Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 1

[Monsieur Xavier]

Trailer was ok but I didn't liked the score at all, it didn't fit the images.
It was odd to see a Mad Max trailer/movie with a picture so clean and sharp.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Trailer was ok but I didn't liked the score at all, it didn't fit the images.
It was odd to see a Mad Max trailer/movie with a picture so clean and sharp.

It what way do you feel the music didn't go with the images?

 

[The Endless]

The music went perfect with the images.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The music went perfect with the images.

Yeah, I felt it matched the images, tone and overall feel incredibly well.

 

[scifiwolf]

The music backing the trailer was a high point for me. Loved the clicking and ratcheting. It suits the mechanical elements of George's world so well. And dat photography! Beautiful desertscapes and that sandstorm looked positively biblical. Not much from Tom, but Max was always a presence with minimal dialogue anyway. Tom sure gives off the right vibe.

This trailer finally put Fury Road on my watch list.

 

[The Endless]

It was like it was created in a junkyard or something.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This film looks incredible, but did it really cost $150m?

 

[Lord]

I can see how some didn't like it having such a perfect picture, among all the disaster, some of the girls looked way too good, though this is probably the reason they were being kidnaped in the first place. The action sequences also look more over the top than the franchise is usualy like, but George seems to know that the real crazy stunts are one of the reasons these films have been so popular.

It's also interesting to not that he could have simply went with what we expect from a Mad Max movie, a western like story set in the near future where the roads are basicaly lawless, but instead he went all out crazy with the plot he had previously been trying to make for all these years, it's going to be interesting to see the result of this.

 

[nightwing06]

PG-13 oh well toned down violence but still looks like it's worth seeing on the biggest screen with the loudest sound system

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

It what way do you feel the music didn't go with the images?

I will have to watch it again but that was my first thought when seeing the trailer.
Will update my post when I'm back home.

Edit : on top of my head, I found the music too melodic and soft. I might be too much used to heavy music in action movies trailers.

Edit @home : after a second watching and focusing on the music I changed my first thought, the score is melancholic ( not melodic ) half of the trailer and become more mechanical the other half.
Anyway, I don't why I found the score not fitting at my first watch maybe it distracted me from the images.

 

[Schlosser85]

To me, regarding the "no Mel = no Max!" crowd, Mad Max isn't the kind of character that really requires that much acting besides a certain demeanor (and certainly not stretching the limits of what Hardy is capable of).

He's essentially "the man with no name", "the dark stranger of the prairie" Western archetype, transplanted into a post-apocalyptic setting.

The strong, silent tough guy is certainly no stretch for Hardy.

Also, I feel Hardy is good at being a tough guy yet also having this wounded quality (Warrior), and that could work well for Max.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, Hardy should be perfect for this. The trailer strangely felt a little Hardy-stingy though. But it does look f***ing awesome nonetheless.

I wonder if we'll see a lot of mutated lizards and things like that. that two-headed gecko or whatever it was kinda freaked me out.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

PG-13 oh well toned down violence but still looks like it's worth seeing on the biggest screen with the loudest sound system

What are you even talking about?

 

[Tim_Riggins]

The music works so well, especially with the editing.

 

[The Endless]

Yea it's a brilliantly edited trailer.

 

[biolumen]

This film looks incredible, but did it really cost $150m?

From what I've heard, it cost closer to $200 million. In fact, 3 years ago some bloke working on the film had said off the record that Miller & Co. had $220 million to play with. At the time, that number was the reason why I thought they were making 2 films back to back. That wasn't the case, obviously.

I know that number sounds way too high, but another source indicated that more that $60 million was spent on pre-production alone, so there might be some truth to it.

 

[chintai80]

supposedly they went over the budget while filming this...in 2012!
that seems to be one of the reasons for the delay in release...

 

[dark_b]

its Miller. of course he went over budget

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Teaser was pretty good, though despite being a huge Tom Hardy fan, I still cant get use to him as Max, everything else looked good though.

 

[Simo]

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?

Reboot. Not a sequel, interquel or sequel. Completely different timeline.

From Warner Bros. Press Release:

"Mad Max: Fury Road Seminal director George Miller returns to the post-apocalyptic universe he created three decades ago with the cultural phenomenon Mad Max. Tom Hardy reinvents Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road, Millers extraordinary new take on the legendary character for a new generation of fans. The film also stars Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley."

FR also takes place 45 years in the future and his family was killed but they've been changed from a wife and son, as they were in the original, to a wife and daughter.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Reboot. Not a sequel, interquel or sequel. Completely different timeline.

From Warner Bros. Press Release:


FR also takes place 45 years in the future and his family was killed but they've been changed from a wife and son, as they were in the original, to a wife and daughter.

So this is a re-make/boot? That actually makes things easier to digest rather it being a direct sequel. I thought many parts of the trailer looked like a re-make, like him having the car and crashing it all over again.

 

[The Endless]

I'd say it's a re-imagining. Same mythos, same characters. Just updated and re-cast.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I'd say it's a re-imagining. Same mythos, same characters. Just updated and re-cast.

Just judging from the trailer alone I would have said re-make, but we'll see I guess.

 

[dark_b]

do we really need to know in detail his origin?

 

[Rowsdower!]

do we really need to know in detail his origin?

YES.

I wanted MAX BEGINS: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE ROAD WARRIORS: DAWN OF THE END OF JUSTICE.