Mad Max 1979 has the CREEPIEST & WILDEST villains 

This a dystopian future Australia while the world is collapsing all over the world and just prior to everything going complete apocalyptic. The 2nd movie [The Road Warrior] and beyond the world is post-apocalyptic. So no police, no normal laws and governments etc. As an aside, criminals even post 96 don't abide by laws such as gun bans, so criminals would still use guns. Though most guns in this series are revolver pistols, single shot rifles [bolt-action] and non semi shotguns, so possibly not conflicting with the specific law you mention about semi-autos. Though like I said, this is all during and after a apocalyptic breakdown and war involving the entire world.

Fun fact: the gang that hunted Max was an actual biker gang from the area. The budget wasn't big enough to hire actors so the producers paid them in beer. So I've heard...

Mary you should watch the classic "A Clockwork Orange" starring Malcom MacDowell.

Consider reacting to the 1979 movie "The Warriors" about a New York street gang trying to get back to their home turf.

@jeromejimenez4844 oh that's a good one!

Very well put, more of a distobian future.

I like to call it "cusp-apocalypse"

I did read it's only dystopian because they could only afford to rent empty buildings with barely any furniture and the only way they could explain it was to say it was a break down of society. Otherwise it was going to be just a standard revenge Cop film.

Yes. And this film is right in line with 1970s films like Dirty Harry and Death Wish. The 1970s coming on the heels of the Civil Rights movement of the 60s saw courts hamstrung by new legislation which was allowing provably violent criminals to walk free due to technicalities. Today, the officer's testimony along with the woman's statement and the physical evidence would be enough to convict Johnny the Boy. But in the 1970s judges would likely have dismissed the case if the victims failed to appear or if it appeared that ANY of the accursed's civil rights were violated. And average people were sick and tired of seeing goons who bashed grandma's in their head to steal their Social Security checks turned loose because the cops knocked his teeth out when he was caught. And audiences would stand and cheer when Charles Bronson would shoot a purse snatcher in the back. Today, we'd think that a gross over reaction to a petty crime. But the 1970s was a time of intense violent street crime and people were just sick and tired of it.

Real reason , low budget movie and to use real looking police uniforms and use real looking police cars needed pile of permits , that cost money 🙂 Police act 1990 sect 203 , it's an offense to wear a police uniform and insignia or to drive a police vehicle , even for a police officer who is not on duty .

Much like today lol

Mad Max II was seen in the US first, then we saw this one

@@williamjones6031 Speak for yourself mate

@@shoujahatsumetsu I just did. everyone I knew at the time said the same thing.

mad Max 2 is up there with Terminator 2 and the Godfather 2 with the best sequels of all time

Mad Max 2 bdsm party

I did not know this.

Use a different synonym other than masterpiece. Everyone tosses the word around and means nothing no more

As a kid the first time I saw Mad Max 2 I nearly bawled my eyes out at the state of the interceptor in the opening sequence!

@@beachesandhose2374 not sure why you feel entitled to tell other people what words they can use to describe a movie.

Yeah, this is one where the sequal is as good as the first one. Not crazy about the third one, Thunderdome, though. The soundtrack - We don't need another hero - sung by Tina Turner, who also participated in the film, is great. The fourth one, without Mel Gibson, is a bit better but that doesn't say much.

In America, Mad Max 2 was simply titled "The Road Warrior"

It was directly ripped off in the Watchmen graphic novel too. They changed it for the movie though.

It's simpler just to say that in Mad Max society was ending and by Mad Max 2 it had ended.

And Beyond thunder Dome and onward was just a lawless wasteland.

According to Miller, the nuclear war happened beween Road Warrior & Thunderdome. RW was just normal collapse, & not nuclear war.

Albeit a wannabe-American Australian

@@_Some_Guy_ She'll grow out of it. I wore an American baseball cap as a fad we went through.

Fun fact: in professional motorcycle races (Moto GP, etc.) they use a particular type of leather that is lighter and stronger, which is made from... Kangaroos.

@@lichstein7972 The good stuff is always roo hide. Knew a guy back in the day that made leather armor for LARPs and the SCA. He showed me how big a difference there was between cow and kangaroo, and there's no contest. Kangaroo hide makes the best bullwhips as well.

@@lichstein7972 kangaroo is the absolute best quality riding leather

I wouldn't say it prevents it, it just lessens it.

@@kiillabytez Yep, exactly , an it looks super cool too !

And the actor who played Toecutter had several guest appearances I. farscape.

- Yeah that was pretty good. My personal favorite was the "OH MY GOD!" bit, I nearly peed I laughed so hard, instantly in my head all I could hear was " SONOVABIITCH!!"

Part 3 is pure garbage.

Part 3 was not bad part 4 was worse because there was not really a full story to be told it was just one big chase that ends we’re it starts

Assuming she ignores the intro text again - "Why are they fighting over one fuel truck? It's 1981, they can just drive to the nearest city and fill up"

He played a Bikie called Toad in the 1974 movie Stone. I like to think this is the Toecutter before he went completely psychopathic.

I forgot he made Babe

One of the stunt riders breaks his neck on the bridge scene and died.

@@dancarter482 No, that's an urban myth.

it had a budget of $400,000 AUD. Not quite zero.

Budget was so low that the blue van totalled in the opening chase? That was George Miller's, not from a movie vehicle company.

For me MM3 is the weakest of them all but still enjoyable. It's worth it for the Thunderdome alone.

You really can tell that the budget for each film went up as they came along

Fury Road was excellent too!

Give it 5 or 10 years and Fury Road will be the most popular of the series.

There is a brief scene where we see Bubba with a Mauser pistol. Thats the only semi-auto in the film that I remember.

@@clearsmashdrop5829 ok

Next Sunday, A.D., if you will.

Well, we miss the stuff that came out of it, certainly. The Cold War and a lot of other stuff we're okay with not being around anymore.