Rank the Mad Max Films

I've only seen Fury Road, which I liked a lot. I should probably get around to seeing at least The Road Warrior at some point.

Legomancer wrote: I've only seen Fury Road, which I liked a lot. I should probably get around to seeing at least The Road Warrior at some point.

What the fuck dude.

jeb wrote:

Legomancer wrote: I've only seen Fury Road, which I liked a lot. I should probably get around to seeing at least The Road Warrior at some point.

What the fuck dude.

Fury Road was the first one I saw, so don't be too hard on him. I really love the series, but it's not quite as ubiquitous as a lot of other franchises, so there's less chance of hitting them unintentionally.

Speaking of which, earlier this year both Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome were on Hulu. I went last night to find them, but they were gone. I could have watched Fury Road for the tenth time or so, but I thought better of it. I'm not sure why now.

jeb wrote:

Legomancer wrote: I've only seen Fury Road, which I liked a lot. I should probably get around to seeing at least The Road Warrior at some point.

What the fuck dude.

In my younger days I tried to watch Mad Max. That movie starts with like 15 hours of nothing happening and people talking unintelligibly. I clocked out. So I wasn't much eager to see the Road Warrior when it came out, being that I didn't think much of the first one. I could a lot of Thunderdome on HBO, but people seemed to not like it and I never sat down and watched the whole thing.

As I said, I should try out The Road Warrior. But even though I really liked Fury Road, I don't know that I need more of it.

Mad Max starts with an epic car chase and the director's camper getting exploded. The second act is pretty low key, for sure.

Legomancer wrote: I've only seen Fury Road, which I liked a lot. I should probably get around to seeing at least The Road Warrior at some point.

/same


i just rewatched 5-10 minutes of Fury Road today. holy chrome is that movie ever incredible

Legomancer wrote: In my younger days I tried to watch Mad Max. That movie starts with like 15 hours of nothing happening and people talking unintelligibly. I clocked out. So I wasn't much eager to see the Road Warrior when it came out, being that I didn't think much of the first one. I could a lot of Thunderdome on HBO, but people seemed to not like it and I never sat down and watched the whole thing.

As I said, I should try out The Road Warrior. But even though I really liked Fury Road, I don't know that I need more of it.

The original Mad Max is very different from the other 3. The first and last 15 minutes are the same high octane action, but there is an hour in the middle that is a slow burn that is completely different in tone (Max just trying to live a standard day to day life while gangs terrorize people).

1. Fury Road
2. Road Warrior
3. Mad Max
4. Thunderdome (gets lowest marks because I can't remember watching the whole thing in one sitting, always in bits and pieces on TV as a kid)

The first Mad Max movie is an old-fashioned horror movie, only the monster is the biker gang.

My issue with Thunderdrome has always been that Mad Max and the Road Warrior combined tell such a complete story that it never feels necessary.

Mad Max is the story of Max's struggle and failure to hold on to his humanity. The Road Warrior tell us how he manages to get just a little bit of his humanity back.

And Thunderdrome doesn't really add anything new to the story the way Fury Road does, which is less a movie about Max than it is a movie set in the same world, that happens to include some bits with the guy from the other three movies.

In Fury Road, did we ever find out the deal with the flashbacks of the little girl?

Didn't he have a son? And wasn't that son much younger?

Mr. White wrote: In Fury Road, did we ever find out the deal with the flashbacks of the little girl?

Didn't he have a son? And wasn't that son much younger?

There is a story for it presented in another medium somewhere (maybe a comic?). She is a girl he met after the Thunderdome. His son is very young in the first film.

EDIT: It was in a comic: madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Glory_the_Child

4 films enter, one film leaves.

I love thunderdome. And mirror mr. Whites ranking.

Also, the first film is garbage. What a snoozefest.

A good discussion of Road Warrior vs. Fury Road

Ancient_of_MuMu wrote:

Mr. White wrote: In Fury Road, did we ever find out the deal with the flashbacks of the little girl?

Didn't he have a son? And wasn't that son much younger?

There is a story for it presented in another medium somewhere (maybe a comic?). She is a girl he met after the Thunderdome. His son is very young in the first film.

EDIT: It was in a comic: madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Glory_the_Child

Huh. So there's some comic out there that's canon that we should have known about?