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Man that second half sucks anus..

posted 10 years ago by Marjeez
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I love the first half. I was like "why do people hate this movie? It's awesome!"
Then what happened? The story turns to complete crap. Even the end sequence is disappointing. The end in general has a lot of things that make absolutely no sense. I wonder if they were forced to make this PG-13? Compare the violence of Road Warrior to this. This felt like a cartoon at times.

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[–] haikela 10 years ago

It turned to crap the moment those stupid kids showed up.

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[–] Shiddy 10 years ago

yeah the kids sucked.. but the whole Bartertown thing was worth it lol

[–] DBLurker 9 years ago

Movie should've taken place in and around Barter Town. Those kids were seriously out of place for a bloody Mad Max movie.

Whole movie was toned down. They seemed to be aiming for PG-13.

[–] franzkabuki 9 years ago

Yeah they tried to turn it into a big Meaningful Epic and the results are silly, corny and mostly terribly tedious; very little of the rawness and grit of the first two films in evidence here. Even the otherwise excellently filmed climactic chase/action sequence is spoiled by excessive campiness. The whole thing feels like a typical 80's blockbuster, by and large.

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[–] antonasmodeus 8 years ago

Well the film did have two directors: George Miller for all the cool action scenes and George Ogilvie for the sappy crap with the kids. Makes sense why the movie wasn't very popular.

[–] TheArgentinian (7109) 5 years ago

It's like they mixed 2 different scripts into one.

[–] Mulletor (533) 4 years ago

If I wanted to watch "Lord Of The Flies" I would have watched THAT movie.

[–] ebhaynz (3689) 4 years ago

I read an article that said the brains behind the whole Mad Max success was Byron Kennedy. Byron had been to Hollywood and learned how to craft a story line. Unfortunately, Byron died in a helicopter accident while scouting locations for Mad Max 3. Miller was so depressed he didn't want to make Thunderdome, he didn't even have a story. He ended up using bits and pieces from discarded Mad Max 2 story lines, one of which were the lost kids.

Also, I believe some teenager sent Miller a screenplay or book, and he ended up using some of that as well. During filming of Mad Max 3 Mel Gibson told a reporter: "don't tell anyone, but this film is a piece of sh!t."

[–] moviechatterer (15787) 3 years ago

nah the kids came from some other post apocalyptic movie that was being kicked around ,
and some bright spark said "lets put it in the mad max universe"

[–] Bateman (601) 3 years ago

I think the saddest part is, the kids could have worked, if they didn't apparently think their being in the film meant you should have kids in the audience as well.

I mean, a tribe of nearly-feral children who grew up with no adults around in a post-apocalyptic world is not, in and of itself, a bad concept; they just should have treated it with the same seriousness as everything else and kept a consistent tone, instead of going full "80s children's adventure" once they appear on screen.

[–] TandyMan (11120) 3 years ago

Very interesting. I didn't know about the tragedy and different creative influences at the helm. No wonder this movie is the way it is. Glad Miller got another crack at it with Fury Road. That must have been cathartic for him.