Pretty sure he stopped attacking blaster was because he realized he was about to kill someone with down syndrome...and at the end of the day, Max isn't a monster, he just doesn't like what the world has become.
I think that *_Beyond Thunderdome_* really nails the sort of procedurally organic ways that these little isolated pockets of humanity end up forming into these various self-sustained communities. Whilst Bartertown is very much an adult-driven environment that's very nihilistically embracing the showmanship & charisma from before in order to maintain the sort of mafia family-like order, the kids have this sort of oral tradition built around a half-understood version of things that gives them this sort of optimism about something better that the adults have all completely given up on ever finding at all. Max sort of falls into this weird place where he's instantly got a niche to fill in either of those places but he's not really interested in belonging to either of them, which is why, for me, the really uneven tone has always seemed to just work for me. (Likely also helped seeing all of them as a kid). This movie really gets him this sort of theme where after *_Road Warrior_* he's ok taking one for the team to let other people go off to find a future that he's no longer fit for, which is sort of what continues as the throughline for his character in *_Fury Road_* though with everything he sees in that movie with the flashbacks it seems like he's been through a lot more struggles with things between those events. It's that overall development passing those lessons on through his interactions with Furiosa saving the wives is why I especially like having the context of these films. *_Beyond Thunderdome_* has a lot that specifically makes me even more excited for *_Furiosa_* because of how much it seems like it'll be focusing on multiple different disparate communities that sprung up and sustained themselves in the post-apocalypse, and I think that this shows SUCH a cool foundation for the types of things that we'll eventually be seeing in that in the sort of manufactured mythology that allows them to maintain power over the masses of survivors.
I worked at a VHS rental shop when this movie came out and it was very popular. I also remember very positive Starlog articles about Thunderdome. The abdandoned children perspective was so compelling, especially with the Max anti hero. I'd like to see "Plan? There ain't no plan." become a meme now since that wasn't a thing back then.
Fun fact: if you flew to Sydney from Coober Pedy (where Beyond Thunderdome was filmed) you would enter from the same direction they do in the movie and you almost pass over Broken Hill where they filmed Mad Max 2 and Fury Road.
Funny, but this watchalong brought back a ton of memories. I forgot that this was the Mad Max I had on video as a kid and watched it a ton. I had almost forgotten most of this movie, but just about every scene was really a super brick of nostalgia to my teeth. The music, the lines, the action scenes, the characters. Honestly, I really don't think this movie was bad at all, and I'm going to check it out again for myself this weekend. What a ride! (pun intended)
I think the pause with blaster was just because he was a young looking kid not an adult. And the pilot had better teeth cause Mad Max - Road Warrior made him some money!!
Max actually knew him from part one. Blaster is Benno, May's handicapped son, an old lady, the owner of oceanfront farm where Max and wife and son stayed.
This is after the Poxy-Clips. (You have no idea how many times I use that word rather than apocalypse.... just to see who gets it) Yes, it's Bruce Spence, who played the Gyro Captain in MM2, but this is a different character. Also, look up the music video for Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero"..... as good as the song itself is..... the music video is a complete banger! 3:20 - Actually, the monkey was leaving a trail for Max to follow. That monkey was pretty smart, if you think about it. (Also, yes, that IS a monkey. Monkeys have tails, Apes do not.) 6:55 - I'm not sure exactly what you said there, Omn1... was it "I'd take that offer real quick", or "I'd take that off her real quick"? 7:25 - That was a "riding crop", which is used to direct "beasts of burden" (horses, camels, etc) on which way to go. 8:35 - You're late to the party, bruh. We've been quoting that line for decades. "Methane cometh from pig shit." 10:00 - Omn1, you missed a perfect opportunity.... instead of "people gotta eat", you should have simply said, "Because.... you know...... 'bacon'." 13:55 - Think back a few scenes.... "Who you?" Master asked, the reply was simply "Me Max." So, no he hasn't abandoned his name. Although, I do think he dropped his last name, since familial names no longer meant anything. Especially not to a man who has lost all of his family. 14:50 - I do believe that this Thunderdome inspired the WWE to create the "Hell in a Cell" match, although that cage is square and this one is not. Also, during the Pandemic, when fans couldn't attend WWE shows, they lined the arena with monitors to have "virtual fans" (who would use a Zoom-like program to be "in attendance" on the screens), and this was called "Thunderdome". I've been a pro-wrestling fan since 1970, and I can tell you.... not having a live audience really affected the show. There is just something about that live crowd, and having some measure of interaction/immediate feedback with them that sets it apart from other forms of entertainment. 17:25 - Ooooh! Interesting question! I don't think so, as that guy (although also "Special Needs") wasn't nearly as big as Blaster. I actually went to IMDB to check. Benno (from the original movie) was played by Max Fairchild. Blaster was portrayed by Paul Larsson..... so, no, not even the same actor. Also, apparently there's another Mad Max movie in the works (found this on Paul Larsson's IMDB page, because "similar interests") called "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga". Looking it up, it's a "prequel" for the character Furiosa before the events of Mad Max: Fury Road.... so "set in the Mad Max world, but doesn't involve Max himself", it looks like. 24:15 - You say "Lost Boys" style.... whereas us older people would say "Lord of the Flies" style.... 37:25 - Yeah, and that's why a lot of people don't like it. Me, I enjoy the Hell out of this movie. All three Mad Max movies (well, with Mel Gibson in them) are unique in their own way. It's not just a rehash of the same basic plot all over again. The first movie shows us the "death throws" of society as it collapses, the second one shows us after the Poxy-Clips, but there's still the "oil powering things" (which is basically what started the collapse in the first place), and this one shows us after there's no access to the oil, so alternate fuel is used (Methane cometh from pig shit), but motor vehicles are becoming more and more rare. There are no factories to create more of them, so it's a matter of piecing together the ones that exist, and adapting them to a new fuel source. Sooner or later, you're going to run out of parts to keep them functioning. 44:35 - No, that was not Emil Minty (the feral kid). It was Adam Cockburn playing this kid. 46:25 - "Hahaha, just slapped his kid out of the way!" Yeah, not only is that how Generation X was treated as children... but think about this.... After the Poxy-Clips.... it's not like anyone can call Child Protective Services on him, you know. ;)
With this third film, Warner wanted to have a more massive reach to the general public, that is why they made it a little lighter in violence and with elements such as humor to make it suitable for the whole family.
You might have been thinking about the music video for Thunderstruck. It also happens in a huge arena with people hanging on the outside. I always got the two of them mixed up as a kid. Also, glad you didn't hate this one. Tina Turner is my girl, and her look here is iconic.
Every "Mad Max" film has been australian. Just going back to what you said at the beginning "Mad Max" was not Mel Gibson's first film he's been in alot of australian films and television before he was in "Mad Max" but it was the first film where he started to be a household name but it was "Mad Max 2" and "Gallipoli" that made him big in america.
Yes, there's a lot of goofy stuff in it but I still like it a lot as a final chapter for human destiny. There's is hope out there now that we actually see. We never saw what happened to the group in Road Warrior at the end aside from knowing they survived.
A lot of reasons this movie's tone is all over the place is bc they had to directors for this bc George millers friend and producers died right before filming started and he said he was in no place to direct this film.
Bruce Spence is great in both Mad Max 2/3 but for years I was so confused as to why he was playing a total different character and still never found out why or was it just to allow him to be part of the sequel
Tina Turner was a huge rock star for the SECOND time when this movie came out. She had previously been a star in the 1960s-70s alongside her then-husband Ike Turner, the marriage ended very badly - see her biopic movie "What's Love Got To Do it", which is the title of perhaps her biggest solo hit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Love_Got_to_Do_with_It_(1993_film) Context of the scale of her renaissance: > Until 1983, Turner was considered a nostalgia act, performing mostly at hotel ballrooms and clubs in the United States.< Here's the title track to the Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome movie which was a massive hit in its own right: ruclips.net/video/HLBXAs2LO8k/видео.html My favourite Tina Turner track is also my favourite Bond theme: ruclips.net/video/4hGQ97tCTOs/видео.html I saw her live in concert just the once, phenomenal voice and energy at the then age of sixty(!) and she kept going for a good while after this. I am in the crowd somewhere: ruclips.net/video/T2T5_seDNZE/видео.html
I've you've never seen The Book of Eli(2010) then I highly suggest giving it a watch. It's yet another post-apocalyptic, dystopian future story but it's a cut above the rest. It stars Denzel Washington among others that you'll easily recognize, and you will like it.
I think if THUNDERDOME had been a stand-alone film, it would have been an instant cult classic. As it is, I think it *is* a cult classic that's still extremely quotable and has a ton of fascinating ideas and images, but so many people wanted it to be something it was never going for: a bigger, louder Road Warrior. I think both are great installments, and it's amazing how much each codified in the post-apocalyptic genre
"Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" for me I consider the worst of the franchise the first two "Mad Max" films were the best and both very australian "Fury Road" redeemed it as I felt as great as the budget was with "Beyond Thunderdome" it felt alittle too hollywood and cliched for my liking it also felt weird without his interceptor in the movie.
When it came out this one got panned by the critics and was probly my least favorite installment - though I still liked it. But over the years it has been reevaluated critically and become sort of a quirky cult film. I admit, I've come to like it more and more myself, and love Tina Turner's "Aunty Entity" performance and character, RIP Tina. She was not really the villain, but rather the antagonist, a tough as nails post apocalyptic broad with whom one should not eff, lol. Love her. "Ain't we a pair...raggedy man!" Miller was all primed to do a sort of "Lord of the Flies/Peter Pan" film, by the way, but the studios insisted on a 3rd Mad Max installment, hence the kids subplot, so...he sort of shoehorned his lord-of-the-flies-Peter-Pan-esque script and ideas into this and made the weirdest Mad Max flick of them all. "Bust a deal, face the wheel!
Beyond Thunderdome was set 18 years after the events of The Road Warrior. Unfortunately, producer Byron Kennedy lost his life in 83, and Miller lost passion to complete MM3.. I loved and hated MM3 as a kid. It has the hints and echoes of the The Road Warrior vibe, and carnage, but ends at PG-13.. Arguments on the Gyro captain it being him or not, and is Max still driving the last of the V-8 engine 🤷♂️👍😎🎬
I never understood why the dwarf doesn't speak English correctly bc if max and Tina are old enough to remember the good old days then why can't he bc he is far older.
Not an important or necessary comment, but I had just turned 14 when this movie was released, and I immediately was enthralled with Tina Turner in that dress with her sexy sax man. (Although, I prefer lean men to muscle bound.) Carry On, actual film devotees. I'm done simping 🤣
They had a different actor playing the part but like 2 days before filming something fell through so George just hired Bruce again.he did the same with fury road the villain in that is the toe cutter from the first one.
1. Not my favorite of the series by any means. It's interesting, mostly with Tina (who sings) and it was much hyped and came out in 1995 but it was disappointing following the best of the bunch. 2. That said Savannah Nix is interesting. 3. Bruce Spence is the same actor but not representing the same guy in Road Warrior. "That's a quote I want on the back of the box."🤣
Swimming the best ones out there and top it off Tina Turner was hot and damn in this I'm talking about fire❤❤❤❤😊 there are too many raggedy mans out there who hate this movie🤣🤣🤣
For what it's worth, neither Mad Max nor Mad Max 2 are actually "post-apocalypse" movies. George Miller made it clear that the first two films take place prior to a nuclear war occurring. Miller thoroughly mapped out the timeline for these films and how events occurred in this world in a very specific way. The first two films only demonstrate the breakdown of society and the eventual conventional war between Saudi Arabia and Iran as a result of the oil crisis. In this timeline, nuclear exchange didn't occur and didn't touch Australia until after the events of Mad Max 2. You'll notice that Mad Max and Mad Max 2 feature vehicles that run on gasoline, whereas Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which takes place fifteen years later, features vehicles running on a fuel engineered from pig feces. Thunderdome also features a scene early on where Max uses a Geiger-counter to determine the amount of nuclear fallout contaminating some water, and that closing scene of the not-Gyro Captain flying everyone over the nuclear blasted remnants of Sydney.
I absolutely love this movie. I agree there's a complicated mix of tones and sometimes they pull at each other at times. However, I enjoy this vision of the world, the characters in this film, the scope of the world we get to experience in this one unique from the others. Fury Road is, without a doubt, the best of the series so far - let me be clear. I think Fury Road is not only one of the best action movies ever made, I also think its one of the best films of any genre ever made. So... there's no competition with Fury Road here at all. Not even close. I think the second film is more tonally consistent than Beyond Thunderdome and has a tighter story than Beyond Thunderdome. But it also has, for my money, much thinner sketched characters and is just less ambitions narratively than Beyond Thunderdome. Mind you, Thunderdome got way more money than the second film, so that plays a role too. Its hard to compare Thunderdome and Fury Road with the first two films because of rhe giant cash differential between them. For me the second and third film jockey for second place in the series so far because they each offer things the other doesn't. I respect the first film. What they made with no money at all and what they achieved was unimaginable with that first outing. It changed the way car chaseswere shot forever afterwards and it transformed the Australian movie industry as well. So the significance of the first film in cinema is MASSIVE. But its always been the one I enjoyed watching the least all the same. So glad you watched this series. On a separate note, I really hope you watch Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness soon... they're far and away the best films in that series (and the TV show, Ash VS Evil Dead, is marvelous as well). Thank u for what do u here - liked and shared
So great to see how you enjoyed the various acts and scenes of the Mad Max series. Certainly not as many car chases as Mad Max or Mad Max 2. But a good movie to get into a different mindset. Master Blaster runs BarterTown! Two men enter, One Man leave. You break a deal, you face the wheel. So many fun quotes that when you use them people know what movie you are referencing. Also, the Thunderdome song was a great one!
“Is this still Australia?” That is up for debate. The Mad Max video game and comics, which tie in to Fury Road, imply that much of the wasteland is actually the Pacific seabed after a large amount of the ocean got vaporized. But the end of this movie shows the kids settling in a bombed-out Sydney, so this story can’t be taking place far from there.
it was filmed in Coober Pedy in the south of Australia cool joint most people live in caves it's also known for opal mines angry anderson the one with the female mask like it there so much he bought land there
Why didn't he kill Blaster? Blaster was just being told what to do by Master, and wasn't really a threat. Dude had 'the mind of a child' per Master, the only way they'd probably be able to articulate someone with Down's Syndrome.
I always thought they should have used Benno , the big slow guy on the farm from the first movie Max really didn't give a f at this point and its more believable if the mask came off and not only does the guy obviously have the mind of a child but he also knows him Not only that he knows him from the day his wife and child were killed . He would have too shocked with memories of his family to kill him even if he still was willing to * edit * shit I made this comment before the reactor also made the connection to the farmhand . first reaction channel ive seen make the connection
This one was made a little more kid friendly than the first two which is where the campy humor comes in and why max didn't smash blasters head into mush when he had the chance,(well, that and it would have been just plain wrong) even in '85 it would have raised an uproar if max had smashed a mentally handicapped persons head into mush with a giant mallet on screen. This one was the first one I got to see when it first came out in theaters since I was only 3 when the first one came out and 5 when the second one hit the theaters, but seeing this one at 9 on the big screen in '85 was awesome, and then George went and started making kids movies until he finally came back to do fury road which had already been pushed back because of 9/11 and then Mel had his controversial meltdown and following downward spiral, so the story had to be reworked, but I blame the original prolonged delay prior to all that on him losing his close friend Byron Kennedy whom he dedicated thunderdome to because Byron had played a big part behind the scenes in helping get those movies made.
Max refused to kill Blaster because he is Benno from part one, a handicapped son of May, an old lady, owner of oceanfront farm where Max and his wife and kid stayed.
Shameful to know people are comparing this to bad sequels. I saw Beyond Thunderdome in the theater and was blown away because it was exciting but also different than the previous films. They built Aunty Entity's car with an automatic transmission so Tina could drive it herself.
George Miller didn't have his heart into this go-around because his friend and production partner had passed away before the production of Beyond Thunder Dome. Plus, the insistence of the rating by the studios didn't help. Mad Max began as an R-rated franchise. However, this was a more meditative detour and expanded the world building he started with the other two films prior to. Given the poor reception, it took close to 30 years before he'd get another chance to crack the wasteland wide open with Fury Road. Even Fury Road had it's own production hurdles where they had to film in South Africa because of something to do with the land; I want to say that it might have been too wet at the time. While Furiosa is facing it's own financial hurdles with the box-office, I really hope Miller gets to complete his next planned entry into the Mad Max Saga.
There is a Mad Max game that was intended to be a tie-in to Fury Road. It kind-of fills the gap between this and Fury Road. There are moments in that game that show you remnants of the old world buried below the sand.
48:33 In the game, we see a base of the buzzards (the guys who drive the spiked cars in Fury Road) and as you drive towards it you don't know what it's then when get over a sand dune you see it and it's an airport
The original idea was a 'Lord of the Flies in the post apocalypse' where these children are found by a man who ends up helping them. It eventually was suggested "what if that man was Max?".
Unpopular opinion, I love this movie and it’s my favorite out of the three original, but I did watched this one as a kid, which explains why, as an adult I’m totally understand why is PG-13. It could use a remake tho 😂
Pretty sure he stopped attacking blaster was because he realized he was about to kill someone with down syndrome...and at the end of the day, Max isn't a monster, he just doesn't like what the world has become.
yeah its like indiana jones 2. where they just go full on character and have fun with the world. a guilty pleasure still and forever
I think that *_Beyond Thunderdome_* really nails the sort of procedurally organic ways that these little isolated pockets of humanity end up forming into these various self-sustained communities. Whilst Bartertown is very much an adult-driven environment that's very nihilistically embracing the showmanship & charisma from before in order to maintain the sort of mafia family-like order, the kids have this sort of oral tradition built around a half-understood version of things that gives them this sort of optimism about something better that the adults have all completely given up on ever finding at all. Max sort of falls into this weird place where he's instantly got a niche to fill in either of those places but he's not really interested in belonging to either of them, which is why, for me, the really uneven tone has always seemed to just work for me. (Likely also helped seeing all of them as a kid).
This movie really gets him this sort of theme where after *_Road Warrior_* he's ok taking one for the team to let other people go off to find a future that he's no longer fit for, which is sort of what continues as the throughline for his character in *_Fury Road_* though with everything he sees in that movie with the flashbacks it seems like he's been through a lot more struggles with things between those events. It's that overall development passing those lessons on through his interactions with Furiosa saving the wives is why I especially like having the context of these films.
*_Beyond Thunderdome_* has a lot that specifically makes me even more excited for *_Furiosa_* because of how much it seems like it'll be focusing on multiple different disparate communities that sprung up and sustained themselves in the post-apocalypse, and I think that this shows SUCH a cool foundation for the types of things that we'll eventually be seeing in that in the sort of manufactured mythology that allows them to maintain power over the masses of survivors.
This was where Hollywood picked it up, but Tina is a legend loved in Australia.
Until mid May 2015 I considered Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome to be best movie ever made...... then I saw Mad Max Fury Road
I worked at a VHS rental shop when this movie came out and it was very popular. I also remember very positive Starlog articles about Thunderdome. The abdandoned children perspective was so compelling, especially with the Max anti hero. I'd like to see "Plan? There ain't no plan." become a meme now since that wasn't a thing back then.
Fun fact: if you flew to Sydney from Coober Pedy (where Beyond Thunderdome was filmed) you would enter from the same direction they do in the movie and you almost pass over Broken Hill where they filmed Mad Max 2 and Fury Road.
Fury Road was filmed overseas. Furiosa was filmed out Broken Hill way, at Hay in NSW and in Sydney.
I love this movie. It was way before it's time. You can see how much has been inspired by the themes in this movie.
Funny, but this watchalong brought back a ton of memories. I forgot that this was the Mad Max I had on video as a kid and watched it a ton. I had almost forgotten most of this movie, but just about every scene was really a super brick of nostalgia to my teeth. The music, the lines, the action scenes, the characters. Honestly, I really don't think this movie was bad at all, and I'm going to check it out again for myself this weekend. What a ride! (pun intended)
This was my favorite until Fury road came out. The guy with the mask on the stick is Angry Anderson an Australian rock star from the band Rose Tattoo.
Max had a hidden blade in his trusty fly swatter. Don't go out in the waste land without one.
I think the pause with blaster was just because he was a young looking kid not an adult. And the pilot had better teeth cause Mad Max - Road Warrior made him some money!!
Blaster clearly has Down's Syndrome. He paused because it didn't feel right to kill him when he saw that.
Nope not at all it's bc he is clearly mentally deformed and max wasn't about to kill someone who can't be held accountable for their actions.
Max actually knew him from part one. Blaster is Benno, May's handicapped son, an old lady, the owner of oceanfront farm where Max and wife and son stayed.
@@ch.s.6756 No that is a theory.
This is after the Poxy-Clips.
(You have no idea how many times I use that word rather than apocalypse.... just to see who gets it)
Yes, it's Bruce Spence, who played the Gyro Captain in MM2, but this is a different character.
Also, look up the music video for Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero"..... as good as the song itself is..... the music video is a complete banger!
3:20 - Actually, the monkey was leaving a trail for Max to follow. That monkey was pretty smart, if you think about it. (Also, yes, that IS a monkey. Monkeys have tails, Apes do not.)
6:55 - I'm not sure exactly what you said there, Omn1... was it "I'd take that offer real quick", or "I'd take that off her real quick"?
7:25 - That was a "riding crop", which is used to direct "beasts of burden" (horses, camels, etc) on which way to go.
8:35 - You're late to the party, bruh. We've been quoting that line for decades. "Methane cometh from pig shit."
10:00 - Omn1, you missed a perfect opportunity.... instead of "people gotta eat", you should have simply said, "Because.... you know...... 'bacon'."
13:55 - Think back a few scenes.... "Who you?" Master asked, the reply was simply "Me Max." So, no he hasn't abandoned his name. Although, I do think he dropped his last name, since familial names no longer meant anything. Especially not to a man who has lost all of his family.
14:50 - I do believe that this Thunderdome inspired the WWE to create the "Hell in a Cell" match, although that cage is square and this one is not. Also, during the Pandemic, when fans couldn't attend WWE shows, they lined the arena with monitors to have "virtual fans" (who would use a Zoom-like program to be "in attendance" on the screens), and this was called "Thunderdome". I've been a pro-wrestling fan since 1970, and I can tell you.... not having a live audience really affected the show. There is just something about that live crowd, and having some measure of interaction/immediate feedback with them that sets it apart from other forms of entertainment.
17:25 - Ooooh! Interesting question! I don't think so, as that guy (although also "Special Needs") wasn't nearly as big as Blaster. I actually went to IMDB to check. Benno (from the original movie) was played by Max Fairchild. Blaster was portrayed by Paul Larsson..... so, no, not even the same actor. Also, apparently there's another Mad Max movie in the works (found this on Paul Larsson's IMDB page, because "similar interests") called "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga". Looking it up, it's a "prequel" for the character Furiosa before the events of Mad Max: Fury Road.... so "set in the Mad Max world, but doesn't involve Max himself", it looks like.
24:15 - You say "Lost Boys" style.... whereas us older people would say "Lord of the Flies" style....
37:25 - Yeah, and that's why a lot of people don't like it. Me, I enjoy the Hell out of this movie. All three Mad Max movies (well, with Mel Gibson in them) are unique in their own way. It's not just a rehash of the same basic plot all over again. The first movie shows us the "death throws" of society as it collapses, the second one shows us after the Poxy-Clips, but there's still the "oil powering things" (which is basically what started the collapse in the first place), and this one shows us after there's no access to the oil, so alternate fuel is used (Methane cometh from pig shit), but motor vehicles are becoming more and more rare. There are no factories to create more of them, so it's a matter of piecing together the ones that exist, and adapting them to a new fuel source. Sooner or later, you're going to run out of parts to keep them functioning.
44:35 - No, that was not Emil Minty (the feral kid). It was Adam Cockburn playing this kid.
46:25 - "Hahaha, just slapped his kid out of the way!" Yeah, not only is that how Generation X was treated as children... but think about this.... After the Poxy-Clips.... it's not like anyone can call Child Protective Services on him, you know. ;)
With this third film, Warner wanted to have a more massive reach to the general public, that is why they made it a little lighter in violence and with elements such as humor to make it suitable for the whole family.
You might have been thinking about the music video for Thunderstruck. It also happens in a huge arena with people hanging on the outside. I always got the two of them mixed up as a kid. Also, glad you didn't hate this one. Tina Turner is my girl, and her look here is iconic.
Evil Dead 2 is the best imo and it's not even close
I actually think this is the best of the series. I loved the storyline.
Every "Mad Max" film has been australian.
Just going back to what you said at the beginning "Mad Max" was not Mel Gibson's first film he's been in alot of australian films and television before he was in "Mad Max" but it was the first film where he started to be a household name but it was "Mad Max 2" and "Gallipoli" that made him big in america.
I'm 47 I love this movie as much as the others , "the tell" is the best
The mad max trilogy is 100% in Australia
No one ever notices the old rabbit trap in Max’s vehicle where he presses the button to turn off the alarm.
I think those kids did a great job . Some funny bits. But sad 2
Yes it was a real sandstorm.
Yes, there's a lot of goofy stuff in it but I still like it a lot as a final chapter for human destiny. There's is hope out there now that we actually see. We never saw what happened to the group in Road Warrior at the end aside from knowing they survived.
A lot of reasons this movie's tone is all over the place is bc they had to directors for this bc George millers friend and producers died right before filming started and he said he was in no place to direct this film.
I love all four (soon to be five!) Mad Max movies, I consider them to be fairly different from each other!
Bruce Spence is great in both Mad Max 2/3 but for years I was so confused as to why he was playing a total different character and still never found out why or was it just to allow him to be part of the sequel
7:21 The blade was hidden in the handle of his fly swatter
Oh it was a fly swatter! I thought he was rolling around with a spatula in his mouth! 😂
Tina Turner was a huge rock star for the SECOND time when this movie came out.
She had previously been a star in the 1960s-70s alongside her then-husband Ike Turner, the marriage ended very badly - see her biopic movie "What's Love Got To Do it", which is the title of perhaps her biggest solo hit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Love_Got_to_Do_with_It_(1993_film)
Context of the scale of her renaissance: > Until 1983, Turner was considered a nostalgia act, performing mostly at hotel ballrooms and clubs in the United States.<
Here's the title track to the Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome movie which was a massive hit in its own right: ruclips.net/video/HLBXAs2LO8k/видео.html
My favourite Tina Turner track is also my favourite Bond theme: ruclips.net/video/4hGQ97tCTOs/видео.html
I saw her live in concert just the once, phenomenal voice and energy at the then age of sixty(!) and she kept going for a good while after this. I am in the crowd somewhere: ruclips.net/video/T2T5_seDNZE/видео.html
I've you've never seen The Book of Eli(2010) then I highly suggest giving it a watch. It's yet another post-apocalyptic, dystopian future story but it's a cut above the rest. It stars Denzel Washington among others that you'll easily recognize, and you will like it.
I think if THUNDERDOME had been a stand-alone film, it would have been an instant cult classic. As it is, I think it *is* a cult classic that's still extremely quotable and has a ton of fascinating ideas and images, but so many people wanted it to be something it was never going for: a bigger, louder Road Warrior. I think both are great installments, and it's amazing how much each codified in the post-apocalyptic genre
I love the thunderdome since i was a kid
There is a short clip called 'mad max out of gas' somewhere, worth a 5min watch
"Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" for me I consider the worst of the franchise the first two "Mad Max" films were the best and both very australian "Fury Road" redeemed it as I felt as great as the budget was with "Beyond Thunderdome" it felt alittle too hollywood and cliched for my liking it also felt weird without his interceptor in the movie.
You and Roger Ebert are the only two people who like this movie, which puts you in great company. The rest of us like anything else 😅
I liked it.
I like the film, too, and i’ve been a Mad Max fan since 1980.
1 and 2 were epic movies. 3 was entertaining, but not in the same category.
Alll stunts , no cgi
It's like the og Star Wars Trilogy, the first startet the Franchise, the Second is considered the best and the third one has Ewoks.
I actually loved this film for the crazy shit it was. And I agree with you on the order of Mad Max films
When it came out this one got panned by the critics and was probly my least favorite installment - though I still liked it. But over the years it has been reevaluated critically and become sort of a quirky cult film. I admit, I've come to like it more and more myself, and love Tina Turner's "Aunty Entity" performance and character, RIP Tina. She was not really the villain, but rather the antagonist, a tough as nails post apocalyptic broad with whom one should not eff, lol. Love her.
"Ain't we a pair...raggedy man!"
Miller was all primed to do a sort of "Lord of the Flies/Peter Pan" film, by the way, but the studios insisted on a 3rd Mad Max installment, hence the kids subplot, so...he sort of shoehorned his lord-of-the-flies-Peter-Pan-esque script and ideas into this and made the weirdest Mad Max flick of them all.
"Bust a deal, face the wheel!
Beyond Thunderdome was set 18 years after the events of The Road Warrior. Unfortunately, producer Byron Kennedy lost his life in 83, and Miller lost passion to complete MM3.. I loved and hated MM3 as a kid. It has the hints and echoes of the The Road Warrior vibe, and carnage, but ends at PG-13.. Arguments on the Gyro captain it being him or not, and is Max still driving the last of the V-8 engine 🤷♂️👍😎🎬
I never understood why the dwarf doesn't speak English correctly bc if max and Tina are old enough to remember the good old days then why can't he bc he is far older.
Army of Darkness is the BEST movie.
Raggedy man.
Max didn't kill him because I think he knows the symptom of Down Syndrome and that's why he didn't Kill him after knocking off his helmet.... .
watch the second evil dead. its like the first one but better. army of darkness is a parody of them selves.
Not an important or necessary comment, but I had just turned 14 when this movie was released, and I immediately was enthralled with Tina Turner in that dress with her sexy sax man. (Although, I prefer lean men to muscle bound.) Carry On, actual film devotees. I'm done simping 🤣
We don’t need another hero!
Spence played 2 diffrent characters.
Absolute weird choice to have the actor who played the Gyro Pilot in the 2nd one play a different character in the sequel. That always confuses me.
They had a different actor playing the part but like 2 days before filming something fell through so George just hired Bruce again.he did the same with fury road the villain in that is the toe cutter from the first one.
@@ericseitzler81 Interesting - Thanks for the info!
Did you know Australia has more camels than Arabia?
River? do you mean the Sydney harbour?
Just realased DEADPOOL ript the driving upside down from this mad max...
1. Not my favorite of the series by any means. It's interesting, mostly with Tina (who sings) and it was much hyped and
came out in 1995 but it was disappointing following the best of the bunch.
2. That said Savannah Nix is interesting.
3. Bruce Spence is the same actor but not representing the same guy in Road Warrior.
"That's a quote I want on the back of the box."🤣
Swimming the best ones out there and top it off Tina Turner was hot and damn in this I'm talking about fire❤❤❤❤😊 there are too many raggedy mans out there who hate this movie🤣🤣🤣
Obviously Max is a time lord... his clothes are bigger on the inside
For what it's worth, neither Mad Max nor Mad Max 2 are actually "post-apocalypse" movies. George Miller made it clear that the first two films take place prior to a nuclear war occurring. Miller thoroughly mapped out the timeline for these films and how events occurred in this world in a very specific way. The first two films only demonstrate the breakdown of society and the eventual conventional war between Saudi Arabia and Iran as a result of the oil crisis. In this timeline, nuclear exchange didn't occur and didn't touch Australia until after the events of Mad Max 2. You'll notice that Mad Max and Mad Max 2 feature vehicles that run on gasoline, whereas Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which takes place fifteen years later, features vehicles running on a fuel engineered from pig feces. Thunderdome also features a scene early on where Max uses a Geiger-counter to determine the amount of nuclear fallout contaminating some water, and that closing scene of the not-Gyro Captain flying everyone over the nuclear blasted remnants of Sydney.
Sorry. This was the 1st Mad Max movie I saw as a kid. I love it!
This was the first Mad Max movie I ever watched as a kid, coincidentally, it’s also still my favorite to this day lol
Ngl I love road warrior but this is my favourite for some reason.
I absolutely love this movie. I agree there's a complicated mix of tones and sometimes they pull at each other at times. However, I enjoy this vision of the world, the characters in this film, the scope of the world we get to experience in this one unique from the others.
Fury Road is, without a doubt, the best of the series so far - let me be clear. I think Fury Road is not only one of the best action movies ever made, I also think its one of the best films of any genre ever made.
So... there's no competition with Fury Road here at all. Not even close.
I think the second film is more tonally consistent than Beyond Thunderdome and has a tighter story than Beyond Thunderdome. But it also has, for my money, much thinner sketched characters and is just less ambitions narratively than Beyond Thunderdome. Mind you, Thunderdome got way more money than the second film, so that plays a role too.
Its hard to compare Thunderdome and Fury Road with the first two films because of rhe giant cash differential between them.
For me the second and third film jockey for second place in the series so far because they each offer things the other doesn't.
I respect the first film. What they made with no money at all and what they achieved was unimaginable with that first outing. It changed the way car chaseswere shot forever afterwards and it transformed the Australian movie industry as well. So the significance of the first film in cinema is MASSIVE. But its always been the one I enjoyed watching the least all the same.
So glad you watched this series.
On a separate note, I really hope you watch Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness soon... they're far and away the best films in that series (and the TV show, Ash VS Evil Dead, is marvelous as well).
Thank u for what do u here - liked and shared
My favorite
The first half of this movie is the best hour of the whole Mad Max series. The 2nd half is the worst hour of the series.
One of my favourite movies, but watching it now, it's got the whackest soundtrack.
People who said it ant no good .don't have a clue ....ya Goofy m8te from Australia
So great to see how you enjoyed the various acts and scenes of the Mad Max series. Certainly not as many car chases as Mad Max or Mad Max 2. But a good movie to get into a different mindset.
Master Blaster runs BarterTown! Two men enter, One Man leave. You break a deal, you face the wheel.
So many fun quotes that when you use them people know what movie you are referencing. Also, the Thunderdome song was a great one!
I think those kids did a great job . Some funny bits. But sad 2
“Is this still Australia?” That is up for debate. The Mad Max video game and comics, which tie in to Fury Road, imply that much of the wasteland is actually the Pacific seabed after a large amount of the ocean got vaporized. But the end of this movie shows the kids settling in a bombed-out Sydney, so this story can’t be taking place far from there.
@schadenfreude5349 I didn’t write the lore, man.
it was filmed in Coober Pedy in the south of Australia cool joint most people live in caves it's also known for opal mines
angry anderson the one with the female mask like it there so much he bought land there
Why didn't he kill Blaster? Blaster was just being told what to do by Master, and wasn't really a threat. Dude had 'the mind of a child' per Master, the only way they'd probably be able to articulate someone with Down's Syndrome.
I always thought they should have used Benno , the big slow guy on the farm from the first movie
Max really didn't give a f at this point and its more believable if the mask came off and not only does the guy obviously have the mind of a child but he also knows him
Not only that he knows him from the day his wife and child were killed . He would have too shocked with memories of his family to kill him even if he still was willing to
* edit * shit I made this comment before the reactor also made the connection to the farmhand . first reaction channel ive seen make the connection
Blaster is Benno, May's handicapped son from part one.
@@ch.s.6756no he’s not. They’re two complete different characters played by two different actors.
This one was made a little more kid friendly than the first two which is where the campy humor comes in and why max didn't smash blasters head into mush when he had the chance,(well, that and it would have been just plain wrong) even in '85 it would have raised an uproar if max had smashed a mentally handicapped persons head into mush with a giant mallet on screen.
This one was the first one I got to see when it first came out in theaters since I was only 3 when the first one came out and 5 when the second one hit the theaters, but seeing this one at 9 on the big screen in '85 was awesome, and then George went and started making kids movies until he finally came back to do fury road which had already been pushed back because of 9/11 and then Mel had his controversial meltdown and following downward spiral, so the story had to be reworked, but I blame the original prolonged delay prior to all that on him losing his close friend Byron Kennedy whom he dedicated thunderdome to because Byron had played a big part behind the scenes in helping get those movies made.
Max refused to kill Blaster because he is Benno from part one, a handicapped son of May, an old lady, owner of oceanfront farm where Max and his wife and kid stayed.
Shameful to know people are comparing this to bad sequels. I saw Beyond Thunderdome in the theater and was blown away because it was exciting but also different than the previous films.
They built Aunty Entity's car with an automatic transmission so Tina could drive it herself.
It's just like return of the Jedi the beginning and end are awesome and the middle is kinda ruined by cute kids and or ewoks.
Love all 3. This one definitely had a bigger budget. The only one i saw in theatre when came out..
Flyswater. Blaster was down with the syndrome. Running man?
George Miller didn't have his heart into this go-around because his friend and production partner had passed away before the production of Beyond Thunder Dome. Plus, the insistence of the rating by the studios didn't help. Mad Max began as an R-rated franchise. However, this was a more meditative detour and expanded the world building he started with the other two films prior to. Given the poor reception, it took close to 30 years before he'd get another chance to crack the wasteland wide open with Fury Road. Even Fury Road had it's own production hurdles where they had to film in South Africa because of something to do with the land; I want to say that it might have been too wet at the time. While Furiosa is facing it's own financial hurdles with the box-office, I really hope Miller gets to complete his next planned entry into the Mad Max Saga.
I actually think Miller wanted to make 2 movies, but had 2 combine them for the budget.?
There is a Mad Max game that was intended to be a tie-in to Fury Road. It kind-of fills the gap between this and Fury Road. There are moments in that game that show you remnants of the old world buried below the sand.
48:33 In the game, we see a base of the buzzards (the guys who drive the spiked cars in Fury Road) and as you drive towards it you don't know what it's then when get over a sand dune you see it and it's an airport
please react to Tina Turner - We Dont Need Another Hero
The story I head was the actor who was to play the pilot canceled out and Bruce Spence stepped in at the last minute as a favor.
Not a fan of Fury Road. Road Warrior was my fave.
No mad max 3 was on the cinema when it came out warner bros own TV station
i have a movie recommendation , Godzilla Minus One , one hell of a fantastic movie!
In the first movie Mel was only 21
When Tina sang the song in concert she was on a riser in the outfit. It was awesome
That was the Sydney Harbor bridge so welcome to post-apocalyptic Sydney, AU.
The original idea was a 'Lord of the Flies in the post apocalypse' where these children are found by a man who ends up helping them. It eventually was suggested "what if that man was Max?".
Unpopular opinion, I love this movie and it’s my favorite out of the three original, but I did watched this one as a kid, which explains why, as an adult I’m totally understand why is PG-13. It could use a remake tho 😂
I've never met anyone who didn't love this movie, I don't know who's telling you it's not good.
This is the best one!❤🎉
Child of the 80s here , this movie aged well.. yeah I prefer this one to the first one.