Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 1

[SpideyFan866]

Good lord that trailer was glorious.

After being worried for a long time, this instantly became one of my most hyped films of 2015.

 

[O'Haire]

Seriously can't stop watching the trailer. So friggin awesome.

 

[The Endless]

That trailer blew me the F away. I've watched it like, 10 times already.

It looks absolutely GORGEOUS while retaining the rusty, dirty Mad Max visuals. Miller also looks like he succeeded in bringing back the outlandish look of the of the world in general from the vehicles to the whacked-out looking characters. The energy and edge looks intact. It's almost like Max never left.

I can't wait for this. Seeing The Road Warrior for the first time as a kid was one of the those magical film moments that you never forget as a kid. It left a very big impression on me. Consider me totally pumped.

Same. I watched The Road Warrior when i was young, and still to this day it remains one of my favourites. It made me interested in that whole post-apocalyptic wasteland genre.

This film looks to be the natural successor to that, rather than Thunderdome.

 

[dark_b]

So what exactly is the story of this film?

its as simple as it gets. it starts with Max getting captured and chained on a car. that car is part of a big group of people who drive through the desert and follow a truck with 6 women. Theron and her white girls
when they get close to that truck they get in the middle of a storm where there is a big action scene. in the trailer you can see that the tornado throws cars and people in the air and they explode. Max gets free and somehow gets on the truck from Theron. the chase continues. there will probably be a main villain who is the leader of the group.

its a short movie. around 1 hour and 30 minutes. its just one big and long chase . Miller at comiccon said that Hardy has 16 lines.

it looks like a perfect Mad Max movie.

 

[Lord]

$150 million budget.

Wh-what? That's a lot for a project like this, i mean, can this film even break even? A film that's a giant chase sequence may not appeal to everybody.

 

[The Endless]

It's definitely a risk. It's obviously gonna be a hard R too.

 

[The Endless]

its as simple as it gets. it starts with Max getting captured and chained on a car. that car is part of a big group of people who drive through the desert and follow a truck with 6 women. Theron and her white girls
when they get close to that truck they get in the middle of a storm where there is a big action scene. in the trailer you can see that the tornado throws cars and people in the air and they explode. Max gets free and somehow gets on the truck from Theron. the chase continues. there will probably be a main villain who is the leader of the group.

its a short movie. around 1 hour and 30 minutes. its just one big and long chase . Miller at comiccon said that Hardy has 16 lines.

it looks like a perfect Mad Max movie.

The plot is simple and straightforward. But i think the story will have more to it.

I tend to separate "plot" and "story". The plot is the basic framework. You could describe the "plot" of pretty much any movie ever with 1 or 2 sentences. The "story" is the details that make up the "plot".

Like The Road Warrior for instance. You could sum up the plot with a couple sentences. But the story is more about Max regaining his humanity a little bit. About how this "shell of a man" inspires hope in the hopeless people. Max becomes a mythological figure.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

its as simple as it gets. it starts with Max getting captured and chained on a car. that car is part of a big group of people who drive through the desert and follow a truck with 6 women. Theron and her white girls
when they get close to that truck they get in the middle of a storm where there is a big action scene. in the trailer you can see that the tornado throws cars and people in the air and they explode. Max gets free and somehow gets on the truck from Theron. the chase continues. there will probably be a main villain who is the leader of the group.

its a short movie. around 1 hour and 30 minutes. its just one big and long chase . Miller at comiccon said that Hardy has 16 lines.

it looks like a perfect Mad Max movie.

Nice. So I know it is a new continuity, but does it have similarities to the original series. Is Max a cop? Does he have a family? Are they alive? etc.

 

[Octoberist]

Darth,

It's a semi-sequel and just another chapter in Max's life that doesn't get burdened by 'contiunity', so yeah, consider that the old movies happened in this version of Max's world. That means that Max was a cop who lost his family.

People just don't' know if this took place in-between the first two movies, or after 'Thunderdome'.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Darth,

It's a semi-sequel and just another chapter in Max's life that doesn't get burdened by 'contiunity', so yeah, consider that the old movies happened in this version of Max's world. That means that Max was a cop who lost his family.

People just don't' know if this took place in-between the first two movies, or after 'Thunderdome'.

Ok, now I am really confused. I have had different answers every time I ask this question.

So basically, this takes place after the events of the first film, more or less? Not a "prequel" and not a concrete sequel?

 

[Octoberist]

Stick with my answer!

Its not a remake, but a sequel being treated also as a semi-reboot.

 

[chamber-music]

Yeah perhaps, it looks awesome, but not OMAGAD, then again, I never got into Mad Max, I tried to watch the first one (never saw any) like a year ago, I lasted for 20 min until I turned it off, it was so slow, so old & floppy.

The first Mad Max film hasn't aged too well.

You should try watching Mad Max 2:Road Warrior which is the most popular of the trilogy and holds up really well.

My mom is one of those "it's not Mad Max without Mel" people who boycotts stuff like this.

I wonder how big that crowd is.

I feel like Mad Max is the type of archetype character a lot of actors could play.

I enjoyed Mel Gibson as Mad Max but I don't believe that he brought something so unique to the role that no other actor do.

 

[chamber-music]

Ok, now I am really confused. I have had different answers every time I ask this question.

So basically, this takes place after the events of the first film, more or less? Not a "prequel" and not a concrete sequel?

Neither a total reboot or a direct sequel.

Miller says it is a loose sequel to the first Mad Max film but it isn't beholden to the continuity of the original trilogy as things happen to the character in the movie that didn't happen to the Gibson version.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Got the boxset on BR, so I'm going to give it another shot. But is Road Warrior the only good one in the trilogy?

 

[Roose Bolton]

The first film is pretty good, though it's different in tone and style than the Road Warrior.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Stick with my answer!

Its not a remake, but a sequel being treated also as a semi-reboot.

I put my trust in your Octoberist.

 

[Lord]

It's most likely going to end up being a complete reboot, the first film may end up the only canonical chapter, and even then, Fury Road may portray the events there a little differently.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It's most likely going to end up being a complete reboot, the first film may end up the only canonical chapter, and even then, Fury Road may portray the events there a little differently.

Part of me thinks this as well. As if they are afraid to separate it completely, call it a reboot. So right now it is a quasi-sequel.

 

[chamber-music]

Miller isn't interested in totally remaking his previous Mad Max movies. Miller wants to revisit the Mad Max world and tell new stories without being super beholden to continuity. There will be homages to the previous films but I doubt he ever want s to totally remake the old films.

Got the boxset on BR, so I'm going to give it another shot. But is Road Warrior the only good one in the trilogy?

They are all good. Mad Max 2 is the most iconic. Thunderdome is ok.

The films are very different from one another. The film series becomes more post-apocalyptic as they go on with civilisation really collapsing between the first and second film.

The first Mad Max was a low budget indie film and George Miller who was doctor's first film.

The budget becomes higher with each film and Miller becomes more skilled as a director so visually each film improves on the previous one.

 

[Roose Bolton]

It's most likely going to end up being a complete reboot, the first film may end up the only canonical chapter, and even then, Fury Road may portray the events there a little differently.

I don't think you really need much of continuity for these types of films. It's just Mad Max. The world ended, and Max's wife and kid died. Other than those two things you don't need to address much.

 

[Lord]

Noone's arguing about the originals receiving remakes at all, that's never going to happen in my opinion, what we're arguing is that this new set of films may end up rebooting the Mad Max universe, rebooting's very different from remaking.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Noones arguing about the originals receiving remakes at all, that's never going to happen in my opinion, what we're arguing is that this new set of films may end up rebooting the Mad Max universe, rebooting's very different from remaking.

Yeah, I don't know where the remake idea came from.

 

[dark_b]

i like Hardy and he will do a good job. he is the best one after Gibson for this role.
but it is sad and obvious that WB would have NO problem having Gibson in this movie if he wouldnt have problems. i think that if Gibson wouldnt be in movies since 2000 that WB would just throw millions at him.

Mel f. up and its sad that he couldnt make another movie with Miller.

 

[Lencho01]

Might have something to do with it being the only full and traditional trailer to come out of there for our and public consumption. As cool as clips for things are, trailers are designed to sell films imo.

I'm not surprised alot of people may feel this way, that being said had we ourselves seens full trailers for the other various films for the first time..

I think it may be that too.

Plus, it just looks really nice. I thought it was going to go with that same filter used in Terminator Salvation or Book of Eli, but it's pretty colorful. As much as I've grown to dislike the use of orange and teal in film posters, it looks nice for this film. And knowing Miller tried to make this as practical as possible makes it more awesome.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

i like Hardy and he will do a good job. he is the best one after Gibson for this role.
but it is sad and obvious that WB would have NO problem having Gibson in this movie if he wouldnt have problems. i think that if Gibson wouldnt be in movies since 2000 that WB would just throw millions at him.

Mel f. up and its sad that he couldnt make another movie with Miller.

I don't think we'd be getting this movie with Mel still as Max, so I am quite happy with the recast.