Best Mad Max film?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

mZuzek said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

4) Fury Road - This movie sucks.  It looks cool, but it's actually pointless.  Also, it feels like a full blown fantasy world now.  They might as well have thrown elves and hobbits into this.  It doesn't feel like a post apocalyptic world at all now.  It feels like Tolkien in the desert.  This movie is a high budget, steaming pile of trash with good action sequences.

Wow.

Now that I've slept on this, I can say more specifically why this movie is trash.  I'm a big believer in Aristotle's method of evaluating drama.  He says there are 6 elements and he ranks them in order of importance.  How well does Fury Road do when evaluating these elements?

1) Plot    X
2) Character   X
3) Theme     X
4) Dialogue    X
5) Music    X
6) Spectacle   DING! DING! DING!!

Fury Road does one thing really well, the least important thing, and tosses out everything else you'd normally want in a movie.  It's the action movie equivalent of a porno.  If a person went into this movie just wanting car chases and explosions, then I can see why they'd be happy.  I went in thinking it was part 4 of an ongoing story about a guy that went crazy because he lost everything he cared about in a post apocalyptic world.  I was extremely unsatisfied with this movie to say the least.