Growing up in Australia in the late '70s and early’80s, Mad Max was one of my childhood icons. Beyond Thunderdome was awful, but the first two movies were great, each in its own way.
I was worried when i heard they were reviving the franchise, but this trailer looks pretty exciting.
Meh. Think I’ll wait until late night cable.
Oh, I don’t have cable.
Meh.
Soooooooooooooooooo, I take it it’s a reboot? Original director, which is good, but it still looks like every movie made today, i.e.a series of soulless, video game CGI set pieces…
I’ll watch it, I hope it’s good…I really hope it’s not like Transformers or the Avengers movies. non-stop CGI action with no soul.
I’ve got my fingers crossed. The visuals are good, and i like Charlize Theron. I also trust George Miller to do what he can, within the constraints imposed by studio bosses, to remain true to the original idea.
The second and third movies were so iconic in their costume and design work that I fear any modern sequel/remake/reboot will look like a parody. And, no amount of CGI wiz-bangery can outdo the final chase sequence in The Road Warrior.
Well, it looks like they’re gonna try.
I liked the trailer and have some hope for the movie, but I gotta say, the opera music didn’t do it for me. It detracted from the action rather than complementing it.
I have to say, that is quite possibly the *brownest *movie I have ever seen.
I’ll go out on a limb and say Thunderdrome was rather enjoyable, whereas i don’t have any huge desire to see the first movie again. The first is just a more violent late 70s while the other two (three) are actually post-apocalyptic.
I think there’s a trope on the future being brown/gray/sepia, but I can’t find the name.
Looks great and I will probably see it in theater because, fun special effects. Why the hate for CGI?
Looks like stylized nonsense. I didn’t see any indications of a plot. Why do movies have such a budget for effects, but apparently not for a decent screenplay?
Even the recent Terminator trailer is highly suggestive of a plot.
That describes The Road Warrior pretty well too, and that was a kick-ass movie if you’re into that kind of thing.
I’ve seen it. (test screening Monday night)
Mild spoilers below…
[spoiler] Not a reboot exactly. There’s nothing in it that precludes the original three from having happened basically the same as we saw them before. Even the 2nd and 3rd had weird continuity with the gyro-captain and the pilot being played by the same actor. I prefer to think this the 4th in the series rather than starting fresh.
One small thing is Max’s child from Mad Max is shown briefly and is depicted as older like 6 where in the original the kid was a toddler.
The movie is incredibly fast-paced with only a very short section where people aren’t actively running or driving very fast. That might be exhausting or eventually boring for some people…but those people I don’t know if they’d even be interested in the first place.
The thing that I found the most interesting was the world building. Lexicon, setting, costumes all of it was fascinating–the movie doesn’t let up long enough to try shoe-horn explanations for things, you just go with it.
I didn’t even know Nicholas Hoult was in the movie and he was awesome. He doesn’t steal the show but he’s definitely one of the most fun things to watch other than the explosions and insane cars. Tom Hardy plays Max like… well… like he’s gone a little mad–doesn’t talk much, slight nervous tics, etc. Charlize is also good. Its interesting the primary cast is mostly women–something I don’t think we’ve seen in a Post-Apo movie since “She” 
Also… the music is a huge part of the movie and it’s not opera.
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Who looks at futuristic or post-apocalyptic movies for plot and screenplay? I mean, it’s great when such films make an effort but let’s face it, that genre is all about the special effects.
I assumed as much, seeing that Junkie XL did the soundtrack. It seemed out of place in the trailer. I thought the music from the first trailer was a better fit.
Peak Color.
Well technically speaking post Peak Color.
The first half was awesome. The second half was a different movie, which sucked.
And your point is what, that they succeeded in delivering what we all want in a Max Max? Think of it as Noh theater, Oz style.
I liked The Road Warrior a whole lot and Beyond Thunderdome was okay. Mad Max just didn’t do it for me.
But what could go wrong with Tom F’in Hardy as Mad Max?
Not to worry folks, there isn’t much CGI.
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Do y’all have any idea how this movie was made? It was freaking awesome!
For almost 4 months, the entire cast and crew were in the Namibian Desert, shooting this thing in order.
There’s almost no dialogue in the entire film, apparently, and no CGI means that when you see that car get flung into the air and come crashing into another speeding car going the opposite direction, they really catapulted a car into another car.
I simply cannot imagine this movie as being anything other than awesome, and wish that it were opening sooner than 15 May 2015.