While a few early scenes feature black levels with a slight tint, most of Fury Road is embellished with flawless blacks. Compression is not a barrier to these visuals. Whatever complaints have arisen from Warner encodes in the past – and those were deserved – end up swept away by Fury Road. There are numerous other scenes to choose from as well. Seeing sand kicked up, once from a plow to put out a fire and again in a desert tornado, makes individual grains visible. Seeing the deserts (some real, some not) stretch miles out into the frame without any sense of lost fidelity is ridiculous. The Blu-ray edition has no problem resolving minutiae – those specks of rust, the make-up effects, and mounds of humanity rushing for water. Fury Road’s generous production design cannot be appreciated on small screens. Images of brilliant clarity, awe-inspiring resolution, and detail topped with detail.
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In a time where people lean toward connected but inconsistent streaming and compressed portable video, Mad Max: Fury Road symbolizes why the industry needs Blu-ray. Stick with the 3D Blu-ray, and hopefully Warner revisits this in 4K down the line.
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However, with the egregious color, the zip in explosions is removed. Highlights barely see use outside of the nighttime raid where car lights sizzle against the darker environment. Depth and dimension improve with richer black levels. It’s not worth upgrading Fury Road for the HDR either. Kicked up sand causes additional problems, with compression evident. Shots with noise exaggerate the issue, leading to clumpy blotches across the horizon.
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Aliasing is noted on car grills and other fine lines. Spectacular shots of vehicles traveling against a sun-baked sky suffer from artifacts on those contrasting edges. Anywhere else other than in close and the smeary, hazy appearance recalls some not-so-memorable botch jobs.Ĭonsider too the mass of halos. Tightness in facial definition sports nuance. Certainly, the level of detail and texture evident when the camera zooms looks the part. Close-ups might convince this is untouched. That muddies detail, leading to mushy imagery. Medium shots smooth over, signs of digital enhancement everywhere. The end result is messy, imprecise, and overcooked.ĭigital cinematography does display clarity, if artificially so. Rather than appear like deep color, it looks as if saturation jumped multiple notches. There’s no distinction in the color grading. Begin with the color, turning the amber landscapes into a garish hue of orange, then turning fireballs into an oversaturated mass. Warner’s release of Fury Road is a grand disappointment in every category. Read more via DoBlu’s theatrical review of Mad Max: Fury Road. A marvel and new essential Hollywood cinema.
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It’s overloaded with a stout feminine slant in a powerful look at how women are objectified, all between explosions, engines, and oil. The work is marvelous, scene-to-scene and shot-by-shot. Successful with its dialog, both in audible and visual forms, Mad Max: Fury Road is destined for action classic status – and maybe not only action.