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Oh gee another remake or continuation of what was once popular....ho hum. Movies are so boring and predictable. they produce 37 comic book related movies every year and then throw in a bunch of remakes and puff pieces about social issues. View Quote This is how I feel too. I just can't get excited about this kind of shit anymore. I thought for two seconds ex machina would be interesting but nope, rehashed bs. Whatever. |
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They said she's really the main character in this movie and max is kind of a back drop character. View Quote If you look at the past Max movies he kind of ISN'T the focus... the character of Max is simply a vessel through which someone ELSE'S story is told. Mad Max - is a story about the fraying of society told by the clash between frontier cops and renegade bikers, with Max as a parable for society. Road Warrior - is a story about the rag-tag refinery defenders and their quest for paradise, which they achieve thanks to Max's sacrifice. Thunderdome - is a dichotomous story about the return of society personified in two groups that Max crosses paths with, Aunty and the Tribe. Aunty is the old, crooked world reasserting itself and the Tribe is the young, new world trying to come into being. Max defeats Aunty to save the Tribe, in another self-sacrificial way. |
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I'm off Friday and will be taking my son to see this movie. I can't wait! Also, which of the original 3 Mad Max movies is your favorite? I always liked The Road Warrior best.
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This is how I feel too. I just can't get excited about this kind of shit anymore. I thought for two seconds ex machina would be interesting but nope, rehashed bs. Whatever. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Oh gee another remake or continuation of what was once popular....ho hum. Movies are so boring and predictable. they produce 37 comic book related movies every year and then throw in a bunch of remakes and puff pieces about social issues. This is how I feel too. I just can't get excited about this kind of shit anymore. I thought for two seconds ex machina would be interesting but nope, rehashed bs. Whatever. I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? |
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I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? View Quote If the trailer is an indication, Fury Road takes place between Mad Max and Road Warrior, making it technically movie 1.5... this is indicated by the presence of the Pursuit Special, which was destroyed in Road Warrior. |
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Quoted: If you aren't excited to see this movie, you aren't a man. View Quote Google Eve Ensler's involvement with this movie, and her interviews about it, and come back and tell me all about real men. http://time.com/3850323/mad-max-fury-road-eve-ensler-feminist/ |
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Oh gee another remake or continuation of what was once popular....ho hum. Movies are so boring and predictable. they produce 37 comic book related movies every year and then throw in a bunch of remakes and puff pieces about social issues. This is how I feel too. I just can't get excited about this kind of shit anymore. I thought for two seconds ex machina would be interesting but nope, rehashed bs. Whatever. I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? |
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Saw Road Warrior when I was 7 or 8. Gonna take my sons to see this one....
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I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? If the trailer is an indication, Fury Road takes place between Mad Max and Road Warrior, making it technically movie 1.5... this is indicated by the presence of the Pursuit Special, which was destroyed in Road Warrior. It damn well better have Bruce Spence in a gyrocopter! |
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They said she's really the main character in this movie and max is kind of a back drop character. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Charlize Theron is in it. Why would you want to support such a vocal anti gun celebrity? If we avoided all movies that involved anti-gun celebrities, we'd never see any movie or TV show... ever. She's in it? I barely noticed. They said she's really the main character in this movie and max is kind of a back drop character. It is now PC to have a woman as the main character in many movies and tv dramas. It is now the Age of Superwoman and if she is not the main character she is the boss of the main character. |
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Google Eve Ensler's involvement with this movie, and her interviews about it, and come back and tell me all about real men. http://time.com/3850323/mad-max-fury-road-eve-ensler-feminist/ View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If you aren't excited to see this movie, you aren't a man. Google Eve Ensler's involvement with this movie, and her interviews about it, and come back and tell me all about real men. http://time.com/3850323/mad-max-fury-road-eve-ensler-feminist/ I was really blown away by the older women in the film who were just as good fighters as the men. Yeah. When I think "badass" the first thing that comes to my mind is a 55 year old woman. |
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another I don't even consider Thunderdome when talking about road warrior. That movie sucked. Tina Turner... |
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Quoted: You "but but but the vajiminy dialogues!" folks have selective Max memories... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/JsARCLIGHT/Warrior_woman_takes_aim_zpstvpn6ugq.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/JsARCLIGHT/tina_zpstqafg3mf.jpg The Mad Max films have historically had strong female characters in them... so what is one more butch crew cut robot arm? And if you REALLY want to shit your pants with rage against Fury Road, I would pick the tidbit that George Miller directed Babe 1 & 2, Happy Feet 1 & 2 AND The Witches of Eastwick between Thunderdome and now. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/JsARCLIGHT/hahawaitwhat_zpsb89831da.gif VAGINAS! VAGINAS EVERYWHERE! FURY ROAD IS RUINED! View Quote I'm very aware of the past movies, Miller's directing credentials, and the strong (past) female leads. None of that changes what this movie is, or is supposed to be, and who is responsible for that message. It ain't hate for vaginas or women, I'll watch a Merchant and Ivory movie happily. It's more about injecting some reality into the hype - which is this movie is not Road Warrior - it's a gotcha film meant to lure people in with nostalgia while hitting them over the head with (what is this time around) a more overt feminist message. That's right from the horse's mouth, man. Watch it. Get a boner. Maybe it's a great film. What it is not is all things manly...and you're pretty much bolstering that case because the originals weren't either. So, uh, thanks. |
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Wired article I don't even consider Thunderdome when talking about road warrior. That movie sucked. Tina Turner... View Quote Oddly, Thunderdome is considered the best of the films, by fans outside the US. Especially Brits and Australians. No matter how many times I tell them they are wrong... |
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Charlize Theron is in it. Why would you want to support such a vocal anti gun celebrity? If we avoided all movies that involved anti-gun celebrities, we'd never see any movie or TV show... ever. Wrong. The least you can do is avoid those who are bigger anti gun advocates. Of course you can make up an excuse and take the easy way out. I'm sure Charlize Theron will miss your $15. Then don't complain when celebrity actors/actresses spew anti gun/anti self defense drivel. Their platform can only exist if they are decently funded or receive significant media attention because of their roles. For an example, look at Melissa Joan Hart. |
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I'm very aware of the past movies, Miller's directing credentials, and the strong (past) female leads. None of that changes what this movie is, or is supposed to be, and who is responsible for that message. It ain't hate for vaginas or women, I'll watch a Merchant and Ivory movie happily. It's more about injecting some reality into the hype - which is this movie is not Road Warrior - it's a gotcha film meant to lure people in with nostalgia while hitting them over the head with (what is this time around) a more overt feminist message. That's right from the horse's mouth, man. Watch it. Get a boner. Maybe it's a great film. What it is not is all things manly...and you're pretty much bolstering that case because the originals weren't either. So, uh, thanks. View Quote It just seems to me you are crying fire before we've even seen the building based off of one slanted second hand story. I would think the safer bet would be to cry "HOMOS!" If anything because the prior Mad Max movies have far more homosexual themes in them than any feminist themes, and I expect even MORE of that this time around. It isn't Mad Max without leather boys wearing assless chaps and football pads on motorcycles at some point. My point is you are kind of blowing everything out of proportion simply because of a Time magazine interview with a feminist writer who isn't even in the credits for the movie, who was invited to the set one day and took her own feminist views into and out of it. Shocking that a feminist would go on set, see everything through the eyes of a feminist then get interviewed by a magazine and relate her second hand experiences on set to them through the POV of a feminist. It is like someone inviting a pro wrestler onto the set of Sense and Sensibility then having him relate his views on it... he is going to talk in what he knows: wrestling, and how Elinore and Marieanne are the perfect face and heel, how they really had a knack for turnbuckle evasions and how they never broke keyfabe the whole time. I personally will endure a "feminist message" to see a new Mad Max movie. I'll shelve it right next to the societal message, the conservationist message, the nativist message and all the other messages the prior movies had. |
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I know she is bad a$$ and all but she has one f"@&ing arm
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Does Max still have Dog? Or is this a sequel and Dog is dead? View Quote Dag died in The Road Warrior when one of Lord Humungus' goons shot it with a crossbow bolt. So...from this IGN review Theron's character if lead and Max is secondary? I thought the title of the movie is Mad Max Fury Road not One Armed Bald Chick Fury Road. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to see this movie because next to everything Star Wars the Mad Max movies were always my favorite as a kid. |
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It damn well better have Bruce Spence in a gyrocopter! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? If the trailer is an indication, Fury Road takes place between Mad Max and Road Warrior, making it technically movie 1.5... this is indicated by the presence of the Pursuit Special, which was destroyed in Road Warrior. It damn well better have Bruce Spence in a gyrocopter! No Gyro copter but Toecutter is in this movie playing the bad guy again! |
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Seriously? I hadn't heard that. A 14 year delay is amazing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Have been waiting for this movie for a loooooooong time Seriously? I hadn't heard that. A 14 year delay is amazing. Well, if you're a Boston fan (the band) like I am, you've had prior training in waiting for the next release. |
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My body is ready. I already talked my younger brother into going dressed as one of the kids from Thunderdome. I know he'll chicken out on me but I'm 100% making him carry a record staff to the theater. I'm in the process of constructing one right now. Mostly because those stupid kids are the worst part of all three movies. https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Mad-Mad-Beyond-Thunderdome-3.jpg View Quote I don't know, Helen Buday was quite shaggable as Savannah Nix.... |
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Never saw the original. Is it the anti-water world? What's the deal with the vehicles? Is the ground lava?
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Gonna see it this Sunday in a fancy iPic theater.
But, I already see a problem with the movie from the preview in the OP ........ Mad Max is shooting a Glock. Glocks probably made the world end in the 1st place. & thats why they are in so much trouble. |
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Gonna see it this Sunday in a fancy iPic theater. But, I already see a problem with the movie from the preview in the OP ........ Mad Max is shooting a Glock. Glocks probably made the world end in the 1st place. & thats why they are in so much trouble. View Quote I own a 1911 and a Glock. I do prefer my 1911, but if it was in a mad max type of situation I'd prefer the Glock. It holds way more rounds, and after I've shot all my rounds I can throw it at the enemy and it will act as a grenade. |
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Never saw the original. Is it the anti-water world? What's the deal with the vehicles? Is the ground lava? View Quote The original Mad Max is a movie about the downfall of society, frontier cops waging a losing war against a roving biker gang in rural Australia. After losing everything Max goes mad, kills some bikers and rides off into legend. Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) is a movie several years after the first in the wake of a global resource / nuclear war. Max is still mad and he grudgingly gets drawn into a fight between more motor crazies and a band defending an oil well. Max aids them in their quest to reach "paradise" and becomes part of their legends. Beyond Thunderdome is a movie several years after Road Warrior. Australia is still fucked, Max is still mad. Trying to get his stolen stuff back he makes a deal with Aunty Entity, ruler of "bartertown", to eliminate her competition and solidify her reign. Max winds up breaking the deal, facing a wheel, getting gulag'ed and being rescued from death by a lost tribe of children. The children wind up in bartertown and they aid the man Max was hired by Aunty to break. Again Max aids the kids and becomes part of their legends. The "deal" with the vehicles is that they are all more or less re-purposed cars and trucks made into war machines by the tribes, armies and bandits of the post-apocalyptic Australia. The underlying message of the second movie was one of ecological and societal waste framed by gasoline. Everyone was killing for a "tank of juice", so the crazy vehicles were an overt display of the insanity of the unquenchable thirst for oil. They just kept them in the third movie out of habit. The ground is not lava, it's Australia (which means the ground is most likely poisonous)... deep desert outback most of the time as the big cities are nuked (a destroyed and desolate Sydney is seen at the end of Thunderdome). |
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I think it should also be said that in every Max movie, Max is a pawn of fate... a ping pong ball caught up in events beyond his control in which he plays a key role. In a sense Mad Max movies are like Batman movies... the movies are more about the crazy villains and the post apocalyptic world than they are about the individual man named Max. Max spends most of his time in the movies simply trying to be left alone. He wants to quit the police force in the first movie, he just wants gas and to go on his way in the second movie and he only wants his stolen stuff back in the third movie... and he winds up being used by people to achieve their goals.
Max is more or less an avatar through which the audience experiences the insanity and depravity of the world around him. His personal story is almost unimportant and he is more or less Sergio Leone's "Man with No Name" recast in Australia with a muscle car instead of a horse. |
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I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? If the trailer is an indication, Fury Road takes place between Mad Max and Road Warrior, making it technically movie 1.5... this is indicated by the presence of the Pursuit Special, which was destroyed in Road Warrior. The AMC AMX Pursuit Special is in it? Daymn...now I'll have to go see it! |
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The AMC AMX Ford Falcon XB Pursuit Special is in it? Daymn...now I'll have to go see it! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I thought this was Number 4 and not a true reboot? If the trailer is an indication, Fury Road takes place between Mad Max and Road Warrior, making it technically movie 1.5... this is indicated by the presence of the Pursuit Special, which was destroyed in Road Warrior. The AMC AMX Ford Falcon XB Pursuit Special is in it? Daymn...now I'll have to go see it! Watch the trailer, it is there. |
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Holy Shit. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 99% I don't remember ever seeing a movie on there with that high a rating.
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I know I'll get savagely attacked for this.....but......Thunderdome wasn't THAT bad!
Ok, the kids were ridiculous, but if you remove the kids COMPLETELY, replace Tina Turner with a legit villain, and edit out all of the comic relief nonsense, it really had potential to be a good Max movie! Don't get me wrong, I mean they DID fuck it up, but it could've been a legit badass flick with a little tweaking here and there. |
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Well, using the other three movies as examples: Mad Max - Max doesn't do much of anything until his best friend dies, then he tries to quit. His boss recommends he go on vacation instead, and he does. On vacation his family gets wiped out by bikers causing him to go on a rampage. Road Warrior - Max doesn't do much of anything until he sees an opportunity to score some gas. Once he fulfills his deal he tries to quit. His attempt at quitting fails miserably and his car and dog get wiped out by crazies, causing him to go on a rampage. Thunderdome - Max doesn't do much of anything until he makes a deal to get back his stolen stuff. Once he realizes his opponent is a tard he tries to quit. His attempt at quitting fails miserably and he is gulag'ed into the desert where he is saved by lord of the flies. He tries to get the lord of the flies to quit, which fails miserably and they all wind up back at bartertown, causing Max to go on a rampage. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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My biggest complaint about the trailers is that it makes Max look like a wimp. Well, using the other three movies as examples: Mad Max - Max doesn't do much of anything until his best friend dies, then he tries to quit. His boss recommends he go on vacation instead, and he does. On vacation his family gets wiped out by bikers causing him to go on a rampage. Road Warrior - Max doesn't do much of anything until he sees an opportunity to score some gas. Once he fulfills his deal he tries to quit. His attempt at quitting fails miserably and his car and dog get wiped out by crazies, causing him to go on a rampage. Thunderdome - Max doesn't do much of anything until he makes a deal to get back his stolen stuff. Once he realizes his opponent is a tard he tries to quit. His attempt at quitting fails miserably and he is gulag'ed into the desert where he is saved by lord of the flies. He tries to get the lord of the flies to quit, which fails miserably and they all wind up back at bartertown, causing Max to go on a rampage. |
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