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Cannot imagine the gas price.

 Breotan wrote:

 Skinnereal wrote:
Which of the originals is it supposedly most similar to?

Third, it looks like. The first didn't have all the crazy cars. Although that tanker does look a little like something out do the second. A mishmash of them all, perhaps?

Again, it's not a mishmash remake but another film in the series. The suggested focus on road action makes me think of 2 and not 3. Also, Thunderdome had an older Max at a time when the gas seems to have mostly run out. So I'd place this one as either happening between 1 and 2, or between 2 and 3. The status of the Pursuit Special should answer this question.

Dunno if we can trust Wikipedia in this instance, but it says Fury Road will take place between 1 and 2 and will include the Pursuit Special!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_Special

That would be an excellent time period for it.

Oh hell yeah. I wanna see Max fire up that supercharger.

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Heh, beat me to it Frazzled.

I really wish this didn't exist the originals we're classics we don't need anything added to them, but you never know it might actually be good.

If Hollywood made an original film it might actually be good.

Well, it is still being directed by George Miller so that's one promising thing. My main concern is we're going to see another loved franchise have a bland, generic movie(s) tagged onto it.

Yeah, I really need to see the trailer. I'm afraid right now it doesn;t look like it is adding anything new or have anything new to tell us about the Mad Max universe.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
If Hollywood made an original film it might actually be good.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

 Jihadin wrote:
I wait for it to hit the $5 bin in Walmart

If it will even be worth that!

So, looks like something similar to the 2nd one?

Does anyone know if Max has moved to the US, or the studio have grown some balls and having it set in Aus again?

The Road Warrior and Mad Max were many things, but campy they are not.

I thought some of the biker gang were pretty campy in the first one..

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!

 pretre wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
If Hollywood made an original film it might actually be good.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

I'm quite looking forward to 'Jupiter Rising', and have had 'Maleficent' recommended to me for that reason (don't laugh! ) At least trying to do something a bit more fresh.

 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

What the hell is with the semi-sepia fetish?

These modern day directors of photography should be beaten like the two-bit hacks they are.

Destroyers of colour.

We all know we watch the Bond movies for the cool spy gear, cars, and females

Though they could have done away with the wicker chair and knotted rope scene

There are two really good Mad Max films, they were directed by George Miller. There is one really bad Mad Max film, which George Miller walked away from, only to come back late in the process to direct the action scenes (which were the only good part of Beyond Thunderdome).

George Miller is back directing this one, and doing it for no other reason than because he wants to make another Mad Max. It might suck, if for no other reason than because most films suck, but there's a lot more reason to think this will be a big success than most of the rest of the sequels and re-releases that have gotten the nerd community so excited.

Fair point Sebster.

I thought some of the biker gang were pretty campy in the first one..

Budget limitations + time makes them a bit silly now, but I wouldn't call it camp.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Casino Royale was a remake

Not really as the first was a campy (there we go!) comedy loosely based on the novel. I mean, Woody Allen was one of many Bonds in that film. It was just an adaptation of the novel.

Quite looking forward to this as I do like a Mad Max film.

However the fact people moan about no originality from Hollywood, well when things like the Wachowski Jupiter Ascending gets made, then delayed, then still looks ropey, I will stick with reboots for now.

Transformers 4 is apparently getting pretty good reviews, and I am looking forward to it, and TMNT could be fun, but I am not expecting greatness. Chris Nolan's Interstellar could be something fresh and very good though.

It's Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. In a post apocalypse scenario. I'm sold.

I could care less about relating it to the "Mad Max" universe. To me the only one worth watching was 2. The first one was horrible to me and the third is just a source of jokes.

So yeah, I'm looking forward to this

Meh. Drop it in the bucket with TNMT Bay style. No interest at all.

 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!

.

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.

 sebster wrote:
There are two really good Mad Max films, they were directed by George Miller. There is one really bad Mad Max film, which George Miller walked away from, only to come back late in the process to direct the action scenes (which were the only good part of Beyond Thunderdome).

George Miller is back directing this one, and doing it for no other reason than because he wants to make another Mad Max. It might suck, if for no other reason than because most films suck, but there's a lot more reason to think this will be a big success than most of the rest of the sequels and re-releases that have gotten the nerd community so excited.

You might even have a point and I pray that you are right.

But then I look at the new Robocop movie and loose all hope that this will ever be good.

PhantomViper wrote:

 sebster wrote:
There are two really good Mad Max films, they were directed by George Miller. There is one really bad Mad Max film, which George Miller walked away from, only to come back late in the process to direct the action scenes (which were the only good part of Beyond Thunderdome).

George Miller is back directing this one, and doing it for no other reason than because he wants to make another Mad Max. It might suck, if for no other reason than because most films suck, but there's a lot more reason to think this will be a big success than most of the rest of the sequels and re-releases that have gotten the nerd community so excited.

You might even have a point and I pray that you are right.

But then I look at the new Robocop movie and loose all hope that this will ever be good.

I don't know how that analogy even makes sense. Robocop was a remake by a different director, and this is a new episode in the series from the original creator.

I really can't understand how people can be so negative about this film and so positive over a Pacific Rim sequel.

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

 gorgon wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:

 sebster wrote:
There are two really good Mad Max films, they were directed by George Miller. There is one really bad Mad Max film, which George Miller walked away from, only to come back late in the process to direct the action scenes (which were the only good part of Beyond Thunderdome).

George Miller is back directing this one, and doing it for no other reason than because he wants to make another Mad Max. It might suck, if for no other reason than because most films suck, but there's a lot more reason to think this will be a big success than most of the rest of the sequels and re-releases that have gotten the nerd community so excited.

You might even have a point and I pray that you are right.

But then I look at the new Robocop movie and loose all hope that this will ever be good.

I don't know how that analogy even makes sense. Robocop was a remake by a different director, and this is a new episode in the series from the original creator.

I really can't understand how people can be so negative about this film and so positive over a Pacific Rim sequel.

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.

Pacific Rim was just mindless robot vs monster fun. There is less of a chance that they make a bad sequel, because the original movie wasn't good to begin with.

 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.

Hadn't heard about this.

No thanks, Hollywood. No thanks.

 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.