The Rewatchables: 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Micah Peters, and Jason Concepcion

Published 2018-08-23; 1:05:09 by the feed.

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Most rewatchable scene

  1. floated The War Boys chase Furiosa, introducing the Doof Warrior and Rictus Erectus, culminating in the sandstorm
    “The 1st is the War Boys come after Imperator, Furiosa, where we are introduced to the Dew Warrior, and Ricktus Erectus, and others culminating in the sand, culminating in the sandstorm.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:11:39
  2. floated The Bullet Farmer pursues the war rig stuck in the mud, and they chain up to the tree
    “The 2nd is the bullet farmer pursues the war rig while it's stuck in the mud and they chain up to the tree, which, upon 2nd watch, I was kind of blown away by.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:11:54
  3. floated The return to the Citadel, the polecat attack and the Vuvalini's defense
    “And then the 3rd scene is sort of the return to the citadel attack with the polecats and the Vuvolini's valiant defense.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:12:08
  4. floated The canyon raid and blowing the canyon, the first 'drop the pod' moment, as a showcase of Miller's spatial filmmaking
    “Yeah, the exploring. The canyon raid? Blowing the canyon.”
    unknown · 0:12:25
  5. pick The big chase scenes, with the Excite Bike (polecat) scene off the charts for spatial awareness
    “Any of the big chase scenes that excite bike scene is off the charts.”
    Jason Concepcion · 0:13:21
  6. pick The first time Max meets Furiosa: waking in the sand, the flashback, carrying Nux to the war rig, and the fight with the wives and Furiosa
    “Uh, I'm still partial over numerous rewatchings to the 1st time that Max, quote unquote, meets Furiosa, just because, like, I, that entire sequence from when he wakes up face down in the sand and has his 1st flashback”
    Micah Peters · 0:13:57
  7. pick The crows sequence out in the mud
    “Okay, so what are your picks?”
    unknown · 0:15:15
  8. pick The return to the Citadel with the polecats jumping from vehicle to vehicle
    “Uh, same. Yeah, I think you have to go with like the, the, the, the, the return to the citadel with the pole cats where they're just jumping from vehicle to vehicle.”
    unknown · 0:15:23
  9. pick The first 30 minutes, for the take-your-breath-away feeling
    “I'm going, uh, the 1st the 1st 30 minutes because of what Jason said, which is that I think I had read a little bit about this movie before I went into it, but when I sat down, I did have the take your breath away feeling, which movies very rarely can accomplish these days, and it's just, it's an incredible thing.”
    unknown · 0:15:35

What's Aged Best · The part of the film that has held up best.

  1. nominee The action sequences: The obvious answer, only three years after release.
    “Uh, I think that the obvious recommendation is the action action sequences were only 3 years since this movie was released.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:17:59
  2. winner Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa: An iconic action performance and a character we have never seen before.
    “Oh, I think it's, it's, it's, uh, Charlie's his performance by far.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:18:30
  3. pick The action: Agrees with Chris about Theron, but his pick is the action; praises her introduction.
    “Uh, I think it's the action for me.”
    Jason Concepcion · 0:20:02
  4. pick George Miller's thesis of an almost continuous chase: Reads Miller's stated idea of a near-continuous chase with a human McGuffin.
    “My pick is George Miller's thesis for this movie, which he crafted well, well, well before it was made 10, 15, 20 years, and I'll read it very quickly for you.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:20:56

What's Aged Worst · The part of the film that has held up worst.

  1. pick Immortan Joe's plan: Nothing has really aged in a three-year-old movie; offers it as a nitpick instead.
    “This is some, maybe a more of a nitpick than a what's age the worst, but like, what was in Morton Joe's plan here?”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:22:42
  2. pick Doof Warrior: Rock and nu-metal are dead, and the wasteful amp stacks beg the question of why.
    “Because Rock is dead and that slipknot style of weird, like, Dude Warrior new metal is also dead.”
    Micah Peters · 0:35:24

Casting What Ifs · Almost-castings and who else could have played the part.

  1. pick Mel Gibson as Max: Presumptive Max for years until he declined, fascinated by what became The Passion of the Christ.
    “Obviously, this movie was conceived in the 80s shortly after Beyond Thunderdome, so Mel Gibson was the presumptive Mad Max for this movie for a long time.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:27:03
  2. pick Heath Ledger as Max: Considered before his death in 2008.
    “Heath Ledger was considered before his death in 2008, which I think maybe let's use this as an opportunity to talk about Tom Hardy and what he is doing in this movie”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:27:33
  3. nominee Jason Statham as Max: Floated and dismissed as too comicky.
    “And Statham... No, no, no, no, no.”
    unknown · 0:47:25
  4. pick Michael K. Williams as a War Boy: Wanted another person of color in the cast besides Zoe Kravitz.
    “Michael K. Williams, because I would have, like, liked to have seen at least, you have Zoe Kravitz, but in addition, somebody who's somebody else, somebody else in color would have been nice.”
    Micah Peters · 0:50:04
  5. nominee Steve Buscemi as Immortan Joe: Floated with a Fargo-style voice.
    “What if Bushemi had played a Morton Joe?”
    unknown · 0:50:18

Dion Waiters Award · A small role that made a big impact.

  1. nominee Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus
    “Nathan Jones, as Rick this Erectus.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:33:02
  2. nominee Zoe Kravitz as Toast the Knowing: Called a flex performance.
    “I think this is kind of a flex performance from Zoe Kravitz, who I don't think we had quite as much of a relationship to before this movie came along.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:33:12
  3. nominee Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe
    “Certainly, uh, Hugh Keane's Keith Byrne as a Morton Joe.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:33:20
  4. winner iOTA as Doof Warrior: Impossible not to look at in a red suit playing a flaming guitar; confirmed as the Dion Waiters winner.
    “It's, did do 4 is my Dion Waiters award winner, but also, I kind of feel like it's the thing that aged the worst.”
    Micah Peters · 0:35:14

Joey Pants Award · Someone we did not know who emerged as someone we would remember.

  1. winner Riley Keough as Capable: Not very familiar to him before this movie.
    “So I wrote Riley Keo, who...”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:37:05
  2. nominee Quentin Kenihan as Corpus Colossus: Described as the little guy in the basket with the periscope, then named.
    “Who's the little guy in the in the in the basket with the periscope, that guy?”
    unknown · 0:37:20

What Bill Would Say That Would Make Us Uncomfortable · A new bit: the uncomfortable thing Bill Simmons would say if he were on the episode.

  1. pick Do the War Boys have sex: Riffs on War Boy virility, the spray paint, and Riley Keough and Nicholas Hoult as a couple.
    “I think it would probably be something along the lines of like, what is the, uh, what do we think of the virility of war boys?”
    Chris Ryan · 0:38:44

Apex Mountain · Where a star's or director's career or performance sits on the mountain.

  1. pick Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller): Calls Road Warrior Miller's best film, ahead of Babe, Happy Feet and Lorenzo's Oil.
    “I think Road Warrior is his best film and in some ways laid out this carpet for him to become one of the sort of the Spielbergian directors where he could take action, could do drama.”
    unknown · 0:45:12
  2. winner Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller): Concedes Road Warrior is better in story and pacing but calls Fury Road a singular achievement.
    “I do think this is his apex mountain, even though I agree that... The road warrior is a better film.”
    unknown · 0:48:16
  3. pick Warrior (Tom Hardy): Hardy's best performance, with Inception rated higher as a movie he has been in.
    “Uh-huh. I think my pick, this might be Warrior.”
    unknown · 0:46:50
  4. pick Monster (Charlize Theron): Prefers Monster over Fury Road for Theron.
    “I think this, I think Monster is, for me, her apex mountain.”
    unknown · 0:48:11
  5. winner iOTA as Doof Warrior
    “Easily. Easily.”
    unknown · 0:49:57

Overacting Award · The most over-the-top performance in the film.

  1. winner Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus
    “Yeah, I would go Rick this in this.”
    unknown · 0:51:00
  2. nominee The wives after Splendid dies: Direction seemed to be to act really sad.
    “Also, the backseat, all of the wives after Rosie Huntington Whitley died, you know, like the, the, that was where I, I can't imagine that the direction was anything other than act really sad.”
    unknown · 0:51:07
  3. nominee The Bullet Farmer's face after running over a Vuvalini sniper: Nominated as a moment, though the speaker doubts it counts as overacting.
    “I, um, I don't believe that this is the case, but I'd like to nominate also the scene where the bullet farmer runs over one of the Vuvolinis at the end and makes like what can only be described as a strange like orgasm face.”
    unknown · 0:52:04

Best Quote · The best lines in the movie.

  1. pick The Bullet Farmer's biblical patter
    “Conductor of the choir of death.”
    unknown · 0:53:13
  2. pick Immortan Joe as Immortan Joe: Cites his biblical phrasing, such as the addicted to water line.
    “I think almost everything he says is this sort of biblical phraseology, do not, my friends, become addicted to water.”
    unknown · 0:53:25
  3. pick Nux as Nux: Nux's 'Oh, what a day' and 'I live, I die, I live again' as signature phrases.
    “I live, I die.”
    unknown · 0:55:00
  4. pick Max: 'that's bait' at the green place: A favorite line that is not one of the bigger ones.
    “I think my favorite line from the movie that is not one of the bigger ones, I guess this aversive pick would be when they're rolling into where the green place is supposed to be and there's like the naked woman on the, on the, and he's just like, mm-mm, that's bait.”
    unknown · 0:55:08
  5. pick Nux and Slit: 'I am awaited in Valhalla': Good character building for the War Boy cult.
    “Um, there's one, there's one very fun, um, sort of interaction between Nucks and Slit 2 when they're driving and they 1st see a Morton Joe and Nucks says, he looked at me.”
    unknown · 0:55:35
  6. pick Furiosa to Max: 'don't breathe'
    “is that moment when they've got 4 bullets left in the rifle, and he shoots off a couple, and then she takes it and uses his shoulder as a balance, and then she's like, don't breathe.”
    unknown · 0:56:11
  7. pick Who killed the world?: A great hammer line that underlines the film's theme.
    “Oh, I was going to say, then who killed the world is also just a great hammer line and really underlines the theme of the entire film, really?”
    unknown · 0:56:33

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

  1. pick Did Immortan Joe have a point
    “I literally wrote down, did Morton Joe have a point?”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:56:56
  2. pick Tom Hardy's voice is dubbed throughout
    “I also raised his Tom Hardy's voice completely dubbed in this movie.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:57:02
  3. pick If the green place were real, more people would know about it
    “If the green place were real, why would more people not know about it?”
    unknown · 0:57:56

Unanswered Questions · Open questions the film leaves behind.

  1. pick Will there be a sequel, and who would direct it
    “Probably unanswerable questions.”
    Sean Fennessey · 0:58:56
  2. pick Did Max leave the Citadel
    “One more unanswerable question, probably.”
    Sean Fennessey · 1:00:41

Best Action Movie of the Decade · A vote on the best action movie of the decade among Fury Road, Edge of Tomorrow, John Wick and the Raid movies.

  1. pick John Wick: His vote, with the Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation and Fallout pair and Skyfall as further ideas.
    “My vote would be wick, but I'll throw a couple more ideas at you.”
    Sean Fennessey · 1:02:46
  2. pick The Raid: Says the Raid movies are what Wick wants to be.
    “I think the I think the Raid movies is like what Wick wants to be even the week is incredible.”
    unknown · 1:03:18

Who Won the Movie · Who came out on top of the movie.

  1. winner Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa: Chris and the others agree.
    “Charlie's.”
    Jason Concepcion · 1:03:31
  2. nominee George Miller: Floated as a possible answer for his fascinating career.
    “I mean, it's potentially it's George Miller.”
    Sean Fennessey · 1:03:36
  3. nominee Bullet Farmer: Floated after ruling out Hardy, Doof Warrior, Keough, Kravitz and Abbey Lee.
    “I don't think it's Riley Keogh or Zoe Kravitz or Abby Lee or any of the other, maybe maybe the, maybe the bullet farmer.”
    unknown · 1:03:51

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