It's just a painting! Globs of paint! Whatever!
Posted on 05/15/2015 8:55:31 PM PDT by matt1234
Yup. Every time I hear that a movie I like is going to be remade, I get that sinking feeling in my gut. And I think, they are going to ruin it
I know others feel likewise.
It begs the question, why can't Hollywood write new plots that are great and interesting? Surely, not every imaginable plotline has been used.
Agree. First movie was great if a little slow by today's standards. You just had to root for Max.
Second movie had great action and unbelievable stunts. Decent plot and memorable characters. Max got hosed yet again, but you had to admire his spirit.
I’ve been to Broken Hill and Silverton where the first MM was filmed. Went to the place where MM looked over the oil plant and then down to where that site was. Pretty cool. At Silverton they had a scrapbook of the filming, showing Mel Gibson playing cards with the bad guy. Sat in the same courtyard and had lunch.
I’d like to see Mad Max with the original Australian soundtrack rather than the common American overdub.
I’m a friend of Emil Minty; he’s a true blue Aussie - where ‘men are men’ and also where George Miller made sure he was at the Red Carpet Premiere two nights ago. I’ll try to get his perspective on this, if he’ll bend so low. If so, I’ll report back.
“I don’t. Star Trek Into Darkness, was, I knew, going to be left wing propaganda.”
You should finish the Star Trek film, it gets better as it goes.
It would be most interesting to know Emil’s opinion of the new MM movie. I loved his character in the Road Warrior!
I don’t need to anything beyond the clips I saw on TV which reveal the premise ... a female Mad Max. What else do you need to know?
Well didn’t CT star in a live version of AEON FLUX ? ( Actually, I went to see it, I think ! ) I suppose it was all there in the original animation, but somehow the idea of a superhuman female didn’t seem to carry the political import that we see in this, but maybe it was always already all there.
It's just a painting! Globs of paint! Whatever!
The biggest problem this type of depiction has is physical verisimilitude, i.e. believability. It’s like Xena Warrior Princess, which featured skinny models with flaccid triceps tossing around bulked up villians, without even flexing their triceps! This sort of scene stands as the exemplar of the lie that is being promulgated.
I haven't seen previews yet. But I did read that Theron's female character orders around Mad Max. But we all know that Max only takes orders as a ruse or when plotting some grand counter-stoke, right? And, presumably he won't counter-stroke an ally. What, so now Max is submissive to a woman? Laughable.
Though determined to wander the post-apocalyptic wasteland alone, Mad Max (Tom Hardy) joins Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a fugitive imperator, and her band who are all trying to escape a savage warlord.
... so, it's worse than I thought! ... well, maybe not, since Mad Max is still a guy, you know? It's hard to keep score these days.
the plot was weak
the action was non stop
It was goofy and entertaining
and like most modern action movies these days, women are heroines, but they are also feminine
it is not your Daddy’s Mad Max
but it was not a lost ticket
the men actors played the craziest of characters, it was like the zombie apocalypse with common makeup
“I read elsewhere that the director or producer (can’t recall which) declared himself a proud feminist”
I don’t know about that, but George Miller, the director of all the Mad Max movies, was an Australian emergency room doctor before he quit medicine to make movies.
So you saw the whole movie . How were the stunts? IMO that is one of the most impressive features of road warrior. I had assumed they filmed the new movie in W Africa to avoid pesky OSHA type rules.
Every movie has a political message. Even the dumbest, low brow comedy. That’s just the way it is.
I stopped wasting money at the movie theater 15 years ago. I will not pay commies to trash my country.
American Sniper was worth the money.
you know, even though I didn’t see it, and I WILL see it, I watched the academy awards jus hoping that some patriotism would shine through.
Got tortured by civil rights spectacles and the usual nonsense, and then it gets neither best actor nor best movie, and Michael Keaton wins with birdman or whatever the heck his movie was called.
Should have known better. Wont ever watch it again.
I regret not seeing it in theaters.
Maybe I am not the most unbiased viewer, but I did not see it as a political statement, but more of a visceral immersion in a life that has become far removed from most of our lives. I took one of my adult sons to one show and then a friend of mine who has no military background. Both times, the theater was absolutely silent when everyone was leaving.
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