catbarf on 2/8/2014 at 21:12
Quote Posted by Chimpy Chompy
I'd say this one looks to be continuing in the spirit of 2.
My first thought on seeing that trailer is that it looks a lot like the style of The Road Warrior, and that's just fine with me. The first movie was great but hadn't yet established the post-apocalyptic setting that the franchise is known for, and the third was alright but it seemed to me a little less serious (granted The Road Warrior isn't exactly The Road to start with) and a little more zany than the first two. If this new one doesn't involve midgets riding bodybuilders, lovable tribes of wild children, or Tina Turner, and is all about biker gangs and car chases, that's just fine with me.
Scots Taffer on 3/8/2014 at 08:27
Having no coherent memory of Mad Max beyond Tina Turner's hair in Thunderdome, I don't know if Fury Road looking like a videogame adaptation of Badlands (which I never played) is intentional or not.
Does this look good? I honestly can't tell. It's a mess of a trailer.
Jason Moyer on 3/8/2014 at 08:55
I don't understand why you'd make a Mad Max film with CGI. It pretty much destroys the atmosphere for me. 50% of the teaser looks amazing, the other 50% looks like a videogame cutscene.
Muzman on 3/8/2014 at 09:01
The stunts and vehicles in the film are mostly practical.
Sand storms however are worse to work with than animals and children.
Jason Moyer on 3/8/2014 at 09:15
Making a film is hard, who woulda thunk it.
Muzman on 3/8/2014 at 09:36
Tell me about it.
But worse is all the unions. The damn Weather Guild won't let even a regular thunderstorm work for more than 6 hours a day! Half that if it's night shoots. Then those so-called "meteorological rights" people are all up in your shit about how you're looking after your spare tornados that you're not even going to use.
Put a foot wrong and the lightning goes on strike.
If we go all CG for this stuff they've only themselves to blame.
faetal on 3/8/2014 at 12:51
Worst over-use of CGI is the battle between the Gungans and the Geth in The Phantom Menace. Felt like I was watching a cartoon.
Shocked_ on 3/8/2014 at 16:32
Quote Posted by Chimpy Chompy
... And 3 has less cars and more Tina Turner and tribes of children.
That's because it truly was a <b>George Miller</b> film. I think late Byron Kennedy, who produced both 1 and 2 had much to do with the tone of the two films. Thunderdome just isn't very good. I remember as a kid when I heard that Mad Max was on the TV, rushed in to the livingroom just to be disappointed that it wasn't "the good one." Mad Max 1 was (and still is?) banned in Finland so I first saw it some time in the 00's when I was 20 something. It was very good, but I had already seen The Road Warrior dozens of times so there was no contest which one I regard as the best film.
On a side note I can't stand listening this (
http://youtu.be/F3DeHMWtTds) airhead. I'm getting grumpier by the day...
SubJeff on 4/8/2014 at 08:55
Mad Max 1 was (is?) banned in Finland?!
Why? Not enough snow?
henke on 4/8/2014 at 11:15
I think it might've been banned in Sweden too. I remember they showed Mad Max 2 and 3 on Swedish and Finnish TV from time to time when I was a kid, but never the first one. Anyway, part 3 didn't have any cars and was as such a total disappointment for young henke, and when I finally saw the first one, much later, it didn't have the same impact part 2 had had. So, The Road Warrior is my favourite, and I'm glad to see they're doing the new one in that style.
