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People boycotting the movie becaues of no Chalize Theron... join the club! :-)

posted 2 months ago by ReelReviews14 (1059)
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Now all the people gnashing their teeth about Chalize Theron not coming back know how WE felt about their previous "masterpiece" being made WITHOUT Mel Gibson!

I STILL haven't seen Fury Road, and I never will! The TRILOGY ended with Beyond Thunderdome! No Mel Gibson, No Max! It's like trying to make an Indiana Jones movie without Harrison Ford!

George Miller & the people making the movie will say they had to move on from Theron because she's "too old" to play the character in this story and its "more of a reboot anyway" . SAME excuse they used for getting rid of Mel back in 2015! But "the fans" that loved Theron in the role simply won't see the NEXT Mad Max movie regardless of how "good" it is and whether there are rave reviews fawning over Anya Taylor-Joy in the role.

Well guys, join the club! I'm ahead of the game!

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (2722) 2 months ago

"I STILL haven't seen Fury Road, and I never will!" That's too bad because Mad Max: Fury Road is amazing.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 2 months ago

Beyond Thunderdome was the PERFECT ending for the Mad Max TRILOGY and brought the events full circle. It did not need a belated fourth film 30 years later, let alone one WITHOUT Mel Gibson.

Two men enter, one man leaves!

[–] Roguemail (1565) 2 months ago

Get real.

Mad Max 3 had its moments but was ruined by the silly kids.

But fundamentally, Gibson is just far too old to play the character now, and is also no longer bankable.

I also thought the last Mad Max movie was incredible. So I am happy to see more of the same. I have no time for weeping over the notion that a certain character or actor is not in the movie.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 2 months ago

Mel Gibson IS Max Rockatansky & Martin Riggs, just like Sylvester Stallone IS Rocky Balboa & John Rambo, and Harrison Ford IS Han Solo & Indiana Jones.

Those are ICONIC 80s action heroes and those actors became "A listers" BECAUSE of those breakout roles. You can't simply dump the actor and randomly cast some younger guy who doesn't even LOOK like the character, let alone have the charisma and bad-assness of the original actor. It's precisely why I have zero interest in seeing Fury Road or Solo: A Star Wars Story.

And I would likewise skip a Col. Trautman: A Rambo Story with Nicholas Hoult as "John Rambo" or Rocky: The Italian Stallion with Finn Wolfhard as "Rocky Balboa".

[–] Roguemail (1565) 2 months ago

Hate to burst your bubble , but studios own the rights to the characters and can remake and recast any time they like. The public have no say in the matter.

Sure you can voice your opinion, but its meaningless. If they want to remake something with a different actor they can and they will.

You also need to remember that a lot of todays generation may not even know who Gibson, Stallone are. They never grew up with them like you may have.

So casting a different actor who appeals to today's cinemagoers public makes sense.

And as I said before, the original actors are just too old to be making these movies.

[–] almonigal (1134) 2 months ago

To say the public opinion is meaningless when consuming a product (especially entertainment) is not a good argument.
If public opinion/attachment to characters from previous ibstallments didn't matter, naming it Mad Max would serve little purpose.

[–] DavidM (335) 2 months ago

The important is the idea, not the actor who played it. Mel Gibson isn't Mad Max, George Mlller is.

[–] almonigal (1134) 2 months ago

The idea is post apocalyptic wasteland with powerful cars and fuel treated as currency.
If you dont have strong characters you are left only with ideas

[–] moviechatterer (13468) 2 months ago

"I have zero interest in seeing Fury Road"

Again , like the other guy said, thats too bad for you - because its an amazing film . miller made it . Miller is mad max.
I agree mm3 was a nice ending , but it ended.
If you want more then it could not be done any better than MM4, Gibson was too old to come back so they swapped him like they swap James Bonds.

I avoided it myself for years on the basis I'd heard it was "just one long car chase , no story" , but it was well worth it in the end .
Anyway , although it might not sound like it , im not here to convince you , no skin off my nose

[–] MartyMoose1977 (103) 2 months ago

You still haven't seen "Fury Road"? You're a moron if you have been protesting seeing the movie because it doesn't have Mel Gibson. Sure, I was disappointed that Mel Gibson wasn't in Fury Road but it still looked amazing so I went and saw it. I went and saw it KICK ASS!! "The Road Warrior" is easily in my top ten favorite movies of all time but guess what... So is FURY ROAD! Get off your GD high horse and go see what you've been missing out on before jumping on here bitching about something you know fuck all about.

I saw "The Road Warrior" with my father at a drive in movie theater in 1982 and we both absolutely loved it. When Fury Road came out it was a tragic time in my life as my wife had just passed away so my father was in town for the funeral. We went and saw "Fury Road" together and it was spectacular! First we saw it in 3D and I went back a few days later to see it in regular format. I personally preferred the film in 2D as the 3D effects were more distracting than anything.

Watch the Fury Road while your still alive and can enjoy it and then when this comes out go see it too! If you wanna bitch about something in it then go ahead and bitch but until you've at least seen Fury Road your opinion isn't worth dirt.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 14 hours ago

No thanks. I still haven't seen the Jim Carrey-less Ace Ventura sequels, either. But Ace is just a character, right? Anyone can play him! I must be really missing out by stubborning refusing to see Josh Flitter in the role. If it makes you feel better though, I DID see "Inspector Closeau" with Alan Arkin playing the part INSTEAD of Peter Sellers. And I saw the Steve Martin remake! A lot of those narrow-minded people boycotting it, insisting there IS no Inspector Clouseau WITHOUT Peter Sellers. What a silly mentality. We all know literally anyone can play Closeau, it's JUST a character created by Blake Edwards!

[–] Kowalski (59486) 13 hours ago

THERE IS ONLY ONE CARREY-LESS ACE VENTURA MOVIE AND IT'S A CHILDREN'S MOVIE WITH A CHILD ACTOR PLAYING HIS SON.

[–] Kowalski (59486) 13 hours ago

I LOVE THE ROAD WARRIOR...TOP 100 ALL TIME FLICKS FOR ME...MAD MAX IS ALSO AWESOME...THUNDERDOME...WHILE I ENJOY IT IS A MUCH LESSER FILM....I HAD HOPED FOR ANOTHER RIDE WITH GIBSON AS MAX...BUT IT DODN;T HAPPEN FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS...YOU GOTTA MOVE ON....FURY ROAD WAS AWESOME...YOU'RE MISSING OUT.

[–] whynotwriteme (7145) 12 hours ago

Fury Road reminded me of a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth:"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

I was willing to put up with the inferior Tom Hardy replacing Gibson, but with the character of Mad Max reduced to a sidekick, what's the point of the movie? I watched it once and that was enough. Not out of spite, either. I just do not feel any desire whatsoever to watch it again. Whereas, I've seen all three of the original trilogy multiple times, even Beyond Thunderdome.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 9 hours ago

>> I was willing to put up with the inferior Tom Hardy replacing Gibson, but with the character of Mad Max reduced to a sidekick, what's the point of the movie? I watched it once and that was enough. Not out of spite, either. I just do not feel any desire whatsoever to watch it again. Whereas, I've seen all three of the original trilogy multiple times, even Beyond Thunderdome. <<

Not me. I haven't watched Mad Max 4, and I don't regret it. I also haven't watched Indiana Jones 4 & 5, despite those films KEEPING the original actor. And again, I DON'T regret it. Indiana Jones 3 ended the TRILOGY perfectly and it didn't need another sequel about an elderly Indy. Another film I've never seen and don't regret is The Neverending Story III. The clip on YouTube of Rockbiter singing "born to be wild" was enough to tell me to stay away.

I HAVE the mistake of sitting thru soulless franchise sequels like National Lampoon's Vacation 2015, Alien: Resurrection, and Texas Chainsaw 3D though....

[–] TandyMan (10405) 12 hours ago

Wait till they keep making Mad Max movies without Gibson, Hardy, or even George Miller. They haven't even started to flog this turkey yet. There's gold in them there hills and they're gonna squeeze every ounce out this franchise for decades to come. When there's more other Mad Max than the original movies, which one's even the real Mad Max anymore?

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 10 hours ago

It's possible. They've made endless "Amityville Horror" movies, and endless "Tremors" sequels, even though Kevin Bacon is only in the first one (his co-star Michael Gross carried all the other sub-par sequels). They've made six Terminator films, and also six Home Alone films, but people have started to wise up that only the first two count as ACTUAL films in that franchise. The MacCauley Culkin-less Home Alone "sequels" are just cashing in on the name, even if the fourth film technically includes the same characters like "Kevin McAllister" and "Harry and Marv". Same thing with the later Terminator sequels having crap like Jai Courtney as "Kyle Reese" and Jason Clarke as "John Connor".

Maybe someday when there's 8 "Mad Max" movies, people will realize in hindsight that the franchise died after the third movie, and everything after that was Faux Max. We'll see.

[–] Kowalski (59486) 10 hours ago

🤣

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 9 hours ago

Mad Max: Jedediah's Revenge (2047)

Despite being killed off in Mad Max Mastermind (2036), Jedediah returns to the big screen for the first time in over a decade, now played by actor Maykim Murmonee, thru some convoluted plotline about magic petrol having cloning powers. Dredging his way back to the wasteland, Jedediah builds himself an "Ultracopter" and once again teams up with Max Rockatansky (actor Gibb Sun Wanabee) to take out the traitorous Furiosa III (transgender actress Dum Kasting), daughter of his former ally, at the Fortress of Pain... which describes the experience of the audience having to sit thru the twelfth installment of this tired franchise that stopped using the original cast after the third movie.

[–] rateater (9292) 9 hours ago

there's 3 mad max films/stories and then other cool post-apocalyptic films made by legend george miller.

i always hoped for one more with gibson so it would be like his lethal weapon films; one origin story film and three sequel stories.

[–] FilmBuff (6707) 9 hours ago

Fury Road is the best of the 4 Mad Max movies. You missed out not seeing it in a theater, let alone not watching it at all.

[–] TandyMan (10405) 9 hours ago

Still hoping for a Fury Road surprise re-release before the premiere. I was too cool for school when it came out.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 9 hours ago

I can't think of any film franchise where the fourth film was "the best" one, let alone a franchise where the fourth film replaced the original cast and it was "the best". Usually its an abomination like Men In Black: International.

But if I wanna play devil's advocate, X-Men: First Class was really good. Of course then they ended up bringing back the original cast for the sequel, which made it even MORE epic having Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen back the next time. George Miller can call me after he calls up Mel Gibson and apologizes for snubbing him in the last film!

[–] Kowalski (59486) 9 hours ago

I THINK YOU WILL MEL GIBSON IS THE REAL REASON A FOURTH MAX FILM STARRING HIM NEVER HAPPENED.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1059) 8 hours ago

Gibson was going thru a bad time in 2014, but he's still got it. It's like Clint Eastwood, you couldn't make a Dirty Harry movie without Clint, and Clint could still be badass in his 60s. Nobody's gonna make a "Lethal Weapon 5" with another actor playing Martin Riggs, so why would we accept that with Max?

[–] Kowalski (59486) 8 hours ago

MAX ISN'T REALLY A CHARACTER...HE IS MORE OF AN AVATAR TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE FALLEN WORLD...HE DOESN'T AGE...HE DOESN'T BOND...HE JUST EXISTS.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT ANYTHING...BUT THE VAST MAJORITY VERY MUCH ENJOYED FURY ROAD AND DID NOT MIND TOM HARDY IN THE ROLE OF MAX.