Current Events > Mad Max really doesn't make sense

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Currently watching the series, great movies, though I'm ignorant to the background story

I understand the world imploding due to no Oil, but why did people move into the desert? I'm guessing cities got destroyed in the war, but not all cities. It doesn't make sense to leave sound stable structures for the desert. On top of it all, why the hell did everyone live prehistoric. You'd think people had some sort of idea on how to pick themselves up with current technology.

What really doesn't make any sense is that the first Mad Max is still pretty civilized and The Road Warrior is basically "civilization died 50 years ago in the great nuclear war."

FortuneCookie posted...

What really doesn't make any sense is that the first Mad Max is still pretty civilized and The Road Warrior is basically "civilization died 50 years ago in the great nuclear war."

Lol yeah I watched it when I was younger and got confused as to how shit went apocalyptic so quickly

Well as Einstein has said, WW3 would be fought with sticks and stones.

FortuneCookie posted...

What really doesn't make any sense is that the first Mad Max is still pretty civilized and The Road Warrior is basically "civilization died 50 years ago in the great nuclear war."

I thought it was because he kept driving out deeper into places that aren't so civilized.

FortuneCookie posted...

What really doesn't make any sense is that the first Mad Max is still pretty civilized and The Road Warrior is basically "civilization died 50 years ago in the great nuclear war."

That's what really, really confuses me.

Actually my first Mad Max movie was Fury Road, and then I went back and watched them in order and they were all good for one reason or another but I could not grasp the jump between the first and second movie.

Are they canonically related or is it sort of like the Evil Dead movies where "2" was basically a reboot of 1?
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Hexenherz posted...

FortuneCookie posted...

What really doesn't make any sense is that the first Mad Max is still pretty civilized and The Road Warrior is basically "civilization died 50 years ago in the great nuclear war."

That's what really, really confuses me.

Actually my first Mad Max movie was Fury Road, and then I went back and watched them in order and they were all good for one reason or another but I could not grasp the jump between the first and second movie.

Are they canonically related or is it sort of like the Evil Dead movies where "2" was basically a reboot of 1?

Evil Dead 2 is not a reboot.
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Yeah I never really got the transition between the two.

The fact the oil is depleted is more incidental to whole fact that civilization collapsed.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw the massive jump from the first and second film.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

I thought it was because he kept driving out deeper into places that aren't so civilized.

This probably might be a good explanation.
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the way i understand it, the character of mad max is more of a wandering traveler that gets into adventures, but none of them are realistically linked together. they're just legends and stories.

trying to find continuity defeats the purpose.

i'm sure it drives people with ocd crazy, though.
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It all takes place in his mind because he's insane. He's actually just a regular guy that drives trucks for a living.
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Most people don't have the education to take advantage of information like that. I've also only seen the 2015 movie but you have dictators like Immortan Joe who hog all the resources to stay in control and suppress the masses.
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Jiek_Fafn posted...

It all takes place in his mind because he's insane. He's actually just a regular guy that drives trucks for a living.

That would piss off a lot of people lol
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The real reason the first Mad Max wasn't so apocalyptic is because they had a way smaller budget than the rest of the films.

They never explain why shit went south so fast because it's not important to any film individually so we're just supposed to assume that something happened.
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First off, Mad Max takes place in Australia which is at least 70 semi-arid to desert.

Mad Max takes place just as society is breaking down in the cities so we can assume the outback is already completely broken.

Max is a loner so he would go to places where there is less order so he can take advantage of that.
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The explanation other places are worse off doesn't make sense when you consider Beyond Thunderdomes ending where they get to Sydney and it looks like it's been abandoned for centuries

Axiom posted...

The explanation other places are worse off doesn't make sense when you consider Beyond Thunderdomes ending where they get to Sydney and it looks like it's been abandoned for centuries

Cities start to look like hell very shortly if abandoned, the amount of maintenance humans do is astounding.
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A few scenes in the first movie shows road signs that say "Forbidden Zone" or the likes.

Guess they were saying that there was half assed communities and then the "you're on your own" areas.
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Axiom posted...

The explanation other places are worse off doesn't make sense when you consider Beyond Thunderdomes ending where they get to Sydney and it looks like it's been abandoned for centuries

Cities start to look like hell very shortly if abandoned, the amount of maintenance humans do is astounding.

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Are you really trying to tell me that this looks like 50 or so years of abandonment. It makes no sense as to why the place in the first movie is the last bastion of civilization and a major city was left to nothing

Also I think Road Warrior takes place like 5 years after Mad Max and Thunderdome something like 15.

Aunty makes it sound like she was a young woman when the shit went down.
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The way I see it...
The world started to go to hell. War happened in the Middle East which stopped all oil traffic.
This caused an economical crisis all around the world which resulted in massive lay-offs, riots, closed banks and shops, people starting to arm themself, etc.
Biker gangs and lowlife criminals started to cause such huge problems so the Government had to create the Main Force Patrol to combat them, which Max is a member of.
This is when the first movie takes place, right before hell happen.
Power plants runs out of fuel and all electrical devices stops working. Food gets harder to get. Looting gets worse. You cant survive alone so people join gangs. There is no reason to stay in cities, they cant provide food. There might be some unlooted farms left so people tries to find them.
Mad Max 2 takes place 3 years after the first movie. It exist no economy and people tries to survive, just to find gangs of crazy killers out there.
The remaining Governments tries to secure the few resources left, which results in a resource war. Which ends with nukes because fuck the rest. Nuclear winter happen and then most of Australia turns into a giant desert.
Beyond Thunderdome takes place 15 years after 2. Pretty much no oil left, food is rare, water is even more rare and radioactive. Civilization is dead.
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