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.
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.
I'm an American who's visited Australia a few times, and I'm a HUGE fan of all the Mad Max Movies. First, it's great to hear an Aussie's perspective on this movie! It's one of my all time favorites, and I've always wondered what Australians thought of it. Second, I like the idea that Max is a legend, and all the stories about "Mad Max" can be attributed to any heroic figure who exists in the wasteland. Love your channel!
Actually my favorite part comes two seconds after that, with the arrow pointing to the stick (of course Mel Gibson would first need a gyro to reach that stick).
I made chicken gyros last night. Very delicious. Turns out lemon rice is very easy to make too. It's just rice, and butter, and chicken stock and... I forgot the last ingredient.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
I've just realized I know far too much about Australia between James and Mason, and my favourite podcast "Mysterious Universe". The hosts, Ben and Aaron, are hilarious Aussies and love to trash talk their country (with love of course). It's always a good time when they talk about the great Emu war.
Here’s a couple for you, fellas; Did you know that Australians can hold their breath longer people from any other country? And did you know that 1 in 12 Aussies can fly? True stories. D
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.
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!
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
I heard so many people trying to pull the “woke card” on Fury Road because Furisoa got more lines than Max. To which I point out they’ve clearly never seen how little Max speaks in Road Warrior.
Youve triggered my Long-Rant Trap Card. Fury Road's opening weekend was a PERFECT microcosm of how Woke Hollywood makes movies worse -- and how Non-Woke directors can actually create using feminist themes WITHOUT ruining their movies. Fury Road is a deeply "Feminist" movie, but it IS NOT a "Woke" movie. I remember going into the theater to watch Fury Road knowing that on opening weekend they had gotten trounced by "Pitch Perfect 2", which was in very the next theater over. "Pitch Perfect 2" is a "Woke" movie. It featured the song "Run The World" by Beyoncé, which is an incredibly popular, dumb, and extremely toxic song about how, supposedly, "girls run the world"... even though girls are CONSTANTLY complaining about definitively NOT running the world. I remember sitting there, watching this INCREDIBLE masterpiece of a movie all about women finding their power, doing incredible things, fighting a literal Patriarch, and thinking "THIS is what Feminism is about. This is what female empowerment looks like. This is the movies those teenage girls should be watching, not some spoiled millionaire musician bragging about how rich she is. Not some hateful song about how we're here to push men out of the picture."
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat Quick reminder that the term "Woke" has exactly zero meaning because it's been co-opted by chuds who use it to refer to anything they don't like. Hopefully that didn't impact your rant that I didn't bother to read, because why would anyone?
Mel Gibson checking or harvesting an eyeful of Vernon Wells' bum for a purplish or bluish colour led to the working title of the movie being Blue Harvest which was also the working title of the original Star Wars from 1977.
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 😂.
Entirely unrelated to mad max, but my dad watched The Road with Lovefilm back in the day (they used to post films through the door, it was netflix before streaming services existed), and i was probably about 8 or 9 years old. Walked into my dad crying alone in the dark at the end of the film. A core memory
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.
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
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.
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.
'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.
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?
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
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.
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.
This was the movie that me and the other guys used to rent and watch on a loop when the parents were out of town. I definitely got sick of the guys but I never really got sick of 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?
9:00 my personal theory is that Max Rackataski was between 3 and 5 different "lone wanderers" that people combined into the same folk legend decades later. Because the prequel comic is great, it makes the destruction of Max's car during _Fury Road_ incredibly tragic, but those are framed as stories told by a guy from an storyteller cult so there's an element of unreliable narrator in them
You're not far off. The premise that George Miller has gone with *is* that Mad Max is a legendary figure, like King Arthur, Robin Hood or Paul Bunyan, who gets mixed into stories about events that probably happened in some way like how they're portrayed, but with a lot of extra bits added in as the stories get passed down orally from generation to generation. Did Max Rockatansky ever exist? Did he ever do half the things he's said to have done? Who knows? But the History Men say he does, and that we have him to thank for the way things are now, and that's just what we have to accept because we weren't there. Now hand me that can of guzzoline, I need to go out on a supply run.
I saw Mad Max for the first time in my 20s and I thought, “That was a cool movie, but I don’t really get the 30 years of hype.” Then I saw Road Warrior and thought, “Ok, NOW I get it.” Absolutely perfect sequel that blows the first one out of the water.
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!
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.
Don't usually comment. Love your like to watched ratio BTW. They were assholes for not paying out that truck driver considering they made over 100 quadrillion dollars. If I was involved in this project I would have paid him 1 million for that souvenir.
my favorite thing abt the Mad Max movies is that you could watch them all on mute and know exactly what's happening the visual storytelling is that strong
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.
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.
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
"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
"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.
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!
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.
And Fury Road? That's just Perth
I'm an American who's visited Australia a few times, and I'm a HUGE fan of all the Mad Max Movies.
First, it's great to hear an Aussie's perspective on this movie! It's one of my all time favorites, and I've always wondered what Australians thought of it.
Second, I like the idea that Max is a legend, and all the stories about "Mad Max" can be attributed to any heroic figure who exists in the wasteland.
Love your channel!
"....and the road warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories." What a film!
The "Snakes Love Gyros" visual was may be my favourite visual gag in CoG history 😂
Actually my favorite part comes two seconds after that, with the arrow pointing to the stick (of course Mel Gibson would first need a gyro to reach that stick).
Snakes are un-sprung Gyros when you think about it.....
I made chicken gyros last night. Very delicious.
Turns out lemon rice is very easy to make too. It's just rice, and butter, and chicken stock and... I forgot the last ingredient.
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.
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.
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 learn so much about the mythical land of Australia with these!
I've just realized I know far too much about Australia between James and Mason, and my favourite podcast "Mysterious Universe". The hosts, Ben and Aaron, are hilarious Aussies and love to trash talk their country (with love of course). It's always a good time when they talk about the great Emu war.
Here’s a couple for you, fellas;
Did you know that Australians can hold their breath longer people from any other country?
And did you know that 1 in 12 Aussies can fly?
True stories.
D
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.
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."
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?
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
I heard there’s a film of the dog being at a party at diddys so he went into hiding
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 heard so many people trying to pull the “woke card” on Fury Road because Furisoa got more lines than Max. To which I point out they’ve clearly never seen how little Max speaks in Road Warrior.
Or the idea that Max isn't the main character when he's basically just been a passenger on someone else's tale since The Road Warrior.
Tom Hardy is a great actor without even saying any words.
You think Mel Gibson had few lines in MM2? You should watch the US release of MM1. He can’t be heard saying a single word
Youve triggered my Long-Rant Trap Card.
Fury Road's opening weekend was a PERFECT microcosm of how Woke Hollywood makes movies worse -- and how Non-Woke directors can actually create using feminist themes WITHOUT ruining their movies. Fury Road is a deeply "Feminist" movie, but it IS NOT a "Woke" movie.
I remember going into the theater to watch Fury Road knowing that on opening weekend they had gotten trounced by "Pitch Perfect 2", which was in very the next theater over. "Pitch Perfect 2" is a "Woke" movie. It featured the song "Run The World" by Beyoncé, which is an incredibly popular, dumb, and extremely toxic song about how, supposedly, "girls run the world"... even though girls are CONSTANTLY complaining about definitively NOT running the world. I remember sitting there, watching this INCREDIBLE masterpiece of a movie all about women finding their power, doing incredible things, fighting a literal Patriarch, and thinking "THIS is what Feminism is about. This is what female empowerment looks like. This is the movies those teenage girls should be watching, not some spoiled millionaire musician bragging about how rich she is. Not some hateful song about how we're here to push men out of the picture."
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat Quick reminder that the term "Woke" has exactly zero meaning because it's been co-opted by chuds who use it to refer to anything they don't like. Hopefully that didn't impact your rant that I didn't bother to read, because why would anyone?
Mel Gibson checking or harvesting an eyeful of Vernon Wells' bum for a purplish or bluish colour led to the working title of the movie being Blue Harvest which was also the working title of the original Star Wars from 1977.
You absolute madlad
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 😂.
“Cutting the bum out of your pants” 😂
Did not expect to see Shayne Topp from iCarly on a Mr Sunday Movies video but here we are.
Some of the cleanest meanest edit jokes in this one. Good job Ben!
Entirely unrelated to mad max, but my dad watched The Road with Lovefilm back in the day (they used to post films through the door, it was netflix before streaming services existed), and i was probably about 8 or 9 years old. Walked into my dad crying alone in the dark at the end of the film. A core memory
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.
James: “We’re in it for exposure, but we’re also in it for money.”
Me: “Fiiiiiiine, I’ll leave a like.” 😊
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.
Let off some steam, Bennett!
There’s a planet in Helldivers II named after him
Can you please do "A Boy And His Dog" for when the Fallout series premiers?
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! 😅
Soooooo you've started the part 1 of 7 of the anime/manga episodes right. Great thanks. Can't wait
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.
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.
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 would love these to be longer, you guys are so great to listen to
As a gay leathermen, I really appreciated all of the gags about walking around "with the bum ripped outta ya pants" lmao 😂 😂
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.
'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.
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
Best editing on the internet.
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.
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.
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
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
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 🤣
Step 1: ask someone to potentially risk life and limb.
Step 2: don’t pay them.
I really appreciate and enjoy these Australian cultural documentaries.
"It's got some good stuff in it." Hard cuts to saxophone.
Humungus didn't know the truck turned around.
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.
I was so surpised when the Purple Bum trivia didn't turn out to be a Blue Harvest joke
As a long time MrSundayMovies and Smosh Pit enjoyer, it sure was a treat to see Shayne Topp during this video
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.
Can't wait for Mad Max: Emu Warrior.
Humungus deciding to off himself at the end. The original "WITNESS ME!"
This was the movie that me and the other guys used to rent and watch on a loop when the parents were out of town. I definitely got sick of the guys but I never really got sick of this movie.
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?
9:00 my personal theory is that Max Rackataski was between 3 and 5 different "lone wanderers" that people combined into the same folk legend decades later. Because the prequel comic is great, it makes the destruction of Max's car during _Fury Road_ incredibly tragic, but those are framed as stories told by a guy from an storyteller cult so there's an element of unreliable narrator in them
You're not far off. The premise that George Miller has gone with *is* that Mad Max is a legendary figure, like King Arthur, Robin Hood or Paul Bunyan, who gets mixed into stories about events that probably happened in some way like how they're portrayed, but with a lot of extra bits added in as the stories get passed down orally from generation to generation.
Did Max Rockatansky ever exist? Did he ever do half the things he's said to have done? Who knows? But the History Men say he does, and that we have him to thank for the way things are now, and that's just what we have to accept because we weren't there. Now hand me that can of guzzoline, I need to go out on a supply run.
"A destruction derby of lunatics" ... I am using that at work tomorrow!
6:44 “snakes love gyros”
Shouts to Ben and/or Laurence for the image
This series of Mad Max videos is actually just James and Mason making references to Australian culture that I don't understand.
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.
The perfect trilogy: Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Ernest Saves Christmas.
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.
That little run at 10:58 is maybe the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
“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"
“Snakes love gyros” with the gyro killed me 🥙
We have Chokito in Brazil!
Love the Smosh Reddit cut at 14:23
The edit of Dog's controversies on Wikipedia was perfect.
JAMES DON'T YOU EVER PLAY WITH MY FEELINGS ABOUT A DOG LIKE THAT AGAIN
the boys are firing on all cylinders for these mad max videos, my god
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
This was definitely Mad Max 2 from someone that grew up with the movies xx
"At least it wan't my bum" made me laugh out loud
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - where the only thing bigger than the stunts are the men's leather-clad behinds!
I saw Mad Max for the first time in my 20s and I thought, “That was a cool movie, but I don’t really get the 30 years of hype.” Then I saw Road Warrior and thought, “Ok, NOW I get it.” Absolutely perfect sequel that blows the first one out of the water.
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!
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
Wait, chokitos are sold somewhere else besides Brazil?
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.
One of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for doing it.
Now I'm off to cut the bum out of my pants
Don't usually comment.
Love your like to watched ratio BTW.
They were assholes for not paying out that truck driver considering they made over 100 quadrillion dollars.
If I was involved in this project I would have paid him 1 million for that souvenir.
my favorite thing abt the Mad Max movies is that you could watch them all on mute and know exactly what's happening the visual storytelling is that strong
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.
My favourite podcast covering my favourite film! I've been honestly waiting for this since I became a fan!!! This was great, thank you!!!