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

[JimKiler]

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.

IMDB.com does not support my belief that they are the same, although it is questionable since in Road Warrior the character name is The Gyro Captain and in Thunderdome the character name is Jedediah the Pilot.

 

[Skel]

I always thought Beyond Thunderdome was dumbed down to get the PG-13 rating and have larger appeal. It def didn't have the edge that the other two had.

 

[thedarkwolf]

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.

Same actor, different character. George Miller just screwing with everybody.

Look at the cast of Fury Road and Mad Max while you are at it.

Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe
Fury Road

Hugh Keays-Byrne as The Toecutter
Mad Max

 

[soulcougher73]

Looks epic, can't wait

 

[Homerboy]

Can't wait.















CAN.NOT.WAIT

 

[Homerboy]

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

:thumbsup:

 

[The Boston Dangler]

IMDB.com does not support my belief that they are the same, although it is questionable since in Road Warrior the character name is The Gyro Captain and in Thunderdome the character name is Jedediah the Pilot.

at the end of the road warrior, the narrator (feral kid) says the gyro captain becomes the leader of the great northern tribe, as does feral kid.

why use the same actor in similar but unexplained characters?
how do they burn more food and gas than is possible today?
how many lethal car crashes can you have in a day?

lord humungus does not approve of questions.

 

[ImpulsE69]

When I watched this new trailer all I could think was...wait...why isn't Tom Hardy playing Post Apocalyptic Bane?

 

[NuclearNed]

This morning:

I was in a confusing mix of panic and disappointment. Mad Max: Fury Road, the movie I have been anticipating most of all in 2015, opens Friday, but RottenTomatoes showed no score - a sure sign that the move was not pre-screened, AKA the movie must suck.

This afternoon:

100% on RottenTomatoes. Glowing Reviews. Mentions of "best action movie ever." All is well, I can get back to hating my job.

 

[Ns1]

This is a complete remake right? Cuz I haven't watched the original.

 

[NuclearNed]

This is a complete remake right? Cuz I haven't watched the original.

Watch "The Road Warrior"

The other 2 movies are optional. My guess is that it won't really matter if you've seen the 1st 3 movies or not.

 

[zinfamous]

This morning:

I was in a confusing mix of panic and disappointment. Mad Max: Fury Road, the movie I have been anticipating most of all in 2015, opens Friday, but RottenTomatoes showed no score - a sure sign that the move was not pre-screened, AKA the movie must suck.

This afternoon:

100% on RottenTomatoes. Glowing Reviews. Mentions of "best action movie ever." All is well, I can get back to hating my job.

Holy crap, this Friday already? I'm with you--easily my most anticipated summer movie this year, maybe of all movies this year.

I'm supposed to take the nephew to see Avengers this weekend (was supposed to happen last weekend)...think I can convince his mom to see this instead? He's like...9.

 

[zinfamous]

Watch "The Road Warrior"

The other 2 movies are optional. My guess is that it won't really matter if you've seen the 1st 3 movies or not.

Mad Max is quite good but certainly very different from The Road Warrior, which I suppose defined the series.

I do think this is a remake/reimagining/something that doesn't have much to do with the earlier films.

Either way, it looks epic.

 

[NuclearNed]

Holy crap, this Friday already? I'm with you--easily my most anticipated summer movie this year, maybe of all movies this year.

I'm supposed to take the nephew to see Avengers this weekend (was supposed to happen last weekend)...think I can convince his mom to see this instead? He's like...9.

9 is plenty old enough to appreciate splosions & high speed insanity. One might even argue that the 9 year old in all of us is this movie's target audience.

 

[zinfamous]

9 is plenty old enough to appreciate splosions & high speed insanity. One might even argue that the 9 year old in all of us is this movie's target audience.

but will the meaning and the aesthetic of the skull and bones chastity belt and other such design elements be lost on the 9 year old? :\

 

[Exterous]

but will the meaning and the aesthetic of the skull and bones chastity belt and other such design elements be lost on the 9 year old? :\

Apparently not if you're Nuclear Ned's kid...

 

[NuclearNed]

Apparently not if you're Nuclear Ned's kid...

There aren't any kids in the Ned household, so I don't know what they watch nowadays.

I probably 1st saw the Road Warrior when I was 11... Look at what a fine, outstanding, well-adjusted young man I turned out to be.

 

[JimKiler]

i cannot wait to see this movie Thursday night! I must have been no older than 12 the first time i saw The Road Warrior and loved it.

 

[Ns1]

hm, maybe I should go to the mad max screening tomorrow afterall.

 

[HN]

33-0 currently on rottentomatoes. i'm intrigued

(i don't think i've seen any mad max all the way through)

 

[Sonikku]

100% approval rating?!

Well... it'll go down a bit. It's a fact that studios screen movies first for critics that have a record of proving "receptive" to their type of movies as it's known there is a correlation with rotten tomatoes/metacritic scores and better box weekend numbers. After that, it dips. But then it doesn't matter. The opening weekend is what determines everything. Still, that 100% rating might go to 85-82%. I think it's safe to say it'll be a pretty entertainment movie. Now if it were the night before and it hadn't been screened for a single critic, that is when you start to worry.

 

[Exterous]

There aren't any kids in the Ned household, so I don't know what they watch nowadays.

Ah so its just the neighborhood kids then

 

[JimKiler]

100% approval rating?!

Well... it'll go down a bit. It's a fact that studios screen movies first for critics that have a record of proving "receptive" to their type of movies as it's known there is a correlation with rotten tomatoes/metacritic scores and better box weekend numbers. After that, it dips. But then it doesn't matter. The opening weekend is what determines everything. Still, that 100% rating might go to 85-82%. I think it's safe to say it'll be a pretty entertainment movie. Now if it were the night before and it hadn't been screened for a single critic, that is when you start to worry.

I was never 100% on metacritic, it was 90% and now with 2 more reviews for a total of 14 it is at 87%. Based on my non scientific polling at work, women could care less about this movie so once some female critics are aggregated on these sites the score will drop more.

I still love the review for Rambo 4 on USAToday, the female movie critic was explaining why she disliked the movie and her reasons made me want to see the movie more and more:

Stallone wears one expression throughout the 90-plus-minute orgy of explosions, severed limbs and spewing blood.

 

[Ns1]

hmm...

Average Rating: 9/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 41
Rotten: 1

 

[JM Aggie08]

What a day...

WHAT A LOVELY DAY!!