What Happened to The Road Warrior?

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  • Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
  • Quick: what’s the all-time best middle movie in a popular OG cinematic trilogy? Yes, The Godfather Part II and The Empire Strikes Back are obvious and beyond reproach, but what else comes to mind? Aliens? Terminator 2? Back to the Future Part 2? Evil Dead 2? Hell, what about Oldboy or The Temple of Doom? Yeah, all worthy responses that happened to be flat-out wrong!
    When peering through the rear-view at the best movie trilogy centerpiece, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior leaves the others in the dust. Released two years after the handcrafted, low-budget original Mad Max, the making of The Road Warrior couldn’t have been more different than what visionary filmmaker George Miller experienced on the first go-around. For instance, the first film was hampered by limited resources and budgetary restrictions. Meanwhile, the sequel was strapped with over 10 times the original movie’s budget, allowing Miller to execute the dazzling, death-defying set pieces and action sequences that eluded him in the first film.
    Yet, despite the financial leeway that gave Miller creative freedom, the maxing of The Road Warrior was anything but a smoothly paved escapade. In detailing the production history of Mad Max 2, we’ll learn what inspired the film, how it was developed, how long it took to make, the problems Miller encountered, on-set injuries and accidents, cool trivial anecdotes, and more. After all, we’re not just here for the gasoline, we’re about to find out What Happened to The Road Warrior ahead!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 96

  • @RussianPirate-ff7yt
    @RussianPirate-ff7yt 3 місяці тому +50

    Easily the best Mad Max movie imo. I don't mind Fury Road, but this one has better side characters, better score, Max is actually the main character in his own movie and I just love the opening and ending narrations. They give me chills everytime.
    "And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories."

    • @DJAnubisMetalTavernRadio
      @DJAnubisMetalTavernRadio 3 місяці тому +1

      Pretty much how i feel. Fury Road was good but it wasnt a true Max film as he was just a side piece to what now is Furiosa's journey.

  • @34stzoo
    @34stzoo 3 місяці тому +28

    Mad Max 2 was nothing short of a masterpiece!

  • @GreyDingo
    @GreyDingo 3 місяці тому +12

    Great recap. I was a teen in Broken Hill when Mad Max 2 was made. Dad made a few of the signature props, including a dummy gyrocopter. Me and a couple of friends used a backtrack to get close to the set and watch the detonation. It was pretty spectacular. Fun memories.

  • @ministerofdarkness
    @ministerofdarkness 3 місяці тому +23

    A true action, no holds barred, cinematic masterpiece!

  • @Karlos1234ify
    @Karlos1234ify 3 місяці тому +37

    “Just walk away. “

  •  3 місяці тому +25

    Escape from New York and The Road Warrior are my favorite post-apocalyptic movies! Snake and Max! A great idea for a Future movie. 🤘🏻😎

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 3 місяці тому +1

      They couldn't stand each other. Neither takes orders and both only accept help from subordinates.

    • @cpl.barbarusc4814
      @cpl.barbarusc4814 3 місяці тому +1

      Or a future comic book, but thankfully there is the game BroForce to make it a reality, while playing in co-op with a friend of course.

    • @michaelmoraga2926
      @michaelmoraga2926 3 місяці тому +2

      Oh, to be a teenager seeing these films in the theater upon release with a mind full of post-apocalyptic daydreams. 🙂

    •  3 місяці тому +1

      @@michaelmoraga2926 awesome!

    •  3 місяці тому

      @@cpl.barbarusc4814 cool!

  • @Viglin123
    @Viglin123 3 місяці тому +12

    The best of the series .
    A true gritty realistic action movie.

  • @StoneyBrownTV
    @StoneyBrownTV 3 місяці тому +19

    I absolutely love the Mad Max universe. The Road Warrior has to be my favorite by far. The originals were so much better but that's not throwing shade at the new movies.

    • @RabbiSteve1
      @RabbiSteve1 3 місяці тому +1

      I 💯% agree with this.

  • @Axolotl_Mischief
    @Axolotl_Mischief 3 місяці тому +8

    One of the best post apocalyptic dystopian films of all time. Love it 🤘

  • @dalegribble1205
    @dalegribble1205 3 місяці тому +3

    "As for the Road Warrior that was the last we ever saw of him he lives now only in my memories"

  • @34stzoo
    @34stzoo 3 місяці тому +10

    2:40 that makes all the sense in the world! Thats why I never notice anyone sweating in the movie.

    • @charlesdavis7285
      @charlesdavis7285 3 місяці тому

      The actor portraying the Humongous had it the worse then.

  • @brianralli7428
    @brianralli7428 3 місяці тому +6

    I’m in the middle of a rewatch of Farscape. It blew my mind when I realized the beautiful blue skinned alien character is played by the actress from this movie. Always had a crush on her.

    • @RictusHolloweye
      @RictusHolloweye 3 місяці тому +1

      Virginia Hey. I met her at a convention. Really friendly and fun.

  • @boyfromgeorgiatbilisi
    @boyfromgeorgiatbilisi 3 місяці тому +23

    road warrior is best in mad max trilogy.

    • @Axolotl_Mischief
      @Axolotl_Mischief 3 місяці тому +5

      Agreed. The franchise loses me after this one, though.

    • @gypsydildopunks7083
      @gypsydildopunks7083 3 місяці тому +2

      @@Axolotl_Mischief Master Blaster would not agree

  • @Bluboy30
    @Bluboy30 3 місяці тому +7

    I've owned this film on VHS, widescreen VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and currently the excellent 4K disc.

    • @bettyschnauber8238
      @bettyschnauber8238 3 місяці тому

      Impressive

    • @istvanvilmos8400
      @istvanvilmos8400 Місяць тому

      I owned it on VHS, wide-screen DVD, Blu-ray, 4K, the soundtrack, the book and the original British cinema poster. All I need now is the Betamax, the CED and Laserdisc 👍😁

  • @SirSmoldham
    @SirSmoldham 3 місяці тому +2

    Man, oh man! I first saw this at a screening for the Acadamy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films before release. Including the original "Star Wars", I had never seen the like before and was completely blown away. I didn't think any action film could top this one until "Terminator 2" a bit later. After seeing "Furiosa" I can honestly say that George Miller is still at the top of his game.

  • @masonfreeman5176
    @masonfreeman5176 3 місяці тому +3

    My dad showed me Mad Max 2 when I was 7 years old and I thought it was the best film I had ever seen,. I'm now in my 40's and I still think it's one of the best films ever made.

  • @nameprivate2194
    @nameprivate2194 3 місяці тому +1

    The Feral Kid, as an old man, said that he never saw The Road Warrior ever again after that.
    We get to see, however, after some time passed, him trekking his vehicle across the desert drawn by camels. I think the petrol was out by then.

  • @robvegas9354
    @robvegas9354 3 місяці тому +3

    Fantastic movie.
    and yes it gets all sorts of crazy cold in the outback here. the team making the film were hardcore dudes

  • @ryanelogan5540
    @ryanelogan5540 3 місяці тому +3

    The recent "South Park" episode about Osempic did an homage to the big chase along the highway in "The Road Warrior", with Captain Crunch at the front of the semi truck, all covered in blood and then gets "crunched", so to speak. It's so funny and worth a watch on Paramount+.

  • @williamdixon-gk2sk
    @williamdixon-gk2sk 3 місяці тому +2

    My hair is going gray at my temples and my 1st thought was "awesome, im gonna look like Mad Max in my forties"

  • @gaiamazzarina3025
    @gaiamazzarina3025 3 місяці тому +1

    The Road Warrior = Masterpiece . Superb editing and the superb soundtrack of Brian May at the Top . Fury Road ? it is far behind !

  • @AnomalySource
    @AnomalySource 3 місяці тому +2

    A George Miller directed first blood would have been amazing.

  • @jerryschramm4399
    @jerryschramm4399 3 місяці тому +1

    I saw "Road Warrior" at the local drive-in as the second feature. Leaving the parking lot after the movie was over was a very harrowing experience. The best part? The dog was saved and went to a "forever home".

  • @Zed-fq3lj
    @Zed-fq3lj 3 місяці тому +2

    The best Mad Max movie by a long shot and one of top 5 best dystopian movies ever!🤩

  • @TheDoctorD100
    @TheDoctorD100 3 місяці тому +1

    The 90's CGI cartoon, Reboot, did an amazing homage to this movie in the episode "Bad Bob".

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 3 місяці тому +6

    The Gyro Captain was my favorite character. I just assumed he was the same character in Thunderdome.

    • @scrappyny7432
      @scrappyny7432 3 місяці тому +4

      Me too, and I thought that his kid in MM3 was the offspring from that lady he ended up with in the end of MM2.
      Also the same actor Bruce Spence played the Trainman in the Matrix

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 3 місяці тому

      @@scrappyny7432 And one of the aliens in Dark City.

    • @williamdixon-gk2sk
      @williamdixon-gk2sk 3 місяці тому

      ​@scrappyny7432 dude, that has bothered me for 30 years, why not just one line where he's like "heey paatnah!"

    • @williamdixon-gk2sk
      @williamdixon-gk2sk 3 місяці тому

      ​@@aaronleverton4221also "the mouth of Sauron" in L.O.T.R. 'I have a token I was bidden to show thee.'

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 3 місяці тому +1

      @@williamdixon-gk2sk Bruce Spence always stands out.

  • @ValleyOfTheWindFan06
    @ValleyOfTheWindFan06 3 місяці тому +1

    The Road Warrior is one my favorite Mad Max film great it was the inspiration for Fist Of The North Star
    Thank you Joblo for this video
    The Road Warrior is a classic
    Just Walk Away

  • @martinkarnstein
    @martinkarnstein 3 місяці тому

    I was stunned watching it for the first time on Blu-Ray, unbelievable experience comparing to VHS. Rafinery explosion is unbelievable, among the most spectacular in cinema history.

  • @the80sguy80
    @the80sguy80 3 місяці тому +1

    When I was a kid, this would have been only the 2nd live action film I would have seen in the theater, The Blues Brothers (1980) being the 1st. Unfortunately, since I was young and because of the rape scene, My uncle deemed it too risque, So I ended up seeing The Beast-master instead. I`d always heard that Humongus was supposed to be Goose, I think that would have been cool to have the connection with Max.

  • @scottysmediaproductions
    @scottysmediaproductions 3 місяці тому +1

    Personally I think Mad Max 2 is the King. I love them all tho. But Furiosa I need to watch again. I'm not thrilled after the first watch.

  • @ScarysReviews
    @ScarysReviews 3 місяці тому +1

    ''not many'' quite A LOT of 1st sequels hit the margin.

  • @DJAnubisMetalTavernRadio
    @DJAnubisMetalTavernRadio 3 місяці тому

    Love the trivia about the dog, never knew that.

  • @brettspeeler7166
    @brettspeeler7166 3 місяці тому

    One of the best - if not the best action movie of the 80s. Thanks for the vid. Some new info, at least for me...

  • @markw.loughton6786
    @markw.loughton6786 3 місяці тому +1

    the definitive Mad Max movie.

  • @robs9237
    @robs9237 3 місяці тому +1

    Such a great movie. A masterpiece.

  • @brightstonepictures
    @brightstonepictures 3 місяці тому

    What happend to him? He inspired us to create the Mad Max short film HOPE AND GLORY. The Road Warrior legend lives on.

  • @sulrich70
    @sulrich70 3 місяці тому +1

    Brilliant films, gutsy filmmaking

  • @th3_only_blubbu
    @th3_only_blubbu 3 місяці тому +2

    WELCOME TO THE LAND DOWN UNDER

  • @countgeekula9143
    @countgeekula9143 3 місяці тому

    Still my favourite Mad Max movie and firmly and forever in my top ten favourite movies of all time.

  • @jamesmorant1406
    @jamesmorant1406 3 місяці тому

    Road Warrior is what you want a sequel to be bigger and better. The action scenes are insane in this movie

  • @D-Fens_1632
    @D-Fens_1632 3 місяці тому

    Funny thing about the refinery (of many), it didn't seem to have any sort of wall around anywhere but the front gate.

  • @tomlichnofsky.7048
    @tomlichnofsky.7048 3 місяці тому +1

    Awesomeness! 👊😎✊😎👍😎👌🍁

  • @55tranquility
    @55tranquility 2 місяці тому

    Mad Max 2 is my favourite, I think most fans like the second instalment best. Fury Road a Furiosa are great but feel like films in the MM universe rather than MM sequels or prequels or whatever they are. It's as real as the first film but the bigger budget has been used to great effect. It is also a perfect documentation of social and environmental collapse things have really gone belly up, whereas the first film things were on the slide - but law police and a legal system still existed, hospitals, restaurants, people had jobs and worked as lawyers, nurses, doctors etc trains were working and running, TV and radio were all running as normal and people still went on vacations. Mad Max 2 this has all gone entirely- total and utter collapse, the third film - complete post nuclear apocalypse. I always thought a really cool installment would be a new film based after MM1 and before MM2 so we could see the police and military actually collapsing and how this happened in real terms - did some police try to hang on, when did medicines run out etc that would be cool.

  • @timloader
    @timloader 3 місяці тому

    Got to meet Vernon Wells at a Q&A recently, and he calls Mel Gibson “the boy”

  • @dirk6001
    @dirk6001 3 місяці тому +1

    Mad Max rules

  • @howkel
    @howkel 3 місяці тому +3

    Everybody needs to quit crying like babies and buy Furiosa into profit so we get more. I saw it twice and purchased the VOD.

  • @toycamera6112
    @toycamera6112 3 місяці тому +2

    As a filmmaker I found it relatively simple, but subtler, tighter, and funnier than the first one. Not to mention featuring lusher visuals, and a more fully realized apocalyptic aesthetic.

  • @michaelmazzajr6234
    @michaelmazzajr6234 3 місяці тому

    The red Mohawk guy became the main bad guy in power rangers Time force

  • @himonightbreeze
    @himonightbreeze 3 місяці тому

    He didn't actually break his leg, perse. He bent a rod in his leg from a previous injury requiring emergency attention.

  • @jona3180
    @jona3180 3 місяці тому

    He had to give up his lakers tickets

  • @RoboticDragon
    @RoboticDragon 3 місяці тому

    The pup was saved a day before euthanasia! Then he got adopted by a camera operator at the end! Thats the story I want to hear.

  • @michaelstaunton1632
    @michaelstaunton1632 3 місяці тому

    👍👍👍🎥

  • @marcolang9242
    @marcolang9242 3 місяці тому

    Mel Gibson as an old man Mad Max? It could work. The Finnish movie Sisu (old man takes on Nazis) certainly did. Terrific entertainment ...

  • @LukeLovesRose
    @LukeLovesRose 3 місяці тому

    Personally, The Road Warrior is still the best movie in the franchise. Ill never understand the obsession with Fury Road. They literally make Max into a peripheral character. And Tom Hardy is a sad replacement for Mel Gibson

  • @benreilly4616
    @benreilly4616 3 місяці тому

    No Mel Gibson, No Max

  • @andrewlink537
    @andrewlink537 Місяць тому

    You can pick out the liberal in the camp..😂 quote" humongous seems like a reasonable man ..open for negotiations! Lolololololo......love that scene

  • @scanspeak00
    @scanspeak00 3 місяці тому

    If they had any brains they's make a series based in the Mad Max 2 world, set in the outback and decaying urban landscapes, with lots of cool cars and cast of authentic actors (no Hollywood types) and no stupid woke agendas.

  • @Zeithri
    @Zeithri 3 місяці тому +1

    To me, Mad Max: the Road Warrior, is *the* Mad Max. I'm not a fan of the first movie, I do like Thunderdome, I don't like Mad Max 4, I haven't seen Furiosa nor do I want to. I didnt like MM4 so I don't think Furioisa will blow my mind, it just looks so boring to me that's all. No, to me, Mad Max 2 is the best Mad Max movie, bar none.

  • @tkskagen
    @tkskagen 3 місяці тому +2

    The sequel was much better!

    • @ValleyOfTheWindFan06
      @ValleyOfTheWindFan06 3 місяці тому +1

      This alongside the others sequels like The Dark Knight Empire Strike Back
      are must better than the original.

    • @stelios623
      @stelios623 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes fury road and furiosa are soooooo good 👍

  • @scanspeak00
    @scanspeak00 3 місяці тому +7

    Those cartoons (Fury Road, Furiosa) made after Thunderdome are NOT Mad Max movies, they are just stealing the name .

    • @Soldierboytrey
      @Soldierboytrey 3 місяці тому +1

      They’re badass keep crying kid

    • @Skydrag.V60
      @Skydrag.V60 3 місяці тому

      They’re literally made by George Miller lmfao

    • @Knickknackpaddy
      @Knickknackpaddy 3 місяці тому +1

      George Miller would strongly disagree.

  • @boostin1994
    @boostin1994 3 місяці тому

    There is no such thing as "assless chaps" Chaps don't have an "ass". Chaps with an ass are called "pants". No one ever referrs to cowboy chaps as "assless", but they are the same thing.

  • @VulcanLogic
    @VulcanLogic 3 місяці тому

    The best thing about Mad Max 2 was not knowing about Mel Gibson's deep personality flaws.

    • @sonofacheron
      @sonofacheron 3 місяці тому

      Go suck on another kielbasa

  • @zv3456u-
    @zv3456u- 3 місяці тому

    Mel Gibson had 25 years old in 1981
    Mel Gibson had 21 years old in 1979
    😘❤️🔥❤️🔥

  • @codm22712
    @codm22712 3 місяці тому +1

    Who