Filmmaker reacts to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) for the FIRST TIME!
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Original Movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
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People, including myself, were expecting another action franchise sequel without much to it when this came out. Turned out to be a total art piece with a fantastic script and direction. Two thumbs.
Some fans STILL hated it, because it spent all its time exploring Miller's world-building (to answer the questions some first-timers had after Road Warrior), and saved all its road-rage action for the end....Stupid ol' plot. 😝
Yeah, it was definitely quite a turn in terms of what we were expecting but it was still really good and REALLY fleshed out the world a lot. And damn if it doesn't look amazing.
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There is a third person open world Mad Max game (two actually, one on NES and a recent one on PS4. Totally worth owning)
That’s so damn good to hear
@@JamesVSCinema The PS4 game is an open-world game in the style of Grand Theft Auto and serves as a prequel to "Fury Road." It's awesome and should be way more well-known.
It's on Xbox also.
@@JamesVSCinema It's on PC as well and is actually a very good game.
@@jmhaces I'd argue it's a bit closer to Just Cause or Far Cry with the structure of the open world.
It is a pretty good game, and I do agree it should be more well-known.
I'm an old timer who was a child myself seeing this movie for the first time in the theatre with my dad. It was mind blowing. I watched it like a hundred times on VHS as a kid. I still listen to Tina Turner's classic song from this movie to this day. "We Don't Need Another Hero"
Coming out in 1985, Mad Max - then mostly known to people through cable if they had it and the burgeoning video rental market - was now in big budget, mainstream blockbuster territory, complete with a hit song that was all over the radio and MTV. The song would be more popular. That was the same summer as "Back to the Future" and "Rambo: First Blood, Part II."
This movie got overlooked a bit. I remember my grandfather recording on HBO and he thought it was good, but liked the 2nd one more. I love that my family loved movies too. Always was at the the theate.
Unpopular opinion: this is my favorite of the Mad Max movies. It is, in fact, cool as hell.
The packed, bizarre worldbuilding and unique dialogue also make this one of my favorites! The action isn't as iconic, but the locations are, and this is also the most quotable of the MAX films.
I've heard that claim but Fury Road is like... infinitely quotable
How do you mean by quotable, like in terms of what? I’m genuinely interested
Different character, same actor. Bruce Spence. He was also in the Matrix trilogy as the Train Man.
This movie was fire. Road Warrior was my first R movie in the theater (forgot to ask mom if I could go with friend, if you catch me). This came out when I was 13. Blew me away. I remember it was all over CNN (which was pretty much the only news my grandparents watched). People in NYC were going to the theater in apocalypse cosplay. It was such a budget increase from the last and every moment was epic - the score, the cinematography. What an amazing series. So visionary and unique.
The callback to Mad Max 1 was unexpected but really ties Max' arc back around to the beginning. All his wandering to forget yet not lose himself was not for nothing.
I feel like the Mad Max trilogy established the comedic and brutal satire of a post apocalyptic desert wasteland. Games like the Fallout series take a huge amount of inspiration, esthetic and clever satirical writing and concepts from the Mad Max trilogy in my opinion. It's such a cult classic series because of this and I think it's easily forgotten because of how established the concepts became in the video game era.
Mad Max is in Fallout 1. Well, it's implied as he is killed and you get his dog.
Not to mention Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) is also based off Mad Max, the MC Kenshiro was even styled to look like Mel Gibson!
Yes, it basically defined the genre and it's impossible to get away from it.
A bit like what Sergio Leone defined the modern western, you couldn't make a western after that that was not under his shadow.
Filmed mostly around Sydney New South Wales, Australia. Kurnell Sand hills (Desert and crashed plane) , Hombush brick pit (Thunderdome) Blue Mountains ( Kids Village / Canyon). The car/train chase scene at the end was filmed near Coober Pedy in South Australia.
As much as I love Fury Road, an absolutely amazing piece of cinema, personally, Beyond Thunderdome is still my favorite Mad Max film. I’m a product of the 80s. I watched the Mad Max films growing up so I personal have a warm spot in my heart for Beyond Thunderdome.
I love this one. One of my all time favourite endings too.
"Ain't we a pair...raggedy man?" Man, Tina knocked this role out of the park.
Automatically started singing 🎵We don't need another hero ...🎵
It's a cool thing you noticed about the story just flowing and not being able to really predict where it's going to go. That's George Miller's deliberate storytelling approach that he learned from Lajos Egri who proposed that well defined characters (and the setting) will drive the plot themselves and so the foundation of character is the essential germination of a well crafted story. That's why he creates huge backstories for everything we see in Mad Max films, since he can't draw from history, he makes it up himself in a believable manner for those films and the story writes itself. When he was working with Brendan McCarthy on Fury Road Brendan was worried he wouldn't know where to drive the story and George just said "The characters will tell you" and he was right.
Also, people still say that Mad Max movies don't have a continuity. It's not true. All of the movies are in sequence, it's simple as that (including Fury Road), and the world building in those films is absolutely epic. What we see through the lens is just the tip of the iceberg.
I had to rewatch this after Tina Turner's passing. She was an amazing entertainer, but I'll always remember her as Auntie Entity. I was about 13 when this came out. Tina Turner in that chainmail dress made my head explode. As far as bad ass female roles of all time, she is right up there with Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley. She was organic, with a compelling backstory. "Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody." What a line and what a delivery. That was pure humility and pure badassery at the same time. Rest in peace, Ms. Turner. From a poor girl from Brownsville, TN to a $75 million dollar chateau in Switzerland, entertaining millions along the way, you did all right.
Bizarrely the novelisation of this third movie in the trilogy is really well written. It also makes a lot more sense than simply watching the film as well as it offers a lot more insight into character motivations and what's generally going on than a casual viewing would do.
I actually have this novelization. Written by Joan D. Vinge. She is a great author who wrote several great science fiction novels. I cannot recommend enough the Catspaw novel, it's amazing.
I love this film and it's the best of the three. Much more well-rounded. I think I heard that a location scout was killed during filming and really depressed Miller so another person stepped in to share directing duties. I had always thought that that's why this film feels very different than the other two. Also this one finally has a super film composer making the music. Love it. And Tina's two songs are great!
Glad you got to all 3. I think they all are amazing showcases of quality filmmaking without the budget and modern technology.
James... there IS a third-person open world Mad Max. It's so good, you can even eat tins of Dinki Di to restore energy. 😭
That’s fire what!?
@@JamesVSCinema Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_(2015_video_game)
You can drive around the world and upgrade your car, plus the melee combat is brutal: dudes shout "YER JUST A RAGGEDY MAN" as you cave their faces in.
@@JamesVSCinema Seriously though, it really captures the spirit of the films and you can buy it for next to nothing at this point. Would recommend. :)
@@Jay_The_Cat james vs games incoming? 😆
@@stefanforrer2573 I hope so. 😃
Have you ever seen the movie "Waterworld" I think you'll like it. It kinda feels like these movies.
These three films are for an adult audience. I watched them as a kid and found them unsatisfying despite all the great action scenes. As an adult, I can appreciate the tragedy of them.
"She's killin' it. She's killin it this role."
Tina Turner
nuff said
FUN FACT: The reason Max didn’t kill Blaster is because he is the same guy from the first movie. The slow guy that was with the older lady they were staying with. It was an amazing call back to the humanity of Max and a reminder of his family.
"Ladies and Gentlemen...Boys and Girls... dying time is here." Loved that line.
Also, Tina Turner was smoking.
Two men enter, one man leaves! I don't know why this movie gets the short end of the stick of the Mad Max movies, I always enjoyed it and love the myth building.
If you remember from the first movie, when Max took his family to Granny's house there was the boy with the mental challenges (or whatever the current year term is). I'm sure Max recognized this too.
This movie is my guilty pleasure. I've watched it dozens of times.
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BUST A DEAL & FACE THE WHEEL
Hahahaha awesome NPC lines
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4:31 there is one, simply called Mad Max, and it's quite underrated
The Red Australian Outback - I’m sure it is what inspired the whole Mad Max concept.
I liked all 3. It started with how Max started, all the way to how he became a legend.
Back in.. 1984, there was an old DOS game called Flightmare (long before How to Train Your Dragon, long before any similar usage in other context). Wasn't Mad Max, but it was also set in a desert waste land post-apocalyptic world where gasoline was the precious commodity fought over by tribal factions (so pretty much Mad Max Future).
You flew a fighter plane similar to a WW2 single-engine fighter and had to gun down teams enemy bikers/planes/vehicles approaching from the left side of the map in order to protect your airfield which has your planes/lives and your factories which produce more if protected. You had to control your plane using WASD on the left side and the numpad on the right, in *2* different perspectives at the same time-vertically and "horizontally"-as well as firing and ensuring you got behind your enemies to kill them. You had limited fuel and I believe ammo. And this game was all in CGA (4-colors).
As a reviewer described, it was Road Warrior with Plans and no Lord Humongous, and this game was SO damn hard, especially once the ground stopped being flat and you could strafe into the ground at speed. (And there was no controlled timing, so the faster your computer CPU and system were clocked, the faster the game ran.)
But after the popularity of Road Warrior, tons of games, books, other films, and general media were either inspired by or wholly cribbing the Mad Max setting and themes.
There is a third person Mad Max game set around the time of Fury Road the main antagonist is Rictus' brother.
My stepdad had this one in his VHS collection when I was growing up, so this was basically the only Mad Max movie that I was familiar with when growing up. For me it was the Tina Turner movie.
Your enjoyment of this film does me good, because it's my personal favorite of the series, for so many of the reasons you highlighted.
Fun Fact the Pilot at the End of the movie was "the Voice" in the end of the The return of the king. (that guy with big chompers)
This was the first Mad Max movie I saw at probably too young an age. Gave me my first taste of "life after apocalypse" story. Having fruit snacks for today's view.
It has been a joy, the mad
max films are amazing.
Beyond Thunderdome is so much fun and chaos all in one and it's worth the watch.
So much fun!
The one on ps4 is underrated
the guy who keeps getting taken out is Angry Anderson the lead singer from Rose Tattoo !!!
Fist of the North Star manga and anime is especially inspired by Mad Max 2 and Thunderdome. Most reactors made a mistake as they started to watch "Fury Road" first instead of starting from the Original Mad Max. You are just amazing.
I love this movie, saw it as a kid in the 80’s and it was amazing. Love it as an adult too.
Not long after the film, I actually traveled to 'Bartertown,' which was shot in and around Coober Pedy. And, yeah, the place does look like something out of the apocalypse. More than half the residents live underground, due to the brutal heat and desolate conditions. It was an opal mining town, so people simply made their homes in the abandoned tunnels. I slept in the 'hotel' at the time, which was little more than a bunch of beds under a hill XD
One of my absolute favorites.
That last line is awesome.
And I might add. The Mad Max game that got released a few years ago is very underrated. Worth a play
Was allowed to watch this on my 7th birthday and it was just the coolest thing I had ever seen up to that point. This movie holds a very special place in my heart. Didn't see the first 2 till much later. Each one has its own style and pacing and could easily be stand-alone movies but Mel Gibson does a great job of linking them together with his portrayal of Max. Probably in my top 3 trilogies.
One thing that only just now occurred to me is that the kids' prophecy about Captain Walker returning to fly them away came true, in a back-handed way. I've seen this movie countless times in the last 30+ years, and I never really made the connection directly.
I'll be honest as a 90's kid i find Mad Max a little slow and hard to watch, but your enthusiasm makes me appreciate it.
Simply.....a masterpiece.
This is why they resurrected the franchise with Fury Road. There has never been a series like Mad Max.
Bust a deal, face the wheel... Great reaction
there IS a 3rd person Mad Max game, it's called Mad Max, and urs a great underrated gem. 1
9/10 for me
The third and final film in the Max series, until Mad Max Fury Road was released 30 years later and the upcoming prequel Mad Max Furiosa.
The closet potentials for a Mad Max style videogame might be The Borderlands series for the environment settings and vehicle combat sections. It's more a alien type game with human's that drive the story. The other would be The Fallout series is based on lone survivor after emerging from a underground vault after a nuclear war. It's more a sci-fi mutant creatures and human survivors trying to make a life in the CAPITAL and COMMONWEALTH wasteland. Mad Moxxi from the Borderlands series was inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Tina Turner's character from this film.
Two real good mad max documentaries on you tube explaining everything about the films including the writing and the filming and how the tom hardy one came to be
There is a third person mad max game. Came out around the same time as the movie Fury Road
The Postman is another pretty good Post-Apocalypse film
This is my favorite of the Mad Max movies!
Regarding wanting to participate in the Thunderdome: I might have got the wrong impression but I think they actually build a Thunderdome at Burning Man for people to have wacky (and mostly safe) gladiatorial battles in.
I was very young when this movie came out and I think my big sister rented it from the videostore. Just "discovered" Tina Turner 2.0 and I was amazed by her and Mel Gibson in a movie and the movie itself.
The sountrack was awesome, what a powerhouse Tina is. It had the same effect on me back then what Fury Road did so many years later. The 1st two movies are awesome too! George Miller knows how to make great movies!
A suggestion for a movie that I've seen no one reacted to is Escape from Absolom/No Escape with Ray Liotta and Lance Henrikson and Ernie Hudson from 1994
Thank you for this great reaction, have a good one James
This is definitely an underrated movie. The world building and lore created are amazing. This one feels the closest to Fury Road. There is a Mad Max video game that was released in 2015. It is considered a good game.
The little guy, "Master" had been in films since the thirties . In the movie "Freaks" a Tod Browning film'
There is a music video "We don't need another hero - Tina Turner" that came out at the same time as the movie....and did well on the charts at the time.
EVERYTHING is real here. NO CGI!
great stuff as always, thank you, styay awesome, stay genuine.. much love
Mad Max 1 and 2 are back-to-back films, 3 Beyond Thunderdome and 4 Fury Road films are still canon.
I love the created culture, language, and traditions.
I love how many shots and scenes you enjoyed, I always feel alone when I say I enjoy MadMax3, I was watching this from the age of 7, and I would reenact so many scenes, along with MadMax2, I don’t follow the rest of the world, my order is
4-MadMax
3-Fury Road
2&1 Road Warrior+Thunderdome I love equally for different reasons, just depends what mood I’m in
There was a pretty solid open-world Mad Max game from like 2015.
most of this was filmed in coober pedy south austraila
This movie gets some flack, and it deserves some, but you don’t become so recognizable without something to offer, and I like how you see the merits, especially in the acting and cinematography.
We don't need another hero, but everyone could use a Thunderdome.
Now you understand the progression of weird villains in Mad Max, eh?
Toecutter, Humongous, MasterBlaster, Immortan Joe... If we get a 5th movie I can't imagine how weird its villain will be.
The fact that Bruce Spence plays a very similar but not the same character can definitely be a bit confusing at first. )
WB's Mad Max game is brutal.
Bruce Spence was in both this and the movie before this: Road Warrior, but he played a different character in this one.
My favourite film ever
This was such a great movie in the theater. Escapism at its best even if it is a brutal post apocalyptic world...
Might as well do Fury Road even if you've seen it. I've seen it so many times now and it never gets old. It's up there with Star Wars for me.
The Mad Max game on PS4 is very good the car combat is just amazing it feels like fury road
Man, you really have to come visit Australia, it's full of the beauty you see on screen and much more.
Also, you definitely need to check out Wake in Fright. Amazing Aussie thriller and one of Martin Scorsese's favourite movies.
Yes. There's a a Mad Max video game, and its pretty damn good.
Its on steam.
4:34 there is a Mad Max game which came out in 2015 as a prequel to Fury Road. It's a lot better than I thought it would be, albeit a bit repetitive after a while (very similar mechanics to the Far Cry games with outposts etc).
Theres a game, open world , based on fury road ,I liked it
I've seen this movie so many times on cable TV as a kid/teen. Saturday or Sunday morning most of the time lmao.
Yes a Mad Max game was made just recently.
@Darkstar has it really been that long ? man time flies.
Few thoughts:
Tina Turner is one of the most sophisticated classy black women ever, period. I really loved her in this film.
Savanna's speech at the end is so powerful. And the way the world is going, it would not surprise me if one day children like this inherit what's left of what adults let happen.
A good Australian film is 1985 Fortress with Rachel Ward. I really like it.
I had the mad max video game on Nintendo nes back in the day. It was hard af.
Saw this when it came out I was 12 and hated it watched it in my late 40s loved it . It's the dialogue and subtle character acting and scenery
Very underrated Mad Max film. I really loved it.
This movie was the Water world of the 80s. Saying that I do really like this movie. There were production issues (I think) and it got panned by critics and the audiences. Most "fans" only like the Road Warrior and the newest one. I don't consider them fans, they have no concept of world building and not recycling the same old thing. Beyond Thunderdome is legitimate!
Mad Max has a pretty good game. The fights are a lot like the Batman: Arkham Asylum, but Fallout 1 and 2 are mostly what you are looking for in a game.
I want that fly swatter.
Can’t help it. Love this movie. Why. Fun. Silly. Epic. Plus I love all the music. And hello Tina Turner....yes please
This is my favorite of the original 3