I think MMFR is one of the best-made bad movies ever... (Gaming)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, June 02, 2016, 01:05 (3182 days ago) @ Cody Miller

if you didn't see Furiosa despairing--if you don't get that this movie is primarily a visceral experience that follows its own rules (and shouldn't be judged as an Elizabethan drama), I'm at a loss.

Yeah definitely. You have to actually LOOK and see what the characters are feeling, rather than listen to the tell you how they feel.

I could see it with Mel Gibson's Max. I didn't see it with Tom Hardy's.

Furiosa I didn't see it at all. She spent the whole film telling us the stakes were high but showing us she didn't really care and they didn't really affect her at all. If anything, her character worked against the plot and story to make me feel it was less important and less significant than it should have been.

To be clear: I think Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron are terrific actors. But the writing for Tom left him with nothing to do and the writing for Furiosa actively worked against what she was doing. It didn't work for me.