I think the producers, and Miller ought to consider what made the first two films actually work, as with the third not doing nearly as well, and feature basic custom recognizable cars in a believable gas shortage, post apocalyptic landscape. 
, as someone said before the cars may look over the top but some thought that in MM2 / 3 as well although they may as well have been driving Prius's in MM3 no excitment there 
Great post, biolumen.biolumen wrote:Miller's sequels are always different from their progenitors. Jarringly so at times. Consider MM2 as compared to MM. Thunderdome to both of them. Look at how dissimilar Babe 2 is to the original. Even Happy Feet 2 is a different animal from the first.
Fury Road was never going to be Road Warrior Redux. Sure, it will probably feature the serious tone and hard core action of that movie, along with other winks and nods connecting it to the earlier films. But it will be quite a different beast. 30 years on and with an exponentially larger budget, how can it not be?
It's 1979. A guy watches MM in the theaters for the first time and thinks it's the greatest action movie he's ever seen. The cars, the villains, the setting, the atmosphere. He finds everything about it fantastic. He watches it a dozen more times, dragging everyone he can to see it. He then gets wind that a sequel is in the works. His anticipation is palpable. His expectations elevated. He checks the genre periodicals for any information on the production, however minor. He finally comes across an article with an artists rendering of the Lone Wolf. At first he's nonplussed. It doesn't look like anything recognizable. He later sees a picture of Humungus' vehicle. Now he's growing upset, grumbling "WTF is this shit?" As the movie gets closer to release, this MM fan reads more about it that greatly dims his hopes. The Interceptor gets trashed. There's guys running around in hockey masks and assless chaps. Mel hardly says a word. Some kid is flinging around a boomerang. It's 10 times the budget, funded with Hollywood money. And those ridiculous looking vehicles!
Disheartened and dismayed, he somehow wills himself to see in on opening day. Guess what? He finds it to be a great movie. Different, but great.
All I can remember from those heady days was...Stef-Man wrote:Great post, biolumen.biolumen wrote:Miller's sequels are always different from their progenitors. Jarringly so at times. Consider MM2 as compared to MM. Thunderdome to both of them. Look at how dissimilar Babe 2 is to the original. Even Happy Feet 2 is a different animal from the first.
Fury Road was never going to be Road Warrior Redux. Sure, it will probably feature the serious tone and hard core action of that movie, along with other winks and nods connecting it to the earlier films. But it will be quite a different beast. 30 years on and with an exponentially larger budget, how can it not be?
It's 1979. A guy watches MM in the theaters for the first time and thinks it's the greatest action movie he's ever seen. The cars, the villains, the setting, the atmosphere. He finds everything about it fantastic. He watches it a dozen more times, dragging everyone he can to see it. He then gets wind that a sequel is in the works. His anticipation is palpable. His expectations elevated. He checks the genre periodicals for any information on the production, however minor. He finally comes across an article with an artists rendering of the Lone Wolf. At first he's nonplussed. It doesn't look like anything recognizable. He later sees a picture of Humungus' vehicle. Now he's growing upset, grumbling "WTF is this shit?" As the movie gets closer to release, this MM fan reads more about it that greatly dims his hopes. The Interceptor gets trashed. There's guys running around in hockey masks and assless chaps. Mel hardly says a word. Some kid is flinging around a boomerang. It's 10 times the budget, funded with Hollywood money. And those ridiculous looking vehicles!
Disheartened and dismayed, he somehow wills himself to see in on opening day. Guess what? He finds it to be a great movie. Different, but great.
