"Best Mad Max? Mad Max 2!" Topic

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What is your favorite Mad Max movie?

43% said "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)"
21% said "Mad Max (1979)"
9% said "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)"
8% [TIE] said "Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)" OR "don't like Mad Max movies"

I met Virginia Hey, his love interest, at several conventions a few years ago. So I agree.

Come on, folks. You must admit that Thunderdome has the best soundtrack and the hottest villain of all the movies. 😍 That has to count for something!

"But he's just a raggedy man."

"8% [TIE] said "Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)" OR "don't like Mad Max movies""

Well, that is the same thing.

Unfortunately road warrior, over the original. Yes.

Mad Max follows the tradition of action trilogies like JP and aliens and Terminator.

The first sets the scene and has some unique thing going on, typically lower budget. JP is the anomaly in the above.

The second amps up the coolness, adds a kid, has more of the creatures. Good guy wars black, Malcom, Max, Arnie. Kid has special ability, gymnastics, boomerang, hacking, survival.

The third film basically copies the second, only not as cool. Typically ending things.

Of course there a sucky revival. Resurrection, literally. Fury road tosh. Salvation. JW, the only one above to succeed, however bad it was.

A string of bad movies to follow.

Most action/SciFi/fantasy franchises follow this.

I get 2 might be gritty and good, but Thunderdome is FUN!

100%.

It ties well to the road warrior.

It had more product placement than before, except maybe Mad Max? With viewmaster and bugs bunny.

The Sydney model was very good.

Better then a CGI dust storm or two headed lizard I could mention. At least it was real, and they couldn't really bomb Sydney for it.

It had a very good feel about it, you felt like you were going on a journey.

I had always wanted a 4th film after Thunderdome, where Max finally wins without having to sacrifice himself at the end. A "Max at Rest" ending that wraps up the series. Not all roses, of course, still gritty. Maybe he finds his way to Sydney a decade later? Or Florida? :) Sadly IMO all we got was a lame attempt at a reboot.

I'll confess I never saw the attraction. My post-apoc Australia fix is Blood of Heroes.

Aka salute of the juggers.

Beats fury road.

Suggestion for new Olympic sport.

(Perhaps a pole suggestion, sci fi/fantasy/otherwise fictitious sport to be in Olympics. Dog skull, running man, triad, hunger games, that race from SG1, Thunderdome, Tron racing, Tron frisbee, so on.)

I had been waiting for fury road since reading about it in the early 2000s.

What a disappointment.

I tried to watch Fury Road twice. I just couldn't.

I saw The Road Warrior in the theater in 1981, and then I went back the following weekend and watched it again. I couldn't believe a movie could be that good, I was spellbound the entire time. The recent sequels aren't actually bad movies, but they don't hold a candle to the 81 movie.

Mad Max has been hit with the big franchise curse.

The one where you simply remove anything that the franchise is known for and replace it with tat.

Mad Mad, Australia, real!!!, Mel Gibson (although understandable at a point, look at Bond).

Godzilla, a guy in a suit stomping a miniature city.

Dr Who, 4-7 25 min episodes per story. Dr being a time lord (not lady). Stories and dialogue delivered in a watchable manner.

Thomas the tank engine, a real train set.

Bob the builder, a stop motion guy.

Peter rabbit, hand drawn like the books, now CGI, like so many others.

I'm not sure why you would want to destroy things that work?

If simply changed the name and premise, the brainless would still watch, leaving fans of the original franchise happy.

Like, "Barbara one arm and the highway goons. Set in a distant future."

There how hard was that, and everyone's happy.

They only do it so they can use the name to try to get an audience, which works, until fans realise it's rubbish, leaving just those brainless people watching anyway, whilst ruining it for real fans.

Anoying-g.

The Road Warrior is perhaps the movie that perfectly combines plot and visuals in the most Poor Bunny special way.