Bodyjar was actually a pretty big band in the 90s. All over the radio. I’m mad at all of you for not knowing these obscure Australian references. Hie thee to your nearest google machine and stay there until you know who ossie ostrich is. Ya drongos.
Fun Fact: Due the camels eating mainly flowers of cactuses, their dung has a blueish coloration. Some dude had to pick up said dung regularily, leading to the working title "Blue Harvest" for the movie.
I worked in the packaging department of a newspaper. Whenever we were board, one of us would push the emergency stop button and hold the whole process hostage. The only way to lift embargo was to scream that Master Blaster runs Barter Town.
You can thank brilliant Director of Photography Roger Deakins for that. The movie was originally going to have a washed out look identical to "The Book of Eli". Look at early publicity stills and they all have that washed-out greenish hue. Deakins convinced Miller to change it to vibrant color pretty late in the game. This is shocking to me considering how bright and colorful all of the storyboards were- you'd THINK it was the plan from the start.
One of the greates philosophers of the ancient world was a homeless bum that regularly pissed in public and did other not exactly sociable things.. he was held in extremely high regard by many, including Alexander The Great. I dont remember his name, but it should be an easy and interesting google adventure if you try looking it up off of that information lol
@@evananderson1455 it's Diogenes, he was nuts. Also the fella who waved a plucked chicken at Plato and screamed 'behold! A man!' after Plato described a human as a 'featherless biped'.
When I was young, I once met a guy living in a combi van with his dog. He would collect wood and take it to the local collection centres for cash. He once said to me, very wise words: "you know, people have got it all ar$e up... you're suppose to love people and use things. Instead, people seem to love things and use people"
Should do a Titan AE caravan of garbage, I reckon that would be pretty neat And yeah everyone else wants it too they all told me, you don’t have to check
Love the Area-7 mention. My older brother is good friends with one of the members of the band, and I remember my friends in highschool being into Area-7 (which I had no idea about myself not being into music) and I ended up having to get autographs for them at my brother's wedding from that guy I knew as "Chuck" who was in some band. Thanks for the memory jog, fellas!
the "guy pulling out way more weapons than expected" scene is in loads of movies and TV shows, it even has its own page on TV tropes titles "Extended Disarming"
@@derkeheath5172 Interesting, but I would assume that it goes back even before cinema, probably first appeared in a book hundreds of years ago but using swords instead of guns lol
I once again insist that there is a massive time jump of decades between 1 and 2, as well as between 3 and 4. Max just for some reason doesn't age and his fury and insanity make him forget
You are correct. Timeline goes something like this: MM is set in late 80s-early 90s. Max is 21 years old. MM2 is set 3 years later: early-mid 90s. Max is 24 years old. "The Fall" happenes shortly afterwords. MMBT is set 15 years later: mid 2000s. Max is 39 years old. MM:FR is set 32+ years after "The Fall": mid 2020s. Max is 56+ years old.
@@khuhruzhsvethmeorv8318 It kind of is and isn't. The events detailed in Mad Max videogame happen in the Mad Max universe. As the girl Max sees in Fury Road is Hope. But, their a comic which details the version of events accurate to Fury Road. Though, like many narratives in Mad Max, it could be a reinterpretation, or story, of said events.
THIS was the first Mad Max film i saw, as it was played far more on British tv in the 80s and 90s than the other two for some reason, i guess just because it was newer at the time
James brings up a good point. I really didn't expect Thunderdome to be swinging around like that. In the video game, Thunderdome is just you fighting someone to the death with your bare fists. It's bloody and violent. Btw the game is amazing, definitely play it.
Do you mean the most recent game? Because I found it floaty and weird and none of the gameplay to be satisfying. Also there are characters from fury road but Max himself doesn’t look like anyone
@@logandh2disagree on the gameplay, the car combat especially is awesome. But yeah, the story is weird cuz, as mentioned briefly in this video, WB took Miller off the project so he could focus on Fury Road, which left the game studio with all his notebooks, but none of his guidance. So it's just a mishmash of various different stuff with no real purpose or through line I recommend giving it another go though, the gameplay is awesome imo. If you find the car combat too easy with the magnum opus (customisable car), maybe try using one of the other vehicles. I'm doing a playthrough rn where I rushed through the story to unlock the Interceptor, and am completing the camps and convoys etc with it
Beyond Thunderdome is half of a fun film. Upon revisiting it recently, I checked out entirely after the first half of the film. Everything with Tina Turner and Master Blaster is fun, but it completely drops off a cliff once it moves past that.
The climax is fun, but you definitely feel the more child friendly rating with it. If this were Road Warrior or Fury Road, somebody would have gotten their head blown off, that guy crushed by the pig feed would have been eaten and somebody would have gotten crushed under a wheel
I don't think Beyond Thunderdome is the best Mad Max film, but I believe it is the most quotable one, and I love it for that reason. There are so many great lines in this film. The dude who plays Dealgood is incredible with his line delivery. ("Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dying time's here.") Tina Turner is fantastic as Auntie Entity. ("You can shovel s**t, can't you?") And I love the running gag about how Ironbar just wont die. This movie makes me laugh.
Tina Turner had a bit of acting experience before this. In the late 70s, she joined in the film adaptation to the Who's Tommy. It also had Elton John, Eric Clapton, and Jack Nicholson. Its the weirdest movie your grandparents ever saw
MASSIVE fan of The Who, but I have never been able to sit through the entirety of Tommy. It's excruciating for me, but Tina and Elton definitely stole the show.
I think making them the same guy would have been insulting because it would have undone him becoming the leader via narration at the end of Road Warrior.
I recently went back and watched all of the Mad Max films. Thunderdome sticks out as pretty weird. The funniest part is when he’s battering the girl who tries to walk out, and locks her in a cage. Then she gets out anyway and it’s like… well Max, you should have done better in beating her into submission.
I really thought we were working to a reveal that a member of a prominent Aussie band appeared as a child in Beyond Thunderdome...but nope, we're just listing 90s Aussie ska/punk bands and I loved every second. I still regularly listen to 'Nobody Likes a Bogan' and 'No Logic' by Area 7.
Grew up watching the original three movies and Beyond Thunderdome was always the weakest, but damn if I didn't get a new appreciation for it after Fury Road came out. Fury Road was "what if we took the best parts of the other movies, the chase scenes, and made THE ENTIRE MOVIE A CHASE SCENE?!" Which, duh, obviously is great. However watching Thunderdome again I realized it's those QUIET moments between the action that really drive home and contrast how different the world is verses how it used to be. When they're on the train and listening to the French lessons on the old record player it really makes me realize that everything we know is GONE and never coming back. Good old George Miller and his "dangling nostalgia."
Not fully true, Fury Road has its quiet characters moments too, it's not some nonstop action romp Tho Thunderdome has better worldbuilding, Fury Road has TOO MANY things that kinda demand you to look up outside sources to fully appreciate. Road Warrior and Thunderdome instead make me feel complete, and don't have this issue.
Probably my favorite thing about the Mad Max franchise is the loosely-connected-but-not-actually-connected-but-it-sort-of-is aspect to it. My hypothesis is that Mad Max and Mad Max 2 are connected. Same Max. Max Rockatansky's adventures getting revenge on the Toecutter and his gang at the beginning of the fall of civilization, then helping the oil pumpers get away from Lord Humungus after the fall, and the Feral Kid recounting that tale, probably after the bombs dropped, started the myth of Mad Max. After the bombs, there have been 3 heroes whose stories were told and retold and eventually mixed with the tale of Mad Max. One at Bartertown (Beyond Thunderdome), two in the wastelands near Gas Town (Fury Road and the Mad Max videogame). These post-nuclear three are all completely separate characters, but they have been immortalized as Mad Max and included in that mythology of this gruff and reluctant hero who shows up at near his lowest at a time when people need help, who initially only helps to get some gas and/or some wheels but then has a change of heart and helps because it's the right thing to do.
The best "giving up the weapons" scene that I am familiar with is an episode of Get Smart, where Max meets up with recurring KAOS agent Siegfried. They both decide to amicably disarm, but each one calls out an obvious spy weapon that the other must be carrying ("your ankle derringer" etc.). The punchline is that they've spent hours pulling out all of their ridiculous weapons and no longer have time for the meeting and so they just pack everything back up and leave. I love that show so damn much.
Regardless of what Miller says about Jebediah being a different character....... he see's max and seems to recognise him, max recognised him and knew he had a plane. You could argue since he hooked up with blondie from road warrior, the boy is their kid and blondies been killed or stolen.
10:41 I like the "pilot cloning facility" theory because it could mean that the skull with the aviator helmet in one of the cars from _Mad Max Fury Road_ didn't belong to neither of the guys from _Mad Max 2_ or _3_
@@HarryBuddhaPalm It gets slow in the middle so some low attention span people lose interest, even though the lull is fine to others, and it picks back up again later. I like it also, but I kind of get why some people don't. It deserves more respect than it gets. Acting was pretty damned good and the atmosphere of Barter Town was interesting.
Im Australian and i have loved all the local references that are for me but props for mentioning AREA 7 one wierd local references i actually didnt get
6:50 exactly! I remember the thunderdome being way bigger and outside too. Am I misremembering it? I don't know, but I rewatched it recently and I love it.
There's literally a mad max game that probably has tons of good concept art to use for this bit This got to be the laziest I have ever seen they being with their edits, it's likely they just googled "mad max car concept art" and picked the first thing without checking
There's a scene in Chopper where he gives up a load of guns but then has a secret gun. I remember on the commentary Chopper himself said if hand over 6 guns then they suspect you've got another one. Guess it's a Aussie thing
The amount if references from my youth these guys whip out make me realise just how bad my memory is. I thought forgetting 95% of your life was normal 😢
Ebert's glowing reviews for the original Dawn of the Dead and for Evil Dead 2 are the entire reason my dad let me watch those movies when I was 13. I will be eternally grateful.
As the camel was being brought up, I walked into the kitchen - when I heard the camels name, I ran back to the tv with a huge smile on my face with elation, excitement, and joy filling my soul. When it was mentioned everyone would appreciate that, I became self aware and realized that yes indeed I did appreciate it
I’ve always imagined the flying dude is a mythological character who turns up in two separate myths told by two different cultures (Road Warrior and Thunderdome respectively).
“You must have practiced hard to be so far away. Don’t say I told you so. One thing you’ll never know. You’re not the same, you’ve changed. I don’t need you anyway. You’re not the person that I believed in yesterday.” Shoutout Bodyjar!
Dennis Williams, he Legend, signed the dash of The Last V8, built for "Back 2 the Max" a brilliant documentary made for the 21st anniversary, It sits behind my computer chair and drives each weekend.
My favorite part of Thunderdome is when Max listens to all those jungle kids speak in the most broken English you've ever heard for about 15 minutes straight and then just goes "yeah, nah, those words are made up and completely wrong. They're called cities and skyscrapers. They were around just a few years ago."
