Review: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD – BLACK AND CHROME EDITION Is In True, Living Color
I don’t always care about special editions or director’s cuts of movies. My favorite version of BLADE RUNNER is the one that has the dreaded Harrison Ford narration on it. Sue me, I think it belongs there. There are exceptions, of course. Guillermo del Toro’s director’s cut of HELLBOY is the only version of that movie that makes sense to me. It’s the same with the extended editions of the LORD OF THE RINGS films. But it’s a case by case thing for me. I think the theatrical cut of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY, one of the greatest films ever made, is far and away the best version of that movie. So what made the monochrome edition of FURY ROAD matter to me as something I had to see? Well, for one thing, the use of color in cinema and the possibility of post-production manipulation of color that has evolved […]