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I find it really odd that Bruce Spence plays two different characters Gyro Captain in 2 and Jedediah in 3. I don't know why he didn't just stay the same character unless since Gyro had a happy ending they didn't want to change that but still wanted the same character basically but they could have gotten someone else to do it. Maybe he was friends with the director or something like Ted and Sam Raimi where Ted is Sam's brother so he always gets him a part in the movies/shows he directs.
If you analyze Mad Max Fury Road it's a mix of Mad Max 2 and 3. From 2 it takes the chase and from 3 it takes the village thing with the tyrant and the oppressed.
Maybe it was because I was fourteen when Thunderdome came out and it was my real introduction to Max's world, but Beyond Thunderdome is my favorite of the three. Just the ending, when Max stays behind so Master and the children get away and they tell the story every night and keep the lights burning, for Max and all of them still out there. I love that. And then there is the song, We Don't Need Another Hero. That is my favorite Tina Turner song.
I agree. I would add one thing I always enjoyed that obviously Mary did not. The chants are awesome. 2 men enter, 1 man leave. Break a Deal, Face the Wheel.
Thank you for reminding me of how I felt about that combination of the sacrifice Max made, together with the respect Auntie Entity had for him; from Raggedy Man to Soldier, followed by that lonesome feeling of watching 'The Lost Tribe' (teens and children) flying away from 'Thunderdome'/Bartertown. When Tina Turner starts to sing "We Don't Need Another Hero" - that was the one of best endings I've ever watched.
As a non Australian I have the idea that in a dispute they fire up the barbie, have a few tinnies and eat some snags until they agree. Problem solved. Any Aussies here that can confirm this?
Civil disputes only for 1v1. In criminal cases the guilty are thrown in with koalas. Don't let their cuteness fool you. They seem passive when stoned out of their minds on eucalyptus. But once deprived and the jones kicks in, they are murder machines.
There's a subtle theme across all 4 films. Mad Max -civilizations falling apart Road Warrior -civilization has collapsed Thunderdome -new civilizations are emerging Fury Road -new civilizations are established and building alliances
@@davidr1050 It has real meaning. It's a call to self-awareness; if you seem to always have certain problems wherever you go, the one common factor is you, so maybe you are the cause of the problems.
"no matter where you go, there you are" is also used in an 80s cult classic with many recognizable names, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension"
Why did Auntie Entity not kill him at the end? She had nothing personal against him, and there was no point, she already lost. There was no love for her underlings, really, they were useful tools to her, nothing else. The reason she got so nasty with Master was because he humiliated her publically. _That_ one was petty revenge (also taking power in Bartertown). But with Max she had no beef. I actually kind of like a villain like that - not in it to cackle evilly and murder his dog, she's just in it for power and her own safety.
The movie was filmed in and outside of Sydney. The "underground" scenes of the hog farm were filmed in a livestock auction place in Sydney. The plane prop the Lost Boys brought him to could be seen from the sky on the approach to the airport, and it was assumed to be a real crash. Bruce Spence reappeared as a different character. He was the Gyro captain in Road Warrior, and the pilot with the pith helmet near the end. I first thought the plane at the end of the film was a home made plane, but in fact it is an Australian made plane, a PL-12 Airtuk
The actor with the head on a stick is Angry Anderson--musician turned actor. He was in Rose Tattoo. This was his second film and gave him a career. I really like MM:BT for Tina, for the questioning of "two men enter, one man leave". But mostly for the girl telling the tell at the end with Max walking across the desert. And, of course, Tina's sixty pound dress. Sorry, 25 kilo dress. And she moves like she was born in it. No one knew what to expect when we heard she was in the film, but I think she crushed it. Really like this film.
I loved the second one but they used to play this one on cable so much back in the day. Used to watch it quite a bit. And Turner's song "We Don't Need Another Hero" was awesome.
"It'd be fun to have him as a dad." I was thinking about their little home underground where he's lounging and reading a magazine. That would be a nice life, especially then. Even today, I would love that.
You could easily do that in Cooper Pedy, South Australia! That's where the underground home was filmed. The town of Cooper Pedy has many underground homes. It even has an underground church or two.
I had almost forgotten about this movie until recently. The bathroom in our house is a perfectly square room that is all shades of white, with one big window. When we get a fly in the house, it's the easiest room to spot and kill them in. So, I was in the living room a couple weeks ago and we had a fly in the house. My dad was obsessed with finding and killing it. As I was sitting there all of a sudden, my dad steps into the bathroom with the fly swatter and closes the door. And as he does, I hear him say "Two men enter. One man leaves." I guess it was a memorable enough line because I only saw "Beyond Thunderdome" one time, but it came back immediately. I laughed so hard.
This movie wasn't as well received as the previous two, but frankly, I liked it. The music video for "We Don't Need Another Hero" was absolutely banging! Shame it's not for sale on iTunes. I own the whole trilogy that way, and love all three of them. Edit: THIS is the apocalypse we expected.... not the "wear your pajamas to the convenience store" one we got with the pandemic.....
Aunty was really a great antagonist (I hesitate to say "villain"), especially for this kind of action movie, which usually has very 2-dimensional villains. Yes, she's ruthless, out of necessity in this brutal new world, but not really "evil". She brought some semblance of law and order to this land, with very simple-to-learn (chant-able) rules, so that everyone isn't just killing each other in the streets over resources. There's a lot that could be read into the brief scene where she spares Max at the end. Clearly, she's not vindictive towards him, and may even view him as a kindred spirit. At the very least, she respects him. Maybe in different circumstances they could even be allies (it'd be awesome to see her in a Fury Road sequel!).
Yeah, personally this is my favorite Mad Max film. Of course Fury Road is cinematically the best Mad Max film, but I think Beyond Thunderdome just has more heart. The climax where Max gives that stone cold look to everyone on the plane before drives ahead of them gets me every time 😢.
R.I.P. Tina Turner. Apart from being an accomplished actress, she was a phenomenal singer too. I recommend checking out her rendition of the James Bond theme song GOLDENEYE, which is among my Top 3 favorite Bond theme songs ever. GOLDENEYE was Pierce Brosnan's debut as Bond, and also stars Famke Janssen (older Jean Grey in the X-MEN movies) and Sean Bean.
The sand dunes area was filled at Kurnell, in Sydney. These days most of the sand is gone due to sand mining (much of it to build Sydney Olympic Park)..
Funny enough, the random subplot with the kids was literally what the movie started out as in the screen writing phase. It wasn't supposed to be a Mad Max movie... that being said I still love it. It was the first Mad Max movie I ever saw as a kid as it was PG-13 rather than R like the first two (I wound up watching the trilogy in reverse order)... so I've got alot of love for Beyond Thunderdome because not only did it start my enjoyment of the Mad Max franchise it also started my enjoyment of the post-apocalyptic genre in general.
So many Aussie legends in this movie. Angry Anderson, Frank Thring. Frank starred in many movie block-busters back in his younger days in the late 50's & 60's. If you don't know, Angry Anderson was the lead singer with Rose Tattoo, one of Australia's great rock bands. I don't think he had ever acted a day in his life, but he scored the role of Ironbar and played it well. Tina had the hit "We Don't Need Another Hero" that was the theme song for this movie. It was a great time for us with Aussies finally getting quite a bit of overseas exposure
Auntie was hungry for power but she didn't hold a grudge. I like how at the end you think Max is dead but she lets him go. It was just business. Killing him served no purpose now. The creator of the series said that Max may not be the same person in every story. These are just various legends and the name Mad Max is applied to the hero.
I don't know if you can fully appreciate how confusing and exotic this film was for Americans. We didn't have any subtitles in the theater or on TV back then like you do here, so I couldn't understand a single word those kids were saying, especially with the thick accents. We don't know what Sydney looks like. So many uniquely Australian phrases. It was so different from anything we had, it made me love Australia. My whole childhood and adolescence, the Mad Max series and Crocodile Dundee were my only knowledge of Australia. Years later, RUclips came along and opened up the world.
The Max stories are best thought of as campfire tales about a hero that comes out of nowhere, saves the day, and then goes on to the next story.. The next save... Because that's what a hero does...
Love your reaction to this and really brings back some memories of the summer of '85 when it was out. I always remembered the great title track from this movie by Tina Turner.
She talks to much and seems to not understand the simple points and concepts of the movies she watches . Half the comments she makes is borderline childish .
I used to watch Home & Away in the 90s, and I always remember recognising one of the kids in Mad Max 3 from Home & Away at the time. Her name in real life was Rebekah Elmaloglou, and her character name in Home & Away was Sophie.
This movie is so much fun, and Critics loved it, even though they had problems with the script, they thought fight between Max and Blaster was pretty amazing.
Re: all the chanting. For millennia, before the written word, songs and chants were how history was passed down between generations. It’s still present in many cultures and I’d argue is still present in “modern western cultures” in the music we create. We tell stories, add a drum beat, and some instruments, and away we go. I fear there will be a massive “digital gap” in our current period as electronic formats go out of support, only the analog recorded and written word will survive to describe our current history.
Very good points about sharing our oral history (and folklore and myths as well.) Homer's epic poem The Odyssey was recited orally with musical accompaniment over a number of generations in ancient Greece before it was eventually written down. One of the earliest stories of Western literature.
I think what puts people off of this one is the lack of vehicular warfare, there is more of a story to it then the previous films, I do like it, but The Road Warrior will forever be my favorite, that being said, the 4th one is actually a reboot, Tom Hardy does a good job as Max, but Mel was better in my opinion. Great reaction as always and look forward to seeing the next one
I agree with you on your ranking 2-3-1. I also liked this better than the first one, although I know some people dislike it so much they will tell you to skip it, but I liked many elements of it.
The first has always been my favourite. I saw it on release at the cinema and it was brilliant. It was a bit like JAWS, in that nothing like it had hit the screens before. There's some ropey acting and a really small budget but it was just so original. It was a instant hit and everyone wanted a sequel. Come no.2 the budget was huge compared to the first film, hence the better feel to it. If it wasn't for Mad Max, there'd be no Road Warrior. I loved all three but no.1 is my fave.
Max regains more of his humanity in this movie, something that I quite like. I agree with your ranking, by the way. Next up is Mad Max: Fury Road, a surprisingly great sequel. A fifth story called The Wasteland is being developed, and the Furiosa prequel comes out next year.
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
The Road Warrior defined the post apocalyptic disaster film. Influencing all subsequent media. So much so, Ice Cube did a video that takes inspiration from this movie.
Another movie featuring Australia in a post apocalyptic world is Stanley Kramer's 1959 opus, ON THE BEACH. Worth a look to see Hollywood's rare focus on your homeland in the 1950's.
"No matter where you go, there you are" was previously said the titular character in "The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension" (1984) another movie worthy of your attention.
One of the other kids shortly dies after the quicksand scene. The scene was cut from the final film, but a snippet of it can be seen in Tina Turner's music video for "We don't need another hero."
George Miller originally intended Max's story to be a two-parter. The first illustrated his descent into madness. The second would show Max on the road to redemption.
As an Aussie, you might recognise a couple of the minor actors in this. The guy whose feather hat Max shoots off early on is played by Angry Anderson ( he sang the song Suddenly from Charlene and Scott's wedding in Neighbours ) and one of the children is Neighbours and Home And Away star Rebekah Elmaloglou, Justine Clarke( who played Alf Stewart's daughter Roo in Home and Away ) is also in the movie. Also, the guy that steals Max's vehicle at the start is played by the same guy that played The Gyro PIlot in the 2nd movie ( not the same character though ).
"That's not very good advice. Just get an engineer or a scientist or something." Oh, that's much better advice! I'm sure that those are plentiful in a post-apocalyptic landscape... "Oh, poor dude! He's so sweet looking!" That sweet looking dude probably killed many people before Max arrived... "No! Stop chanting that!" More great advice! Max's friend started that chant to force Aunty to open the Thunderdome gate and allow Max to leave...
A year or two ago, not sure, I ordered a bundle of things from a band I dig. It came with a face mask. To put it to use, I wear it every time I change my cat's litter. Haha.
For me this is the weakest of the original three but it still has a special place for me. So many quotable lines in this one! As for Aunty, I like her character a lot. I've asked myself more than once how did middle-aged American women find herself in Australia? Was she a tourist when the nuclear exchange happened? Was she a civilian employee of the American embassy? Don't know but whoever she was she rocked that chain mail kit
But regardless of your opinions on which Mad Max movie is the best and why, I'm very glad you watched all the original trilogy before you will watch "Fury Road." I've encountered so many people who say... things... about "Fury Road," and when I point out comparisons between it and the movies of the original trilogy, they say, "Oh, I never saw any of the first three Mad Max movies." And then I facepalm. So I'm glad you're not going to go into that movie cold but instead know what Mad Max is all about.
I've had push back about my opposition Fury Road was reboot. Its make more since it was the feral kid from The Road Warrior. HE even has the music box Max gave him.
Mad Max: Fury Road is next, with its follow-up, Furiosa (a non-Max film set in the MM universe) set to be released next year. If you like the car chase sequences in this franchise so far, Fury Road will very likely blow your mind!
Always loved Thunderdome, was actually the first one I saw of the original trilogy. Also Tina Turner?! Even better, a great original song she did for this film.
4:45 And that ladies and gentlemen is what inspired the MK character Ferra and Torr and the third season episode of Beast Wars, named after the creatures in question.
This film can't match the mad genius of The Road Warrior, but it has some of the best "lore-building" of any movie I've seen. I really enjoyed how the kids created a mythology about the past, and that drove their dreams. That was probably my favorite part of this story. As for the next one, Fury Road probably takes place (to the extent it fits in the continuity, at all) sometime between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome. And I don't really think this is a *bad* film, it just can't compare to the second one in the franchise. The Road Warrior completely changed the world for action-adventure films, and you can see its influence on the Fast & Furious franchise, among so very many others.
Great video. I would suggest Goodfellas, Conan the Barbarian, Full metal jacket, Casino, Bugsy, the Irishman, Clockwork orange, the last train to Gun Hill. Greetings from Portugal.
The dress that Tina Turner wore was real chainmail and weighed about 80 pounds. If you look you can see the weight on her, in fact, the costume department had to design more robust footwear and you can see it, too. 80 pounds of chainmail and she struts around like nothing.
They did a great job showing the ruins of Sydney. The only thing is, IRL the metal of the skyscrapers would retain radiation, so it wouldn't be safe to return to the urban areas.
Thunderdome is every bit as imaginative and dynamic as Fury Road (just nowhere near as cartoon-manic) but its more comical tone and Spielbergian adventure turned off the fans of Road Warrior's more "adult" edge. Taken on its own terms, it's a classic.
Well.... I do this film, but it's sad to think that in getting the children to Sydney, that very well most likely killed them (if you know the movie lore)... Eventually, the oil shortages that caused the initial breakdown of society, ended in the gov'ts of the world fighting over the last oil reserves, and dropping nukes. The plane that Captain Walker flew out of Sydney was to avoid this... so being that this third film is only set 15 years after the first film... I'm fairly positive level of radioactivity in the Sydney area are still lethal eventually. From the Mad Max Filmography Wiki: Introduction: "This timeline has been assembled from various interviews with the creators of the movies, official documents & other legitimate sources. Movies themselves provide very little backstory and concrete information as to what exactly triggered the events leading up to the apocalypse and how the movies relate to themselves. The first movie gives almost no exposition except for the opening line "A few years from now". The sequel provides a vague description of events that led to the apocalypse, not detailed enough to determine when it happened and who was responsible for it. The third movie shows a bit more of the backstory but again, it is rudimentary. The entire Mad Max trilogy does not explicitly provide any dates except for two hidden dates in Mad Max and one partially obscured in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The dates are as follows (in order of appearance): Mad Max: December 6th, 1984 written on the Highway 9 Sector 26 sign "est. 1983" seen on the MFP plate at the gates of Halls Of Justice (not visible in the movie, info retrieved from a movie prop) Set 'A few years from now (from 1979)' Few = 2-5 years. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: Set three years after Mad Max (according to the official production document called the Preamble) Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: September 10th 199?: the day Captain Walker left The Crack In The Earth along with other adults from the crashed Boeing 747 in search of civilization. In the script, this date was originally November 8th, 2005. Set 15 years after Mad Max 2 (according to an interview with the scriptwriter Terry Hayes. Starlog, June 1985) The first movie was set some odd 10 years after the 1973 oil crisis, without any backstory written by the creators at first. It is reflected in hidden dates in the movie (December 6th, 1984, est. 1983). After the release of Mad Max, Terry Hayes was hired to flesh out the complete backstory for the first and the second Mad Max film he started working on. He based it on the 1979 oil crisis that was caused by the Iranian revolution. He speculatively turned that conflict into a war in the Persian Gulf which would have thrown the entire world into chaos that would eventually impact Australia. The first Mad Max is a movie set years after the beginning of that conflict with the fabric of society on the brink of complete disintegration. According to the dates provided by production documents and movies themselves, the original trilogy starts in mid 1980's and ends in 2005. The Persian Gulf War (Pre-Mad Max) "Law and order, like every other aspect of the Western society have been swept away - put to the torch one early morning when Iranian troops trying to export revolution, struck deep into the heart of Saudi Arabia".[1] The war between Iran and Saudi Arabia left the Persian Gulf devastated in just two days. The oil fields were set ablaze and oil export halted almost immediately. Prices of oil doubled, then quadrupled and quadrupled again. North West and Trans-Persian pipelines have been destroyed shortly after. The West's seven biggest oil companies led by Exxon (The 7 Sisters Petroleum - as seen on the tanker in Mad Max 2) have immediately announced they would no longer be able to fulfill their supply contracts, leading to their subsequent bankruptcy. Impact on Australia The price of gold skyrocketed along with the inflation. In an attempt to save the economy and conserve fuel - martial laws have been announced all across the world. Italy and Spain have been taken over by the military. The Australian economy collapsed, companies filed bankruptcy one after another. Massive lay-offs caused the heavy industry to shut down. In Sydney & Melbourne panic turned into riots. Politicians in Canberra ordered a titanium barrier to be constructed around the city for maximum protection. People tried to withdraw savings from banks only to see the bank doors nailed shut. Gas stations were sucked dry by people fighting over last drops of gasoline. Ordinary citizens began to arm themselves. The Outback was slowly taken over by biker gangs. The remaining oil tankers were under constant attack. Vehicles that ran out of fuel were abandoned on the roads. Intercity communication stopped. Mad Max Main Force Patrol (MFP) was formed as the last-ditch attempt to uphold the law on the roads. Max Rockatansky was one of the best drivers in the MFP. He went rogue after his friend and family were killed by a biker gang. Further decay (Pre-Mad Max 2) Coal & fuel powered generators ground to a halt causing the lights to go out. All electrical appliances stopped working. Suddenly food became a precious commodity. Looting became common by day, preying on the weak common by night. It had become obvious that the weak would perish and the strong would survive. As a result, lone scavengers began to form gangs that roamed the outback in their home-made dune buggies, modified cars and bikes.[2] People were fleeing the cities. Papagallo - a former oil company employee - took maps leading to the Compound and headed there along with the others.[3] Max wandered out into the Wasteland. Lord Humungus - a former military member whose face had been disfigured in an accident[4] formed a gang along with Wez. He banded together smaller gangs into one consisting of ex-military members, punks, skinheads and other willing individuals. At this point, the MFP ceased to exist and the former officers joined gangs, such as the one led by Lord Humungus. MFP vehicles were scavenged and modified by the gangs to become faster and better adapted to the harsh outback environment. Mad Max 2 Three years after the events in Mad Max the society was in complete decay, the economy was nonexistent, people had fled out into the outback for safety only to find that Marauders were roaming there for fuel and resources. The gangs started sweeping the outback to attack any and every settlement, this including Papagallo's Oil compound. Any attempt to accumulate goods and resources in fixed settlements became futile because they would eventually be discovered and attacked by roaming gangs. The only way to survive was to stay mobile. This led to a vehicular arms race where only the fastest and most powerful vehicles could provide safety by either outrunning or fending off the marauders. This in result forced people to modify existing vehicles or build completely custom ones from scratch. It spawned a new breed of custom vehicles such as the Humungus' Truck or the Lone Wolf Machine, a trend which would continue on. Nuclear apocalypse (Post-Mad Max 2) Apocalypse After the economy collapsed and the fabric of society disintegrated across the world, the remaining governments were still trying to secure the last oil reserves. This had led to a global nuclear exchange. It is unknown who struck first, but everyone had suffered. Nuclear winter followed shortly after. After the nuclear attack the pilot Captain Walker tried to take people out to safety from Sydney onboard of a Boeing 747. The plane had crashed due to turbulence and the remaining survivors formed a tribe. The Nuclear Summer came and climate changed once again, becoming dry and hot with deserts starting to form. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 15 years after the events of Mad Max 2, the society as we know it no longer exists. The only remaining shreds of civilization either live off of the old world or decided to start over again. Water is scarce and radioactive. The landscape had been turned into a desert. Oil is nowhere to be found. Bartertown had managed to create a form of power source by producing methane from pig feces. Remote oil refineries still seem to exist, as exhibited by Gastown.
Mel Gibson was born in the United States but move to Australia when he was a teen. The first Mad Max movie is Mel second movie the first is called Summer City.
This is probably the wonkiest of the Max movies because director George Miller wasn't really interested in making it after the tragic death of his friend Byron Kennedy during location scouting. In fact, Miller was going to quit filmmaking altogether and for the next few years only made movies that he was contractually obligated to. So while this movie has incredible sets and costumes and really deepens the lore of the Max universe, it feels "off" because the principle creative force really wasn't there. It's still a very decent film, but it's missing some of the spark of Road Warrior.
Great reaction as always Mary Cherry now youre doing this post apocaliptic world reactions i strongly recommend watch "escape from new york (1981) and waterworld (1995)" both having a similar style of this trilogy.
Here is something most miss, the aviator at the end is the same one from the second movie and the kid is the son of him and the blond from that movie. She was unable to take part in this one but they had included her so this movie would tie into the second movie.
I believe I had read an interview with George Miller where he stated that the aviator character is actually supposed to be a different person than the Gyro Captain from 2. I thought that was a strange choice, though, since Bruce Spence's character in the Road Warrior is so iconic and recognizable...
The Feral Kid is narrating the end of The Road Warrior, saying that The Gyro Captain became the leader of the tribe going north. And that he himself became leader when he grew up, so it doesn't make sense that he left a ordered society when all he could think of was the comforts and delights of civilisation. I first had the idea that it was the same man, and even that Junior was The Feral Kid that he had adopted. Still it's Bruce Spence playing both The Gyro Captain and Jedediah.
People didn't appreciate Beyond Thunderdome because it was too "Glam" and didn't quite have the despair the second one did. "Jedidiah" (Bruce Spence) was also the Gyro-Captain in the Road Warrior... He has a "Recipe for Snake... Delicious!"! hehehe Other Movies that Showcase Australia are Tom Selleck's "Quigley down under" and Hugo Weaving/Terrence Stamp in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
I second Quigley Down Under, even though the Aussies don't come out of that one looking very good, and neither of the leads are Australian. It's very much an American film, and not an Australian one.
Other films to watch are Proof starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe, Danny Deckchair, The Nugget with Eric Bana, and The Dish with Sam Neill. The latter three have a funny small town vibe.
George Miller is a master of storytelling and worldbuilding, and Beyond Thunderdome excells in the former. I love 'the tell', and the broken English explanation of the apocalypse. "...a gang called turbulence" 🤣🤣🤣 Up next is Fury Road, but eventually you should watch George Miller's Witches of Eastwick, with Jack Nicholson and Cher.
The anthropology of The Tribe was so well-done. This movie created an entire society and pidgin language that just felt believable. And then there's Bartertown as its own society. I think the world of this movie is every bit as creative as the societies in Fury Road -- just different.
I would love to see your reaction to "Mad Max Fury Road." I'm curious to see how you rank the "Mad Max" movies after watching it. I personally like the 2nd one the most. Then the 4th one. Then the 1st one. The 3rd movie I liked the least
It is universally agreed that the 2nd film is the BEST, with the 3rd being a bit of a disappointment after the 2nd... but there is a bit of a debate on if the 1st or 3rd is "more enjoyable". The 1st OBVIOUSLY feels "more connected" to the 2nd, but the 3rd seems to be more of a direct "aftermath" of the 3rd as far as attempting to build some kind of community again. For those confused, it is believed that Auntie was one of the "original survivors" who had left the kids years ago. Seeing Max trying to help them reminded her of the promise she broke, making her "forgive" Max. This is ONLY possible because Auntie also figures Max is left out in the desert, with no weapons, no vehicle, no choice BUT to go back to the other kids left behind to survive. No matter what happens with Max, SHE could rebuild Barter Town without the same mistakes of the first attempt.
At the end Tina leaves him alive because he's in the middle of the desert with no supplies... she's leaving him to die. Course, he won't, but she has every reason to assume he will.
Just so you know Mary there is only one more film to watch. You keep mentioning the 'other films' but you might not know that there's only one film left, Fury Road. (There's a Fury Road prequel film in the works but that's not due to be released any time soon.)
You mentioned "car action"? Just wait. You like catch phrases? "Two men enter. One man leaves". Just wait. The next Mad Max movie is what I consider to be a masterpiece. The fact that it's a Mad Max movie and a masterpiece only makes it that much more astonishing.
I didn't know that camels were native in Australia.. I thought they were seen in Africa /Egypt .. Thanks for the information there Mary I Learned something new today.
Camels aren't native to Australia, they were brought over by the British in order to cross the vast Aussie desert. However Australia is the ONLY place in the world where you will now find WILD camels.
The Road Warrior is the best. Max is truly "The Guy" to watch. So many great characters. The 3rd has some interesting characters, but they aren't as great by comparison. Story is better in #2.
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Very Cool you watch this movie good cult movie.
I find it really odd that Bruce Spence plays two different characters Gyro Captain in 2 and Jedediah in 3. I don't know why he didn't just stay the same character unless since Gyro had a happy ending they didn't want to change that but still wanted the same character basically but they could have gotten someone else to do it. Maybe he was friends with the director or something like Ted and Sam Raimi where Ted is Sam's brother so he always gets him a part in the movies/shows he directs.
Should check out the video game released after the last movie. Very fun and challenging but not strictly associated with any of these storylines.
Auntie is a fascinating character. Ruthless but willing to show respect for an adversary that had bested her. "Goodbye, Soldier." A class act!
Beyond Thunderdome may not be the most liked of the Mad Max series, but it is definitely the most quoted and referrenced.
If you analyze Mad Max Fury Road it's a mix of Mad Max 2 and 3. From 2 it takes the chase and from 3 it takes the village thing with the tyrant and the oppressed.
@@javix2013And from 1 it takes the actor playing the main villain.
Tina Turner's title song, "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" was awesome, and topped the charts in several countries.
(RIP) Tina Turner (1939-2023)
Maybe it was because I was fourteen when Thunderdome came out and it was my real introduction to Max's world, but Beyond Thunderdome is my favorite of the three. Just the ending, when Max stays behind so Master and the children get away and they tell the story every night and keep the lights burning, for Max and all of them still out there. I love that. And then there is the song, We Don't Need Another Hero. That is my favorite Tina Turner song.
I agree. I would add one thing I always enjoyed that obviously Mary did not. The chants are awesome. 2 men enter, 1 man leave. Break a Deal, Face the Wheel.
Thank you for reminding me of how I felt about that combination of the sacrifice Max made, together with the respect Auntie Entity had for him; from Raggedy Man to Soldier, followed by that lonesome feeling of watching 'The Lost Tribe' (teens and children) flying away from 'Thunderdome'/Bartertown.
When Tina Turner starts to sing "We Don't Need Another Hero" - that was the one of best endings I've ever watched.
Mary, I'm unfamiliar with the Australian legal system. Do you still use Thunderdome to settle disputes?
As a non Australian I have the idea that in a dispute they fire up the barbie, have a few tinnies and eat some snags until they agree. Problem solved.
Any Aussies here that can confirm this?
Only in extreme circumstances. If it can't be settled by punching on and going for a beer afterwards for example.
No but we should
Civil disputes only for 1v1. In criminal cases the guilty are thrown in with koalas. Don't let their cuteness fool you. They seem passive when stoned out of their minds on eucalyptus. But once deprived and the jones kicks in, they are murder machines.
Na, they just drink beer until someone passes out.
There's a subtle theme across all 4 films.
Mad Max -civilizations falling apart
Road Warrior -civilization has collapsed
Thunderdome -new civilizations are emerging
Fury Road -new civilizations are established and building alliances
You really mentioned Fury Road
Let's not forget the other theme
Mad Max - Revenge.
Mad Max 2 - Redemption.
Beyond Thunderdome - Heroism.
Fury road - Becoming a man of legend.
For a long time after this movie came out, I used to walk around and say to everyone I met "No matter where you go, there you are".
Same line shows up in "Buckaroo Banzai" Must have been an 80s thing..
Same with me
I still say it 😂
@@davidr1050 The line originated in Buckaroo Banzai, and this film & other media used it as a callback.
@@davidr1050 It has real meaning. It's a call to self-awareness; if you seem to always have certain problems wherever you go, the one common factor is you, so maybe you are the cause of the problems.
Thunderdome was always my favorite since I was a kid, it's also the most quoted of the original 3.
Two men entah..one man leaves !
"no matter where you go, there you are" is also used in an 80s cult classic with many recognizable names, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension"
Why did Auntie Entity not kill him at the end? She had nothing personal against him, and there was no point, she already lost. There was no love for her underlings, really, they were useful tools to her, nothing else. The reason she got so nasty with Master was because he humiliated her publically. _That_ one was petty revenge (also taking power in Bartertown). But with Max she had no beef. I actually kind of like a villain like that - not in it to cackle evilly and murder his dog, she's just in it for power and her own safety.
She kinda did left him to die in the middle of a desert with no car or any supplies.
The movie was filmed in and outside of Sydney. The "underground" scenes of the hog farm were filmed in a livestock auction place in Sydney. The plane prop the Lost Boys brought him to could be seen from the sky on the approach to the airport, and it was assumed to be a real crash.
Bruce Spence reappeared as a different character. He was the Gyro captain in Road Warrior, and the pilot with the pith helmet near the end.
I first thought the plane at the end of the film was a home made plane, but in fact it is an Australian made plane, a PL-12 Airtuk
The actor with the head on a stick is Angry Anderson--musician turned actor. He was in Rose Tattoo. This was his second film and gave him a career. I really like MM:BT for Tina, for the questioning of "two men enter, one man leave". But mostly for the girl telling the tell at the end with Max walking across the desert. And, of course, Tina's sixty pound dress. Sorry, 25 kilo dress. And she moves like she was born in it. No one knew what to expect when we heard she was in the film, but I think she crushed it. Really like this film.
I loved the second one but they used to play this one on cable so much back in the day. Used to watch it quite a bit. And Turner's song "We Don't Need Another Hero" was awesome.
I don't understand why anyone would shit all over this film....One of my favorites in the fanchise
Because it followed The Road Warrior, and was a definite step down from that film.
"It'd be fun to have him as a dad." I was thinking about their little home underground where he's lounging and reading a magazine. That would be a nice life, especially then. Even today, I would love that.
You could easily do that in Cooper Pedy, South Australia! That's where the underground home was filmed. The town of Cooper Pedy has many underground homes. It even has an underground church or two.
That bald dude survived like a cartoon character and I love it lol
I had almost forgotten about this movie until recently.
The bathroom in our house is a perfectly square room that is all shades of white, with one big window. When we get a fly in the house, it's the easiest room to spot and kill them in. So, I was in the living room a couple weeks ago and we had a fly in the house. My dad was obsessed with finding and killing it. As I was sitting there all of a sudden, my dad steps into the bathroom with the fly swatter and closes the door. And as he does, I hear him say "Two men enter. One man leaves." I guess it was a memorable enough line because I only saw "Beyond Thunderdome" one time, but it came back immediately. I laughed so hard.
That's hilarious 🤣
Tina Turner played The Acid Queen in the Rock opera movie Tommy (1975).
Oh yeah.
This movie wasn't as well received as the previous two, but frankly, I liked it. The music video for "We Don't Need Another Hero" was absolutely banging! Shame it's not for sale on iTunes. I own the whole trilogy that way, and love all three of them.
Edit: THIS is the apocalypse we expected.... not the "wear your pajamas to the convenience store" one we got with the pandemic.....
Aunty was really a great antagonist (I hesitate to say "villain"), especially for this kind of action movie, which usually has very 2-dimensional villains. Yes, she's ruthless, out of necessity in this brutal new world, but not really "evil". She brought some semblance of law and order to this land, with very simple-to-learn (chant-able) rules, so that everyone isn't just killing each other in the streets over resources.
There's a lot that could be read into the brief scene where she spares Max at the end. Clearly, she's not vindictive towards him, and may even view him as a kindred spirit. At the very least, she respects him. Maybe in different circumstances they could even be allies (it'd be awesome to see her in a Fury Road sequel!).
The camel man was the gyro copter friend in the 2nd movie.
Yeah, personally this is my favorite Mad Max film. Of course Fury Road is cinematically the best Mad Max film, but I think Beyond Thunderdome just has more heart. The climax where Max gives that stone cold look to everyone on the plane before drives ahead of them gets me every time 😢.
This is much better shot than Fury Road.
The little bald guy that won't die, is Angry Anderson, he was the lead singer for Australian pub rock band, Rose Tattoo.
R.I.P. Tina Turner. Apart from being an accomplished actress, she was a phenomenal singer too. I recommend checking out her rendition of the James Bond theme song GOLDENEYE, which is among my Top 3 favorite Bond theme songs ever. GOLDENEYE was Pierce Brosnan's debut as Bond, and also stars Famke Janssen (older Jean Grey in the X-MEN movies) and Sean Bean.
The sand dunes area was filled at Kurnell, in Sydney.
These days most of the sand is gone due to sand mining (much of it to build Sydney Olympic Park)..
Getting everyone to chant the law is a great way to make sure the law works.
Funny enough, the random subplot with the kids was literally what the movie started out as in the screen writing phase. It wasn't supposed to be a Mad Max movie... that being said I still love it. It was the first Mad Max movie I ever saw as a kid as it was PG-13 rather than R like the first two (I wound up watching the trilogy in reverse order)... so I've got alot of love for Beyond Thunderdome because not only did it start my enjoyment of the Mad Max franchise it also started my enjoyment of the post-apocalyptic genre in general.
So many Aussie legends in this movie. Angry Anderson, Frank Thring. Frank starred in many movie block-busters back in his younger days in the late 50's & 60's. If you don't know, Angry Anderson was the lead singer with Rose Tattoo, one of Australia's great rock bands. I don't think he had ever acted a day in his life, but he scored the role of Ironbar and played it well.
Tina had the hit "We Don't Need Another Hero" that was the theme song for this movie. It was a great time for us with Aussies finally getting quite a bit of overseas exposure
Third one is the best. 2 is great, but 3 is where Max regains his humanity.
Auntie was hungry for power but she didn't hold a grudge.
I like how at the end you think Max is dead but she lets him go.
It was just business. Killing him served no purpose now.
The creator of the series said that Max may not be the same person in every story.
These are just various legends and the name Mad Max is applied to the hero.
Do you remember the first movie? That's why Max didn't want to kill Blaster.
yep, that's what I was thinking
Angelo Rossitto who played The Master was quite a Hollywood legend. He was in Tod Browning's "Freaks" from 1932.
Yes & he was also in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I don't know if you can fully appreciate how confusing and exotic this film was for Americans. We didn't have any subtitles in the theater or on TV back then like you do here, so I couldn't understand a single word those kids were saying, especially with the thick accents. We don't know what Sydney looks like. So many uniquely Australian phrases. It was so different from anything we had, it made me love Australia. My whole childhood and adolescence, the Mad Max series and Crocodile Dundee were my only knowledge of Australia.
Years later, RUclips came along and opened up the world.
The Max stories are best thought of as campfire tales about a hero that comes out of nowhere, saves the day, and then goes on to the next story.. The next save... Because that's what a hero does...
He's the human version of The Littlest Hobo.
Love your reaction to this and really brings back some memories of the summer of '85 when it was out. I always remembered the great title track from this movie by Tina Turner.
She talks to much and seems to not understand the simple points and concepts of the movies she watches . Half the comments she makes is borderline childish .
I used to watch Home & Away in the 90s, and I always remember recognising one of the kids in Mad Max 3 from Home & Away at the time. Her name in real life was Rebekah Elmaloglou, and her character name in Home & Away was Sophie.
This movie is so much fun, and Critics loved it, even though they had problems with the script, they thought fight between Max and Blaster was pretty amazing.
Re: all the chanting. For millennia, before the written word, songs and chants were how history was passed down between generations. It’s still present in many cultures and I’d argue is still present in “modern western cultures” in the music we create. We tell stories, add a drum beat, and some instruments, and away we go. I fear there will be a massive “digital gap” in our current period as electronic formats go out of support, only the analog recorded and written word will survive to describe our current history.
Call and response/repetition are also a huge part of traditional storytelling. It helps it stick in the memory.
Very good points about sharing our oral history (and folklore and myths as well.) Homer's epic poem The Odyssey was recited orally with musical accompaniment over a number of generations in ancient Greece before it was eventually written down. One of the earliest stories of Western literature.
I think what puts people off of this one is the lack of vehicular warfare, there is more of a story to it then the previous films, I do like it, but The Road Warrior will forever be my favorite, that being said, the 4th one is actually a reboot, Tom Hardy does a good job as Max, but Mel was better in my opinion. Great reaction as always and look forward to seeing the next one
While I liked Fury Road, I thought it was highly overrated. Personally, Tom Hardy's an amazing actor but I also prefer how Mel plays Max more.
I agree with you on your ranking 2-3-1. I also liked this better than the first one, although I know some people dislike it so much they will tell you to skip it, but I liked many elements of it.
In my opinion, this film has one of the best voice narrations of any film ever.
You mean Mary's?
@@chetcarman3530 No, in the actual film...
The first has always been my favourite. I saw it on release at the cinema and it was brilliant. It was a bit like JAWS, in that nothing like it had hit the screens before. There's some ropey acting and a really small budget but it was just so original. It was a instant hit and everyone wanted a sequel. Come no.2 the budget was huge compared to the first film, hence the better feel to it. If it wasn't for Mad Max, there'd be no Road Warrior. I loved all three but no.1 is my fave.
Max regains more of his humanity in this movie, something that I quite like. I agree with your ranking, by the way. Next up is Mad Max: Fury Road, a surprisingly great sequel. A fifth story called The Wasteland is being developed, and the Furiosa prequel comes out next year.
3:33 "But he's just a raggedy man."
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
The Road Warrior defined the post apocalyptic disaster film. Influencing all subsequent media. So much so, Ice Cube did a video that takes inspiration from this movie.
Another movie featuring Australia in a post apocalyptic world is Stanley Kramer's 1959 opus, ON THE BEACH. Worth a look to see Hollywood's rare focus on your homeland in the 1950's.
"No matter where you go, there you are" was previously said the titular character in "The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension" (1984) another movie worthy of your attention.
One of the other kids shortly dies after the quicksand scene. The scene was cut from the final film, but a snippet of it can be seen in Tina Turner's music video for "We don't need another hero."
“We don’t need another hero” ~ Tina Turner
The children are apparently descended from a 747 crash the grownups left to find help but they never came back
I always liked it. It rates lower than two somehow but not much lower. But I was a kid when these came out. And Max helped kids.
George Miller originally intended Max's story to be a two-parter.
The first illustrated his descent into madness.
The second would show Max on the road to redemption.
As an Aussie, you might recognise a couple of the minor actors in this. The guy whose feather hat Max shoots off early on is played by Angry Anderson ( he sang the song Suddenly from Charlene and Scott's wedding in Neighbours ) and one of the children is Neighbours and Home And Away star Rebekah Elmaloglou, Justine Clarke( who played Alf Stewart's daughter Roo in Home and Away ) is also in the movie. Also, the guy that steals Max's vehicle at the start is played by the same guy that played The Gyro PIlot in the 2nd movie ( not the same character though ).
"That's not very good advice. Just get an engineer or a scientist or something."
Oh, that's much better advice! I'm sure that those are plentiful in a post-apocalyptic landscape...
"Oh, poor dude! He's so sweet looking!"
That sweet looking dude probably killed many people before Max arrived...
"No! Stop chanting that!"
More great advice! Max's friend started that chant to force Aunty to open the Thunderdome gate and allow Max to leave...
A year or two ago, not sure, I ordered a bundle of things from a band I dig. It came with a face mask. To put it to use, I wear it every time I change my cat's litter. Haha.
People shouldn't feel bad for Blaster, he mercilessly killed plenty of people. He was Master's weapon. DIFFERENT does not mean NICE & INNOCENT.
For me this is the weakest of the original three but it still has a special place for me. So many quotable lines in this one! As for Aunty, I like her character a lot. I've asked myself more than once how did middle-aged American women find herself in Australia? Was she a tourist when the nuclear exchange happened? Was she a civilian employee of the American embassy? Don't know but whoever she was she rocked that chain mail kit
But regardless of your opinions on which Mad Max movie is the best and why, I'm very glad you watched all the original trilogy before you will watch "Fury Road." I've encountered so many people who say... things... about "Fury Road," and when I point out comparisons between it and the movies of the original trilogy, they say, "Oh, I never saw any of the first three Mad Max movies." And then I facepalm. So I'm glad you're not going to go into that movie cold but instead know what Mad Max is all about.
I've had push back about my opposition Fury Road was reboot. Its make more since it was the feral kid from The Road Warrior. HE even has the music box Max gave him.
Mad Max: Fury Road is next, with its follow-up, Furiosa (a non-Max film set in the MM universe) set to be released next year. If you like the car chase sequences in this franchise so far, Fury Road will very likely blow your mind!
The second one is definitely the better film, but I think the third is the more entertaining movie.
Blaster was in the first movie, Max recognized him because he helped to find Max's wife...and that's why he didn't kill him.
Always loved Thunderdome, was actually the first one I saw of the original trilogy. Also Tina Turner?! Even better, a great original song she did for this film.
I think this is the best of three, now Mary, the tale is yours to tell.
It was the biggest budget film of the trilogy.
Mad Max is back!
cool :) i just watched your Mad Max 2 last night, perfect timing
..also, Tina Turners has an amazing voice :D
4:45 And that ladies and gentlemen is what inspired the MK character Ferra and Torr and the third season episode of Beast Wars, named after the creatures in question.
This film can't match the mad genius of The Road Warrior, but it has some of the best "lore-building" of any movie I've seen.
I really enjoyed how the kids created a mythology about the past, and that drove their dreams.
That was probably my favorite part of this story.
As for the next one, Fury Road probably takes place (to the extent it fits in the continuity, at all) sometime between The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.
And I don't really think this is a *bad* film, it just can't compare to the second one in the franchise.
The Road Warrior completely changed the world for action-adventure films, and you can see its influence on the Fast & Furious franchise, among so very many others.
Agreed about the lore of this movie. It was truly impressive what they created.
Great video. I would suggest Goodfellas, Conan the Barbarian, Full metal jacket, Casino, Bugsy, the Irishman, Clockwork orange, the last train to Gun Hill. Greetings from Portugal.
The dress that Tina Turner wore was real chainmail and weighed about 80 pounds. If you look you can see the weight on her, in fact, the costume department had to design more robust footwear and you can see it, too.
80 pounds of chainmail and she struts around like nothing.
They did a great job showing the ruins of Sydney. The only thing is, IRL the metal of the skyscrapers would retain radiation, so it wouldn't be safe to return to the urban areas.
Thunderdome is every bit as imaginative and dynamic as Fury Road (just nowhere near as cartoon-manic) but its more comical tone and Spielbergian adventure turned off the fans of Road Warrior's more "adult" edge. Taken on its own terms, it's a classic.
Hey Mary, the guy you thought would have died but didn't is Angry Anderson, lead singer of an Aussie rock band Rose Tattoo, cheers from Bathurst
Welcome, to another edition of Thunderdome!
the quote I have never forgotten to this day and Ive only seen this movie 2-3 times
The second film has the best balance and is the easiest to rewatch, no doubt. They all have their own specialness.
She had lost. She didn’t need to kill him. She really respected him.
Well.... I do this film, but it's sad to think that in getting the children to Sydney, that very well most likely killed them (if you know the movie lore)... Eventually, the oil shortages that caused the initial breakdown of society, ended in the gov'ts of the world fighting over the last oil reserves, and dropping nukes. The plane that Captain Walker flew out of Sydney was to avoid this... so being that this third film is only set 15 years after the first film... I'm fairly positive level of radioactivity in the Sydney area are still lethal eventually.
From the Mad Max Filmography Wiki:
Introduction:
"This timeline has been assembled from various interviews with the creators of the movies, official documents & other legitimate sources. Movies themselves provide very little backstory and concrete information as to what exactly triggered the events leading up to the apocalypse and how the movies relate to themselves. The first movie gives almost no exposition except for the opening line "A few years from now". The sequel provides a vague description of events that led to the apocalypse, not detailed enough to determine when it happened and who was responsible for it. The third movie shows a bit more of the backstory but again, it is rudimentary. The entire Mad Max trilogy does not explicitly provide any dates except for two hidden dates in Mad Max and one partially obscured in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The dates are as follows (in order of appearance):
Mad Max:
December 6th, 1984 written on the Highway 9 Sector 26 sign
"est. 1983" seen on the MFP plate at the gates of Halls Of Justice (not visible in the movie, info retrieved from a movie prop)
Set 'A few years from now (from 1979)' Few = 2-5 years.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior:
Set three years after Mad Max (according to the official production document called the Preamble)
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome:
September 10th 199?: the day Captain Walker left The Crack In The Earth along with other adults from the crashed Boeing 747 in search of civilization. In the script, this date was originally November 8th, 2005.
Set 15 years after Mad Max 2 (according to an interview with the scriptwriter Terry Hayes. Starlog, June 1985)
The first movie was set some odd 10 years after the 1973 oil crisis, without any backstory written by the creators at first.
It is reflected in hidden dates in the movie (December 6th, 1984, est. 1983).
After the release of Mad Max, Terry Hayes was hired to flesh out the complete backstory for the first and the second Mad Max film he started working on. He based it on the 1979 oil crisis that was caused by the Iranian revolution. He speculatively turned that conflict into a war in the Persian Gulf which would have thrown the entire world into chaos that would eventually impact Australia. The first Mad Max is a movie set years after the beginning of that conflict with the fabric of society on the brink of complete disintegration.
According to the dates provided by production documents and movies themselves, the original trilogy starts in mid 1980's and ends in 2005.
The Persian Gulf War (Pre-Mad Max)
"Law and order, like every other aspect of the Western society have been swept away - put to the torch one early morning when Iranian troops trying to export revolution, struck deep into the heart of Saudi Arabia".[1] The war between Iran and Saudi Arabia left the Persian Gulf devastated in just two days. The oil fields were set ablaze and oil export halted almost immediately. Prices of oil doubled, then quadrupled and quadrupled again. North West and Trans-Persian pipelines have been destroyed shortly after. The West's seven biggest oil companies led by Exxon (The 7 Sisters Petroleum - as seen on the tanker in Mad Max 2) have immediately announced they would no longer be able to fulfill their supply contracts, leading to their subsequent bankruptcy.
Impact on Australia
The price of gold skyrocketed along with the inflation. In an attempt to save the economy and conserve fuel - martial laws have been announced all across the world. Italy and Spain have been taken over by the military. The Australian economy collapsed, companies filed bankruptcy one after another. Massive lay-offs caused the heavy industry to shut down. In Sydney & Melbourne panic turned into riots. Politicians in Canberra ordered a titanium barrier to be constructed around the city for maximum protection. People tried to withdraw savings from banks only to see the bank doors nailed shut. Gas stations were sucked dry by people fighting over last drops of gasoline. Ordinary citizens began to arm themselves. The Outback was slowly taken over by biker gangs. The remaining oil tankers were under constant attack. Vehicles that ran out of fuel were abandoned on the roads. Intercity communication stopped.
Mad Max
Main Force Patrol (MFP) was formed as the last-ditch attempt to uphold the law on the roads. Max Rockatansky was one of the best drivers in the MFP. He went rogue after his friend and family were killed by a biker gang.
Further decay (Pre-Mad Max 2)
Coal & fuel powered generators ground to a halt causing the lights to go out. All electrical appliances stopped working. Suddenly food became a precious commodity. Looting became common by day, preying on the weak common by night. It had become obvious that the weak would perish and the strong would survive. As a result, lone scavengers began to form gangs that roamed the outback in their home-made dune buggies, modified cars and bikes.[2]
People were fleeing the cities. Papagallo - a former oil company employee - took maps leading to the Compound and headed there along with the others.[3] Max wandered out into the Wasteland. Lord Humungus - a former military member whose face had been disfigured in an accident[4] formed a gang along with Wez. He banded together smaller gangs into one consisting of ex-military members, punks, skinheads and other willing individuals.
At this point, the MFP ceased to exist and the former officers joined gangs, such as the one led by Lord Humungus. MFP vehicles were scavenged and modified by the gangs to become faster and better adapted to the harsh outback environment.
Mad Max 2
Three years after the events in Mad Max the society was in complete decay, the economy was nonexistent, people had fled out into the outback for safety only to find that Marauders were roaming there for fuel and resources. The gangs started sweeping the outback to attack any and every settlement, this including Papagallo's Oil compound.
Any attempt to accumulate goods and resources in fixed settlements became futile because they would eventually be discovered and attacked by roaming gangs. The only way to survive was to stay mobile. This led to a vehicular arms race where only the fastest and most powerful vehicles could provide safety by either outrunning or fending off the marauders. This in result forced people to modify existing vehicles or build completely custom ones from scratch. It spawned a new breed of custom vehicles such as the Humungus' Truck or the Lone Wolf Machine, a trend which would continue on.
Nuclear apocalypse (Post-Mad Max 2)
Apocalypse
After the economy collapsed and the fabric of society disintegrated across the world, the remaining governments were still trying to secure the last oil reserves. This had led to a global nuclear exchange. It is unknown who struck first, but everyone had suffered. Nuclear winter followed shortly after. After the nuclear attack the pilot Captain Walker tried to take people out to safety from Sydney onboard of a Boeing 747. The plane had crashed due to turbulence and the remaining survivors formed a tribe. The Nuclear Summer came and climate changed once again, becoming dry and hot with deserts starting to form.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
15 years after the events of Mad Max 2, the society as we know it no longer exists. The only remaining shreds of civilization either live off of the old world or decided to start over again. Water is scarce and radioactive. The landscape had been turned into a desert. Oil is nowhere to be found. Bartertown had managed to create a form of power source by producing methane from pig feces. Remote oil refineries still seem to exist, as exhibited by Gastown.
Mel Gibson was born in the United States but move to Australia when he was a teen. The first Mad Max movie is Mel second movie the first is called Summer City.
This is probably the wonkiest of the Max movies because director George Miller wasn't really interested in making it after the tragic death of his friend Byron Kennedy during location scouting. In fact, Miller was going to quit filmmaking altogether and for the next few years only made movies that he was contractually obligated to. So while this movie has incredible sets and costumes and really deepens the lore of the Max universe, it feels "off" because the principle creative force really wasn't there. It's still a very decent film, but it's missing some of the spark of Road Warrior.
19:06 fun fact: mel gibson has 27 kids
“Two men enter, one man leaves!”👍
Great reaction as always Mary Cherry now youre doing this post apocaliptic world reactions
i strongly recommend watch "escape from new york (1981) and waterworld (1995)" both having a similar style of this trilogy.
Here is something most miss, the aviator at the end is the same one from the second movie and the kid is the son of him and the blond from that movie. She was unable to take part in this one but they had included her so this movie would tie into the second movie.
I believe I had read an interview with George Miller where he stated that the aviator character is actually supposed to be a different person than the Gyro Captain from 2. I thought that was a strange choice, though, since Bruce Spence's character in the Road Warrior is so iconic and recognizable...
I was sure it was fun when I saw it, especially since he's a pilot
The Feral Kid is narrating the end of The Road Warrior, saying that The Gyro Captain became the leader of the tribe going north. And that he himself became leader when he grew up, so it doesn't make sense that he left a ordered society when all he could think of was the comforts and delights of civilisation.
I first had the idea that it was the same man, and even that Junior was The Feral Kid that he had adopted.
Still it's Bruce Spence playing both The Gyro Captain and Jedediah.
People didn't appreciate Beyond Thunderdome because it was too "Glam" and didn't quite have the despair the second one did.
"Jedidiah" (Bruce Spence) was also the Gyro-Captain in the Road Warrior... He has a "Recipe for Snake... Delicious!"! hehehe
Other Movies that Showcase Australia are Tom Selleck's "Quigley down under" and Hugo Weaving/Terrence Stamp in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
I second Quigley Down Under, even though the Aussies don't come out of that one looking very good, and neither of the leads are Australian.
It's very much an American film, and not an Australian one.
Other films to watch are Proof starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe, Danny Deckchair, The Nugget with Eric Bana, and The Dish with Sam Neill. The latter three have a funny small town vibe.
George Miller is a master of storytelling and worldbuilding, and Beyond Thunderdome excells in the former. I love 'the tell', and the broken English explanation of the apocalypse. "...a gang called turbulence" 🤣🤣🤣
Up next is Fury Road, but eventually you should watch George Miller's Witches of Eastwick, with Jack Nicholson and Cher.
The anthropology of The Tribe was so well-done. This movie created an entire society and pidgin language that just felt believable. And then there's Bartertown as its own society. I think the world of this movie is every bit as creative as the societies in Fury Road -- just different.
"Captain Walker" is an extended (and imaginative) riff on a couple of lines from The Who's album "Tommy."
Great reaction! This film as well as this series shows us that We Don't Need Another Hero when we have The Road Warrior...Mad Max.
110% agree that the 2nd MM was the best (not counting the newest). Not many other films you can say that about.
I would love to see your reaction to "Mad Max Fury Road." I'm curious to see how you rank the "Mad Max" movies after watching it. I personally like the 2nd one the most. Then the 4th one. Then the 1st one. The 3rd movie I liked the least
It is universally agreed that the 2nd film is the BEST, with the 3rd being a bit of a disappointment after the 2nd... but there is a bit of a debate on if the 1st or 3rd is "more enjoyable". The 1st OBVIOUSLY feels "more connected" to the 2nd, but the 3rd seems to be more of a direct "aftermath" of the 3rd as far as attempting to build some kind of community again.
For those confused, it is believed that Auntie was one of the "original survivors" who had left the kids years ago. Seeing Max trying to help them reminded her of the promise she broke, making her "forgive" Max. This is ONLY possible because Auntie also figures Max is left out in the desert, with no weapons, no vehicle, no choice BUT to go back to the other kids left behind to survive. No matter what happens with Max, SHE could rebuild Barter Town without the same mistakes of the first attempt.
The short, bald bad guy was the singer from an Australian band, Rose Tattoo.
To heck with all the haters. Thunder dome is my favorite!
At the end Tina leaves him alive because he's in the middle of the desert with no supplies... she's leaving him to die. Course, he won't, but she has every reason to assume he will.
The whistle is a bozeman whistle, used in the navy.
I always think of Waterworld when I seen this movie.
This is my favorite of the entire Mad Max series, Road Warrior being a close second.
Just so you know Mary there is only one more film to watch. You keep mentioning the 'other films' but you might not know that there's only one film left, Fury Road. (There's a Fury Road prequel film in the works but that's not due to be released any time soon.)
You mentioned "car action"? Just wait. You like catch phrases? "Two men enter. One man leaves". Just wait. The next Mad Max movie is what I consider to be a masterpiece. The fact that it's a Mad Max movie and a masterpiece only makes it that much more astonishing.
I didn't know that camels were native in Australia.. I thought they were seen in Africa /Egypt .. Thanks for the information there Mary I Learned something new today.
Camels aren't native to Australia, they were brought over by the British in order to cross the vast Aussie desert. However Australia is the ONLY place in the world where you will now find WILD camels.
Camels were used extensively in Australia, but they are not native. They were imported by the British to use during the colonization period.
The Road Warrior is the best. Max is truly "The Guy" to watch. So many great characters. The 3rd has some interesting characters, but they aren't as great by comparison. Story is better in #2.