I just saw an ad for the Mad Max remake. Not sure how I feel about it. Those are some of my favourite movies. The movie looks like it will really capture the desert's beauty, but he ad looked very much like an ad for just about any action movie nowadays: car chases, slow-mo action, half-naked girls. Kinda run of the mill. I want to like this, but I'm just not excited.

Didn't see the ad, but my general stance is that if a movie was good the first time, then a remake can't make it any better.

There's a Mad Max remake now?

*facepalms*

most movies these days seem to be books or remakes of older movies, retelling of stories and very little originality.

Mad Max? It gets worse... Another Hitman film based off the games is being made ;)

I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt since it's being done by the same person who did the original.

I agree that it looks more "typical" than what the originals looked like, but modes change and you're not going to get a successful theatrical release of an action film that sticks to the same budget restrained aesthetic as the originals.

There certainly seems to be a bit more meat to whatever story they seem to be suggesting they will tell, or at least they're trying to make it appear as such.

Still, it might end up being a terrible movie anyway.  Guess we'll have to wait and see.

I greatly enjoyed the evil dead remake. other then that they are usually so so and barely worth watching. That being said: Dr. Dolittle(1 ignore the others), Flubber. I forget any other good remakes.

I think if we're talking good remakes, I have to mention Scarface. Not everyone realises the Al Pacino version (which is amazing IMO and one of my fave films) is a remake of an older gangster film.

so is the ocean's eleven with Pitt, Clooney, and Damon.  And I think it's a lot more entertaining than the original.  Heck, The man with no name trilogy is a remake of the great yojimbo series, and those are some of the best westerns ever.
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In reply to cero1 (msg # 8):

Yes it was, I new the producer. Their Anniversay Ed. gives that info.

I think this is a re-imaging of the Mad Max mythos. Not a sequel as some are saying, or a remake. From what I've seen of the trailer, it is borrowing heavily from The Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but not enough to make it look like a remake. Two things that stood out and make me think this is the Interceptor gets destroyed (happened in the second film) and the Tanker clip looks alot like the first movie, in addition to the freak shows that are driving.

From what I can see it's not a remake, it's a different chapter or something.

My thoughts:

Warning, trailer spoiler!

Seriously, this is a thread about the trailer, there may be some spoilers about the trailer here.  Also, this post is specifically about the trailer so there are definitely going to be trailer spoilers.

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What happened to the movie trailer, and why am I watching a Geico commercial?
Oh, he's having some sort of seizure?  I'm not sure why he did a little foot stomp there.  By the way, we're already 1/4 of the way through the trailer and pretty much nothing has happened.
Ooh, they've having a color drive, the happiest 5k on the planet!
Hmm, Mad Max's car is destroyed, he tries to crawl away but is captured and is forced to stumble behind a vehicle.  I call shenanigans.  No way are these crazy guys that have apparently been hunting him going to drive slowly enough for Max to stumble behind them instead of getting dragged.
Luckily there's a woman with no hair.  She's probably the 2nd protagonist other than Max.  I'm going to call her Sheena, because Sheena Is A Punk Rocker Now (bonus points if you get the reference).
Someone gets shaved.  Someone gets a massive tattoo.  Maybe it's Max maybe it's Sheena.

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No lumps No [something]
Two good eyes No [something]
Pies OK  Genitals intact
Multiple  Scars    Heals  Fast

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[something] Road Warrior [something]
the powder [something]
           psychmotive???
           muzzled

Some guy is chained, has a stick in his mouth, shirtless hairless people are working him over.  Maybe he's the person with the tattoo.  He's apparently Max, although since the people working him over obviously have the technology and ability to shave things, if they're going to cut his hair off I don't know why they wouldn't go whole hog and just shave him bald instead of trimming his formerly lanky hair into a nice short haircut.
Name recognition.
Pointless scene meant to inspire us with the amazing visual effects and immense natural beauty/awesomeness of where this is getting filmed.  Yes, yes, get on with it.
Max? is chained in front of a car being driven by the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.
Lots of people fighting, lots dying, the Pale Man has many relatives.
Porcupine car is destroyed.
Naked (well, almost) womens!
Sheena gets to say something -- the first person other than Max to say something.  "Go!"
Lots of bald people.  Seriously, I don't know why they wouldn't just shave Max's head instead of giving him a nice military-like short on the sides and long on top haircut.
2015
The porcupine car gets destroyed again.
Giant clouds with lightning!  Maybe there's mutants now who control the weather, otherwise several scenes just make no sense.  Storm should be right at home in this world.
More of the porcupine car!
And someone has a gun!
And there's a car doing a stunt!
And more naked (almost) women!
And Pale Men relatives!
And the porcupine car gets destroyed again, but from yet another angle!
Max and Sheena smile at each other.  He gives her (presumably) a thumbs up.  Great, I was worried she wouldn't cut it, but now she has validation from the male lead.
Some dude wearing a hat that blows in the wind on the sides and which looks suspiciously like a turbine stands up and holds guns out to the side.  Apparently Middle Eastern-themed bad guys are still going strong in future movies.
Some dark-skinned woman has a metal arm!
And someone's shifter has a screaming metal skull on it!
And someone is driving a manual transmission car (it has a clutch pedal)!
And he pushes the gas pedal down all the way!
The weird whippy antennas are apparently there so Pale Men relatives can be chained up then lowered down to snatch people out of another car... and they grab a woman!
Sheena is totally broken hearted about something.  It's ok, Sheena, you're the female lead, so Hollywood says it's part of your job to express all the angsty emotion that would lessen the male protagonist's manliness if he were to express it.
And someone in a funky gas mask throws something down!
And more vehicles are destroyed in massive bombs and fire!
And some half-naked woman falls to her apparent death!
And some other woman look sad!
And some guy has a pistol that he shoots!  While driving!
And somebody gets shot!
And the porcupine car gets destroyed again from yet another angle.

Seriously, is the porcupine car the only vehicle we actually see get destroyed and not just driven into a massive fireball which we presume would destroy any vehicle in the flames?  Oh, except Max's car before he gets dragged away back in the early part of the trailer.
And someone does a motorcycle stunt!
And someone has a rifle!
And the multiple half-dressed women in a car can apparently only look on helplessly while the men fight outside.  Sheena sits in front of them but only half looks as if to say, "I'm here, but I'm not one of these helpless broads who are only here to pander to the audience and serve as the McGuffin of the movie."
That motorcycle gets driven over.
Now Sheena's forehead is covered in woad (nod to that other Mel Gibson movie?) and she's driving a truck and looking back.  Cut to the motorcycle under the truck.  Chalk up one confirmed kill for Sheena.  Probably?

Someone asks the guy with short hair what his name is.  Mad Max flashes up on the screen.  Apparently he's going to stick with the short hair.  He's wearing one of those bandanna things around his neck that have become the real in-thing to wear if you've been in the military over in Iraq or Afghanistan.

This movie will be called Fury Road and once again it's going to be released in 2015.

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Wow, hard to believe that a Mad Max sequel isn't getting any love around RPoL...and that makes me sad.

Not sure if it's even possible to make a so-so Mad Max movie...The director is the original director and he has said that this movie is going to be a chase movie. That sounds pretty much like it encompasses everything amazing about those movies. Auto-dueling at it's purest.
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Watched the trailer.  Watched it again.  Then again.

Movie actually looks fun, and very much in the style of the previous ones.  Guns, cars, explosions.  Exploding cars.  All the finest things in life.

Only way they could improve a Mad Max movie, IMO, would be to have Godzilla in it, just for added destruction.  :p

Here-here!

In reply to spectre (msg # 14):

I would like to point out George Lucas and the Prequels, and Steven Spielburg and the Crystal skull. An old (excellecent)series with a part of the original magic machine, does not mean it will be good. It means they want more money and exposure. Kind of why I would be hesitant if they did decide to go forward with a continuation of Firefly. A lot of it depends on chemistry and the dynamic sense of the series. Too much of a gap and you can lose it.

That is the only reason why I am not more excited about this. I think this would have done better by not attaching the Mad Max name to the movie.

I think in its time, the original Max was pushing the boundaries of what they could get past the censor and was really quite shocking (as in shock horror, not as in awful) ... yes, the effects were budget, but worked brilliantly for all they're suggested.  Don't know that they can recapture the feel of the original now no matter how much money they throw at it, because the audience (that's us, boys and girls) got desensitised, so we're probably not going to get that shock, horror.  Though the original Saw managed that for me.  :>

Talking of appalling flashy remakes ... Rollerball leaps to mind.

And that said, I liked both the original Judge Dredd and the later Dredd movies - both entirely different (and the latest outing so much more violent), but I think that reflected the path taken by the comics, and both interpretations were valid.

In reply to Skald (msg # 18):

Yeah, go watch Caligula. There was no boundry to be pushed after that. And it was Heavily edited from what i understand.

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 15):

I want to watch em all again now.

And imagine the influence of godzilla on it.

As long as I can wear my gimp suit to the theater, I'll probably check it out.

I'll have to come back on break to reply to the rest of this, but I thought he killed the lizard without eating it. I'm not even an animal person and that made me sad.

The worse remake I've seen is the Italian Job ...... classic British film remade with American actors (sorry mean no disrespect to anyone) but old minis and Michael Cane what a classic mix :)

In reply to Wyrm (msg # 17):

If it walks like a Mad Max movie and talks like one...

Yes, I haven't seen it yet. However if it is even 1/2 as good as Road Warrior, it will be amazing. Having that director attached to it and free to do as he pleases, really just mean we won't have to watch another Beyond Thunderdome, and you have to admit at that time, Thunderdome's mantra was repeated everywhere. Two men enter...