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squidhills wrote:

 Pacific wrote:

squidhills wrote:


As if the chase scene in the second Matrix movie wasn't overlong and boring enough....

Boring?! Are you fething kidding me?! Please give me whatever drugs that you are on, so that something like that can feel like a dull experience by comparison!

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I would, man... but if you haven't built up a tolerance for them like I have, they'd probably explode your heart right out of your dang chest, man.

On a serious note, I found the second Matrix movie to be very dull. It was clear the writers didn't have enough plot to sustain a 2 hour film, so they padded out their fight scenes and made them all ten minutes longer than they should have been. The first five minutes of the highway chase scene were golden. The remaining fifteen to twenty minutes were endless monotony. Just my opinion, as always, YMMV.

Also in 3 they start breaking the rules (maybe it happens in 2 as well I can't remember anything from that movie other than the ghost guys with dreadlocks) of their own universe like the Matrix is supposed to be a virtual world yet Neo is still in the matrix even when he's not hooked up to it,

just watch the first one and forget that it has sequels.

There were sequels to the Matrix?

is this a joke?

is there really going tobea new mad max movie?

honestly, from the pics it looks like it captures the "feel" of the movies perfectly, and I look forward to it....

hell they could make another trio of mad max films, and I would not complain... mad max was awesome despite its somewhat cheesy-b-moviness

I thought the sequence in the 2nd Matrix film, with the fight in the Merovingian's foyer (with the awesome music, choreographed in with all the fighting), with the chase scene then going on after, is perhaps the single greatest action sequence in any film. Say what you like about the rest of the film, which wasn't a patch on the original, that one sequence was fething incredible.

If you think it was rubbish.. well, I will have to disagree most strongly! Get a decent TV rig; blu-ray, big screen, crank up the sub-woofer, and change your mind..

 kronk wrote:
With limited resources, wouldn't you want to supe up a Prius to conserve gas?

That is an absolutely incredible idea - I would love it so much if that actually made it into the movie, just because it makes so much sense! Much more than Max's big V8

"m-muh childhood" ITT

 kronk wrote:
With limited resources, wouldn't you want to supe up a Prius to conserve gas?

Why do you think the world of Mad Max is in the state its in?? it's all them damn hippy Prius drivers (minus the cool ones who put monster truck tires on)

 Frazzled wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:

 Rick_1138 wrote:
Transformers 4 is apparently getting pretty good reviews

No it isn't. It sits at 17% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics and viewer reviews are middling.

Indeed. Its dropped from 25% to 17% in the last six hours. Wow.

Going to see Transformer...

They have beer on tap there... might do some *behavior modification* before the flix starts

I was told Transformers 4 is almost three hours long, thinks putting glasses on Mark Wahlberg makes him a brilliant inventor, and that the advertised Dinobots don't appear until the very end very briefly.

 Ahtman wrote:
I was told Transformers 4 is almost three hours long, thinks putting glasses on Mark Wahlberg makes him a brilliant inventor, and that the advertised Dinobots don't appear until the very end very briefly.

Well if they want to just skip over the "Beyond Thunderdome" fiasco (except for 'WHO RUN BARTERTOWN"), I'm all for it.

Predator is getting a remake too. Hope they do a lot more 1st movie, and a whole lot less 2nd.

 Ahtman wrote:
I was told Transformers 4 is almost three hours long, thinks putting glasses on Mark Wahlberg makes him a brilliant inventor, and that the advertised Dinobots don't appear until the very end very briefly.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:

Predator is getting a remake too. Hope they do a lot more 1st movie, and a whole lot less 2nd.

This is news to me... and while I agree with you, my hunch is, on hearing this... it'll be more like 2nd, and AVP, and Predators, etc.

I think it's hilarious that people are freaking out about how this is a travesty and a raping of a classic franchise, but neglecting to read enough to see that it's the same director that made the original movies that they like so much........

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I think it's hilarious that people are freaking out about how this is a travesty and a raping of a classic franchise, but neglecting to read enough to see that it's the same director that made the original movies that they like so much........

I don't need to, as I can already judge from the photography which is horrible.

The half-tone sepia already shows it's going to be modernised schlock


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And lets not forget, where's the bloody Australian cast? Are they fair dinkum or what?

It will suck as hard as U.S red dwarf did, I GUARANTEE IT

Americanise it and it will suck.

 44Ronin wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I think it's hilarious that people are freaking out about how this is a travesty and a raping of a classic franchise, but neglecting to read enough to see that it's the same director that made the original movies that they like so much........

I don't need to, as I can already judge from the photography which is horrible.

The half-tone sepia already shows it's going to be modernised schlock


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And lets not forget, where's the bloody Australian cast? Are they fair dinkum or what?

It will suck as hard as U.S red dwarf did, I GUARANTEE IT

Americanise it and it will suck.

Every time I read one of your posts, I get the overwhelming message of "America sucks!". Is there anything you like about America?

 44Ronin wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I think it's hilarious that people are freaking out about how this is a travesty and a raping of a classic franchise, but neglecting to read enough to see that it's the same director that made the original movies that they like so much........

I don't need to, as I can already judge from the photography which is horrible.

The half-tone sepia already shows it's going to be modernised schlock


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And lets not forget, where's the bloody Australian cast? Are they fair dinkum or what?

It will suck as hard as U.S red dwarf did, I GUARANTEE IT

Americanise it and it will suck.

What's wrong with half-tone sepia? Maybe that style has some significance to the themes of this movie, the way the movie is coloured can be an important element to the film.

 44Ronin wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I think it's hilarious that people are freaking out about how this is a travesty and a raping of a classic franchise, but neglecting to read enough to see that it's the same director that made the original movies that they like so much........

I don't need to, as I can already judge from the photography which is horrible.

The half-tone sepia already shows it's going to be modernised schlock


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And lets not forget, where's the bloody Australian cast? Are they fair dinkum or what?

It will suck as hard as U.S red dwarf did, I GUARANTEE IT

Americanise it and it will suck.

The nerd-rage is strong in this one, yes.

~Tim?

Nothing is more American than a British Lead, South African Co-Star, and Australian writer/director/producer!

Isn't this the Mad Max sequel this guy has been trying to get going for decades, not a remake?


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 Ahtman wrote:
Nothing is more American than a British Lead, South African Co-Star, and Australian writer/director/producer!

Wasn't Mel Gibson (an American) the guy who portrayed Mad Max, or am I imagining that bit of film history @_@

 LordofHats wrote:
Isn't this the Mad Max sequel this guy has been trying to get going for decades, not a remake?

It is, and has been pointed out and ignored several times already.

 LordofHats wrote:
Wasn't Mel Gibson (an American) the guy who portrayed Mad Max, or am I imagining that bit of film history @_@

Well he his dad had moved there when he was a tyke to get away from the evils of everything that wasn't his version of super-hardcore Catholicism. His dad is a hoot to read about. I don't recall if he was an Australian citizen or just an ex-pat.

 Ahtman wrote:


It is, and has been pointed out and ignored several times already.

Given that this is a franchise where even the worst sequel (Thunderdome) was pretty damn good, you'd think people would be a little more optimistic. How many other franchise can go through 3 films without turning to complete bile XD

Maybe you do not understand.

You do realise the original film was extensively dubbed OVER in american voices?
Cultural imperialism to the core when you are already dubbing the english language. The American dub is a horrible abomination.

Here is the orginal actors talking about it:

http://youtu.be/lUn6ViBn79g?t=8m14s

Cultural imperialism to the core when you are already dubbing the english language. The American dub is a horrible abomination.

The 80's were a strange time. We had Carter in office, were still convinced Soviet Russia was made up of bears on unicycles, and had yet to realize how much porn we'd be able to view on the internet. Strange times. Strange times.


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 44Ronin wrote:
http://youtu.be/lUn6ViBn79g?t=8m14s

I'm sorry we removed your accents. I'll bake you some brownies to make up for this truely vile crime against your people.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 pretre wrote:

No, that's a recasting. Are James Bond movies remakes or are they just extensions of the same series?

Casino Royale was a remake

So was "never say never again", remake of thunderball.

 loki old fart wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 pretre wrote:

No, that's a recasting. Are James Bond movies remakes or are they just extensions of the same series?

Casino Royale was a remake

So was "never say never again", remake of thunderball.

Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) wasn't a remake at all, as it wasn't based on the camp comedy of the 60's. It was an adaptation of the novel, which actually had never been made by the franchise up that point.

 Ahtman wrote:


Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) wasn't a remake at all, as it wasn't based on the camp comedy of the 60's. It was an adaptation of the novel, which actually had never been made by the franchise up that point.

Well to be fair, there was a spoof film in 1967 based on the novel and character separate of the franchise we all know and sometimes love.

 LordofHats wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:


Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) wasn't a remake at all, as it wasn't based on the camp comedy of the 60's. It was an adaptation of the novel, which actually had never been made by the franchise up that point.

Well to be fair, there was a spoof film in 1967 based on the novel and character separate of the franchise we all know and sometimes love.

I specifically mentioned the comedy of the 1960's and how this wasn't a remake of that. Neither that film, nor Never Say Never, were made by Eon Features, who have made all of the official Bond Films.

 44Ronin wrote:
Maybe you do not understand.

You do realise the original film was extensively dubbed OVER in american voices?
Cultural imperialism to the core when you are already dubbing the english language. The American dub is a horrible abomination.

Hey now. Lighten up with that cultural imperialism stuff. It wasn't but a few years later that a film about Australia captured our hearts in the good ol' US of A, and taught us SO MUCH about Australian culture.



Like your love of large knives, for instance.

PhantomViper wrote:
Robocop is the example of how hollywood can take an actual good movie and run it to the ground by turning it into a bland and boring generic PG-13 action movie. I have serious reservations that in this day and age, a movie as dark and racy as the original Mad Max can actually be made by a Hollywood studio.

That's a fair point. Miller had freedom with the first two films because they were cheap and made a long way from Hollywood. Whereas this time around there's a 100 million in studio money in the project, and that generally comes with restrictions to make sure the film appeals to a wide enough audience. I do know that after cost over-runs executives got involved to get the project finished.

So that isn't promising. But on the other hand it is going to be R-Rated, so hopefully the action scenes will be suitably violent.


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 gorgon wrote:
Hey now. Lighten up with that cultural imperialism stuff. It wasn't but a few years later that a film about Australia captured our hearts in the good ol' US of A, and taught us SO MUCH about Australian culture.

On re-watching, what's interesting about that film is that the stereotyping of New York is probably further from the mark than the stereotyping of Australians. I mean, you go out to some parts of the outback and you'll meet people that aren't too far from Mick Dundee, but I don't think you ever would have found people that talked and acted like the hollywood stereotypes you get in New York in that movie.

I will go watch it just to see what they have done to it


And dude stop sniffing the gas