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- Mad Max 2 (released as The Road Warrior in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote it with Terry Hayes and Brian Hannant. It is the second installment in the Mad Max franchise. The film stars Mel Gibson reprising his role as "Mad Max" Rockatansky and follows a hardened man who helps a community of settlers to defend themselves against a roving band of marauders.[4] Filming took place in locations around Broken Hill, in the Outback of New South Wales.
Mad Max 2 was released in Australia on 24 December 1981 to widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise given to Gibson's performance, the musical score, cinematography, action sequences, costume design and sparing use of dialogue. It was also a box office success, and the film's post-apocalyptic and punk aesthetics helped popularise the genre in film and fiction writing. At the 10th Saturn Awards, the film won Best International Film and was nominated for five more awards: Best Director, Best Actor for Gibson, Best Supporting Actor for Bruce Spence, Best Writing, and Best Costumes for Norma Moriceau. Mad Max 2 is widely hailed as both one of the greatest action movies of all time and one of the greatest sequels ever made,[6] and fan clubs for the film and "road warrior"-themed activities continue into the 21st century.
Preceded by Mad Max in 1979, the film was followed by Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015 and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in 2024.
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So far I've watched the early careers of:
Eric Bana in Chopper
Mel Gibson in Gallipoli and Mad Max
Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper
What should I watch next?
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From what I can tell, the next one is people's least favourite, but I'm really excited to continue Max's journey!
In case you missed it, here is my reaction to the first Mad Max: ua-cam.com/video/vPKWRilVjeM/v-deo.html
Extended edits + full length reactions: patreon.com/chrissiereacts
I've seen them all and really enjoy watching other people watch it - don't know why but im addicted now.
It's probably the worst one in the series but still a worth watching
Great to see you doing this one after the first one got taken down cause of copyright loved the first review cheers 🍻
@@chrissiereacts
People have a least favourite?They're all dekiberately different. It's all part of the odessy of the man they call.... MAX.
Mad Max one was set a little bit of time in the future, mad Max 2 nuclear war where everyone was out for themselves, mad Max three was with Tina Turner ThunderDome
The dog was found in the local shelter and would have been put down the next day.
After the movie a cameraman gave him a furever home.
It also did not care for the cars in the film.
Well, not forever, exactly...
@@jefferywarburton2116 that's why he had ear plugs in. Hated noise.
@@TheAussie1970 That's the other bit. I knew they had to do something to help.
That was all just a PR Lie, it was actually a trained movie dog and had been in tv commercials, the lady who owned it had several dogs.
"As for me, I grew to manhood..."
I love the reveal that the narrator is the Feral Kid, all grown and chieftain of the great northern tribe. 'Max as myth' is a favorite aspect of the series to me.
Watching them as fables told about wasteland heroes and not necessarily about Max Rockatansky really adds extra layers to the movies.
Nah, it's all about Max.
He can't get down the mountain and across half a mile of desert instantly.
And even if he could, the rest of them would see him.
Yeah, I don’t get how she couldn’t judge the distance & the fact he was a big ass hill, with nothing but flat distance between them. How was he gonna fight like 5 guys in the middle of the desert??
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Five guys with working weapons.
Yeah it was a little dumb to be disappointed about that. Like he's not Superman, he can't just go down there and destroy everyone with no problems.
There’s an argument that none of the Mad max films fit together properly because they are all told as folk tales at a future point, the feral boy being an old man when he narrates the story for example. It’s an oral history
I like this theory a lot. Adds to the tribal vibe of how it would likely be.
George Miller has stated that these are mythic stories. They are strokes of a brush on a larger canvas rather than boxcars on a train. They aren't necessarily linear.🤟😎
@@rodentnolastname6612 yes its more like a mosaic
It's neither theory nor argument.
It is the reality of the franchise.
@@tommc3622 these days,they pump out the prequel only after the original is a success
7:38 Yeah the American cinema trope of 1 guy taking on 10 guys front on to save the damsel in distress is not only unrealistic but would negate the whole set up of the world as a harsh, brutal, everyone for himself dystopian future.
In addition it sets up Max himself as a man who has seen and felt too much so that he is now hardened to the injustice and brutality.
Much like Joel in the Last of Us, at this point in the story he is almost dead inside
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It's jarring as a viewer but it actually makes it more grounded, which I appreciate in the end. I got heated in the moment though 😅
Haha na he's just not from NZ or oz
@@chrissiereacts Understandable, if a little sad that we've been trained to think like this in the heat of the moment. Our base instincts know better but decades of Hollywood flicks telling us otherwise have been just as effective as brainwashing. Crazy to think in what other ways we've been conditioned by other methods considering that cinema is merely a casual tool primarily meant for entertainment.
good explanation
The truth when you experience the death of your own child anyone else death is meaningless. It hollows you out. I know.
"There has been TOO MUCH VIOLENCE!" - The Lord Humungus
No CGI. No Green Screen. All camera work and practical effects
There are some questionable effects though. Sped up footage. Cheap looking puppets. It's not like these movies are superior to the newer ones due to the lack of CGI and green screen. Every Mad Max movie has some questionable effects, and none of them are worse for it.
@@mocthezuma The new ones are just all CGI and boring..
@@65cj55 boring?! LMAO! And it is not all just CGI, there are so many practical effects and not to mention real stuntwork!
@@peterengelen2794 oh yes he's right they are absolutely boring ! keep in mind - LITTLE DETAILS MATTER and let me give you an example - in both Furiosa and Fury Road some of the machines are as clean as the whistle and shiny (like they have been barely used at all, recently bought from the wasteland dealership 😁) when in Road Warrior every car, vehicle gives you that impression that they've been trough a lot, they look worn, dusted, rusty etc. overall these details contributing subconsciously to that feeling of REALNESS and SCARCETY which is totally missing in Fury Road and Furiosa. And there are so many more details that are totally lacking in the last 2 movies, unnecessary CGI, the comic book style of colours, the fight scenes, Max character which had ZERO development, he was boring, those cringe flashbacks etc.
@@peterengelen2794 They are boring, movies are crap these days, look at Star Wars for example, the first ones you thought, how the hell did they do that, now you know it's just all CGI...boring.
The Proposition with Guy Pearce is a hidden masterpiece of Australian cinema. The cast alone is amazing
Bloody Oath mate. You should check out "The Interview" with Hugo Weaving too.
Written by acclaimed musician & songwriter Nick Cave.
@65cj55 Nich Cave come a long way since playing the Feral Kid in Mad Max 2....
@@narcat3999 and The Mule (2015) with Hugo Weaving
Give Snowtown a go if you want something fairly disturbing. 😐
The flying machine is a Gyrocopter or Autogyro. It's a real device. One was featured in the James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice"
When "Mad Max" was first released, I don't think the world that was portrayed needed to be explained. It was just something that we expected. We were already experiencing oil shortages, long lines at the gas stations, odd & even days based on your license plate. Gas prices doubled in a short period of time, so in some ways, we weren't surprised at a movie where society was breaking down.
No, this didn't invent kink wear. Leather BDSM was a thing long before "The Road Warrior"
Personally I like "Beyond Thunderdome", so yes, you should watch it.
I tend to like post apocalyptic movies. I'd recommend "The Omega Man" 1971. "Steel Dawn" 1987. "I Am Legend" 2007 ("Omega Man" should be watched first), "Dr. Strangelove" 1964. "Fail-Safe" 1964. "Soylent Green" 1973.
I agree on Beyond Thunderdome. I reckon it cops too much flack.
Good picks. The Last Man on Earth (1964) with Vincent Price is the most faithful adaptation of Richard Matheson's book I am Legend but the other two versions are better, cinematically.
Nor to mention the real threat of nuclear war between superpowers,Gen x had all the fun
That's a good take on why the films of my/our youth didn't need explaining to US, back then. People were speculating about life after the 'fall of civilization,' going to survivalist camps and buying up dehydrated food (I had a million-dollar idea to market dehydrated water during the Y2K panic; I should have gone through with it), The END was near. If this had been an American film it probably would have been a nuclear apocalypse; Australia not only didn't HAVE the bomb, they also weren't really on anybody's nuclear sh*t list. And with a much smaller population, it was easier to explain how few people were left.
"post-apocapyptic" is its own style combining aspects of "diesel-punk" (different from "steam-punk" and a lot of "found art" and "repurposed items" 🤟😎
And all of it started here.
Max couldn't have helped the people in the car, he was outnumbered and didn't even have ammo for his shotgun, he would have just got killed along with them if he'd tried.
Looking forward to seeing your thoughts on part 3, people often say its the worst but there's some very memorable moments and iconic scenes which are referenced in pop culture even more than anything from the first two. Its a very different movie again but I think its still a lot of fun and underappreciated, I think, because people love part 2 so much. It also gave us the awesome Tina Turner song "We Don't Need Another Hero".
Also, hope you do react to Stone, its a classic biker film and definitely an oz-ploitation favourite of mine!
I once met the actor who plays The Humongous. He seemed surprised that I recognised him.
That's so cool! Did he do the voice? :D
@@earth2saka Wish he had done the voice. He sounded nothing like the character, had a slight Swedish accent.
@@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec I don't think I could have stopped myself from announcing The Humongus, Lord Humongus, Warrior of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla.
The guy who plays the Gyro Pilot is Bruce Spence. He's a well renowned actor, he was in Star Wars 3, LoTR, The Matrix trilogy, but you probably remember him from Pirates of the Carribean.
p.s there's at least one actor in this movie that acted in Mr Inbetween. See if you can guess him.
Wow. He hit all the big ones!
He was also in The Return of the King (extended edition). He plays the Mouth of Sauron, so you never see his face because of the helmet. He couldnt actually see out of that helmet so he fell off the horse a lot.
My favourite was when he was in Ace Ventura 2 haha
@@2flygavOMG!! Thanks for unlocking a memory!
@@chrissiereacts when he gets hit with the 3 darts is cinematic and comedy gold
Mad Max 1 was set pre apocalypse times.
The oil crisis was common events of the time, the setting didn't need explanation for the audience.
They also had no idea anybody outside Australia would ever see it, so full explanation of a universe they created wasn't a thought. Once they knew they had a franchise, they cleared up this apocalyptic universe right off the bat.
Mad Max needed no explanation because it was just 'Straya in the 80's eh?
Yep, the oil crisis was in full swing - although Australia kinda missed the major impacts - but there were other hints of things getting wose, ie one of the cars for sale in Mad Max 1, the sign said it was running Methane.
I worked with the costume designer from this film on a TV series here in Aus. She had so many great stories about her time on set and finding most costumes from sex stores around Sydney!
You still need to watch the greatest Australian movie called "Malcolm - 1986"
Guy Norris is the stuntman who did the flips off the motorbike. Broke and busted his leg really bad. Film was his first stunt gig. He's still going and is the lead stunt coordinator on Fury Road & Furiosa. Separately, it's kinda funny how younger millennials and under have never seen or heard of gyrocopters, or think it was specially made for this film.
It's very Australian (speaking as a half-Aussie, half-Kiwi) that many of the original Mad Max crew came back for the new movies.
Guy was already an accomplished stuntman when he did Mad Max 2.
He didn't actually break either leg in the flip incident, but did severely bend the surgical pin in his leg from a previous injury. So, still.... ouch.
@@tommc3622 Is it still a incident if it goes wrong?
@@mitch3384 I would imagine many of the original vehicle creators would have been involved. Every one of those vehicles was what it was too. If it looked like it had two supercharged fuel injected hemis with nitrous that is what the vehicle had. Any car builder would jump at the chance to create crazy vehicles for these movies.
Mad Max only had a limited release in North America and didn't do very well. Since it wasn't well known, Mad Max 2 was released as The Road Warrior in North America, and didn't really give any indication that it was a sequel, except for the actual archival footage in the film. The promos didn't feature much of Mel Gibson since he hadn't become a star yet. They focused on the action scenes.
Btw...the famous wrestlers The Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) took their name and image from this movie.
"How did they do that back then?" Well, they built a gyrocopter and flew it. George Miller has always demanded that the wild stuff in his movies actually work.
This film is a great example of "show it don't tell it". The lack of dialogue forces you to pay attention and think about what is being shown rather than process what has been said.
all shot at mundi mundi plaines and silverton.
You should watch the making of it. The cameraman were strapped to the front of the vehicles and motorbikes.
Filmed in my home town (Broken Hill).
I know all the locations still.
The "Flying Thing" is a Gyro-copter. Its a real thing.
I've written finance on one of those things and the whole time I was thinking my customer is going to crash and burn literally.
@@MrkBO8 they normally do eventually.
@@TheAussie1970 We took our fee upfront
Re Max not going down to those stop those heathens from attacking that couple, he was at least a half mile away, he was completely outnumbered and would have been easily seen and instantly killed, and he's living in a post Apocalyptic "survival of the fittest" world where life hangs on a thread. He did save and bring back the male who was still living. He did what he realistically could. The movie was all about showing how brutal and uncaring this fuel hungry almost primitive world was. Cut Max some slack (and it is a movie).
Max is the archetypal "Lone Wolf" in cinema history. This was a common character in American Westerns. The once fighter trying to start a new life, good deep down, but an outsider to normal society. Watch SHANE for a perfect example of the Western "lone wolf". You'll be amazed at the similarities to The Road Warrior.
15:30 If you pay attention to the epilogue, you’ll see him walking away from 2 graves, his wife and kid.
Ohhhh!! I didn't notice that! Good call.
From the days we still had drive in cinema. All the hot cars would keep turning up and put on an extra show.
That sounds awesome!
Getting upset because you wanted Max to save someone even though he would surely been killed!??? It's ALL about survival sweetheart!
Right?? He was outnumbered, easy.
"Is this steampunk?"
Post-Mad Max, the series leans toward Dieselpunk. While a narrower niche than steampunk, dieselpunk usually has a grittier tone, 'high octane' action, and badass cobbled together machines. Still a lot of goggles and leather 😉 but in more of a 'leatherman'/biker cop style than the Victorian fashion that prevades steampunk.
For peak steampunk anime - Steamboy 2004
Max's wife was actually dying and was considered salvageable by the Dr. In the first film. You see Max walk away from 2 burial crosses of his wife and child in the beginning narration of the film.
. Miller wanted to make this one due to all the mistakes he made in the original film with his gonzo inexperienced mistakes in film making .
The Road Warrior is definitely my favorite. The reason why it's considered the best action sequel of all time by some is because most American audiences weren't even aware of the original film,,the reason why director Miller re-titled the American release from Mad Max 2 to The Road Warrior ..... .Lots of American mytholgost writer Joseph Campbell influence in MM2
Greatl allegorical master peace on a sequel 👍😎🎬
Yup, that machine is real. It's basically a small ultralight plane with a freely rotating wing. In other words, the rotor on top is completely unpowered, the engine simply powers the push prop in the back.
Nice.
That dog was rescued from a shelter a couple of days before shooting.
Absolutely NOT steampunk. Steampunk is Retro Victorian/Edwardian science fiction, which means SF written now as if written from a Victorian/Edwardian viewpoint. (Mary Shelley, HG Wells and Jules Verne are not steampunk because they aren't writing now, theirs is just SF written then. Shelley was Regency, of course.)
It's just Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia.
Ahhh! Thank you!
@@chrissiereacts
A good example of Steampunk would be the Will Smith comedy/western The Wild Wild West (or the 60s tv series it was based on) or the SyFy series Firefly. The Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law had some elements of Steampunk.
Another related genre is Cyberpunk, which is like "low life" meets "high tech". Blade Runner would be an early example of that. Later examples would be.. Total Recall, Demolition Man, The Fifth Element.
The man loses his interceptor and his dog on the same day. No wonder he's mad.
Isn't that the John Wick plot?
@@bossfan49 Shhh, don't expose millions of dollars like this! 😅
@@bossfan49 🤯
I saw this film in a double feature with Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon at the now long gone cinema in my old home town. I wouldn’t have been eleven or twelve. Max Max 2 was definitely a step up from the first film.
It scared the crap old of me and I’m still amazed I even got into the venue in the first place.
I wasn’t ready for it.
Woah, that’s a serious double bill
Wow...now that's a double billing that I would have loved to have seen at their premiere release . I did see them both on separate occasions, though, at our local drive-in. Aah, those were the days.
The Mad Max movies are truly all their own stories. If you continue down this road and ever want to see an explanation of the timelines and events, Mad Max World and Mad Max Bible are UA-cam channels dedicated for everything Mad Max and they explain everything, and for in depth timeline explanations the channels OneTake and Movie Balls Deep have long vids about it. But I would suggest after watching all of them, including the new ones.
Interesting fact : In the first Mad Max from the 70's there was a character called " The GOOSE " . And in ' TOP Gun " there was also a character called " GOOSE ".
I think too much dialogue in MM2 would have killed it as actions speak louder than words in a movie like this and we didn't really need lengthy dialogue to explain a simple theme with virtually no subplot. The writers concocted the continuous action sequences to drown out most of the dialogue, but leaving just enough to show that the characters were real people in desperate fight for survival. Personally, I was glued more to the cinematography and fast pace action than the little bits of dialogue that was all but redundant.
Chrissie you should make a mythbusters video on the proper way to react when someone shoots an arrow into your thigh.
Also, he couldn't help the girl being attacked. He was too far away to do anything and whatever he would have attempted would have got himself killed since he was outnumbered at that point.
All chaps are assless. You're supposed to wear jeans or something underneath them.
Gyrocopter/Autogyro been around since the 1920's , think of it as a go kart helicopter
I remember seeing the poster for this in the movie theater lobby and being totally drawn to it. Even though I wasn't old enough to see R-rated movies yet, I knew I had to see it somehow. I think I had to settle for seeing it on video a few years later. It did not disappoint. Such an awesome time to love movies.
Great Australian movie for you to watch is 'Muriel's Wedding'.
Max's wife did die- Watch that scene again, and listen to what the doctors are talking about.
Doc 1: lists all her problems
Doc 2: reads like a grocery list. Is she salvageable?
Doc 1: yeah sure, we got all her signs back last night.
Nurse: they lost a kid
Doc 1: listen, tell him she's gonna be alright. Tell him not to worry. Tell him, if he wants I'll talk to him.
@@chrissiereacts
"Is she salvageable?" = Are her organs salvageable?
"tell him she's going to be alright" = lie to him to spare him the trauma
@@drew2fast489 I can agree with the organs interpretaion but the second bit is a stretchhhhhh. A doctor would never spare feelings over facts.
Watching that scene without the sequel would absolutely tell the viewer she's going to be alright. Why would we think he's lying... that's a whole lotta interpretation!
I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended that way but for the sake of the sequel and Max's character arc, her death was a better driving force so I get it. But I still don't agree that watching the original scene lines up.
@@chrissiereacts When have you ever heard a doctor refer to someone as salvageable? Stable, terminal, critical, but salvageable? I'd agree with you if it wasn't for this terminology.
Under most circumstances doctors don't spare feelings, but this movie takes place at the edge of the fall of civilization. Look how the cops acted, including Max. They weren't professional at all.
This was an awesome experience in the theater
FURY ROAD (2015) is a kind of remake of Mad Max 2 and 3, it merges elements and plots of the 2 movies into one movie. And FURIOSA I think you'll love it.
I saw it as more of a continuation than a remake.
@@joshuajoshua2732 For me Fury Road is a remake in the form of a sequel to Mad Max 2 and 3, because it is very similar in terms of the great chase to Mad Max 2 and everything that is citadel, Immortan Joe and others, reminiscent of Bathertown and Tina Turner's tyrant character from Mad Max 3, which was like a female version Immortan Joe, who also had subdued his people.
Max's dog is a Blue Heeler (Australian Cattle Dog). They're awesome. Athletic, very smart but they can also be independent so they need rigid training.
Yeah, they have a ton of energy & need a job to do. If you don’t have a lot of time & energy to devote to them (or live in the country, where they can get lots of exercise), they can definitely be a handful. Also, as heeler herders, they can sometimes have a tendency to nip at the heels of running children.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Ya herding breeds need jobs or activities or they will create their own activities, mostly destructive. I am way too lazy to even consider a herding dog. I have an Asian or Caucasian shepherd herd protection breed cross but he is a giant lazy lovable lump and is good with going to the big park once a day and the little park next door once a day.
All the Mad Max movies are great. Don't listen to the people saying any of them are bad. George Miller doesn't make bad movies.
Furiosa is definitely the least good.
Couldn't disagree more
Witches of Eastwick, Lorenzo's Oil, the Babe movies, Happy Feet.... and all of the Mad Max films.
To name a few. A very diverse filmography, and not a bad one in the bunch.
And the man is also a doctor.
He worked in an Emergency Room setting before making Mad Max.
@mocthezuma Yeah, unfortunately, the Mad Max franchise requires more critical thinking than today's audience can muster.
"No Max. It sucked."
🤦♂️
"Beyond Thunderdome" is the only Mad Max film I consider the worst.
I went to the area where this movie was made in 1989 ..one of the things that amazed me there..was the only trees you seen where in the dry river beds an all of the trees were dead…
The flying machine is an Autogyro or Gyrocopter. They never show it taking off because it takes quite a bit of runway or road to get up to speed and off the ground.
The aircraft only has power to the rear "pusher" propellor, the main rotor relies on forward motion and airflow to produce lift and fly!
In this film they seem to suggest it just takes off like a helicopter, which it doesn't.
Nice reaction! Looking forward to you continuing in the series.
The actor who played Toecutter in the first movie, plays the main villain in the fourth movie. RIP mate. Great actor.
Hugh Keays-Byrne .... Aussie legend.
@@rocketrod1444 Thanks for that, couldn't think of his name off the top of my head when I commented.
The best of the movies.
Wez - the bad guy under the Humungus was played by Vernon Wells who then went to Hollywood and played the bad guy in "Commando" , and in "Innerspace" etc. So he was typecast
Also don't forget Weird Science - 'How would you like all your friends here ... to know ... that you wear a bra. On your head?!!'
Hey Chrissie
Check out the "making of" docos for Mad Max 1 and 2.
Because of the small population, private investment in film is extremely limited. The gov hated both ideas and offered the barest minimum in financing hoping they would cancel production.
Most of the cast and crew worked pro bono. Those amazing low to the ground "chase" camera shots were HAND HELD professional film cameras filmed by stuntmen before the police were 'scheduled' to arrive and block roads and check safety practises. I know at least one poor stuntman lost his life. Real guerrilla film making. You'll love it.
Not a single member of the production, stuntman or otherwise, died in the production of Mad Max or Mad Max 2.
George's good friend, and the man most responsible for the asthetic of the films, Byron Kennedy WAS tragically killed in a helicopter crash while scouting locations for Beyond Thunderdome.
@@tommc3622 Apology.
You're right. My error is from an old, poorly edited, interview with Mel regarding the guy who was hit in the helmet by a different bike. It was stated that the helmet was removed and blood "poured" out of his ears and nose. Better interviews since have been more thorough and less hyped.
Thanks for the heads up. 👍
I'm glad you got scared jump for laughing at that sweet baby getting run over and his little shoe flying.
Max could not have saved that woman in the beginning. He didn't even have a working shell for his shotgun.
Fury Road is great but some of the low budget grittiness of this classic Mad Max here is lost. You can feel the scrappiness of the filmmaking in Road Warrior since there is no cgi to fall back on. One of my favorite 80s classics for sure.
They might be living in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland, but there's no shortage of hairspray and backcombing!
@PeterMoore66 these are the essentials, Peter 😄
and dye and peroxide
Haha
Oil shortage, but a lot of unnecessary driving around😂
"Thunderdome", though the lesser of the films, is worth a watch. There are some excellent scenes, segments, and concepts being examined that are more interesting than the previous films, though overall it's a weaker movie
I grew up in a regional town in Northern NSW & there was a local mechanic/engineer who had a workshop that specialized in modifying vehicles. He designed and built many of the cars in this movie.
The flying machine is a real. They’re called gyrocopter. It was also featured in 1968 James Bond movie YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Awww you watch all my favs from Madmax to Legend and Mr in-between, love watching along with you , and stop making me laugh with all your facial expressions 😂😂😂, sending love from Melbourne Oz
12:27 “how did they do that, back then?”…. They simply got a gyrocopter and flew it in front of the camera… no CGI, just practical effects.
The gyro copter pilot Bruce Spence , anyone remember the 1971 movie "Stork " him and Jacki Weaver
That's a streak of grey in his hair... to show that he's been through some crazy times since the first movie. 😵💫
Ohhh! That makes more sense lol
Yes watch the third one. While not as hard edge as the first two it's still fun and frankly a bit underrated.
Vernon Wells, who plays Wez, "kind of" reprised his role in the movie Weird Science in a brilliant cameo. If you haven't seen that movie, it's a fun teen/HS comedy, a classic 80s movie.
@@zmarko He also played Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nemesis in “Commando”.
The aircraft is a Gyrocopter & it was really flying. No CGI in this 1982 flick.
This is the best one IMHO; just enough budget to make it look great, but not too much that it loses the indy feel. The flying machine is a gyrocopter, or autogyro. They're a legit thing.
How is max's wife and kid been killed funny 🤔
I was pretty thorough in my explanation in my reaction. Or did you skip it and go straight to the sequel? Tsk tsk
You seem to be expecting quite a lot of Max to be disappointed he didn't take on a dozen or so armed thugs with a two-shot sawn-off, a small dog and a nerdy pilot... he's brave but he's not quite suicidal yet
Lol, I blame John Wick.
Chrissie, I am an interstate truck driver in Australia. I also prefer Mad Max to the sequel. Toecutter is Hugh Keyes-Burns, a Shakespearean actor.
The mack has a non-synchromesh (crashbox) gearbox. You only need a clutch for taking off & for stopping, so you don't stall. You just need to match the engine revs with the road speed to change gears without a clutch.
I also am a biker.
Stone is a very low budget like the first Mad Max. It is more realistic to how Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs were in the 70s, although Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in the 70s did not ride Japanese bikes. One of my favourite biker movies of all time😢.
After you finish the Mad Max series & Stone, you should check out the Lethal Weapon series of movies, also starring Mel Gibson (Max Rockatanski)
Fun fact: The Gyrocopter Captain also played The Mouth of Sauron in The Return of the King.
Trainman in Matrix 3.
I'm with you. Loved the first one which has action but is essentially dialogue driven. People still hit you with numerous quotes from the first one. "Jessie, Jessie Jessie....you no got a sense of humour" "Johnny the Boy has done it again..." "Lets give em their heros back Max". The second one has more action but less substance.
The dude that plays Toecutter plays the villain in Fury Road.
His wife and baby are dead...run over by a group of bikes...never in hospital...his burnt mate was in hospital...
no. there is a scene in 1 where his wife is in a hospital bed, and the doctors describe that not only is she dead, but so too the unborn child in her pregnant body
@LordEriolTolkien I don't think they said she was dead but you can clearly see she has lost an arm. It was also Sprog they were taking about saying the baby had died. I do not think they mentioned that she was pregnant.
@@slugerama listen carefully to the dialogue in that scene, I am almost certain
@@slugerama I stand corrected, the scene is on UA-cam. She is still alive but critically injured, missing an arm and leg. Sprog is dead. No pregnancy.
Sprog is "DOA".
As for Jessie;
Doctor #2 (after hearing list of trauma) "Jesus. Reads like a grocery list. Is she salvageable?"
Doctor #1 "Yeah, we got her signs back last night."
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They are talking about harvesting her organs.
Mad Max was actually set when society was beginning to collapse, whilst the sequels are post the apocalypse. According to George Miller, there is no continuity past the first, as they are all legends of Max, much like the westerns and samurai films with the lone wanderer / reluctant hero who helps out those in need. It pretty much paved the wave for post-apocalyptic movies, and was an inspiration to the Fallout games.
Originally Lord Humongous was going to be Max's friend Goose from the first movie (hence why he wears a mask), but according to interviews they're completely separate characters.
Personally i think Lord Humongous is Max's police boss in the first movie, they have a similar body shape and the last words his boss said was "we need heroes out there" which sounds like something Humongous would say imo
Apparently not the case since his boss was apparently killed by Toecutter and his gang in a deleted scene of the first film.
i dont think of the first movie not being part of this world or anything, because it was just before it got to this point of peicing together cars and making home made metal hockey masks.. btw, im glad you can appreciate the qualities of the first one, that makes it a better movie in actuality.. same thing goes for alien and alien 2, or first blood and first blood 2, terminator and t2.. second movies are more what kid types would like, but the 1st is what the big people would like most
Enjoyed watching your reaction. Especially to the funny parts. Thanks Chrissie!😊
I really get a kick out of your reactions Chrissie. The "style" of this movie was Post Apocalyptic Medieval Punk as best as I could tell. Every hair metal band in the early 80s went out and copied this look after The Road Warrior came out (MAD MAX 1 never came out theatrically in the US).
I snickered when you mentioned the buttless chaps. Underneath your very pleasant and sweet persona, those tats tell me that you've got some "bad girl" in you sweetheart, which is cool. 😉 😜.
Stone is a trip
The director likes re-using actors. For instance, the guy who played Toecutter also plays the big bad in Fury Road.
You'll see the gyro pilot's actor in Beyond Thunderdome. They are not the same character.
The third one is less gritty, more mainstream. Personally I think it's loads of fun, and the most rewatchable of the entire series.
I always thought the gyro pilot was the same character in both but ya I forgot he went on to be the leader of the group from Road Warrior. I had forgotten that bit and thought his kid was from him and the blond woman he was sweet on in Road Warrior and she had died for whatever reason and now it was him and the boy making their way in the world.
The re-use of actors in different roles seems to be George Miller mimicking (Or paying Homage to) Sergio Leone's westerns. Max's character is based on Clint Eastwood's, in Fistful of Dollars. Beyond Thunderdome's plot is inspired by that film. Leone re-used Gian Maria Volonte as the villain in the first 2 films. Although they are two different characters. Re-used Lee Van Cleef as the villain in the third film. In Beyond Thunderdome, Max is referred to as "The Man with No Name" just like Clint's character. .
Was interested to see the reaction to one of my all time favourite movies but only made it to the beginning and stopped when I heard, I laughed when his wife and kid got ran over,
I have to agree, that part was tasteless. I don't know what the hell anyone could find remotely funny about that scene.
About the "grape" scene, Max wasn't just callous to the crime, he was also too far away to immediately do anything about it. Charging to the rescue would put him at a massive tactical disadvantage. Better to sneak up and enact frontier justice/revenge after.
You laughed at the scene where the wife and kid were murdered, and you're laughing at it again????
Yup!
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Lol, I didn't really 😅
@@chrissiereacts you seem deeply confused. Maybe you should get some help rather than make UA-cam reactions….
Another great reaction, Chrissie.
I'm a new subscriber and I love your style of input on the various scenes of the movie, even making me laugh in a few spots. 🤣🤣
Film that you might find interesting called. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The story is about an exploited Aboriginal Australian who commits murder and goes into hiding. It is based on actual events surrounding Jimmy Governor.(1901)
The Road Warrior definitively sets the theme for the rest of the films. The dystopian ideas sparked a profound trend in cinema.
Love your channel chrissie keep up the great content you dish out especially the ozzy stuff.👍🇦🇺
Thank you!
This is the heart of the whole series
The Mad Max tales are much like the Conan stories in the sense that they are things told around a camp fire. You're not supposed to find a chronological sorting of these tales. These are folklore told by third parties never by the hero themselves so as such never have a definitive timeline. Basically it's just an adventure story and that's it. Don't try and make a timeline because that's how they're not meant to be viewed
Really enjoyed this reaction Chrissie. Long may you continue. 😄
errrm the wife died along with the kid.
It's definitely my favorite one in the series.
Its a true travesty when one runs out of beer. I missed the beer store closing tonight by 10 minutes. So all I got is 7up and nicotine tonight.
Not sure if I recommended it previously, but Sons of Steel is an odd little post-apocalyptic Australian rock opera worth checking out.
The guy that plays toe cutter In mad max also plays the main villain in mad max fury road Just a little Insight for you
It doesn't seem like the big plot twist registers... the semi truck filled with sand was a decoy the whole time. Max did not know.
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I prefer this one because it's pure action. That is, the story just serves as a framework for the action. It's basically a Clint Eastwood style western, but set in a post apocalyptic world. I think one of the reasons Fury Road is so good is that it also has a very stripped down story. But I don't watch a Mad Max movie for character arcs and other conventional story elements. I want a wild ride. If you like to see more story focus, the first one and ThunderDome would probably be more what you're looking for.
I love all these movies . Beyond thunder dome is when Hollywood put money in it.
Such a badass movie. Max is a God tier action (anti) hero in the Road Warrior.
Bruce Spence is as Australian as lamingtons and meat pies. Ages gracefully too. You may remember him as The Trainman in the second Matrix film.
Isn't he a kiwi? Tbf they are known for their meat pies!
@@chrissiereacts I knew somone would question this haha. We claim him for his contribution to cinema regardless of where he was born. Wikipedia claims he is a dual-citizen but even if not true, given the talent we export, can we not be allowed this one gem ? 😉
Also, regarding the pies, how do you know about the interesting history NZ has with them ? Culinary scholar 🧐
If there's one thing I know, it's food 😄
@@chrissiereacts I know how you feel. Have you seen that documentary about the Meat Pie franchise that blew up in NZ I think in the early 90's but failed ? Georgie Pie. My cousin from Auckland used to go there as a kid. Btw, your sense of humor to that Boomerang scene was gold. I think Ray Shoesmith and Chopper grew on you. It's refreshing to see a react'er not recoil in abject fear🤣