Oh, goody. We’re going to see dirty, dust-covered vehicles blow up again in Mad Max: Fury Road come 2015.
Pardon me, but I’m not going to get excited about this. I didn’t even care for the previous installments in director George Miller’s post-apocalyptic series, including the original Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. These may have been kinetic films, but they also presented a dreary, despondent vision of society that I wanted no part of … and didn’t enjoy watching.
Once again, I’m probably in the minority on this, though. Fury Road will likely be a hit.
It does depend, however, on whether people’s taste for such pictures remains the same. I think the Mad Max flicks of the past decades caught lightning in a bottle; fantasy films were big, and the vision of filthy cars, souped-up battling each other along never-ending highways at some point in the future was an original one.
Can Fury Road resurrect this franchise? It remains to be seen. The trailer promises the usual explosions and mayhem (hey, is that Verdi’s Requiem in there, too?), so I suspect there will be interest among fans of the original series.
That may be enough to propel this movie into successful territory. Next year, we’ll know for sure.
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I’ll see it but I don’t much expect to enjoy it. If the preview is any guide – as the saying goes, that which is good is not new, and that which is new is not good.
I agree with you–I suspect I won’t enjoy it much, either. Looks like a rehash of the original stuff, perhaps with more explosions. No, thanks.
I have other reasons for low expectations too.