![]() (The actor who plays Joe, by the way, appeared in the original Mad Max movie.) And there’s a whole army of nameless bad guys who willingly put themselves in harm’s way, and occasionally do things knowing it will result in their deaths, to please the main bad guy, Immortan Joe. There are lots of starving, thirsty people around. A bit later, we’re shown a grotesquely mutated man being put into some combination of protective suit/armor/life support system. The first scene of the movie has Max eat a live two-headed lizard, and includes a shot of the still-moving legs sticking out of his mouth. The “disturbing images” bit also definitely fits. There is also some blood along the way, but honestly a whole lot less than I expected. However, there’s only one overtly gory scene, and it’s almost at the end of the film. Many dozens of people are killed, lots of them in fiery explosions. Almost from the moment it starts, Fury Road is non-stop action and violence. The official reason given by the MPAA for Fury Road’s rating is for “intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images.” “Violence throughout” actually nicely sums it up. It’s a loud action movie with fast cars and lots of explosions, but it’s also rated R–so I wanted to help parents decide whether or not it’s safe to take the kids. Mad Max: Fury Road is now nominated for Best Picture of the Year at next week's Academy Awards.Mad Max: Fury Road roared into theaters this weekend, coming in second at the box office behind Pitch Perfect 2. It took over four more years to finally get the long delayed movie in theaters. Mad Max: Fury Road had to completely reschedule its shoot, and move everything from Australia, where the first three movies were shot, and uproot everything to the barren desert wastelands of Namibia in western Africa. And then it rained in an unprecedented way.And these beautiful flowers just covered the landscape." "We were to go out to Broken Hill again in the center of Australia. But the movie didn't make it very far through the production process, thanks to mother nature. It wasn't until 2010 that George Miller finally decided to cast a new Mad Max in Tom Hardy, bringing Charlize Theron in as Furiosa around the same time. While George Miller was attempting to get Mad Max 4 back off the ground, his leading man was arrested for drunk driving in a well publicized mishap, and he would go onto make headlines for his venomous anti-Semitic remarks. "Then Mel hit all that turbulence in his life." But then the actor had a serious meltdown in the press, which once again put a kibosh on the stalled sequel. And following its success, George Miller decided to once again resurrect his plans for Mad Max 4 starring Mel Gibson. His 2006 animated musical comedy Happy Feet went onto win Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards. studios and went to work on a family movie that couldn't have been more removed from the apocalyptic landscape of Mad Max if it tried. With Mad Max 4 out of commission, George Miller returned to Warner Bros. That's how it is in the film industry - you set to do things, you almost get there, and then something happens. The American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar, so we lost close to 25 percent of our budget within days, and we just couldn't recover that. George Miller explains how his movie came to a screeching halt. And if everything had of gone according to plan, it would have been in theaters summer 2001. ![]() ![]() The actor was signed on, and a story was firmly in place. The original Mad Max 4 starring Mel Gibson almost moved forward as a real movie twice. ![]()
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