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I've seen the he trailer twice and it looks pretty awesome.

Visually fantastic but I fear they are trying to change the brilliant essence of the film: the noble man in a Kali Yuga time of degeneration... If they make Max just another scumbag/deathwish/pervert then I will be sad...

The Last of the V8 Interceptors!!!!! The ultimate distillation of the Aryan thing. It is perfect how he is maintaining his vehicle, himself and the distance between himself and his vehicle... symbolized by his taking the time to carefully wash his hands:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5QYYlfXQFk[/youtube]

And of course, note how the degenerate collapses at first contact with the Noble Man...

The director of the originals is running this one, and not some hipster amateur who likes to ruin classics (I'm looking at you, J. J. Abrams). That's a plus.

george miller....don't you think he'll stay true to his vision?

I hope so but I am afraid he won't. I remember a line in the preview that was something to the effect that it "was/is hard to tell the difference between good and evil"... And there were shots that led me to believe that Max had at least nihilistic tendencies... If he does stay true, it will be incredible as the tension between the two sides looks to be almost unbearable...

Also, it is 2015 and the freaks have won especially in Hollywood and I wouldn't be surprised if he had to puss out to get it made.

I WORRY ABOUT SHIT ALL THE TIME STEVEN!

THAT IS WHO I AM!

Looks like more of the same chords struck in the 2nd and 3rd installments. I am not a fan of the first one, and Miller really took what was a hokey and utterly forgettable film and turned it into the definitive template for post-apocalyptic cinema. Many of the themes and tropes that we take for granted in other post-apocalyptic films really sprang forth from Miller's work.

This one has a fresh cast and it looks like it's hitting its strides in terms of outdoing the previous epic chase scenes. From a plot standpoint, it looks like the other two in many ways (they both basically culminated in escort missions where the good guys do ultimate automobile death matching with the over-the-top baddies). In this installment, it looks like Theron's character is trying to make off with the Boss character's squad of vestal virgins. Max shows up and gets entangled by the hands of fate, and reluctantly gets suckered into saving the day due to his overwhelming good guy persona. He just can't help but kill everyfuckingbody in his mission to help the little guy...it's in his nature.

I will probably see it, and it will be the first one I've seen on the big screen. The previous installments were a part of my lovely childhood through the magic of HBO (Hey, Beastmaster's On).

cubejockey_81 wrote:The director of the originals is running this one, and not some hipster amateur who likes to ruin classics (I'm looking at you, J. J. Abrams). That's a plus.

Are you referring the ST2: Wrath of Khan specifically, or the entire Shatner-led franchise?

The whole franchise, awful as it was at times. My dad was a trek geek and I grew up on Shatner and co. Abrams' version has ok casting (other than that twit playing Kirk), but his first go was godawful plot- and script-wise. The second wasn't much better and I wonder if Abrams really thought himself a genius with the Kirk-instead-of-Spock death twist. Cumberpatch is passable but he's no match for a pissed-off Montalban.

/nerdrage

EDIT: OK, I'll admit the new Star Wars stuff doesn't look too bad, and much better than those last three Lucas squeezed out of his fat infected asshole, but I'm not convinced yet.

Meh. Too much CGI, IMO - I'm not a fan of the first Mad Max, but the shift between B-movie with practical effects and this is jarring (and because it places itself in that lineage it's not a connection you can just ignore). See also: Star Wars prequels.

I'm looking forward to it.

You all are gonna need to do a hard re-boot on your mental mainframes because your shit is not compiling correctly at all...

First, Mad Max is a landmark work of art. Whatever came after degenerated from self-consciousness to burlesque.

Last, I demand all mention of "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" be redacted from this thread and website. We (I) am so much better than that.

Blech.

I need some bourbon and to commune with those of my dead relatives who were blessed to never see the birth of the "Star Shits" abominations...

cubejockey_81 wrote: Cumberpatch is passable but he's no match for a pissed-off Montalban.

You just lost all credibility.

His monologue while captured, where he slowly transitions from playful prisoner into seething rage, make Montalban look like he should be doing used car lot commercials.

Cumberbatch makes my skin crawl.

After I saw the Road Warrior I was super excited to see Mad Max and find out where the story got it's start.

And then I wasn't.

looks incredible.

bennyonesix wrote:First, Mad Max is a landmark work of art. Whatever came after degenerated from self-consciousness to burlesque.

Mad Max was a great 70's revenge flick, the other two were great 80's black comedies-- they should be watched with that in mind. I have no idea what Miller will be trying to do with Fury Road, but I'm looking forward to it.

Mad Max was some studio exec saying, "Georgie, go get us something on film with lots of vroom vroom and naughty lads on motos...the kids will eat it up, luv. Maybe even sell it to those damn yanks."

Max Max: A gritty, 70s revenge flick, set on the brink of societal collapse.
The Road Warrior: Society has collapsed, Max is surviving, but circumstances and his returning conscious cause him to enlist in a cause he didn't initially believe in.
Beyond Thunderdome: Visually the same as the Road Warrior, but ultimately disappointing with Miller completely car chase-gasming. My least favorite of the bunch because he tried to get cute.

Fury Road? I don't know, I'd prefer it to go back in tone to the first 2 movies, and stay far, far away from the Thunderdome tropes.

Turdacious wrote: I have no idea what Miller will be trying to do with Fury Road, but I'm looking forward to it.

He will be trying to make up for the hit his investments took during the recession.

Thunderdome taught me to always keep a high-pitched whistle in my bug out bag in case I get thrown into a chainsaw and bungee cord fueled cage fight with a primordially sized tard-warrior.

Thunderdome had a cool soundtrack. Always liked 'One of the Living' more than 'We Don't Need Another Hero'.

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Alleged Hetero Male wrote:Thunderdome had a cool soundtrack. Always liked 'One of the Living' more than 'We Don't Need Another Hero'.

bennyonesix wrote:

Alleged Hetero Male wrote:Thunderdome had a cool soundtrack. Always liked 'One of the Living' more than 'We Don't Need Another Hero'.

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