The trailer has dropped for George Miller's latest Mad Max film. It's a prequel based around Charlize Theron's character from Fury Road, and looks like we might be getting some backstory on Immortal Joe.
The trailer has dropped for George Miller's latest Mad Max film. It's a prequel based around Charlize Theron's character from Fury Road, and looks like we might be getting some backstory on Immortal Joe.
I'M SEEING MORE ORIGINAL CONCEPT ART!
One thing to note- they're going into some of the fluff established in the Mad Max game that came out in ~2016, though it seems they changed up the car for Hemosworth's character- which was a Chevy nova with a motorcycle in the back, ridden by HIS SCREAMING BADASS SKELETON
vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:I don't get the allure of these movies. Am I broken?
The new ones suck out loud. The old ones were cool at the time.
In reply to Appleseed :
Lolz. That was funny!
I didn't mean to come across as a jerk. When I reread my post it could be taken that way.
I loved the original movies. When I saw fury road, it was literally driving a truck to someplace that didn't exist and then driving it back. Ooph.
In reply to wvumtnbkr :
No worries. It's a chase. An entire movie comprised of a chase. If you aren't into chase scenes, you probably won't like Fury Road.
Honestly, my least favorite is the original. Because it drags after Max quits MFP. And even that's really not that bad.
The problem I have with character backstory/origin movies and shows is that at some point the writers expect the viewers to forget that we know them from the future. It removes any sense of peril from the stories. "Will they survive?" Uh... yeah, we already know that.
If they can focus on "how" they survived and how the situation affects them or changes them it can be done. But it better be good.
Surprised to see that George Miller is still making these at age 78 considering he made the first one in 1979. He also directed Jack Nicholson in the Witches of Eastwick and is an MD in addition to being a director.
I'm impressed.
GIRTHQUAKE said:One thing to note- they're going into some of the fluff established in the Mad Max game that came out in ~2016, though it seems they changed up the car for Hemosworth's character- which was a Chevy nova with a motorcycle in the back, ridden by HIS SCREAMING BADASS SKELETON
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to say, but that is a second gen Barracuda notchback.
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
Miller has the weirdest CV. Academy award for directing Happy Feet, nominated for writing Babe.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I played through most of the Mad Max game but quite toward the end, it was just becoming a slog. I did enjoy it though and the story line was interesting. It will be interesting to see what (if any) elements from the game made it into the movie.
I'm confused on the timeline with this one. Is it coherant? Or just a shutup and enjoy the set pieces/action? I'm totally okay with either. I loved Fury Road.
Oh man, I am there for this. The 2015 version was absolutely fantastic. It was just a chase and a race, but that's fine. The fact that virtually everything was done in practical effects made the thing just fantastic.
A couple years back they auctioned the vehicles from Fury Road. As it turns out, IIRC, a single collector bought the entire lot.
wvumtnbkr said:vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:I don't get the allure of these movies. Am I broken?
The new ones suck out loud. The old ones were cool at the time.
No, you're not broken, or alone.
Mad Max is a fantastic movie, start to finish, especially in it's undubbed release with Mel's actual voice. Made on a shoestring budget and maximized every dollar spent.
Road Warrior is very good - a solid post-apocalypse movie with great chase action.
Thunderdome is terrible, full stop. No redeeming qualities. Pretend it never existed.
Fury Road is... just OK. I do not understand the love for it when compared to the first two, but at least it's better than Thunderdome instead of worse.
In reply to Duke :
Agreed.
In school, several friends saw the first in the theater, orig. release. From comments, it was obviously gonna be a cult classic.
I saw The Road Warrior in theaters; so the first was a minor let down, to see it after that. But still a fan.
T Dome? Pure trash.
Fury? Decent.
iansane said:I'm confused on the timeline with this one. Is it coherant? Or just a shutup and enjoy the set pieces/action? I'm totally okay with either. I loved Fury Road.
It's set decades before Fury Road, with a young Furiosa. But where Fury Road falls in the timeline is unclear. Basically George Miller said it doesn't matter and that the Max we see in Fury Road may not even be the same Max from the first three, that Max is more a concept or a legend than a single person, or that all of these stories are a legend being told by an unreliable narrator who gets the times and details jumbled.
Fury Road was originally supposed to be set sequentially 20 or so years after Thunderdome with Mel Gibson playing an older, even more grizzled Max (and Sigourney Weaver as Furiosa) and George Miller was working on the film as early as 1999. But then September 11th happened and the the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar and made the budget unreasonable, followed by Miller getting busy with other projects and Gibson became persona non grata. They actually had a bunch of the vehicles built as early as 2009, which probably contributed to the authentic rusty appearance, but were on standby until Miller could select a new actor to play Max.
Duke said:wvumtnbkr said:vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:I don't get the allure of these movies. Am I broken?
The new ones suck out loud. The old ones were cool at the time.
No, you're not broken, or alone.
Mad Max is a fantastic movie, start to finish, especially in it's undubbed release with Mel's actual voice. Made on a shoestring budget and maximized every dollar spent.
Road Warrior is very good - a solid post-apocalypse movie with great chase action.
Thunderdome is terrible, full stop. No redeeming qualities. Pretend it never existed.
Fury Road is... just OK. I do not understand the love for it when compared to the first two, but at least it's better than Thunderdome instead of worse.
Just curious, did you see Fury Road in theaters? Because it was an absolute spectacle on the big screen.
wvumtnbkr said:I loved the original movies. When I saw fury road, it was literally driving a truck to someplace that didn't exist and then driving it back. Ooph.
That was the plot, but this movie wasn't about plot. It was about vibe and themes. That the place didn't exist was integral to the theme.
They leave because they want to go to a fabled edenic place where everything is better and everything is sunshine and lollipops. They want to run away to where their problems don't exist. They discover that no such place exists. That their only option is to turn around, face their problems head on, and go back to their disgusting, messy, unfair, world full of suffering and do the work themselves to make it a better place.
There are lots of elements that have a lot of depth when analyzed deeply. Such as how EVERY character is dying, deformed, crippled, etc. *except* for the Wives. (Max may be physically whole, but is psychologically crippled.) I could probably write a full page on the significance of the line, "I had a baby brother, and he was perfect in every way!"
It's a surprisingly deep and MESSY piece of genuine art. It explores a lot of really heavy themes but doesn't fall into the trap of pushing a particular agenda or telling people what they're supposed to think. At least, not beyond, "Life is struggle. Hope comes from facing your problems rather than trying to run away from them."
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