If you’ve noticed some of my bitching recently (Celebitching!), you’ve probably figured out that I’m pretty much over the apocalypse and all film and TV projects that are about post-apocalyptic futures. I’m just tired of it. Maybe it’s my age. I don’t know. But whenever I see all of the gritty nonsense and the destruction of great cities, I’m just like… meh. I don’t want to think about it. Maybe that apocalyptic future will happen in my lifetime and maybe I should have been stocking up on beef jerky and machine guns this whole time, but I guess I’ve just never been into the “fantasy” of post-apocalyptic life.
So, with all that being said, are you excited about Mad Max: Fury Road, starring shaved-head Charlize Theron and beefy Tom Hardy? I think Tom looks great and Charlize looks fierce, but I won’t be seeing this. At all. I never saw the original either. Entertainment Weekly put Charlize and Tom on the cover this week, and they have a bunch of new production stills – go here to see. Here’s an excerpt from the cover article:
Thirty-five years ago, George Miller re-imagined the action movie with his visceral, dystopic 1979 debut Mad Max, starring a 23-year-old Mel Gibson in one of his first movie roles. Flash forward two sequels and many decades later and the 69-year-old Miller returns with a new cast and a story that is sure to take the road chase to an entirely new realm of chaos and carnage.
In an exclusive first look at the May 2015 film in this week’s Entertainment Weekly, we talk to Miller about what prompted his return to the beloved franchise: a story that popped into his head fully formed back in 2000 but that took more than a decade to realize. This time, Tom Hardy takes over for Gibson as the very damaged road warrior Max Rockatansky, while a shaved-headed Charlize Theron plays a bad-ass commander named Imperator Furiosa. The stars spent a harrowing seven months in the desert of Namibia to shoot the film.
“It was mental in a brilliant way,” says Hardy. “You have no concrete, no coffee shops. We were in the middle of a sandpit.”
Crap, I forgot that it’s not going to be released until MAY 2015!!! They filmed this in 2012. My take: three years between filming and release date means that this movie is a mess. Oh, and this is being released just two weeks after the release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Do you think Mad Max will come to play? Probably not.
Photos courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.
I will see it, simply because I enjoyed the original and I’m hoping they do it justice. Also Tom Hardy.
Im with you on not supporting these “HEY LETS DECIMATE A CITY FOR LULZ” movies anymore (im looking at you Superman and Michael Bay and That new crass ass Tornado movie in the middle of a horrific time for that part of the country ffs!)
Chalize and Tom look deliciously hardcore Tho!
I don’t mind seeing the post-apocalypse – I think it’s interesting to think about how society would build itself back up. It’s just the endless bangings and blowings up and CGI fireballs of the actual apocalypse that bore me rigid. I’m afraid I sit there picking my nose every time New York or London falls.
PS: The Bloke could never be boring. Never insinuate that again.
He is hot on that cover! I never liked the original movies so I won’t see this one either, however… Tom Hardy is great <3
Am I allowed to change my nick to Hardy Forever… Lol
I agree with Kaiser. This dirty, gritty, weapon infused, shaved head, end of the world nonsense had been done to death. Pass.
Boring.
I’ll have probably watched “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” for the fifth time by the time this one finally opens — which is when I’ll be watching “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” for the sixth time.
Plus, I can’t Theron anymore. Not that I was ever a fan, but lately she’s been bugging the ever living sh*t out of me.
But it has the Bloke! You’re like a CGI-addict, ain’tcha?!
I’ve never been into this particular bloke, Sixer…sorry? By the way, I’m a sci-fi addict, not necessarily a CGI crazy.
And I’m a terrible mood today — got mugged yesterday (at gun point) when I was coming back from a class. Not funny but they (two guys in a motorcycle) didn’t take anything, the skinny one who tried to grab my backpack failed at doing so (I was firmly grabbing it by one of its strips).
I think the gun was a toy otherwise he — the one with the gun — would have shot me.
This happens all the time here — the “two guys in a motorcycle” robbery — one drives while the other tries to rob people whether they’re on foot or in their cars or on motorcycles themselves. I guess I was lucky (or crazy for reacting, you pick). But, in all honesty, they’re the ones who got lucky: had they successfully robbed me, all what they’d find in my backpack was papers, some change, an old cell phone and my documents (I.D., social card number, a credit card that only works with a password…). Dumbasses.
Aieee. Have a bigger than big smooch from me. And another. And another.
Do you read sci-fi, too? My mother was an addict.
No…I prefer seeing it (sci-fi), you know?
And I’m calm now — heck, I was calm yesterday when I went to the supermarket (after their failed attempt at robbing me). I’m just…sad now.
I was angry when it occurred (that’s why they gave up and fled, maybe?…), but afterwards I was rather ok. Or maybe in shock. I don’t know. It was weird. They jump at you so aggressively. Had he pointed the gun at me and “announced” the robbery, you know, asking me calmly and politely, I might have handed him my backpack. But their aggressiveness made me only angry and aggressive myself, not scared.
I’m pissed at the unfairness of it, you know? — I’m flat broke right now and two idiots still tried to rob me? I wasn’t dressing “fancy” either…what the hell were those two jackasses thinking? The skinny one (with the gun) called me “you whore” while they’re fleeing. I replied with “and you’re a f*cking cowardly asshole, a “f*cking cowardly thief.”
Such a glamorous life I live, non? And now I have to leave and go study for a test a very “sensitive” teacher scheduled for a day when she KNOWS there’s a bus strike going on here.
FML.
I honestly don’t know what to say. How awful. And here’s me whinging to myself that nobody emptied the dishwasher last night and I had to do it. You’re glamorous to me, missy.
It’s all right. But I have to go now.
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@Eve
Glad you are ok! Yes dumbasses! Once I was at the post office and then one robber entered there and pointed a gun to an employee asking for money. It came out later (he was caught by police) that the gun was a toy but the employee who had the gun pointed at had a heart attack after the robber left… So no matter how fake that gun could seem to others but when you are there you don’t think it is a joke….
Scary stuff Eve, I’m glad you’re okay. Good luck on your test.
@Eve, so glad you are safe and so sorry that you had to endure that.
Hey Eve—
So sorry about your awful experience!
I hope that when you come on to the Bitchy, you feel cheered up and supported.
Here’s sending you some warm wishes and good thoughts!
F.
I’m ok, guys. Thanks for your support.
I still think the gun was a toy but I described it to a friend and he said it looked like it could have been a real one (and the dude was out of bullets, or it jammed…) because it looked like a “.635 gun” to him — it’s very small, fits in the hand perfectly.
Thanks for your support but we have a saying in Brazil that states: “a bad/useless vase never breaks”. Maybe that’s what going on with me (this is the second time I’ve been mugged, both times i reacted — this one was the first at gun point though).
I’m sort of over the whole end of the world thing myself.
However, an apocalypse just occurred in my lady bits area after seeing Hardy all dirty, oily, and bloody and…*dead*
So do i love…so do i!
Stop with the remakes already. I’m not seeing this. I’m done with post-apocalyptic movies – I just paid $15.00 for the effin Rover and I want to put my head in the oven now. (Somebody pass me alcohol, please.)
*passes PunkyMomma her half-empty mimosa*
Bless you, my child. (Chugs mimosa)
I would see this for Tom Hardy,because he is talented and right at the top of my er, “F” List. I love him when he is dirty and angry.I love him anytime.
I agree that this movie won’t be a career defining moment for either star but I would watch Hardy drool into a cup for an hour and a half, so yeah, I’ll watch it.
Tom Hardy was f#ckin good in Locke. unbelievable! That showed me again he’s one of the biggest! I hope this role will do him justice.
I had actually forgotten about this film.. I love Mel in Mad Max..
Wondering why they got the ET cover so early. I guess to build buzz that is not out there. hmm not sure if I will see this in theater.
Well 2015 is a long way.. so I have time to decide.
I love Hardy in Mad Max. He’s great and definitely will do a fantastic job!
Lordie he has a purty mouth. 😉
I know, adorable!
This is why I liked Snowpiercer. The apocalypse has already happened. They treat as, “Yeah that happened. It sucks outside, don’t go out there.” Then they get on telling their story, which was entertaining and , though obvious, thought provoking.
Also Chris Evans is super hot in it. Dirrrrrrrrrrty hotttttt.
Seeing it next weekend!
My celebitching about these films is why no one takes the time to imagine a different dystopia for each film. We can’t all be such sheeple that entire world will look the same. There are plenty of failed dystopia states around the world and they don’t all look alike.
Yes! They don’t all have to be industrial wastelands.
I’m not sure why everyone is having problems with post apocalyptic movies/TV shows? Don’t people here watch The Walking Dead? That’s post apocalyptic. Planet of The Apes movies are post apocalyptic,those are still a big hits.
Sign me up for all the post-apocalyptic books and movies going. Love them. One of the best I’ve read was called Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Deathland series are also fun to read. Don’t watch TWD because I rarely watch TV.
I’m definitely in the minority. I love apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic movies and TV shows – complete distruct-arama and the break down of society. And, I love sci-fi. I don’t mind the cgi stuff either, as long as it’s not horrible (no Michael Bay!). So, I’m sure I’ll see this.
Actually, I love watching old buildings being torn down, too. So, I guess I’m just weird.
My post-apocalyptic sister. Planet of the Apes, Mad Max , Hunger Games, hell I liked Waterworld.
The comment about no coffee shops made me laugh. Hardy’s gone soft.
Yeah, i laughed my ass off! Hilarious! O, i loooooove Tom, he’s so real<3
I love post-apocalyptic movies/books. And I love Tom Hardy but I can’t muster up any interest for this movie.
I don’t think Mad Max is going to lose much money. But I am terrible at predicting this stuff. I was so sure Noah was going fail. But it didn’t hence many othercgi bloated movies based on religious books. I don’t know why but it depresses me.
Tom Hardy dirty, beardy and lean, oh yeah I’m definitely seeing it.
I don’t know if I can watch her in a movie. I really haven’t liked her in anything.
Yes to Tom, no thanks to Theron. I may see this, but only as a rental bluray.
Charlize Theron has weird nose holes. Maybe is the blow, like Lainey suggested.
I didn’t need a reboot of Mad Max.
The original worked just fine.