The only reason Mel wasn't cast is because Miller got cold feet. Like Ford is to Indy, Max is Mel is Max. There's a certain charm in the low-budget Aussie flicks that made Fury Road seem like a big budget, soulless, recast, reboot. Hence the comparison to George Romero's Land of the Dead to...
Are they, though? I agree with jye. :lol
As for Blade Runner, I didn't like it better than the original, but I felt it did a nice job of keeping the story going without bastardizing the original. Something most sequels can't claim - RoboCop included.
Currently reading your personal loathing in the TLJ thread. :rotfl
Kinda feel like I've been cheating with the super hot, slutty girl at work, as Guardians of the Galaxy has been giving me my Star Wars fix. :lol
I look at it like a sympathy ****. WB's track record has been horrendous up until BvS. They turned Superman into Goku Black, did a decent job with BvS to bring him around and thankfully killed him off (Batman rescuing Martha was worth the price of admission alone). Wonder Woman was good. And...
I know Bane's Fury Road was a box office smash, but IMO, despite Miller, it failed to capture the magic of the originals (yes, even Thunderdome :lol). Max is Mel is Max. That and the bigger budget made it seem to the franchise what Land of the Dead seems to Romero's original trilogy. That...
I dunno. The second could've been much worse. If that's the bar, despite Follywood's current track record, there's a slim possibility they could do it. Especially if Weller returns. Granted, it's as likely as someone with sciatic twitching threading a needle, but there are a small handful of...
Unfortunately, as much as we'd like the tongue-in-cheek politics of the original, I have a sneaking suspicion we'd see them re-write the script to either see RoboCop persecuted for his form of justice, or doing a Magnum Force spin with a pro-BLM agenda, in an attempt to demonize law enforcement...