Mad Max Fury Road

[dfwmtx]

If you want Mel Gibson and furries, go watch "The Beaver". I'm kinda surprised they brought him back for the 3rd Expendables movie.

As for the new Mad Max movie, I just hope this reboot won't have post-apocalyptic Priuses or electric cars. Plenty of opportunity to stick in more lefty commentary about peak oil.

[HTRN]

I just hope this reboot won't have post-apocalyptic Priuses or electric cars. .

Judging by the clip, the interceptor is back.

[dfwmtx]

You can't judge a movie by its trailer. Too many times now, the best part of the movie is the trailer.

[Kommander]

When I wrote the original post I wanted to go more into my feelings about the movies but could not find the words. Writing about this movie on another forum I have found them.

The Road Warrior is the great granddaddy of apocalyptic action movies and games. Before the Road Warrior post apocalyptic stuff was usually movies like On the Beach and The Day After. In addition to being slow, dramatic films these movie basically posited that a nuclear war would be end end of humanity. The Mad Max movies were different. They offered people an action movie, but also hope, and thats what made them so different than what came before. You might have to fight Lord Humongus, be faster than a cobra, bullshit your way through Barter Town, and enter the thunderdome, but in the end you can win, and make the world a better place.

[Darrell]

Oh, there were post-apocalypse movies closer to the Mad Max type before it, A Boy And His Dog comes to mind. Not exactly a movie with hope in it, though.

[Draven]

yeah I saw trailers when Fury Road was being pitched as a TV series (2000)

[Kommander]

I'll have to look some of these older trailers. I see the temptation to make it into a tv show but I think wandering in a tv budget wasteland would get old fast.

[Draven]

I'll have to look some of these older trailers. I see the temptation to make it into a tv show but I think wandering in a tv budget wasteland would get old fast.

At least one pitch was lining up what was at the time one of the best TV VFX houses.

[Kommander]

I don't know. On the one had the setting is not to expensive. Just go to the desert. But there is the issue of moving and maintaining all that crap out there. I don't really know if a logistic comparable tv show has ever been done.

[Draven]

I don't know. On the one had the setting is not to expensive. Just go to the desert. But there is the issue of moving and maintaining all that crap out there. I don't really know if a logistic comparable tv show has ever been done.

There is quite a bit of filmable desert within the thirty mile ring of Los Angeles. Even more if your day's shoot is *staged* inside the thirty mile ring. (old trick)