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New Mad Max Film
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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I guess we know who run Bartertown.
enough to make it look as low budget as the first one? Paying Mel 25 million they may not have a choice! :-)
"You admit to being a "fan" of Thunder Dome? Blarg."
I definately admit to it. To this day I'll occasionally hear the chanting in my head, "Two men enter! One man leave!"
Thankfully it's at completely inappropriate times like corporate meetings or trying to merge in traffic.
Chuck Firment
You mean according to Google News by way of CNN, by way of Reuters, don't ya?
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'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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Gonna disagree with me eh?
:p
That's it... 2 men enter, 1 man leave
me and you buddy
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-Xenocrates
As long as Kevin Costner isn't starring in it, it'll make money.
He makes it to the shore just as Kevin Costner steps ashore from his catamaran.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
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.
he sure looks old for his age. in close-ups he reminds me of the cigarette man.
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How can there be a cassette of Spaceballs: The Movie? We're still in the middle of making it!
Col. Sandurz:
That's true, sir. But, there's been a new breakthrough in home video marketing.
Dark Helmet:
There has?
Col. Sandurz:
Yes. Instant cassettes. They're out in stores before the movie is finished.
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Its actually, "furry road" and the plot involves an aging warrior who mows down small rodents on an abandoned interstate with his flamethrowing wheel chair in order to provide food to the starving survivors of the apocalypse.
the real evil is not what people think - its how people think
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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I think the plots are more like this:
1. Mad Max = Max chased in his car
2. Road Warrior = Max chased in his truck
3. Thunderdome = Max chased in his train
4. New movie = Max chased in his Rolls Royce
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
You had fake leather? You were lucky! When I was a lad, we had to paint our bodies with hot sulfurous pitch if we wanted to even LOOK like we wore fake leather in a movie!
How can we afford to ever sleep
So sound again
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Actually, very few make money, in some magic way they all just barely break even...
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Knight Rider is king of the heap, sorry
"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?