"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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.