Total Downloads: 36.4 million The fact that Fury Road was downloaded so many times last year is a massive shame. Blurry, handheld, back-of-a-theater mode is not how this movie should be witnessed. One of the best action movies of the last, well, ever, the latest Mad Max plays out like one long third act of a movie - essentially an extended chase sequence - a storytelling decision that audiences held their hands up to and collectively said "fine by us", to the tune of $376 million in global revenue. How anyone could enjoy a film as visceral and eye-poppingly awesome as Fury Road on a laptop boggles the mind. Why watch a movie in a format so drastically opposed to the way it was intended to be seen? It means that, from the get-go, viewers are not getting the ideal version of the movie or the experience that comes with watching it. If the goal is to 'see what all the hype is about', well, you're not going to accurately discover the answer to that question. If you 'just want to see what happens', well, cars smash into each other and Charlize Theron plays a three-dimensional badass, whilst Tom Hardy gives blood. The achievement here is arguably a technical one, as old school director George Miller shows the youngsters how it's done. Not that those bloody pirates will ever understand the full effect of that. End rant.
Cinephile since 1993, aged 4, when he saw his very first film in the cinema - Jurassic Park - which is also evidence of damn fine parenting. World champion at Six Degrees of Separation. Lender of DVDs to cheap mates. Connoisseur of Marvel Comics and its Cinematic Universe.