Everything You Need to Know About Mad Max

[Rot_At_The_Root]

OK, who cast Rosie Huntington-Whitely in a movie again? Did the casting agent not see the Transformers movie? She was fucking awful in that, worse than Megan Fox (and that's saying something). Did she do a movie or something that i've not seen that proves she has more acting ability than a disinterested stick insect?

 

[THM]

I primarily used that link instead since the idiot review in question doesn't deserve any traffic. It was the first one I was able to come upon, so...

I respect that you don't like the RoK review, but I'm not sure the review you did link to was any better - at least the RoK one didn't insult any other reviewers while reviewing the movie.

Whatever RoK's gender politics may be, the point about the titular character being pushed into the background is a valid one, and certainly bears discussion.

 

[soren7550]

3: As the article noted, the movie was made on a shoestring budget and still made $100 million (which was a hell of a lot in 1979). Assuming the 1/250 that the author states is true, that means the movie made a 25000% profit. That is INSANE.

My half assed digging reveals that MM was made on a $350,000-$400,000 budget (according to the director, but IMDb says it was done with $650,000, but also cites the $350,000 claim), and my nearly non existent math skills say 'ehhh, 25000% profit is right, maybe, I dunno how to do percents or fractions'.

 

[Ogoid]

I think I will be giving Circe de Mad Max a miss.

Im 50 years old next year and Im gonna show my age for a change. Mad Max 1 was a gritty, well conceived action/suspense drama that was ahead of its time in many ways. Its an excellent movie that still holds up well today, in fact its even more believable and living in Australia, the places it was filmed look just like Miller tried to portray them back then. His future has been all but realised.

Circe de Mad Max however builds on the utter nonsense of Thunderdome. A future where the last few drop of fuel are blown out the end of a flaming guitar by a guy in assless chaps. Its so incoherent as to be comedic. Its a future that will never be realised unless there happens to be an excess of oil, hockey masks and makeup after the apocalypse.

Damn shame really.

This sums up exactly my thoughts.

Mad Max and Mad Max 2 were fantastic movies, which rode on low budgets, raw creativity and pure grit.

Thunderdome... eh, it had its moments, I guess, but the least said about it, the better.

This? This looks like someone threw every bit of Max-inspired media from the last three decades (minus, possibly, the first two movies themselves) into a blender, and then sprinkled the result liberally with CGI and as much silly and over-the-top as possible. It seems to be exactly what I feared - Thunderdome 2: Louder, Campier and Sillier.

I'm definitely giving this one a wide berth, and this is coming from a life-long Max fan.

Damn shame indeed.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Road Warrior is my favorite of the 3, because of how over-the-top the evil biker gang under Lord Humungous were. I don't remember much of the first movie, and I almost forgot that movie's villain was called Toecutter. But like this article said, it was light on plot.

captcha: Sugar Mama
Now THAT sounds like a Mad Max character!