I came.

Oh hell yeah.

Some quotes.

stars Tom Hardy (“The Dark Knight Rises”) in the title role of Max Rockatansky, alongside Oscar® winner Charlize Theron (“Monster”, “Prometheus”) as Imperator Furiosa.
Nathan Jones (“Conan the Barbarian”) plays Rictus Erectus.

Collectively known as The Wives, Zoë Kravitz (“X-Men: First Class”) plays Toast, Riley Keough (“Magic Mike”) is Capable, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”) is Splendid. They are joined by supermodel Abbey Lee Kershaw as The Dag and Courtney Eaton as Fragile, both of whom are making their big screen debuts. Also featured in the movie are Josh Helman as Slit, Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy, and singer/songwriter/performer iOTA as Coma-Doof Warrior.

Big Budget, apparently.

I don't care what anyone says...I am looking forward to this one.

Practical effects and old-fashioned stunt work or GTFO.

My buddy apparently has a role in this film. Apparently he can't talk about it. He was also a stunt double in Avengers and Captn. America.

Wonder if the supermodel knows what dag means?

The quality of the original won't be matched. Hollywood loves having bullshit explanations in films and the original has absolutedly none of it. None. It's all action, all intrigue, all tension. There are like 5 non-tense minutes in the movie and it's so obvious things are going to get worse that they don't even count. Mad Max is pure Ameritrash, pure emotion. Not a single second of film is wasted, instead of having a boring narrator say "HUR DUR NUCLEAR WAR" in a pretentious way like in the sequel, the original just shows us a shot or two of the crumbling building of the law and moves on, because explanation isn't fun nor the point of the film.

And I know this is heresy, but the sequel sucks. The original film was beyond trimmed and the support structures, stuff that is often needed to make a movie work but that doesn't really add anything on it's own was reduced to a minimun if it was even present at all. The second film doesn't even get rolling until 45 minutes of your life are gone. Bullshit intro, bullshit exposition, bullshit kid, bullshit dude in a car, bullshit "I DON'T TRUST YOU BUT I WANT YOU IN MY PANTS" girl. All bullshit. Just cut down to the good stuff!

I mean, if Mad Max is a Western, Mad Max II would be a Western with a guy explaining what a Cheeroke is during half of the film.

Also, the chances of the film having that wide camera work of the original are zero which is sad because they were amazing at conveying the themes of the film.

/Rant off

I completely disagree with your assessment of the second film. The Road Warrior is probably my favorite movie, but I find Mad Max the original interesting but it bores the fuck out of me.

I do agree with your concern about adding too much modern over explanation shit in the movie.

With Tom Hardy this sounds promising to me. I'm digging him a lot recently. I had no clue he was Bane and he was awesome in Bronson and some other stuff. Nice to see someone with actual talent get a role like this.

Erik Twice wrote: The quality of the original won't be matched. Hollywood loves having bullshit explanations in films and the original has absolutedly none of it. None. It's all action, all intrigue, all tension. There are like 5 non-tense minutes in the movie and it's so obvious things are going to get worse that they don't even count. Mad Max is pure Ameritrash, pure emotion. Not a single second of film is wasted, instead of having a boring narrator say "HUR DUR NUCLEAR WAR" in a pretentious way like in the sequel, the original just shows us a shot or two of the crumbling building of the law and moves on, because explanation isn't fun nor the point of the film.

Fuck yes thank you. I watched the new Conan last week (knew it was going to be bad, but had to anyway) and I just about lost it during the first five minutes when MORGAN FUCKING FREEMAN is narrating some shit about wars and masks and blah blah montage...shut the hell up! I can figure out that the world is war-torn because people are DYING ON SCREEN. Got it. Let's move on already!