Posted on 06/06/2015 6:54:33 PM PDT by Perdogg
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The kids were natural comedians with TALENT. The casting was perfection!
That’s the problem with teen angst movies. Once you get old enough to realize how stupid teen angst is the stories kind of suffer.
There’s certainly some technical stuff in BC that’s good. But I spent the whole movie being ashamed that I once was as stupid as those characters.
“2 hours of insane stunts.”
Whooptee doo.
Zero character.
I don’t know if I identify with the older characters so much as I simply understand that they didn’t want to be there any more than the kids.
The 80’s had the best movies and I was privileged to have my teen years during that time. We were silly but “somewhat” innocent compared to today anyway. The 60’s were to turbulent and I was glad not to be born yet....very tail end in May 1969, I was born. Two of my kids are in high school and goodness what they have to contend with would not have even been on the radar in my day. I have two in grade school yet and can’t even begin to think what their high school days will be like especially my 7 year old. Yieks.
Yep, the casting in these older movies is really amazing.
Casting in current movies is pretty much trash.
There just doesn’t really seem to be any sort of acting talent pool these days.
It’s Mad Max, it’s not about character. Byron Kennedy who co-wrote and produced the first two (before departing this mortal coil) had a saying: when people are talking nothing is happening, and we’re making an action movie.
There’s plenty of movies out there with character. There’s only 1 movie with a flamethrowing guitar with a massive stack of speakers and koto drums driving 60 MPH. Character is great for movies about character, but some movies have other agendas.
It’s a really cute movie.
Risky Business is another older movie that stands the test of time. Great characters and lots of laughs.
It was made in an era when filmmakers made movies for the art and they were more intelligent.
I can’t remember anything that happened in it really.
I think I liked two things about it... the drum car and the pole cats.
Besides that I struggled to stay awake.
2 hours of action doesn’t mean much when I can’t even remember what any of it was about.
It seriously bored the crap out of me.
Yep, it does. Hopefully that one is not on someone’s remake list either.
Maybe some, but not that movie. Goonies was made for money, it ain’t art, and it ain’t intelligent. It’s just another “kids bonding on an adventure” movie, cookie cutter and generic.
It was about 2 hours worth of action. There was only enough plot to provide an excuse for the next wave, and/or a pee break. Pure action movies aren’t for everybody. But for what it was Max was brilliant, probably the best action movie not made by John McTeirnan (Die Hard 1 and 3, first Predator), might even be better than some of John’s.
Robert Downey as Tony Stark was really great casting because Downey has a lot of natural Stark in him.
I won’t argue with that. Downey is a really good actor. He’s old school though, I have a lot of respect for him.
However the casting of Gweneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts was just awful. Her acting ability is highly suspect IMO.
The plot and characters were staggeringly weak.
Even Max sucked. Couldn’t even see his face for the half the movie, and he spoke in grunts.
I enjoyed Death Proof a lot more than Mad Max, I and I mean the extended version where the chics never shut up ever.
Mickey Rourke is a terrible actor but it makes him perfect for roles with few lines of guttural slow dialogue.
JK Simmons is the opposite. He’s very versatile from Farmers insurance adds to JJ Jamison in Spiderman to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang leader.
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