It did look different, spoiler was different.
I'd say this movie fits in well with the others. Not sure where in the chronology, but who cares? It rocked!
Mad Max: Fury Road
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It did look different, spoiler was different.
I'd say this movie fits in well with the others. Not sure where in the chronology, but who cares? It rocked!
jye4ever
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And what was your verdict?
I'm still having Mel Gibson separation issues, these are not the reviews you're looking for, move along.
I also don't think he could have regressed to leaving innocent (and pregnant!) women to die in the desert if this was supposed to be the same guy that crashed into Tina Turner's motorcade so that the kids could escape. But hey, that's just my take, if you want it to fit and say that he went back and restored his old Interceptor wreck or something why not? That'd certainly be an interesting way to look at it.
I feel like I've known about "Fury Road" for years and years. Was Gibson originally supposed to star in this in the 90's?
I feel like I've known about "Fury Road" for years and years. Was Gibson originally supposed to star in this in the 90's?
batfan08
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I hope this movie gets people checking out the older ones, and then, with any luck, the Borderlands generation will become Mel Gibson fans, and then, he can go back to making movies again, because, stupid **** be damned, he's a ****ing great actor.
**** McGee is right.
There was mention of a prequel comic Miller wrote where he explains how he got his interceptor back prior to Fury Road. Apparently it also references the Thunder Dome. But I haven't read it myself.
I'm still having Mel Gibson separation issues, these are not the reviews you're looking for, move along.
I kept trying to imagine Gibson in the film as I was watching it. It was almost painful to see the Interceptor show up again in the last sequence and not have him jump into it and take the wheel again.
Then why the **** didn't he just hire Mel again? Old Mel and young(ish) Charlize would have been a great pair. So we are supposed to believe that he becomes greatly hardened after Thunderdome. Interesting.
Maybe he didn't want the film to take place 30 years after Thunder Dome? Or maybe Mel was too toxic for the producers to go for it and to give him that budget? Or maybe he wanted to actively jumpstart a new franchise, and knew he needed fresher blood for that? Who knows? He apparently was planning to do a Max with Mel in the early 2000s that got railroaded because of 9/11.
Deckard
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Okay so my memory was somewhat correct on that. I wondered if Waterworld originally killed Fury Road. Seems like it would have been equally devastating to the genre as 9/11,
Deckard
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f that weren’t enough, Mel Gibson was set to reprise his role as Max Rockatansky, but had to exit the big-budget project after his well-publicized anti-Semitic tirade. And to answer your question, no, Gibson was never slated to cameo in Fury Road.
“Never for Mel,” says Miller. “It would be like having Sean Connery turning up in Daniel Craig’s James Bond movie. It would pull everyone out of the movie when you’re trying to get them into it.”
“Never for Mel,” says Miller. “It would be like having Sean Connery turning up in Daniel Craig’s James Bond movie. It would pull everyone out of the movie when you’re trying to get them into it.”
That's an interesting article, but the comment about why Mel wasn't involved doesn't reference a source.
Deckard
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We were going to do it with Mel and we were within reach of doing it with Mel. Then 9/11 happened and the American dollar fell against the Australian dollar. The budget ballooned. ... By the time we were ready for Fury Road again, Mel had all those troubles. It also definitely got to the stage where it wasn't like Unforgiven, where it plays with an older guy. It was definitely the younger guy, the same guy.
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Deckard
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So sounds like it was his personal issues plus age, by the time it actually got around to being produced.
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I have not seen this yet do don't hold it against me, but I was wondering why even go back to Max? Miller could have focused on someone else in the same world. Like I said I have not seen it yet, but I heard the movie is great. Still, the only image that comes to mind when I hear the name Mad Max is Mel Gibson standing alone on the road at the end of Road Warrior.
The Clown Prince of Crime
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So Osama Binladen is responsible for Mel not playing Max? I'm so glad he was shot in the face and dumped in the ocean.
I guess for the same reason they keep going back to James Bond when one actor gets too old. They could have the next guy play some other spy but with the title character they've got an established icon.
And I suppose I can understand them not wanting to stretch too much what Max could do if he was "old." Flying around on those poles with trucks exploding underneath him might not have gone over well with audiences if it wasn't an actor closer to his "prime." It's just kind of a shame that since Hugh Keays-Byrne could return despite his age that Mel couldn't as well. But again, I realize that Immortan Joe didn't have to do all the flying around and hand to hand combat.
Deckard
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Yep, the ol' Megatron treatment.
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