Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Caravan of Garbage
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- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior allowed director George Miller to take the concepts and character from the 1979 original and really put the boot in. That meant a bigger myth, bigger stunts, bigger men, more butts cut out of leather trousers. And the result was a lot of the iconic imagery we know of the character even today. Forty years on it still holds up and it's influence has been felt across multiple other media properties. MAD MAX. Mad Max. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review
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#MadMax #Furiosa
I think I speak for everyone here when I say we'd happily take a 28-hour, multipart series on James' analysis of Fist Of The North Star.
But think of all the likes we'd have to leave to make it financially viable, we'd never recover
Seconded.
I'm already dead
Hard agree
Do it
7:03
I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED TO CORRECT THIS! There was no nuclear war between MM1 and 2. The war footage we see in the intro is a conventional war between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Persian Gulf before the events of Mad Max 1. That caused a global energy crisis that spiralled out of control.
This backstory was written by Terry Hayes - one of the screenwriters for MM2 and it's in a production document called The Preamble (it's like 5 pages long).
George Miller later clarified in an interview for Omni Screen Flights (1984) that he never intended for MM2 to be post-nuclear, because the movie would look completely different - totally barren landscape, no food no vegetation, fallout, people dying of diseases etc.
So he dropped the nukes after MM2 and later movies look exactly like after the nukes dropped.
But the first 2 films - they're pre-nuclear.
I shall now return to my nerd cave, thank you.
Name checks out.
Blue Harvest...
can you upload soon?
Love your channel
Thank you for that interessting piece of trivia.
"When all you have is a big steel boomerang everything looks like someone's forehead" Instant classic
I remember my dad telling me this when i was a kid
@@boccciEvery Australian kid was told this adage growing up.
I didn't expect to see Ben pull a gun on Maso in this video, but if I'm honest it was richly deserved.
I didn’t expect to see Mick Molloy either, but here we are
the disabled mechanic actor was Stephen Spears. I helped looked after him in his last days. He died from cancer at 54 just over 10 years ago. He was also a writer and wrote for TV shows like Hey Dad and Hey Hey it's Saturday. There was a scholarship set up in his name for aspiring writers.
interesting, r.i.p
Sad that he passed so early, but everything else about this post is cool as hell. He sounds like he was a great guy.
My headcanon states that all MM films take place in the present day. There was no big war or anything. This is simply Australia outside of the big cities. MM was 20 miles inland from Sydney. Road Warrior was 100 miles inland. Thunderdome was 200 miles inland.
What I realize now I want from this show is the Australian perspective. No other major review-show can offer this.
I have learned so much about Australia from this channel. It's glorious. :)
I'm Australian and even I don't know as much about it as they do
Quite true.
I love when they go heavily into super Aussie stuff while giggling about alienating what they know is a healthy sized American audience.
This movie really is such a *huge departure* from the first Mad Max. And I think it's one of those rare occurrences where *you appreciate both movies more* for their unique qualities.
Somewhat popular transition at the time. Very similar to Alien and Aliens and somewhat similar to T1 and T2.
Now that's a take I can get behind. It's not which is preferred, it's that they have their own competent styles to appreciate.
@@adamseidel9780 Call me crazy, but I always thought that T1 and T2 were VERY similar to one another. There was also a decade between films (both in, and outside of, story) so things were just bound to be different the second time around. Like Arnold's hairdo, for one thing.
@@boccci I'd be careful with that, we also got Ghostbusters II around the time...or all the Police Academys
@@jacob4920 T1 is very much a horror movie with an emphasis on the love story, while T2 is solidly action and leans more into the sci-fi.
"....and the road warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories." What a film!
"Grab that guy, rip the bum out of his pants, and let's go."- Nick Mason (as George Miller)
Also, a Shayne Topp cameo! Excellent...
wait where does shayne appear?? LMAO i didn't catch him
There's a moment where they mention crazy reddit stories and he pops in for just a second 💀 the youtube crossover that I never knew I needed.
Possibly the greatest quote in the history of the written word.
These aussie boys are true wordsmiths.
@@chriswho4232Ben is a smosh fan! They’ve included smosh clips in a bunch of the edits.
I like that James and Maso's solution to most problems is either a stick or a brick.
Just like the classic Australian adage, “if it can’t be solved with a stick or a brick, it can’t be solved”
The equivalent US adage being, of course, "if you can't duck it, f*ck it."
Fun Fact: George Miller specifically wanted an Australian breed as the dog in this movie since he was a fan of the Lassie and Benji films as a child. You can see that he is a big animal lover with his later movies Babe and Happy Feet.
When he sent his production assistants out to procure a dog, they eventually came across the Blue Heeler in the shelter. After adopting him, they brought him to the film set.
This event was later referred to by Miller as a "Blue Harvest", which funnily enough was the working title for the Original Star Wars
Bravo
Revenge of the Jedi was Blue Harvest, mate. Star Wars was an unknown quantity during the time of it's filming, being the first.
I've never heard "punchin' darts" as a euphemism for smoking. Amazing.
Check out Letterkenny lol
don’t think euphemism is right word, its just slang. “punching”is the act of smoking and then usually followed by the smoking product lol, for example, “punching cones”, which is just “smoking a bong” 😂and “cones” being what americans call a “bowl”.., but yea alot of people call cigarettes “darts” or “durries” here in australia, and usually said by the bogans or people saying it ironically.
@@liamfrr not quite but close, American are talking about joints when talking about cones, particularly the conical shaped ones. When they say bowl, they're usually referring to a bong or a pipe. Other than that you were spot on with silly American smoker slang
'Darts' are also an accepted form of currency in Australia, ie "Giz a dart an' I won't break ya face".
You need more letterkenny in your life. Nothing like a sun dart.
I just googled it and found out that the dog got cancelled in 2021 after some old videos resurfaced oh them using racial slurs with a hard arf. Bad bloke doggo
Real shame to see a good boy fall so far...
Honestly, I think his cancellation was bullshit. He's part heeler! He's allowed to use the hard arf! Damn woke police...
Awful bloke, and I was a fan
Come for the review, stay for the highly-specific local references.
I was worried because this one is mostly set in the desert that they wouldn’t pull it off but these bloody larrikin’s pulled it off!
I wonder how much Ben has learned about australian culture over the years of having to look up all the incredibly specific Australian references James and Maso make.
I roll with the fan theory of it's like the Dread Pirate Roberts where someone just takes up the name or if you don't know the heroes name for your story you say it was Mad Max.
There is a lot of feral children in Beyond Thunderdome. Any one of those could be the Max in Fury Road. There is a similar theory about James Bond just being a codename but the official cannon is that it's always the same guy and he goes around telling everyone his real name.
Personally I wouldn't consider Hot Rod (2007) to be in the Mad Max universe, but Ben made a really good argument for the case
The Andy samberg movie?
@@Malum09he could be talking about the other Hot Rod movie that came out in 2007
Man I live in Utah and it is not a far stretch of the imagination to think I could take a wrong turn off one of our highways and end up out in Nevada in the middle of a Mad Max apocalypse. In fact, its happened to most of us out here. The legend is real!
Well if they can't solve the water crisis and the GSL dries up you'll be living it.
Isn't that just Utah though?
It’s nuts to me that this franchise inspired Fallout, Fist of the North Star (and by extension JoJo) and Borderlands.
It’s like if the Sims was inspired by Neighbours
and Saw!
Damn it inspired fallout and JoJo and borderlands? That's cool and shocking!! Was not expecting that
Or if Jason Momoa's Aquaman was inspired by Home and Away
I thought it was understood that mad max was one of those cultural touchstones that put it's bits of influence into everything that came afterwards. Like dont mean to be rude but fallout especially and JoJo tangentially by being inspired by fist of the north Star are the more obvious cases of being inspired by mad max. I guess some people arent as content brained as i am @@jordank6546
"A Boy and his Dog" is closer to Fallout. The Vault with creepy dwellers, glowing ghouls, Dog sidekick, raiders, etc.
I was a kid when the Road Warrior came out in the US and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. That was when the cable movie channels were coming out and the Road Warrior was always playing. So I probably saw this movie 50 times before the 80's ended. And no one knew about Mad Max 1. They added Mad Max 2 to the title later, I believe. Might not have been a really a big box office success, but this was a huge iconic movie and still is to us old folks.
19:59 Agros Cartoon Connection aired on weekdays before school, not on Saturdays. More like Caravan of Dishonesty!
They sure did , but it was mostly too raunchy to even be on TV before 10pm!! Seeing now what I saw as a kid... man those jokes and lewd comments are all over the place.
I like the theory that the apocalypse is exclusively in Australia and the rest of the world is fine.
That or Australia is where the mad max movies take place and America is where the fallout series takes place since both have similar looks, vibes and backstorys of a lost cold war nuclear war and In both we never really know what goes in other countries outside of those two series as mad max is all on Australia while fallout is focused solely on America 😂.
Both The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome seemed to always be on television when I was a kid and as far as I knew were the only Mad Max movies. I wouldn't check out First Mad Max until I reached adulthood.
How cool is Dog? So cool I literally owned the same breed of dog for 13 years solely because she looked like Dog. Fantastic pup, very smart, very fun, cried my eyes out when she passed. Tried the red bandana and she hated it lol
Today I learned that “punching darts, means smoking and isn’t some obscure Australian sport.
I am incredibly disappointed.
What about bum darts? I hear that's fun.
5:53 Any dog with a neckerchief is an _utter_ badarse. Baddest of the bad boys.
The baddest of the bad boys, but also the goodest of the good boys at the same time.
The Humungous can't be Goose, but I like the idea of it being the justice loving Captain Macaffee from the original. It creates an interesting dynamic, I think. What happened that was so bad that it led him to be the very thing he most reviled?
The same thing that happened to the Max himself. The pillars of society kept on crumbling, Max as one of the last and best of the Bronze now descending into his own madness. The Bronze disbands without Max or Goose, I could see Mcaffee eventually leading his own tribe in the Wasteland. Humongous actually seems honorable if anything, which would scan with Macaffee still trying to have some sense of law and justice in this broken world.
Vernon Wells also went on to play another leather clad villain as Ransik, the main villain of Power Rangers Time Force and that's one of my most favorite pieces of trivia ever
Also, the villain in Commando which is amazing. Vernon Wells is like a Gary Oldman of B-movies, if hes in it its probably epic.
Time Force was a great series
@paragonjones13 recently did a rewatch as it was my first power rangers and it holds up pretty well
@@frankthepug3103 oooh!
I'll be honest, I expected the trivia section to mention Virginia Hey and her role in Farscape years after. Not sure why I expected that, but for some reason I did. Probably because I loved Farscape so much.
Anyway, cheers! Fun video.
I love her in Farscape so much!!!
Farscape is so good, or 'Aussie Muppets in Space' as I call it.
As a kid I saw a trailer for the Road Warrior and I wanted to see, but my parents wouldn't take me. Saw it on cable but didn't know it was part of series until much later. This is the definitive Mad Max film. I've seen fans that don't like the first one and those that don't like the later ones, but everyone (probably) agrees that this is a true Mad Max film.
Humongous never killed himself intentionally. He wasn't aware that the tanker ahead of him had made a U-turn several miles up the highway. He hit the nitro to catch up, not to intentionally kill himself in a spectacular fashion.
If there's ever a nuclear war incoming I'm gonna go hide in a Bdsm shop because apparently they all survived untouched in the future.
On the contrary, it seems they were the first things that were raided
Can you please do "A Boy And His Dog" for when the Fallout series premiers?
James: “We’re in it for exposure, but we’re also in it for money.”
Me: “Fiiiiiiine, I’ll leave a like.” 😊
Some of the cleanest meanest edit jokes in this one. Good job Ben!
Jason voorhees needs to give lord humongous some credit for his look.
Came out the same year 😂
@@andymc96
lord humongous premiered on Australian screens in 1981 jason didn't get his hockey mask until 1982.
One came before the other, and it WASN'T Voorheese!
The Iatola of rock ‘n’ rolla!!
@@bigkmoviesandgames The original Friday didn't even have Jason, till the ending.
You know what's really useful? When some nerd comes on and nitpicks something they think James and Maso got wrong.
For example, when I come in here and say that after watching The Road Warrior maybe a hundred times over the decades it never seemed to me like Humongous rammed the tanker on purpose. After slowing or stopping to mitigate some damage he'd activated nitro on his car to try to catch up with the tanker and was traveling at some incredible speed, he did not know Max had made a 180 u-turn and was now coming toward him instead of away from him, he'd just come over a hill of sorts and maybe didn't see the tanker until it was almost in his face, thus he did not have the time to react. Except maybe to scream and void his bowels in terror
Yeah I dont think he knew they'd turned around. Could kinda of combine the two and say he didn't know, was trying to catch up, saw it but was crazy and desperate enough to think he was indestructible at that point and just went for it.
@@AveragePicker Huh, that's a good point. Surely the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah would imagine himself being just fine in such a situation.
“Cutting the bum out of your pants” 😂
Humungus deciding to off himself at the end. The original "WITNESS ME!"
Love the Smosh Reddit cut at 14:23
First time I've ever heard Chadstone Shopping Centre mentioned in a RUclips video. Always surreal to hear mention of things so close to home online! 😅
As a gay leathermen, I really appreciated all of the gags about walking around "with the bum ripped outta ya pants" lmao 😂 😂
Are they editing this live? Wow! Well done. Well bloody done.
They are only payed to edit once though, so if you rewatch it's mostly silence with no picture.
@@Ovetupp 🤣
“My character wasn’t gay… it was a father/son relationship”
Sure it was.
It was "Father" and "Son"
@@titusmccarthy Vernon's character was definitely his "Daddy"
"It's got some good stuff in it." Hard cuts to saxophone.
Humungus didn't know the truck turned around.
Soooooo you've started the part 1 of 7 of the anime/manga episodes right. Great thanks. Can't wait
Thanks for the random end spoiler for a movie that isn't even the subject of the review right at the start of the video. class act.
was worried that this was feeling incredibly low on obscure local references but then Maso mentioned the name of a specific Australian shopping centre and we were off to the races
This is still my favourite Mad Max film it just has everything you could want.
Same with me. The best Mad Max film. Way better than Fury Road.
It's crazy that even if Dog did do shady things in the Hollywood Hills, he wouldn't even be the most shit bloke in this production
I would love these to be longer, you guys are so great to listen to
If I learned anything from this movie, it's that the only apparel to survive a nuclear holocaust would be football shoulder pads and S&M gear.
Nah, that's just how people dress in Australia!
“Snakes love gyros” with the gyro killed me 🥙
George Miller's minimalistic screenplays for Mad Max has somehow helped the world building even more. A perfect example of show don't tell.
I'm amazed that The Road Warrior made less money than Max Mad 1. As they said, I bet that most people think of The Road Warrior as the more iconic movie (and may not even be aware of the first). Is Mad Max 1 more known in Australia? Or is there another explanation?
I reckon that must be original cinema release box office only. I find it impossible to believe MM2 hasn’t surpassed it in video rentals.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - where the only thing bigger than the stunts are the men's leather-clad behinds!
The perfect trilogy: Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Ernest Saves Christmas.
James giving the editors a shoutout for some self-promotion, then that self-promotion resulting in Ben drawing on Maso is Australia per my understanding. Cause it ain't Canadian.
No we have plenty of gun crime in Toronto, but the guns are always from America. We also call cigarettes darts though.
The local references are off the chain this time. We had Mission Impossible 2, Man-Thing, Matrix movies, Star Wars prequels. But nothing can compare to Madthew Max.
As a long time MrSundayMovies and Smosh Pit enjoyer, it sure was a treat to see Shayne Topp during this video
I horror-laughed at the stuntman not breaking any bones but bending a rod in his leg. That is the most amazing film injury I've heard of.
@19:54 Accidental "What Bar"? Somebody call OSW!
I wonder how long after they cast Humongous with the body builder guy, they thought - hmmm how likely is it that Goose survived his terrible burns, recovered to have nice smooth skin, took up bodybuilding and roids, and put on bondage gear - that they thought, I dunno George, it does seem a bit unlikely maybe we should rethink this?
Can't wait for Mad Max: Emu Warrior.
Mel Gibson may have gone bonkers by 2003, but damn he was an incredible screen presence. He looks so awesome in this movie.
Most Hollywood actors are crazy, crazy people. I prefer to just let them act, not idolize them. So Mel Gibson said some mean things about Jews while he was drunk, I've heard a fair few actors gripe about how horrible white people supposedly are since then, and none of them got so much as a slap on the wrist for it. Fairs fair, innit?
Used to enjoy a Chokito often myself in the 80’s.
Arguably, Humungus didn't kill himself on purpose. He was going hell for leather after the tanker and didn't realize Max had turned around.
"A destruction derby of lunatics" ... I am using that at work tomorrow!
Ben is usually on point, but I'm a bit disappointed the conversation about the dustiness of Max did not have the footage of Dusty Bob from that Aunty Donna bit when they're choosing a roommate.
It was 20 years before I learned that there was a movie before The Road Warrior.
1999, I was 2 years old. This was my favorite film. 2024, I am 26. This is still my favorite film.
Mad Max 1 and 2 are basically history lessons on how to not pay crew members and extras in the Australian film industry. I believe the first movie, George Miller was playing extras in flats of beer.
I am once again on my knees. Begging for the fifth element caravan of garbage!!
They better refer to Luc Besson exclusively as ‘weird pedophile director’ for that one.
I'm about a decade younger than you two so maybe this makes a difference but I had to hunt down Road Warrior as a kid. Thunderdome was on TV every day but Road Warrior was hard to find.
That little run at 10:58 is maybe the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
6:44 “snakes love gyros”
Shouts to Ben and/or Laurence for the image
Step 1: ask someone to potentially risk life and limb.
Step 2: don’t pay them.
Seems like the story of making these films is more interesting than the films themselves.
The edit of Dog's controversies on Wikipedia was perfect.
Humongous crashed into the tanker, because originally the tanker was heading the same direction, and he had just used Nitrosoxide to boost the speed of his vehical, and catch up to the tanker, which he fully expected to be going the sane direction as himself. Imagine his surprise.
I like how the first movie is a raw story. There really isn't a "main plot." Stuff is just happening and the characters are dealing with it. It's cool and while I prefer my movies with allegory, Mad Max manages to take the allegory literally (thus no allegory) and then tell a really good story in the scenario provided. Edit: The second movie too, sorta.
This premieres JUST as my lunch break ends, I’m sure my boss will understand my impending 20 minute toilet break to watch❤
'Mungus didn't deliberately kill himself, he had been incapacitated by Gyro Captain earlier in the chase. In the time it took him to recover and extinguish the fires, the truck had turned around and headed back towards him. Of course, he had no idea of this, and once mobile again he intended on catching up with the truck as soon as possible by hitting the nitrous, putting him at such an acceleration that he had no time to react to the truck bearing down on him over the crest of a hill (Kinda like Toecutter).
Also, the original script didn't have this scene as originally it was Wez that killed him because he wasn't leading how Wez thought they should be led (In a call back to his rage earlier where Mungus had to choke him out), Wez steals the Feral Kid and hangs him off the front of his vehicle, and Max has to rescue him, eventually leading Wez into a telegraph pole.
great point, Max looks scared or at least worried but determined. instead of I'm a cool guy who is fast and furious and this is all so easy for me
I like to believe that the rest of the world is fine, but Straya THOUGHT there was a nuclear war and just went all to shit on their own, and the rest of the world just quarantined it.
I refuse to believe this film takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. This is just what Australia is like in real life.
JAMES DON'T YOU EVER PLAY WITH MY FEELINGS ABOUT A DOG LIKE THAT AGAIN
In the mid 90s this was called Legion of Doom
Love that you guys are doing the mad max franchise leading up to Furiosa and I hope youll be able to the rise/dawn/war of the planet of the apes trilogy leading into kingdom of the planet of the apes!
Love your work!
Maybe we will! WINK
What if there really was a deleted scene explaining that Wez had rescued Golden Boy, but George Miller cut it because he liked the idea that everyone would just think they were gay lmao.
I don't think Humungus' crash at the end was a suicide. He had stopped when the Gyro Captain had dropped a Molotov cocktail on his car, and was using the nitrus to catch up to the tanker. He didn't know that Max had turned the tanker around and was headed back. When Humungus realized what was happening, he was going too fast, and it was too late.
If Humungus had just waited another minute, Max would have come roaring back past him, and the story might've ended much differently. So there's a good lesson about the virtues of patience as well. This movie works on many layers, obviously.
The Humongous didn't intentionally kill himself. He crashed momentarily and used the nitrous to catch up to the tanker but didn't know that the tanker had turned around and it was too late for him to swerve out of the way.
Wait, chokitos are sold somewhere else besides Brazil?
Fact to add. There was no budget left so Miller used his own one and only car.
Another great vid guys. And look, all I wanted as far as a story breakdown was a few more tidbits about the lore of the series.
I know these movies are really just about badass hot-rod gangs warring it out in an apocalyptic desert hellscape, but there is some cool world-building in there. Like different factions vying for control of essential resources, thier insane hierarchies, etc. Having never seen the first two, and only vaguely recollecting 'Fury Road,' I was hoping to glean a little more concerning all that stuff as it was presented in the originals. The fact that the setting appears to just be present-day 1980's Australia in addition to all the craziness was a hilarious observation.
There is a fan film on the horizon: HOPE AND GLORY - a mix between Mad Max 2 and Fury Road. I recommend: Give the trailer a watch!
Just saw the trailer for that, looks incredible!
@@mrsundaymovies Can I interest you in a screener for the movie before it hits RUclips on May 5? You might get a kick out of it
Absolutely! Would love to take a look
16 lines of dialogue is crazy.
I still love when Megabyte turned into Mega-truck and he was pulling Mainframe's energy that had to be returned to the Principal Office in that movie