Mad Max: Fury Road- 9.5/10- The basic chase, done with flair and memorability. An unexpected turn from the director of Babe: Pig in the City.
You know he did the other three Mad Max movies, right?
I know. Though, you don’t often see a director return to a genre he did when he was younger and have it be a runaway success critically and commercially. coughKingdom of the Crystal Skullcough
Well to be fair all the stupid stuff in that movie seems to have come from Lucas’ script and since he and Lucas are such good friends and I can see why Spielberg would be blind to the faults in the scrit. I mean how many of us would go up to a friend and say “Look I know you worked really hard on this but it’s a stupid pile of garbage”? I don’t think the problem was with the direction, it was the script and the fact that Harrison Ford was just way too old to do fast paced action scenes, if you look at TFA he is always either sitting or standing still and firing a weapon in that movie, there is only really one scene that requires him to be running and even then it was a very short scene. I think a lot of factors that were really outside of Spielberg’s control(I mean unless he wanted to risk more then thirty years of friendship and I can understand why he wouldn’t want to do that over a movie)were what sank KOTCS.