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Scorpio  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are the movies or books that show a story rather than tell it?

Mad Max: Fury Road for sure. Not much dialogue at all, and as someone who hasn't seen the first three, I didn't have any trouble understanding what was going on once the movie got rolling. Everything about it was just really well done, no one really has to watch the others to get the concept of it.





user-inactivated  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, Mad Max: Fury Road, most definitely. One of the primary things I was thrilled by, its utter lack of expository pretension.

Garbageland  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

All the mad max movies really. It's actually kind of frustrating because you can tell a lot of thought is put into the back stories of the supporting characters but we're only given a brief glance into this insane world.

Citizen_Kong  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Except maybe Beyond Thunderdome - there's a lot of unnecessary exposition by Tina Turner at the beginning. Some is true for the feral children, althought their mythologizing of their past is at least interesting.

Garbageland  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ugh, yeeaah. Tina Turner has no reason to be in that movie. I keep trying to convince myself that it's a good movie but holding it up to Road Warrior, it just totally falls apart. It has so many awesome concepts and ambitions but is just executed so... weirdly. And not always weird in a good way.

Citizen_Kong  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It turns into a Mad Max movie for the last 15 minutes or so after they escape in the train, and there are some things like the idea of MasterBlaster that work really well, but the story is just too stationary for the most part. All the other Mad Max movies always have an incredible narrative drive behind them, either towards something or away from something.

user-inactivated  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think in any story, a little bit of mystique adds to the appeal. It gets the imagination going.

Garbageland  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah absolutely. It's the same idea behind horror movies. As soon as they show too much of the monster it becomes much less scary.

user-inactivated  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll put it into the queue. Thanks.