I think it's interesting that George Miller, who, for example, is only four years younger than Dario Argento, and three years older than John Carpenter, was able to make a film like Mad Max: Fury Road in his late sixties (the film was shot in 2012, I believe, and, of course, released this year).
Yes, but let's not forget that Miller probably had top guys working in Hollywood now, including at least several zeros on his budget. Argento does not. He now has Italian TV filmmakers and only 2-3 zeroes on his budget. Big difference.
What is amazing about Mad Max: Fury Road is that it has a kind of wild creativity, and propulsive energy, of a film made by a director half Millers age. Its not only bigger, but arguably, better, and louder than the previous three Mad Max films, which isn't usually the case with a film franchise by the time it gets to the fourth entry.
Read previously what I said about "wild creativity". Also, better then Road Warrior? I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, it's not terrible, but it's not that great either. It's just overhyped and overglorified mindless action movie because it has female lead, which seems to be popular now. Better not dare to call a movie for what it is if it has female lead unless you want to be called sexist and misogynist. Correct me if I am wrong.
Fury Road also shows that Miller isn't afraid to embrace modern techniques; using advanced visual effects, make-up, and prosthetics in conjunction with what made the Mad Max series famous in the first place; real vehicular stunts and carnage.
again, how much did he really work on that, and how much the other guys (young guys) have actually worked on that?
Argento and Carpenter were, arguably, at their creative peak half their lifetime ago (the same could have been said for Miller before 'Fury Road'), making genre films in the seventies and eighties, with Argento and Carpenter having a steady decline in the quality of their filmic output and bankability. Miller, while making fewer films, had commercial success due to working with more mainstream, and family-friendly, material all the while working on his magnum opus; Fury Road.
Yeah, there's no excuse for Carpenter. He's still big name in America, he can get pretty much anyone and any budget if he really wish it. It's no wonder that Carpenter doesn't make movies anymore, I guess his muse is gone.
What would it take for Argento, or Carpenter, to make their own Fury Road? Imagine a modern $100 million dollar version of 'Suspiria', or even The Thing, which is basically what At the Mountains of Madness would have been with Guillermo del Toro, but why couldnt it have been spearheaded by John Carpenter himself? I know The Thing was a commercial failure at the time of its release, but still.
I would imagine if they had that $100 millions and legion of young people to do their work for them while they only gave instructions, they would probably make their own "Fury Road", but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
Maybe Argento and Carpenter, unlike Miller, have simply become jaded by the film-making process, and or studio interference? George Miller has proven, to me, that a film director does not necessarily lose it with old age if they are passionate about their ideas.
It is possible that both happen. Alto, Argento never really5b4 gave two monkeys about "he said, she said". He did what he wanted to do when it comes to themes, he never went for "what would audiences like?". Can't say that for Miller tho, otherwise he would have Mad Max movie, not Furiosa movie instead.

I like George Millier usually but curiously i didn't like too much "Fury Road"and i like the first two "Mad max"!!
"Fury road" has some good action bits (especially the last half hour) but i didn't care about the characters, story, and Tom Hardy was too woodensome CGI were too obvious and the action bits too hysterical sometimes (early action scenes especially)i missed the bleak nihilistic tone of the first "Mad Max" and Mel Gibson's presence but i was i guess an ok action movie for the 21st movie!
Argento doing a 100 millions budget movie??i would be curious to see this but i'm not sure that he is interested by doing blockbusters, mainstream works, he tends to prefer intimate, "indie" stuff where he has (mostly) total freedom without big studios pressure (despite the budgets being mostly low especially in his late works)
Argento or even Carpenter aren't mainstream in their minds enough to direct big budgets, even if Carpenter tried a few times in his career ("Big trouble in Little China", "Memoirs of an invisible man", "Starman")
Carpenter and Argento movies are too anxious and bleak with ambiguous endings often (not like "Fury Road" ending on a happy note, for example) to be done with huge budgets in Hollywood, i guess!
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