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Look, for those saying it will be a true sequel, I ask you how?

The aesthetic is already inconsistent with the mad max films. The aesthetic is a big part of the charm and feel of those films.

Washed out colour grading doesn't really make anything dustier, it just crushes colour and forces your colour spectrum into a stupidly artificial tunnel.

How do things look particularly dusty when everything is crushed to look dusty? You lose contrast. You lose dynamic range. You get a fake, unnatural look.

The modern aesthetic of over colour grading sucks. It is an annoying fad that I wish would just die and never return.

You look more dusty when the viewer has a point of reference to see how dusty you are. That reference I am referring to is called accurate colour.

When everything in the frame is sepia graded, you as a character, simply look like part of the background. The sky looks like the foreground, the foreground looks like the sky...bleh


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Another thing: Junkie XL doing the score.

Electronic music will certainly not fit the aesthetic of Mad Max. The original scores had unnerving staccato and haunting brass.

For the love of god spare the dubsteb, jungle, drum and bass, hip hop for other schlok.

Another thing, gibson had like only 16 lines in Mad max 2.....just think about that for a second

Just walk away, walk away

 44Ronin wrote:
Look, for those saying it will be a true sequel, I ask you how?

Same director, who says it is part of the same universe as the previous films. Your counter appears to be that a different colour treatment is being used... and while that may well work as a valid complaint about the film, it's a bit silly to claim it has anything to do with whether or not it is a sequel.

 sebster wrote:

 44Ronin wrote:
Look, for those saying it will be a true sequel, I ask you how?

Your counter appears to be that a different colour treatment is being used... and while that may well work as a valid complaint about the film, it's a bit silly to claim it has anything to do with whether or not it is a sequel.

My counter is that it will suck. Hard. By not having any of the charm that made the first two mad max films truly great. Thereby not being true sequels, but rather a pale imposter.

The director is only one person who worked on the films, and more often than not, their influence is overstated at the cost of the ensemble of the other people who worked hard to make the films.

Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.

 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.

Here is the orginal actors talking about it:

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

Thats because the original Mad Max film was almost incoherent. Yes I've heard the original one too.

I wouldn't worry. This one will be full of Chinese and American product placements and somehow have a new location link in to Shanghai.

 44Ronin wrote:
Thereby not being true sequels, but rather a pale imposter.

So your argument is that there is no true sequel because no sequel will be too your liking by sole virtue having American money involved.

Call me crazy, but some people might call that bigoted, since American money produces fine movies all the time

 LordofHats wrote:

 44Ronin wrote:
Thereby not being true sequels, but rather a pale imposter.

So your argument is that there is no true sequel because no sequel will be too your liking by sole virtue having American money involved.

Call me crazy, but some people might call that bigoted, since American money produces fine movies all the time

Having a cohesive relation to the first two mad max films is the "sole virtue" that crushes everything.



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The last American involvement brought us this abomination:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeZrI5Giw4

Just walk away, walk away

Movies get dubbed all of the time when they take them to new markets/countries.

Getting your panties in a wad over it is silly, and not nearly as entertaining as you think it is.

Also, none of the Mad Max movies are worth a gak. Horrible schlock. I'd rather they took the time and focused on 80s movies that DESERVE a new look.

Like Big Trouble in Little China or Jumping Jack Flash.

 kronk wrote:
Also, none of the Mad Max movies are worth a gak. Horrible schlock. I'd rather they took the time and focused on 80s movies that DESERVE a new look

Maybe I'm crazy but at this point, maybe it is time for a remake of Ghost Busters rather than a sequel Make it in true 80's fashion and style and we can enjoy a neat blast from the past

Also I'd totally be behind a remake of Rumble in the Bronx (EDIT: Except that's not from the 80's is it XD). The problem will be finding us someone of Jackie Chan's caliber, which is a tall order. Jackie Chan's just a swell guy

 kronk wrote:
Movies get dubbed all of the time when they take them to new markets/countries.

Getting your panties in a wad over it is silly, and not nearly as entertaining as you think it is.

Also, none of the Mad Max movies are worth a gak. Horrible schlock. I'd rather they took the time and focused on 80s movies that DESERVE a new look.

Like Big Trouble in Little China or Jumping Jack Flash.

Calls Mad max schlock, mentions Big Trouble Little China.

 44Ronin wrote:


Calls Mad max schlock, mentions Big Trouble Little China.

BTLC is a film that's enjoyed a significant reexamination of it's quality since its release EDIT: Actually, given the entire film is one giant mock of Americanism, its a film you should enjoy

 LordofHats wrote:

 44Ronin wrote:


Calls Mad max schlock, mentions Big Trouble Little China.

BTLC is a film that's enjoyed a significant reexamination of it's quality since its release

BTLC is a great film because it is cheesy and doesn't take itself seriously.

You better not look at Mad Max 2 rating on rotten tomatoes...just walk away...walk away.

 44Ronin wrote:
BTLC is a great film because it is cheesy and doesn't take itself seriously.

Actually, I'd argue the film took itself so seriously no one was capable of realizing just how serious it was being A masterful masking of a very serious film behind a cheesy covering. I kind of thought of John Carpenter as a whiny baby when I first started reading about the movie, but these days I kind of understand why he was so angry at the time of the films release.

You better not look at Mad Max 2 rating on rotten tomatoes...just walk away...walk away.

I was expecting to find it having a really low rating, stead I'm like this at the 100% rating. How many films have managed that on RT XD Then I looked and had a little fun going through the list to find the ones I'd seen and the ones I hadn't

I'm just tired of remakes, reimaginings or other nonsensical crap nomenclatures for the fact Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to make good or at least cult classic movies.

On the positive SWMBO and I have scored tickets to Evil Dead, the Musical at the Long Center in September! Hurray!
http://thelongcenter.org/event/evil-dead-the-musical/?gclid=CLaziYziob8CFQwQaQodph8AdQ

 Frazzled wrote:
I'm just tired of remakes, reimaginings or other nonsensical crap nomenclatures for the fact Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to make good or at least cult classic movies.

Then it is a good thing this isn't a remake.

I don't even have an issue with remakes. If a movie is good its good. I don't care where the idea came from. People were writing Canterbury Tales for over a century after Geoffrey Chaucer died. Some of them were crap, some of them were so good we keep slapping Chaucer's name on them.

 LordofHats wrote:
I don't even have an issue with remakes. If a movie is good its good. I don't care where the idea came from. People were writing Canterbury Tales for over a century after Geoffrey Chaucer died. Some of them were crap, some of them were so good we keep slapping Chaucer's name on them.

Oh absolutely. I've always said that I care more about if a story is well done then anything else. Considering we have been retelling/reimagining stories for as long as there have been stories I always found it a bit odd to complain about it. Of course I also think it is strange to blame Hollywood when the audience gives them no reason not to keep making sequels and remakes. Transformers 4 is the fourth in a line of horrible movies but did huge numbers over the weekend so there will be another just awful Transformers film in the pipeline.

 Ahtman wrote:
Transformers 4 is the fourth in a line of horrible movies but did huge numbers over the weekend so there will be another just awful Transformers film in the pipeline.

Hey, terrible movies can be good in their own way! Battleship and Battle L.A. have provided me many hours of laughter and joy at just how terrible they are. By far two of the laziest movies that have ever been made and as far as I'm concerned they're spoof films

But yeah. When people ask how Michael Bay keeps finding work, I just point to Transformers. Of course he keeps finding work XD

 LordofHats wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
Transformers 4 is the fourth in a line of horrible movies but did huge numbers over the weekend so there will be another just awful Transformers film in the pipeline.

Hey, terrible movies can be good in their own way!

Sure, but that doesn't make them not terrible.

 Ahtman wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
Transformers 4 is the fourth in a line of horrible movies but did huge numbers over the weekend so there will be another just awful Transformers film in the pipeline.

Hey, terrible movies can be good in their own way!

Sure, but that doesn't make them not terrible.

See, not being an "expert" in film making (never went to school for it and all) means that when I see some movies, such as Transformers, Pacific Rim, Die Hard series, etc. I go in (sometimes to the theater), sit down and turn off the brain for a couple hours and just enjoy the spectacle... I mean, I actually do enjoy the TF movies, because I always imagined what it'd be like to run around with Optimus Prime when I was playing with the toys as a kid. So from that perspective, they arent "terrible" movies, even though, yeah... theyre terrible.

I always mention Too Human as a very very bad video game, but I loved it to death. There's no shame in enjoying something terrible or taking no joy from something good

 44Ronin wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Movies get dubbed all of the time when they take them to new markets/countries.

Getting your panties in a wad over it is silly, and not nearly as entertaining as you think it is.

Also, none of the Mad Max movies are worth a gak. Horrible schlock. I'd rather they took the time and focused on 80s movies that DESERVE a new look.

Like Big Trouble in Little China or Jumping Jack Flash.

Calls Mad max schlock, mentions Big Trouble Little China.

It also had a young kim cattrell in it. So it's alright by me. The only film I like better with her in is porkys.