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Article: ‘Megalopolis’: Francis Ford Coppola’s Opus Is the Laughingstock Everyone Feared
I hear it's decent action but a weak storyline
This or Crimson Tide?
All right, what artist spent 46 seconds drawing the movie poster?
This or The Hunt For Red October?
Furiosa - U.S. TV Spot ('beloved ruler')
Furiosa: U.S. TV Spot (Dementus)
He chooses to be in the line of fire
Furiosa: - U.S. TV Spot ('epic battle')
Finally! Here's a NEW Mad Max Film about..Mad Max!
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It was mostly Spielberg. They loved their new kid wunderkind as he was the opposite of difficult directors like William Friedkin.
They also knew it would be a very difficult shoot so they gave him the whole summer to figure it out. I think Universal took a good look at the success of French Connection, Godfathers, and The Exorcist and thought Jaws/Spielberg was a gamble worth taking.
She wouldn't allow the district attorney(or anyone else in the court room)to use a cell phone but she didn't abide by her own rules. So, Clyde took advantage of this.
Prob just an exhibition fight, they won't do any real damage but they will make millions.
Fury Road was a big summer release, they had a huge marketing campaign and George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron went on an extensive press tour. It wasn't overlooked it was in all the theaters in Imax, 3D and standard formats. Because it had decent action it did ok at the box office.
<b>Fury Road a masterpiece? No, if it was a masterpiece it would have made a TON of money. It's just so-so.</b>
Miller is still adding pre-production storyline elements from Mad Max 3. Byron Kennedy drafted them up before he died in a helicopter crash. Miller has simply floundered without him.
I think Nicholson is the goat as he consistently delivered hit after hit in FIVE different decades. Pacino was consistent until around 1995 that's when his yelling at the end of the movie schtick wore thin. DeNiro also petered out around the mid 90's.
Keitel is similar to Nicholson, maybe not in talent but he's been very good over SIX decades. Bad Lieutenant and Reservoir Dogs in the same year. Then The Piano and Pulp Fiction the next 2 years. Then Smoke and Blue in the Face the next year. It'd be hard to find another star, even Nicholson, who delivered so many powerful performances in just a few short years.
1. Mad Max 2
2. Mad Max
3. Beyond Thunderdome(but it mostly sucked)
4. Furiosa(it's gotta be better than lame Fury Road)
5. Fury Road
It's funny I saw Fury Road twice in the theater and once at home and I can't tell you much about the storyline.
If I had to explain it to my niece I'd say the good guy is a captive until halfway through the movie, he somehow gets loose, teams up with some bald woman, turns the truck around, and takes out the bad guy with an oxygen mask on his face.
The only fun part of the movie is some skinny guy with white paint all over his body and he pours gasoline all over his body but unfortch never lights himself up.
It won't bomb but there's not a lot of buzz, the last one really was pretty weak and didn't make much money. If Fuirosa was truly a good movie it would make some serious coin but George Miller hasn't "directed" a great movie in decades. Byron Kennedy was the secret sauce and with him out of the picture theres, well, no picture.
Unfortunately Hamill had that horrible accident in his corvette in which 90% of his face got ripped off along with 1st degree burns over half his body. Can't act after that trauma.
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