Well, I see that George Ogilvie is not involved. I read some book on sci-fi cinema back in college. (Don’t recall the title or author). The author was of the opinion that Thunderdome sucked because George Miller didn’t have total control over the project.
So, along with kingpengvin’s suggestion, it COULD work. However, I have a feeling that it won’t. Mad Max is cool, but not, you know, Indiana Jones cool.
I might watch. The third one was weak but had its moments; it could have been much worse.
Uh huh… long as he plays Mel Gibson he can.
Actually, Gibson is one of the few movie stars these days who can genuinely act, which many people overlook because he’s a movie star. Do you really think the character he portrayed in Lethal Weapon is substantially similiar to the one he played in Braveheart? Or Conspiracy Theory (very underrated movie, btw.) Or Signs? Or Hamlet?
Ummm yeah I do. The only good acting I saw with Braveheart was the interviews where he tried to convince people that that pseudohistorical pice of horecrap was serious accurate history.
Hamlet: well if mumbling and running around with a scowl make great acting then my Husband could get an Oscar in that one!
Havent seen Signs, I have decided I wasted enough of my hard earned cash on Gibson’s pompous, overblown opinion of himself … and hell “Mel Gibson saves the world” we’ve already seen it.
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Actually, Thunderdome was exactly what Miller wanted; his intention was to end the series on a positive note, though he did hire another director to shoot the dramatic scenes.
This Mad Max 4 business is just overkill. The series has been dead for years, dead for years.
I think that was The Primal Screen by John Brosnan. The way I remember it, it wasn’t actually Brosnan’s opinion but that of one of his interviewees.
I could be totally wrong though, because I seem to remember Brosnan saying Miller was dead by the time Beyond Thunderdome was being made, and Miller appears to be very much alive.
^^^If memory serves, wasn’t one of the major co-producers (Terry ??) killed while scouting locations (crashed helicopter, died of his injuries awaiting rescue) for Thunderdome. Perhaps that is who you are remembering the author referencing.
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kingpenvin Now hold on there is always potential so long as it is done right.
Sorry to come into this late - but I agree. One aspect no-one’s so far mentioned is that Miller was heavily into the archetypal hero myth (the Campbell Cycle), which does have four phases. The final quadrant involves the hero’s homecoming, city-founding, and ultimate (perhaps sacrificial) death. It would fit in with the progressing themes of the first three movies, where we have parallel threads of the state of the world and Max’s moral state.
#1 Civilisation breaks down. Max also breaks down and is reinvented as the Road Warrior.
#2 Barbarous aftermath. Max behaves bravely but cynically.
#3 Primitive societies begin to emerge. Max develops altruism.
and then perhaps
#4 Civilisation is re-established, but is threatened. Max, now fully restored to human feeling, defends it via his own sacrifice.
I love all 3 films each in a different way. BT is the only one I was able to see in a theatre.
MM4? I’m there, dude.
In a previous thread, raygirvan said “#4 Civilisation is re-established, but is threatened. Max, now fully restored to human feeling, defends it via his own sacrifice.” I had an idea of how that could work.
In the years since we’ve seen Max, he has rejoined civilization and joined a paramilitary police force. But all is not well in civilization. The trouble starts with one person feeling disenfranchised, then another, and another. They eventually form their own society, one bent a coup d’état but they employ tactics not unlike the gangs Max had to deal with in the wasteland. The leader of the paramilitary force is killed during a skirmish and Max, being the most experienced, is pressed into taking his place. Will he simply wipe out the rabble? Or will Max realize that the rabble’s reason for existance is based on a lie and try to make peace?
Damn! That was supposed to have been the first post in a new thread!
Actually, the inside scoop is that it’s gonna be:
#4 Civilization is re-established, and the ruling authorities capture Max, mercilessly whip him with the fan belt of an '82 Oldsmobile Firenza for four hours, and then the actor who played “Mini-me” will disembowl him.
#4 Mad Max and the Battle to Defeat Starbucks.
I want a FiFi movie.
I love FiFi.