"This movie is making me very thirsty" "DO NOT BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER..."

"Sounds like Bane." Lol, you are 100% correct.

Unironically one of the greatest film experiences ever made. George Miller was 70 years old when he directed this. And cooler still, his wife, also 70-ish, was the film editor on this. These two septuagenarians made one of the most incredible cinematic experiences ever. And they are currently in production on a film prequel centering entirely around Furiosa.

The best behind-the-scenes fact of this movie is when they first built the truck for the guitar and showed it to the director he said "that looks great! can't wait to hear it!" and was disappointed when he learned it made no sound and the plan was to add the sound in post.... so they rebuilt it and made it functional.

Films like this are once-in-a-lifetime. This is the Mad Max movie George Miller always wanted to make, and it was over a decade in the making.

Mad Max: Fury Road is an absolute master class of visual storytelling.

Director George MIller is an old school director in that he likes to hint and allude to the world and its history, but not explicitly explain things. Which is a thing I kind of miss in movies. Nowadays, EVERYTHING has to be explained. Who, what, when, where, why, how, before the story even starts. Mad Max just drops you in the middle of the world and you have to just figure things out as you go along. It's similar in a way to George Lucas and the first Star Wars. One of the most craziest lines in that first film when it came out was when Luke asks Obi Wan, "You fought in the Clone Wars?" I remember as a kid hearing that line and immediately sitting up like, "Wait what!? WHAT!? Clone Wars!? What the hell is that!? Were they fighting clones? Is Obi Wan a clone!?" All these questions, yet in the first film, it's literally just a throwaway sentence that Luke asks. Similarly, a scene that reminds me of that in this film is that short scene when they're driving past some swampy looking area and some people are walking on long sticks, covered in green. When I saw that, I was like, "Wait what? The hell is that? Who are they!? Why are they doing that!?" And the film just keeps going. Like I said, that's something I honestly miss in films. Because it makes these movies feel much bigger. As if there's an entire world, a universe around the film, and what we're seeing is actually just a small part of it. It makes you ask questions like how did the world get to this state, why is the bad guy the way he is? Questions like those are part of the reason why a film like Star Wars, and the original Max Max's were so popular. Because you leave the theater and feel like if you wanted to, you can still "live' in that world by asking these questions. Too many movies nowadays I feel have the problem where they can have a ton of lore and explanation, but they ultimately feel very small, because everything is explained. I know pretty much everything there is to know and there's not much beyond the edges of the screen.

Never forget that George Miller also directed Babe, Babe : Pig in the city, and Happy Feet! He has the most fascinating IMDB of all time!

George Miller would be so proud to hear you call this, "The most insane thing I've ever seen!"

“I need this chase to stop….” Yeah that’s not this movie :)

The first two films in the series (“Mad Max” and “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) really tell the backstory to Max. The first film in particular shows why Max is the way he is. George Miller is truly one of the most incredible film directors.

I love the use of the Doof warrior (the guitar guy) in this movie. He is essentially a bugler for the army. Since the roar of the engines are so loud using a guitar with amps to give orders is brilliant. Great movie all around.

Max leaves cause he is the Road Warrior. He can fight to solve problems and help to bring peace or fix what's broken, but he can't enjoy the result. Always on the Road in search of his better self. Archetypal hero.

Beginning of the video: "don't be mad if I don't like it..." End of the video: "please don't be over, please don't be over!" 😂

Your reaction to the trailer for Mad Max is exactly my wife's reaction. Then I dragged her to it in the theater. As we were leaving the theater, she turned to me and said "You know we are going to go see that again right?"

I've heard it said that Max is basically a legendary figure. Tales of him are told and retold throughout the wasteland so his exploits grow over time. If you watch the other movies with this in mind they are easier to understand.

Still one of the best movie in terms of "show, don't tell". And there's not a single wasted breath.

this movie is absolutely relentless, every second is soaked in adrenaline, and every frame is a masterpiece painting

Nux saying witness me at the end is one of the most moving parts of this movie

Took my entire Women's Comic Book Club to the theater for this, and we've screened it twice since. Hands down best movie experience I've ever had, and I've been a Mad Max fiend since I saw the original trilogy way too young

"Oh. My. Gosh. This is the most insane thing I've ever seen." That quote perfectly sums up Mad Max Fury road.

The beautiful thing about the Mad Max movies are, they're all stories of Max. They're like legends told around a campfire. None of them are interconnected except through Max, and all of them have different storytellers. Sorta like "Hey, I have a Mad Max story.... did you hear about Max going against the Warboys?" You should see the others, but especially The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.

I love the allegory of Max having been a "bloodbag" against his will at the beginning, and then it ending with him giving his blood to Furiosa willing to save her.

This film should win an oscar every year.

“Where’s he gonna go??!” To find his car, and get accidentally involved in another epic tale…because of losing his car😏

I loved Mad Max: Fury Road, but the Mel Gibson Mad Max movies will always have a special place in my heart! Especially The Road Warrior.

This movie is a masterpiece in several ways, but it’s the Editing that blows my mind. It’s cut together so amazingly.

One of the greatest productions ever put to film. The choreography of the drivers, the lighting, the effects, sound, and editing.... just tremendously well done.

There's a fun detail I only noticed second time I watched it - whenever Max aims a firearm, he misses. When he just shoots in pure reaction, he always hits. Furiosa is the exact opposite. Fun little "opposites" gag.

"I didn't realize this was a remake..." Nope, not a remake. The 4th film in the portfolio.

I think it's great that the only thing she remembers from the trailer was Guitar Guy, the character with no lines of dialogue, and barely any screen time, yet is one of the most memorable side characters in cinema history.

33:05 - In case no one's mentioned this yet, the iconic scene where Furiosa stumbles dejectedly over the sand dune and falls to her knees on the wind scoured crest wasn't in the original script. Charlize Theron suggested it as her character's reaction to finding out that the utopian green place was gone, an oasis poisoned by the creeping toxicity of the soil. Miller agreed and the resulting moment in the film created a perfect nexus point to significantly elevated and humanised an already intensely powerful movie.

Fun Fact: The redheaded wife of Immorten Joe is played by Riley Keough, who in real life is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, and thus the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, and, her real life husband is the guy in the red long johns playing the guitar that spits fire.

I'm proud of you for being on this journey, where you're willing to watch movies you would NEVER have watched before, and are open enough to be surprised by them. Very few people are so open. If this movie had nothing more going for it than being the weirdest, most insane film ever, that is reason enough to watch it... at least once. But Fury Road is also wickedly compelling, and handles what is essentially non-stop action with a level of focus and craft rarely seen. Tom Hardy had grave misgivings about this movie before release. He couldn't imagine it shaping into something so cohesive and moving. When he finally saw the final cut, he apologized to George Miller. All that chaos came together into something truly spectacular.

"Sounds like Bane" It is Bane haha. This movie is an absolute masterpiece. So many layers beyond just "we are running away from a cult leader."

It’s been said Australia has “car culture” the way America has “gun culture”. This is why their post-apocalypse looks like this.

27:18 That shot of Max going left to right on the pole with the exploding truck in the background. My jaw dropped in the cinema.. it is one of the finest shots ever created

The bike scene is one of my favourite action scenes of all time. The music, the clever way they put out the fire and the way the war rig is almost "alive" the way it "breathes" afterwards, the way Max and Furiosa both silently work in unison...just awesome.

The movie feels so intense because the cars and stunts are real, even the explosions and the jumping dirt bikes are real.

I love that gentle scene between Capable and Nux when she comforts him.

I think we get a pretty good idea of Furiosa's back story from the little clues in the movie. If you look close, you'll notice that Furiosa is wearing a white bit of fabric beneath her armor, the same fabric as the wives. I think she and her mother were kidnapped, and her mother died on the third day protecting her, something that Furiosa blames herself for. I think she was a wife initially (she does ask Immortan if he remembers her, after all), but when she lost an arm and was no longer flawless, she was cast out of that life. But she kept that fabric for a reason, as a reminder of the women who were still being held captive as things, and so she worked to join the war boys so she'd be in a good situation to form a plan to get the rest of the wives out. She wanted to save them the way she couldn't save her mother.

And the director was 72 when he made this. Most directors lose their edge in old age, but damn, than man has just gotten better. I hope he lives long enough to finish Furiosa.

They're making a prequel titled "Furiosa" by the same director, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, pretty excited for this one, especially for this cast

I always love that people go into this movie with an "omg action movie" but come out actually crying. Great film. Furiosa rips hard!

Crazy pretty much sums up the Mad Max film series. The first three movies staring Mel Gibson are classics, and highly influential in the realm of post-apocalyptic fiction. I’d recommend seeing them so that you can get a little more backstory behind Max, and a better sense of this dystopian world he inhabits. The director, George Miller, had been trying to make a fourth Mad Max film for years, but the project had long been stuck in development hell. I’d say it was worth the wait though, because this is one of the greatest action movies ever made! 2:56-3:16 The War Boys are are indeed human, but as a result of radiation fallout from the war, many end up developing cancer, like Nux. This is why they consistently require blood transfusions from unwilling donors such as Max. Since Immortan Joe uses white powder as medication, the war boys cover themselves in white powder as tribute to Joe because they were brought up to view him as their messiah. Since they aren’t expected to live long being “half-lives,” their only purpose is to fight and die. The War Boys often inhale chrome paint as a drug to get high in anticipation of death. 7:13 Furiosa is an Imperator. That was a title given to Commanders in the ancient Roman Republic. She is regarded as Immortan Joe’s top military commander. According to Charlize Theron, Furiosa was originally intended to be one of Joe’s wives, but it turned out that she couldn’t breed children. They are planning a prequel film about Furiosa which is scheduled to be released in 2023. Mad Max: The Wasteland is also scheduled to come out that same year to continue Max’s story.

Alfred Hitchcock spoke of “pure cinema”. Where very little is said with dialog but the actors portray the story so well, it moves you without so many words. At least not the reliance on them.

"Why isn't he just like 'Hey! I'll help you guys. You seem to be escaping the bald people camp.'" 😁 Today's Cassie-ism. 😁

I've never seen that face on you when the opening credits dropped. "What did I just see?!" Proud of you for this.

I love how this is pretty much one of the most heavy metal, hardcore, supra-action packed movies to be nominated for 10 oscars, let alone winning 6.

"I need this chase to stop" LOL, don't worry, it stops when the credits roll

I've seen over two thousand movies, and this is very possibly the greatest pure action film of all time.

You know it was a great movie when you hear at the same time "I don't what I just saw" and crying over the redemption of the warboy. You just get pulled in and really feel it and he really did redeem himself. Not a remake. A stand-alone take on the universe. They're not exactly sequels per Miller himself, but they do work as such in many ways.

From telling your friend : “I’m never gonna watch this” to literally crying at the end of the movie. What an arc 😂

"Sounds like Bane." It is. Same actor plays Bane and Max (Tom Hardy)

Watching you get into the movie was really really fun, Fury Road is one of my favorite movies of ALL time!

Mad Max never stays in one place. He travels the wasteland, helps people and fades back into the sand

"I want to know... how they did that." Well, you see, George Miller is a crazy man, and an amazing director. They did a lot of that, FOR REAL. They got circus performers to do that work, swinging back and forth on the poles. The Guitar player's guitar actually worked, as both a guitar AND a flame thrower (because George Miller insisted that it work.) The movie does have CGI in it, but only accentuate the real things that are happening. George Miller also made the Happy Feet movies, and Babe 2: Pig in the City. But, definitely check out Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Maybe Twilight Zone: The Movie. One of the segments was directed by George Miller.

It never occurred to me before, but seeing the Max-movies in reverse-order might be a good way to go. Going backwards, the production-quality steps down each time, but the backstory of Max increases each time. Watching that way, someone might not mind the lowering of budget over time because they're getting increasingly invested in the character. Just a thought.

This might be my favorite of your reactions, definitely the one I’ve rewatched the most

George millers wife won an Oscar for the editing is so awesome. This action film was the best thing to come out in the last 2 decades. Aside from Zack Snyders 300. I remember being in the movie theater watching it morsov was the best part everyone saying " get up get up " the guy that jumped saying " witness me " 🤣

The only movie to make me cry during a goddamn car chase scene because of how absolutely perfect it was

What a great reaction. It took guts to see a film this far out of your comfort zone and boy did it pay off. Imagine seeing this spectacle on the big screen!

Watching this movie in theaters completely blew me away it was such an awesome experience

The great thing about this movie was they didn't drown you in backstory and explanation. They trusted the audience enough to put the pieces together and just enjoy learning about the world as it happens

"What is this nightmare ?" Yes that sums up the movie pretty well

I still remember the feeling watching this in the theaters at the midnight premier. There were moments people just cheered, especially when Imorton Joe dies, the whole theater erupted in applause. What a visual action masterpiece this movie is.

One of the best examples of showing and not telling ever made. A work of art.

It was an absolute joy to watch you go from not being sure about what you were getting into, to hating Nux, to getting sucked into the story and caring about all our heroes, even the unlikely turn from Nux. I had tears running down my face watching you watch the movie.

Gran Torino starring Clint Eastwood

“They’ve gotten very creative with vehicles” Mad max in a nutshell

Nailed it, "what is this?" is probably the most apt reaction. Pace never lets up, but such an amazing ride and glad you jumped in.

24:07 Laughed way harder than I should have, honestly surprised someone who seems so innocent noticed and knew right away.

Easily the best film of 2015. And one of the best theater experiences I've ever had. I remember clearly my first viewing, I was sitting next to an older gentleman, we politely said hello when he got there late and had to sit next to me in a rush. Then we proceeded to have our respective minds blown repeatedly throughout this 'insanity" as you so aptly named it. Oos and aahs from the entire audience, it was like we had all become one single mind enraptured by Miller's spectacle. He is truly one of the most talented directors around. Once it was over that gentleman and I talked for a few minutes, and during that entire conversation it was like we were the same age, just a couple kids whose jaws were forcibly dropped by irresistible greatness. "Witness me!". Boy did we witness!

I saw this I think 8 times in the theater with a couple friends, and everytime we came away with new things to talk about. One thing that came out of it was that in every battle, with every crash, somewhere in it you always are that there's a human cost.

I think this is one of your best so far. The first time I saw Fury Road in the theater my reaction was kind of similar to yours. I had seen the first 2 Max Max films, and yet it took a while for me to get used to the insane world. There were a lot of gross and "What?" moments. But in the end I was absolutely blown away by the incredible action, the utterly impressive film making, the awesome music by Junkie XL, and the minimal but effective development of the characters. I admit that the ending usually makes me cry. I would put in the top 10 (maybe top 5) Action films ever made. It's certainly a favorite of mine. Thank you for reminding me of it and for giving me a chance to see it with fresher eyes.

Fun fact the actor that played immortan Joe is the same actor that played the baddie from the first Mad Max film.

Imagine watching this on the big screen. It was one of the most intense experiences I’ve ever had. And it was so awesome!

The way to appreciate the Mad Max series is to start from the beginning, when he’s just a cop, and follow the series in order, as the world gets crazier and crazier in every film.

Truly one of the great movies of the last ten years.

This is one of your best reaction videos yet. That was really fun.

Cassie: Seems they've gotten very innovative with vehicles. 😂😂😂

Seeing this at the cinema twice provided me with two of the best film experiences of my life.

The movie that my wife and I saw on our first date in 2015. Both left with an adrenaline rush. Your reaction was quite similar to hers. What an amazing film.

For Tom Hardy fans I recommend Locke, underrated movie. Basically the entire movie takes place in a car with Tom showing his acting chops. No action, purely dialogue. It's an interesting concept and def worth a watch.

Went from "I'm never watching that movie." to obviously loving the hell out of it. Great reaction. Fantastic movie.

“I am speechless” Yup. Pretty much anyone watching it the first time. Imagine Furiosa. She spent her whole life, working her way up the ranks as an obedient soldier, to take the only possible moment to defect. And her discovery of the green place being long dead utterly destroyed her. Powerful moment indeed. The character of max is a wanderer, getting reluctantly brought into helping innocents. A legendary archetype.

There is virtually no CGI in this movie....the nuclear storm scene is about the only place CGI is used. This movie is a masterclass of real stunt work and visual action....and a lesson to so many action directors. Aussie film makers.....keepin' it real.

This is one of the best action movies I've ever seen. A masterclass in world building.

As it turns out, the guy jamming out on the guitar on top of the Doof Wagon (yes that is that truck's canonical name) actually has a purpose. Basically, the convoy has to work in some kind of sync, but in this world, all infrastructure is gone and whatever tech is left is rotting away. So how do you get orders to your convoy? The flares help, but in close formation like that, they aren't very effective. So the guitarist plays his tune over the roar of 30 V8 engines, and the tempo and style of playing corresponds to how the rest of the group is meant to drive. You notice how in the swamp scene, when the convoy stops to clear the minefield, the guitarist's playing slows down too? How fast he plays tells the rest of the drivers how fast they are expected to go, like a metal bugle boy. Solutions like this are par for the course in the world of Mad Max.

I love watching these because it allows me to see them for the first time again in a way which is amazing :D Thank You!

that quiet "witness me...." gets me every time.

"Sounds like Bane." Well, it is (Tom Hardy). Quite a ride, this movie. Wasn't sure how you'd take this one, but if a film is good enough it should overcome normal genre preferences. The first three movies are pretty good too; the third one gets a lot of flak, but I'd rate it alongside the others. George Miller, the director of all the films in the series, also made Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City (another underrated film).

From hating spooky boi Nux to gasping in awe at his noble sacrifice. I love this movie and your reaction!

Fun fact: originaly the movie was going to be set in the sand dunes of western australia but the week before filming started it rained really heavily and turned the red sandy wastland into a field covered in flowers... so they couldn't film there.

32:15 GOOD NEWS! Furiosa is out now and gets into Furiosa’s backstory and the way The Citadel, Gas Town, and the Bullet Farm function

I forgot how insane this movie was, just so damn action packed the whole time

The Mad Max franchise has never been about a fully fleshed back story. It is a horrifying vignette of a post-apocalyptic world. The end is not a nirvana but a moment of peace and hope, a simple moment in the hellscape. It is an incredible franchise.

Mad Max Fury Road was filmed in the Namibe desert, the oldest desert in the world and which starts in Angola - my home country - crosses Namibia and ends in South Africa.

It’s not a remake, it’s actually the coming back of the original creator to bring back this franchise that back in the 80’s was so successful (it’s the franchise that made Anel Gibson famous, since he’s the original Max. Now, you’ve got to consider it’s not just about being a violent movie, but a concept movie (or franchise), therefore it was a new concept of movie back in that time when the trilogy came out (and it was not a Hollywood movie, since it was totally made in Australia, by an Australian creator and director and a local actor (Mel Gibson), but it became a global hit. Now at this point, this more recent movie has to be seen even at another level from the first movies, since it has elements that yes, were part of what you can see at those movies, BUT they had, specially the first one, the budget and technology limitations that made George Miller to always want to make a Mad Max movie just the way he conceived in his mind, and a huge part of it is the visual aspect (an important part of this franchise: Miller DOESN’T LIKE the use of digital effects, so all of his Mad Max movies have mostly practical scenes, they’re shown at the screen the way they were filmed, so that gives it even a higher value from the aesthetic point of view because of course many scenes couldn’t be made more than once, or it would be very expensive to do it again. It almost had just a few digital elements added so they could complete the 3D aspect, like some of the pieces of the truck and the wheel that get close to the screen when it crashes. The design of all of the elements, the cinematography, all the art in it, so it could be yes, very strong and disturbing, but also with a very strong work on the aesthetics, that’s why it has some scenes that are considered among the best from a cinematographic point of view, and the reason it won several Oscars among many other awards. It was a movie much more about the visuals, The artistic aspect than just the action movie side, that’s why it’s considered a very good movie. And yes, you should see the previous movies, although they’re not needed to comprehend the story, yes, it shows you that first part where things are still more related to the way society used to be before the nuclear apocalypse, and how progressively they have a new start, each group of people, with their own cultural Construccion based on how they perceive their new reality, and since many of them carry the consequences of being born after a nuclear apocalypse. That’s why these half live are like that, they carry all of those alterations that make them to be deformed or with a very poor health that will make them to barely survive (so they need things like somebody to get healthy blood from), so yes, you can see also that progressive decay at both their weird distorted culture and ideas, as much as their physical condition; because of the world in which they live the health and the most basic resources, now so rare, they fight to death for them. Oh, by the way, the visuals are even much more amazing the way it was conceived and created, being one of the best 3D movies made!

I thought "no way, she's NOT going to watch this insanity..." And "I hope she see the human story beneath all the violence."