Current Events > Starting the Mad Max film series today.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Hopefully can make it through all 4, nothing else to do while recovering from my 2nd Pfizer dose

Thoughts on the series? Your favorite movie? Pros/cons?
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Order of my favorites are 2, Fury Road, 1, and Beyond Thunderdome

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Mad max is a snoozer. Poorly paced had.to get through

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From best to worst...

Beyond Thunderdome
The Road Warrior
Fury Road
Mad Max

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Number 2 is the pinnacle IMO
Fury Road is almost as good.

If they'd had modern tech when they made Mad Max 2, it would have been amazing.

Number 1 is a classic though

Beyond Thunder Dome is weird. Some good elements, but some really awful ones. If they'd cut the bad ones, halved the budget, kept it small and focused on more fights in the ThunderDome, it could have worked.

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The Road Warrior > Fury Road > Beyond Thunderdome > Mad Max

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2=Fury Road > Mad Max >>> Beyond Thunderdome.

The first one is a bit slow, but still a fine movie. 2 really the starts the whole Mad Max feel, and it's great. Beyond Thunderdome started out pretty good, but ends up pretty shit. Fury Road is awesome.

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Muscle through the first one. The rest go in a much different direction. One that doesn't suck

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DravenRainrix posted...

Number 2 is the pinnacle IMO

This.

I feel like Im the only person on this forum that thinks Furry Road is absolute trash. Thunderdome was ridiculous, but it was a ridiculous 80s-style action film and plays as youd expect. My order is actually:

Mad Max 2/Road Warrior
Thunderdome
Mad Max



watching two hours of shitty Def Leppard videos



Furry Road


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DravenRainrix posted...

Beyond Thunder Dome is weird. Some good elements, but some really awful ones. If they'd cut the bad ones, halved the budget, kept it small and focused on more fights in the ThunderDome, it could have worked.

Thunderdome seems like two plots made into one.


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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Thunderdome seems like two plots made into one.

Agreed. It's like they wrote a really interesting sequel to number 2 that featured the town and Thunder Dome but then something happened, like they realised they needed to extend the movie out and couldn't afford more ThunderDome so got a bunch of cheap kids in and accidently mixed up pages from a film about Peter Pans friends.

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mobilebloechel posted...

I feel like this is edgelord bait. Fury Road is hands down amazing.

I feel like edgelords have to say how great that shitty movie is because of the stupid guy strapped to the front of a car playing a guitar.

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meralonne posted...

I feel like Im the only person on this forum that thinks Furry Road is absolute trash.

Well that explains it. You watched the porn version instead of the actual film.
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meralonne posted...

I feel like edgelords have to say how great that shitty movie is because of the stupid guy strapped to the front of a car playing a guitar.

The guitar guy doesn't make the movie great but it sheds an excellent light on male supremacy in a post apocalypse. Maybe you didn't understand the movie?

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Pandamonic posted...

Beyond Thunderdome started out pretty good, but ends up pretty shit.

What? Thunderdome has the best ending in the franchise.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

The guitar guy doesn't make the movie great but it sheds an excellent light on male supremacy in a post apocalypse. Maybe you didn't understand the movie?

I wasnt impressed with the film, therefore I clearly didnt understand it.

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I thought Fury Road was pretty meh too. I only rate it higher than Mad Max because at least Fury Roads plot doesnt drag along.

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BeyondWalls posted...

What? Thunderdome has the best ending in the franchise.

I worded it poorly, I meant the second half is pretty shit. I really didn't like it.

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Road Warrior and Fury Road are the best two. Mad Max is fine, Thunderdome can be skipped entirely.

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Just finished the 1st one.....first half was pretty sluggish/choppy editing, picked up after Max and family went on vacation, overall just okay

5 or 6/10
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meralonne posted...

I wasnt impressed with the film, therefore I clearly didnt understand it.

I mean, it's possible. If you're taking Fury Road at its face value (not seeking deeper meaning) you're not really grasping the film, and so you may not appreciate as much.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

I mean, it's possible. If you're taking Fury Road at its face value (not seeking deeper meaning) you're not really grasping the film, and so you may not appreciate as much.

And my post was cringelord? Get the fuck outta here lol

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The original was more of a proof of concept for what Road Warrior would turn out to be. Thunderdome is worth seeing simply for the pop-culture value of it, the whole 'oh okay, so that's where that comes from.' Fury Road is one of those exceptionally rare latter-day sequels that expertly sticks the landing.

Fun fact, the actor who plays Toecutter in Mad Max also plays Immortan Joe in Fury Road.

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The Road Warrior and Fury Road are the quintessential Max films. The first one is very good, and it's good you're starting there. But really, the first is better as setup for the second film, rather than by itself.

masterpug53 posted...

The original was more of a proof of concept for what Road Warrior would turn out to be.

JimmyFraska posted...

. But really, the first is better as setup for the second film, rather than by itself.

Thats the way I took after seeing it
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Scorsese2002 posted...

Thats the way I took after seeing it

Yeah. Road Warrior is very strong, one of the best films ever, even just by itself. But it's even better having seen the first one. The arc of the first film is not complete until the end of Road Warrior.

Thunderdome is it's own thing really. Honestly, both it and Fury Road copy the character arc of Road Warrior. Stylistically, Thunderdome is also very 80s looking, so it's not as timeless looking as the others. Actually, the story wasn't even being written as a Max story, but became one sometime during pre production. It stars Mel Gibson, but I would not think of it as a third part of a trilogy. Imo, it's easily the worst, but at least one above user seems to think it's the best one so take that as you will.

As far as a complete and cohesive story, the first two films stand together. Road Warrior isn't not a middle chapter story, it's a finisher. Thunder and FR are more just different takes on the iconic Road Warrior story.

meralonne posted...

And my post was cringelord? Get the fuck outta here lol

It's okay you only interface with media and art on a surface level.

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Not gonna get MM 3-4 in cause I wanted to finish the game Control

MM2 was definitely better than MM1
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MorbidFaithless posted...

It's okay you only interface with media and art on a surface level.

Its okay that your taste in media and art is trash.

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It was a good series but the first one still trips me up since it was like... at the collapse of society and everything is still kind of normal.

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The first movie can straight up be ignored. The Road Warrior is the true first movie.

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Kitt posted...

The first movie can straight up be ignored. The Road Warrior is the true first movie.

You don't get the full arc out of Road Warrior without the first movie. I mean yeah it explains it in 15 seconds of the intro, but emotionally its not as powerful as actually coming off of that first story.

Thunderdome is by far the best one out of the franchise. It has the most iconic moments, the best quotes, and the furtherest reaching plot.

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fury road is an amazing miracle. we don't get movies today that you can understand with the sound off because they're told almost totally with visual vocabulary

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If it weren't for Beyond Thunder Dome, I'd say it had the highest consistent quality of any series. Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Fury Road are all top notch.

Beyond Thunderdome:

• Best Music
• Most Iconic Quotes
• Most Iconic Scenes
• Best World Building

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BeyondWalls posted...

Beyond Thunderdome:

* Best Music
* Most Iconic Quotes
* Most Iconic Scenes
* Best World Building

Worst music, Diana Ross sucks.
Most quotes full stop, it's far more "talky" than previous films. Besides, "what a day..." From Fury Road beats any quote from ThunderDome.
Iconic scenes?... The fight in the dome is Iconic and the highlight of the film... That 1 scene.. fury Road has far more, MM2 has far more.
And world building in the third relies on the world already built in 1&2, it adds a town and some dumbass lost boys, that's all. Fury Road expands on the lore far far more with water and the wives and Joe and the rival groups etc etc.

ThunderDome is such a waste, you'd be better off skipping it and playing the Mad Max video game and then watch Fury Road.

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DravenRainrix posted...

Number 2 is the pinnacle IMO
Fury Road is almost as good.

If they'd had modern tech when they made Mad Max 2, it would have been amazing.

Number 1 is a classic though

Beyond Thunder Dome is weird. Some good elements, but some really awful ones. If they'd cut the bad ones, halved the budget, kept it small and focused on more fights in the ThunderDome, it could have worked.

this is pretty accurate

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DravenRainrix posted...

Worst music, Diana Ross sucks.

First, its Tina Turner you dolt. Second, Diana Ross is amazing. If you want me to take your review seriously then at least know what the fuck youre talking about.

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I was reading up on trivia, and as someone alluded to earlier, Thunderdome started off as its own entity - sort of a post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies-type movie pitched to George Miller. Then at some point in production, it occurred to them that they could work Mad Max into it. Makes a lot more sense when you view it from that lens (not necessarily the movie itself making sense, just the way the movie turned out).

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BeyondWalls posted...

First, its Tina Turner you dolt. Second, Diana Ross is amazing. If you want me to take your review seriously then at least know what the fuck youre talking about.

Meh ...
Some singer popular in the 80s belting out a crappy tune that is no one's playlist 30 years later.

But kudos on using the word Dolt, not seen that since the 80s either.


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Since this topic is still goingwhat are the thoughts on the Mad Max PS4 game? Blind bought it yesterday, gonna give it a try later this week
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Scorsese2002 posted...

Since this topic is still goingwhat are the thoughts on the Mad Max PS4 game? Blind bought it yesterday, gonna give it a try later this week

I've been playing it for the last couple of weeks. I think it's awesome, if a bit grindy, but I don't mind that, I like it actually. Great setting, great car combat, looks really good. My only gripe with it is that there are too few story missions. But the side stuff makes up for that.
I think it fits perfectly in the Mad Max universe.

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Scorsese2002 posted...

Since this topic is still goingwhat are the thoughts on the Mad Max PS4 game? Blind bought it yesterday, gonna give it a try later this week

Loved it, enjoyed that they somehow had handcrafted individual locations for all the side content, and there was a surprising amount of variety in the landscape considering it was all a washed out apocalyptic nightmarescape.

Only thing I kinda hated was the pacing, but that's kinda my fault. I did all the side content I could and then it came time to doing the story and I just breezed through it. I wish they had done a little more gatekeeping with the extra stuff just to balance it out a little.

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Mr Hangman posted...

1 is crap

What a turkey! Hey, fella! You're a turkey!

Pandamonic posted...

I've been playing it for the last couple of weeks. I think it's awesome, if a bit grindy, but I don't mind that, I like it actually. Great setting, great car combat, looks really good. My only gripe with it is that there are too few story missions. But the side stuff makes up for that.
I think it fits perfectly in the Mad Max universe.

Thats what Ive seen perusing a couple different reviews, cant wait to try it

Mr Hangman posted...

The Mad Max game is by the same team that makes the Just Cause series. It's missing Just Cause's greatest feature which is the grapple/parachute combo, but still if you like it you'll probably like Mad Max. But in October they shut down servers that provide support for some online features of the game (leaderboards and stuff), which annoyingly makes the game's last achievement/trophy unobtainable, if that bothers you. It can be circumvented I think if you download a save file with the silly task that is broken by it already completed.

Dont care about trophies so thats not an issue
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