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Mad Max
Aug 14, 2019 11:50:37 GMT -5
Post by johnnypt on Aug 14, 2019 11:50:37 GMT -5
"Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" is a big budget bore. I fear this is something like we would get if Disney would attempt a "Conan" movie. It takes many superficial elements from "The Road Warrior" but it feels like the film makers had no idea what made that movie great. Plus it's rated PG-13 to appeal to the masses. IIRC, the problem with Thunderdome is that Brian May had died shortly before they started making it, and George Miller was so affected by the loss that he agreed to only direct the action scenes, which (SURPRISE!) are by far the best parts of the movie. I think you meant producer Byron Kennedy. His touch was missed, as was composer May's contributions (he's unfortunately no longer with us either, passing in 1997). Looking at George Ogilvie's credits, he directed his scenes in line with the rest of his catalog, general dramas. Not his fault but when you have a film with two directors and two different styles...well, it shows. |
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Mad Max
Aug 14, 2019 12:13:29 GMT -5
Post by andys on Aug 14, 2019 12:13:29 GMT -5
Yes, you're quite right. Byron Kennedy  |
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Mad Max
Aug 14, 2019 21:44:38 GMT -5
Post by Peter on Aug 14, 2019 21:44:38 GMT -5
I grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne, so I agree with you on that score, and I wouldn't live permanently anywhere else. The locations were shot in and around Melbourne and other parts of Victoria, especially in the west of the state ( both inland and along the coast ). Seems most people ( including me ) rate the second Mad Max movie as the best of the bunch. Still liked Beyond Thunderdome, although I also think it had a more generic action movie feel about it, kinda lost some of that Australian character in the process. I knew the movie went by Road Warrior name in the states, but was surprised to learn that the Aussie accents had been dubbed out. I don't get that. Films and tv shows should be left in their original accents, be that American, Australian or British. Read something on a follow up movie after Fury Road called Mad Max: The Wasteland, script only at this point. I am outer suburbs, north of Brisbane, small world Kemp.
They have a script, that is encouraging. I heard somewhere that there was hopefully going to be several sequels, but there was some legal issues with Warner still to clear up. Hopefully that's settled now and they are moving forward with MM: The Wasteland.
I wonder if they will film it here (Australia) this time, as I heard Broken Hill area was too lush and green for the Fury Road filming, so that is why it was filmed in Namibia.
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Mad Max
Aug 14, 2019 21:48:58 GMT -5
Post by Peter on Aug 14, 2019 21:48:58 GMT -5
"Mad Max 2" aka "The Road Warrior" is even better, an undisputable classic of action and science fiction cinema and one of the best movies of the 80s. This is how a Conan movie should be done. The lone hero meets some people, gets entangled in their problems, takes their side at first because he wants something from them but then also because their opponents just piss him off. He kicks a lot of asses and in the end he goes his way, as lonely as he was in the beginning. To the "civilized" people he leaves behind he becomes a legend. Robert E. Howard would have loved this movie.
Very good point Moonlightshadow, I agree wholeheartedly.
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Mad Max
Aug 15, 2019 9:54:39 GMT -5
Post by eja on Aug 15, 2019 9:54:39 GMT -5
MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME has one thing going for it, IMO........Tina Turner in THAT outfit.
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Mad Max
Aug 15, 2019 17:01:58 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Aug 15, 2019 17:01:58 GMT -5
I grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne, so I agree with you on that score, and I wouldn't live permanently anywhere else. The locations were shot in and around Melbourne and other parts of Victoria, especially in the west of the state ( both inland and along the coast ). Seems most people ( including me ) rate the second Mad Max movie as the best of the bunch. Still liked Beyond Thunderdome, although I also think it had a more generic action movie feel about it, kinda lost some of that Australian character in the process. I knew the movie went by Road Warrior name in the states, but was surprised to learn that the Aussie accents had been dubbed out. I don't get that. Films and tv shows should be left in their original accents, be that American, Australian or British. Read something on a follow up movie after Fury Road called Mad Max: The Wasteland, script only at this point. I am outer suburbs, north of Brisbane, small world Kemp.
They have a script, that is encouraging. I heard somewhere that there was hopefully going to be several sequels, but there was some legal issues with Warner still to clear up. Hopefully that's settled now and they are moving forward with MM: The Wasteland.
I wonder if they will film it here (Australia) this time, as I heard Broken Hill area was too lush and green for the Fury Road filming, so that is why it was filmed in Namibia.
Yeah, it was too green after some heavy rains around Broken Hill. A part of me would love to see it shot in Victoria again, but it's been like the Ice Age here of late. |
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Mad Max
Aug 15, 2019 17:07:31 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Aug 15, 2019 17:07:31 GMT -5
MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME has one thing going for it, IMO........Tina Turner in THAT outfit. Not the best antagonist, but definitely the best looking one of all the films in the series. |
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Mad Max
Aug 16, 2019 8:36:18 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Aug 16, 2019 8:36:18 GMT -5
Yeah, it was too green after some heavy rains around Broken Hill. A part of me would love to see it shot in Victoria again, but it's been like the Ice Age here of late. The western suburbs have changed a fair bit since those days, but I still get a Mad Maxy-vibe occasionally while driving through Sunshine and points nearby, especially after dark. ......  So many fellow Aussies on this site. I get that Mad Max feel in Werribee, and around Altona, especially whenever I drive past the refinery.  Link on a few of the locations used in the 1979 Mad Max movie. www.themoviedistrict.com/mad-max/ |
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Mad Max
Aug 16, 2019 18:59:04 GMT -5
Post by Peter on Aug 16, 2019 18:59:04 GMT -5
The old Lakeside racing track is just up the road from me and often there is classic car meet ups there. A few months back I was driving along in the work ute, and one one of the restored yellow XB Interceptors ( not the one pictured) went past me. That was a very surreal moment.
Hello to all fellow Aussies here.  |
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Mad Max
Aug 17, 2019 11:09:10 GMT -5
Post by eja on Aug 17, 2019 11:09:10 GMT -5
Love those Main Force Patrol vehicles. "A few years from now......"
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Mad Max
Aug 17, 2019 16:44:33 GMT -5
Post by jakmon on Aug 17, 2019 16:44:33 GMT -5
The Road Warrior is one of my all-time favorites. Mad Max was okay as a prequel, but the dubbing was atrocious -- the ending made up for it. Thunder Dome was good enough in parts to tie Mad Max for the #2 slot. It's been a while, but the opening scene (handing over all the weapons is always good for a chuckle) and the battle in the dome stand out most there. It must just be me, but I didn't care much Fury Road. Maybe just too biased for the originals and Mel.
Great stuff here:
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Mad Max
Aug 31, 2019 5:58:13 GMT -5
Post by eja on Aug 31, 2019 5:58:13 GMT -5
Fury Road is my least favourite of the MM movies. Not just cos of the absence of Mel Gibson, but I just didn't think the story was very engaging.
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