Just when you thought Mad Max: Fury Road could not get any weirder

[Childs]

Don't expect much for the first and third, really only the second is a good movie but i am sure i will get flamed for saying such things.

I thought the first half of Thunderdome was awesome. hehe...I put my friends kids on my shoulders and have them scream 'Master Blaster runs Barter Town! Give me a cookie!' It fell apart when he was exiled, but as a whole its watchable.

And I think this trailer showed too much.

 

[darkewaffle]

Man that looks pretty stupid. Even for a popcorn/summer type flick.

 

[thedarkwolf]

If I were watching them for the first time now I might actually like Thunderdome the most . The opening scene in Mad Max is one of the greatest things ever put on film but the rest is dated and kind of meh, I still love it though. Really the 2nd movie is about as dumb as the 3rd but it does have cooler cars and chase scenes. They are just fun cheeseball movies with a ton of nostalgia for me.

I don't know how many times I watched The Road Warrior when I was a kid back in the 80s before I realized the bike guy's bitch was a dude, blew my mind back then lol. I just thought he was a flat chested chick for long time.

 

[Childs]

I don't know how many times I watched The Road Warrior when I was a kid back in the 80s before I realized the bike guy's bitch was a dude, blew my mind back then lol. I just thought he was a flat chested chick for long time.

lol That was what made him scary. Its one thing to be beat up or killed, but to be made someone's bitch like that. And he wore assless chaps! No ones gonna mess with that dude...except there was one dude even tougher wearing a hockey mask who talks shit 24/7 like he was doing a wrestling promo. That does seem to be the one thing missing from these Fury Road trailers...villains on par with Wez and Humungus.

 

[mizzou]

I thought I was looking at a live action trailer of Rage lol

 

[JimKiler]

Ok, cool. Just ordered the trilogy on Blu. Realized my favourite podcast is going to go through them all before the new movie comes out anyway, so that will be fun.

KT

what podcast? How Did This Get Made is going to reviw Fast and Furious 7.

 

[Ns1]

i cannot reconcile my brain with the fact that he also directed Happy Feet 1 and 2.

kinda like the guy who directs glee...who also directs american horror story.

 

[feralkid]

lol That was what made him scary. Its one thing to be beat up or killed, but to be made someone's bitch like that. And he wore assless chaps! No ones gonna mess with that dude...except there was one dude even tougher wearing a hockey mask who talks shit 24/7 like he was doing a wrestling promo. That does seem to be the one thing missing from these Fury Road trailers...villains on par with Wez and Humungus.

All chaps are assless, city boy.

 

[AdamK47]

Not a lot of gas, but plenty of supercharged V8s. That certainly is mad.

 

[KlokWyze]

Looks great. I prefer stories told through gratuitous violence against a bleak apocalyptic setting. Minimal dialogue is just a bonus.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

so much this. Every trailer I have seen so far has me anticipating this one like no other film in recent memory, and I'm not sure why. It just looks absolutely amazing in so many ways.
And I never really cared all that much for MadMax--except for that super hot chick in Thunderdome that I had a crush on when I was 7 years old.

can't wait.

Yup, agreed, the more I see, the more I want to see, and it looks like it could be a really crazy, psychotic ride, like it always should have been. This movie has potential.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

This movies failure will be my joy.

 

[Exterous]

Despite knowing this is the director who created this crazy steampunk world (or whatever you want to call it) i cannot reconcile my brain with the fact that he also directed Happy Feet 1 and 2.

Yes that information is a bit of a dick poke to the ol brain box

 

[Sonikku]

If I were watching them for the first time now I might actually like Thunderdome the most . The opening scene in Mad Max is one of the greatest things ever put on film but the rest is dated and kind of meh, I still love it though. Really the 2nd movie is about as dumb as the 3rd but it does have cooler cars and chase scenes. They are just fun cheeseball movies with a ton of nostalgia for me.

I don't know how many times I watched The Road Warrior when I was a kid back in the 80s before I realized the bike guy's bitch was a dude, blew my mind back then lol. I just thought he was a flat chested chick for long time.

lol That was what made him scary. Its one thing to be beat up or killed, but to be made someone's bitch like that. And he wore assless chaps! No ones gonna mess with that dude...except there was one dude even tougher wearing a hockey mask who talks shit 24/7 like he was doing a wrestling promo. That does seem to be the one thing missing from these Fury Road trailers...villains on par with Wez and Humungus.

Dang, now that I think about it, after the oil apocalypse I would probably end up being the bad guys bitch instead of the badass biker with the mohawk helmet like I had always imagined. :'(

 

[KlokWyze]

I love atmospheric films. This one looks like it will be more about style, cinematics and action than anything else.

I get sick of predictable writing and storylines. Definitely on this when released. Fuck yeah.

 

[zinfamous]

I love atmospheric films. This one looks like it will be more about style, cinematics and action than anything else.

I get sick of predictable writing and storylines. Definitely on this when released. Fuck yeah.

exactly. I also hope that it is insane. It's what surprised me about how much I loved 300.

all the previews I saw for that: "This looks like the last kind of stupid movie that I ever want to see." But pretty soon in, I got it. Love what that movie is, and even moreso for this MadMax--production here looks above and beyond most any film to date. The stunts actually look real, and holy shit I hope they are. Tired of seeing pretender action crap films that are really just cartoons.

 

[zinfamous]

Dang, now that I think about it, after the oil apocalypse I would probably end up being the bad guys bitch instead of the badass biker with the mohawk helmet like I had always imagined. :'(

Doesn't it suck when you get older and the grim specter of reality, after many years of life experience, erodes away your carefully-constructed fantasy self-perception and you are forced to accept that you truly are the bitch?

 

[zinfamous]

kinda like the guy who directs glee...who also directs american horror story.

Kinda like how Akiva Goldman, who wrote an Academy Award-winning script for an Academy Award-winning film (A Beautiful Mind), also wrote the script for one of the worst films ever made (Batman & Robin).

...gotta get paid!

well, I mean, that dude writes lots of scripts. kinda like how Nick Cage don't give a fuck.

 

[thedarkwolf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQ1rj9I8FI
Since we are already on the subject Lord Humungus is the coolest

 

[zinfamous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQ1rj9I8FI
Since we are already on the subject Lord Humungus is the coolest

that's amazing!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

just for fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirZFmRwXvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p8eO_LXvUo

mad max - the 1st, the cheapest, and the best. probably the simplest story, yet has the most context and is the most effective at conveying that context. also, the best action by a mile.

the road warrior - getting a bit muddled for the protagonist, but still pretty good. the humungus is an excellent bad guy and cements the seriousness of the situation - either we make it to paradise 2000 miles away, or we get horribly raped and terribly murdered by the high-octane, toad-induced nightmare s&m gang. bonus: the good guys wear white and beige, the bad guys look like wrestlemania held on fire island.

beyond thunderdome - the weakest of the 3, but probably would be better if it stood on its own. the lack of a clear antagonist really hurts. so does the general over-the-top-ness, which is really saying something given the context. the movie climaxes way too early and for no apparent reason with the thunderdome 180 degree turn of events, then takes on this goonies/ewok village kind of vibe. the big car chase at the end feels really forced, lacking the passion of the 1st 2 movies. and wtf is with the pilot? the same actor is playing a different pilot from the 2nd movie, and the fact there's a flyer to provide a deus ex machina beginning and end to the story is totally a crutch after the 2nd film.

 

[JimKiler]

just for fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirZFmRwXvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p8eO_LXvUo

mad max - the 1st, the cheapest, and the best. probably the simplest story, yet has the most context and is the most effective at conveying that context. also, the best action by a mile.

the road warrior - getting a bit muddled for the protagonist, but still pretty good. the humungus is an excellent bad guy and cements the seriousness of the situation - either we make it to paradise 2000 miles away, or we get horribly raped and terribly murdered by the high-octane, toad-induced nightmare s&m gang. bonus: the good guys wear white and beige, the bad guys look like wrestlemania held on fire island.

beyond thunderdome - the weakest of the 3, but probably would be better if it stood on its own. the lack of a clear antagonist really hurts. so does the general over-the-top-ness, which is really saying something given the context. the movie climaxes way too early and for no apparent reason with the thunderdome 180 degree turn of events, then takes on this goonies/ewok village kind of vibe. the big car chase at the end feels really forced, lacking the passion of the 1st 2 movies. and wtf is with the pilot? the same actor is playing a different pilot from the 2nd movie, and the fact there's a flyer to provide a deus ex machina beginning and end to the story is totally a crutch after the 2nd film.

I have not rewatched Thunder Dome since my childhood but doesn't the pilot call him friend which means he was the same character from the second movie? My understanding was that is the same character in both movies.

I watched the first movies when i was too old and i missed the boat therefore could not get into it / like it. But yes it is a good background to the rest of this world.

On a tangent, the more i think about it the more i have a hard time believing post apocalyptic worlds like this would have people looking like body builders. Instead they would not eat enough nor eat the right foods so everyone would be a lot skinnier.

 

[KlokWyze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQ1rj9I8FI
Since we are already on the subject Lord Humungus is the coolest

lol..... awesome

 

[Childs]

I have not rewatched Thunder Dome since my childhood but doesn't the pilot call him friend which means he was the same character from the second movie? My understanding was that is the same character in both movies.

Whats strange is they even look at each other like they know one another, but the relationship is different. And theres no mention of the group the pilot was with in RW, so it seems like a different guy. But I think Max had the same car in the beginning of Thunderdome that he had at the end of RW. It was really weird. I just assumed they wanted the actor who played the pilot in Thunderdome, so they just threw him in there in basically the same role, even if it didnt make any sense.

 

[Centauri]

As a huge fan of the original movies, I'm stoked for this. Usually when a film maker revisits older stuff, they dumb it down for mass appeal; this looks like what George Miller probably had in mind originally but couldn't find a budget for or get control to do.

Hell yesssss