FURY ROAD COMIC CON TRAILER IS HERE!

[Mad_Diekhoff]

I wonder how many kids in the real world will emulate Max's actions in that scene, using real animals?

No, not only the psychotic ones. Movies and TV shows teach viewers what is and isn't normal behavior. Abundant studies exist which demonstrate that viewers, especially young viewers, become desensitized to the violence they see on screen and are more likely to act out that violence in real life.

But this is really a much larger issue than whether or not some kids will literally stomp on animals because they watched that scene. It is a much, much larger issue about having respect for animal life and not snuffing it out for no damned reason.

No trying to add oil to the fire but max has done worse things than stomping a lizard. He killed alot of people in the original movies. Aren't children replicating those acts?
I've seen alot of action/horror (violent) movies as a kid, played shooter videogames and so on and i turned out reasonably normal.

I'm sure if we all had access to V8 interceptors as 8 year olds, vigilante justice would have been had against many a schoolyard bully...

[Lonewolf]

I hate to admit this, but I am slowly slowly beginning to understand why the studios and perhaps even George Miller opted to move the franchise along without Mel Gibson. From a financial standpoint, they wanted a bigger name of this generation attached to this relaunch of a classic character, one who at this stage does not carry as much negative weight as Mel currently does (Although I think people should let that go already, people are entitled to redemption). Second, after such a long period of a gap of 30 years from the franchise (and from what I remember it was Mel who had originally walked away from doing another Mad Max all these years until this script came along) this was an opportunity to get the franchise going again with a clean slate in terms of reintroducing this character to this generation and keeping a more certain potential for future installments (what if Mel did this one, and then checked out from doing another?) the backlash would have been worse if Mel did this, then in two years they had to recast if this relaunch was a huge success and Miller is too old to wait another 10 years to try and do this again (he probably could, but I don't think he would or even should). At least this way with a gap this large, they can have a "smoother" transition as it were. In the end it's all about the money, however I can lean towards the latter part of my conclusion regardless of it being the right or wrong decision. But I will keep the image of Mel Gibson's Mad Max attached to the excitement of my youth and watching it for the first time. I will watch this with a different kind of enthusiasm and excitement after watching this trailer. Hope the rest of the film is just as good. If not better.

[Bad cop]

My reaction to the trailer:

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I've probably watched the trailer over 10 times today. My mind was blown. I am so excited!!! I've been waiting for this film since I was in middle school back in the early 2000's and now it is finally here! A part of my life is now complete. If someone were to ask me the meaning or purpose of life I would probably say "Mad Max."

As for this thread, I don't think I have the time or patience to put my two cents into everything that is being said, but I definitely had to note my reaction to the trailer.

[flightsuit]

Take a kid who's been exposed to too much lead paint while his brain was still forming, a kid who got hit a lot by his parents, and saturate his mind with violent TV shows and movies, and you might very well get a different result.

then isn't the problem the lead paint and abuse, rather than the movies and tv shows? i mean, assuming you agree that the vast majority of people who watch entertainment that contains violent imagery do not replicate those acts.

When a problem has co-occuring factors that work in concert to produce a result, there is only so much benefit to parsing the causes. The truth is there are, in fact, a lot of kids out there with neurological issues, and a lot of kids out there whose parents are modeling for them violence as a normal behavior. I think it might be naive to suggest that exposing them to lots of violent entertainment can't exacerbate the problem.

As for the kids who aren't being abused and don't have neurological issues, I'd have to use Google to find the research, but off the top of my head, I do believe there are studies that demonstrate even perfectly normal, untroubled children become more aggressive when exposed to violent entertainment.

But, again, this is all moot in my book as long as MMFR is not glorifying the needless killing of animals. I want the Mad Max universe to be violent, much, much more so than Beyond Thunderdome was, because it won't be Mad Max if it's not horrific. I know they're saying this will be a PG13 movie in the US, but I would prefer a proper R rating and the accompanying violence, effects on society be damned.

[Yok]

[quote="BRC1974"]Who is this?


My guess is that this is the Bullet Farmer.

[Tio Von Hale]

I wonder if when Furiosa says to Max "You wanna get through this?" She completes it by saying "you talk to me"...

HAHA I was thinking the same thing! Good call.

[Taipan]

Who is this?


My guess is that this is the Bullet Farmer.

Same here. Looks like a guy with an overabundance of weapons, plus it doesn't seem like Ripcharge takes part in the chase with the others.

[Yok]

Same here. Looks like a guy with an overabundance of weapons, plus it doesn't seem like Ripcharge takes part in the chase with the others.

Looks like there might be an interesting altercation with the character at night, which looks to be a great difference from the rest of the movie being bathed in blue.

But I slowed down and screencapped around 90 still from the trailer, and I found this:



Looks like the Ripcharger there on the left!

(We need better BBCode so we can thumbnail shit)

[MWFV8]

I'm torn.

On the one hand I'm seeing this absolutely awesome desert chase movie, packed with real vehicles, amazing stunts, and remarkable creativity.

On the other hand I'm seeing this fantasy comic book movie where they've taken a pinch of Mad Max branding and lost that harrowing touch with reality.

The moments that stick out for me are the radio snippets, the shots like the girl dropping from the tanker cab, Furiousa kneeling hopeless in the dunes, the guy seemingly suicide bombing a spike covered car, and the car transporter racing along with the chase.

But then this is trailer released at a comic fan convention, it's going to play to that audience.

I kind of feel a little sad and empty, I think it's because this trailer now means we can draw a distinct line between the original Mad Max films and a whole new franchise. It's like those old films, particularly Road Warrior, now suddenly feel dated and insignificant.

It was inevitable, WB have nailed it, this is the perfect movie to sell tickets, Miller has given them a bargain for $100m. I'm just a little taken back with how distanced and indifferent this trailer has made me feel.

I'm looking forward to the actual movie trailer, I'm expecting that to have more of a narrative in terms of story. So I'm going to just enjoy the explosions until then.

[Artemis Flow]

Well it was good for me " lights cigarette "

I have tabs on first calling that car Ripcharge BTW