Watching MAD MAX: FURY ROAD and...crying?! | FIRST TIME WATCHING

this movie isnt about the answers, it's about the experience. it's a perfect example of how action movies should be done.

That end gets us all. Nux’s story arc is masterfully done, and him pointing to Capable, the only person he needed to witness him, the only person to truly treat him with kindness and compassion. 🥺🥺🥺🥺

We all cry for the heartfelt "witness me" at the end

Catherine: Is it normal to be crying right here? Me: Yes!

Nux's final "witness me" is heartbreaking. But Capable's reaction sells it even more. I love that she does the Vuvalini hand gesture they do when someone they care about dies, where they kinda pull the person in close, then hold them over their heart. Nux's sacrifice meant something.

The warboys have accepted that their lives were disposable and that the best they can hope for is to die gloriously and be reborn in Valhalla. But Nux went from being profoundly unworthy ("mediocre!") to finding something worth living and fighting for. Having found something worth living for, his death then becomes far more meaningful than a warboy's plaintive cries for Valhalla. Damn right i teared up.

The amount of influence the mad max films have had in tv shows, video games, and movies is almost immeasurable. Like I remember as a little kid watching a rugrats episode where they were all dressed up in mad max apparel, including a 1 to 1 of the gyro captain's outfit and vehicle from the road warrior.

This is never brought up in the film, but the young girl Max keeps seeing during the beginning is Glory from the Fury Road prelude comics and Video Game (2015). In the comics, her mother, Hope, asks Max to help rescue her kidnapped daughter. Max rescues Glory but later finds out that Glory, along with her mother Hope, died regardless of Max's help. Both Glory and Hope heavily parallel Max's wife and child; within Max's head, he kind of combines these two events, leading to a lot of confusion by many thinking this is a reboot where Max had a daughter instead of a young son. Max had an infant son and a wife; as I mentioned, Glory and Hope are closely related to the son/wife in their fates but do not replace that history, and the first film's events are canonical across all films. This is just another example of Max's failure to save people from the monsters of civilisation and later The Wasteland.

The wives are genetically "perfect" and therefore good breeding material. You're one of the first reactors that didn't mention they're essentially supermodels. They stand out compared to most of the others (Furiosa being another obvious beauty with no apparent genetic flaws).

This film is a story getting retold as legend by people of the Mad Max universe. Max was once a policeman now a road warrior. Trying to do right in a world of evil and barrenness. He refuses to help at the begining of the film because he's broken from all the innocent that died under his protection over the many years he's survived.

Fury Road is one of the prettiest movies ever. I pretty much always cry over the beauty when the engine is on fire and Furiosa lowers the cow catcher to bring up dust and you see the engine aspirate as the music swells,,, I'm a dude, I don't need much. It will always get me.

Besides Furiosa, the Mad Max movies are not connected. They all assume youre going in blind. Each is a soft reboot. Thats why they do the prologue. Yeah, its worth seeing them all.. but each one is its own story. Only connection is Max, the wasteland, and some sort of gang as the villian.

that "witness me" hits different at the end lol it's almost like it's just a cry to be seen, and she saw him.

This movie is an absolute timeless masterpiece for the ages.......

Fury Road is a goddamned masterpiece of visual storytelling. Miller should be given anything he needs to continue practicing this craft. If nothing else, watch Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior and catch Furiosa in a theater with good sound. (also, I've seen this movie over a dozen times in and out of theaters and I cry every time so don't sweat it)

I watched this for the first time after furiosa and I think watching furiosa first is required viewing. It makes this movie hit 10x harder because it leads directly into this one

And it gets better with every rewatch because there are so many things discover in this world.

It's amazing to watch several times to absorb the complex action sequences & the way they're masterfully edited together.

Fun fact: the actor playing Immortan Joe is the same guy who played Toecutter in the 1979 Mad Max 😊

The movies take place in Australia, where Max was a cop before society collapsed. The "Salt" they refer to is the Pacific Ocean, dried up.