Movies MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (Dragonlord's Review)

[taurus]

RIP you magnificent bastard.

You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

 

[nonoob]

Cool video, Long before Mad Max: Fury Road (starring Tom Hardy) and Furiosa, George Miller made Mad Max for $350,000.

 

[Zer]

Cool video, Long before Mad Max: Fury Road (starring Tom Hardy) and Furiosa, George Miller made Mad Max for $350,000.

tbf back when the originals were made, Australia was even more of a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of violent marauding gangs than it is today. So all you had to do was buy a camera and pay a large tribute to the Lord Humungus to film in his territory

 

[blaseblase]

The original Mad Max is the least interesting movie in the franchise. It barely seems post-apocalyptic at all.

 

[fingercuffs]

Didn't enjoy it, it was really slow to begin with. I loved Fury Road.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

The original Mad Max is the least interesting movie in the franchise. It barely seems post-apocalyptic at all.

Its not actually Post Apoc in the original but a bit into the future with society starting to break down but not fully there.

Interesting really though how much the Max franchise wasnt much planned, the original was only put "in the near future" because they could only afford to film in a very run down area on the outskirts of Melbourne, The Road Warrior was originally an idea for a non Max film about a refinary being defended which got shifted into a Max film to get funding, Beyond Thunderdromes section with the kids was also an idea for a non Max film which got shifted into one.

 

[armbarforhire]

the first one is the only one I like. Never really clicked with the mad max films.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Its not actually Post Apoc in the original but a bit into the future with society starting to break down but not fully there.

Interesting really though how much the Max franchise wasnt much planned, the original was only put "in the near future" because they could only afford to film in a very run down area on the outskirts of Melbourne, The Road Warrior was originally an idea for a non Max film about a refinary being defended which got shifted into a Max film to get funding, Beyond Thunderdromes section with the kids was also an idea for a non Max film which got shifted into one.

Franchises were not planned back in those days.

 

[HenryFlower]

Franchises were not planned back in those days.

what?

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

what?

What i wrote, random improvisation from day one.

 

[HenryFlower]

What i wrote, random improvisation from day one.

yeah, that’s simply not true

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

yeah, that’s simply not true

1979, outside of the Godfather maybe what franchise was actually planned in those days they way they are planned today?

 

[HenryFlower]

1979, outside of the Godfather maybe what franchise was actually planned in those days they way they are planned today?

they’re kinda obscure, but here’s a few off the top of my head:
007
The Pink Panther
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
The Evil Dead
Rambo

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

they’re kinda obscure, but here’s a few off the top of my head:
007
The Pink Panther
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
The Evil Dead
Rambo

It is an Aussie movie. It might have been more common than i assumed.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Franchises were not planned back in those days.

it was just starting to get to the point were they might be, Jaws 2 and Empire Strikes Back were being made just prior to Road Warrior.

I suspect thats probably why it turned into a Max film, studios were starting to wake up to the potential of sequels and offered Miller funding to turn his script into a Max film.

 

[StewDogg11]

The original Mad Max is the least interesting movie in the franchise. It barely seems post-apocalyptic at all.

That’s because it’s not. It’s set “in the near future”.

 

[StewDogg11]

I rewatched Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome last night and man this could’ve been a classic if they would’ve stayed in Bartertown the whole time and scrapped the whole Peter Pan ripoff storyline.