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IceDiver writes "According to Google News Mel Gibson has signed up for a new Mad Max film "Fury Road". His salary? A whopping $25,000,000.00 Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years and is highly polished. As a big fan of all 3 Mad Max films, I am looking forward to this one!
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and I thought he was too old for the last lethal weapon.
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I wonder if they will make any money.
According to the article they are going to spend about 180 mil to make MM4, and MM1,2,3 combined made less than 70 mil.
But then again, these days is seems like all you need ia a hot chick and some special effects to rake it in - plot optional.
I guess we know who run Bartertown.
This film will be about as good as number 3. Which was about as good as WaterWorld.
The low budget Mad Max 1 & 2 were great, even though 2 was over dubbed in American.
You admit to being a "fan" of Thunder Dome? Blarg.
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This is perhaps the coolest thing to ever happen!!
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Ahh. I feel better now...
enough to make it look as low budget as the first one? Paying Mel 25 million they may not have a choice! :-)
I mean, weren't we supposed to expect the apocalypse to have happened by now already? Or is it like a James Bond or Superman thing, the old Umberto Eco concept of the Open Text. I dunno.
25 mill!!
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
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I'm sure the folks over at Google would like to know that they have entered the world of journalism!
1. Nother Mad Max Film (Granpa Max)
2. ???
3. Profit (yeah right)
Isn't Gibson getting a bit too old for the action genre? What are they going to title the film, Mad Max Breaks a Hip? Maybe he could drive a junked Caddie going 5 mph.
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We don't need another hero, hero, all we want is what's beyond Thunderdome!
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I wonder if they're gonna get Tina Turner to reprise her role?
That would be excellent
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You mean according to Google News by way of CNN, by way of Reuters, don't ya?
3 years!?! That script must be so polished you have to shield your eyes from it.
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Am I the only one that read the title as "Furry Road?"
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For $25,000,000 for the fourth movie he should go from "Mad Max" to "Old, Rich, Happy Max".
According to Google News Mel Gibson has signed up for a new Mad Max film "Fury Road".
And it's already available at sidewalk kiosks throughout China.
I read about the movie this morning on CNN, but I wasn't really that excited by it. The interesting part of the story arc has been exhausted, IMHO. I'm not exactly sure where this one will go, unless it is a rehash of the last two plots.
1. Mad Max = world going to hell
2. Road Warrior = world gone to hell
3. Thunderdome = World gone to hell, but redeeming itself
4. New movie = (?) Make money!
There is some overlap (Road Warrior had an inkling of redemption at the end, but it was more explicit in Thunderdome.
This may end up being a good action flick, but I am not seeing significant potential to do anything very new or exciting. I expect that, like Mel, we'll find out that the series is old and tired.
guac-foo.
Lots of petrified grits
I'll see it, I'm sure, but I'm skeptical as to whether the true spirit of the originals will persist. The ideas and expressions that once comprised pop culture have changed so much that the original Mad Max themes of individualist strength and moral integrity will probably be cast aside in favor of a more contemporary populist sensibility.
By way of comparison, consider that "Popeye" had a character called Wimpy, who was addicted to hamburgers (a stand-in for alcohol in those more sensitive times). He was continuously broke, and to finance his habit was reduced to trying to con other characters out of their money ("I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"). His crippling addiction lost him everything, even his dignity. He was not a hero, but a character to be pitied for his devotion to something so artificial and his lack of work ethic.
Look at today's children's cartoons and you'll find nothing like Wimpy. Instead, you'll see obviously gay characters like Spongebob Squarepants, who epitomizes and glorifies chronic laziness and disrespect for authority. Even his name, "Squarepants," alludes to the angular uniforms of China's Red Army. Is it any surprise that generation Xers grow up with no work ethic and a feeling of entitlement, when they have been indoctrinated with this kind of skewed moral framework? The values expressed in the original Mad Max films are completely alien to them, and I'm not optimistic that they'll come through at all.
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How is going to anything like the first three???
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For 25 million, you'd think maybe he'd change his name to:
e s Max
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will they film this in australia? im thinking someone's going to get paid a pretty penny for a v8 falcon interceptor...as the origional is a rusted shell in someones backyard these days..
Give Bruce Cambel 25,000 and he will still make a better movie then mel at 25,000,000
...they'll be selling pirated DVD's of this by next week in China. Bush should mount an assult and steal back the Way-Back Machine.
And star wars isnt an aging franchise. Not to start a flame war, but I see no problem with another Mad Max film. Mel Gibson isnt that old, I liked Mad Max, even if Thunderdome sucked. If the plot has really been in the works for three years there may be a chance that it wont suck, certainly Im willing to give this film the benefit of the doubt, simply because there has been such a huge stretch between this film and the last.
At least this long stretch should tell you its not a sequel thats only trying to capitalize off of the success of the first film(s). Sequels to successful first films usually suffer as a result, but here we have will have the fourth installment, where there were good and bad sequels, so hopefully they figured out what to do and not to do. Not to mention technology has advanced and the budget is definitely bigger, so there is potential to really close out the Mad Max franchise with a bang. So long as they dont get carried away with stupidity (Thunderdome).
- Original director from first film
- Big budget
- A script that's been in the works for years
- Beloved franchise
- Original actors where possible
Sounds like it can't go wrong, right?Can you say The Phantom Menace?
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so um whats with the "Natalie Portman pours hot grits down her pants" stuff? dont get it...explain
With the first one made in 1979, that means mel gibson will be what, 25 yrs or so older in this one. Now I realize he's only going to be 47 this coming yr, but still, it strikes me the same as making a new Indiana Jones movie at this point. It's a sequel to a movie (or series of movies) I liked a lot, but is the actor too old to portray the character? I don't want to think of Indiana Jones or Mad Max as older -- they're the guys in the originals, characters like that don't age. It's why they switch James Bond actors. You don't want to see James Bond realistically portrayed as a 60 yr old spy. He's a 30+ yr old guy kicking ass and sleeping with hot women.
No, no.
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Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years and is highly polished.
;)
Judging from my experience, if the script for 90" flick took years to finish it is more of a comitee compromise than the work of art.
So I would expect the main character to be strong bl^H^Hafrican-american lesbian of Jewish origin which was molested in childhood by Catholic nun.
What? You can't have these in post-apocalyptical Australia? Wait till you see them
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a quarter of which is Mel's $25 mil salary...lmao...
Mad Max Movies FAQ is a great link for all thing's Mad Max
He makes it to the shore just as Kevin Costner steps ashore from his catamaran.
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Mel will be driving a beat up station wagon, with the right turn signel flashing, 20 miles an hour under the speed limit while looking for an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
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and as long as Kennedy shoots the films in Australia, enough of the Australian culture, with it's swaggering, hard drinking, tough individualistic nature that show in Mad Max I and II, will flavor Mad Max IV so that it can avoid the worst excesses of the namby-pamby PC culture we live in.
True, the Aussie have had to turn in their guns, and since the Olympics in Sydney they can no longer beat and kill the blackfellas with impunity, but they're still just about the most macho sorts on earth.
So, yes, I have high hopes for this sequel, and as a devoted Mad MAx fan, you can bet that once it's been shot, I will stay up all night scouring WinMX, edonkey and Kazaa for the divx to download.
The one who can outlift spongebob, and easily beats the shit out of him, and his lover Patrick?
Can you say beard?
he sure looks old for his age. in close-ups he reminds me of the cigarette man.
I remember watching on TV a while a go that the Mad Max fan club (which involves the Feral Kid) have there own look-a-like interceptor in working condition.
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Highly Polished... yea, I know what that means. It means a committee has been hard at work f***ing up what was probably a pretty good script.
A couple of recent script-by-committee disasters include "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Batman and Robin", and "The Scorpion King". Of course having one person in full control of the script isn't necessarily a good thing either as Mr. Lucas has so painfully pointed out.
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While I'd love to see a good new movie, and I hope that the script really is as polished as everyone attached is claiming, I get the feeling that the best move is to walk away.
Of course, as soon as I turn to leave, I'll catch a crossbow bolt through the head by some mohawked buy hissing at me.
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They were so ahead of their time. the essential were doing what Water World tried to do 20 years before.
The messages in the movie are subtle and often hidden under all the chaos and death, but they are there nonetheless.
Mel Gibson is a superb actor, if anyone can pull this off it's him. Very few actors can sustain a series like this, Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis.
I'm boycotting the theatres but I'll definately by the DVD.
Mel Gibson plays the senile Mad Max and is Mad because Safeway is out of Depends.
Unfortunately this time around, Max's vehicle in question is a wheelchair... Maybe The Stones can do the theme song and complete the image?
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Before somebody jumps the gun and condemns me for bashing Mel Gibson, this post is more of a concern of a casual editor (working part-time in my father's company) and knowing a thing or two about film. Acting is the most highly overrated position in film, and with Mel getting $25,000,000 this will not change any time soon. Editors, cinematographers,screenwriters etc., which are far more important than actors, get salaries that are not even close, but do much more work. $25,000,000 is a lot for one of the easier jobs in the film industry.
At $25m/movie....aren't we getting close to the stage where it's cheaper to have Colbians kidnap the star, steal their DNA, and for underground Japanese cloning labs to clone said star? ;-)
Hold on....I just gave away the plot for Mel Gibson's NEXT movie!!!
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Yeah, and he shoots Costner in the head with his shotgun pistol! I'd pay to see that!
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Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years -> Industry Slang for: The script has been rejected 8 times by all respectable (term used loosly) studios.
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I'm not going to mention the "t" word, because moderators tend to reflexively mod it, and I want this post to sail freely to its destination without my disturbing the water. But we all know what we are talking about, and I just want to say...
Beautiful, man. Simply, staggeringly beautiful. You went from Max the righteous to Wimpy the alcoholic to SpongeBob Squarepants the homosexual communist without even breaking a sweat.
I remember seeing a trailer for Mad Max: Road Warrior in 3D. It was very cheesy and loudly proclaimed as "spectacular" and "amazing" and so forth. I know I wasn't stoned or tripping. But I haven't heard anything about it since. Anyone else know anything about this?
As a big fan of ONLY the second Mad Max film (The Road Warrior), I am looking forward to this one!
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This is what the actualy article says about the script:
"This is the most exhaustively prepared movie I have ever been associated with," said Hutch Parker, president of production at Twentieth Century Fox. "The script is as ready as they come."
I can imagine the conversation:
"So how does the script look?"
"It's exhaustively prepared."
"Is it good?"
"It's as ready as they come!"
"oh...great."
Sigh...The first two paragraphs were insightful and well-written. I was hoping for more material and a conclusion, but then I got lost. Spongebob and the Red Army: is that just a joke?
And a quibble: I would say Road Warrior and its subsequent airings on HBO and cable put it smack-dab in the middle of Gen X's media indoctrination. It may even have pioneered the play-it-ten-times-a-week behavior for more recent cable classics such as A Few Good Men, Tremors, etc.
Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
Damn, I can hardly think of a reason to see anything on screen these days. This will get me in the theaters again. Well, that and LOTR 2.
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Taking bets now.
The Road Warrior was my favorite movie from the first time i saw it (at the tender age of 5) up until "The Devil's Advocate" came out.
.au emailed me about it with lots of details and info while i was in college. There are clone mad max cars up for auction from time to time. Hopefully, when im old and loaded, i'll be able to pick up a perfect replica mad-max car, with a _working_ super charger that somehow makes that incredible whine when i engage the supercharger.
Nobody in kindergarten knew what the hell i was talking about if i asked them if they needed a guy to haul this rig.
To this day, i still want the car he had in mad max. That supercharger (albeit fake) was the coolest thing i've ever seen. And i want a gear lever with a red button on it that makes the most glorious sound i've ever heard. I had a whole section on my website about the mad max car and some guy in
I've actually asked a couple of tuners about that functionality, apparently it was pretty suspect. To run a boosted motor you need to run lower compression pistons to avoid predetonation, which means that when the SC was disengaged you'd be making shit for power , (although i guess technically you'd be using less gas, but the engine would be way less than optimally efficient). that makes it basically a tradeoff, theres probably some crossover point where you're actually getting better "bang for your gas" with the SC engaged than with it off.
Also, whowever invented the wrist-gauntlet mounted mini-crossbow is a diety.
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if you will recall, max's interceptor was blown to pieces in the road warrior after someone tried to get his gasoline without defusing the booby trap
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you left out heidi wall, WIPO-anything, OOG THE CAVEMAN, penis birds, and general editor baiting.
I think my favourite part of the article is the president of Fox saying, "This is an event movie, and we know how to market event movies."
It's not even about the movie anymore. It's just about how much marketing can be done; how much money can be made.
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In related news, writers have begun work on the writing of the fifth in the series of movies. However, sources say that it becoming increasingly difficult to keep the character angry, as the years have mellowed the angry warrior.
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And the MPAA wants us to believe no one is making money off movies anymore...I know Mel is. I won't be going to see this one, I'll just download the divx version when it comes out. I am sure Mel won't miss my $10.00 when he is driving his Ferrari into Hollywood.
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You see, it's an _event_. Rowf!
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Beautiful, man. Simply, staggeringly beautiful. You went from Max the righteous to Wimpy the alcoholic to SpongeBob Squarepants the homosexual communist without even breaking a sweat.
Yeah, no shit. I haven't heard anything that fucked up and rambling since the last time I watched Larry King Live!
i'm a big fan and i've been waiting to hear this for years, i know i will likely be dissapointed, but i have hope, and thats what the post apocolyptic world is all about, so i'm true to the game.
on the other hand, i remember reading in the past that they were thinking of casting someone new for the role (heath ledger i think) and that he would play max's son, i can only fear if they try to make this a new franchise by max giving birth so a son who will end up being mad as well.. none the less, this is one i will be keeping track of the news for, i think filming begins in march..
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Mel Gibson is a raw meat eater. Horray! Raw Meat!
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1. Eat raw meat
2. ?
3. Profit!
In an interview Mel and Danny proclaimed "We're not to old for this shit!"
woo-hoo! new mad max film. it would be a good idea to study it to learn how to live after bush starts a nuclear holocaust...
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You plan to make a movie big enough to haul in the huge wads of cash you need to pay Mel Gibson's script.
What a puny plan.
Dude you've seen it to many times.
You could always look into what Saleen does with their Mustangs. They supercharge the hell out of them. I used to race against a guy with an old 5.0 Saleen, he made the quarter mile in 11 seconds, with the car stock.
I heard that in his contract on the set everyone is to refer to him as "Lord Humongous."
Nope, the Mad Max Interceptor is alive and well. Some were wrecked, but the main car is living in a museum in England.
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I loved Mad Max and The Road Warrior. Two things made BTD suck.
1. Tina Turner
2. No bad ass car
Mad Max drove around and killed the bad guys, I hope MM4 goes back to it's roots. If not...well they won't get my money.
Max discovers an old crate of Viagra underneath some rubble, and heads back to Barter Town's red light district in a hurry.
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There's a decent article that just came out about the prequels in the latest edition of the Bright Lights Film Journal.
:)
Reading it made me wonder if the film was actually better for having Lucas behind the camera.
Back to the issue of Mad Max, I doubt anything can go wrong as long as they haul back Tina Turner. She easily made the third film.
He just looks quite a bit older then he is.
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Be a shame to blow it up.
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C'mon people! What is this "25 million" and "$25,000,000.00" stuff I'm seeing here? This is News for Nerds for chrissake! Mel's salary will be $2.5e7. Get it right. :)
You're no nerd. $25 million should be written as 2ln(5000)/ln(2), or about 2^(24.5754).
OH HELL YEAH!!!
(please, dont americanize it)
Halloween was the movie with the best ratio before Blair Witch.
Cost : 325,000.00 $
BO : 47,000,000,00 $
Which is about 144 times the initial investment. Wow caramba !
The 'zany' Sam and Max comic inspired film Furry Road planned production in the near future.
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Right?
Think about it - back in the old episodes, Mel Gibson was still talking twangy aussie-like (not sure what to call it, so don't flame me) - since then, he has managed to "Americanize" himself away from the "Aussie Mad Max" image (voice coaching? I dunno). I have to say I like the works he has done recently (Ransom and What Women Want being two of the better "normal length" recent movies, IMHO) - but there isn't much of a trace of "Mad Max" in either.
I hope what they do with the movie is advance the time a few decades, cast Mel as an older, wiser Max - then get the dude who played the "Ferral Kid" to be the main risk taker, under the watchful eye of Max - it would make sense, timewise - and I think the guy could pull it off...
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Nobody wants to see Mad Max in another movie! They should make a prequel with Master Blaster instead!
I killed Mad Max in Fallout(tm)!!!! His dog isn't that loyal to my surprise...
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Also, did anyone else do a double-take when they saw the jumper in Lethal Weapon? I swear that guy looks just like Johnny the Boy. IMDB says otherwise, I know...
And I can tell that someone just finished writing an essay before posting to slashdot...
saying "spongebob" and "max max" in the same post is somehow morally wrong...
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...to play the part of the aging pop singer lady hoping to stage a come-back? Maybe, Whitney Houston? She's not quite old enough, but she may need the job (so long as it pays $730k).
You know I don't think I've ever seen a mystical overhead fly by a production offices. Most actors get a contract buyout rather than a percentage (the main exception being the films that are a "labor of love" for the actor/director/writer). Promotion costs are taken straight off the top with the rest of the above-the-line costs. Things run over budget when shooting takes longer than expected but it's all documented pretty thoroughly in your daily production report (DPR).
Also, once a movie is in the can, all of the post production is complete and the first wide release is over, the expenses are pretty much capped. If you've recouped your budget at that point, it's all gravy after that... if not, well, just give it time.
With the exception of public domain, there's no statue of limitations on profit and my key phrase was that they eventually make money.
http://www.saleen.com/auto/SR/srperformance.html
This Saleen does 11.8 stock
This wasn't what he was driving so you're probably right his car wasnt doing 11, but you are obviously quite wrong that no Saleen has. The Cobra is a joke compared to Saleen mustangs.
Not exactly...Mel is a walking poster boy for wearing your SPF 30 sunscreen. He got a LOT of sun in his youth. Now he looks like a hunk...of rawhide.
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MMBT only gave us Tina Turner in a metal Bikini - attractive, but not quite the same thing!
*fap*fap*fap*
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Haha... this is insightful? Like how :).
"Mad Max 4 - Anger Management"
I just want to see Grace Jones!
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Mad Max 1 and 2 were classic films, 3 was pretty bad although at least Mel wasn't quite at the fake American accent stage and still had a bit of credibility, but really hasn't done anything decent since other than braveheart, so I don't expect this new one to be anything other than a money maker.
I sure hope she's in the new one. It's time for the Grace Jones '02 comeback special!
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$25m = Can you name a single movie where the lead made that kind of $$ that was actually any good? I'd rather see Guy Pearce (Memento) or Bruce Campbell get paid $1m to play Max.
"highly polished" == script-writing by committee, always a good sign.
"script has been in the works for 3 years" = "The first draft sucked. The second draft sucked too. 37 drafts later, we still think it might suck, but then, we're the kind of jerks who will put a script through three years worth of rewrites before shooting a lame horse."
My suggestion for the title: "Mad Max Resurrection." I wanna be optimistic, but oh man this looks bad...
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Which ratio statistic are you questioning? The Blair Witch Project got over a 2300:1 profit-to-cost ratio.. Two orders of magnitude larger than the 37:1 from the butterfly project you mentioned, and one order of magnitude larger than Mad Max's 250:1.
You tell me how "whilst" differs from "while," and I'll stop calling you a pretentious jackass.
"Apparently the script has been in the works for 3 years and is highly polished"
I have read childrens books to my four year old that have had more words than the first three movies combined. What can there be to polish?
A big fan of all 3 Mad Max Films eh?
You also like to compare apples, oranges and lemons?
Old mad max, post apocolyse retirement.
Fat, Old, Mad Max. Driving a post-apocalyptic SUV.
Remember that at the end of "Road Warrior" it is revealed that the feral kid grows up to be the leader of the tribe that escapes to the coast, and he narrates the last part of the movie. So it wouldn't be out of the question for Max to run into the feral kid again, except as the grown up leader of the group that so cleverly used him to make their escape.
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I saw a Mad Max replicar at a Ford show outside of Portland, OR this summer. VERY shiny. If I had any pictures scanned, I would link them.
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Instead, gaze at the wondrous beauty that is the 1974 Capri--slightly, ahem, used. =)
Or get attacked by some guy with a doll attached to a pole strapped to his back that just doesn't know how to DIE!
I'm glad someone else think Beyond Thunderdome sucked. Thanks to that movie I can't see or hear Tina Turner without wanting to puke.
I have met heard of someone who likes Mad Mad 3. I guess there's just not enough Tina Turner to go around...
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Yup, Mel's released the fucking fury!
Mad Max 4 :: Beyond Viagradome !!!
k, it's a troll, but it was actually quite funny.
It can't be much worse than Episode II.
:P
Come on. Geeks love movies where stuff blows up. It'll have fire & explosions. Exploding stuff is cool.
And for those that don't pay $5 to see a matinee, there's always KazAa.
I am probably going to be modded down after this, but I got tired of Mel Gibson doing Braveheart again and again. Trying to bring true historic events was getting tiresome and repetitive. Although it's not exactly new stuff, I liked the Mad Max movies. And Lethal Weapon has just too many sequels for me.
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Karma is overrated, whoring is ok.
See the comment "Profit to cost ratios" above; Mad Max made 250 times the orignal investment.
I remember catching a repeat viewing of Mad Max II (or the Road Warrior for much of the overseas market) in the US, and they dubbed the entire cast, even Max. I guess they would have used subtitles, but you know, that places too much effort on the viewer. ;)
By the way, Beyond Thunderdome sucked the pus and lacked the meatier rustic edge of the first two. I guess Miller caved into Hollywood and glossed it over. Tina Turner scrubbed up quite well though.
I still haven't forgiven Miller/Gibson for that pile of crap that was called 'Beyond Thunderdome'. My biggest fear is that this movie will turn into a homoginized version of the original just as the Lethal Weapon series did as each sequel was released. Lethal Weapon 3 and 4 were the biggest piles of festering garbage ever created.
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The chain in those handcuffs is high tense metal steel. It will take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now If you're lucky... you could hack through your ankle in 5 minutes.
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
Gen X: mid-60's to mid-70's
Gen Lost: mid-70's to mid-80's
Gen TV: mid-80's to mid-90's
Gen "I don't give a f&(#, I want everything I want RIGHT NOW!": mid-90's to current
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Sandy Squirrel and Spongebob Squarepants
So when you draw the heart on a tree or scrawl it in the bathroom, it's S.S. + S.S., which looks real confusing.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
There was that one episode where S.Bob and Patrick were fighting in a wrestling match and then hugged at the end when they realized they were wearing matching boxers. They touched each other's asses, crying.
It's corrupting America's youth, I say! Excellent...
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
I'm a big fan of the original Mad Max movie, somewhat less of a fan of Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior in the US?), but I can barely stand to watch Beyond Thunderdome. It sucked badly.
I've got the books for the first two movies as well, and the difference in quality really shows there. Mad Max is a good book, if short and slightly lacking in depth. The book of Mad Max 2 is practically the script of the movie, absolutley nothing more.
I shudder at the though of reading the Beyond Thunderdome novelisation.
Hopefully this new one will be a return to the feel of the first movie, which actually had some depth and change in the characters.
Politas
They should make it in IMAX !!!
Then she'd have a hand up over Lara Croft. Hell, all girls from Texas are lookers, you know that.
This phenomenon is widespread. Cartoons are just as accessable any hottie movie or recording star... they aren't! So the obsession has nothing to do with "getting out". The possibilities of realizing the fantasy are of the same magnitude.
Hell, most guys find me attractive for no reason at all. I'm NOT REAL!!!! Oedipus complex I guess. I'm a mental fuck toy for the whole otaku crowd. So the cartoon squirrel, that's not even a stretch.
I'd be more worried about obsession with REAL inanimate objects, like automobiles, stereo equipment, or pies and canned meats.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Remember the Night Rider! The Night Rider lives!
Psssh, troll my hairy brown ring.
It was clearly a joke, but I guess there's a mod who just likes mad max.
But will Joe Pesci be in this one? They need the funny littleguy!
Chuck
Going along with the Spaceballs theme, would this be:
Mad Max 4: The Search for More Money?
Some years ago, a friend of mine dragged me backstage at a major rock concert during setup, and I was hearing how the show had two sets of equipment and props, leap-frogging each other from city to city, with one group in setup while another was in teardown. I was talking to one of the promoter's financial people, and said, "So why not have two sets of musicians. Cats has two road companies. Barnum and Bailey Circus has two units. There have been rock groups where, over time, all the members of the band were replaced. And nobody can see those guys on stage (this was in a football stadium, and before big-screen projectors) anyway. Your costs will go up by only 20-30%, but revenue will double." He looked very thoughtful for a while.
Someday, Clear Channel will probably pull this off.
You... You have an airplane.
I do?
Bluh blah blah blah
use your most outrageous aussie accent:
"Three days ago I saw a rig htta could haul that tanker... you wanna get outta here? You talk to me...."
Tastes ugly for a reason. Durian looks like a green spiked football, can weigh up to 35 pounds and smells like a backed up sewer when cracked open. Tastes like a cross between strawberry ice cream with a lot of garlic.
The native people of Indonesia and Malaysia would go to war over who controlled the largest trees.
Also reputed to be an aphrodisiac. The saying in Malaysia when the durian start to ripen and fall is:
"when the durian falls, the sarongs go up".
I think the candy maker is trying to cash in....
more here
You can't polish a turd
Perhaps you'd like to buy my Beyond Thunderdome video on VHS? I watched it once, and thought it sucked horribly.
I tried selling it on ebay for a penny. The bidder backed out when he was I was asking three bucks for shipping. I also tried giving it to friends as a holiday gift. They all gave it back to me the next holiday.
Don't get me wrong, I like Mel Gibson as an actor and I like the original Mad Max - just not BT.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Thank you for demonstrating how the overrated mod can be abused.
Will Jar-Jar be in this?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
This'll be just like Terminator 3...
.... "Ach, my back!"
Instead of "I'll be back."
I'm so tuff, I went up to Mad Max and said "Hey Max! You're not mad, you're just stupid!" -- George Smilovic
Do your best, hope for the best, suspect the worst.
"Remember where you are. This is Thunderdome. Death is listening, and will take the first man who screams."
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I remember that! I saw a sneak preview of "Thunderdome" at the Mann Chinese in July 1985 (holy shite, that's 17 YEARS!) . .
When that line was uttered, some guy in the back let out a yell. The theater erupted with laughter, followed by lots of hasty shushing. Great moment.
"Folks just call him Buckethead." -- Les Claypool
"As a big fan of all 3 Mad Max films, I am looking forward to this one!"
I must have Karma to burn, mod me down as a troll... Mark this as flamebait... But...
I loved the first two movies, but the turd, I mean third part ranks between Police Academy: Mission to Moscow and Backyard dogs. That being said I can not wait for this.
But I did find a rare thing today someone willing to admit that they SAW AND LIKED THUNDERDOME.
Or do we need to start the whole discussion again?
This may be the end of the world coming on. Road Warrior was my introduction to all things good. I watch it at least once a week....(Mad Max about once a month -- and I throw thunderdome in every few months.) No other movie announcment could make me happier. Will we live to see it complete?
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
I believe Kraftwerk did this a few decades ago... They were an entirely electronic band, and would give "live" performances with just automatons on stage. Good Stuff!!
:-(
"I am the operator / with my pocket calculator"
oops, I am indicating my age...
I am such a sick degenerate fucking prick Damn, I suck a dick My Master made me write this. He is almighty and infinite in his wisdom, and I am just his pathetic little bitch. Hopefully, one day, he will release me from slavery.
Durian is a fruit. Durian candy is made from that fruit.
Whoever did that write up for you is a fag.
here's the problem that i see with "polished"
I jsut got back from disney land a few hours ago.
Here is my take on the "polishing" of Disneyland:
it used to be a theme park. you would go there, eat some candy - ride some rides - and see a few charcters that you loved from disney cartoons.
now space mountain is "brought to you by FedEX" and there are fedex adds all through out the line in the add - and the ride actually exits you right into a store (as does star tours - which is brought to you by enegizer - and there are energizer bunny ads on the walls.)
coca-cola is everywhere. they sell McDonalds from the McDonalds chuck wagon in frontier land. Disney Downtown is a shopping complex and the strollers.
It was an army of families with strollers and nothing but advertisments.
I took my wife there as she had never been before - and it was my birthday. I thought it would be fun for her first time - and a throwback to the more than 15-20 years since I had been there as a kid. BIG mistake. I wont even take our soon to be kids there.
So much for the polished idea of a theme park.
just because something was good years ago - does not mean that any amount of polishing on the idea is going to make it good now. The idea of Disneyland no longer exists. the idea that a good movie from the early 80's can get a decent attempt at a sequel of any number in this day and age without product placement and mechandising rights and affiliations is about as slim.
That's why so many violent action movies are being made. Basic themes of violence, revenge, and sex resonate with all people in all cultures. So these movies are a sure hit everywhere in the world no matter what -- language and other cultural factors don't matter. Everyone can understand them, from uptight Scandinavian PhD's to spearchucking bushmen. No matter how much they cost to make, they eventually make money. Add to that the potential for violent video games based on them, plus merchandising, and the profits can be truly enourmous. Not to mention the generations of college students who will rent them to "laugh at" how "bad" they are, pretending to have some higher-level sense of "irony"...
Overrated?
Seems you don't know a thing about the film business you're part-time part of.
Its the actors that bring in the viewers.
The viewers bring in the money.
Thus the actors are a lot more important (in bottom-line terms) than the directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, screenwriters, though the film as such may be a team effort and may involve more work from other people than from the actors. Even if the film would look and feel the same with a different actor, its the actor (in the case of films with A-list actors) that gets the butts in the seats.
There are some directors and producers that have name value and are 'bankable' (Lucas, Spielberg) but their value is less than that of actors. 'Bankable' means that if you have Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford or De Niro (A-list) in a film, you (producer) can count on getting the money you threw at the film back. That's why the A-list actors get paid so much.
Or in slashdot friendly terms:
1) Get Tom Cruise,
2) Make film with Tom Cruise,
3) Profit.
Of course stage 2.5 which involves a bad script, bad directing and bad filming could get in the way of 3) but most film studios are pretty competent in avoiding making 'bad' films except where religion (Battlefield Earth), ego (Waterworld) or idiocy (Showgirls) overrule the clever people in studio accounting and preproduction.
If you still don't agree with me, check out the film posters. Whose name is written in the largest font? And why?
This blade covered boomerang weilding wild child was the best part of the entire series. The helicopter guy was ok but a little over the top. The Feral Kid was great. He was on the outside of what was left of civilization, like Max, and a survivor to the end. His look, his weaponry and his animal expressions and sounds were fantastic and creative. Making him the narrator of the "Road Warrior" was also a stroke of genius. The gay mohawked biker and Humongus v.s. Mel and the Feral Kid, what a line up!!!
Seem like a lot more than $25,000,000, when seen in a front-page article?
What's the point?
Enig? Det alt for hot det smor!
Of course Mad Max, as it was released in Australia, was in Australian. IIIRC, it was released for the drive-in circuit in the US, and they thought rednecks needed to have it dubbed into yank, and retitled ("Road Warrior") so as to make it more easily digestible.
When in Hong Kong I saw it on TV I was gobsmacked. Most of the cast are well-known Aussie character actors, and to hear some American voice-over artist messing up their delivery was painful and humiliating.
Only worth watching if he atkes a few tips from cast-iron Kevin Costner - he never puts a foot wrong that guy.
At least Mel Gibson is an actual box office draw. What has Martin Lawrence ever done?
And dare I say, Mel 2002 isn't worth 1/50 of a Mad Max.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Mad Max - Segway Warrior
:-D )
Opening scene - Max "roaring" down the road on his super-charged Segway surrounded by hoards of baddies. We see Max being hit multiple times, reeling from the shock of each blow, but he just keeps going.
Baddie #1 - Curse that Segway, if we could just knock Max down we'd be able to ravage the orphanage and take over that oil refinery...
(You can take it from there though I recommend that you don't.
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Not Squirrel, Cheeks.
Yes, I have 3.5 children.
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
Picture this: The Terminator in post-bomb Australia fights the evil nano-Terminators with the help of aging buddy Mad Max. Now that would be a good flick! Then Mel and Arnold both run for Congress and kick some good old boy network butt and get our economy and all of the GOP deficit spending back in line. ;)
Wimpy, who was addicted to hamburgers (a stand-in for alcohol in those more sensitive times).
Those more sensitive times? You're saying it's imaginable, today, to have a popular kids' cartoon where being a drunk is funny? If anything we'd be much quicker to find that offensive now, wouldn't we? (Dick Van Dyke used to do a great drunk on his show, very funny -- until he got sober in real life.)
Spongebob Squarepants, who epitomizes and glorifies chronic laziness and disrespect for authority...
Spongebob squarepants ain't an influence on Generation X, and I'm having trouble thinking of who you mean by "like" spongebob for them. If you wanted a weird choice to do with the drug culture, you might have chosen "H.R. Puffinstuff" -- now THERE was a thinly veiled drug reference, huh? As far as "obviously gay" fictional characters, the first one I can remember was Monroe on a lame sitcom called Too Close for Comfort... hardly a huge cultural milestone, and not much of a formative role model for anyone really.
The Mad Max movies were okay fun -- they did have a low budget thing going on at first, and I sort of dread sitting through what's sure to be a lavish, CGI-beefed reprise. But cultural belleweathers they aren't. If this one sucks, it'll be because it got made for money rather than fun.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Popeye was a character in the 1910s-1930s comic strip Thimble Theatre who grew from being introduced as a bit role midway through the run of the comic to the starring character that took it to the national stage. There was no cereal company involved.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I KNEW THAT! Mother of Pearl!! I'm wearing the friggin t-shirt right now.
By the way, I smell a smelly smell that smells smelly, and it's that 1/2 child of yours rotting in the basement.
j/k.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
... it is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the
sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other
words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their
superficial design flaws.
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products
of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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