The Official Mad Max Discussion Forum

[HighWiredSith]

Why is there no thread to discuss this most imporatant series of action/science fiction classics?

Here are some discussion starters:

1. Which of the three films is the best?

2. What happened to Max between Mad Max and The Road Warrior?

3. Is the chase scene at the end of The Road Warrior the epitome of all action film chase scenes and has anything since topped it?

4. Did you hate Beyond Thunderdome when you first saw it but now think that it is the best of the series? Or does it still suck?

5. What did the Lord Humongous look like under that Jason-style hockey mask?

Here are my responses to my own queries:

1. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
2. I think he just wandered around the desert getting grungier and more cynical.
3. Still the best.
4. Well, this one is pretty much my opinion.
5. I think he looked like Paul Reubens.

[Ivan]

First off, it is kinda hard to compare the first with the other movies (2&3) because it has a totaly diferent atmosphere. By my ratings 1&3 share "the best movie in the series" award. Second is still pretty good,
and I just like the whole series in general.

2. What happened to Max between Mad Max and The Road Warrior?

I often wondered what happened to Max before and after the nuclear war. How did he survive? Or how did those other people in Mad MAx 2&3 survive? Shouldn\t the after effects of radiation effect them also. Maybe they did.
I guess the nuclear strikes were concertrated mainly on large cities. So without the center of power, villages, small setlements and the people in them organised their own post-nuclear society.

4. Did you hate Beyond Thunderdome when you first saw it but now think that it is the best of the series? Or does it still suck?

I liked it since the first time I saw it. I was I kid back then but I still have the "Mad Max : Beyond Thunderdome SoundTrack" on LP. It is probably unusable now.

5. What did the Lord Humongous look like under that Jason-style hockey mask?

To tell you the truth, I don't want to know. His image of a faceless brutal leader with a mask is so strong that seeing his real face would only decrease it.

[Taylor1960]

Funny I should discover this post, I just got Mad Max on DVD and it rocks! It's so nice to have it without the lame US dubbing! But onwards,

I loved Mad Max, having seen it in the summer of 1980 in the movies, but Road Warrior is my favorite of the three. I consider it the greatest action film ever because everything is on screen! I also really like Beyond, it's different, fun and has a great chase at the end.

I beleive that the Nuclear war was a limited one, taking out a few major cities on each belligerent as well as the oil fields of the world. Since Max's world is not ours, perhaps the bombs used were neutron bombs whose radiation dissipates much more quickly. As for what happened to him between Mad Max and Road Warrior, I'm thinking of writing a fan fic about exactly that, but I won't say anymore. Anyone heard anything else about MM4? I'd like to see that get done.

[betoneri]

The Sci-Fi cargo of all the series is in the part of the oasis. I like so much. It makes me questioned...

1. How survive the kids if they depart in puberty?
2. In this mini civilization who takes the control of power?
3. How the linguistic code (language) was transmitted?

It remembers me a story that tell a crash of war starship in a far away planet. The ship carries a very important message.
To the survivors, take many generations for make other ship to launch just a one man to communicate the original message to the boss. When finally reach the target and communicates the message ("The war is over"). Them respond, "It's OK, we already know it".

[HighWiredSith]

Anybody here from Australia? My job may allow me to spend a good bit of time over there this year working on a contract with the Aussie Navy. Does anyone know where the wastelands from The Road Warrior are, where the scenes were filmed? I would love to have a photograph of myself standing atop that rocky outcropping where Max and the Gyro Captain spied on the refinery (with the little one and half peak mountain in the far background).

On a lighter note - Do you think the Lord Humongous (the ayatolla of rock-n-rolla) had some kind of radiation side effects from fallout? Seems so, plus he tells the gay biker dude that they have all lost someone which makes me think he was a normal guy, deeply scarred by physically and emotionally by events we never know about. An American director would have felt the need to give us all that backstory so we could better understand the protagnist. How much better is it to not know and be given the privlege of speculating in your own mind.

[Ivan]

White Rabbit and Broken Tusk are from Australia. Maybe you can try to contact them by PM. But Broken Tusk has been away for quite some time. White Rabbit is quite often here. (but it seems that he also took a little break from this forum)

If nothing works. There is always Google and Yahoo ...

[SF_not_Sci-Fi]

I am ashamed to say that the only one of the films that i have seen was thunderdome *lowers head in shame*

And I havn't seen that one for years... so I do not remember much about it... I gotta get to a video store NOW!

[Ivan]

1. How survive the kids if they depart in puberty?
2. In this mini civilization who takes the control of power?
3. How the linguistic code (language) was transmitted?

It apears that the "tribe of children" was left behind by their parents 2-3 years before. Maybe they left to find food or shelter and died in the Desert in the process. They promised that somone "will come back for them" but sadly nobody did. Exept for the Plane pilot (that crashed) and later MAx.
During this time they organized themselves pretty democraticly but I guess the oldest one was a pseudo-leader.
Most of the children were not born in the desert they were there just a couple of years and amongs 20-30 of them the majority was older then 6.(As you know children learn to speak fluently by that age)

[HighWiredSith]

Now that our admin is back...how about a Mad Max forum, if it's not too much trouble...

[Ramses]

*click* *click* *click*

Forum open!

[SF_not_Sci-Fi]

We're all goin' to Tomorrow Land! Thank you Captain Walker!

[theomegaman]

This is the omega man and the best mad max movie is of course the road warrior. it has the action and the suspence that makes it awesome

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best is road warrior
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f.uck yeh

[SF_not_Sci-Fi]

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Please stop.

[Nexus]

Should we really still use this thread now that we got the forum?