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No Max , so what?

posted a month ago by moviechatterer (13558)
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Why are people so hung up wether "Max" is the hero of a movie set in this universe

"Max" was never the star of the show , the post apocalyptic world and the car chases are.
Mel Gibson just filled in a character to show us this world .
Nothing special about his character , or Mels acting .

One reason seems to be that the title has "max" in it. well so what ? would it make it ok if the whole series of movies had been called "Oil war 1 /2 /3 " ?

Do you refuse watch other Post Apocalyptic films because they dont have Mel/Max in ?
whats the difference?

They have slightly addressed this in the wording of the movie name ,
but not enough to stop people saying "Mad Max movie with no max hur hur hur stoopid . I boycott"

As a fan of Post Apocalyptic films I will watch this one and form on an opinion based on its merits , not its title and relationship to some previous movies.

[–] Oblivioid (1254) a month ago

The producers and George Miller know the film won't sell as well without Mad Max in the title. No need to boycott anything, I haven't even seen anything about that. Fury Road turned out to be one of the greatest action spectacles of all time, so a great chance Furiosa will be awesome too.

Just stop the frontin' though, Mel Gibson made the character what it is, and these new films are standing on the shoulders of giants. No need to act like there's nothing special about the 80's films.

[–] moviechatterer (13558) a month ago

yeah those films were great, and Mel did an ok job.
George Miller (and that other guy who died) made the films "special"
Hence fury road also being awesome without Mel , and even with Tom Hardy not being as good as Mel the film still rocked.

I'm trying to dis the originals , I'm just saying that sequels without a) Max or b) Mel can be just as good.