• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Opening weekend is a reflection of the hype machine and expectations

    Well, maybe they should have advertised it more. I didn’t hear anything about it until after it was released.

    Not having mad max in a mad max film probably didn’t help the opening weekend.

    Was there Mad Max in Fury Road?

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        5 months ago

        I guess I’m so used to having Mel Gibson as Mad Max that I didn’t really register that it was the same character.

        And isn’t that kind of the point, really? There was nothing in that movie that reflected Mad Max as a unique character, other than the “badass dude” heroic action-packed stereotype that we’ve seen represented in a hundred other movies. Hell, he talks so little in all of the movies that he might as well be one of those silent protags in an video game.

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          Fair enough, but madmax is literally the title character.

          Imagine a James bond film without James bond

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            Wouldn’t you want to see a prequel where you follow Q during college in similar vein to National Lampoon’s Animal House as well as a developing issue with the patent office where he tries to file more and more outlandish and dangerous inventions until British Secret Service finds out and recruits him?

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              That would be cool!

              Just don’t call it James Bond, if you call it James bond people will expect to see… James bond.

              Q: in her majesties service!

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                Imagine if they made a spin-off show from Better call Saul and named it : Saul - Chicken Run in a Winnebago and Saul barely showed up in it at all, maybe a few seasons in as a totally dismissable side character

                People might get disappointed even if this hypothetical spinoff was quite good.