When he's calling out to the kid that it's over and they won, it's because they did win. The objective wasn't for the truck to escape, it was for the people to escape, and they did.
He was saying the won because the people and the lifeline fuel got away.Notice that earlier in the movie when they say the gasoline/tanker is their lifeline the vehicle they show next in the background is the bus where the fuel actually is.
Humongous didn't intend to crash head-on into the truck. He engaged his nitrous in order to catch up to the truck after falling behind. He didn't know that Max had turned the truck around and was heading back towards him. As the truck came into view, Humongous was going too fast to steer away from it (and would've likely fatally crashed anyways). An inglorious end for him and his main henchman. Good luck for Max (and the Feral Kid).
Between this and Fury Road, these movies could be seen as folk tales told by future generations about the mythical and mysterious Max, a wandering hero who saves the day, but always leaves by stories end. Who knows if Max was only one person or many, or if he even existed at all. So many years have passed that lore has become legend and the story of the real man is forgotten. But his legacy lives on in these epic sagas.
The 'Mad Max as a folk hero' is my favorite way to watch the movies. It makes the wild action and big performances feel like someone telling a story and doing different voices.
With Thunderdome Id argue "The Road Warrior" is a title more than a name. That as you said each film is a folk tale of a man from the wastes that does the right thing in the face of the madness and chaos of the wastes.
The Humungus didn't intentionally smash into the tanker. He gets hit with a molotov during the chase and then pulls over for a short time. Further down the road, Max unexpectedly turns around. The Humungus then takes off in the direction he still thinks Max is going, hits the nitro to catch up, and comes up over the hill going way too fast to maneuver or stop when he sees the tanker.
Its cool to see the original Mad Max films getting some well deserved love. Fun fact, in an early version of the script, The Lord Humongous was meant to be Jim Goose, I suspect his mask is a remnant of that version of the script.
I’ve often wondered about the other fighters on the gas tanker. Unlike Max, they had to know the tanker was a decoy and only filled with sand. So they were exceptionally brave to go on what was probably a suicide mission to lead the bad guys away from the rest of their group who escaped successfully.
They did show Max cared about the dog, right here in your reaction 8:58, when he puts his life in danger to stop them from killing it. As far as him acknowledging it after, this is the apocalypse, and he's got to move on. That's just how he lives.
"He's like a BDSM Jason Voorhees..." That got a good laugh out of me Eric 🤣🤣🤣 Humongous is a very interesting villain. Eloquent despite his brute appearance, reveres his weapon, cares for his psychos, and leads from the front. "The fact that he's doing all this in assless chaps!" The entire band of marauders have some wild costuming choices. To be fair, so do the oilers (all white in the wastelands, with cricket helmets and pads) 😅
The narrator is the feral kid, all grown up, retelling the tale of the Road Warrior. Each Mad Max movie is a legend, told by others, and they are not supposed to be perfectly consistent, like a game of broken telephone.
With Fury Road you can argue that even the name Max isnt specific to one person. Its the moniker that the survivors of the apocalypse "a pocky clips" tell of a lone wander from the wastes that does what is right and just in spite of the chaos and madness. Max, The Road Warrior, is a legend, a myth, a folk tale told by those that have found a way to survive the hellscape the world has become.
Third one's much more mainstream, but still pretty iconic. Tina Turner is actually in it, and she only did a few movies, and she did a few songs for it also. If you watch it, you'll see the actor Bruce Spence, the gyro captain, confusingly playing a different character.
Yeah, Bruce Spence always throws me in the third film. Even worse, his character is so close to his original character (in this film) that it’s hard to separate them.
I'm pretty sure this was done on purpose. The Mad Max movies are meant to be a series of legends told throughout the wasteland that kind of contradict each other. One group of people say " The Captain flew a gyrocopter and he was Max's partner" and another group says "well I heard that the Captain actually flew a plane, he was never really friends with Max and he even robbed him once". In Fury Road, one of the skulls on Nux's car is the Gyro Captain's skull (same pilot's hat) implying that he's dead. But also in Fury Road you see Max lose one of his boots, which explains why Max wears mismatched boots "later on" in Thunderdome. But how can that be true if the Gyro Captain is dead in Fury Road? It's all mixed up, but it's been mixed up on purpose.
@@Chris-uk7gy Up through the release of this film, it was meant to be a concrete retelling of actual events which happened to a single, real character. You can debate if that's the still the case with Thunderdome, but at any rate the whole "it's a series of folk tales" angle didn't become a thing until Miller completely obliterated the perceived timeline with Fury Road. Which I suppose was necessary given how much Mel Gibson had aged before the fourth film entered production (and how much Gibson's price tag had gone up), and in fairness I much prefer "folk tales" over the standard Hollywood reboot treatment.
Max did have a car at the end. Look closely as they drive off with Max standing in the middle of the road. They left him next to the twin engine vehicle their former leader took from the enemy when they drove it into their compound. That leader got speared by Humongous, as you recall. Also, the leader said they had won because the main group had escaped with the fuel in the opposite direction. This is also why the decoy group turned the tanker truck around late in the chase. They had intended to meet up again with the main group if they survived.
That "Flawless Execution" of that motorbike stunt was an accident. He was supposed to jump off before the motorbike impact, but mistimed and flew out of control through the air and broke his leg on impact. Its all caught on the behind the scenes footage available to see online.
only in a series that contains fury road could the road warrior remotely be considered the second best movie, but this is still an all-time five star banger. it's also probably hard to see now since it's been ripped off and riffed on so many times in the last 40 years, but this is honestly up there with star wars and blade runner when it comes to influence. basically what everyone thinks of now when they hear "post-apocalyptic wasteland" comes straight out of this movie, and all miller had to do was shoot in some remote parts of australia.
I first saw this at the first Denver Film Festival in '81. Most of us hadn't seen the first film -- it had had a short time on US movie screens. THIS was our introduction to Max. I still grin thinking about that premiere night. What a blast with that BIG screen, BIG sound and a full house!
So mohawk guy is Vernon Wells who played Bennet in Commando. The best line is where the engineer is relying the news about the repairs and the proxy goes.. "OK !" That kills me.
Max turned the tanker around so The Humungous didn't know he was coming that way until it was too late. The original Mad Max wasn't theatrically released in the US. It was an Australian small budget film. None of us knew anything about "Mad Max" or ever heard of Mel Gibson when THE ROAD WARRIOR came out in 1981. So there were no sequels PLANNED. That's why THE ROAD WARRIOR ended the way it did. THE ROAD WARRIOR became a huge hit and made Mel Gibson a star. Only then did they think of a sequel. Mel Gibson spoke only 16 lines of dialogue in The Road Warrior. That's how pure ACTION this movie was and why it became so influential on action movies from then on.
The beauty of the construction of this series is that once Max is unmoored from family and job, he can't stay anywhere. So a community will see him arrive, watch him slowly prove himself to them, and then leave. It's a perfect setup for episodic movies, unconnected except for the world and Max's brief interaction with communities.
The best of the OG trilogy for me, though I adore the storytelling in Beyond Thunderdome. George Miller really honed his craft between movies - the stunt sequences are A+, shot from within and above the action, the worldbuilding is fantastic, and the upgrade to Max and the Interceptor are pure badass. It is very sad to me that Mac loses the Interceptor, the last piece of his old life, and Dog, but I love the reveal at the end that Feral Kid has become the chieftan of the tribe and carries on Max's legend. That Max and his adventures are more myth than fact really makes the wild action and big performances feel like someome telling a story.
The Toe cutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) returns in mad max, Fury Road as Immortan Joe. Psychotic biker "Wez" was played by Vernon Wells, who also played bad guy Bennett in Commando (with Arnold). Gyro Captain; Bruce Spence, also played "the mouth of Souron" in The Return of the King. (Lord of the Rings).
The feral kid started howling near the camp to distract the crazies after Max slipped and dropped the cans. He was helping Max. The chains on Wez weren't punishment- it was Humongous holding him back for the final attack.
Give you some information about the dog. They found him at the shelter the dog was to be put down. But the film crew took him and put him in the movie. Now after the filming was done someone in the crew kept the dog for the rest of the dog’s life. So the movie saved the dog.
Only in the US, in the rest of the world it was called Mad Max 2, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior or Mad Max 2: "translated subtitle" like "Der Vollstrecker" in Germany.
Max lost his family to those heathen bikers in the original Mad Max film,and he became somewhat of a loaner after that which is why he wasn't interested in making friends or getting involved with anyone.
Here is a little thing you probably didn't notice,the guy in this with the red mohawk,is the same actor that Arnold Schwarzenegger fights in commando. Also the guy that did the big tumbling fly in the air that stunt man seriously hurt himself doing that stunt
Bit of trivia info The Humongeous is actually Goose from the first movie, Goose was a policeman like Max, was his co worker (cop) They decided to leave this info out of the second movie (the Road Warrior)
My favorite still has to be Mad Max. It was the original that introduced us to this apocalyptic world. The following movies absolutely added more and in certain ways were even better -- but they were all built on what had come before. Looking forward to your reactions to Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road. 🤗👍
Thank you! Finally someone said something about the woman's "...just words" argument. She says that about Papagallo who she knows isn't evil, but she is totally willing to believe the Humongous and his evil words.
Still the greatest action film ever I’ve ever seen… blew me away the first time I watched it and that chase sequence still gives me chills when the guy flips over the car! Just an incredible stunt!
Yeah. THIS was the template for all following Mad Max films. As for Humongous, he was trying to catch up when he hit that NOS. He had no idea Max had turned around until the truck appeared over that ridge.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome goes in a very different direction. It may be the Return of the Jedi of the Mad Max series... But I still love it, warts and all. And it being the 80s MTV Mad Max film, the soundtrack has some bangers.
it's definitely the one i've seen the most because it was replayed constantly on cable in the 80s. i'm not even sure i saw the o.g. mad max until the late 90s.
Just the soundtrack alone saturates my brain with adrenaline! This is still one of the most harrowing wasteland movies ever made! One of the most action-est action movies ever made! All the stunts are real. All the effects are practical. 7:34 Max didn't charge in because he knew they had the advantage. He makes calculated decisions. 10:30 / 16:31 / 29:38 Ackchyually, all chaps are assless. 10:45 Perfect description! And this came out before Jason ever donned a hockey mask! 20:55 1973 Ford Falcon 21:10 Bad guys never learn, do they? 25:25 That actor broke both of his legs doing that stunt. It wasn't supposed to turn out the way it did. Talk about suffering for art! 26:06 Like John Connor in T2. 27:20 Shotguns don't use bullets. Slugs don't count. They're sort of their own thing.
I convinced my Dad to take me to see this at the cinema. I was 13 years, this film was R-rated. My Dad enjoyed the crazy adventure! He convinced Mom/Wife to see it -and my Brother too. Family bonding. Now "Mad Max" was on US cable channels, yet it was dubbed in American Accents,...Australian accents weren't yet acceptable. (When MM came out on DVD there was finally the Aussie dialogue to hear) Found a number of Australian films on cable (Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously) My Parents went to Australia in 1984 for a medical convention,...it was their 20th Wedding Anniversary. excuse to go around the world. I joined my parents in 1986, a bigger tour around Oz -and before "Crocodile Dundee" came to America, and made Australia "fun" - Traveling for 2.5 weeks around Oz, when I was 17 years, was really grand! Dad and I went to "MM beyond Tunderdome", and felt let down. When "Fury Road" was released in 2015, the day before I was to have surgery, bone joint, I got my Dad to join at a 3-d Imax -a wild ride to view. My Dad missed the Gyro Captain, and that the end chase in "Road Warrior" is only like 14 minutes -he thought "Fury Road" was too much. Oh, the man who flipped over, in camera, that you praised his skill as a stuntman -he ended badly hurt, stunt gone wrong, yet, on camera. The Director, George Miller, was also a Doctor, before turning to film making. For an ambulance to get from the near town to the location, the Director used his medical skills to save that stuntman, yet kept it in the movie, for the image. The Gyro Captain, Bruce Spence, from New Zealand, has been acting since the 70's. A very tall fellow. If you view other media, he will be found even in LotR-3, and SW3-RotS, and plenty of "down under entertainment"
To paraphrase the writer/director Dr. George Miller; "Max is a closeted human being, but by the end of the film, we see the closet door open just a crack."
I grew up in the 80s and pets, while considered part of the family, weren't on the level that alot of people place them nowadays. Definitely not on the level with humans or even close. The 80s were closer to the Old Yeller days than now in that respect. Loved the reaction!
I knew the warrior woman (viginia Hay) we worked for rock bands together back in the 80s.. her boyfriend was a sound engineer for the band thats why she worked with us loading and setting up.
The guy flying through the air ass over tea kettle. Was an actual stuntman. On a stunt that had failed. And he was literally thrown from the motorcycle.
Without question this film trilogy was one of the greatest to come out of the 80’s. First real view of the post-apocalyptic world. Don’t miss Thunderdome! “Two men enter, one man leaves.”
The stuntman who goes end-over-end in the final chase, was really badly hurt. He accidentally caught his legs on the crashed car, and smashed them to bits. If you watch them closely, you can actually tell his lower legs are broken. And it caused him to miss the prepared landing. He nearly died, if I remember the story correctly.
Originally Lord Humongous was supposed to be Goose from the first movie but they changed that. The Warrior Woman was Zhaan in Farscape the TV show. If you've ever seen it. Several other actors crossed over from Mad Max movies to Farscape and from Farscape to the most recent Mad Max movie.
1. This is the best. Including "Fury Road" that proves there can be too much CGI. 2. The hot blonde chick the copter man was chasing😍😉 3. Max not staying with those people left the door open for another adventure. 4. Mel Gibson isn't Australian, he was born in Peekskill, NY 5. The stuntman that flew/flipped was injured. 6. When Humongous gets his I go, "Couldn't happen to a nicer guy".😱
Well he did move to Australia when he was 12 and is a permanent resident of Australia and he did study drama in Australia. He is considered an Australian actor but with some of his recent history maybe some Aussies are happy with the US reclaiming him.
"Wez" the guy with the mohawk is so upset because the "Feral" kid killed his lover "The Golden Youth". That's why "The Lord Humungus" has "Wez" on a leash to let his anger build and then be released to go wild.
The Mad Max stories are increasingly told from the perspective of people in the far future who may or may not have crossed paths with him - In the first film and most of the 2nd , he's an angry avenging character, totally empty, and out for himself, by the end of mm2, hes found a spark of humanity, and saves the kid, and helps get him and the rest out of the wasteland to a better life and to start to rebuild some sort of civilisation, which would obviously need its own history and creation stories, by the end of mm2 and the Feral kids old age hes looked on as a myth - a legend of the wasteland. All the films including Fury Road have a deliberately vague, and disjointed connection, as they are essentially campfire tales, passed from generation to generation, with completely different groups of people, perhaps embellished about this shadowy messianic character who came from nowhere, saved people and then dissapeared back into the wasteland. This really comes out in the 3rd one Beyond Thunderdome. There is a theory that "Mad Max" in Fury Road isnt actually Max, but the Feral Kid who was just trying to be like Max.. 🖤 Fantastically influential movies with a totally unique vibe.
In 1981 I was 16 and on vacation in Florida with my parents. It was a rainy day so we went to the movies, My mother doesn't like "R" rated movies so her , my dad and little sister went to see some chick flick. I was like "No way" so I decided to see "The Road Warrior" I had no idea what it was about and had never heard of the "Mad Max" movie. I was blown away and I'm sure I didn't stop talking about it the rest of the vacation.
I strongly recommend the novelization of the first movie in the series. It adds a lot to the lore and gives the side characters more personality. George Miller was actually very impressed by it. It’s out of print though, I listened to an unofficial audiobook on UA-cam to get the story. The Toecutter and his gang are more terrifying than before and Max does more action in the climax
One of my favorite action movies the best Mad Max movie. My jaw dropped when the warrior woman was killed. I thought for sure she and Max would end up together.
Apart from the first film, all the subsequent films are open to interpretation. The first was his origin but all the rest are stories being told by witnesses. They are the ledgends of the man they call Max.
The leader of the good guys tells the Feral Kid “we won” because he knows the rest of the community has escaped with gassed up vehicles as per his plan. The fight over the gas tanker filled with sand doesn’t matter. They’ve already won by getting most of the community to safety.
George Miller originally never even wanted to make a sequel to the first "Mad Max" (he says as much in a 1979 interview) - but it was so successful, they were pressured into making a second film. Thankfully they did, as "The Road Warrior" is incredible. But that was REALLY going to be it - just those two films. "Thunderdome" wasn't originally a Max film. Miller was working on a film about lost children, sort of a Peter Pan idea, but he couldn't figure out how to do it - and one day, they basically decided that Max could somehow fit into that story, which is why "Thunderdome" feels a bit bipolar, between its first and second half (and feels more "Hollywood", as Gibson was a huge star at that point). Miller also lost his longtime partner during the shooting, etc. It's great, but it's sort of its own thing, as was "Fury Road". Essentially, ever since "The Road Warrior" (known as "Mad Max 2" in the rest of the world), each Max film has been a standalone story, only barely tied to the others. The first two films, as Miller has said, are the real story of Max. The others are great, of course, but not direct sequels. They're meant to be "legend stories", basically stories that people told about him in that world, etc. "The Road Warrior" started that "story" tradition, but with the story actually being "true" in that film. "Thunderdome" and "Fury Road" are basically "campfire stories" of Max.
One of the original ideas for Lord Humungous was that it's the warped remains of a recovered Goose. While I like the idea of giving the big bad a back ground, I feel it was right to remove that as it takes to much from Goose and the things that drove Max over the edge.
The extended intro was at the insistence of US film producers. The first Mad Max had been a huge hit by Australian standards, but in the very earliest days of video tapes very few people in the US had seen it. That's also why the US title of the sequel was just "The Road Warrior", with no mention of Mad Max in the title. Not only my favorite among the Mad Max series, this is one of my favorite movies period. Every post-apocalyptic film made since this has been both heavily influenced by Mad Max 2 and weighed against it for merit. There is a *huge* rabbit hole you can dive down centered on the lore of the Mad Max universe and deep analysis of this specific movie, if you ever have a week or two to kill. PS It's probably been mentioned already in another comment, but the dog playing Dog here was a rescue from a local animal shelter. No prior training at all, they just went with him because he looked the part, was friendly, and wasn't bothered by the special effects & loud noises on the set. After filming wrapped he bounced around a little with various crew members until he eventually wound up living out a life of luxury with a member of the film crew.
Do you know if the intro was included in the Australian version because as you've already stated it was included really just for the American audience.
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mad max beyond thunderdome I seen more than any one other movies and Fury Road is good tooo with Tom Hardy
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
I respect the old classics with Gibson, but they got nothing on Fury Road.
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Fury road but Road warrior is close 2nd!
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My favorite is mad Max beyond the Thunder dome
When he's calling out to the kid that it's over and they won, it's because they did win. The objective wasn't for the truck to escape, it was for the people to escape, and they did.
He was saying the won because the people and the lifeline fuel got away.Notice that earlier in the movie when they say the gasoline/tanker is their lifeline the vehicle they show next in the background is the bus where the fuel actually is.
As a child of the 70's-80's, this movie is ICONIC for not only the action, but the "insanity" of a collapsed society.
"Is that the only wardrobe the Humongous has?"
The Men's Wearhouse was closed that day dude.
Humongous didn't intend to crash head-on into the truck. He engaged his nitrous in order to catch up to the truck after falling behind. He didn't know that Max had turned the truck around and was heading back towards him. As the truck came into view, Humongous was going too fast to steer away from it (and would've likely fatally crashed anyways). An inglorious end for him and his main henchman. Good luck for Max (and the Feral Kid).
It's true. It's in the film for a split second but Humungus was speeding uphill when the Mack went over the hill.
Between this and Fury Road, these movies could be seen as folk tales told by future generations about the mythical and mysterious Max, a wandering hero who saves the day, but always leaves by stories end. Who knows if Max was only one person or many, or if he even existed at all. So many years have passed that lore has become legend and the story of the real man is forgotten. But his legacy lives on in these epic sagas.
The 'Mad Max as a folk hero' is my favorite way to watch the movies. It makes the wild action and big performances feel like someone telling a story and doing different voices.
I agree with that idea. That makes it extra frustrating that purists keep recommending to watch all the films in order for no good reason
With Thunderdome Id argue "The Road Warrior" is a title more than a name. That as you said each film is a folk tale of a man from the wastes that does the right thing in the face of the madness and chaos of the wastes.
I wish I had read this before I commented pretty much the same thing 😂
@@LordVolkov The image in my head has always been a post apocalyptic wasteland where groups are sitting by the fire telling the tales of Max.
The Humungus didn't intentionally smash into the tanker. He gets hit with a molotov during the chase and then pulls over for a short time. Further down the road, Max unexpectedly turns around. The Humungus then takes off in the direction he still thinks Max is going, hits the nitro to catch up, and comes up over the hill going way too fast to maneuver or stop when he sees the tanker.
thisss!!!!
Not my finest moment.
Its cool to see the original Mad Max films getting some well deserved love.
Fun fact, in an early version of the script, The Lord Humongous was meant to be Jim Goose, I suspect his mask is a remnant of that version of the script.
I think that's why we never get a good look at the picture in his gun case. Might be a leftover from that draft and shows Goose with the MFP.
@@Carandinipossibly but I can't imagine Goose having a Nazi insignia and the guy does sound like he has a bit of a European accent.
I’ve often wondered about the other fighters on the gas tanker. Unlike Max, they had to know the tanker was a decoy and only filled with sand. So they were exceptionally brave to go on what was probably a suicide mission to lead the bad guys away from the rest of their group who escaped successfully.
ONE OF THE BEST MAD MAX MOVIES EVER MADE!
The qualifier is unnecessary.
This is one of the best movies ever made.
The best
Uh.. not really, no
They did show Max cared about the dog, right here in your reaction 8:58, when he puts his life in danger to stop them from killing it. As far as him acknowledging it after, this is the apocalypse, and he's got to move on. That's just how he lives.
He doesn't want them to hurt it, but Max has a very 'dead already/just survive' mentality already and doesn't need to grieve for Dog.
@LordVolkov As is evident by Max simply calling him "dog".
DOGMEAT!
This is George Miller's masterpiece. The ending is analogous to another classic, The Searchers
with John Wayne walking off into the desert, alone.
"He's like a BDSM Jason Voorhees..."
That got a good laugh out of me Eric 🤣🤣🤣
Humongous is a very interesting villain. Eloquent despite his brute appearance, reveres his weapon, cares for his psychos, and leads from the front.
"The fact that he's doing all this in assless chaps!"
The entire band of marauders have some wild costuming choices. To be fair, so do the oilers (all white in the wastelands, with cricket helmets and pads) 😅
And less than a year after The Road Warrior premiered, Jason Voorhees got a hockey mask of his own.
@8:17 The equivalent of eating popcorn in The Wasteland.
The narrator is the feral kid, all grown up, retelling the tale of the Road Warrior. Each Mad Max movie is a legend, told by others, and they are not supposed to be perfectly consistent, like a game of broken telephone.
With Fury Road you can argue that even the name Max isnt specific to one person. Its the moniker that the survivors of the apocalypse "a pocky clips" tell of a lone wander from the wastes that does what is right and just in spite of the chaos and madness. Max, The Road Warrior, is a legend, a myth, a folk tale told by those that have found a way to survive the hellscape the world has become.
Fury Road is far more Furiosa's story arc than Max's too, which was fine by me as I didn't think Tom Hardy could carry it as well as Gibson did.
Third one's much more mainstream, but still pretty iconic. Tina Turner is actually in it, and she only did a few movies, and she did a few songs for it also. If you watch it, you'll see the actor Bruce Spence, the gyro captain, confusingly playing a different character.
Yeah, Bruce Spence always throws me in the third film. Even worse, his character is so close to his original character (in this film) that it’s hard to separate them.
"But he's just a raggedy man"
I'm pretty sure this was done on purpose. The Mad Max movies are meant to be a series of legends told throughout the wasteland that kind of contradict each other. One group of people say " The Captain flew a gyrocopter and he was Max's partner" and another group says "well I heard that the Captain actually flew a plane, he was never really friends with Max and he even robbed him once".
In Fury Road, one of the skulls on Nux's car is the Gyro Captain's skull (same pilot's hat) implying that he's dead. But also in Fury Road you see Max lose one of his boots, which explains why Max wears mismatched boots "later on" in Thunderdome. But how can that be true if the Gyro Captain is dead in Fury Road? It's all mixed up, but it's been mixed up on purpose.
Wait what, really? All this time I thought it was the same character.
@@Chris-uk7gy Up through the release of this film, it was meant to be a concrete retelling of actual events which happened to a single, real character. You can debate if that's the still the case with Thunderdome, but at any rate the whole "it's a series of folk tales" angle didn't become a thing until Miller completely obliterated the perceived timeline with Fury Road. Which I suppose was necessary given how much Mel Gibson had aged before the fourth film entered production (and how much Gibson's price tag had gone up), and in fairness I much prefer "folk tales" over the standard Hollywood reboot treatment.
Lord Humongous is possibly one of the greatest screen villains of all time
They leave enough mystery about him to intrigue you....great world building
Max did have a car at the end. Look closely as they drive off with Max standing in the middle of the road. They left him next to the twin engine vehicle their former leader took from the enemy when they drove it into their compound. That leader got speared by Humongous, as you recall. Also, the leader said they had won because the main group had escaped with the fuel in the opposite direction. This is also why the decoy group turned the tanker truck around late in the chase. They had intended to meet up again with the main group if they survived.
"200 miles to the North there's a place with a river and a bridge. That's our rendezvous."
Papagallo
That "Flawless Execution" of that motorbike stunt was an accident. He was supposed to jump off before the motorbike impact, but mistimed and flew out of control through the air and broke his leg on impact. Its all caught on the behind the scenes footage available to see online.
only in a series that contains fury road could the road warrior remotely be considered the second best movie, but this is still an all-time five star banger. it's also probably hard to see now since it's been ripped off and riffed on so many times in the last 40 years, but this is honestly up there with star wars and blade runner when it comes to influence. basically what everyone thinks of now when they hear "post-apocalyptic wasteland" comes straight out of this movie, and all miller had to do was shoot in some remote parts of australia.
It doesnt matter if the series contains Fury Road, because FR isnt the best movie in the series it was just the most expensive one.
Nah man Mad Max 2 is still the king of the series!
I first saw this at the first Denver Film Festival in '81. Most of us hadn't seen the first film -- it had had a short time on US movie screens. THIS was our introduction to Max. I still grin thinking about that premiere night. What a blast with that BIG screen, BIG sound and a full house!
So mohawk guy is Vernon Wells who played Bennet in Commando.
The best line is where the engineer is relying the news about the repairs and the proxy goes.. "OK !" That kills me.
Max turned the tanker around so The Humungous didn't know he was coming that way until it was too late.
The original Mad Max wasn't theatrically released in the US. It was an Australian small budget film. None of us knew anything about "Mad Max" or ever heard of Mel Gibson when THE ROAD WARRIOR came out in 1981. So there were no sequels PLANNED. That's why THE ROAD WARRIOR ended the way it did. THE ROAD WARRIOR became a huge hit and made Mel Gibson a star. Only then did they think of a sequel.
Mel Gibson spoke only 16 lines of dialogue in The Road Warrior. That's how pure ACTION this movie was and why it became so influential on action movies from then on.
The beauty of the construction of this series is that once Max is unmoored from family and job, he can't stay anywhere. So a community will see him arrive, watch him slowly prove himself to them, and then leave. It's a perfect setup for episodic movies, unconnected except for the world and Max's brief interaction with communities.
Just like Caine from Kung-Fu. Except Caine got some every once in awhile.
@@putinscat1208 "Just like Caine from Kung-Fu.”
Or Clint Eastwood’s “Man With No Name” character from the spaghetti westerns.
The best of the OG trilogy for me, though I adore the storytelling in Beyond Thunderdome.
George Miller really honed his craft between movies - the stunt sequences are A+, shot from within and above the action, the worldbuilding is fantastic, and the upgrade to Max and the Interceptor are pure badass.
It is very sad to me that Mac loses the Interceptor, the last piece of his old life, and Dog, but I love the reveal at the end that Feral Kid has become the chieftan of the tribe and carries on Max's legend. That Max and his adventures are more myth than fact really makes the wild action and big performances feel like someome telling a story.
The Toe cutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) returns in mad max, Fury Road as Immortan Joe.
Psychotic biker "Wez" was played by Vernon Wells, who also played bad guy Bennett in Commando (with Arnold).
Gyro Captain; Bruce Spence, also played "the mouth of Souron" in The Return of the King. (Lord of the Rings).
Bruce Spence is slightly more recognizeable in the Matrix sequels 😅
@@LordVolkov Yep, The Train Man.
I've loved this movie since it was made. Huge part of my childhood.
Thing is, all the car stunts, the refinery explosion was done for real. No CGI back bs back then. Its what makes this such a classic.
Same thing with fury road. 90 percent of the stunts were practical
The feral kid started howling near the camp to distract the crazies after Max slipped and dropped the cans. He was helping Max. The chains on Wez weren't punishment- it was Humongous holding him back for the final attack.
Give you some information about the dog. They found him at the shelter the dog was to be put down. But the film crew took him and put him in the movie. Now after the filming was done someone in the crew kept the dog for the rest of the dog’s life. So the movie saved the dog.
It was never called "Mad Max 2". It was just called "The Road Warrior".
Only in the US, in the rest of the world it was called Mad Max 2, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior or Mad Max 2: "translated subtitle" like "Der Vollstrecker" in Germany.
Max lost his family to those heathen bikers in the original Mad Max film,and he became somewhat of a loaner after that which is why he wasn't interested in making friends or getting involved with anyone.
Here is a little thing you probably didn't notice,the guy in this with the red mohawk,is the same actor that Arnold Schwarzenegger fights in commando. Also the guy that did the big tumbling fly in the air that stunt man seriously hurt himself doing that stunt
Let off some steam, Bennett! Actually couldn't believe it's the same guy. I think he also makes a cameo in 'weird science' as the Mohawk biker.
fury road is such a great addition to max's story. the roaming loner who shows up to help people then moves on.
Bit of trivia info
The Humongeous is actually Goose from the first movie, Goose was a policeman like Max, was his co worker (cop)
They decided to leave this info out of the second movie (the Road Warrior)
My favorite still has to be Mad Max. It was the original that introduced us to this apocalyptic world. The following movies absolutely added more and in certain ways were even better -- but they were all built on what had come before.
Looking forward to your reactions to Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road. 🤗👍
Thank you! Finally someone said something about the woman's "...just words" argument. She says that about Papagallo who she knows isn't evil, but she is totally willing to believe the Humongous and his evil words.
Saw at the theater great movie never gets old! Thanks Y’all!
Ive sat in the mechanics chair in Silverton
Mega classic that my friends and I grew up with! Always loved the reveal of narrator being feral kid
I've wanted a gyrocopter ever since I first saw this movie.
They are an awesome way to fly and they love windy days.
"Beyond Tunderdome" is now a must see. RIP Tina.
Great movie. Glad youre back to this franchise. Hope you continue on with it.
Still the greatest action film ever I’ve ever seen… blew me away the first time I watched it and that chase sequence still gives me chills when the guy flips over the car! Just an incredible stunt!
1982, Road Warrior was usually a midnight movie. It was tough to get out of the theatre parking lot without a wreck.
Yeah. THIS was the template for all following Mad Max films. As for Humongous, he was trying to catch up when he hit that NOS. He had no idea Max had turned around until the truck appeared over that ridge.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome goes in a very different direction. It may be the Return of the Jedi of the Mad Max series... But I still love it, warts and all. And it being the 80s MTV Mad Max film, the soundtrack has some bangers.
it's definitely the one i've seen the most because it was replayed constantly on cable in the 80s. i'm not even sure i saw the o.g. mad max until the late 90s.
The Road Warrior. One of my top films
Can't believe that's Vernon Wells as Wes, who was Bennett in Commando. Always a great baddie
Just the soundtrack alone saturates my brain with adrenaline! This is still one of the most harrowing wasteland movies ever made! One of the most action-est action movies ever made! All the stunts are real. All the effects are practical.
7:34 Max didn't charge in because he knew they had the advantage. He makes calculated decisions.
10:30 / 16:31 / 29:38 Ackchyually, all chaps are assless.
10:45 Perfect description! And this came out before Jason ever donned a hockey mask!
20:55 1973 Ford Falcon
21:10 Bad guys never learn, do they?
25:25 That actor broke both of his legs doing that stunt. It wasn't supposed to turn out the way it did. Talk about suffering for art!
26:06 Like John Connor in T2.
27:20 Shotguns don't use bullets. Slugs don't count. They're sort of their own thing.
What's under Humongous' mask? It is Butters Stotch. Hilarious moment in South Park when Butters led a gang.
I convinced my Dad to take me to see this at the cinema. I was 13 years, this film was R-rated. My Dad enjoyed the crazy adventure! He convinced Mom/Wife to see it -and my Brother too. Family bonding. Now "Mad Max" was on US cable channels, yet it was dubbed in American Accents,...Australian accents weren't yet acceptable. (When MM came out on DVD there was finally the Aussie dialogue to hear) Found a number of Australian films on cable (Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously) My Parents went to Australia in 1984 for a medical convention,...it was their 20th Wedding Anniversary. excuse to go around the world. I joined my parents in 1986, a bigger tour around Oz -and before "Crocodile Dundee" came to America, and made Australia "fun" - Traveling for 2.5 weeks around Oz, when I was 17 years, was really grand! Dad and I went to "MM beyond Tunderdome", and felt let down. When "Fury Road" was released in 2015, the day before I was to have surgery, bone joint, I got my Dad to join at a 3-d Imax -a wild ride to view. My Dad missed the Gyro Captain, and that the end chase in "Road Warrior" is only like 14 minutes -he thought "Fury Road" was too much.
Oh, the man who flipped over, in camera, that you praised his skill as a stuntman -he ended badly hurt, stunt gone wrong, yet, on camera. The Director, George Miller, was also a Doctor, before turning to film making. For an ambulance to get from the near town to the location, the Director used his medical skills to save that stuntman, yet kept it in the movie, for the image.
The Gyro Captain, Bruce Spence, from New Zealand, has been acting since the 70's. A very tall fellow. If you view other media, he will be found even in LotR-3, and SW3-RotS, and plenty of "down under entertainment"
To paraphrase the writer/director Dr. George Miller;
"Max is a closeted human being, but by the end of the film, we see the closet door open just a crack."
I grew up in the 80s and pets, while considered part of the family, weren't on the level that alot of people place them nowadays. Definitely not on the level with humans or even close. The 80s were closer to the Old Yeller days than now in that respect.
Loved the reaction!
The Road Warrior will always be my favorite Mad Max movie.
I knew the warrior woman (viginia Hay) we worked for rock bands together back in the 80s.. her boyfriend was a sound engineer for the band thats why she worked with us loading and setting up.
The guy flying through the air ass over tea kettle. Was an actual stuntman. On a stunt that had failed. And he was literally thrown from the motorcycle.
The Road Warrior is the best Mad Max movie, the king of them all!
One of my all time favs!!!!
3:46 "his eyes are popped out of his skull."
something about the tone, like a detective at a crime scene... 🤔😆
Keep going “Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome” is a great movie and a must see experience!!!
A few years ago I had chance to buy one of the V8 "Mad Max" cars...didn't do it, always regretted it.
Without question this film trilogy was one of the greatest to come out of the 80’s. First real view of the post-apocalyptic world. Don’t miss Thunderdome! “Two men enter, one man leaves.”
The stuntman who goes end-over-end in the final chase, was really badly hurt. He accidentally caught his legs on the crashed car, and smashed them to bits. If you watch them closely, you can actually tell his lower legs are broken. And it caused him to miss the prepared landing. He nearly died, if I remember the story correctly.
This is still the one, for me.
"Thunderdome" went silly and "Fury Road" is essentially this remade.
Originally Lord Humongous was supposed to be Goose from the first movie but they changed that. The Warrior Woman was Zhaan in Farscape the TV show. If you've ever seen it. Several other actors crossed over from Mad Max movies to Farscape and from Farscape to the most recent Mad Max movie.
Funny. i felt like looking up the road warrior reaction. And i find this uploaded an hour ago
1. This is the best. Including "Fury Road" that proves there can be too much CGI.
2. The hot blonde chick the copter man was chasing😍😉
3. Max not staying with those people left the door open for another adventure.
4. Mel Gibson isn't Australian, he was born in Peekskill, NY
5. The stuntman that flew/flipped was injured.
6. When Humongous gets his I go, "Couldn't happen to a nicer guy".😱
Well he did move to Australia when he was 12 and is a permanent resident of Australia and he did study drama in Australia. He is considered an Australian actor but with some of his recent history maybe some Aussies are happy with the US reclaiming him.
"Wez" the guy with the mohawk is so upset because the "Feral" kid killed his lover "The Golden Youth". That's why "The Lord Humungus" has "Wez" on a leash to let his anger build and then be released to go wild.
YES! Love Mad Max 2 and love your guy's videos :D
One of my favourite action movies!
The Mad Max stories are increasingly told from the perspective of people in the far future who may or may not have crossed paths with him - In the first film and most of the 2nd , he's an angry avenging character, totally empty, and out for himself, by the end of mm2, hes found a spark of humanity, and saves the kid, and helps get him and the rest out of the wasteland to a better life and to start to rebuild some sort of civilisation, which would obviously need its own history and creation stories, by the end of mm2 and the Feral kids old age hes looked on as a myth - a legend of the wasteland. All the films including Fury Road have a deliberately vague, and disjointed connection, as they are essentially campfire tales, passed from generation to generation, with completely different groups of people, perhaps embellished about this shadowy messianic character who came from nowhere, saved people and then dissapeared back into the wasteland. This really comes out in the 3rd one Beyond Thunderdome. There is a theory that "Mad Max" in Fury Road isnt actually Max, but the Feral Kid who was just trying to be like Max.. 🖤 Fantastically influential movies with a totally unique vibe.
that stuntman broke both his legs and his back
30:30 Monty Python vibes? never heard that before. 🙂
always an interesting pov with E&S.
All time favorite.
when ı first saw this movie ı was a young boy.,then mel gibson became my favorite hero .
Without Mad Max, Fist of the North star won't exist.
This is a fantastic movie, if only for the cinematography. @25:27, and I always love this stunt!
In 1981 I was 16 and on vacation in Florida with my parents. It was a rainy day so we went to the movies, My mother doesn't like "R" rated movies so her , my dad and little sister went to see some chick flick. I was like "No way" so I decided to see "The Road Warrior" I had no idea what it was about and had never heard of the "Mad Max" movie. I was blown away and I'm sure I didn't stop talking about it the rest of the vacation.
I strongly recommend the novelization of the first movie in the series. It adds a lot to the lore and gives the side characters more personality. George Miller was actually very impressed by it. It’s out of print though, I listened to an unofficial audiobook on UA-cam to get the story. The Toecutter and his gang are more terrifying than before and Max does more action in the climax
Land Down Under, pre or post-apocalyptic, no big difference 😂
One of my favorite action movies the best Mad Max movie.
My jaw dropped when the warrior woman was killed. I thought for sure she and Max would end up together.
3:43 "ewww!" 😆
Apart from the first film, all the subsequent films are open to interpretation.
The first was his origin but all the rest are stories being told by witnesses.
They are the ledgends of the man they call Max.
Flawless execution...
Actually that wasn't supposed to happen and the stunt man broke his leg.
Its fun to watch young people watch this amazing movie
The leader of the good guys tells the Feral Kid “we won” because he knows the rest of the community has escaped with gassed up vehicles as per his plan. The fight over the gas tanker filled with sand doesn’t matter. They’ve already won by getting most of the community to safety.
The biker guy with the mohawk plays Bennett, one of the villains in Ahnold's movie Commando.
George Miller originally never even wanted to make a sequel to the first "Mad Max" (he says as much in a 1979 interview) - but it was so successful, they were pressured into making a second film. Thankfully they did, as "The Road Warrior" is incredible. But that was REALLY going to be it - just those two films. "Thunderdome" wasn't originally a Max film. Miller was working on a film about lost children, sort of a Peter Pan idea, but he couldn't figure out how to do it - and one day, they basically decided that Max could somehow fit into that story, which is why "Thunderdome" feels a bit bipolar, between its first and second half (and feels more "Hollywood", as Gibson was a huge star at that point). Miller also lost his longtime partner during the shooting, etc. It's great, but it's sort of its own thing, as was "Fury Road". Essentially, ever since "The Road Warrior" (known as "Mad Max 2" in the rest of the world), each Max film has been a standalone story, only barely tied to the others. The first two films, as Miller has said, are the real story of Max. The others are great, of course, but not direct sequels. They're meant to be "legend stories", basically stories that people told about him in that world, etc. "The Road Warrior" started that "story" tradition, but with the story actually being "true" in that film. "Thunderdome" and "Fury Road" are basically "campfire stories" of Max.
love all of them.
Eric: "Ooh, sawed off shotgun, nice!"
My response: Actually, it's a shotgun pistol. A double barrel, shot gun pistol. 😊
No, its a sawn off shotgun with the stock sawn off too.
I think you didn't catch that Humongus did not know Max turned around. He was obscured by the hill. So the head on was not expected.
Vernon Wells who plays the bad guy on the motorbike plays a bad guy in "Commando" against Arnie Schwartenegger, and a bad guy in "Innerspace"
Reckon this one's probably my favourite.
One of the original ideas for Lord Humungous was that it's the warped remains of a recovered Goose. While I like the idea of giving the big bad a back ground, I feel it was right to remove that as it takes to much from Goose and the things that drove Max over the edge.
THIS JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENCE TO ME. HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF HIS SIZE, I WOULD RATHER HUMUNGUS BE HIS FORMER BALD BOSS FROM THE FIRST MOVIE.
The extended intro was at the insistence of US film producers. The first Mad Max had been a huge hit by Australian standards, but in the very earliest days of video tapes very few people in the US had seen it. That's also why the US title of the sequel was just "The Road Warrior", with no mention of Mad Max in the title.
Not only my favorite among the Mad Max series, this is one of my favorite movies period. Every post-apocalyptic film made since this has been both heavily influenced by Mad Max 2 and weighed against it for merit. There is a *huge* rabbit hole you can dive down centered on the lore of the Mad Max universe and deep analysis of this specific movie, if you ever have a week or two to kill.
PS It's probably been mentioned already in another comment, but the dog playing Dog here was a rescue from a local animal shelter. No prior training at all, they just went with him because he looked the part, was friendly, and wasn't bothered by the special effects & loud noises on the set. After filming wrapped he bounced around a little with various crew members until he eventually wound up living out a life of luxury with a member of the film crew.
Do you know if the intro was included in the Australian version because as you've already stated it was included really just for the American audience.
Narrator: Harold Verdun Baigent, s a New Zealand theatre director, actor and arts manager
For more post-apocalyptic wasteland, but in a fun way 😅 - Tank Girl, with Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell
I like this story better than Fury Road... There. I said it.
The actor who plays Toe Cutter returns in Fury Road as Morten Joe.