Max Max was apparently a seminal movie of the time-a break out role for Mel Gibson. I didn't see it.
The new Mad max promised to be better so I thought hey-I'll take the missus to see it-outh to be good.
WRONG
Basic plot is Charlene Theron and 5 girls drive out in the desert, pick up Max along the way,get to where they're going, find out it isn't there any more, turn around go back to where they started and turn on the water. Movie over.
Some observations:
The only reason I stayed was in the fainthope that somewhere along the wat I'd see some boobies. Closed it came was the scene where the girls were hosing off with water and removing some knarly looking chastity belts. But nothing,zip nada came of that.
Charlene Theron is HOT.Period. Even with one arm and a crew cut.
The bad guy looks like a 60 year 60 pound overweight Bozo the clown peaking at the end of a 4 day meth binge wearing a half mask with tyranosaurus rex teeth connected to an aqua lung. Apparently the girls were his breeders and he wants them back.
Charlene Theron has a glock 19 a Beretta 92 and an SKS among other weaponry. Bozo has a stainless Colt Anaconda (I don't think they would let a python loose in that sand) and a Ruger Stainless Vaquero 5.5" that he gives to his warrior who promptly drops it under the truck. I give Bozo props for his taste in revolvers over the Glocks.
They has a 50 pound baby that looked like Sebastian Cabot in a motorized baby buggy, why I don't know as he added nothing to the plot. It WAS pretty cool in a weird way-he'd make a good pet.
The outback was very pretty-foreboding and quite suitable for the movie.
Vehicles were kinda neat.
They could have done this in 30 minutes but instead drug it out for two hours.
I'd give it half a star for Charlene Theron's eyes. That's about the only pair of anything you get to see in the movie.
Cut it down to an hour,cut out the scene with them milking the obese women to feed the troops, show some nekked wimmin shooting machine guns and you'd have a blockbuster.

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So? I take it you liked it?

Now I don't have to go.

Now that's what a Hollywood movie review should be like, just the meat and potatoes; thanks for saving me $20.

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Check out Spartacus on Netfix. It's like Mad Max pre internal combustion engines with a WHOLE LOT of NEKKITIVITY going on.

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I've been missing Roger Ebert's well written and insightful reviews ever since he took the dirt nap. Finally someone worthy has stepped forward to take over.

Good review.
One correction.....Charlize Theron, you know of emasculating Sean Penn fame by making him give up his guns, and then both using guns in their hollyweird way of do as I say despite how I make my $$$$$$ millions.

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Actually Cajunlawyer's review makes me want to see it.

Sounds like a quality action film.

Only problem is some of it is the wrong kind of nekkedness

I never really cared for the first 3. Reading the discription I was thinking of the 2nd and 3rd minus the names.

So Caj, how do you really feel about it?????????

Now I don't WANT to go...

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Great review, a real man's review, written for real men. I wish they were all this helpful...

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New movies are a waste of time these days. They all seem to be going for a younger audience. Haven't seen a really good one in a long, long time. There is no end to the apocalypse movies and I'm not a fan. Westerns just don't sell days and good sci fi is hard to find.

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Too much negativity!

And now for a positive review of Mad Max:
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The first one had some good parts.

Master Blaster was fair in a later version.

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The first Mad Max movie, and to a lesser degree the second movie in the original trilogy, was a cult classic. By the time they made Thunderdome they'd lost most of what made the original movie work so well.

Thanks for the review CajunLawyer. It pretty much confirms what I expected. I can easily wait for this one until it shows up on NetFilx or Xfinity. No way I pay to see it and put one thin dime of royalties in Theron's pocket.

Theron, Penn, Neeson, Cruse, and all the other anti-gun Hollyweird hypocrites who earn their living using and mis-using guns in movies - and then turn around and preach about the evils of gun ownership - they can take a long walk on a short pier as far as I'm concerned.

After reading your eloquent review I must assume that you gave the movie the Cajun two fingers up rating.

I liked it. The wife liked it (surprising to me). It's an action movie with lots of neat stunts and effects. It's better than watching a lot of what's out there. But Cajun's comments are valid, especially the "Cut it down to an hour,cut out the scene with them milking the obese women to feed the troops, show some nekked wimmin shooting machine guns and you'd have a blockbuster."

I had never given this one a thought on watching--and have not watched--nor will I watch--that flick where two dips are supposed to kill the nk leader.

Also, im no lover of new movies but--will admit to greatly liking and will be buying thee:

American Sniper,The Imitation Game, Unbroken and Fury. All will be out as of this week. Anyway,in thirty or so years--I never watched four new movies in such a short time--and liked them as much as these. Imsure it will never happen again either.

Anyway, now fully justified in the decision to NOT watch this madmax.

Cajun.... I'll put you down as a.... "Maybe"?

Without water; it's good thing the movie was 3-D and not...... "Odor Enhanced"..... Charlize T and the girls might not have been so attractive!!!!!!!

Thank you

JEAN SHALLOT..

Or was that.. Jon Shall'on
Bon Revieaux..

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I just got back from seeing it in 3D. I have to say that I thought it was a good addition to the Mad Max universe. The pacing was unreal and the effects and stunts were top notch. I was glad to see that George Miller hasn't lost his touch!
When it comes to balls to the wall action I think this would be hard to beat.
I am biased though, the Road Warrior is my all time favorite move. hence my forum name!

Wait just a cotton pickin' minute here. You went to this movie and were looking for a plot? Good cinematography? Good acting? Dude, you wasted your money before the first commercial started. That's not what these are for.


A long time ago, after I left for the Air Force, my dad and some friends started a club; The Rambonian Society. This was a group of guys in their late 50's who would put on cammo and ridiculous hats and go see movies just like this. In order for the movie to make their list it had to have one quality; no redeeming value whatsoever.

After your review, this movie sounds like a Rambonian classic and would be at the top of the "must see" list for them. I'm going.

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Supposedly it does real car stunts instead of using CGI, which might make it worth seeing. CGI is way overdone in most movies now.

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I saw it, cant decide if I liked it.

Alright I figured it out, I liked the movie and am glad I saw it on the big screen.

I did not like that I paid $8 for a matinee

my run down of the movie: extended drought meth heads take over world!

How was the popcorn?

I'll bet the popcorn was quite expensive. About the time they started charging something like 8 bucks for a bucket of popcorn I stopped going to see movies in a theater. It's a lot cheaper to just get a DVD and sit on the couch with some Orville Redenbacher's that you've added some fresh hot butter to. You can also pause the movie if things start to get interesting with the person sitting next to you.

However, thanks for the head up on this one, means I won't waste any money or time getting this one on a DVD. BTW, due to Charlese Theron's attitude towards firearms and her hypocrisy I would have given this movie a pass from the get go. I don't care a bit that she's hot, she is just another dumb communist liberal who thinks she has the right to determine how I conduct my life even when it's fully endorsed in the US Constitution.

No, I think he gave it the Cajun one finger up rating.

No, it was two fingers, but they weren't on the same hand.

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Oh well, what the hell.

I figured I'd wait until it hit Netflix..........

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And MILK! .....apparently.


I wanna know where these guys get all their souped up custom engine parts and tires. Will Fed-X deliver to an post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland? Is there an "up" charge for that?

(They do business in New Mexico, right?)

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I figured I saw that movie about forty or so years ago.

And a dozen or so times since.

Didn't see much reason to go again.

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Awful movie, I did like the way some of the cars were built

I doubt the director/producer are thinking of YOU or other shall I say old veterans. New audiences and new technology allow for updates.

Having seen the previous three Maxes, I actually have no great desire to see this one, but I'm not among the target audience.

All the time I see comments by our good fellas on this forum and others how they avoid movies, yet the movies seem to thrive. It's because we're such a small, and dying, segment of what is and was the old movie goers.

All the time we talk of Bogart, Wayne, Heston and yet if you ask the younger generations, even those just into their 40s, they won't know who you're talking about.

Just as the Model 10 Smith, one of the greatest handguns ever devised, is hardly thought of by the newer gun buying generations. so too the older movies and stars. I'm amazed
by posters on this forum and others how they've never owned a revolver until now, 20 or 30 years into their gun owning life.

But, now let me back up: If the new Mad Max is no good so be it.

I've always wondered how many Australian stunt men they lost in the old Mad Max and Road Warrior movies.

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Torn & Frayed

I'm getting pretty old, yet I enjoyed the Mad Max movies, including Thunderdome, and I expect I'll enjoy this one, even though I wonder how it can be Mad Max without Mad Mel. I hope I never get so old that I automatically dismiss anything new out of hand. Man, that would be depressing. As for Charlize, there are plenty of good looking women out there that don't like guns. No sweat. The good looking ones are the most fun to convert over to my way of thinking. However, when I found out she was letting Sean Penn slobber all over her i am afraid my estimation of her went about as low as it can get.

What's so interesting about The Ringo Kid's saying he liked Unbroken and Fury is that those are Jolie/Pitt productions.

She's moved more and more into director's chair and he's been a producer of a whole lot of films people have liked.

And they're both gun owners.

A while back, I stopped in out local Wal Mart around midnight. It looked to me like a scene from a Mad Max movie.

The last movie I was motivated to go to a theater to see and pay the admission price (It was during the discount matinee and I got a senior discount too) was "Fury". I liked it. I can't remember when the last time before that was...Most of what I see advertising new movies if for comic book characters, chickflix, juvenile "comedies" and cheap horror films. In other words, crappola...I saw the Mel Gibson movies back in the 80's and found them unimpressive. I appreciate the review but I didn't need it to know I would pass on this bomb.

It's really a shame this movie was a bust. My father-in-law did most of the special effects for Road Warrior. He was working on Mad Max 4, which would have had Mel Gibson in it, in Africa when the political climate got too nasty and they scrapped the film entirely.

I wanted this movie to at least have good effects in it.

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I am at the point in life where all Hollywood movies seem like cartoons for kids.

"cut out the scene with them milking the obese women to feed the troops"
didn't wanna go see MM till now.

Pay for popcorn? You need to find a theater that has free,nor at least discounted refills. Then just visit the trashcan and snag a few empties... Works great on dates, just say "Here, let me get you a popcorn and drinks and you go find the seats."

Though the social aspects of going to movie theaters are grand. Just pick someone you do not know, sit in the seat next to them, and strike up a conversation about your love of gladiator movies.

Caj, if you like Theron, AT ALL; you need to round up a copy of "2 Days in the Valley". It is way before she was a hypocrite, and so modest.

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Shame most of you here that have seen it don't like it as I was looking forward to seeing it. I think now I'll give it a pass and maybe rent the original instead as I haven't seen it in years.

G F, I swear, I have been all over Wyoming at least six times through the years;..... talked to every form of human I came in contact with; while at the post office, motels, grocery stores, campgrounds, rural country farms; everywhere.
Most all of them had a dog in the pickup, and a rifle in the window rack, (like it should be), and all the conversations seemed "regular".

And; it is with a peculiar admiration; of some, (most) of your posts, that I say: "I never met anybody in WY. like you" !

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Heh heh,one thing I was going to add but you did--is they are pro-second amendment. Ill never watch anything new with sean penn again though but--will watch: Fast Times At Ridgement High--and maybe one other film. Id hate to throw away perfectly good dvds.I thought that Jolie did an excellent job with Unbroken.I hope she does more of this type of movie in the future.

The above is the way I feel about most of the junk they churn out these days--Disney is on my no see list--except for the future Star Wars installments--and they will probably screw those up too. Ptrior to the four mentioned earlier--the only two other movies I had seen in ages I liked-were: The Three Stooges and also Star Trek. Prior to that,the last new movie I saw in theater--I THINK was Titanic or Saving Private Ryan.

True, many films today are based on comic books, i.e. Marvel.

But also some fine feature films have been produced in the last several years: American Hustle, The Town, The Departed, Bridesmaids, End of Watch, Nightcrawler, The Drop, Argo, Changeling, J. Edgar, Public Enemies, Money Ball (?), Zero Dark Thirty (?)--just to name a few besides those already mentioned.

After seeing the original Mad Max, years ago, I did not like it so I had no interest in seeing a remake, given the way that genera of movies seems to be goin' these days. We have cable and in 6 months or so, it will be on TV...save the few dollars and time, pop your favorite popcorn...not the bagged kind, and watch the movie, in 10 minutes, you change it to something you are familiar with and like!