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I upvoted because the first part made me laugh. But I wholeheartedly disagree. Fast and Furious is legitimately stupid. I thought fury road's story was great. "Concubines of an abusive king in a post apocalyptic world escape his clutches and mad max helps fight off their pursuers" is as good a concept as any. It's not citizen kane but it's also not supposed to be. It's an action/adventure movie with really good performances and incredible visuals. The fact that the story makes sense and has a lot of interesting moments (like Max's PTSD or whatever those flashes of that kid were) means it can't be compared to fast and furious.
That's fair, I may have been overly dismissive with the plot, maybe I need to go back and give it a second look.
Come back and let me know if you do. Even if you still don't like it I'm curious how you would expand that opinion. When it comes to fury road I've been in an echo chamber. You're the first person I've seen dislike it.
Edit: I hope at the very least you agree it's not fast and furious though, I took that personally 😂
I went back and watched it and I see what you are saying about Furiosa and the concubines, it is a great device for setting up the chase. The chase then becomes the rest of the movie. Furiosa and Max have invincible plot armor during these chases and while I can appreciate the artistic skill in crafting these action scenes, I found sitting through them all a bit laborious.
The most interesting thing about the story to me was how Max and Furiosa went from straight up try to murder each other to becoming best buds. This happens so quickly and without a lot of explanation and to me that is a bit jarring. It seems to me the reason they dont spend more time on it is that the chase has already begun. And this to me is what keeps me from loving this this movie, they compromise on story in favor of chase and action scenes. While there is a lot to love about this movie, it is still not my favorite Mad Max movie.