Amph Mad Max Franchise (Now: Furiosa)

In addition to Max's iconic Pursuit Special being wrecked in the opening, I just caught a glimpse, but was that the iconic Volkswagen from "Cars that Ate Paris," which was peter Weir's first film?



Nice throwback to the 70's in both cases.

 

I've never seen any Mad Max film, that I can recall. That won't be changing, based on the trailer.

 

Throw your babies in the ocean.

 

Jabbadabbadoo, stop pimping jp-30's account pls

 

This thing's been in production for so long that the theme song was originally going to be performed by Amy Winehouse.

 

They tried to make them go to rewrites, but they said no, no, no

 

LOL!!!

Looks damn good to me. And according reports the screening some months back got good word.

 

Screenshots from the trailer

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"O-Negative Universal Donor"? We can also see "good eyes," "genitals intact," "multiple scars," and "heals fast." This is what made me think it was a medical facility — it seems as if they're labeling him for organ harvesting, or maybe slavery. They also list "hi octane" and "road warrior," though, so they could be listing his criminal offenses. Or it could just be crazypants freakout stuff. Hopefully we'll find out in the movie.

 

Or maybe they're running a dating service.

 

So, some interesting pieces of information about Fury Road from the director, George Miller. Mostly he's talking about Mel Gibson, but also mentions how there are stores for 2 more Max films.
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=881577]HERE[/url]

Miller describes "Mad Max: Fury Road" as an extended chase taking place over three days. The movie, due out next summer and also starring Charlize Theron, features minimal dialogue. The screenplay consisted of storyboards -- sketches of each planned shot -- rather than a conventional script.

"You're picking up the characters and the backstory as you go," Miller said. "And in order to create that backstory, we found ourselves having written two other screenplays. One of them is completed. The other one is in the form of a kind of unedited novel. So by the time we got there, we realized we've got a couple more Mad Max stories to tell, and that ... required us to cast someone who was younger."

I don't know how I feel about an "extended chase" with minimal dialogue. It could be pretty cool if the visuals are impressive, or it might be difficult to pull off in a more mainstream movie. But it gives more information about why Mel Gibson was dropped.

 

Seeing anything a bit different as a big-release film suits fine. If I have to see yet another Joseph Campbell story clone on the silver screen any time soon I'm going to vomit. Duel is an extended chase sequence, and it's great.

 

Yeah, I'm all for an outside the box approach at this point rather than something by the numbers and conventional. Besides, the Mad Max films aren't exactly known for their Tarantinian reliance on dialog; at least not the first two. I remember the third one being a bit more talky. Anyway, as long as there's no Tina Turner music, I'm game.

 

I might not want Tina Turner music for thsi particualr chapter but the Thunderdome soundtrack was great.

 

That's not a bad thing. Some of the best films every made have minimal dialogue. Audience is hyped for a big car chase movie, they'll get that. They'll also get a little art as well. Be better off for it.

 

Of course. But in order to pull it off, the movie has to know what it is about. For example, Saintheart mentioned Duel. Duel's minimal dialog supported the lonely confused terror that Dennis Weaver felt. And really, who would he be talking to? Himself? There are a couple of scenes with people, but they serve to highlight Weaver's concern. When he stopped by the diner, was one of the patrons the driver watching him, toying with him?

Mad Max could pull that off, it just seems from the preview that it is not going to be a personal film. If it was Max vs the bad gang, ala Duel, yeah, that would work. But there's Theron's group, and a whole lot of other characters which would seem to be counter-intuitive to a silent chase sequence ala duel. Like I said, I'm not against the concept at all, I just don't want it to be a movie with a lot of random fast cut visuals which distract from the lack of dialog, not enhance the tension.

 

I guess all you can really do is hope that George Miller hasn't gone Blues Brothers 2000 with age. Me, I'm hoping this film is all borderline-hysterical 80s-style car porn like the first two were

 

Honestly though, only the second one was like that. Mad Max was more 70's "Burnt out cop" or "Startsky & Hutch," or "Dirty Harry" (on wheels) than anything. I mean, there were establishing scenes of Max picnicking with his wife, running on the beach with his dog, getting yelled at by the gruff but fair Captain, crooks beating the system, etc....Obviously, civilization hadn't crashed that far yet. Of course, by the last act of Mad Max, it was certainly in 80's car porn mode, which transitioned directly into the Road Warrior. Thunderdome was in a class by itself.

 

Did anybody here see The Rover with Guy Pearce? Came out earlier this year.

 

Haven't seen it myself. Is it any good? Guy Pearce is usually outstanding.

 

I've not seen it, but from memory the reviews haven't been kind; it's just more parochial, crappy Australian cinema with no appeal off our shores I'm afraid.

 

You may be right. Not too long ago, I managed to watch "Chopper" on one cable channel or the other.

By now, the movie is more than 10 years old, and I like Eric Bana in probably everything. But Bana was like nothing he's been in since then. It's difficult to call Chopper a good film-I don't think it's supposed to be. But it's certainly a uniquely Australian film. I don't know how much "Chopper" was actually a celebrity criminal in real life, but I suspect he only appealed to rebellious Australians back then?

 

He achieved a certain notoriety mainly because he engaged in several high-profile killings (including a judge) and rioting within Pentridge Prison in Australia, and because he'd had his ears cut off during a stint in prison. Basically he spent all but 13 months in jail from the ages of 20 to 38. He wrote (ghostwrote?) a number of books from about 1991 about his criminal activities and his experiences in jail, in gory detail. As with that curious subgenre of reality porn I believe they call "true crime" novel, a lot of people seemed to enjoy the fine print of Chopper assaulting, kidnapping, and murdering between 4 and 19 people depending on what day of the week you asked him the size of the body count; his books sold 500,000 copies.

Some fool from the Pedestrian Council then guaranteed his minor celebrity status when they used him as a spokesman in an anti-drunk-driving advertisement in 2001. He was popular with a certain class in Australia -- that class that hasn't, in 200 years, strayed terribly far from the petty lawbreakers and common thugs (some of whom were convicted criminals) that amounted to our first colonists.

 

A friend of mine recently got himself a job on this film doing something in post-production. He has seen a cut of the film and I'm really annoyed he wants to honour his NDA and tell me nothing.