Hmmm not sure what to think.
Hey! Gen X are now the money spenders…let’s remake/reboot EVERY SINGLE DAMN movie from their childhood. [crazy]
It’s not a remake. It’s just a new Mad Max movie.
And George Miller is the OG Mad Max grandpappy responsible for bringing us this gift to the world since 1979.
Go be a sissy somewhere else.
Now, as for the trailer itself . . . I dig getting some more glimpses into the new film. But if I compare it as it’s own piece of art against the earlier two trailers it’s the weakest of the three.
No worries, though. The important thing is we’re just over a month away from the singlemost important cinematic event since “Thunderdome”.
Awww, come on! It’s got a guitar that shoots flames! That’s fucking metal as hell.
I like this trailer better than the classical music one.
It’s not a remake. It’s just a new Mad Max movie.
And George Miller is the OG Mad Max grandpappy responsible for bringing us this gift to the world since 1979.
Go be a sissy somewhere else.
Touche. I was unaware they had the creator on board.
[reply]It’s not a remake. It’s just a new Mad Max movie.
And George Miller is the OG Mad Max grandpappy responsible for bringing us this gift to the world since 1979.
Go be a sissy somewhere else.
Touche. I was unaware they had the creator on board.[/reply]
Yeah, if you thought it was “just another remake” (and I’m with you on the distaste of such uninspired cash-grabs) you should look into the history of this one a bit. George Miller has been playing with this script and such for 15+ years.
The article in Entertainment magazine last year was really quite interesting. They basically storyboarded the whole thing first (like comic style) with images which may have led to the rumors about it being an animated feature.
Anyway . . . I can pretty much guarantee that anyone who loves Mad Max is gonna love this film.
Awww, come on! It’s got a guitar that shoots flames! That’s fucking metal as hell.
I like this trailer better than the classical music one.
Yeah, if you thought it was “just another remake” (and I’m with you on the distaste of such uninspired cash-grabs) you should look into the history of this one a bit. George Miller has been playing with this script and such for 15+ years.
The article in Entertainment magazine last year was really quite interesting. They basically storyboarded the whole thing first (like comic style) with images which may have led to the rumors about it being an animated feature.
That’s good to hear. I’m just a bit jaded by all the remakes in such a small time frame. Was Mel Gibson on board at some point? It has the wasteland look of Thunderdome, so I’m guessing it takes place immediately after?
He was at one point. But after a number of stalls, he basically aged out.
Word is this movie is unspecific in where it lies chronologically.
Judging by the trailer, he still has the jacket that was lost at the end of Thunderdome. And he still has the Interceptor that was destroyed halfway through Road Warrior. So it could take place before both of those.
I think it’s intended to be a Mad Max adventure without the burden of continuity.
Yes. What Rev said. But I suspect we can assume everything in Mad Max 1 as established backstory without creating any such conflict of continuity. I was going to say that if we think of it as a new vision of what happens after #1 without trying to fit the sequels into the puzzle that we should do just fine.
Right - George Miller’s creating a sort of modern legendary hero here. The stories may not all fit together perfectly. We’ve already seen some of this in the other sequels, where the world of the first movie, with its green fields and trees and functional city gives way to a world of absolute devastation, or where Max meets two identical people who own flying machines but are actually totally different characters.
I wish Rev and other proper devotees could see this one so we could have a proper tribe of post-apocalyptic psychos to watch it together.
I’ve already got my first 3 viewings planned out.
I also have a Master Blaster t-shirt.
No kidding. I have a Master Blaster t-shirt.
Yeah, it’s a shame. My wife has little interest in this. I suppose I could try to gather a group of local guy friends, but that never seems to work out.
Yeah, it’s a shame. My wife has little interest in this. I suppose I could try to gather a group of local guy friends, but that never seems to work out.
The people that I talk passionately about Mad Max with are truly scattered throughout the corners of the world. Jay Cartoon (Ireland), a dude in Sweden, Peligro (Australia), The Rev . . .
I wish I had full Mad Max leathers to wear. But I think my Master Blaster shirt at least shows that I am NOT a damn amateur, haha!
My bro and a couple of friends have the day of release booked off work so they can see it in the cinema, i should probably do the same. I haven’t watch this most recent trailer because i want to go in (as much as possible) knowing as little as possible about it. Looks absolutely fucking stunning. The artist who did storyboards for Miller and designed the vehicles and characters (and co-wrote it apparently), Brendan McCarthy, was one of the main guys at the 2000AD comic in the early days, where Judge Dredd came from. Pretty cool, because Mad Max 2 was one of his biggest influences in the early 80s!
Saw it today, my review, if anyone cares, from Facebook because i’m too lazy to describe it twice.
I watched this today. Absolute madness, insane amount of attention to detail, crazy stunts and action and no need for too much talk. When characters do talk you pretty much take your own meaning from it, because there’s no expository chat whatsoever. It’s Mad Max alright, totally stripped of anything that doesn’t advance the film in some way, mainly in the way of vehicular carnage. Never have so many people been dragged under the wheels of massive vehicles in so many ways.
The stunts are genuinely mad, i don’t know if that’s Tom Hardy or his stunt double chained to the front of that car as it blasts along at about 70mph through the desert, but either way it’s fucking dangerous. How there were no deaths making this, i really don’t know. Maybe George Miller buried dead stuntmen in the sand as they went. The cars and trucks are all meticulously detailed and totally individual and there’s some really bizarre imagery along the way. The end of a night scene looks like a Salvador Dali painting - we were wondering after the film who those weird people were and what they could have been doing there.
It’s such a strange film, and, although hopefully a lot of people will see it, it’s done in such an uncompromising way that it feels like George Miller took $150M of Warner Bros money to make the Mad Max film he wanted to make for himself without any consideration to the people watching it. There’s no concession at all to making a film for mass consumption. It’s just total fucking madness, i can’t describe it. I’m not a fan of Charlize Theron at all, but i have to say she’s great in this. Nicholas Hoult is very far from playing the wee fella with the bowl cut in About A Boy, as an irradiated footsoldier to the main villain, he’s great too. Everyone’s great, really. The Wives are all very good too. Apparently he got some renowned feminist writer in to punch up things and make the female characters a bit better, it works, what could have been some thankless eye-candy roles turn out to be good characters in their own right.
As for Max, Tom Hardy is a perfect replacement for Mel Gibson. I’ve been a really big fan of Mel Gibson for a long time, and i was disappointed he wasn’t gonna be in this when it was announced about 5 years ago, but Tom Hardy is a great substitute, class actor. Between this, The Drop, Warrior and a couple of others he’s definitely one of the best actors around these days.
It’s co-created by Brendan McCarthy, who works for 2000AD, my favourite read as a kid; apparently they had no script, just 3500 storyboards, and what you see on screen bears that out, it’s pure precision. It’s the most precisely controlled carnage i’ve ever seen, but it looks like the performers could die with the slightest wrong step. I am willing to suspend disbelief when watching action films, but there’s actually no need in this one. Every stunt looks like it was done without needing CGI, no crazy physics going on, just 100% practical automotive action that looks totally illegal because of the danger involved. And in spite of very scant characterisation it’s quite touching in parts, amid the roaring engines, fire and blood. Great film, and not the sort of thing a 70-odd year old director would normally knock out after a 3 decade absence from this kind of film-making. Brilliant stuff. You should see it, especially if you fancy a really exciting old-style film told in a thrilling way, it doesn’t require much thought watching it, but if you want depth it has plenty of that too.
No, I don’t have a review yet, and I likely will not be commenting again until I come back from a screening, but I just wanted to bump this thread on this most momentous of days.
What a day!!! Oh, what a lovely day!!!
No, I don’t have a review yet, and I likely will not be commenting again until I come back from a screening, but I just wanted to bump this thread on this most momentous of days.
What a day!!! Oh, what a lovely day!!!
Hope you enjoy it. It’s surreal that a new Mad Max film even exists, and at such a big budget!
I can’t wait to see this fucking thing…unfortunately,I have to wait til Sunday…
[reply]No, I don’t have a review yet, and I likely will not be commenting again until I come back from a screening, but I just wanted to bump this thread on this most momentous of days.
What a day!!! Oh, what a lovely day!!!
Hope you enjoy it. It’s surreal that a new Mad Max film even exists, and at such a big budget![/reply]
Oh, I’ll enjoy it. That’s a guarantee.
I just realized we posted and bumped this thread at the exact same time, haha.
I’ll read your review later . . . . after . . . you know . . .