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I love him in this film. He's so funny.
It wasn't released in the US until five years ago? Wow.
Who Wants To Live Forever
Don't Stop Me Now
Bohemian Rhapsody
You sound like a snowflake. The only people who pretend that Elvis didn't have sexual relations with young girls are the Elvis fanatics.
Yep. He went with other young girls as well while he was in his 20's.
Rita Moreno said she went with him once to make Marlon Brando jealous and he didn't know what to do with a woman. He always preferred young girls so that he could groom them to how he wanted them to be.
So many great episodes but Gas and Hole (from series 3) are my favourites.
And bagsy me have first go with it.
Religion should always be made fun of. It's nonsense.
Nah, he was great. Especially in The Singing Detective. Probably his best performance.
Agreed. Great film.
The ending makes no sense because the last 30 minutes or so was changed in order to make it more studio friendly. It looks like what it is, very much put together at the last minute.
The director's cut was flawed but two things it got right was having the dog die when it was shot instead of a weird compromised "oh look, it's ok, the dog's fine", and the more downbeat ending where it's up to you decide if Porter survives or not.
It's pretty poor. Mel Gibson's good at playing vulnerable, emotionally damaged tough guys like Mad Max or Riggs in the Lethal Weapon films but he can't pull off a menacing tough guy. He's just not convincing.
Nah, Mel Gibson's the best Max, Hardy was poor, but Gibson's 68 now. He's too old for the role, and bringing him back is not going to return Mad Max to the raw, grittier approach of the first two films anyway.
Just let the franchise die.
Agreed. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. Brian May's effective music definetly added to the tone of the first two as well. There was just a few pieces here and there in the first that I didn't care for. Sounded a bit too soapy. I think it's the music when Max and Jessie first go on their road trip that I'm not fond of. But overall, yeah, great music.
Again though, even without Brian May, I think the subsequent films would've had a darker tone had Byron Kennedy lived.
He was described by the people who knew him best as intense and with a dry sense of humour, and he was an uncredited writer on Mad Max 1 and 2. I definetly think he had a lot to do with that darker edge.
Take the Thunderdome fight, which again was Kennedy's idea. You have Master Blaster lunge for Max with a spear, Max jumps over him, and Master Blaster accidentally stabs a spectator and you hear him cry out in pain. A rare moment where you get that black humour you got in the first two. Contrast that with the end chase, which was just slapstick nonsense.
It's there for a joke. A man nicknamed Jaws bites into a shark instead of the other way around.
Get a sense of humour.
No.
No, his natural accent wasn't American. He wasn't in America long enough. He was born in New York and literally left a few months later while he was still a baby. Moved to Ireland until he was seven, then spent the rest of his childhood in England.
Mad Max 1 and 2.
I like both equally. 2's the better film, and Mel Gibson's better in it (the most iconic Max look) but I prefer the characters in 1 overall. Goose, Fifi, Toecutter, Johnny Boy, Bubba Zenetti, Nightrider.... were the best characters in the franchise.
Beyond Thunderdome
Fury Road
Haven't seen Furiosa and have no intention of doing so.
Mad Max was never the same once Byron Kennedy died. He doesn't get enough credit for what he brought to the franchise.
There was a very strange, eerie, almost Horror type vibe to the first two films, particularly the first, that I loved, that was gone by the time of Thunderdome, and I'm convinced that darker tone was down to Kennedy.
He was also responsible for some of the best ideas in the franchise. Even people like myself who don't rate Thunderdome much tend to like the Thunderdome fight, and that was Kennedy's idea. It was supposed to be used in The Road Warrior initially because the oil refinery community would've been more like a proper town if they'd have had the budget for it.
It's nonsense but it's fun to watch.
The only two flaws for me are Connery looking clearly bored, but he had enough screen presence and charisma to compensate a bit for that, and it sags a bit in the middle.
Donald Pleasance as Blofeld, the action scenes, and the production design, more than make up for it though.