Part of this blog is meant to be writing about random Media stuff, I’ve been fairly slack on that, but I’m trying to do more:

On Thursday 14th of May, I went to the cinema and saw the new Mad Max movie, Fury Road, directed by George Miller. I very much liked this movie. It was incredible. This blog post contains my impressions about the movie, there may be spoilers.

There was so much that resonated with me in this film, first and foremost was the action: the movie is almost non-stop action from beginning to end, and it does it without it getting stale or feeling repetitive.

This is because of the variance in action set pieces, each one has a different style, such as cars ramming into eachother using spikes as a weapon, or motorbikes using rocks as jumps to assualt the vechile from above, or even giant poles to swing from car to car.

This brings me to my next thing that I really appreciated was the lack of exposition. The movie does very little to explain its world, instead opting to just show us in motion and rely on the audiance to understand.

For example the religious aspect of “War Boys” in which they deliberately commit suicidal attacks in battle to gain glory and enter the afterlife of Valhalla. This is never actually explained by anyone, instead we are just shown this process in action, and the audience is trusted to put the pieces together and use their imagination/knowledge of real-world events to create the whole picture.

I feel this kind of “show dont tell” filmmaking has be neglected in recent years, with many action blockbusters stopping and meticulously explaining background information instead of letting the audience put 2 and 2 together.

Mad Max: Fury Road had excellent editing, framing and cinematography that made the chaotic action easy to understand, and THIS article explains it better than I can.

It was a great movie, and is the type of film that inspires me to make my own