Furiosa (2024) (2 Viewers)

[Tino]

Or... they just don't care about that continuity.

Has Miller never chimed in on the topic? It must've come up in interviews.

Maybe Mel’s Max hooked up with some wasteland Sheila and voila. Max Rockatansky junior.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Thunderdome was (I believe, due to the success of MM2) the first to have some Hollywood money behind it, and so looks a little more polished than the more shoestring-budgeted previous entries.

It doesn’t quite have the consistent action of MM2 or Fury Road, but I do like the interlude with the lost children where he becomes a messiah figure (wait… sounds like Dune! ).

The Thunderdome fight sequence is pretty good, and the end chase with the train is thrilling. For those who came in after watching MM2 and expecting the same energy, Thunderdome may disappoint. But the production design and fashions become even more retro-punkish! And it has Tina Turner!

I also like the final shots… showing a devastated Sydney. Pretty haunting when I lived there and know the landmarks.

I enjoy Thunderdome more than most people in this thread.

 

[jayembee]

I love all the Mad Max films but would rate them as follows.

Fury Road
Road Warrior
Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max

I'd switch the first two around, but otherwise...spot on...

 

[jayembee]

and of course the original Mad Max is the only one where he’s truly “mad”

Well, they were originally planning to call it Just a Smidge Put-Out Max, but that didn't play well with focus groups.

 

[Joe Wong]

Well, they were originally planning to call it Just a Smidge Put-Out Max, but that didn't play well with focus groups.

Good point!

Even Slightly Peeved Max was too much of a mouthful.

For familiarity and connectivity, they retained "Mad Max" in the title of the other 3 films (Road Warrior was simply Mad Max 2 in Australia), but I would argue he's not as crazy in those films as he was at the end of Mad Max.

 

[jayembee]

Though the fact that the original Mad Max was set "a few years from now", and this prequel to Fury Road is set "45 years after the collapse" provides further evidence that Mel Gibson's Max and Tom Hardy's Max are not the same man.

Perhaps. I don't really worry about it. Then again...

They're all so different from one another that it's hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison. I will say that Beyond Thunderdome is definitely the worst, though.

Well, the thing is that the original three movies make a terrific trilogy. In the first one, Max loses his humanity. In the second, Max regains his humanity. In the third, he becomes a Messiah figure.

I was never really interested in a fourth one because I wasn't convinced there was anywhere to take the character from there. And, with that in mind, it actually took me a few years to finally watch the thing. That Fury Road took the franchise in a different direction, away from Max himself, was it's saving grace.

 

[Jeff Cooper]

Well, they were originally planning to call it Just a Smidge Put-Out Max, but that didn't play well with focus groups.

I think Sad Max would have been appropriate.

 

[Alex...]

New Dementus Pic

 

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[Jake Lipson]

Cinemark is showing all four previous Mad Max films this month.

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The Mad Max saga is coming back to theatres. Watch all 4 Mad Max movies in Cinemark theaters during this March. So start your engines, we see you in Valhalla!

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[jayembee]

<< In #Furiosa, @chrishemsworth's new warlord Dementus is “a pretty horrible individual,” he tells Empire. But “it’s not just sadistic insanity. There's real purpose, the wheels are turning, he’s ten steps ahead of everyone else.” >>

So, in other words, not Thor.

 

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[Bryan^H]

Looks like this will be the choice for my annual theater visit.

 

[Joe Wong]

Wow. Yes.

 

[JimmyO]

HOLY HELL. wtf was that??

Ok. You got me.

 

[Chuck Mayer]

I haven't watched the new trailer. But those were my responses to the first Fury Road trailer, so that brings me a lot of joy. I'll probably cave and watch this trailer, but maybe I can hold out until release day.

 

[Jake Lipson]

So, in other words, not Thor.

Hemsworth has done a great job playing the villain before. See Bad Times at the El Royale for example. (Most people haven't seen it. But I really liked that movie.)