• jet@hackertalks.com
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    5 months ago

    If it’s a good movie more people will go to see it. Opening weekend is a reflection of the hype machine and expectations

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

    But a good movie will be good, and people will tell their friends, so let’s see what happens next weekend.

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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.