My dad took me to see The Road Warrior when it came out. We had such a great time at that movie. Unfortunately, he passed away on January 29th, 2024. I miss you dad.
These 5 minutes are enough to understand why MAD MAX 2 this is one of the greatest movies ever made. Unbelievable. This ending only gets better with time.
No Cgi..... along with Terminator 1, Aliens 2 , Tomorrow never dies , Back to the future , The Empire Strike back , Robocop 1, The temple of doom Indiana Jones , etc
George Miller said he wished he’d tried a bit more on the cars and costumes . He said in hindsight the vehicles were to good for the wasteland . They should have been more thrown together. He hated the cop car
What's so brilliant about this ending is that it really demonstrates that Max is a part of the wasteland. Which is also the reason he just skipped away from Furiosa in the end of Fury Road. Max, is not even a person anymore, the person that was Max Rochatansky is dead with his family. He's a phantom you can meet on happenstance in the wasteland. He might help you, but when you're delivered by him, he will fade into the wasteland that he had emerged and will not linger with you
It’s a classic Western trope - the hero saves the community, but he can never truly be part of it. Once the fight is done, he fades back into the landscape from which he came.
@@amcclory77Doesn't apply that much to Frodo Baggins. He lead resistance against Saruman and finished Bilbo's book and served as Mayor for several terms.
@@fromchomleystreetthe only way for him to temporary save himself is to save others. Why the part of him that don’t feel to be saved is the part that tells him that only himself needs to be saved is what drives him to this eternal loop
Yeah, it hit Max and the audience what a great ride it was and also that every last man and fighting woman KNEW they'd be risking and possibly losing their lives so that the children and elderly (aka those who couldn't fight) could escape. The question is: if they sat Max down and told him the tanker was filled with sand, would he have driven it anyway?
"He lives now... only in my memories." That line is only made more chilling by the fact that regardless of what happened in 3 and beyond, by the time the Feral Kid is telling that story, Max is almost certainly dead.
Max is the post-apocalypse version of the wandering samurai or the wandering gunfighter. You barely know him, he doesn't say much, and he fades into the horizon just as quickly as he arrived.
On every level, story telling, action, stunts, thrill, emotion, creativity, originality, acting, realism, etc. this is one of the best movies ever made. Note, no CGI or larger-than-life nonsense. Raw grit of human survival in a post apocalypse world.
And yet they pushed nothing too far. No silly back stories. Crazy big cars, but plausible within a certain time frame.People doing crazy stuff, as they would given no options.
Except that the action scenes are so slow-cranked it looks like a Silent Film comedy. As with everything… moderation. Unless you’re making a campy movie like this.
Max resurfaces humanity and he successfully helped Pappagallo's tribe. Max's quest to help them is complete, and he choose not to follow them north, Max became a lone drifter again, wandering from every parts of post apocalypse Australia
@@istvanvilmos8400 True. But definitely not as compelling as in this one. In "Thunderdome" Max becomes some kind of a hero. In "The Road Warrior", he's clearly not, only the main character. He ends up being a mythical character/father figure through the feral kid's eyes only. That's what's particularly haunting here to me. And we only learn who's telling the intro at the very end.
I absolutely love that these movies are like true fables or myths. Each iteration borrows themes and situation from the previous. it's as if they truly are being told around the campfire and throughout time, it begins to get wilder and wilder to match the "current" setting in which it's being told.
@@guytech7310 Furiosa is definitely not a superhero, if capabilities are what you're talking about. She lost to Max during the first fight they had, never had a single head-to-head fight in Fury Road after that except for the time she got on Immortan's car against an Imperator, which she only won one because Nux helped her. Not to mention she was saved by Max multiple times.
@guytech7310 (Shrug) I've really liked all the movies set in the Mad Max universe. Box office is just not a good indicator of quality - case in point, Blade Runner 2049. Finally, politics is also not a reliable indicator of quality. The whole cultural warrior angst young males have these days is just sure way to misery, and why so many of you guys are ending up as broke incels or active shooters. Get away from the alt-right mafia, actually talk to women and treat them like people, and pursue wise career paths. Basically, just be American. Good luck fellas.
I love the smile between max and the pilot, he is so damaged he barel makes anything resembling a connection with anyone in this movie but that is a great little moment
Their relationship evolution is one of the best bits of subtle character development I have seen in a movie. They go from enemies to an uneasy truce with a captor/hostage dynamic to becoming actual friends and partners in battle.
This ending - Max fading into the darkness - all alone; his interceptor, gone, his dog gone. I couldn't understand as a kid when he didn't go with the tribe. But I guess he felt he didn't deserve it. "He lives now... only in my memories."
The barbarous warrior fading/leaving the civilized group after he fought his way to obsolescence is common in story. An earlier example is John Wayne's character in "The Searchers." Wayne is a brutal barbarous sort of the kind NECESSARY to rescue the girl and tame the frontier. But when his job is done, he has no place in the new, civilized society.
His real name wasn't "Wayne," though so was fabricated horseshit; Max is real so will be remembered "We tricked that dumbass with a tanker full of sand."
The tribe didn't accept him. He was an outsider. The tribe didn't expect anyone on the tanker to survive, they were considered expendable & disposable so the tribe could escape.
There's still something wrong with that kid, though--even during the chase, he never motioned to Max to "blow the horn" when kids throughout the world do that every time they see a truck and the driver abides. All Feral Fred was interested in was a free ride.
Every Mad Max movie. Except for the first one, was a story told by the people he saved. He's a legend in the resurrected civilizations. The Road Warrior
This movie had the most tragic sounding theme to it I've ever heard. The gang lost both their #1 and #2 guy in an instant, plus they didn't get any gasoline. Virtually a death sentence.
Not to mention most of their vehicles were damaged or totaled and most of the fighters were lost in the chase or injured. The gang used up too many resources.
@@gustavoalmanza2673And most of the smart and capable fighters too. Sure I can drive, but to quickly think, make plans and co-ordinate things with others? That’s beyond my abilities.
It was a great choice to have them simply stare off and leave in silence instead of doing something like go kill Max. They might be the bad guys in the story, but really they are just normal people pushed to the limit by the wasteland.
4:25 And somewhere along the line he learned to speak. This was the best Mad Max movie in my opinion. This particualr scene when the Feral Kid narrates "He now lives only in my memories" Is really chilling.
This movie makes one feel the scarcity of resources. Not much bullets, not much to eat, and if something like that is found in abundance, people goes mad to maximum.
I was 14 in 83 and saw it as the second movie in a double feature. Didn't know a lot about this movie. Don't even remember what the first movie was. This continues to be one of my all time favorites to this day.
@@michaelhagler7381 Aaaahh, the good old days of double features. I also went in to see it, knowing nothing about the movie or that there was a first Mad Max.
The ending of the Road Warrior was awesome. It sets up future Mad Max stories to be half-remembered, half-made up mythologies made by unreliable narrators. Stories where Max could effectively be anybody and confused for the original Max, because it's all been lost to time like the world in which Max inhabits. The original Max is almost certainly dead by the time the Feral Kid is an old man.
This ending was how I felt when I lost my wife. The loneliness that was felt in this scene is how I felt on that day. Everything else just kinda faded away but you still gotta go on.
This collision like the end of Back to the Future III hits differently than most movies. Rather than a big pointless fireball, we see the vehicle burst into a million pieces right before our eyes. So effective.
I love the shot at 1:57 . The attackers look desperate, they lost most of their friends, their family, their liders, so for a couple tons of sand. Drove by the gasoline rush, the tought they could get all the juicy juice. But in the end, they just lost it all.
They weren’t even angry, they didn’t scream out for revenge once the humongous and Wez were killed. They looked disappointed and saddened and left in silence. I really love the scene
Well it also comes to show who are the real nut-cases and who are more chilled about things, these 6 dudes are likely the more sensible ones since they didn’t die trying to get on the truck. Most (if not all) of the nuts are likely dead. So their gang might not be so bad anymore.
"The Road Warrior" is indeed one of tje best movies ever made. This amazing ending isproof positive of why that is. This movie had one of the best intros and outros in any movie. I get chills everytime I see it. 👍👍
LOVE that you see pieces of Wes and Humongous with the general debris scattered about...Humongous really HASTENED to his fate when he hit the nitrous-oxide switch!
That smile Max gives the Gyro Captain is epic. The whole film is epic. Just wish somehow the Interceptor would have survived. Only Ford makes cars and trucks worthy of the screen. This was far better than Fury Road ever will be.
You got that right. Fury Road was so boring even the characters acted lame. Road Warrior kicked ASS! And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so (from 976-CREOLEMAN).
@@D-FENS33 Fury Road was backwards. Lame characters. Writing was not up to it's - ok it was lame. They should have left MAX alone after the third film. That new Max didn't do anything for me. Not a good actor. And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
Fury road mad max character was boring. But fury road movie was great and funny. It’s a very good post apocalyptic movie. To be correct the real name of the movie needs to be “impératrice furiosa fury road”
Most exciting car stunts ever filmed - some are almost unbelievable! And it was to conclude the "Mad Max" story. Another sequel was not originally planned and Max's fate was to remain unknown.
To say that the head-on crash obliterated Wez and the Humungoius goes without saying great intense heart-pounding score from Brian May and the crash is spec-fuckibng-tacular! It still amazes me 40 years later...
Still my favourite movie of all time. Even after all these years it still beats all other movies I’ve seen. Really left an impression on me as a young man in the early 80’s.
I actually knew the Guy who was the stunt driver ( Dennis Williams ) driving the tanker and he said Mel Gibson was a top bloke to work with, he'd sit with all the guys and gals at the end of the day and play card's and have dinner, he showed me his photo album with all these super cool pictures from behind the scenes, believe it or not his day job was just a regular truck driver delivering freight.
Yeah, he's got his vices, but that's how people are. Everyone calling him a POS for saying some crazy shit blackout drunk 30 years ago is being rediculous, most of Hollywood diddles kids for hells sake. At the very least, he seems like a pretty normal guy.
@@tubbs2132 yeah this was all before he was a big star but Dennis could not fault him, in his eyes he was nothing special just a regular bloke with no tickets on himself.
@@roadwolf2 yeah, that's right, you'd think the producers would have picked up an easier truck to drive. From what I was told they picked up that Mack really cheap. Can't blame them I suppose knowing that it was going to be basically destroyed would certainly be a big factor in why they went with it. $$$
Epic movie making. Why can't they make movies half as good nowadays I'll never know. The cinematography, the music, the post apocalyptic atmosphere is truely terrifying
Hollywood has grown so big, and so many stories have been told and retold, that they don’t want to take chances on anything that isn’t guaranteed to make them huge amounts of money.
It'd be awesome if they could get Emil Minty to do another movie as the leader of the tribe. Maybe in the future, Max realizes he's too old to survive on his own and heads north, and eventually finds those people again. Mel Gibson as Max, of course. Could be that he shows up just in time to help them fight off some new threat.
@@peterl3417 after chasing something for ages, killing a bunch of people on there, having a bunch of your guys killed, including all leadership in your rabble of scavengers, I think I would drive down there just to be sure.
George Miller is a genius. A real like MD doctor and a filmmaker! Thanks for creating auch legendary art of work and one of my favourite action sagas Mad Max of all time ! Until Fury Road and Furiosa, I'll always support his works! Greatest legendary director ever! Mad Max, the true definition of the Lone Wolf Road Warrior! Spectacular, yet, iconic!
I think the Studio dictated a lot of terms that George had to follow. I don't think he would have made it those movies (badly) if he had full control like he did in the 1980s.
When the the tanker leans up on it's side, you can see and hear something explode out from under the truck with some insane force. Sounds like a cannon.😎 I thought it was an upper driveshaft but in the next scene you can see the driveline is still intact. Spoiler: when you see this you can't unsee it. When the ferel kid is on the hood of the truck, just to the left of the bulldog hood ornament you can see black feathers flapping in the wind. Also when Humungus crashes "the People Eater" 6 wheeler into the Mack truck, look closely on the side of the road you'll see other chase cars parked and people watching. 😉
Never noticed that before ( the parked vehicles ) but I always wondered about that explosion as the truck is rolling over - i thought that maybe they mounted a charge underneath to insure the truck rolled.
No reboot will ever come close to this masterpiece of a movie. Real stunt men and women risking their lives, and no CGI. They just don't make action films like this anymore.
practical effects were mind blowing and great But...... CGI ruined everything especially low budget CGI is too awful I would likely presume that this is a rising negativity of technology in filmmaking industry
While it is there, I don't trust CGI for blending with live action footage. If big things have to happen at budgets not the biggest, animation or bust.
Man if I ever write a movie, novel, short story or whatever I would definitely pass to my main character this Max's characteristic of him being a reluctant messiah, a man that doesn't want to get involved with anyone, but that changes completely the life of the people he meets, for better or worse, but in the end he'll always be on the road, alone and in a never ending search for purpose or redemption or who knows what...
It seems to me that filling the tanker with sand wasn't necessary, and just made it harder to run from the gang. It would have been much better for the tank to be empty. The truck would have been faster and the trailer could have been swung easier to use as a weapon. Furthermore, the survivors didn't do full it with sand just to fool Max, because their leader was going to drive the truck himself before Max volunteered.
The leader was clearly willing to sacrifice himself for the Tribe, that's why he accompanied Max along with those two others. They didn't completely abandon Max and I suppose if they did he might have questioned whether the whole thing was genuine. Agreed about the sand part, although if the chasers were smart they might question why the tanker is so fast with all that fuel onboard.
i watched the road warrior when i was a kid and ending scene with max just standing alone on the road as the sun sets disturbed me and sent shivers down my spine.I coudn't understand what was happening in the movie but i could just tell from the atmosphere that society collapsed.I'm glad i got a chance to watch it again for clarity.Mad Max The Road Warrior will always be my favourite movie
I just noticed that at the end, Max is stand next to Pappagallo's car, which is a car that one of the bad guys was driving when Max delivers the truck.
Watching this scene I just realized that Max didn’t known about the sand in the tanker. For four decades I just assumed he was “in” on the diversion plan 😲
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My dad took me to see The Road Warrior when it came out. We had such a great time at that movie. Unfortunately, he passed away on January 29th, 2024. I miss you dad.
sorry for your loss
Aww, sorry for your loss!...❤
My condolences. Seeing a movie together is a lifelong memory. That's why I take my kid.
Your dad was awesome for taking you to see this.😊
Hope he was able to see fury road while alive
I understand you, my father left at the end of December
These 5 minutes are enough to understand why MAD MAX 2 this is one of the greatest movies ever made. Unbelievable. This ending only gets better with time.
No one could've said that better
Like number 100
No Cgi..... along with Terminator 1, Aliens 2 , Tomorrow never dies , Back to the future , The Empire Strike back , Robocop 1, The temple of doom Indiana Jones , etc
George Miller said he wished he’d tried a bit more on the cars and costumes . He said in hindsight the vehicles were to good for the wasteland . They should have been more thrown together. He hated the cop car
Usually doing a sequel can b bad., but this movie is not one of them. Can't believe how Mel Gibson looks soooooo young in this movie.
What's so brilliant about this ending is that it really demonstrates that Max is a part of the wasteland. Which is also the reason he just skipped away from Furiosa in the end of Fury Road.
Max, is not even a person anymore, the person that was Max Rochatansky is dead with his family. He's a phantom you can meet on happenstance in the wasteland. He might help you, but when you're delivered by him, he will fade into the wasteland that he had emerged and will not linger with you
It’s a classic Western trope - the hero saves the community, but he can never truly be part of it. Once the fight is done, he fades back into the landscape from which he came.
@fromchomleystreet I call it, "pulling a Frodo Baggins"
Poetic
@@amcclory77Doesn't apply that much to Frodo Baggins. He lead resistance against Saruman and finished Bilbo's book and served as Mayor for several terms.
@@fromchomleystreetthe only way for him to temporary save himself is to save others. Why the part of him that don’t feel to be saved is the part that tells him that only himself needs to be saved is what drives him to this eternal loop
I love the exchange between Max and the Gyro Captain. No words needed. Great film.
It is Excellent, especially when Max almost laughs.
@@shaunclifton5281 He get's it. It was a totally clever move, and he understood that right away. Really cool moment.
This is my favorite part in the four movies, it is like Captain Gyro trying to say 'Are you surprised? You were part of the plan ...'
You are fast...but i have brains epic
Yeah, it hit Max and the audience what a great ride it was and also that every last man and fighting woman KNEW they'd be risking and possibly losing their lives so that the children and elderly (aka those who couldn't fight) could escape.
The question is: if they sat Max down and told him the tanker was filled with sand, would he have driven it anyway?
"He lives now... only in my memories."
That line is only made more chilling by the fact that regardless of what happened in 3 and beyond, by the time the Feral Kid is telling that story, Max is almost certainly dead.
True
Probably
Max is the post-apocalypse version of the wandering samurai or the wandering gunfighter.
You barely know him, he doesn't say much, and he fades into the horizon just as quickly as he arrived.
@Jose Ramirez No, this kid becomes a tribal leader. Tom Hardy's Max is a reboot.
@@robwalsh9843 True. I used to think that they left Max behind, but it's seeming like he chose to stay back in the wasteland.
That final scene of Max on the road fading into the darkness is just the best
Awesome!
@@Drakken25 Épica amigo mío, desapareciendo entre el humo y la oscuridad...el héroe solitario...que final Dios mío, genial...👏👏👏👏👏.
A lot of people think I have already ended that way.
it definitely should be one of the movie posters or a bad ass shirt
On every level, story telling, action, stunts, thrill, emotion, creativity, originality, acting, realism, etc. this is one of the best movies ever made. Note, no CGI or larger-than-life nonsense. Raw grit of human survival in a post apocalypse world.
Literally the best way I've ever heard it put.
And yet they pushed nothing too far. No silly back stories. Crazy big cars, but plausible within a certain time frame.People doing crazy stuff, as they would given no options.
This entire film is larger than life nonsense😂
Except that the action scenes are so slow-cranked it looks like a Silent Film comedy.
As with everything… moderation. Unless you’re making a campy movie like this.
@@jackgill6519 Explain, troll.
Such a haunting ending, max is alone, he doesn't even have the interceptor or the dog
@Roc Towerhug The kid went with the others, watch the ending again.
Max resurfaces humanity and he successfully helped Pappagallo's tribe. Max's quest to help them is complete, and he choose not to follow them north, Max became a lone drifter again, wandering from every parts of post apocalypse Australia
Max is supposed to be a wandering vagabond. He's lost so much, but he keeps going.
Just his hate.
Like the western movie endings. With the hero riding to the sun.
I love all Mad Max's endings, but this ending is just pure cinema and storytelling genius.
"He lives now only in my memories." Wonderful.
@@nedmerrill5705 "And the road warrior ? That was the last we ever saw of him."
Both line combined are even more terrific.
Beyond Thunderdome also ends with someone telling the story of Max as if he is a mythical figure.
@@istvanvilmos8400 True. But definitely not as compelling as in this one. In "Thunderdome" Max becomes some kind of a hero. In "The Road Warrior", he's clearly not, only the main character. He ends up being a mythical character/father figure through the feral kid's eyes only. That's what's particularly haunting here to me. And we only learn who's telling the intro at the very end.
The first one I think is the worst because it’s not post apocalyptic
The best of the Max movies…there shall never be another like it.
It was certainly much better than I expected. Mad Max actually wasn't half bad. It wasn't post-apocolyptic.
Mad Max 2 is my favourite movie ever
This was the best Mad Max.
Fury Road is awesome. But this one is a true classic.
Fffffff
Honestly, was there really another?
BY FAR!!!!!
Prefer the first with the the V8 interceptor in action
I absolutely love that these movies are like true fables or myths. Each iteration borrows themes and situation from the previous. it's as if they truly are being told around the campfire and throughout time, it begins to get wilder and wilder to match the "current" setting in which it's being told.
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@@gordonhall9871 The newer movies suck. Totally different & Shark jumping, & DEI: materarchy with the female character is basically a super-hero.
@@guytech7310 Furiosa is definitely not a superhero, if capabilities are what you're talking about. She lost to Max during the first fight they had, never had a single head-to-head fight in Fury Road after that except for the time she got on Immortan's car against an Imperator, which she only won one because Nux helped her. Not to mention she was saved by Max multiple times.
@@Daryavahush It's a Woke Movie & is a failure: Prod cost $168M, Sales $173M.
@guytech7310 (Shrug) I've really liked all the movies set in the Mad Max universe. Box office is just not a good indicator of quality - case in point, Blade Runner 2049. Finally, politics is also not a reliable indicator of quality. The whole cultural warrior angst young males have these days is just sure way to misery, and why so many of you guys are ending up as broke incels or active shooters. Get away from the alt-right mafia, actually talk to women and treat them like people, and pursue wise career paths. Basically, just be American. Good luck fellas.
I love the smile between max and the pilot, he is so damaged he barel makes anything resembling a connection with anyone in this movie but that is a great little moment
It is great. One of my Favorite bits.
Their relationship evolution is one of the best bits of subtle character development I have seen in a movie. They go from enemies to an uneasy truce with a captor/hostage dynamic to becoming actual friends and partners in battle.
@@SiruselVaranus Pretty cool
This ending - Max fading into the darkness - all alone; his interceptor, gone, his
dog gone. I couldn't understand as a kid when he didn't go with the tribe.
But I guess he felt he didn't deserve it.
"He lives now... only in my memories."
The barbarous warrior fading/leaving the civilized group after he fought his way to obsolescence is common in story. An earlier example is John Wayne's character in "The Searchers." Wayne is a brutal barbarous sort of the kind NECESSARY to rescue the girl and tame the frontier. But when his job is done, he has no place in the new, civilized society.
His real name wasn't "Wayne," though so was fabricated horseshit; Max is real so will be remembered "We tricked that dumbass with a tanker full of sand."
The tribe didn't accept him. He was an outsider. The tribe didn't expect anyone on the tanker to survive, they were considered expendable & disposable so the tribe could escape.
There's still something wrong with that kid, though--even during the chase, he never motioned to Max to "blow the horn" when kids throughout the world do that every time they see a truck and the driver abides. All Feral Fred was interested in was a free ride.
This 5 minutes of Mad Max worth more than last 10 years in entire Hollywood .. what a movie .. what a story .. what a Actors !! With capital A ..
Every Mad Max movie. Except for the first one, was a story told by the people he saved. He's a legend in the resurrected civilizations. The Road Warrior
This movie had the most tragic sounding theme to it I've ever heard.
The gang lost both their #1 and #2 guy in an instant, plus they didn't get any gasoline. Virtually a death sentence.
F those scavengers
Not to mention most of their vehicles were damaged or totaled and most of the fighters were lost in the chase or injured. The gang used up too many resources.
@@gustavoalmanza2673And most of the smart and capable fighters too. Sure I can drive, but to quickly think, make plans and co-ordinate things with others? That’s beyond my abilities.
And they lost the bum boy.
Something about the raiders when they see the tanker spew out sand and them realizing how fruitless their whole battle was gets to me.
It was a great choice to have them simply stare off and leave in silence instead of doing something like go kill Max. They might be the bad guys in the story, but really they are just normal people pushed to the limit by the wasteland.
Could they really see that from that angle? To me, they were looking at the crash site where their leader just died.
@@DS-wk1kn if they couldn't see the sand come out they would have certaintly gone up to the tanker to try harvest the gas they thought was inside it
@@matthewfinger2381 40 years and I missed that. Thank you sir!
@@matthewfinger2381 I often wondered why they didn't kill Max.
George Millers directing of these films is absolutely otherworldly
He had a thing against cops, though.
3:42 I love Max briefly breaking his facade when seeing the Gyro Captain survived the chase too.
best
This whole movie just flies by at such a brisk pace. I love how it all comes together and how it all works
4:25 And somewhere along the line he learned to speak.
This was the best Mad Max movie in my opinion. This particualr scene when the Feral Kid narrates "He now lives only in my memories" Is really chilling.
The Max´s smile when he sees the Captain Gyro is priceless...
best
This movie makes one feel the scarcity of resources. Not much bullets, not much to eat, and if something like that is found in abundance, people goes mad to maximum.
That's why everything is basic. Even half the time people are using bows a crossbows. Having firearms and ammo is as rare as a tank of juice.
I saw this for the first time in '83 at a drive-in. I was 13 years old. It simply blew my mind to Kingdom Come! It still does today 😆.
I was 14 in 83 and saw it as the second movie in a double feature. Didn't know a lot about this movie. Don't even remember what the first movie was. This continues to be one of my all time favorites to this day.
@@michaelhagler7381 Aaaahh, the good old days of double features. I also went in to see it, knowing nothing about the movie or that there was a first Mad Max.
I was 21 in 1981. And I still can't get over it.
The ending of the Road Warrior was awesome. It sets up future Mad Max stories to be half-remembered, half-made up mythologies made by unreliable narrators. Stories where Max could effectively be anybody and confused for the original Max, because it's all been lost to time like the world in which Max inhabits. The original Max is almost certainly dead by the time the Feral Kid is an old man.
This ending was how I felt when I lost my wife. The loneliness that was felt in this scene is how I felt on that day. Everything else just kinda faded away but you still gotta go on.
That's fucking hardcore bro. Keep going.
Lmao ur wife is dead
@@ghoul4748 really dude?
@@ghoul4748 you are begging for attention, pathetic creature
I call that.. bullshit
that shot of the sand falling through his fingers, just beautiful. just goes to show what a genius director George Miller is.
This collision like the end of Back to the Future III hits differently than most movies. Rather than a big pointless fireball, we see the vehicle burst into a million pieces right before our eyes. So effective.
If you saw the footage of the P-51 airshow crash it looked the same.
My all-time favorite action movie.
It's a masterpiece from start to the finish.
Agreed my absolute favourite movie of all time
I love the shot at 1:57 . The attackers look desperate, they lost most of their friends, their family, their liders, so for a couple tons of sand. Drove by the gasoline rush, the tought they could get all the juicy juice. But in the end, they just lost it all.
They weren’t even angry, they didn’t scream out for revenge once the humongous and Wez were killed. They looked disappointed and saddened and left in silence. I really love the scene
Well it also comes to show who are the real nut-cases and who are more chilled about things, these 6 dudes are likely the more sensible ones since they didn’t die trying to get on the truck. Most (if not all) of the nuts are likely dead. So their gang might not be so bad anymore.
I also noticed how 5 other vehicles were left behind by humongous so they likely survived too (and probably more sensible too like the 6 shown here)
@@slavarussixr goes to show that being brutal isn't gonna cut it if you're too crazy to live
@@dragonfell5078They were supposed to have been brutal as well as patient. There is a time for each in life.
I like how Max starts smiling when he sees Gyron Captain at the end, but then he erases it. We can see that he does have a heart.
I still think that filling the tanker with earth was the gyro captains idea, and that smirk they give each other is: I fooled you too didn't I?
Yeah… you’re not going to drive like hell for bloody dirt now.. are you?
@@DoctorBastard Yeah I think you are right.
The captain said it himself, he's got brains XD
Faye guh
Still one of my favorite movies after all these years. Final 10 minutes are hard to beat.
"That was the last I ever saw of him. He lives now, only in my memories". I thought that sounded familiar, Titanic.
Imagine mad max on the titanic??
Titanic copied it from here
this is 1981
Titanic 1997
I also noted scarface ending sountrack that movie came out in 1983 after this
@@terryschnereger8531 Water World
3:10 - 3:25. One of the great plot twists in cinematic history. The music. The reaction. So hauntingly beautiful.
He's not even mad, just slightly disappointed like he knew it was too good to be true.
"The Road Warrior" is indeed one of tje best movies ever made. This amazing ending isproof positive of why that is. This movie had one of the best intros and outros in any movie. I get chills everytime I see it. 👍👍
LOVE that you see pieces of Wes and Humongous with the general debris scattered about...Humongous really HASTENED to his fate when he hit the nitrous-oxide switch!
Love that last line, it gives me chills and sadness, with Max still out there, somewhere....
Great action, simple dialogue, (Ahhhhhh!) the look the Gyro Captain gives Max when he drives up. Outstanding.
Mad Max never gets old!
Yeah you said it
It's enjoyable to watch
You can watch it again and again
Correct 2 times.
Back in the days as a kid with 5 channels it was always a treat when this was on. I was locked in start to finish.
He ceases to be Max and becomes the Road Warrior turning into a legend! Fade to black!
My favorite part of the movie....was the whole movie.
The greatest movie of all time
I love the way they just give up in total frustration and drive away. That's the way most wars end.
That last shot is so epic 🔥
Best ending ever..... and the road warrior he lives now...........only in my memories.
That smile Max gives the Gyro Captain is epic. The whole film is epic. Just wish somehow the Interceptor would have survived. Only Ford makes cars and trucks worthy of the screen. This was far better than Fury Road ever will be.
You got that right. Fury Road was so boring even the characters acted lame. Road Warrior kicked ASS! And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so (from 976-CREOLEMAN).
@@marcelmischeaux7256 Yesssss! Fury Road was an insult to the franchise.
@@marcelmischeaux7256 how can you think Fury Road is boring… never heard something so backwards
@@D-FENS33 Fury Road was backwards. Lame characters. Writing was not up to it's - ok it was lame. They should have left MAX alone after the third film. That new Max didn't do anything for me. Not a good actor. And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
Fury road mad max character was boring. But fury road movie was great and funny. It’s a very good post apocalyptic movie.
To be correct the real name of the movie needs to be “impératrice furiosa fury road”
Most exciting car stunts ever filmed - some are almost unbelievable! And it was to conclude the "Mad Max" story. Another sequel was not originally planned and Max's fate was to remain unknown.
Part of the genius of Road Warrior was that they let the viewer fill in the rest of the story. If only ...
thunderdome was sesame street with kids and fury was how much money we can spend
@@timpriddy349 Thunderdome had a great ending, Max wondering off in the distance like Boba Fett on Tatooine
One of my dads favorite movie's, If it was on the air it was on our TV. Here I am in my 40's and it's definitely in my top 5.
No better line was ever spoken about who Mad Max was to a boy that remembered him.
"He lives now...only in my memories."
" he lives now only in my memories" what an awesome ending
Sounds like Titanic's old lady remembering Jack.
“All those moments will be lost in time… Like tears in the rain. Time to die”. -Blade Runner
this is by far one of the greatest road crashes ever created for any movie......
Never noticed how crisp and clean the white and yellow road lines are! Almost like there's a crew still maintaining them.😢
To say that the head-on crash obliterated Wez and the Humungoius goes without saying great intense heart-pounding score from Brian May and the crash is spec-fuckibng-tacular! It still amazes me 40 years later...
Still my favourite movie of all time. Even after all these years it still beats all other movies I’ve seen. Really left an impression on me as a young man in the early 80’s.
"And so began the journey north, to safety..."
I actually knew the Guy who was the stunt driver ( Dennis Williams ) driving the tanker and he said Mel Gibson was a top bloke to work with, he'd sit with all the guys and gals at the end of the day and play card's and have dinner, he showed me his photo album with all these super cool pictures from behind the scenes, believe it or not his day job was just a regular truck driver delivering freight.
Yeah, he's got his vices, but that's how people are. Everyone calling him a POS for saying some crazy shit blackout drunk 30 years ago is being rediculous, most of Hollywood diddles kids for hells sake. At the very least, he seems like a pretty normal guy.
@@tubbs2132 yeah this was all before he was a big star but Dennis could not fault him, in his eyes he was nothing special just a regular bloke with no tickets on himself.
@@tubbs2132 isn't it funny that shit we did when we were younger sticks to you like shit on a blanket, go figure.
They also say he was the only guy they could find locally the could shift a quad box mack
@@roadwolf2 yeah, that's right, you'd think the producers would have picked up an easier truck to drive.
From what I was told they picked up that Mack really cheap.
Can't blame them I suppose knowing that it was going to be basically destroyed would certainly be a big factor in why they went with it. $$$
Ending gives me chills everytime
No CGI...Great Stunts & Vehicle Choreography, Great Music. That's why this will always be the best MAD MAX Movie
love the soundtrack
Epic movie making. Why can't they make movies half as good nowadays I'll never know. The cinematography, the music, the post apocalyptic atmosphere is truely terrifying
Hollywood has grown so big, and so many stories have been told and retold, that they don’t want to take chances on anything that isn’t guaranteed to make them huge amounts of money.
The two rogues getting the job done against all odds. Perfect.
Beautiful music
This should've been the ending of the franchise.
It'd be awesome if they could get Emil Minty to do another movie as the leader of the tribe. Maybe in the future, Max realizes he's too old to survive on his own and heads north, and eventually finds those people again. Mel Gibson as Max, of course. Could be that he shows up just in time to help them fight off some new threat.
Definitely sounds good! Are you busy writing the story?
The Tribe would not permit him to join as he was an outsider.
You would think the last remaining members of humungus’ crew would at least drive down there to take a peek after the crash.
I think they saw the sand, they knew the truck ran on diesel, there was little to scavenge.
@@peterl3417 after chasing something for ages, killing a bunch of people on there, having a bunch of your guys killed, including all leadership in your rabble of scavengers, I think I would drive down there just to be sure.
George Miller is a genius. A real like MD doctor and a filmmaker! Thanks for creating auch legendary art of work and one of my favourite action sagas Mad Max of all time ! Until Fury Road and Furiosa, I'll always support his works! Greatest legendary director ever! Mad Max, the true definition of the Lone Wolf Road Warrior! Spectacular, yet, iconic!
日本でもマッドマックスの映画が人気があって、年に一回は出演した俳優さんを招いて、交流会を行っている。
マッドマックスは、当時のカワサキ、ホンダなどのオートバイに、改造したフォード車と今、見ても面白い。
I think the Studio dictated a lot of terms that George had to follow. I don't think he would have made it those movies (badly) if he had full control like he did in the 1980s.
And the road warrior, that was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now... only in my memories.
Legendary ending!!!!!
It feels like a finale to mad max series
When the the tanker leans up on it's side, you can see and hear something explode out from under the truck with some insane force.
Sounds like a cannon.😎
I thought it was an upper driveshaft but in the next scene you can see the driveline is still intact.
Spoiler: when you see this you can't unsee it.
When the ferel kid is on the hood of the truck, just to the left of the bulldog hood ornament you can see black feathers flapping in the wind.
Also when Humungus crashes "the People Eater" 6 wheeler into the Mack truck, look closely on the side of the road you'll see other chase cars parked and people watching. 😉
Lost my eye for detail
Never noticed that before ( the parked vehicles ) but I always wondered about that explosion as the truck is rolling over - i thought that maybe they mounted a charge underneath to insure the truck rolled.
That Cannon Noise When The Truck Overturns Is The Front Drive Tire Popping
As a truckdriver, if you have ever heard a semi tire with 120 psi explode, it's fairly loud and impressive, that's what I've always thought it was.
That's the tyre exploding mate
No reboot will ever come close to this masterpiece of a movie. Real stunt men and women risking their lives, and no CGI. They just don't make action films like this anymore.
that end makes my hair stand
That ending
I love how max is like a campfire story
My number one favourite movie of all time
A truly great film, one of the best ever made...
MASTERPIECE
The narration at the end is by far the best scene of the trilogy
That movie had an amazing soundtrack.
RIP, Bulldog Mack. You served us well.
Long live the road warrior ....Mad Max 👍🏾
It is so refreshing to see a scene that is real and organic and not CGI. CGI is so fake and ruins movies.
Preach!
practical effects were mind blowing and great
But...... CGI ruined everything especially low budget CGI is too awful
I would likely presume that this is a rising negativity of technology in filmmaking industry
While it is there, I don't trust CGI for blending with live action footage.
If big things have to happen at budgets not the biggest, animation or bust.
MAD MAXはオレの青春映画だ。
憧れたなぁ。
メル・ギブソン若いのぅ。
Many have tried to create their own Man With No Name.
For my money, only Road Warrior has accomplished that with flying colours.
No one did it better than Clint Eastwood. But Mel’s Maxx is second best! “The Man with No Name”
Great movie!!
The greatest action movie ever
My favourite movie of all time
Max Looked so badass in an unprecedented epic macho manner when he grasped that sand.
Man if I ever write a movie, novel, short story or whatever I would definitely pass to my main character this Max's characteristic of him being a reluctant messiah, a man that doesn't want to get involved with anyone, but that changes completely the life of the people he meets, for better or worse, but in the end he'll always be on the road, alone and in a never ending search for purpose or redemption or who knows what...
read The Man Who Never Missed by Steve Perry
@@ian.swift.31614 Thanks for the suggestion friend, I'm gonna check it out.
The best final scene ever!
Mad Max...... the ultimate man who walks alone.
That mack truck is a legend
Eric, estoy de acuerdo contigo. Ve el video de mi Mack. RUclips. Mack DM 800 a escala
It seems to me that filling the tanker with sand wasn't necessary, and just made it harder to run from the gang. It would have been much better for the tank to be empty. The truck would have been faster and the trailer could have been swung easier to use as a weapon. Furthermore, the survivors didn't do full it with sand just to fool Max, because their leader was going to drive the truck himself before Max volunteered.
The leader was clearly willing to sacrifice himself for the Tribe, that's why he accompanied Max along with those two others. They didn't completely abandon Max and I suppose if they did he might have questioned whether the whole thing was genuine. Agreed about the sand part, although if the chasers were smart they might question why the tanker is so fast with all that fuel onboard.
That is an amazing shot of the road warrior at the end
This movie is perfect
Flawless. The only flawless movie I've seen.
Agreed best movie ever made
i watched the road warrior when i was a kid and ending scene with max just standing alone on the road as the sun sets disturbed me and sent shivers down my spine.I coudn't understand what was happening in the movie but i could just tell from the atmosphere that society collapsed.I'm glad i got a chance to watch it again for clarity.Mad Max The Road Warrior will always be my favourite movie
I just noticed that at the end, Max is stand next to Pappagallo's car, which is a car that one of the bad guys was driving when Max delivers the truck.
And it’s the same car he’s riding in Thunderdome, first having it pulled then finally crashing it into Auntie’s goons
Watching this scene I just realized that Max didn’t known about the sand in the tanker.
For four decades I just assumed he was “in” on the diversion plan 😲
All the more reason for him to go slaughter them all
@@angryman1206 the leaders already died seeing the plan through!
@@skipintroux4444 but the other settlers are still alive so there's still vermin in need of putting down.
He had no control over anything. Such is the life of a "shell".
This is the real Max, not that wimp for furry road! That movie betrayed all the original Mad Max movies!!
3:47 to 3:50 says it all really. The music the overcast sky background....Cinematic brilliance
Omg can’t believe how meloncholy the ending song is now. RIP Tina, you were everything