EW Article

[Bad cop]

There was an article in this weeks issue Entertainment Weekly about Mad Max. In the Ask The Critic section it said that maybe another take on Mad Max could be made. Guess who they think would be a good MM Colin Farrell. Yeah Right. I want a sequel and not a remake and I want Mel Gibson, no one can replace him.

[roadwarriormfp]

Im sorry if Holly wood was stupid enough to make a remake, it would be lost for ever.


Very few, if any remakes, have been done well. And to be honest, it would need to be made in Australia, with Australian cast members.


Most of its cult status is because of it "real" action chases, unknown actors at the time.... and the location and cars were a bit of a mystery to everyone around the world who saw it.


A remake made in the Hollywood "style" would not appeal to real fans at all......


A spin-off of madmax could work though..... but again "no name" actors would be required. Having famous well known faces would not work i dont think...... except of course having Mel appear again.....

[OverheadCam]

I agree...there are enough bad movies getting made without them adding to the problem.


I can't believe that after all this time..after all the lessons that have been learnt...Holywood is still making awful movies...wasting all that money, time and celluloid on pieces of crap.


P.S.


and how the hell , in this day and age can Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes and Giovanni Ribsi walk around in public, without fear of being assasinated...If I did that, I would fully expect and deserve to hear the "Ffft, Ffft" of a silenced revolver as I walked out into the parking lot to my car...


I don't know...should be a crime letting actors as bad as that out alive!...No trial..No Jury...Just, just, just push 'em off the nearest cliff...And don't get me started on Producer & Directors..Bloody Bruckhiemer...what a douche-bag!..and another thing...

[The Toecutter]

Piece of sh*t movies make money. That's why Hollywood makes them. Throw gratuitous amounts of product placement and references, and the advertisers will pay lots of revenue. People will pay for their ticket, leave in disgust, and then buy the DVD(or in the past, VHS) when it is released because the commercials on TV tell them to.





Mad Max started going down this road with Thunderdome. And you know what? It was horrible!





The next MM needs to return to its roots. Good old Australian Muscle, shotguns, biker gangs, leather clad bad-asses with blunt objects for weapons, real stunts with real men with real balls putting their lives on the line without that pussy CGI crap, and if the guy that did the Roadwarrior soundtrack can't be found, it's time to throw in some AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Accept, and the almighty Judas Priest.





I want to see some nomad stomp a new mudhole in someone's ass. I want to see people doing dangerous things with musclecars and high performance motorcycles, and LIKE it. I want gun porn. I want to see fire, explosives, and gruesome accidents done with real objects.





That my friends, is what Mad Max is about. It took objects that were real, and managed to tell a damn good story with them. It didn't need multi-million dollar computers to do all sorts of bland fake sh*t and some queer to be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do someone's makeup. It didn't need advertisement, product placements, or other bullsh*t to make a profit.





The movie sold itself. It had copious amounts of badassitude. Bring that back!

[Just got here]

It's very brave of you to spout such unfashionable attitudes, but I agree with every word.

[The Toecutter]

Brave? Not really. What are people going to do? Beat me with a 2x4 through their modem?





Just like the Evil Dead trilogy and the Romero zombie masterpieces, Mad Max has its own allure and there are certain qualities that must be retained for further installments in the series to keep that allure.

[MFPmaniac]

There's one more sh#tty thing that happens when they do a movie remake. The supply of classic iron just gets shorter! Let's see, thanks to the horrid "Dukes of Hazzard" remake, I believe there are about 20-30 less Chargers on the face of the earth. The film "Starsky and Hutch" depleted the supply of Torino coupes by 10-15. How many Falcons would vanish as a result of such an atrocity? Much as you can computerize the effects, it seems they still need to trash between one and two dozen cars for the full effect.


Aaron


PS: Must say that I do relish the idea of some current actors being chained to a Ute with a fuel leak, a lighter and a hacksaw! ::Muahahahaha!::

[Just got here]

OK, here's my top ten hollywood actors I'd like to see chained to that Ute with only a hacksaw for escape- Ben Afleck, Hugh Grant, Orlando Bloom, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Leo De Caprio, Johnny Depp or Colin Farrell(just to make sure he never gets to play Max.)

[Biker]

Personally I think Giovanni Ribsi could play a good lead role as Max, he's just never been given his chance to really shine in any decent roles. Maybe in the remake Adam Sandler could play Jim Goose.


Correct me if I'm wrong here but wasn't Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome actually a box office hit? Raking in more cash than the first two films... despite it being something of a turkey in the eyes of the Mad Max fans. I seem to remember reading that someplace. I suspect they named it Beyond Thunderdome and not simply Mad Max 3 because the American audiences wouldn't have been aware that films were made anywhere else other than Hollywood.


Hollywood, if they ever did a remake, would make it their own and I'm sure most of us here would go an see it it, if onnly to see how much of a lash up they did of "Our" film. No doubt some Aussies will be walking out of the cinema with a changed attitude towards a certain thespian named Giovanni Ribsi for his cutting edge protrayal of a young Max.


I think I'll just wait till the DVD comes out.


MFPManiac. Totally agree with you on that less iron subject. I was given a copy of Dukes of Hazzard (I wouldn't actually pay for such shyte) and the making of docu's said the film makers trawled Ebay to buy as many Chargers as they could get.... no doubt gazumping some genuine collector who'd saved his cash to buy such a beauty. It made me sick to see them catapult those cars onto a road only to see them smash into the barriers etc. The stunt crew ought to be castrated with a spoon for that!


Actors I'd happily see handcuffed to a burning ute, without a hacksaw, would include some of those mentioned by "Just got here", though Hugh Grant redeemed himself in my eyes for his role in About a Boy and Love Actually, Matt Damon for his Bourne role too. But I'd replace them with any Brat like behaving Pop singer... doesn't matter who, just pick one...no, pick ten at least make a ten in their numbers, they're all the same after all. Any Gangsta Rapper too for that matter too, might be more fun just to drop one of those in a well and see how precious his gold chains are when compared to saving himself from drowning. You can start with Scoop doggy pooh or whatever his name is.


Other actors handcuffed to a burning ute also include: The turd who played Anekin Skywalker in the recent Star Wars films. Owen Wilson for thinking his drawl is sooo cool, Tom Cruise for giving Nicole Kidman the heave ho (I wouldn't have kicked her out of bed!) Steven Seagal for being tall and wearing silly tassled jackets in his films and lastly any actor (and I use the term loosely) on East - "Gor Blimey, luvva duck" - Enders! For perpetuating such utter crap!


Ummmm think I may have to stop now as my blood pressure is up and I'm foaming at the mouth thinking of all the actors I dislike.


Biker


PS Sincere apologies to Bad Cop for completly hijacking your thread


Rah, Rah, Rhee! Giovanni Rib - si!!!! what a actor!

[Bad cop]

I'd like to see Bruce Spence again and maybe Tim Thomerson, He would be good for something and maybe also Anders Hove. But Mel Gibson must star.