Most Rewatchable Scene
The canyon Excitebike sequence; the return to the Citadel with the pole cats; the opening 30 minutes through the sandstorm
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- Three sequences are proposed to start, all more sequences than scenes: the War Boys coming after Imperator Furiosa, which introduces the Doof Warrior and Rictus Erectus and culminates in the sandstorm; the Bullet Farmer pursuing the war rig while it is stuck in the mud and the chain-up to the tree, which impressed on second watch; and the return to the Citadel with the pole cats and the Vuvillini's valiant defence; the slower dialogue-laden scenes are deliberately left out, and a joke calls Andres Biedrins the original Doof Warrior.
- The canyon sequence, with Furiosa warning she will drop the pod and the signal to go when she yells, is added as the thing to show someone asking what makes the movie special: a director taking a wide-open vista and putting it into a rectangle so you know where everyone is and how long it takes to get there, pure visual filmmaking only ten or eleven people have mastered, and very John Ford-ish as the rig arrives at the canyon surrounded on all sides.
- Any of the big chase scenes would do, and the Excitebike scene is off the charts. — Jason Concepcion
- The film's spatial awareness is called underrated: a chaotic film usually leaves you asking where you are, who is doing what to whom and why the camera flipped, but here the cutting from the top of the truck to the cab to the action outside always keeps you oriented with a million things going on.
- The first meeting of Max and Furiosa is a favourite over many rewatches: Max wakes face down in the sand, has his flashback, tries to bite Nux's hand off to free himself, then instead takes the sawed-off shotgun and carries Nux to the war rig, asks for water and for the chain to be clipped, and the wives yank him around on the chain during his fight with Furiosa; it is called one of the speaker's favourite action sequences ever. — Micah Peters
- The way that fight begins after the sandstorm is playful Miller: what looks like a mountain in the distance is a close-up of Max buried in the sand, a shot compared to a Charlie Chaplin movie.
- Picks are split: one goes Excitebike while also liking the crows sequence out in the mud; the return to the Citadel, with the pole cats jumping from vehicle to vehicle, draws 'same, same' from others, which without diarization could be two or three voices and possibly a majority; and another goes the first 30 minutes for the take-your-breath-away feeling that movies rarely accomplish these days.
- Early on, the 33-minute stretch leading to the sandstorm blackout is flagged as probably the most breakneck sequence in movie history, and any rewatchable scene here is expected to run 18 minutes in what is essentially a six-scene movie.