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I went to the movies tonight and watched the biggest turkey of a movie since "Heavens Gate". I hope just the complete cast (the acting was fine) was from down under and no Australian Movie company produced it, 'cause if they did, they should be nationally ashamed. It was just that bad.

Did you ever watch the original Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson?

Wondering how it would compare to the originals...

Wow, I guess it goes to show everybody sees things differently. I saw the show and got a kick out of it, hard to follow but the action was terrific and the machines were way cool.IMHO. P.S. I never saw the original.

I think most movies now are made for twenty-somethings that are like, shallow, and like, ya know, like stoned and like, ya know, sorta like cool movie a bad ass like movie, man.
I gave up on movies 10 years ago.
I miss the days of :
Ben -hur
Dr. Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Fiddler on the Roof

Haven't seen it but I want to, I always wait for movies to come out on disc.I figure any movie is worth the $2 it costs me at Redbox. The previews looked cool.

we need a smart arse on here as a standard with which to judge normal responses.

wheee !

Dwight we know why you're popular over at TCM, because you hobnob with movie stars. I've seen photographic proof on this forum.

So why you hanging out over here , bawahaha

I haven't seen this version, Yet, but I seem to recall that I and most of my friends from then and now were in there twenties at the time the original came out. It was raw and violent for the time. There wasn't a Hope in Hades you would have dragged most parents (who We are now) out to see it.

Let the box office decide on this one and as with many sequels it doesn't fly then it won't be rated along with some of the previous mentioned films. I don't think the original would be either except for its timing and raw nature.

I haven't seen the movie ,but I find most re-makes or prequels or what ever aren't up to par.
Planet of the apes for a recent instance.While technically much better, the new version wasn't a patch on old Charleton Hestons version .

There ARE a few good movies around, but only occasionally. I LOVED the original Lord of the Rings films. (The latest installments were not very good) All of the Star Wars installments. The movie "300" was very good, I watched it at least three times. It really captured "heroism" in war, even if the history wasn't real accurate. And finally, Clooneys "O Brother Where Art Thou?". Pure quality!

I loved "O Brother where art thou" raced out and bought the DVD straight away.
It's a retelling of the "Iliad".

My girlriend and I went and seen Mad Max this past Saturday night. We both loved it. It fell right in line with the other ones. Yes, it was over the top but that fits in with the narrative. All of the movies except for the first one are told decades later from the perspective of the people who encountered "The Road Warrior" . When I started looking at them that way, as stories and legends being passed down, I was able to appreciate them a lot more.

Yeah, the guy that was chained to the swing on the front of the semi tractor with the double necked, flame throwing guitar, all the while doing rock riffs 'tween shooting fire really did it for me. Or the scantily clad, hair, makeup perfect and not a smudge of dirt anywhere, young ladies who crawled out of that truck s secret hiding place in the belly pan, just screamed realism (sarc). I like sci-fi, fantasy, movies, Guardians of the Galaxy pulled a lot of unlikely to happen BS, but they managed to make it work, it can be done. This movie didn't make it work for me, the plot needed things that just wasn't there. I should have caught it during the Matinee price time frame, and I wouldn't be so irked. At least a lot of stuntmen got some work, there I said something positive.

pyrotechnics are just a diversion from a ridiculous disjointed story.
rapid fire full auto 1911' s at 500 rounds per minute
Hayabusa doin' a stoppie up the side of a high rise with a muscle dude holdin' a .50 cal BMG in one hand.
Oh boy. Reality.

No new ideas in all of hollywierd. All them creative type liberals can't come up with one original movie idea.

hence the sequel part 2, 3, 4 and the remakes, which are a disaster

I never understood the whole gay biker thing in the originals. WTF??

There is another Australian road orientated movie that came out a few years later "The Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert" The gay theme in a that one is a little more obvious.

Talking about great movies, Mr. Roberts should be added to that list. I just watched it again and we can also add Father Goose.