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Couldn't find the other thread about this. I just saw the new Mad Max movie and I have to say it sucked. I liked the old Mel Gibson Mad Max movies but this new one had no story line at all. Max spent most of the movie as a blood donor too. The vehicles were rediculous not post apocalyptic cool but just plain senseless and stupid. I was very disappointed.

The original post was of my origin, and I couldn't agree more, I was disappointed and felt it sucked too. The underlying plot line was a futuristic aberration of GloBull Warming. How did you like the women who crawled out of the belly pan of that semi tractor, looking like they were prepped and and ready for a fashion runway in Paris, or the bungee corded flamethrowing guitar player, playing riffs between spouts of fossil fueled fire, so realistic and believable? Anyway, a percentage of the younger generation seemed to like it, as is their right to do so. I wanted my money back.

Nothing about any mad max movie was realistic. A group of kids living in a green canyon out in a desert waste land? Come on. A hand full of gay bikers marauding the post apocalyptic world in which a single civilized colony of innocents salvaged an oil refinery, and they managed to escape with one bus load of fuel? Mad max is about glamorizing a societal break down and a mad hero who manages to rescue all but himself. It's not a depiction of any real possibility.

I mean really, ya recon a xb Falcon gt from the 70s would be the badest assed car to survive the apocalypse?

I haven't seen the new Mad Max.
All these sequels/prequels etc try too hard.
Same with the Rambo stuff.Mad Max the original was ok movie.As was "First blood", the book and original Rambo.Rocky's another example.
When it gets to "Rocky part 17" Or "Rambo saves the world"
Or "Mad max when he was a boy" the makers have lost the plot, and try to keep making them "Bigger than Ben Hur" as the saying goes,more stunts etc. to get the people into the money making exercise.

The old Mad Max at least had a story line behind it, this was just pointless. None of them were realistic but the first 3 were enjoyable and Max had a whole back story and you could understand him and how he came to be who he was. This new one gives you nothing except some disjointed flashbacks. I kind of liked the truck load of kettle drums pounding away as they drove.

Kind of like the previews I have seen of the new Fantastic 4, while some of it looks cool they didn't bother to follow the story, the new human torch is black and the invisible woman is white!? How does that work? Johnny and Sue Storm are brother and sister!

they put a different spin on it, She is adopted and his family is black..... but I really could not figure out why they had to do it that way. I watched the movie and its not worth going to see or even buying for that matter, total piece of crap movie, so was mad max. man I watched the originals and even some of the earlier versions so many times they were fun films.

Straight Outta Compton was a fantastic movie, I'll watch it again

Mad max was too unrealistic but fantastic four, you liked? I'm lost.

What I liked about mad max, stunts lots and lots of them real stunts not cg, takes skill and talent to do stunts .

I only just saw the trailer for Mad Max a couple of days ago. The commercial looked so bad I never even considered going to it at the theatre! And changing the premise of Fantastic Four is just stupid. (Same as my criticism of the newest Star Trek, where they totally changed the premise. And I took a beating here for that!)

I thought Thunderdome was the best. Specially the management team of the powerstation in the basement.

,"The Madness of King George 111".
So, what happened to the prequels for this one?
Al

As long as we are doing movie reviews I would like to say that the Man from Uncle was good fun set in the 60's,lots of cool cars and hot chicks.

How did it compare to the original?

Ain't no new ideas comming outta hollywierd. All remakes and sequals and prequals. I thought homosexual liberals were supposed to be creative and artistic.