# Check out the trailer for the new Mad Max movie.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876 "2014-12-10T19:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/81 "2015-05-14T17:45:14Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > As long as the message is wrapped in a good, long, violent, post-apocalyptic car chase; the message can be “Look at what a total bastard scabpicker is! Get HIM!”, I’ll still be able to take what I want from it. > > And really, after the first movie, Max is just a character or agent that’s moving through other people’s stories. As the[AV Club accurately noted:](http://www.avclub.com/article/mad-men-mad-mad-max-having-mad-women-219391) > [@](#): > > Indeed, other than his commanding officer in Mad Max, his captors in The Road Warrior, and Tina Turner in Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max is simply always in charge of his own destiny as a pawn who’s manipulated by circumstance into various power struggles he wants no part of, and is almost never being told what to do more than once or twice per movie. And certainly never by a woman, except when they are women. In fact, everything Max does in Thunderdome, he does at the behest of women: first Tina Turner, then the female leader of the lost children. > [@Spoke](#): > > The problem is that at least some people who pay their hard-earned money to see a _MAD MAX!!!_ movie are going to have a reasonable expectation that Mad Max is the hero of the movie. > > If the movie is really _FURIOSA!!! (with Mad Max)_ then be honest enough to advertise it that way. Honestly, Max was never the star of the Mad Max films. The cars were. Max was always pretty much a blank slate, like the player character in an FPS. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/82 "2015-05-14T18:05:28Z")
I like the idea of the story not being about Max. I prefer going along for the ride and seeing the world through Max’s eyes as he gets dragged into a world of mayhem, chaos, and violence of other people’s problems. The original MadMax is his origin story and the rest are other stories of the wasteland where Max is destined to wander. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/83 "2015-05-14T18:09:30Z")
Sorry, George Miller, but if I wanted to immerse myself in a pitiless landscape devoid of human feeling, a barren wasteland indifferent to civilization’s simple solaces, I can just visit my eHarmony account. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/84 "2015-05-14T18:20:18Z")
> [@emarkp](#): > > High-larious. Don’t hit your own chin with your knee when it jerks like that. Be sure to unwad your panties too. > > I prefer my message movies as ABC after school specials, not summer blockbusters. It may be the case that the message doesn’t make the movie groanworthy. But I find it unlikely. Oooh,\* snap\*! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/85 "2015-05-14T18:21:18Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Sorry, George Miller, but if I wanted to immerse myself in a pitiless landscape devoid of human feeling, a barren wasteland indifferent to civilization’s simple solaces, I can just visit my eHarmony account. So very cool and sadly- true. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/86 "2015-05-14T19:03:02Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _American_ culture? How the fuck is anything about this franchise American? you can’t expect too much from internet dipshits. Just pat them on the head and sadly walk away. To be fair though, Mel Gibson is an American. He was born in America and moved Down Under when he was 12. And hell yes, Babe: Pig In The City is a modern masterpiece! Gene Siskel agreed with me, so there! ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/87 "2015-05-15T05:15:46Z")
Saw it. It’s frickin’ awesome. It is clear that this movie has been brewing in Miller’s mind for several decades. It’s stuffed with tiny little details, really inventive use of hardware (great use of a sandplow) and the chase. Is. AWESOME. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/88 "2015-05-15T20:50:23Z")
Just saw it. It was awesome, better than I could have hoped. I know this was my first time viewing it, and I’ve seen the others many times; but right now, I think it’s the best of the series. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/89 "2015-05-16T00:17:01Z")
Saw it this afternoon. Max is not an afterthought, so I’m cool with it. My only beef is that this movie is almost **all** chase scene. Now I love Mad Max chase scenes, and these chase scenes are truly spectacular, but I equally enjoy exploring other aspects of this future world. We just don’t get very much of that here. But that’s just nit-picking. Great flick. Query: Why does Charlize Theron’s character have an American accent? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/90 "2015-05-16T03:00:08Z")
Just saw it. One of the most awesome movies I’ve ever seen. Loved loved LOVED the guitar truck – I cracked up every time it came on screen. Just amazing visuals and incredibly true to itself, if that makes sense. I imagine this stuff was rolling around in George Miller’s head for decades and he finally got the money he needed and went balls out to put every damn detail he could think of. Just an incredible action movie! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Joker_and_the_Thief)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/91 "2015-05-16T03:17:18Z")
All around an incredible film. The movie starts with a bang and never lets down until the very end. _Fury Road_ knows that insane car chases are what make the series great and uses that to great effect. On the contrary, **Spoke** , I felt that the amount of chase scenes resulted in seeing an incredible amount of the wasteland, and I felt this movie was a lot more immerse than the previous ones. In both _The Road Warrior_ and _Beyond Thunderdome_, a lot of time was spent in a single location, like the oil well or Bartertown. Not so here. And for what it’s worth, I don’t know Furiosa’s accent, but the way she pronounces [“gasoline”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWO2-v9zug4) (0:40) is definitely not American. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/92 "2015-05-16T03:25:01Z")
I only watched the once, and I was a bit drunk, but the pronunciation I kept hearing from everyone was “guzzle-ine” as a slang or misnomer like “aqua cola” or “shows” were. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/93 "2015-05-16T03:50:53Z")
Yeah, “guzzle-line” appears to be a bit of future slang. And Furiosa definitely has an American accent, which makes no sense in the context of the story (she is a native of the wasteland in the story), nor, for that matter, in real life (Charlize Theron is South African). So what gives? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Joker_and_the_Thief)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/94 "2015-05-16T03:55:13Z")
I wasn’t really paying attention to the character’s accents, but did the many mothers have American accents? Because that would explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/95 "2015-05-16T04:17:05Z")
No, they were Australian, which just made it all the more puzzling. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/96 "2015-05-16T13:57:20Z")
Haven’t decided yet if it was good but it certainly was visually mesmerizing and an adrenaline rush from end to end. Accents were a bit all over the place. But then so was everything else so not bothered by that. Anything in the movie explicitly still place it in Australia? From the credits it looks like it was filmed in Australia and South Africa. And if they expect to drive 165 days across the salt (with just the fuel in their motorcycles and the food in their bags?) that feels like something bigger than Australia. One question: [spoiler]What was in the tanker Furiosa was driving? I know the second little bubble in the back was fuel she was to trade for safe passage. But if she was supposed to have been going to get gasoline, why was there anything in the tank? And were the contents water or mothers’ milk? Seemed to be milk when Max washed blood off his face but water when they needed to cool the engines and it was pierced by the harpoons.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/97 "2015-05-16T15:38:36Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > One question: > > [spoiler]What was in the tanker Furiosa was driving? I know the second little bubble in the back was fuel she was to trade for safe passage. > > But if she was supposed to have been going to get gasoline, why was there anything in the tank? And were the contents water or mothers’ milk? Seemed to be milk when Max washed blood off his face but water when they needed to cool the engines and it was pierced by the harpoons.[/spoiler] [spoiler]The tanker appears to be carrying both water and mother’s milk. They make multi-chambered gasoline tankers to carry different grades of gasoline, so I assume that’s what the setup was. I am also assuming, but I’d suppose the Bullet Farm and Gastown would value both water or mother’s milk in trade. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/98 "2015-05-16T16:50:17Z")
Australia? There is very little about Fury Road that would place it on “Planet Earth”. Given that the 'pocy-lypse happened within Max’s lifetime, I think it would have been nice to see more of the carcass of the old civilization to pick through. We don’t even see roads lined with old wrecks anymore. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/99 "2015-05-16T18:03:31Z")
As someone pointed out somewhere, for a society in which guzzoline is in such short supply, they’re pretty damn profligate with it. But who’m I kidding–movie was incredible. Better than I hoped, and I was drooling since I first saw the trailer. Personal favorite tiny comedic moment: Max’s constant “That’s mine!” whenever he spots his car. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/100 "2015-05-16T19:10:23Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > As someone pointed out somewhere, for a society in which guzzoline is in such short supply, they’re pretty damn profligate with it. But who’m I kidding–movie was incredible. Better than I hoped, and I was drooling since I first saw the trailer. Personal favorite tiny comedic moment: Max’s constant “That’s mine!” whenever he spots his car. 😃 Well, gas can be in short supply for a civilization, yet in endless supply for a thousand dune-buggy savages. The US used 136 billion gallons of gas last year. If there is only a few million gallons left for a thousand weirdos in the desert they can use that for awhile. Also, the war party was a special event. It’s not like they do that every day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876.md?page=6)