Might be a little more or less given your timezone but either way we're now officially under a year away from a new Mad Max movie hitting the big screen. Something that hasn't happened in nearly 30 years.
I've never seen a Mad Max film on the big screen because I wasn't either born yet or too young of a lad given I was born in 1982 but Mad Max 2 was one of the first movies I saw as a young kid in Kempton Park, South Africa when my parents were watching it on TV. I didn't understand much of what was going on but the imagery stuck with me. From the barren world to the black leather the hero was wearing with the shoulder armor dealing with a weird guy jumping out the sand and having to turn off a "booby trap" on this monstrous looking car that even as a kid I thought looked wicked. I have memories after watching the movie of vaguely playing on a bicycle pretending it was the car while using some of my old dad's spark plugs and using my imagination they were parts of the "booby trap" I'd have to turn on or off so nobody would still my bicycle.
I think I saw Beyond Thunderdome a couple of years later which stuck with me more given I was a little older and the world got a little bit more "Mad" and creative. I loved it all though and when I got older I did manage to watch the first film which confused the hell out of me given how different it looked in contrast to other two films. I'd always wanted to see another Mad Max film and I came across Peter's site I think, though don't swear by it, in 2000 and there was some rumors of a new film but nothing concrete though my interest was piqued and it was also around that time N2 release their Road Warrior action figures too. Momentum died down again and then the press conference in 2009 kicked everything in to overdrive and we got some steady news until it stalled out again because of the weather in Broken Hill and then kicked back up when they actually began filming.
Bloody hell. I didn't mean to ramble on and apparently about nothing lol but thinking about Fury Road and that I'll be seeing a new Mad Max film, on the big screen, in less than a year excites the fucking shit out of me right now.
We're almost at the finish line!!
...unless they delay it again...
I can't wait to see this day!
