Anyone else see it this past weekend? I took my mother and kid and gf and we all thought it was amazing. Everything anyone could have wanted in a franchise reboot. And the fact that it was really Furiosa's story and not Max's was such a wonderful, interesting, refreshing choice that it made me love it all the more.

Best film I've seen in the past decade

Wildly stylized and completely over the top, but that's the point.  I had a lot of fun watching it.

I haven't seen it yet, but a lot of the reviews I'm hearing for it remind me of when The Road Warrior came out...it was utterly unlike anything anyone had expected it to be, and several critics praised the fact that the obvious love interest presented early in the film never actually turned into one--flying in the face of Hollywood's film formula.

I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

It's an amazing movie and a masterclass in worldbuilding for post-apocalyptic GMs.

 Essentially the corpses of thirty years of action movies ground up and intravenously injected into your eyeballs while they're wide open, staring at the world-building. ^_^

I was expecting more Mad Max then what we got. I kind of tilt my head sideways at the world building, but then I guess I am too familiar with the previous works to be impacted by it.

http://nerdist.com/mad-max-fan...see-fury-road-again/

this made me want to see it more than i already do!

So what game system would work the best.  To try and recreate a scenario, similar to the one played out in the movie?

In reply to TheSnowpanther (msg # 9):

d20 Modern might work, as might Shadowrun (with obvious restrictions).  Best bet would probably be to try BESM.

A lot of systems could do it to one degree or another.  I would probably go with Savage Worlds.

In reply to TheSnowpanther (msg # 9):

Atomic Highway was built with this sort of post-apocalyptic vehicle rampages/chases in mind.

When I saw the movie I couldn't help but think about Apocalypse World, if you downplay the psychic maelstrom part of the game, or give it a more "collective madness" feel, it's really spot on.

I'd use GURPS for its ability to handle mental and physical disadvantages, its point based system allowing non-traditional character concepts, the ability to break limbs or dismember in combat, its systems for vehicle combat and social engineering. I'd probably turn up quite a few of cinematic dials to attain the right feel and boom! Bob's yer Uncle!

Also, thought the film was great. Though...I didn't really think of it as a reboot more of a continuation...in the same way that just because they recast the Bond actor doesn't mean it is a reboot.

Just saw it today. Really great. Best action movie I've seen in years, and I think one of the best portrayals of female characters in an action movie I've seen.
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Simply put, I thought it was awesome.

Aftermath! By FGU if you can find it.

If you want to include mutations into the mix, Gamma World (which is part of d20) might work best.  Although I might typically think of GURPS, I wonder if it wouldn't slow things down.  Everything in GURPS is so...deliberate.

I second this.

In reply to darknash (msg # 19):

To expand on my recommendation : Aftermath! Is very crunchy, with detailed rules for everything from combat to social skills to disease vectors to mutations to damage variations by weapon type. The rules are completely modular and can be played with or without disease or mutations (for instance). There rules for hit location and armor subtracts from damage taken so that each location can be armored independently. Very Mad Max.  It lends itself cry well to a "count your bullets" type of world.

And while the hit table doesn't use the D 30 there are 30 hit locations so if you still have one (for table top)................. And you know you want to keep the disease rules.....

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 13:11, Mon 08 June 2015.

I love that it was a kind of sequel and not a reboot.

It was still a reboot, just a fresh take on the story not a repeat of the old one. But even then it still borrowed heavily in the rewriting.

Miller actually termed the film a "revisiting".

"Miller claimed that after the first Mad Max film he doesn't really see a continuity or set time frame between the films, although he would think of 'Fury Road' as taking place after Thunderdome. In SXSW, George Miller also claimed that the previous three films exist in no real clear chronology, because they were always conceived as different films."

BTW it was my thought that Mad Max was never the main character in any of the movies, but rather a story told through Mad Max's eyes.

In reply to Grimjack (msg # 26):

This is absolutely true. All the movies are, more or less, him blundering his way into someone else's story and getting roped along.

The main difference with Fury Road is that he really is a bystander. It's his idea that propels the final act, but other than that it's Furiosa's story. She drives the narrative. She has all the agency. Max just tags along.

Which is awesome.

Even the scene where he takes two shots on the oncoming vehicle, takes a breath and hands the rifle to Furiosa because she's the better shot. It's not treated like it's any big deal. He just does it and they get on with things. But it's a pretty big deal for a mainstream action franchise.

Best Mad Max movie yet.

Best movie I've seen in the theater in a long time. Although the others were the Hobbit movies, so my alternatives aren't so hot.

In reply to TheSnowpanther (msg # 9):

There's a Mad-Max style RPG called atomic highway that's free on drivethrurpg, that might well be the one.

OH WHAT A DAY, WHAT A LOVELY DAY!

Here's a neat video of Mad Max w/o CGI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ent02yItm60