As you can see from that video: Mad Max: Fury Road went to painstaking lengths to achieve a ton of practical effects. From explosions, to the flipping of cars and trucks, to motorcycles tossing firebombs at Max and Furiosa's rig, just about every major shot in the movie was achieved through practical means. This helped add a layer of visual authenticity to the movie that few modern blockbusters have managed to achieve in recent years. The average moviegoer has an incredibly well trained eye; they can spot CGI, and they can spot practical effects. By keeping everything as practical as possible on the set of Fury Road, George Miller created a modern blockbuster that harkened back to his early work in the 1980s -- and we loved it.
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