I have opinions...
First, fair warning: I have not and will not see the trailer for this new movie.
I'm already in; I don't want or need the potential spoilers.
Fury Road is literate best Mad Max movie.
I need to preface this...
When I first heard Fury Road was coming, my jaded thought was "oh great a pathetic attempt to cash in on the nostalgia from of our youth." ETA: I may have also said some unkind things about George Miller, for which I am sorry.
Later,
a certain segment of people convinced me i SHOULD see it, purely so
I wouldn't be associated with them.
I was glad I did, because that movie was effin' Amazing!
Unpopular opinion incoming....
Fury Road is... I was going to say "the worst
Mad Max movie." But... that's not true.
Fury Road is not a Mad Max Movie. And that's totally fine.
It's perhaps the
best movie in Miller's oeuvre (though I really like Babe). But it's not a
Mad Max movie. It was a sideways spinoff into a new property. A
fantastic new property. The Furiosa Saga. Special Guest Star, Mad Max.
Thunderdome was a great movie, but as a kid I disliked it. Not enough car stuff. As an older fella, I fell in love with its worldbuilding.
Road Warrior is the best of the three Mad Max movies, but it's not better than the first Furiosa Movie.
Honestly this is a really bad time for dystopia movies, the real world is feeling pretty dystopian already, between this and the Fallout series I could use an optimistic hopeful series like a Star Ship Mage series.
I get you. But I think there's levels to this. This isn't a reboot of 1984 or Brave New World, and these days just a trailer for those would tempt me to self-harm. But this is an excuse for violence and car crashes.
They also iirc had to dub OVER mel's voice due to his aussie accent at the time
But it's set in Australia.
The movie was dubbed with American voice actors for the initial U.S. release, as the original actors' Australian accents and colloquialisms were deemed too opaque. Gibson provided his own dubbing, since he was born in America and could recall his old accent when needed.
EDIT: Also The film was meant to show the dangers of reckless driving.
You said everything I was gonna say, but man... the first time I heard the Sarge's real voice (I have a DVD with an original voice track)... oh how I laughed. It doesn't match his scary demeanor at all.