For this week's edition of Hit Me With Your Best Shot, our last until October, we're looking at George Miller's thrilling return to his signature franchise Mad Max: Fury Road. It's the kind of movie that, as we just discussed on the "best of summer podcast," really goes the extra mile. And we're not talking about Imperator Furiosa's detour to "the green place" though that's well out of her way as drives go. George Miller completely outdid himself with this saturated, explosive, delirious, feminist action film.
One shot won't do of course which is why "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is a communal experience. We each choose one and hopefully it adds up to a survey of a movie's crucial inspired images. My piece will be up late tomorrow before your host heads out for the Toronto International Film Festival and because this movie totally deserves an extra day. If you meant to participate and forgot, you have 24 more hours to get your choice in. I'll add more entries if they come in...
MAD MAX FURY ROAD
Directed by George Miller (Mad Max, Lorenzo's Oil). Cinematography by John Seale (The English Patient, Witness). Starring Charlize Theron & Tom Hardy
Click on the 10 images to read the 12 corresponding articles
Miller has made his subtext text in this image...
-The Entertainment Junkie
Despite being an intensely colorful film, there are actually just two main colors in the film’s palette...
-Magnificent Obsession
I was not prepared to be blown away by the awesomeness...
-Jija
Given the sprawling vistas and circus craziness that are the film's bread and butter, my pick for best shot is almost idiotically off-book:
-Antagony & Ecstacy
For all the images incongruous potency and humor, it's also a rich story point, introducing us to "the stuff" that got stolen and humanizing it.
-The Film Experience
It just hit me so hard in the cinema I legit gasped...
-Cinematic Corner
Movie Motorbreath - VIDEO ENTRY
Throughout Fury Road, character is defined by action; how we react to it and what we do after.
-Zitzelfilm
Anguish never looked so beautiful...
-I Want to Believe
The grand spectacle that Miller created in that vast, unforgiving, and beautiful desert wasteland...
-Sorta That Guy
a palpable sense of the scale of the action...
-Film Actually
The movie is full of scenes that reveal themselves with a remarkable efficiency
-Awards Circuit
AGAIN. You have 24 more hours to get your "best shot" in before we close out this episode late Tuesday night before TIFF travels begin!