"Mad Max".. the original...a surprisingly affecting, emotionally harrowing film, rich with pathos and genuine tragedy.

George Miller was on board and ready to go, too.

i finally saw Mad Max 2/Road Warrior all the way thru for the first time like 2 weeks ago. they really DID cop a lot of stuff from that film for the Fallout games...

I know that the only place here to get a powder blue bonds tshirt (MFP uniform) is Dimmeys. Fancy-dress movie character parties, y'see.

http://www.madmaxmovies.com is definitely worth a look.

miller is a brilliant director. "lorenzo's oil" is one of my favoritest movies.

"max max" is indeed great. i wouldn't call it "rich with pathos" though, not by a long shot.

Well, I was exaggerating to inspire participation in this thread, actually. A ploy that worked.

Until very recently, a good friend of mine insisted the MFP stood for "Mother Fucking Police!"

Oh such a classic. I find "Talking to a Stranger" closer to Peter Weir's The Last Wave, though.

i think i prefer The Road Warrior because it's just so relentless.

Well, there are more mohawks and buttless leather chaps in The Road Warrior. To me, that always makes for a better film.

http://www.catlink.info/prodimages/FALLOUT1AND2.jpg

great games. i've talked about them a lot in the video game threads. you can get sidekick dogs to help you out, too.

also, all the armor/costumes in the game are based on the "one sholderpad"/"gladiator" look, as seen here in this bit of concept art from the aborted Fallout 3.

http://www.rocknworld.com/y&t/2003/mc/shout.jpg

heh. i've also heard that during its original theatrical run, the UK version of Star Wars had dubbing such to reverse the accents: the heroes were british, while the Imperials all had american accents.

xpost

there's just something great about the guy playign both the original role and the one which completely cops from it.

Vernon Wells is his name.

xpost

yeah, you can. the warrior chick from then 2nd one is even hotter now with the accent.

he was also in the last Looney Tunes movie. figure that one out.

yeah, it's all been restored.

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/flubs/references/images/WeirdScience/weirdscience.jpg

http://www.filthythemovie.com/images/SF03_andy_vernon_wells.jpg

i like this shot

In the episode or Nickelodeon's Rugrats "The Sky is Falling", there is an end-of-the world scene which parodies Mad Max 2. They are heading down a road in the desert towards and abandoned city. Their vehicles are engineered out of other things (cribs, etc...). One of the characters, Chuckie, it piloting a GyroCopter and is dressed very similarly to the gyro captain (leather cap, shirt, tan colors)...

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/flubs/references/images/rugrats/gyro%20zoom.jpg

he also showed up in the last Matrix flick as "The Train Man."

Oddly, even Max's wife's saxophone playing is different in the US dubbed version.

"You want your baby back? Well Kundalini wants his HAND BACK!!!"

Wait...so it doesn't stand for Mother Fucking Police?

the second mad max was known in australia as "mad max 2" and elsewhere (where the first one had already come out) as "mad max 2: the road warrior." however in the states, upon initial release, it was simply called "the road warrior."

what's weird to me is that it's as much of a remake as a sequel. but yeah the second one is better.

there's a new mad max in preproduction, i believe. directed by miller and starring mel.

Hmmm. I'd simply say the second one (The Road Warrior) is different (in much the same way Alien was different from Aliens). This is not to say that The Road Warrior was a crap film (like, say, Aliens), but that it lacked a bit of the depth of the first one.

the second one seems to dispense with all but the most elementary plot to concentrate on those formalist tendencies i find so appealing. plus: "the ayatollah of rock-and-rolla"! the whole movie is just so gleefully bizarre and funny and exciting.

obv they are both great movies. i can't even remember part 3 so i should check it out again.

Because most of them are utter crap.

yeah, that about sums it up. the first film has some pretty banal passages.

i don't think the third one is that bad but then again, like most of you probably, i probably last caught it about 10 years ago on afternoon USA channel.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAM/is_138/ai_110472648

Wait...so it doesn't stand for Mother Fucking Police?

-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), April 1st, 2005 1:12 AM. (later)

Main Force Patrol

Inevitable, but I kinda like that if they're going to be cosplaying nerds then go all the way with it. Hell, someone even brought an autogyro.

Post-Apocalyptic Party: Road Warrior Weekend Brings Mad Max Fans to the High Desert

tons of this stuff at Burning Man

Wow

They're showing this at the Clinton St Theater in Portland from Friday on, i think.

That second-last pic has the damn New Zealnd flag, not the Australian one. Rookie mistake.

Great film. Really surprised me at how Hitchcock it is.

one of my top ten movies of all time

Surprised there's not been a remake, it's getting on a bit now.

Now I'm imagining James Stewart in the title role.

"Peanut butter and honey ... I was hungry"

The shot of Gibson's face when he sees charred Goose is the same effect when Scotty sees Judy jump. There are a number of parallels, like the shot of the vulture eating the guy who looks like a cross between Nigel Tufnel and Ace Face as well.

Surprised there's not been a remake, it's getting on a bit now.

(-- sigh --)

reading this makes me feel old.

Mad Max is great but I only got around to seeing it last year. I love the way it doesn't strictly define the time and scenario, like you can tell civilization is on the brink of collapse, but it's never really stated directly, just implied by the scenery and dialogue.

I also like that it's a slo burn than a fever-pitched action movie...the slower development makes Max's transformation much more convincing.

And ending the movie right after the final gang execution with no formal denouement was also awesome.

Surprised there's not been a remake, it's getting on a bit now.

No remake, but last I heard George Miller is still planning on a couple of sequels with Tom Hardy as Max, since the original got all old and racist and shitty.

the original got all old and racist and shitty

old and shitty, maybe, but i can't believe the original got "racist," not with a saint like mel gibson in the lead role.

um I think he is talking about Mel, not the movie

haha! yes, that makes more sense.

Lol at the idea of the movie changing racial sensitivities over time

Yeah, sorry, I meant the old Max, not the old Max. I'm on very little sleep and no caffeine, clarity is not my strong suit at the moment.

Spoke too soon :(
http://www.showbizspy.com/article/208352/sam-worthington-to-star-in-mad-max-remake.html

part of the charm of the original was its low-budget limitations. it was sort of perfect, for what it was. not sure an update will make it any better.

(a bigger-budget update, i mean).

I read somewhere that this was one of the most successful films of all time as far as production cost:worldwide tickets sales is concerned.
It's a fucking badass movie.

For twenty years, the movie held a record in Guinness Book of Records as the highest profit-to-cost ratio of a motion picture, conceding the record only in 1999 to The Blair Witch Project.

love love love Max. Added bonus is it was filmed near where I grew up so all those long shots of zooming around on barren country roads make me pretty happy. Mel was badASS.

Cool list of locations:

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/making/madmax/index.html

Wait, Sam Worthington in place of Tom Hardy for Fury Road? That is really disappointing.

Just thinking about a Mad Max remake depresses me beyond belief.

So much of what makes the movie great is all the behind the scenes innovation and on the fly tape-shit-together-see-if-this-works because they had no money, they were making shit up as they went. Can we somehow ban the remake? Please?

Mad Max is great but I only got around to seeing it last year. I love the way it doesn't strictly define the time and scenario, like you can tell civilization is on the brink of collapse, but it's never really stated directly, just implied by the scenery and dialogue.

I also like that it's a slo burn than a fever-pitched action movie...the slower development makes Max's transformation much more convincing.

And ending the movie right after the final gang execution with no formal denouement was also awesome.

― furious styles p diddy kong (San Te), Friday, February 11, 2011 10:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this is all otm

It seems like a bedfellow of Assault on Precinct 13 in a lot of regards.

the original Mad Max has some of my favorite stunt work ever... I love the bare-bones feel of the universe they created

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCqyrWoIEs

check out the guy getting beaned in the head at the end http://www.welpfolks.net/forum/images/smilies/astonishedstare.gif

Esp. pre "Avatar," I thought all the Sam Worthington wandering the wasteland stuff in "Terminator" was total "Mad Max" territory, and he looked the part, too.

Mad Max stunts are some of my favorites for any movie ever. There's nothing better than real car/vehicle stunts.

The tension when you know that Goose's bike is gonna crash is pretty riveting.

xpost Bullitt!

Best bit from the commentary track (and also from that awesome Aussie b-movie doc - Not Quite Hollywood?) is where they point out that when you see a shot of a motorcycle speedometer at, like, 100 mph, that's not just because the bike was actually going that fast, but also because there was a guy with a camera hanging on to the driver for dear life, shooting over his shoulder.

Oh man yeah that was ker-azy. Cosign on "Not Quite Hollywood" - it's a great, great doc.

Shit I've only ever owned this on VHS! Commentary track!

check out the guy getting beaned in the head at the end

― Princess TamTam, Friday, February 11, 2011 1:26 PM

ya i always notice that and wonder how much it hurt. btw ive prob seen this movie like 500 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JixigZmBWOI&feature=related

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7FAsUT6FePU/S6w6rC_P_qI/AAAAAAAABJQ/w6xGDbgB8BY/s1600/mad+max2.JPG

I have a confession to make... I've never seen this :/

Or "dogs in space' for that matter. I need to get my citizenship revoked.

I watched this awhile ago but none of it really stuck. I vaguely remember a rape scene, some vacationers being killed..?

Trayce, Dayo ;_;

Trayce you havta see it! Little River never looked so good! And Mel was hot stuff as a youngun before all the craziness

I dont know how I've managed not to! Not even MM2! Bits of it on TV sure but not the whole thing... not that I can recall anyway!

I used to think that Blaster (of Master-Blaster fame) in the Beyond Thunderdome film was the lumbering man-child from Mad Max (who appeared in the vacation sequences)...turns out I was wrong, but I'd rather I was right...

Saw Mad Max at the drive-in in 1981 on a bill with Death Race 2000...drive-in owners sure know their demographics!

Also, still chuckle at Toecutter hissing like a cat...surely that was improvised!

MAD MAX IS AWES MELS LIEK NOT GOD-OBSESSED RENT IT PPL GET DED IN THIS BITCH

Push me, shove you, oh yeah? Says who?

Trayce and others, the first two are (not-entirely-legit) available to watch online here: http://divxonly.com/?s=mad+max&x=0&y=0

Put her against the post, Condalini!

BRONZE

Love the next two movies, too. Thunderdome has this real nutty "Big Trouble in Little China" vibe to it, plus the stunts are just as insane as the first two. MM2/Road Warrior is the most iconic, though.

Thunderdome = fail because no cool cars.

^^^^^^

I stopped Thunderdome midway thru for two reasons - Tina Turner and "Master Blaster"

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/MadMax.jpg

So anyway:

Charlize Theron is having a pretty decent month. She’s the star of Show White and the Huntsman, which opens Friday, as well as Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which opens next Friday June 8. From there, she’s heading to Africa to shoot Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and directed by George Miller.

on the one hand, she hints at 'chick kicking ass' in new Mad Max
on the other hand... u_u

Dear George, I am hoping your keen sense for gonzo filmmaking hasn't been dulled by talking pigs and dancing penguins. Love, VG.

meanwhile I quietly mutter "Please don't be worse than Thunderdome, please don't be worse than Thunderdome"

"They killed his family. Now he's going to run them over."

Unfortunate pronoun usage.

"Not worse than Thunderdome" is a fine standard for me. I love "Thunderdome," at least as much as I love "Temple of Doom."

...

THAT'S NOT THE SAME THING

sorry nm I shouldn't bcz it all makes me ia

Tina Turner ripping out Mel Gibson's heart, could happen.

lol

Mel Gibson doesn't have heart

special fx

Bryan Brown?

Road Fury would be so much more badass than Fury Road

He went looking for his beginning, what he found could be his end.

They killed his family. Now he is going to kill the people what killed his family."

They killed his family. Now he is going to run them over. Look out! The people who killed your family also put them in your driveway, behind your car!

The Big Rundown

They killed his family. Now he is going take the matter to the authorities in the hopes of eventual incarceration of the wrongdoers.

They killed his family. Now he is going to DANCE!

wait are we shitting on thunderdome now? because thunderdome is hilarious and awesome.

thunderdome makes me sad

there are parts that are fine, and kinda fun like the thunderdome fight...but so much of it is just people with big hair and too many extras and WHY IS MAX NOT KICKING PEOPLES ASSES

I think you're missing the main point, which is that Thunderdome is hilarious and awesome

yeah, but it's still the worst of the 3 by far

iirc VG and I wound ourselves up something fierce on the action poll thread in re: thunderdome

Mad Max 1 and Mad Max II are hilarious and awesome.

you Thunderdome ppl have a challopsian understanding of hilarious and awesome that I cannot abide

lol Edward III I just having flashbacks of oh wait I've done this already somewhere haven't I

i think i have so much love for thunderdome, aside from it being hilarious and awesome, because it was on pay cable so much when i was a child. i only got to see road warrior once, on vhs, until i hit college. i didn't even get to SEE the original mad max until college! you kids with your netflix and your youtube and your paper money.

at the time there was nothing hilarious about spielberg style treacle infecting the awesomeness of the mad max franchaise

i can remember going to west coast video as a child and running my hands over all the boxes for exploitation/weirdo/action/horror/art movies that had terrible airbrushed covers and just dreaming about what these films might contain.

I think you Thunderdome naysayers are forgetting a very important thing about that movie:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kLT0q5QQkwQ/TzkDCtVGhWI/AAAAAAAADWY/c7G3z6dHPEA/s1600/tina+1.jpg

^^ beyonce in the remake you know i'm right

I was a kid when Thunderdome came out too, I loved Mel and thought Tina Turner's hair was amazing and I sang the song all the time.

When I was old enough I watched Mad Max and Mad Max II and realized what I was missing out on and discovered that holy shit this franchise was cool as hell and WHOA violent.

Watching Thunderdome now, loving as I do the first 2 movies...is just. NO. It's like if Phantom Menace was your first Star Wars movie. Or if The Flame was your first ever Cheap Trick song that you heard. Nostalgia is fine, but you hope at some point that gives way to the discovery of the cool shit that led to this ultimately sad overwrought affair.

i love "the flame" too

it's my little sister's favorite song.

tbf i didn't even realize it was a cheap trick song til i was an adult

Tom Jennings[3] as Slake M'Thirst, the male leader of the child tribe.

come on, this is great

in an early draft it was revealed that the feral kid's real name was cookie o'puss

I've come to appreciate it more over the years, but as a massive max fan who saw thunderdome in the theater at the first available moment, it felt like a huge betrayal

still waiting for miller's written apology to me tbh

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:09 PM (3 months ago)

also DJP will FP me for this but casting tina turner was some bullshit

I mean her in that outfit should've won several awards but in the context of the movie I'm sitting there going tina turner hey look it's tina turner why is tina turner being so mean to max no tina turner no

you are listing everything I love about this movie as if I should think it was a negative

two men enter, one man yells at cloud

anyway, i'm hoping for more squint-eyed postapocalyptic freeway mayhem involving muscle cars and protruding eyeballs, fewer pop stars, children and bungee cords.

edward iii you are giving me some huge irl lols itt

I will accept one (1) child in the new Mad Max. Any more than that and you got some splaining to do George

I stan so fkin hard for Thunderdome. Had a rewatch last year and nope nope, it's still awesome. Great sets, great grotesques, gay as all HELL, and one of the most bonkers action film scores of the 80s. Love love love.

;_;

I am WAYYY overdue for a rewatch of MM though and this thread has stoked me to do so ASAP.

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The stunts of Mad Max 2 (short feature included with the VHS release but since unavailable)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmiXUrbbfl8

Once max turns into mad max he is basically roy keane

just got the Blu-Ray set and watched Mad Max again. whoever said it was more a thriller than an action film was otm. there are some bone-chilling moments at the end that remind me just as much as gruesome 70s horror like Last House on the Left as much as it did action.

I'm gonna watch Road Warrior now cos fuck you I'm watching Road Warrior right now

There's no need for that, we wanted you to watch the Road Warrior.

Man this movie is just an orgy of badassness

http://www.nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mad-max-fury-road-cover.jpg

oh great, homogenous visual look, that's what the franchise was missing all along

That's just a magazine cover promo shot. Have faith in George Miller.

FAREWELL
TO ARM
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i'll try. can't be worse than Thunderdome at least

FAREWELL
TO ARM
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http://d1mxyp5ceukbya.cloudfront.net/images/david-caruso-gif-sunglasses-1.gif

please george please don't fuck this up

you've got the pigs and the penguins out of your system, NOW is your time to shine

I hope they don't go full-on Planet Terror with the bionic arm thing

I thought Babe and Happy Feet were both good. I also really like Thunderdome. It's like Babe 2 to Babe.

I thought this was OK: http://www.avclub.com/article/who-run-bartertown-205662

you've got the pigs and the penguins out of your system,

Pig In The City is at least his third-best movie, if not second.

(He didn't direct Babe.)

He produced and co-wrote Babe, though.

"if not second"

lol whut

Trailer!

http://theactionelite.com/2014/07/first-trailer-for-mad-max-fury-road/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnPg2_Y_UI

now that gets me a bit hyped! I like the look, they kept it true to the original trilogy only just a bit cleaner, but not overtly glossy or anything. it still plays.

hoping this is dope

Excited!

hopefully we can wipe away the taste of Thunderdome now

GTFO I never want to stop tasting thunderdome!

Raggedy man

two men enter, one man yells at cloud

belated lols

HI MAX HI

that looks good

They say how much practical is in this and how much is cgi?

I haven't been following it super closely but Miller's made a pretty big deal about using practical effects wherever possible. I mean, obviously the two-headed lizard and giant sandstorm are CGI, and the choppy editing of the trailer makes it hard to be sure, but a lot of those stunts looked plausibly physical and real

kinda hoping he strapped a few cameras to some bumpers for old times sake

this looks fun

Holy shit that looks good

love that lizard-stomping bit at the beginning

teal & orange & teal & orange & teal & orange & orange & orange

Curious if they sneak any Fallout refs in this

xp I get your point, but teal & orange is pretty much what the Australian outback looks like

that was my thought... then i watched the mm2 trailer to compare.

"teal & orange is pretty much what the Australian outback looks like"

Exactly. I noticed this when watching Wake in Fright recently. Allow it.

Anyway, this looks like a modern, bigger-budget remake of Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior), which I suppose is what I want from this.

fuuuuck yeah

how many times have you guys been to the Australian outback?

a billion

This film is a documentary iirc

I'm there right now, I couriered this message in by wallaby

Charlize Theron looks pretty awesome in this, can't get much of a read on hardy but I like him for the role.

apparently part of this was filmed in Namibia as there were torrential rains that made wildflowers bloom in the desert in new south wales

Someone really needs to do a arid version of Stalker in Kolmanskop, Namibia.

a an

how many times have you guys been to the Australian outback?

I drove across it once. It's all teal and orange.

this looks stupid and pointless

thank god you're here

one thing ida been lookin for in a RW sequel was intellectual point making forsure

"thank god you're here... i've been shot"

I drove across it once. It's all teal and orange.

see that looks like sky & dirt, not insanely intense colour grading.

I will not be told that the outback is not insanely intense

post a selfie, you're there

tbh this was the sunset in town yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c

:O

fuck yeah

better be good, these trailers are wild

looks unbelievable.

Kinda wish it said FROM THE DIRECTOR OF "BABE" AND "BABE 2: PIG IN THE CITY"

From the visionary behind Lorenzo's Oil.

From the legendary director of Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two

you laugh, but if the protagonists from lorenzo's oil and happy feet two had been strapped to the front of a death-mobile driven by a crazed punk in a post-apocalypse world of warring tribes, i'd have gone to see those movies, too.

babe 2 is some raw shit

Babe 1 turned a vegetarian friend back into a meat eater.

Unreasonably stoked for this movie.

they should just call it Teal and Orange tbrr

I want to see that five times.

I like everything about it except how it actually looks, the color scheme is just gross

it is a distinct color scheme. like a homage to post-apocalyptic 80s films. i like it, but i'm nostalgic for that era.

? I can't think of anything from that era with that color scheme. T&O is def a more recent thing

it is a distinct color scheme. like a homage to post-apocalyptic 80s films.

Well, I mean... this is Mad Max.

But per the post apoca color scheme, first thing that comes to mind is: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFLUXgcWozCi5_PTaKqsn4tUF4PgEX4WKvx70f9Us3464nMZ5j

Worst case of T&O I've seen yet. Kills it.

Also, tbf, any movie set entirely is going to be almost exclusively 2/3rd's shades of orange or yellow or blue, depending on where they divide the screen. See: Arabia, Lawrence of.

maybe it's less a color scheme on its own than the color scheme as part of an overall off-kilter, punk-ish (almost diy-ish) vibe, e.g., mad max/road warrior, boy and his dog, others i can't think of offhand.

In a world gone mad: http://fogsmoviereviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/lawrence-of-arabia-desert.jpg

hell yeah

nah content doesn't dictate color scheme at all

xp

Did you see "Gravity?" That movie was all black and white.

I mean this is similar desert + sky and the color palette is almost totally different:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_reviews57/lawrence_of_arabia_blu-ray_/large/large_lawrence_of_arabia_blu-ray_03.jpg

Did you see "Gravity?" That movie was all black and white.

this did not have anything to do with what was being shot and had everything to do with HOW it was shot

I mean come on do you know how movies are made, cameras work etc.

I meant it is set in space (black) and on spaceships (white).

this aggro T&O look is an aesthetic choice - it's not like they shot a bunch of film and were all "gosh everything is just so ORANGE, nothing we can do about that!"

I meant it is set in space (black) and on spaceships (white).

and yet depending on the filters/lenses/post-production color correction used it could all have come out tinted yellow, or blue, or green, or teal and orange

Sure, but what a terrible choice that would have been. At least in this particular case orange and teal suits the setting of desert and sky. Albeit heightened.

I agree it's not wholly inappropriate given the subject, just that they went overboard with it. This reminds me of recently watching "Enemy" - which I liked a lot, but looked like it had been soaked in urine. I am always disappointed when directors don't know when to rein it in with the color correction, it takes me out of the movie, watching something that looks so aggressively unnatural and one-note.

the T&O thing doesn't usually bother me too much but that is just ridiculous

his face is actually orange

haha ok yeah this is ridiculously orange and from 1990, ya got me there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnVVyfyFChE

Is this thing actually going to be set in Australia? Lack of Australians in cast and accents bothers me.

glad to see ppl getting on board re this

Hardware is orange via design and lights, not computerised colour grading

that Max trailer (or first 50 seconds) is the equivalent of "Vertigo brown"

Hardware is orange via design and lights, not computerised colour grading

I didn't mean to imply that it was. either way, it's not the tools that matter, it's the choice.

If this turns out to be another Prometheus I will be ;_;

it looks so badass I want to run around the room

this is the ORIGINAL Mad Max thread, plz take your Whatever This Is elsewhere

Mad Morbs

xpost take it up with Ned Raggett 2 years ago when we started talking about the new movie, grumpypants

Well I hey

http://youtu.be/UeMk8eUY0DI?t=40s

complaining about T&O

what a world

And I say to myself
What a T & O world

I like teal and orange, very complimentary colors, makes for a nice contrast

almost as good as black and white

yeah!

not so much T and O as just O

.. but yeah fuck.. amazing trailer. next level stunt stuff. can't remember the last 'Woah OMG' trailer.

how much of it is from the same set piece

hopefully a lot because otherwise that is going to be tedious as hell

http://i.imgur.com/DUFkZCs.gif

can I point out that this trailer is awesome bcz it doesn't have a single stupid loud Inceptiony BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP foghorn sound. NOT ONE. :D

and for that I am v happy

God, yes. I miss action movie trailers using Verdi without the slightest hint of self-consciousness or shame. More of this, please.

I don't have the ability to take/upload a screenshot right now (okay, I'm too lazy) but did anyone notice in that big aerial shot toward the end that one of the vehicles is a stage and stack of amps on tank treads with one of the standard post-apocalypse desert cannibals busting out a guitar solo? I swear, this dumb fucking movie is everything I want and more.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4oSCrRCIAAjwSr.jpg

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4oSCrRCIAAjwSr.jpg

CGI guitarist is twice the size of the person below him

Even More Humungus

Lord Poor Compositing

sizeist

At 1:47 you can see it's not just a guitarist, it's two figures, possibly struggling, maybe one on the other's back Or maybe an attached cut-out figure. Post-apocalyptic barbarians like their flair.

http://madmaxmovies.com/archives/web-pages/mugino-saeki-mugs-mad-max-page/max3/thund12.jpg

Also, tbf, some of the most orange stuff in that trailer is set in the middle of that CGI atomic dust storm.

can I point out that this trailer is awesome bcz it doesn't have a single stupid loud Inceptiony BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP foghorn sound. NOT ONE. :D

and for that I am v happy

Every single movie should be soundtracked with loud Inceptiony BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP foghorn sounds, especially romcoms (where it should also replace the dialogue).

VG so otm, the blast of opera instead of the post-dubstep bs we get these days was pretty refreshing

that is oratorio, not opera</pedanticdick>

ha i figured that would happen

At 1:47 you can see it's not just a guitarist, it's two figures, possibly struggling, maybe one on the other's back Or maybe an attached cut-out figure. Post-apocalyptic barbarians like their flair.

At 1.47 you can see it's a FUCKING TWIN-NECK that shoots flames from the headstock.

As well it should be.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJnMQG9ev8

I mean, the full guitar moment alone.

Hopefully the movie's better than the trailer, which suggests two hrs of Charlize Theron driving young girls away from being brutalized, only to have them picked off one by one. I like the look of the landscape and people, but if that's the plot? Meh.

... have you never seen a Mad Max movie before

lol

...

This looks a little more Julie Taymor than I'd like, but I'm still definitely going. If nothing else, Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the first Mad Max movie and was one of the scariest villains ever, is in it...and I'm pretty sure he's playing that guy with the horrifying teeth/respirator mask.

yep that's Hugh alright :D

i dunno what the fuck kind of julie taymor movies you've been seeing tho

saw the last trailer before Inherent Vice last week, the first time not on a youtube embed here, and everyone who thinks it wasn't outrageously T&O graded should make an appointment with yr optometrists

do u want a mad max movie or not whoooooooo cares about stupid t&o

The T&O Cutter

looking great but they really need to overdub Tom Hardy's voice with a traditional Australian-American accent

Nice to see Brendan McCarthy getting a screenplay credit

is... is that a garden trowel tom hardy has strapped to his face in the youtube preview up there?

this looks fucking insane in the best possible way. george miller's mad max aesthetic has so been shamelessly strip-mined for visuals in comics, videogames and other movies, it'll be interesting to see how much new madness he manages to come up with.

do u want a mad max movie or not whoooooooo cares about stupid t&o

I don't especially want one with so much cgi in it :-/

george miller:

Well, we made a big, big point to go old-school with “Fury Road.” There are moments of green screen mainly for some landscape, but this is not a green screen movie. We crashed a lot of cars; every stunt was done, if not by the cast then by some very fine stunt men; and it was shot on a real location. I’ve had enough experience with CG to know that you can’t really get some of that immersive material authentic in a way. Cumulatively, it’s appreciated by an audience. It feels more real.

sic, are you sure you saw a Mad Max trailer :-D

Saw Babe: Pig In The City recently & it was so amazing that I'm semi-tempted to see this

there's filigrees of explosions and flame coming off the real cars and such that are CGItacular. maybe these will feel better in the actual film if he holds shots instead of cutting frenetically like the trailer.

Pig In The City is easily Miller's second-best film, after Mad Max 2.

is the movie here yet

is it
huh

is it

Looks a lot more like the better parts of MM2 than Beyond Thunderdome which I think was playing to more of a mainstream audience.

Looking forward to seeing it, since MM2 was one of my favourite films for years.

I assume that the budget is exponentially larger than 2 which had to reuse cars from The Cars that Ate Paris from what I recall. & maybe that helped the aesthetic. THink I've heard that there was some spill over into the way punk looked afterwards, definitely into the way Gary Numan did for a while.

a 2 hr t&o julie taymor chase movie of charlize theron driving young girls away from being brutalized

like, how are you not buying tickets already

bunch of damn whiners around here

still no idea why this movie doesn't get a separate thread

Mad max one is just some dudes out for a drive iirc, didn't get around to the rest however in re stevo's point I always think of the mad max future when I watch Neil young live in Berlin video, I dunno if that's just what those dudes look like tho

love how each movie (save maybe 2) is its own masterful genre exercise and can exist comfortably as a discrete accomplishment w/o the others

1. death wish man vs. goons type thing
2. weird genre fusion (not a dis. easy masterpiece)
3. camp
4. bombastic modern epic

i have slight worries that 4 will hit zack snyder levels of "cool and extreme" - the garden trowel seems just unnecessary - but i trust george miller

preview/ads for this hurt my eyes

I don't think George Miller is anywhere near Zack Snyder's GRAVE IMPORTANCE GRAY MOVIE shtick

i was thinking more his COOL AWESOME EPIC 300 shtick

300 was really gray! and everything so important

does anyone ever have any fun in Snyder's movies?

you mean aside from all the gymnastic manlove just offscreen?

even the sex is pretty joyless, iirc! in watchmen it happens but is just depressing

the only joy is found in violence

the road warrior (mad max 2) is such a profoundly visceral movie. the one time i saw it on the big screen i felt like i had been put through the ringer, in a good way. i hope miller still has those chops, because once upon a time he was basically unbeatable as an action director. (the chase sequence in "babe: pig in the city" is a triumph too.)

In a perfect world Zack Snyder would be the first geisha masked leather freak to be strapped to the front of a car and driven into a mesa cliff face at high speed. Afterwards this could be replicated using practical effects in the new mad max movie.

Also yeah this needs its own thread, morbs otm.

can I make the new thread?

done: Mad Max: Fury Road - Lions and Tigers and Tom Hardy and Teal and Orange Oh My

Saw Mad Max again on Saturday night at a local art house. Some of the bits are so clunky and underwritten, like they knew where they wanted to go by weren't exactly sure how to get there.

I do wish there weren't as many undercranked shots as there are, but what are you going to do.

the road warrior (mad max 2) is such a profoundly visceral movie. the one time i saw it on the big screen i felt like i had been put through the ringer, in a good way.

OTM. Went to an IMAX screening of MM2 a couple of months ago, and afterwards myself and my companions felt as if we'd been physically pummelled for 90 minutes. The diagetic sound - the roar of the cars - is extremely important to the overall effect.

As the Not Quite Hollywood documentary showed, disregarding 'health and safety' when it came to shooting stuntwork on Australian exploitation movies gave things like the first two Mad Max movies a visceral edge that I can't see Miller being able to get away with these days, on a $150m franchise movie.

The original is getting a deluxe blu-ray reissue in a couple of weeks...including a new interview with Gibson. Can't wait to hear about how the bikers were a metaphor for Jews taking over Australian society from within, or something.

In a perfect world Zack Snyder would be the first geisha masked leather freak to be strapped to the front of a car and driven into a mesa cliff face at high speed. Afterwards this could be replicated using practical effects in the new mad max movie.

Thank you for this image.

As the Not Quite Hollywood documentary showed, disregarding 'health and safety' when it came to shooting stuntwork on Australian exploitation movies gave things like the first two Mad Max movies a visceral edge that I can't see Miller being able to get away with these days, on a $150m franchise movie.

Felt awful when I saw that doc. The notion that someone could've potentially died on the set...I'd still watch Mad Max when shown on TV but it has changed how I view the film.