1996 my brother and I were allowed to stay up late to watch the Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup, after which we were put to bed. Then maybe ten minutes later my dad bursts in and says "you guys have to come see this!" The road warrior was on tv and he showed us this scene after which we went back to bed. The next day he went out and bought the movie on VHS for us. This is top 5 movies of all time for me, thanks dad.
The shift from the opening narration/fade to black/pull out of the blower scoop ]SSHHEEAAHH[ It gives me an endorphin rush even now, having seen it (truly) !countless! times since I am just a little older than the first Mad Max. An absolute favorite memory is of my eldest brother taking I and our middle brother to see Thunder Dome at the theater. It also has a Nut-worthy opening. So does Fury Road but only because the Ford Falcon mysteriously reappears. Briefly.
I saw the Road Warrior for the first time at a Drive In when it first came out. 1980? Anyhow I had never even HEARD of Mad Max, let alone seen the movie. But the Road Warrior blew my socks off. A great stand alone movie, without Mad Max. Everything made after is a disservice to Byron Kennedy and Max Rockatansky.
@@czr7j9 Apparently the fridge logic behind it that the fuel and engine oil that is available is of such low quality you need low compression, low stress high capacity engines to run on it and make decent horsepower/survive. That's why early cars like model Ts (2.9L 20HP) got such low HP from quite large engines, they were designed to run on fuel with bits of twigs in it. Imagine going down from some 95 octane to 50. You'd need a new type of engine to make it run without the thing "knocking" itself to pieces in a few yards.
That camera shot coming out of the blower then seeing Max driving the Interceptor from MM one blew me away as a teenager first time I saw it, still does.
Watched this movie on 1992, I was 7 yro. What a great moment, was in shock with the cars, the violence, no talk on main characters, the dog. Everything is perfect. The next day I was playing with my toys cars smashing and recreating the plot.
Real film and real effects no cgi buffers and for sure no bs filters. Love this gritty look. So more immersive than modern stuff. This is the best you can get. Just feels so real.
@@GibbSaw63 Never thought about that, but you are totally correct. No identity politics agenda at all. Wish we could go back to those times. I think there is a pushback against woke Hollywood now though. People are getting sick of it because its ruining movie franchises now.
Some years back at a comic con I had the pleasure of meeting Vernon Wells or Wez himself. He was genuinely nice and appreciative of all the questions we all had for him. When I mentioned the film innerspace he took a deep breath and said “ all anyone ever asks me about is the road warrior, finally someone understands I did work on othef films”. I think he was impressed that someone else knew about innerspace. He was happy to answer questions about everything including road warrior however. FYI in Innerspace he was Mr. Igoe who went into Martin short to kill Tuck and steal his submersible. As it turned out Tuck ( played by Dennis Quaid) was not so easy to kill and when Mr Igoe grabbed hold of his sub he dropped him into stomach acid. Again Mr Wells talked at length about that death scene by starting with, “ That’s one of my better death scenes “
I've always loved the way the car juuust clips a couple of the pointers off the Mundi Mundi lookout signpost as it rolls over, without taking out the whole thing! Bet they couldn't have done that if they'd deliberately tried!
The way he smiles as he plays with that miniature musical box is moving, as if he remembers his past life with a wife and young child or even himself as a child in happier times.
Exactly. Max is broken and pretty much devoid of humanity but as he plays the music box he smiles remembering his childhood or, as you say, his time with his wife and kid. No words, just facial expressions that says it all.
It's amazing how I have watched this movie so many times but only just noticed the fibreglass nosecone was already smashed off the car after he turns the fake blower back on ..just before he rams the Landau. Still an absolutely tits film. Thanks George.... it was worth you being broke making the 1st one and even destroying your OWN bongo van lol.
Wow, eagle-eye! Yeh, I can't even estimate the number of times I've watched this film, and this is my favorite scene, but never noticed that. In fact, I had to >pause< >playpause< >play< until that split second where we see the Monza front panel is missing.
@@giantfisher Back when I was 18 (now 57) me and the boys in Queensland, Australia, spent a drunken Sunday watching MM1 on VHS. Frame by frame using pause button. I'm not kidding. It took all day. We were OBSESSED with them. I'm watching now on TV free in Australia, getting drunk on my own at 2300 on a tue night 😛 And LOVING it.... Once caught both of them in an art cinema showing. VERY different films. SO much more detail you notice, and MUCH more drama....
Quite right. And the Aussie herder "DOG". That Scott scoop is the sexiest hat I've ever seen on a blower. OOOPH! Movie making genius, the transition from intro narration, fade to black, pull out of the scoop. GHAAH. Good stuff.
Absolutely amazing. Pure cinema. This and Lorenzo's Oil, Babe, etc., mean that George Miller is bollocks and kows how to tell a story . I'm glad for him. (and for everyone who were involved in making this movie. Cheers.)
@@ianhill4585 It was a piece of sh*t movie about feminism and also over the top silly garbage with couple of good scenes. The original and second one are unbeatable masterpieces.
I love when V8 falcon goes in reverse than you hear that beast sound. Similar thing with mighty Wez bike but he is on other side of the force. Red and black always were sith colours.
I just wish they had put a ramming bar on the front of the Interceptor. The front end is what makes the Interceptor and the whole look of the car is changed when it comes off.
The part where Max goes for his gun and Wez revs his engine at the same time is either great editing or a happy accident. The minute details is what makes this movie so great.
well, humungus, wez etc, have always been present, even without the end of the world, and if the world ends, I have always been a survivor, just like max...
The guy with the mohawk on the motorcycle looks like a member of the 80's rock group The Clash and his girlfriend riding shotgun reminds me of the singer from another 80's rock band, Judas Priest. I guess he's the mohawk guy's Turbo Lover. LOL !
What always left me feeling a little uneasy about this opening scene is the very end when he’s scavenged all the fuel and supplies he could find and you see him drive off into the unknown. You hear what sounds like an ominous dark like wind whistling and the reddish hue of the sky as he leaves. Gives a good dark tone as you wonder where he’s going and what else will he find out in that desolate void.
I tell you in the early 80's movies was already at peak hits with great movie like Mad Max Road Warrior Blade Runner The Terminator First Blood Krull The Thing Raiders of the Lost Ark The Empire Strikes Back to name a few n all r still well viewed till now! Thanks George Miller for the best Mad Max movie 'The Road Warroir'.....i still watch it ....2024!❤
They definitely knew what they were doing with the supercharger scenes to invoke chills on us all. Listen to that little whine as it pulls away from the mouth....
Heh, no way would my parents let me watch Mad Max movies as a kid. My Mum watched this one when it cane out and said she found it 'confusing' lol. Action films weren't really her thing though. I think I first caught MM1 late at night on the BBC not long after I got my own TV in my room aged 16 :)
When wez was pulling up to the side of the interceptor max should of just side swiped him. He's going fast and on a motorcycle. that would of killed him.
Epic, me and my friends wanted to look like that, bic cc dirty motorbikes, ripped sheepskin ww2 flying jacket patched and repaired. Moto X helmet with goggles and bike boots with plenty of buckles. Doing circle burnouts then leaving straight line of er through the middle. We thought we wiz hard as coffin nails
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1996 my brother and I were allowed to stay up late to watch the Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup, after which we were put to bed. Then maybe ten minutes later my dad bursts in and says "you guys have to come see this!" The road warrior was on tv and he showed us this scene after which we went back to bed. The next day he went out and bought the movie on VHS for us. This is top 5 movies of all time for me, thanks dad.
Father of the Year right there ! 👍
Beautiful
You’re dad bought it to watch himself as I would lol
My dad made me watched Fury road ! You were born two decades too soon buddy. Fury road is so awesome, road warrior is decent but a bit old now.
I remember the video guy pulling up outside rent a video from back of a estate car
40 years old. Still one of the best opening action scenes ever made.
LOL Welcome to the Road Warrior TONE.
The shift from the opening narration/fade to black/pull out of the blower scoop ]SSHHEEAAHH[
It gives me an endorphin rush even now, having seen it (truly) !countless! times since I am just a little older than the first Mad Max. An absolute favorite memory is of my eldest brother taking I and our middle brother to see Thunder Dome at the theater. It also has a Nut-worthy opening. So does Fury Road but only because the Ford Falcon mysteriously reappears. Briefly.
I saw the Road Warrior for the first time at a Drive In when it first came out. 1980? Anyhow I had never even HEARD of Mad Max, let alone seen the movie. But the Road Warrior blew my socks off. A great stand alone movie, without Mad Max. Everything made after is a disservice to Byron Kennedy and Max Rockatansky.
agreed.
To one of the greatest films ever made
A master class in how you open a movie - sets the tone, sets the stakes, and sets up the plot perfectly - in 5 minutes... with no dialogue.
I guess the director understands his medium.
The real genius was Sergio Leone who pioneered this method in his Spaghetti Westerns.
@@calvinnickel9995 and without Morricone's music those movie wouldnt be what they are today...
@@calvinnickel9995Sounds Italian
Lives in a world without fuel...drives a 5.8 ltr V8.
And what?
@@waynemohi2767 v8's drink fuel
@@czr7j9 Apparently the fridge logic behind it that the fuel and engine oil that is available is of such low quality you need low compression, low stress high capacity engines to run on it and make decent horsepower/survive. That's why early cars like model Ts (2.9L 20HP) got such low HP from quite large engines, they were designed to run on fuel with bits of twigs in it. Imagine going down from some 95 octane to 50. You'd need a new type of engine to make it run without the thing "knocking" itself to pieces in a few yards.
@@czr7j9Pretty sure there's not a lot of car dealerships around. 😁
@@czr7j9you think an electric car would be cooler?
This is still, in my opinion, the greatest Mad Max movie of all time
Not like that's a bold statement. I think most people agree.
Absolutely!!
I agree 💯. Actually, it is my favorite film of all time.
Is this with Tina Turner?? 💥👍🏼
@@JoMagic-ny8zuno, that's part 3. After this one
One of the greatest opening scenes in modern movie history.
Thanks for uploading in HD.
Make that the best, with the opening narration and first film recap.
Still one of my favourite movies ever. I can still remember how intense this scene was to me as an 11-year old when i first saw it.
You an me both mate. My older cousin snuck me into the theatre. When Wes came up over bonnet of the Mack truck I about shit my pants.
Mad Max 2 set the standard for how you do an action movie.
Mad Max 2 is one of the greatest sequels ever!
Peak Mad Max. Everything went downhill from there.
The best period.
@@joeuser2360same like with the Terminator 2😊
Testigo
The Wrath of Khan.
First watched this movie when I was 11, blown away. 53 now and still blown away by how good this is.
I was 8 and couldn’t believe my mom rented it for us. She had no idea. Saw my first titties. Good times
I’m 53 and feel the same way.
I am 38 and I agree.
A movie objectively awesome, doesnt matter which generation.
I'm 64, and I still like these scenes. I love Max's car!!😊
That camera shot coming out of the blower then seeing Max driving the Interceptor from MM one blew me away as a teenager first time I saw it, still does.
Love the sound of his engine when he reverses.
And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories.
Watched this movie on 1992, I was 7 yro. What a great moment, was in shock with the cars, the violence, no talk on main characters, the dog. Everything is perfect. The next day I was playing with my toys cars smashing and recreating the plot.
Real film and real effects no cgi buffers and for sure no bs filters. Love this gritty look. So more immersive than modern stuff. This is the best you can get. Just feels so real.
The editing is flawless
The look on the dog face minute Max turns off the engine booster 🤣🤣🤣
"Ho shit, not again !"
"aw shit here we go again..." *goes to doggy bunker*
Bandit Heeler’s early days were wild
No Words. ALL Action. Excellent editing and sound score. Stand's the test if Time. Tells you everything you need to know.
Has the film industry forgotten how to make movies like this .
Yep
Yes. Its all about promoting agendas now.
@@Tony-1971 I like how this movie had a gay bdsm lackey and still wasn't promoting agendas LOL
@@GibbSaw63
Never thought about that, but you are totally correct. No identity politics agenda at all. Wish we could go back to those times. I think there is a pushback against woke Hollywood now though. People are getting sick of it because its ruining movie franchises now.
@@Tony-1971 For sure.
Some years back at a comic con I had the pleasure of meeting Vernon Wells or Wez himself. He was genuinely nice and appreciative of all the questions we all had for him. When I mentioned the film innerspace he took a deep breath and said “ all anyone ever asks me about is the road warrior, finally someone understands I did work on othef films”. I think he was impressed that someone else knew about innerspace. He was happy to answer questions about everything including road warrior however. FYI in Innerspace he was Mr. Igoe who went into Martin short to kill Tuck and steal his submersible. As it turned out Tuck ( played by Dennis Quaid) was not so easy to kill and when Mr Igoe grabbed hold of his sub he dropped him into stomach acid. Again Mr Wells talked at length about that death scene by starting with, “ That’s one of my better death scenes “
Amazing how in a hell bound wasteland, something as simple as a music box could help keep you going
The only humanity in this scene is with the little music box. Brilliant!
Just saw Furiosa its a fire cracker, George Miller you are the master.
1:20 It hurts every time to watch the front of the interceptor get wrecked...
Can't be helped. It's really rusty I was bummed when they immediately destroyed it in Fury Road at the beginning 😔
@@goldenlion1155 at 1.23 it has already gone before it hits the car infront
Yeah gotta say that kisses me off too
I've always loved the way the car juuust clips a couple of the pointers off the Mundi Mundi lookout signpost as it rolls over, without taking out the whole thing! Bet they couldn't have done that if they'd deliberately tried!
Perfect. Best opening scene ever.
The way he smiles as he plays with that miniature musical box is moving, as if he remembers his past life with a wife and young child or even himself as a child in happier times.
Exactly. Max is broken and pretty much devoid of humanity but as he plays the music box he smiles remembering his childhood or, as you say, his time with his wife and kid. No words, just facial expressions that says it all.
It's amazing how I have watched this movie so many times but only just noticed the fibreglass nosecone was already smashed off the car after he turns the fake blower back on ..just before he rams the Landau. Still an absolutely tits film. Thanks George.... it was worth you being broke making the 1st one and even destroying your OWN bongo van lol.
Wow, eagle-eye! Yeh, I can't even estimate the number of times I've watched this film, and this is my favorite scene, but never noticed that. In fact, I had to >pause< >playpause< >play< until that split second where we see the Monza front panel is missing.
@@giantfisher Back when I was 18 (now 57) me and the boys in Queensland, Australia, spent a drunken Sunday watching MM1 on VHS. Frame by frame using pause button. I'm not kidding. It took all day. We were OBSESSED with them.
I'm watching now on TV free in Australia, getting drunk on my own at 2300 on a tue night 😛
And LOVING it....
Once caught both of them in an art cinema showing. VERY different films. SO much more detail you notice, and MUCH more drama....
When i was young the old man had dark blue 73 Landau, after i saw MM2 I begged him to paint it black 😆He traded it for an XD Fairmont.
The main star in this movie is a Weiand Supercharger, that sets the base for the entire movie.
Quite right. And the Aussie herder "DOG". That Scott scoop is the sexiest hat I've ever seen on a blower. OOOPH! Movie making genius, the transition from intro narration, fade to black, pull out of the scoop. GHAAH. Good stuff.
Masterpiece
I love the mad Max movies!!So cool!!!
Absolutely amazing. Pure cinema. This and Lorenzo's Oil, Babe, etc., mean that George Miller is bollocks and kows how to tell a story . I'm glad for him. (and for everyone who were involved in making this movie. Cheers.)
besides the stock footage voice over yes, when the screen is black then zooms out of the intake blower it's just beautiful love the opening
Possibly my fav opening of a film ever..... YOU KNOW you are in a for a wild ride from 0.001 second. Masterful film making
First watched this with my dad when I was about 13 and he grabbed me right as the corpse appeared at 4:06
That corpse scared me bad when I was like 7. I didn't watch that scene again til I was 14
One of the best opening scenes ever!! Better than anything Hollywood puts out these days lol.
All these years later all 3 mad Max films have never been outgunned. Best trilogy in my library 👌
The year is 2024 and mad max fan’s still await a mad max film worthy of the original’s
Tom Hardy gave it a fair crack, but everyone remembers Mel as Max.----- He set the bar.....
SO true.
It's much different, but Fury Road is a masterpiece. Amazing that such a movie got made amongst all the crap we get these days.
@@michaelcarr2466I promise you bad movies have always existed
@@ianhill4585 It was a piece of sh*t movie about feminism and also over the top silly garbage with couple of good scenes. The original and second one are unbeatable masterpieces.
Best Movie Ever
I love when V8 falcon goes in reverse than you hear that beast sound. Similar thing with mighty Wez bike but he is on other side of the force.
Red and black always were sith colours.
More impressive is reverse wheel spin, unbelievable transmission
I thought I was the only one! I fucking love that sound, that great electronic whine that is unique with Ford I've noticed.
I've been watching this movie my entire life and now it's finally coming round
This is the beggining of the end of beginning of the end - awesome beggining of the end...
Thank You Mr Miller❤️
I just wish they had put a ramming bar on the front of the Interceptor. The front end is what makes the Interceptor and the whole look of the car is changed when it comes off.
That blower is a character in and of itself
No CGI 👍
That opening scene is what got me and all my friends into cars.
Just fucking awesome!!
The best. Cant be replicated.
Modified 1973 Ford Falcon! Hell yeah!
Dam good film making!!
Фильм на все времена! 1 и 2 часть! Классика!!
The part where Max goes for his gun and Wez revs his engine at the same time is either great editing or a happy accident. The minute details is what makes this movie so great.
And they never filmed in any movie in the future, so epic intro.
Un super clásico,,,una realidad de nuestro mundo apocalíptico.. Gracias ,Meal Gipson.
Buena,película,exelente,ok✌️😎
I like how Dog knows to get in back.
And the score…still one of the best scores of all time.
2023, all attempts to make something like this movie , are failure, the road warrior is a legend...
Wait long enough this will probably be real life at the rate we are going….
well, humungus, wez etc, have always been present, even without the end of the world, and if the world ends, I have always been a survivor, just like max...
Agreed.
@@CEOkillerHow so?
Sad when men think movies today suck because the main characters don't look like them.
Still have Original 1983 Roadshow VHS "Mad Max 2" > not road warrior ?
>> No CGI then Why don't they make films like this anymore.....sad...
No cgi.... Masterpiece of action
I’ll watch these a million times over but I can’t get excited for Fast and the Furiosa
When the opening scene of a movie is a supercharger, car chase, and a cool car crash, you aint getting up for popcorn during that flick...
The intensity. Bravo.👏
The wheelie was awsome
The guy with the mohawk on the motorcycle looks like a member of the 80's rock group The Clash and his girlfriend riding shotgun reminds me of the singer from another 80's rock band,
Judas Priest.
I guess he's the mohawk guy's Turbo Lover. LOL !
That is Vernon Wells. One of the greatest actors for vilain roles
Judas priest!
Nice 🙂
Anybody see the kangaroo get wiped out at 130 then the dog eating it later
I don't think I noticed it in the collision before.
Damn I've seen this scene so many times and i never noticed the dune buggy killed the kangaroo
Actually the kangaroo was on top of the buggy keep a close eye on it at 1:18 you’ll see it.
Holy Christ; and I've seen this movie at least 15 times
Poaching it before McDonalds shows up…
one of my favotite action movies.the stunt work is top notch
Great movie, amazing👍🏽👏🏽
This scene was shot on my first day on earth, May 4th 1981 ! First seen around 11, it's still one of my favorite movie.
This movie terrified me as a kid. I loved it.
That Weiland though that engine needs air
After seeing this, I knew in my gut Gibson would be a huge star
Those mohawks look so quaint by todays standards.
One of the All time classics 💯👍
Loved the dog, always wandered how he came across it.
Fascinating ❤
Fake blower but it looked real
This was the inspiration for fallout games
It would be a good Fallout video game intro "war, war never changes"
I love the whooshing sound when he engages the supercharger again.
The sound on this film is LEGENDARY!!!!!!!!
Soon enough this will be wednesday for all of us
Why
@@Gwestytears Why
Just endless buffering for me. Video is broken. The rest of YT still works fine.
Yeah in years of using youtube I've never known a video to be available to click on but doesn't load
The intro and this first scene is up there as the greatest opening ten minutes of any movie.
Mel was the man!
Love Tom Hardy but he’ll never live up to the original? It was just the right time that’s all👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
100%. Mel has a coolness and brooding about him in this that no one can replicate. I'm sure Tom Hardy was in awe trying to learn it
Saw this on the opening day. My buddy had a Fury and I had a CHevelle. We left burning the tires all the way home.
What always left me feeling a little uneasy about this opening scene is the very end when he’s scavenged all the fuel and supplies he could find and you see him drive off into the unknown. You hear what sounds like an ominous dark like wind whistling and the reddish hue of the sky as he leaves. Gives a good dark tone as you wonder where he’s going and what else will he find out in that desolate void.
You sissy😂
I tell you in the early 80's movies was already at peak hits with great movie like Mad Max Road Warrior Blade Runner The Terminator First Blood Krull The Thing Raiders of the Lost Ark The Empire Strikes Back to name a few n all r still well viewed till now! Thanks George Miller for the best Mad Max movie 'The Road Warroir'.....i still watch it ....2024!❤
Last interceptor❤
They definitely knew what they were doing with the supercharger scenes to invoke chills on us all. Listen to that little whine as it pulls away from the mouth....
Best film
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Lol this scene both terrified and excited me as a kid.
Heh, no way would my parents let me watch Mad Max movies as a kid. My Mum watched this one when it cane out and said she found it 'confusing' lol. Action films weren't really her thing though. I think I first caught MM1 late at night on the BBC not long after I got my own TV in my room aged 16 :)
@@rich_edwards79 lol she probably thought it was an special episode of neighbours.
かっけぇ…
Raw energy - incredible scene
When wez was pulling up to the side of the interceptor max should of just side swiped him. He's going fast and on a motorcycle. that would of killed him.
Ah, the things that midnight movies were made of. Good times. Good times.
1:29 one of the best action shots in movie anthropology. I watch Asian action film man and this scene is classic!
Epic, me and my friends wanted to look like that, bic cc dirty motorbikes, ripped sheepskin ww2 flying jacket patched and repaired. Moto X helmet with goggles and bike boots with plenty of buckles. Doing circle burnouts then leaving straight line of er through the middle. We thought we wiz hard as coffin nails
Such great roads in the apocalypse!