Posted on 05/01/2015 8:44:33 AM PDT by mkleesma
The nearly ran out of stunt men in Road Warrior, busted a bunch of them up. When you watch how they did some of the driving stunts it’s amazing nobody was killed.
I’m gonna give Miller (and/ or his distributors) props for not “sucking in” the previous movies. My local arthouse has a Cult Classic series and they often want to show movies that are about to have sequels and remakes come out soon. They want to, but they generally can’t because most distributors fear the old movie “competing” with the new one and take prints out of circulation. Well they’re showing Mad Max this weekend.
Now I just hope there’s not a lot of talking in 4. 3 is a fun bit of post apocalypse but you can really tell Kennedy is gone, it’s got more dialog than 1 and 2 combined. And of course most of the dialog is kind of dumb in all 3 movies, which is why less is more.
I really just find myself being not too fond of CGI fest movies.
I suppose CGI does have its place, but I really miss seeing good old, stunt work.
it seems like it’s a lost art now.
That’s not Humongous, this is basically a sequel to Mad Max 3, so he’s already dead, this must be a new villain.
I am not a fan of CGI either.
Imdb says he is playing a different character though... “Immortan Joe”.
Have you seen Mad Max with the original Australian English voice track?
I have a DVD of the movie on which that is an option.
I like it a lot better than the American English overdubbed version.
On Theron’s character:
“And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.”
I’m wondering if the place she is trying to get to is going to turn out to be the colony the kids set up at the end of Mad Max 3?
Yeah, the first time I saw that, I couldn’t understand half of what they were saying, but now I like that version better :)
Actually only one guy got seriously hurt in 2. When Mohawk flips over his handlebars he broke a limb (arm I think), everything else was minor.
Yeah I picked up that DVD on accident. Kind of threw me at first, I’d seen the American dubbing so many times I was trying to figure out why it sounded funny, then I paid attention to the liner notes. Now it’s grown on me. Not sure which version The Loft is showing, Jeff’s usually really good about getting the more obscure versions.
Can’t do it. The first two movies set the bar so high, that when the third came out, I found it to be a huge disappointment.
With all the CGI BS, why not just watch a cartoon?
According to the director, it does:
'Mad Max: Fury Road' director George Miller wary of using 'too much CG'
Yeah, Mad Max is not a superhero. We don’t defy the laws of physics, it’s not a fantasy film. It’s basically a western on wheels. And I think if people see, I know when I see too much CG, that sort of takes me out of the experience. You want to have that sort of almost, I’m not going to say documentary experience, but you want to feel it like you’re really immersed, like it’s really happening. So we decided to literally do every car that’s smashed is smashed, every stunt is a real human being, even the actors do a lot of their own stunts, and so on.
If it ain’t Mel, it ain’t Max, IMHO!!
However, if Max in #4 were Russell Crowe, I’d definitely go see it!!!!!! (Mad Maximus! :)
Loved Max One and Two, hated Three. #3 seemed to have at least two different movies on the same screen, and their storylines didn’t connect.
“I am not expecting much from this movie. I hope I am pleasantly surprised.”
Indeed. There hasn’t been a remake in recent memory that even came close to the brilliance of past scifi flicks. RoboCop II was utter dreck compared to the original.
These remakes all simply try for bigger special effects and while dumping all of the multi-layered subtleties of the original. Can you even imagine a remake that would approach the wonderfulness of “Soylent Green”?
(Actually, good remakes ARE possible, but that involves REALLY good writing, really good imagination, really intelligent film making, and NO CGI. Good luck with that from Hollywood.)
Over 80% of the effects seen in the film are real practical effects, stunts, make-up and sets. CGI was used sparingly mainly to enhance the Namibian landscape, remove stunt rigging and for Charlize Theron’s left hand which in the film is a prosthetic arm.
Fury Road is set between Mad Max and The Road Warrior
I enjoyed it too, once they got past the boring, too-long lead in.
Hah! No doubt.
Tarantino is known for his dialogue heavy movies though. That one kind of took it to the extreme.
There is the theater release of that movie, the extended version of that movie, which is really long, and even another extended extended version of that movie that I saw on IFC that has even more scenes of the various girls talking than the regular extended version.
But the driving scenes are the best, and Kurt Russell howling in the driver seat of his car at the end is just hilarious. I really loved Russell’s performance in that movie. He’s one of those good, old actors that just cannot be replaced.
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