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ROBANN_88
10/26/24 3:48:51 PM
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on the first one right now

i don't get it. i thought this was gonna be a post-apocalypse fun action romp. but so far it's just a couple cops and a gang conflict.

i've only ever seen Beyond Thunderdome before, years ago, and i can't see how they're related at all beyond the name

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IronChef_Kirby
10/26/24 3:50:07 PM
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Yeah, the first one bored me. I understand its significance, but it was not a fun watch. 2, Fury Road, and Furiosa are fantastic tho.

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Freddie_Mercury
10/26/24 4:00:56 PM
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its an origin story

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ROBANN_88
10/26/24 4:02:54 PM
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Freddie_Mercury posted...
its an origin story

was Mad Max a known character before the movies?
an "origin story" movie is something i expect from a Spiderman or Batman movie, not a (at the time) a brand new franchise


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Enclave
10/26/24 4:04:21 PM
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Road Warrior is peak Mad Max.

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GuerrillaSoldier
10/26/24 4:16:34 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
was Mad Max a known character before the movies?
an "origin story" movie is something i expect from a Spiderman or Batman movie, not a (at the time) a brand new franchise
yeah that's your problem. you're going in thinking franchises and ultimate team up movies were even a goal or a thought back in the early 80s. they dgaf about this stuff back then, there was no vision to turn it into a franchise with sequels that influence design decisions for years to come.

they just wanted to make a cool movie with a limited budget. give it a break, damn.


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ROBANN_88
10/26/24 4:18:35 PM
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Okay, i'm at the last 15 minutes or so, and finally it's starting to pick up speed

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ai123
10/26/24 4:21:27 PM
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I like the first film as a low budget thriller with fantastic chase sequences.

Road Warrior is everything the franchise ever needed to be.

Beyond Thunderdome is the PG version.

Fury Road is the big budget version.

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ROBANN_88
10/26/24 4:45:33 PM
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alright, finished the first movie.
the intro chase scene was pretty good and iliked the end, but in between was a bit meh

i'll watch the second sometime before the topic purges

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Aressar
10/26/24 4:57:10 PM
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Yeah, the first MM is not bad, but pretty underwhelming compared to the rest of the franchise. At that point the concept wasn't quite 'full-blown post-apocalyptic dystopia' yet, but specifically 'when the gangs take over the road.
It might as well take place in some town in the middle of nowhere during the pre-internet days.

Still worth watching if you intend to watch the rest as well. Every movie is kind of a standalone story, but it definitely helps to understand Max's backstory while watching them.

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ROBANN_88
10/26/24 5:15:37 PM
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Aressar posted...
Yeah, the first MM is not bad, but pretty underwhelming compared to the rest of the franchise.

yeah, i'm sure at the time it was probably seen as a pretty alright movie, and my dissappointment just stems from expecting it to be what the series is supposed to be later, and not getting that

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itcheyness
10/26/24 5:29:17 PM
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My personal rankings are: 4>2=5>1>>>>3

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ROBANN_88
10/28/24 9:06:08 AM
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alright, i got a kebab and now i'm gonna watch Mad Max 2

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ROBANN_88
10/28/24 9:27:58 AM
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considering the whole movie appears to be about lack of fuel, they sure seem to love just driving around in circles

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Vyrulisse
10/28/24 9:30:25 AM
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Pointless Trivia: The guy that played Toecutter was also Immortan Joe in Fury Road.

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ROBANN_88
10/28/24 9:34:56 AM
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wait, did his wife actually die at the end of the first one?
the doctors said she "was salvageable"
i would assume that meant they could save her, but she's nowhere to be seen

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masterpug53
10/28/24 10:05:30 AM
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Continuity-wise, the original Mad Max is about a world in the middle of its slide into ruin; it's not a doomsday-type apocalyptic scenario. Road Warrior and beyond are firmly post-apocalypse.

And yeah, in many ways the original was kind of a proof of concept for the movies that came later and refined the formula.

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Kitt
10/28/24 10:13:21 AM
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The first one sucks (cool stunts aside), The Road Warrior is the best one. The movie rocks!

you're going in thinking franchises and ultimate team up movies were even a goal or a thought back in the early 80s. they dgaf about this stuff back then
*Looks at all the franchises they tried to force in the 80s like Halloween and Police Academy*

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vycebrand2
10/28/24 10:17:08 AM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
alright, i got a kebab and now i'm gonna watch Mad Max 2
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ROBANN_88
10/28/24 1:51:36 PM
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alright, that was a much more interesting movie than the first one
i was not expecting the tanker to be filled with sand

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ai123
10/28/24 2:19:41 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
considering the whole movie appears to be about lack of fuel, they sure seem to love just driving around in circles
Because fuel is wealth, and an abundance of it is the ultimate status symbol, so of course you indulge in conspicuous consumption to display your power, keep your followers happy, and intimidate your enemies.

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ROBANN_88
10/28/24 2:35:13 PM
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ai123 posted...
Because fuel is wealth, and an abundance of it is the ultimate status symbol, so of course you indulge in conspicuous consumption to display your power, keep your followers happy, and intimidate your enemies.

yeah, that's fair, i guess

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mustachedmystic
10/28/24 2:48:21 PM
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Kitt posted...
*Looks at all the franchises they tried to force in the 80s like Halloween and Police Academy*
Force? Both those were very popular in the 80s.

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DavidZ2844
10/28/24 2:56:27 PM
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Dont get me wrong I like Mad Max 2 but none of the older Mad Max films come even close to the quality of Fury Road. Fury Road is one of the greatest action movies of all time and blows away all the previous movies by a lot.

itcheyness posted...
My personal rankings are: 4>2=5>1>>>>3
my ranking is similar except 5>2 and switch 1 and 3
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s0nicfan
10/28/24 3:30:03 PM
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I feel like beyond thunderdome is criminally underappreciated. We get to see the beginnings of what a proper society might look like after the road warrior was just a bunch of random survivors camping in a bunch of random places that happen to have things like fuel. Plus I really liked seeing how children are already being raised with this almost mythical view of what society used to be.

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DisgracefulSins
10/28/24 3:38:12 PM
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This is from before the apocalyptic setting. You get to see how Max becomes the way he is later.

It is all one long continuity. You gotta watch the sequels.

This one ends with him losing important things and becoming quite merciless to those he feels deserves it. And the sequels add to that. The apocalypse comes later.

And while the movie might seem like a generic 70s/80s action flick, it was one of the first to do it this way. Other movies copied it after. So try to understand the significance and keep that in might that it was unique for its time.

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Foppe
10/28/24 3:47:32 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
wait, did his wife actually die at the end of the first one?
the doctors said she "was salvageable"
i would assume that meant they could save her, but she's nowhere to be seen
If I remember correct, the doctors first says the injuries, which sounds badly, then one asks if it is salvageable as if they can use her organs for transplantation.

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meralonne
10/28/24 3:50:54 PM
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Enclave posted...
Road Warrior is peak Mad Max.


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masterpug53
10/28/24 4:15:46 PM
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Foppe posted...
If I remember correct, the doctors first says the injuries, which sounds badly, then one asks if it is salvageable as if they can use her organs for transplantation.

Obviously this is personal headcanon, but what I took from that scene was that Max's wife possibly survived, but he was so thoroughly broken over his failure to not only protect his family but also fulfill his duty as a lawman (and subsequently blinded by vengeance) that after his breaking point he honestly didn't care if she lived or died; so the question of whether or not she lived became negligible to Max's story.

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royic
10/28/24 4:17:41 PM
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Furiosa was peak and that it flopped is proof we like a Ministry of Culture to fix these things

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DavidZ2844
10/28/24 4:59:59 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
I feel like beyond thunderdome is criminally underappreciated. We get to see the beginnings of what a proper society might look like after the road warrior was just a bunch of random survivors camping in a bunch of random places that happen to have things like fuel. Plus I really liked seeing how children are already being raised with this almost mythical view of what society used to be.
Thunderdome is definitely underrated, on my rewatch of all the films before Furiousa came out earlier this year, this movie stood out to me the most of the old trilogy and I enjoyed it a lot more than I did before.

The world building and overall post apocalyptic vibe that Miller does in this movie is fantastic. The introduction of Bartertown and its unique rules, and especially the power struggle between MasterBlaster and Aunty is just fascinating.
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ROBANN_88
10/28/24 5:15:37 PM
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i've seen Thunderdome a few times before but since i was just a kid i think i never really understood the finer parts apart from "lol, small guy is riding big guy" and "two men enter, one man leave"

so it'll be interesting to see how that goes

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Aressar
10/28/24 6:11:33 PM
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DavidZ2844 posted...
Thunderdome is definitely underrated, on my rewatch of all the films before Furiousa came out earlier this year, this movie stood out to me the most of the old trilogy and I enjoyed it a lot more than I did before.

The world building and overall post apocalyptic vibe that Miller does in this movie is fantastic. The introduction of Bartertown and its unique rules, and especially the power struggle between MasterBlaster and Aunty is just fascinating.

The stuff that takes place in Barter Town is great. It's the kids tribe stuff that feels like a boring slog.

DavidZ2844 posted...
Dont get me wrong I like Mad Max 2 but none of the older Mad Max films come even close to the quality of Fury Road. Fury Road is one of the greatest action movies of all time and blows away all the previous movies by a lot.

At first the universal status quo was that The Road Warrior was the best one, but Fury Road was so just so amazing that most people seem to agree that's the best one now. Seriously, it's already rare enough for a modern-day sequel to be at least of equal quality as the old movies, but Fury Road uniquely succeeded in actually surpassing the quality and success of its predecessors, which I think is super impressive, especially for a director who made this at the age of 70.

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