Favourite Mad Max movie

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, May 2, 2009 20:50
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CHRISISALL

Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:10 PM

I think the trilogy is just awesome, but my favourite is the last one. It has a special ethereal quality for me (although Max's Ford Falcon is nowhere to be seen in it ). Maybe it's Maurice Jarre's completely inappropriate & amazing score...or Blaster's face...I dunno.

The laughing Chrisisall

KWICKO

Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:01 PM

Road Warrior, hands down!

You don't mess with the Humongous.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

WHOZIT

Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:15 PM

"Road Warrior" They say people don't believe in heros anymore, well lets give them back their heros!

ECGORDON

Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:20 PM

Road Warrior, no doubt about it.

Beyond Thunderdome is as bad an ending to the trilogy as Revolutions was for The Matrix.

WHOZIT

Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:54 PM

Animated sequel will be made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, April 20, 2009 12:54 AM

I gotta give the nod to Road Warrior - but the whole tale is your basic wandering samauri epic told from a different perspective, really.

Not that Thunderdome didn't have it's moments, like the "leave your weapons here" scene, and the kid holding up a train with dual wielded rifles, heh.

Actually one strange thing I noticed last time I watched it was The Collectors little blond flunky, she has the prettiest eyes, she does.
(she's the one in the "Face the Wheel" scene)

Tina Turner was epic as Auntie, too, especially at the very end.

-F

ANTHONYT

Monday, April 20, 2009 1:08 AM

Hello,

I always felt as though the first movie existed in a different universe or timeline from the other two.

The first movie has a comparatively normal society with property, police, courts, and even legal paperwork. It has a sort of 'wild west' feel where anything might happen outside the city, but marshalls of a sort exist to extend the arm of law and order. Commerce exists, with goods being transported by truck (if memory serves) and the law officers in the film receive regular pay. One of the characters even has a vacation house in the country if I recall.

The next two movies take place in post-apocalyptic wastelands where cities and civilizations are practically mythical. Only small strongholds controlled by gangs of people or regional lords seem to exist. The feel here is less Wild West and more Dark Ages. There is no sense that a real civilization exists anywhere.

Does anyone else get this feeling from the films?

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

KWICKO

Monday, April 20, 2009 1:18 AM

Anthony:

I always kind of took it that Mad Max took place as civilization crumbled, and the sequels took place after that crumbling was pretty much done. It does seem like they rather accelerated the rate of crumbling, but the end result didn't look too unrealistic, sadly...

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

KIRKULES

Monday, April 20, 2009 1:19 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
, but my favourite is the last one.

The laughing Chrisisall

This has got to be a joke. You may be the only human alive that thinks Thunderdome is better than Road Warrior. Even Mad Max it 10 times the movie Thunderdome is. Don't get me wrong , I enjoy Thunderdome, but come on dude it sucks when compared to the others.

COZEN

Monday, April 20, 2009 2:24 AM

Mad Max, the original movie, was far more poignant in its depictions of the spouse left at home alone during dangerous times, and the very real consequences of motorcycle and automobile wipeouts. George Miller got it right the first time.

Having said that, Road Warrior had the greater visceral appeal.

Thunderdome sucked rox, what with it's lack of a kewl car.

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