Mad Max: Fury Road - Part 2

[Rowsdower!]

It's funny, because when I watch Road Warrior, I don't even notice Max having so little dialogue.

 

[Anita18]

Yeah, I feel like the public's opinion on Mel has soured to the point where they don't really care that he's not in this. I feel like this movie will do well because it just looks f***ing awesome more than due to people having an affinity for this specific franchise.

Totes, and this is coming from a 31-y-o who remembers Mel Gibson being really popular once upon a time. The folks younger than me will only know the crazy.

Also, coming from a straight 31-y-o woman, Tom Hardy >>>>>> Mel Gibson. Hnnnngnhhghghhghghhghg......

 

[dark_b]

a lot of people dont notice it. the character and story from Road Warrior were perfectly executed

 

[Rowsdower!]

Totes, and this is coming from a 31-y-o who remembers Mel Gibson being really popular once upon a time. The folks younger than me will only know the crazy.

Also, coming from a straight 31-y-o woman, Tom Hardy >>>>>> Mel Gibson. Hnnnngnhhghghhghghhghg......

Haha, yeah, Hardy definitely appeals to the ladies a lot more than Mel does these days.

 

[Octoberist]

it's to the point where the public has almost forgotten all about Mel.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Totes, and this is coming from a 31-y-o who remembers Mel Gibson being really popular once upon a time. The folks younger than me will only know the crazy.

Also, coming from a straight 31-y-o woman, Tom Hardy >>>>>> Mel Gibson. Hnnnngnhhghghhghghhghg......

As a straight male, young Mel Gibson was a gorgeous mother****er. I would take him over young Hardy.

 

[DarkKnight88]

it's to the point where the public has almost forgotten all about Mel.

But that happens to every star. Tom Hardy will be "forgotten" too in 30 years.

And Mel in his prime had women screaming.

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[Anita18]

As a straight male, young Mel Gibson was a gorgeous mother****er. I would take him over young Hardy.

See, that's the beauty of it - Tom gets sexier as he ages, not the other way around. And HOPEFULLY he isn't famous/stupid enough to go off the rails later....

 

[Doctor Jones]

But that happens to every star. Tom Hardy will be "forgotten" too in 30 years.

And Mel in his prime had women screaming.

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Oh no Lethal Weapon butt.

I... I was expecting that.

 

[Black Narcissus]

See, that's the beauty of it - Tom gets sexier as he ages, not the other way around. And HOPEFULLY he isn't famous/stupid enough to go off the rails later....

My scenarios was matching them both during their young days.

Also, I hope Tom doesn't ''fix'' his face like Bradley Cooper. Sweet lort.

 

[Schlosser85]

If Hardy hasn't fixed his terrible teeth yet, I don't think he cares.

 

[Anita18]

If Hardy hasn't fixed his terrible teeth yet, I don't think he cares.

I haven't even noticed the teeth. Who's looking at his TEETH???

 

[Octoberist]

But that happens to every star. Tom Hardy will be "forgotten" too in 30 years.

And Mel in his prime had women screaming.

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But then Mel sabotage his own career several times. Several. Anytime he does something stupid, we forgave him.

Then 2 years later, he does it again.

God forbid if Hardy goes through the same thing in 30 years, but Mel's a special case. If Mel never scrwed up his career, he would've been a Liam Neeson type by now.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Tom Hardy could. He's volatile the same way. But Gibson was the biggest star in the world which Hardy hasn't even approached at this point so he's not analyzed the same way. At Hardy's age, Gibson was already directing his first feature and would win a best director Oscar two years later.

 

[Octoberist]

But you said that most actors get forgotten in 30 years. I can barely remember Mel's stardom because it's so tainted. He hasn't recovered that, and probably won't until he's at Bruce Dern's age.

That makes Mel's situation unique vs. any other actor out there. It was so damaging because he said some hurtful things that beyond his grasp. Now, if you look at Downey, he only hurted himself at the time, but he went out of his way to trash women, and the Jewish and Black community several times. Poor Danny Glover, his former partner!

 

[Schlosser85]

Hardy seems volatile and has a reputation for being difficult which could hurt his career if he doesn't control himself, but I think there's a difference between being "difficult" and going on mouth-foaming hateful tirades against Jews and also making offensive comments about blacks, gays, women, and pretty much all non-Catholics.

Also, like DarkKnight said, Hardy is nowhere near Gibson's onetime stardom level. A lot of people don't even know who Hardy is, let alone if he has a difficult reputation, so Hardy can fly under the radar without his every move being scrutinized.

 

[warhorse78]

As a straight male, young Mel Gibson was a gorgeous mother****er. I would take him over young Hardy.

I so have to agree. Them baby blues, damn.

 

[Schlosser85]

Gibson was a good looking guy at least in his youth, he's a good actor and a good director, and he has heaps of charisma. There's reasons he was a huge movie star.

I still enjoy Gibson as an actor/director.

 

[Spider-Who?]

But you said that most actors get forgotten in 30 years. I can barely remember Mel's stardom because it's so tainted. He hasn't recovered that, and probably won't until he's at Bruce Dern's age.

That makes Mel's situation unique vs. any other actor out there. It was so damaging because he said some hurtful things that beyond his grasp. Now, if you look at Downey, he only hurted himself at the time, but he went out of his way to trash women, and the Jewish and Black community several times. Poor Danny Glover, his former partner!

Eh, Danny seems fine.

...I’ll say this: As I’ve said when people try to get me to throw … say something bad … I love Mel Gibson. That’s all I have to say about that.

...I called Mel on his birthday Jan. 3 and wished him happy birthday.

http://m.startribune.com/entertainment/celebrities/273331971.html

 

[Spider-Who?]

I personally don't think Mel is racist. He has his issues, sure, but I think that the crap he spewed out that got him in hot water was just a drunk who was so pissed that he said the meanest things he could to get a rise out of the situation. I've said stuff when pissed off that had absolutely no bearing on my real thoughts/feelings before, as I'm sure everyone here has. No multiply that by having an addiction problem and dealing with some serious emotional/personal issues...yeah, that's not going to make ANYONE look good. *shrugs* that's my thoughts anyway. I'll reassess them if/when the evidence calls for it.

 

[Octoberist]

whatever it is, his career never recovered. Machete 2 and expendables 3 were more like stunt casting than anything else. And The Beaver was an entertaining failure.

 

[Spider-Who?]

And that is something that pisses me the hell off about Hollywood. You can be a pedophile like Woody Allen or Polanksi, or a woman beater like Sean Penn and still enjoy stellar careers and accolades. But if tou happen to SAY something in a drunk rage, you're the devil. The contradiction is horrific and disgusting.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Hopefully Mel's film with Andrew Garfield works out and we get something great from that.

 

[Schlosser85]

Charlize Theron's Esquire interview shares some pretty candid comments about her onset relationship with Tom Hardy.

“We f–kin’ went at it, yeah. And on other days, he and George [Miller, the director] went at it. It was the isolation, and the fact that we were stuck in a rig for the entire shoot. We shot a war movie on a moving truck — there’s very little green screen. It was like a family road trip that just never went anywhere. We never got anywhere. We just drove. We drove into nothingness, and that was maddening sometimes.

It’s material that’s really frightening — we didn’t have a script. Tom and I are actors who take our jobs seriously. Both of us want to please the directors we work with, and when you don’t know if you can deliver on that, it’s a frightening place to be — and for Tom more than me, because he was stepping into big shoes.

I’d rather have that honesty working with someone than someone who fake-smiles through something — especially for actors, when your job is to go for the emotional truth. When you’re with somebody and you don’t feel like you’re in their emotional truth, then you don’t trust them. I think good actors go all the way. If you want to be a safe actor, and you emotionally protect yourself from things getting out of hand, the performance will show all of that. Anyone who really, really, really goes into the deep dark corners of what emotional truth is, as somebody who works opposite of that, you have to be grateful for that. I beg for that. I beg for that on a job, that potency to the stew that makes it that magic that it is.”

Despite their rocky relationship, Charlize showed the interviewer a gift that Tom left for her in her trailer. It was a self-portrait Hardy painted with a red handprint on the back and an inscription: You are an absolute nightmare, BUT you are also f–king awesome. I’ll kind of miss you. Love, Tommy.

“We drove each other crazy, but I think we have respect for each other, and that’s the difference,” Charlize concludes. “This is the kind of stuff that nobody wants to understand — there’s a real beauty to that kind of relationship.”

https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/gossip/celeb-news/charlize-theron-on-clashing-with--mad-max--co-star-tom-hardy---we-drove-each-other-crazy-231702447.html

 

[Hurm...]

"It’s material that’s really frightening — we didn’t have a script." What does she mean by that exactly?

Great interview - no beating around the bush.