Road Warrior Mel Gibson will return in Mad Max 4

I highly recommend anyone to buy the Mad Max DVD. Great in all its digital glory and the second disc rocks with the featurettes.

 

Mad Max 1 or 2? I've both on video but am thinking of getting the dvd's.


You're blaspheming again, I don't have to work with a blasphemer.

 

I just hope that Mad Max 4: Fury Road can capture the grit and scavenger feel of the previous films. One thing that works in the advantage of this production is that Mel Gibson is looking pretty worn down now. Hopefully he'll look like hell.

I don't know why, this series reminds me of King's The Gunslinger.

~PAd

 

Yeah, The Dark Tower was the only Stephen King novel I ever read. Not a big King fan or even a D&D/RPG fan but I enjoyed the trilogy.

The cover on the VHS Special Edition of Road Warrior (MAD MAX 2) was great and wonder why WB didn't use the same on the DVD. I know its an altered body shot of Mel walking with Dog and the face was from a different still altogether. DVD could've been better but at least we get full and wide screens. VHS tape had the cool retro documentary.

 

My prediction; it'll be like Lethal Weapon 4. All of the edginess and grittines from the previous films will be gone and Gibson will be happy-go-lucky and goofy in it, totally going against his character. Add a huge battle at the end.

 

Will Chris Rock be there?

 

There was a Mad Max 3?

 

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is Mad Max 3, foxbatkllr.

Mad Max
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Padme Bra, that's a scary thought. I hate it when they completely change the tone of the movie and characters in sequels like this. From edgy, gritty, and complex to completely comical, lighthearted and one-dimensional. So many franchises destroyed by this: Lethal Weapon, Batman, Beverly Hills Cop . When will they learn?

We must hold out hope for Mad Max 4.

 

"I am the night rider.......I am a fuel-injected suicide Machine.....I AM A ROCKER, I AM A ROLLER, I AM I RIGHT OUT OF CONTROLLER!!!! STEP RIGHT UP CHUM, AND WATCH THE KID LAY DOWN THE RUBBER ROAD, STRAIGHT TO FREEEEEEEEDOM!!!!"

I always loved that line. Anyway, its gonna be hard to figure out what its about. The orginal MM was the best, because he was out to kill the Toecutter and his gang. He was out for revenge.

Road Warrior was good, too.

But BTD was not as good as it should have been. It's basically the same as RW if ya think about it. He's a guy with a huge chip on his shoulder that wants something. (RW it was gas, BTD, he wanted his vehicle back) and he ends up saving a whole tribe of people. The two movies follow the same premise.

There needs to be something new and orginal in this one. I mean MM3 was called Beyond Thunderdome, and it was only in the movie for about fiveteen minutes at best.

Personally, they should end it with this one. Max should either get closure, or Die. I think he should die, and then they Play "We dont need another hero" at the credits. It would be a fitting end to the series.

Maybe he should go back to the MFP and get another interceptor. Go back to the life he used to have and start over....hmmmm...... interesting.......

Although, the MFP headquarters was attacked by the Toecutters gang in a cut schene in MM so there may not be much left.

He needs to go back to the MFP, and give people back their heroes like Fifi wanted.

 

I've got a bad feeling about this one, boys and girls.

 

For some reason I don't have a bad feeling about this one.

 

I could actually see this being decent, if they stick to the non-verbal scripts and keep the great imagery that was in the first two films, without going too far into fantasy like Thunderdome did.

It will probably suck though.

 

Mad Max 4: The Return of Fifi

It could happen.........

 

I think the series went downhill as soon as someone suggested Mad Max 3. It was the same basic premise as Mad Max 2, but it was watered down for Hollywood. How many actual deaths occured in Beyond Thunderdome? 1? It was a terrible film which I thought had killed the franchise.

You better send a meat truck, Charlie's copped a saucepan in the throat.

 

Uruk-hai,

Does the sequel have to have a high body count for it to be a good movie?

 

It does'nt take a high Body count to make a good movie, but in a post-apocolyptic hellhole, where people kill each other over a gallon of unradiated water or gasoline, you'd expect alot more people to be dying.

In RW and BTD, survival is paramount, and those people would do anything to survive.

It doesnt have to be a massacre, but a slightly higher body toll would bring the MM saga back to its roots.

And the damn Interceptor. BRING BACK THE INTERCEPTOR!!!!!!!!

And Fifi too.

 

Judging by the title, Fury Road, we may get some great mayhem on the highways.

The first film was before the war.
The second was just after with a fight for survival.
The third was a brutal civilization cropping up.
The fourth could be more of these towns cropping up, city vs city fighting for territory.

 

nah, it might be something like Cyborg( in never got what was so popular about that film...) in search for healthy people to re-populate the world. I read that Bruce Campbell and Heath Ledger were to have been a father and son team or that Ledger became Feral kid grown up...one of the great future chiefs of the Nothern Tribe or somewhat...

 

Mad Max 4? never heard they were coming up with another one. I barely came from the video store and saw Road Warrior 1,2, and 3.

 

Here's a cronology of the MM world



c.1965 - Fifi Macaffee is born.
c.1973 - The "gyro captain" is born.

c.1975 - Max Rockatansky is born.

c.1981 - Bryson Williams - the Nightrider - is born.

c.1992 - Traffic on Transcontinental One - the first of the superhighways constructed by the Australian Central Bureaucracy - falls prey to the "Armalite Gangs". After the gangs begin targetting road trains, the All-National Retail Corporation declares Transcon One off-limits. Consequently, the price of consumer goods soars. In an emergency session of the Central Bureaucracy, an elite group of Main Force Patrol police drivers - the "Breaker Squad" - is commissioned to break the stranglehold on the highway. The 25th Olympics are held; they prove to be the last in the face of deteriorating worldwide social conditions and international political unrest.

c.1993 - The Main Force Patrol (MFP) begins training the Breaker Squad. Initially, one hundred recruits are sent on a special two week driving camp, after which the 89 surviving officers undergo ten days of instruction with the Special Commando Task Force. The Breaker Squad engages one of the Armalite Gangs just before 2am on a Saturday on the Transcon, while they are stripping a wreck. The gang is captured without fatality or escape; Max Rockatansky (at age 18) shoots out the tyres of the only gang member who reaches his rig. In the following eight months it takes to eradicate the gangs, the police are forced to split into smaller, more vulnerable groups to cover the most dangerous areas along the Transcon. Additionally, the MFP is increasingly bound by bureaucratic restrictions. This includes the establishment of the Office of the People's Observer (intended to safeguard an individual's rights after arrest). As a result, the Transcon becomes plagued with joy-riders seeking sanctuary over the state line, where conflicting state laws hinder or even prevent prosecution.

c.1995 - The "feral kid" is born.

c.1996 - Max meets Jessie.

c.1996-2000 - For four years in a row, sections eighteen to thirty-one of Transcon One boast more fatalities for each kilometre than any other super-highway in the country. In 2000 alone, eighteen offenders will die attempting a Big Run up the Transcon to the state line.

c.1998 - Max and Jessie's son Sprog is born.

c.2000 - MAD MAX ("A few years from now..."): Deterioration of Australian society and bureaucratic restrictions leads to fragmentation of the police force, and increasing anarchy on the superhighways, which are still subject to differing state laws. Environmental damage and the effects of the Armalite Gangs have destroyed the farmlands and the Central Bureaucracy declares the inland regions "Forbidden Zones". Only the road trains are still permitted to travel through what becomes known as the "wasteland". The remaining government attempts to maintain law and order, as well as food and water supplies, to the coastal cities. As a result, inland settlements and smaller coastal towns begin to die. The last of the V-8 Interceptors are constructed.

c.2000-2003 - ("Their world crumbled..."): The world situation worsens; the satellites beam the images of social decline into homes worldwide. Money becomes less important than the products of industrial society - particularly food and fuel. U.S. soldiers invade the Persian Gulf. During the prolonged battle, the oil-fields of the Middle East are set alight, destroying fuel production. The resulting conflict depletes the already scarce resources of the industrial nations, shattering their economies. In the U.S., fuel prices reach $7 per gallon. Finally, the supply of fuel is restricted to the essential services, which are fast breaking down. The stock market collapses, creating a world-wide economic depression. Outbreaks of fighting in the cities become steadily less sporadic. Factories grind to a standstill. Pappagallo, Chief Executive of Seven Sisters Petroleum in Australia, escapes the downfall of the cities with maps showing the location of a fuel pump in the wasteland. H

 

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Great sig BTW.

 

Super_Nation_Jock - Yes. Yes it does. MM3 was watered down to cater for the US audience, it starred Tina Turner for crying out loud, Max shoots people's headgear rather than the man himself. It's not Mad Max, it's the froth and bubbles version. You expect to see violence in a MM film. It's like When Harry Met Sally 2 with no romance, Men in Black 2 with no aliens or the next Bond film with no gadgets.

Compare 1 and 2 to Beyond Thunderdome.

The paper here today is saying that the new Mad Max film may be filmed in Namibia because studios are currently booked out in Australia.

 

While I liked Thunderdome. (hey I love MM) It went agaist his character. In MM his wife Jessie and son Sprog are killed, and he becomes a killing machine.

He doesnt care anymore. (It is called MADMax for a reason) This is really apparent when he confronts the Mechanic in MM and almost crushes him to get info.

While some of his character comes through in Thunderdome (like when he shoots at the girl when she tries to leave, and then knocks her out and ties her up) The Max from MM1 would have, IMO killed blaster without a second thought. In Road Warrior, he was more true to his character. Even though he saves the tribe in the end, I belive he was only trying to save the gasoline.

Mad Max was a killing machine. Sure he had his soft spots, but Thunderdome went agaist his character. He was too soft, and should have killed more people.

There ya go Super_Nation_Jock!

 

Exactly - in MM1 he handcuffs Johnny the Boy to a wrecked car that is leaking petrol. There's a rape scene and a child is killed on the road.

MM3 was what I'm expecting MM4 to be like, too stylish and without the soul of the original two films.

 

God, I hope you're wrong Uruk-Hi. If he was as soft as he was in Thunderdome, imagine what he might be like in MM4.

Although Mel Gibson did kill alot of people in Braveheart, so there is still hope he may go back to the old Mad Max.

And if they put a grown-up feral kid in this one, ill walk out. Remember the last line from Road Warrior?

(this may not be 100% accurate, but it goes along these lines)

"And the Road Warrior? That was the last time I ever saw him....."

No feral kid, no "The ones that left" AND NO TINA TURNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But he needs another cattle dog, and a new interceptor though.......