The people have spoken, or more accurately spent their hard-earned cash to the tune of a multimillion-dollar opening weekend: Mad Max: Fury Road is a success. After a long-delayed production (they started shooting in 2012!) and a 30-year gap between sequels, director George Miller and survival-driven helldog Max Rockatansky are most definitely back. And the result is...peculiar. Critics almost unanimously agree that Fury Road is one of the best action movies in recent memory, but there also seems to be a general consensus on one other thing: the fact that Fury Road is utterly batsh*t mental. George Miller was given an unusual kind of autonomy on Fury Road by Warner Bros., who gave the filmmaker $150 million and three years to make the film he wanted, even though the film he wanted to make was one of the weirdest, geekiest things studio execs had likely ever seen. The result is akin to Wacky Races reimagined by a maniac, complete with vehicular mayhem aplenty, a booming drum soundtrack and explosive day-glo visuals. Blockbuster cinema has rarely produced anything as offbeat as this; there's certainly been nothing stranger to come out of Hollywood in the past five years. Here are ten reasons why Mad Max: Fury Road is the weirdest blockbuster of the decade (and possibly ever)...
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