20 or so and just turn the color off on my tv.