It's the moment that ties the movie together. The moment in Mad Max: Fury Road when Furiosa (Charlize Theron) realises that the home she was taken from, the home she's been racing toward, is gone. Upon learning this information, she stumbles across the desert and screams.
Captured beautifully by director George Miller, it's a major turning point for the character and the story of how it happened is as powerful as the moment itself.
In 2008, we were basically living in another world. The Marvel Cinematic Universe didn't exist, we were still recovering from George Lucas' Star Wars prequilogy, and Fantastic Four was - ok let's be honest, in about the same place it is now. These years have seen a renaissance in comic book films, along with a surge of high-concept science fiction and fantasy. These are the greatest movies of the past 10 years.
Thanks to her starring role in Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot has rocketed to the role of fandom icon. But if it weren't for Charlize Theron being such an excellent actress, she might have gotten there a little sooner.
Part of the hype for Mad Max: Fury Road's incredible action scenes was the fact that minimum CGI was used, that everything was built and shot, with CGI mainly being used for touch-ups and contrast changes.
I understood that was part of the mythos around why the movie became such an instant classic.
But when you see it action. When you watch the un-CGI'd footage of the movie. Damn. How did no-one die during the making of this movie. Holy shit.
Take this as a warning: Post-graduation life is one brutal wasteland.
This is a post where we will get angry about Mad Max: Fury Road not winning the Best Picture Oscar.
Because come on.
Video: The folks at Awe Me have created a black thermal plastic version of the mask the War Boys put on Max when they captured him. Looks comfy!
Mad Max may seem like the action-movie outlier among this year's Academy Awards nominees, but it's more than deserving of earnest consideration. In particular, I hope Fury Road wins Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
Counter-Strike plus drivable cars, customisable bases and lots and lots of sand? This is no ordinary custom map.
So the Oscar nominations came out recently and I have seen very little of them. The parents among you will understand -- it's tough to go to the movies when you have kids.
But I will say this -- I was super happy to see a film like Mad Max get so many nominations.
Blizzard has been able to recreate and reimagine characters and worlds from their existing IP for ages, so it's been nice seeing them flex their creative muscles with a new IP and a new set of faces.
The latest additions to the developer's team-based competitive shooter are painfully stereotypical, however. They're Australian. They're a little unhinged. And in a futuristic Earth that is supposedly more akin to the one we're living in, Overwatch's latest heroes come from an apocalyptic wasteland.
An alternative title could be, this is how you turn a negative into a positive. Ben Carpenter contends with spinal muscular atrophy, but that just provided inspiration for this amazing cosplay -- using his chair as the front of a Max Max car.
Japanese artist Takumi recreated everything from Mad Max: Fury Road in an ancient Egyptian style, and while the movie has nothing to do with ancient Egypt, it still fits and looks really awesome with this art style.
Goddammit. I'm generally not a fan of Collector's Editions -- specifically when they're exclusive to specific stores -- but I have to admit, this is a good one.
The Mad Max Post-Apocalypse Edition, which is exclusive (urgh) to EB Games (and Australia) comes with a copy of Mad Max: Fury Road on Blu-Ray. Damn, that is a great idea.
Mad Max: Fury Road opened in Japan a few days ago and it means one thing: Japanese fans are now ready to create crazy fan-art. One of the bests so far -- made by noted manga artist Takumi -- is heavily influenced by One Piece and creator Eiichiro Oda's style.
Seriously, why didn't I think of this.
One of the things that really grabs you about Mad Max: Fury Road is just how much of the action is made up of practical effects. Those are real cars exploding and rolling around, which always looks cooler than the floaty vehicles CGI puts on the screen. That doesn't mean the movie was free of digital effects, though. Far from it.
It'd take one hell of a video game to live up to the brilliant, relentless action of Mad Max: Fury Road. This does not appear to be that video game.
It seems like Mad Max: Fury Road just hit cinemas, but LEGO builder Will has already remade the best vehicles of the movie with LEGO bricks. Must have been a tough challenge to build even these tiny versions.
