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Now this looks very, very cool.  Tom Hardy as Mad Max!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road)

Mad Max: Fury Road Official Comic-Con Trailer (2015) - Tom Hardy Post-Apocalypse Movie HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdLl1GVjOrc#ws)

(Edited because original YouTube URL was made private.  Updated link contains same material as original.)

Wow, I never even knew they were considering making another one. Perhaps I can have the rare opportunity of an action movie to be proud of with this one

It is super rad looking.  I'm trying really hard not to get too excited but really that trailer hits all the buttons for me.  And the fact that it's being touted as essentially mostly car chase?  Amazing idea.  Only negative is that I think that there was a rumour around town that they needed to do re-shoots which is normally not a great sign.  We shall see. But what I see so far is amazing.

I would have predicted the next Mad Max movie would have been a direct-to-DVD feature directed by Albert Pyun.

The manga and anime Fist of the North Star was considerably inspired by the Mad Max movies, so to see the immense chase scenes in the new Mad Max makes me yearn for a similarly high level Fist of the North Star movie.  The Gary Daniels version wasn't exactly the best.

And how do I embed YouTube videos???  I could do it a while ago, but something is different now.

Take out the s of the https at the start.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Official Comic-Con Trailer (2015) [HD] Tom Hardy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnPg2_Y_UI#ws)

Thank god it's made in Australia and not Hollywood.   :thumbup:

Official teaser trailer. This thing looks as goofy as all hell. :cheers:
Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Theatrical Teaser Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c#ws)

I'll be there, when it comes to a theater near where I live.

I am skeptical of reboots, which is what this looks like. I see a mish-mash of The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). However, I am also skeptical of movie trailers, so while the explosions and car chases look cool in short, edited clips, as a long-time fan of all the Mad Max movies (the first one is still my favorite) I know that the stories were just as important as the action. So again, I hope that this reboot isn't what it looks like here in the trailer, which appears to be a mix of the 2nd and 3rd movies. As a dedicated fanboy, I want a brand new story, not a rehash of something that I grew up with as a child.  :cheers:

The response to this has been really surprising to me, people seem to either hate or love the idea of it. I was never a huge fan of the originals but I did always really enjoy watching them

It's hard to see anyone but Mel Gibson as Max, especially since I only know Tom Hardy from Star Trek:  Nemesis. 

Other than that the only thing bothering me is that the cars look like they were designed by concept artists, and not practical effects guys slamming real car parts together.  That may be more a criticism of new concept artists vs old concept artists however.  There's something going on here that is hard to put a finger on - Jalopnik had an article examining the Star Wars Episode VII trailer that made what I thought was an insightful point - everything looks like it's rounded and simplified so it will be easier to manufacture the toys.  That may be true but I'm afraid it's also because the new generation of concept artists may be drawing most of their influence from toys and Apple products.  I'm picturing guys who spent their childhoods indoors playing with action figures and gaming, spent a few years learning digital painting in college and then got a job in the industry.  Guys who didn't get outdoors and learn the sensibility of functional things people actually build in real life.  There's a hedge hog car, a truck covered in speakers - these things seem too cartoonish to me.  There's a point where you've gone over the top.  I feel like the new Mad Max looks more like a caricature of the old Mad Max than a plausible reality.   

I look forward to the inevitable Syfy/Asylum mockbuster!

Furry Road?

Haha, me too. I've not seen it personally, but I've heard that their mockbuster of I Am Legend ( I Am Omega ) is pretty good by asylum standards. They could probably even tie that in as it's a general post apocalyptic theme.

I bought I Am Omega because 1. I am a huge Mark Dacascos fan and 2. I did not know it was an Asylum film.  It's probably one of the worst films Mark has been in.  Truly.  If that is 'good by Asylum standards' then I shudder to think what the bad ones are like.

I like it when a trailer makes me break out into a huge goofy grin. :tongueout:

It just keeps looking better and better.

Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Main Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJnMQG9ev8#ws)

This is the movie I'm most excited to see this year. Fun Fact: It comes out on my brother's birthday.

I think it looks amazing.

Basically, I'm hoping it is the Raid: Redemption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raid:_Redemption) with cars. I don't want a story. I want insanely technical car chases and explosions for an hour and a half. In 3-D.

If that happens, "what a lovely day!"

Then, your brother's birthday is May 15. That is when it opens here in the U.S.

Not that many films I care to see this year, but that is one film I am looking forward to seeing, and May 15 is not that far away.

anybody seen it?

http://youtu.be/nvlVDXXBOzE (http://youtu.be/nvlVDXXBOzE)

I liked it... but...

I think it was just a smidge away from being the best of all the Max movies, but blew it. The thing I liked about Mad Max was its vision of scavenger societies made up of roaming bands of warlords. The action sequences were always great, but they were just the frosting.

This one is too much frosting, not enough cake. It needed to slow down and explore the mythology and sociology of the Citadel more. We got tantalizing hints of the way this society was organized. but too much was left to the imagination in favor of another chase scene. I actually felt a tiny bit cheated.

Plus the guy with the double-necked guitar/flamethrower was the single dumbest and most pandering image in a mainstream movie in the past decade. Miller seemed to put it in to remind us that this movie is aimed at teenagers, and if you're an adult you should probably be a bit ashamed of yourself for enjoying this.

Still a lot of fun, Charlize Theron was good, action sequences great, setting very good if not explored as much as I'd like.

All in all I'll give it 4/5, third best of the Max movies (all of which are above average).

I said this in another thread and I'll repeat it here. The Main issue I had with this film was that I simply didn't care about the characters, and therefore what happened.

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I cared when she died.

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I cared when he died.

The list keeps going. With Fury Road I simply didn't care when anything happened with these characters.

Ok this link is just for LOLZ so please don't take this seriously, I sure didn't.

http://www.donotlink.com/framed?704311 (http://www.donotlink.com/framed?704311)

Watched it two days ago; enjoyed it immensely.

I thought Theron did an outstanding job, great role.  Guy who played Max did well -- laconic, appropriately intense.
The action and practical effects were consistently excellent, and the movie was wonderfully over the top in moments.

my honest reaction re:  the guy playing the flamethrower electric guitar:  it was fine.  Yeeeeesh. 

This movie was f**kIN' GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!  No bulls**t, just loads of what we came to see!

Give Hugh Keyes-Byrne an Oscar for the line about water addiction alone!

I am really looking forward this movie, but here in Japan it is delayed until the 20th of june...

I positively adore this movie! It surpassed all my expectations that I made earlier in this thread a while ago about the trailers, which reiterates my point about how much that I do not trust movie trailers; they are like polls versus actual electoral votes, they don't mean anything aside from getting your attention. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the 3rd best Mad Max movie, behind Mad Max (1979) and The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2 (1981), respectively.

Things I loved about the movie: I loved Charlize Theron, who is my favorite of all the hot movie actresses out there in that she can actually act as well as look good, even in movies that suck. I thoroughly enjoyed the intense action sequences and practical effects. I like Tom Hardy as the new Mad Max character, however...

Things I didn't like about the movie: Mad Max is a wallflower in this movie, as opposed to the proverbial hood ornament that the character is in the other three films; I would have liked to see more out of Tom Hardy, who gave Bane more life in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) from behind a mask than he gave Max in this movie, though I loved the "Gladiator" look that he had through the first act. It didn't explore the wasteland world effectively like the original trilogy did. Some of the action was akin to sensory overload, almost as if George Miller knew that there wasn't much of a plot to the film so he was trying to distract us with a whole bunch of explosions and car crashes, though he is still a master of the film editing process; nobody edits a movie better than George Miller! And finally, the SPOILER; I didn't like the happy ending. The original trilogy all had either gloomy or otherwise suspenseful and open endings, like you didn't know what was going to happen to them after that, while in Fury Road we have a pretty good idea that things are going to be okay in this potentially utopian society with the heroes welcome at the Citadel.

Things that are irrelevant: The whole "Feminist Road" controversy crap. I saw this movie on opening night, before I read that silly article, and I did not ever once get any kind of feminazi message out of this film, and this is coming from a guy who cannot stand feminazis. As tough as Charlize Theron is in this movie, I never once asked myself "who let her out of the kitchen?" I thought the bits where Furiosa was barking orders at Mad Max were pretty funny actually, and whoever wrote that "Feminist Road" article obviously never watched Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), else he would have known that Aunty Entity did it long before Furiosa came around.

Things to ponder: Irony, in that Tom Hardy wore a Bane mask in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) while his nemesis Hugh Keyes-Byrne wears a Bane mask in this movie.

Overall, a great movie and easily the best action movie of the year, if only for the practical effects. And I don't care what anybody else says, the flamethrower electric guitar guy was a badass!  :cheers:

Saw it last night. Enjoyed it thoroughly.

On the other hand, it's been a long time since a movie gave me weird, stressful, post-apocalyptic dreams.

Sigh... I got those pretty much everytime I read about the environment :( We need more movies like that!

I am really growing impatient to see this movie!

As an Australian I gotta say, It helped strengthen our economy a bit ;)

Well to be fair it was shot in Namibia for the most part. But still, Miller, Sixel and Seale are national treasures. Especially because at one point I heard a character yell 'Fang It' which is probably the most bogan Australian thing I've heard on a big budget blockbuster in a while.

I saw Mad Max with my wife's uncle a few weeks ago. It was awesome! I would even say it was 10x better then Road Warrior (which we saw a few weeks earlier just to get ready to watch Mad Max)... and a Million times better then Thunder Dome (although, I think that story was screwed up because they wanted to make it PG-13)...

A must watch movie for any Mad Max fan :)

anything is better than I AM LEGEND-the genaric zombies were boring-gimme Vincent Price ( the LAST MAN ON EARTH) or Charleton Heston any day.
That being said-I am excited about this-being the original director is at the helm-and NO CGI! Real stunts! :thumbup:

I find this a little surprising.  After rewatching Road Warrior right before Fury Road, while I find the characters relatively likable, most of them have absolutely minimal screen time. I think the unnamed woman has like 4 lines of dialogue, and even Pappagallo has like 10.  Neither has an arc or any development, whereas the three leads in Fury Road all do.  I guess that doesn't mean they're LIKABLE though, maybe that's the problem?

I will say my favorite character in any of the films is still the Gyro Captain though.   :teddyr:

definitely one of the best movie ive ever seen,the action is non stop an put together very well,the vehicles were off the hook,incredible scenes throughout,never seen an action film with this much action and intensity,should win a few awards,10/10

Ok, I watched it again and I liked it more.  I think I may have just been so against the idea when I first watched it that I ruined the movie for myself.  There are still some things I don't like, but that's just because of stuff they do for 3D.  Other than that, I liked the movie more.


Yup, my favorite character as well.

I'm getting late for this thread!  :bouncegiggle:

Seriously, this movie rocked. I had my reservations when I first saw the trailers, because the look didn't seem right for a Mad Max film, but I left the theatre as a new convert.

It's Mad Max and it is not. I'ts souped up, distilled, matured. Remade rather than added another chapter. Gotta love how George Miller made a film that's essentially an extended chase but at the same time managed to give "the crazies" some depth. Not only in the character of the "crazy" that ends up in Max' side, but also with visual details as surreal as the guitar player in the convoy or the altar full of steering wheels.

So yes, it's more a Furiosa film than a Max one, but we already knew enough of him already so... no need for him to do anything more than defending order once more -even if his fight is even more hopeless than in his previous adventures- and walk towards the sunset, hopefully to another V-8 and further hit and runs.

It's OK for an action movie, and not as good as Road Warrior.

Wait a sec... the Mad Max series takes place after a nuclear war? 

Huh, I thought it was just how Australians acted on the weekend...