Imo for me it's why Fury Road was so good. The entire time I watched Fury Road I was getting flashbacks to this film. I don't even bother to say which i think is better out of those two. Mostly because it's not fair to Road Warrior's budget and time compared to a more modern film with a huge budget like Fury Road. But as a whole I think that's the magic of the franchsie. Max just sorta comes into this world and the people in it as this hardcore guy seemingly indifferent to the world around him. A lone wolf amongst several packs. Max touches their lives and leaves with them an unforgettable legacy. Did any of this actually happen in this world or was Max ever really real? We don't know. He definitely is seen as a reluctant saviour and that was perfectly well done in Fury Road as well. Thunderdome, however, for me is the weakest of the franchise. Only because there was so much dialogue that felt weird for a Mad Max movie when you're just coming off of Road Warrior. I had the same issue with Furiosa. After coming off of Fury Road it just underwhelmed me because the goal of the movie was to expand the world introduced in Fury Road. Thunderdome as to expand the world so you don't get such a small and intimate story as with Mad Max 1, Mad Max 2, and Fury Road.
Bruce Spence who plays the gyro-copter captain has been, (granted in small roles), in the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Narnia and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises.
They go back to the early days of flight, and they're still useful. My small California town uses one for traffic surveys. They're cheap to operate, good loiter time, and relatively safe.
@@PuffyCloud_aka_puffeclaude100% safe. I mean when you lose engine power, they will stay in the air. Like a full size helicopter, they do a maneuver called auto rotate (I think it's just using the momentum
Dog did NOT enjoy riding in the Interceptor. He even had an accident at one point it was so stressful. IIRC, they put some cotton in his ears to help him. .... He was a shelter dog just days from euthanasia when they got him. He found a forever home with a member of the crew. 😊
The bird is an Australian Raven or Crow Friday the 13th Pt3 (the movie where Jason puts on the hockey mask) was released in 82, Road Warrior was released in 81. So The Humungus wore it first Yes it really flies. They're called ultralight aircraft
23:45 - well it's 1981 and there's no such thing as CGI, so yeah it does fly and they're actually very real vehicles that were quite popular in the 70's and early 80's before they fell out of favour and fashion. They're called autogyros or 'gyroplanes'. James Bond flew one that was the same size in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE back in 1967.
I always heard them called gyro-copter.... I could just be an ignorant redneck, but I have also seen one in person (I didn't fly it, but I did get to sit in the seat)
The autogyro is very real, and the same type of vehicle as Little Nellie in You Only Live Twice. They are propelled by a rear-facing, engine-driven prop, but instead of wings or a powered rotor, they use a passive rotor that keeps the vehicle aloft via auto-rotation. Wait until you see the plane in Beyond Thunderdome, which is also real.
Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Aliens... few sequels match the original, almost none surpass it. The Road Warrior is the ultimate sequel. No movie I can think of tells the original "hold my beer" more than MM2.
Oh, One more thing. For a brief homage to this film, I recommend watching the music videos to Phil Collins "Don't Lose My Number" and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "You Got Lucky".
Glad you like the film, it is one of my favorites in the franchise. George Miller uses practical effects almost never blue screen so the movies hold up better
All the films premise their stories in Australia (where they are also filmed). The annoying and loud birds, common in Australia, are known as Noisy Miners. Loved the reaction. Looking forward to your thoughts on Beyond Thunderdome.
The Lord Humungus -- i.e., the lead villian -- was played by Kjell Nilssen, a Swedish weightlifter. He hadn't done much acting prior to this movie, and frankly it shows. Yes, he certainly was outshone by his mohawked second-in-command.
Yup. This is very much the formula for the Mad Max films now. It is the modern western with people under siege and the stranger comes to town. This sets the tone for most post apocalyptic movies. Fury Road is a soft reboot and covers stuff we didn't see between Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road. Virgina Hey plays the Warrior Woman. It's a shame she got cut down but she was a bad ass and she later plays Zhaan in Farscape. Got to meet her at a San Diego Comicon and she was lovely. Ka-chunk Ka-chung Ka-chunk.... I like Beyond Thunderdome because as a triogy I like the note it ends on.
The budget for the first film was $350,000 USD, for the second film it went up quite a bit, $4,000,000… I think s9 done may have mentioned it in your last video, but they paid some extras for the first movie with beer. It definitely was a small independent project by George.
The blue Mazda Bongo van that gets wiped out was George's personal car. It was one of the last things shot, because they were using the van to haul film equipment.
Beyond Thunderdome is better than many think. It's grown on me over the years. Tina Turner as the main antagonist, the only antagonist in the franchise that is not a psychopathic villain by the way.
Yeah, that thing flies. It's an autogyro, a cousin of the helicopter. The rotor is free-spinning, and the power is applied forward by the rear propeller
If you're familiar with the pro wrestlers, The Road Warriors, then you've seen the mow hawk/shoulder pad look. This movie inspired more pro wrestling gimmicks than any other.
Interesting you bring up Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. I really think this film may have influenced his signature hockey mask look, as Friday the 13th Part 3, in which the mask was introduced, came out a year after The Road Warrior.
Best Aussie post-apocalyptic western ever! Right...the 1st movie was really "dystopic future". Set up the later ones. Actually Mad Max was Miller's 1st film. Filmed on a REAL tight budget, which is one reason I love it. It should have been a fun B movie, but...Miller had real talent. Became the most profitable movie ever, filmed for like $300,000, made multiple millions over the years. The bikers in MM were actual bikers paid in booze and munchies, lol. And Miller sunk a lot of his own into it to make it, like the camper that got destroyed. Miller had been a trauma room surgeon by profession who got bit by the movie making bug by the way, which explains a lot about Mad Max...which I'm pretty sure he intended to be a one off flick to break into the business rather than the start of a franchise...
George Lucas presented the book A Hero wth a thousand faces to George Miller with Spielberg present . Joseph joseph Joseph Campbell's books were a major influence on Lucas and later on Miller just prior to the MM2. production.. The Road Warrior has a lot of unanswered questions in which makes this film awesome. The original Mad Max wasn't a big hit in the u.s. so Miller had to change the U.S. title to the " The Road Warrior " . The American audience wasn't even aware of the original Mad Max film and were thinking they were watching the original film, which makes this sequel absolutely genius. The X - MFP or Gayboy Berserkers, as the script titles them , are a band of x cops formed " Force 10" , seen on one of the cop cars door's. Some were women bad cops . Maybe a widow inherited an MFP vehicle of an MFP officer , who knows the mythology goes on and and on ... 👍😎🎬
The bird is a crow, a scavenger like Max. Note in the first gyro scene, Max is introduced jn this scene with an overlay of the crow squawking as Max drives towards the gyro, scavenging for more fuel and whatever he can find and again when he gets out of his car and walks towards the gyro - shadowing his identity. His dog mirrors Max’s emotions, after the dog is killed it is then he rejoins a community and helps them, connecting with others again - the death of the dog reflects a death of Max behaving like an animal or dog, he becomes more human. Yeah the gyro totally flies, no cgi good enough to replicate it back then and certainly no drones. Gyrocopters are frequently used in Australia for cattle mustering, often custom made by the owners, this one has a VW beetle engine and is quite similar to the commercially built 25A Gyrocopter launched in 1968 by Bensen.
1. This is the best. Including "Fury Road". That movie 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. The stuntman is Guy Norris' motorcycle-riding raiders hits a car, flies off the bike, smashes his legs against the car, and cartwheels through the air towards the camera, was actually a genuine and nearly fatal accident. He was supposed to just fly over the car without hitting it. He survived, but his leg was broken badly. The moment looked so dramatic that it was kept in the film. 5. When Humongous gets his I go, "Couldn't happen to a nicer guy".
Dangit .....my favorite scene.....gone. In the car, driving to the refinery, dog holding bone in his mouth, but the wire wrapped around it was tied through the shotgun..... that was pointing straight at the gyro captains face. So worried about the dog pulling the wire as they are driving, but even when the dog sees a rabbit, he doesn't move. And the character Vernon Wells plays(Mohawk guy) appears in weird science as well. (Same guy playing same character) But honestly its one of the more recognizable characters in all of pop culture. Crazy eyes and big red Mohawk.
This movie and Beyond Thunderdome are my favorites from the trilogy. The game and Fury Road are great, but 2 and 3 still beats them all. I know there are haters for Thunderdome, but I don't care, I still really liked that film. I totally loved when the game made reference to Thunderdome, by giving Max the same name Tina Turner's character gives him. Showing the game is still apart of that world
It's more than possible to love all three of these movies, and still choose any one of them as your "favorite". This one is certainly the most action packed, while still having a good story to it. One thing I noticed is that you didn't seem to expect the "brutality" of the Wasteland.... but that's pretty much what everyone expects the apocalypse to be like. If you're "weak", you will be captured, molested, and murdered for whatever you may have. Also, it's very reasonable to believe that the "two great warrior tribes" that caused the apocalypse was the USA and USSR (as it was at the time)..... BUT, it's also reasonable to think that any number of other countries (especially oil producing ones) may have started it. In the end, it doesn't matter "who started it", it's the end result of civilization being completely destroyed that truly matters. The only thing they really know is that it was all over resources, particularly oil. I won't lie, I still haven't seen Fury Road, because I'm not convinced Tom Hardy can pull off a good "Max", and I'm kinda biased about Mel Gibson being the "only" Max. But maybe I'll give it a watch, sometime. OH! Speaking of that movie.... yes, Hugh Keyes-Byrne is in it, but he doesn't play the same character as he did in the original movie. Much like (minor spoiler) Bruce Spence plays a similar character to the Gyro Captain in the next movie, but it's not the SAME character. Also, fun fact: Bruce Spence was in Revenge of the Sith, as the tall alien Obi-Wan spoke to when he landed on Utapau to fight General Grievous for the final time. Lastly, Emil Minty, the Feral Kid, has many very good memories of filming this movie. There are several interviews with him recalling his time in the movie. I recommend watching at least one of them sometime.
"What was the point of [X]...other than the aesthetic of it all?" I mean that's whole ethos of Fury Road: drive from A to B...and then back to A. The aesthetic IS that movie, there's almost zero plot. And it WORKS. The Road Warrior is great, but is still finding its feet in that regard. Beyond Thunderdome is wonderful, but a bit too whimsical. Tom Hardy publicly apologized to George Miller at one of the press tour conferences, for not getting Fury Road until he saw the finished thing. Honestly, I can empathise with Tom Hardy there, it's hard to describe.
24:35 - nope, not odd at all. MAD MAX defined what post-apocalypse looks like for the next 30 years. The live-action MARIO movie was literally copying tropes established by this movie.
This might be the only film where they experiment with homosexual and sadomasochistic imagery with the villains, replacing it with more zombie imagery.
Just so you know check the year fiday the 13 came out 1980 this came out 1981 i doubt mad max had anything to do with it when there filming at the same time one year apart and in different countries
Fun little tidbit: The Mohawk character played by Vernon Wells reprised the role (kind of) in the comedy film "Weird Science (1985)" As soon as I saw him I immediately remembered from where. 😂
Mad Max 2 was the original title, but it was renamed The Road Warrior for the US release because the first Mad Max hadn't come out in the US yet. They later combined both names once the series was more established.
Tina Turner's song "We Don't Need Another Hero" would be a great reaction after the Thunderdome. She did it in concert in 2009 when she was 69! That was such a great song ❤
This is where it all begins the long extended chasing this one was supposed to be a half an hour but they cut it down to 25 minutes and part 3 is exactly a half an hour brighten part 4 it is exactly in whole movie of a chasing scene oh don't forget the kid with the metallic boomerang wolf boy😊
I don't agree that it's better than the first film, the first two films are greatest of the franchise including "Fury Road" the third one was the worst in my opinion while yes the first film was low budget but there was still plenty of action, story and was just as chilling and scary and the best acting and was a very australian film the second was the first movie to come to america which is why it had a higher budget than the first it was originally titled "The Road Warrior" instead of "Mad Max 2" which is what it's known here in australia.
This one is by far the most "Mad Max" like of the films prior to *_Fury Road_* insofar as its uniquely iconic apocalyptic aesthetic. That being said, I still love *_Beyond Thunderdome_* for what it is in giving a glimpse at a different side of things, so hopefully you'll find plenty to enjoy from it!
These movies were the inspiration for the Fallout games. The original Fallout 1 and 2. His dog in the movie-Dogmeat. The goofy guy with the goggles is Bruce Spence aka The Mouth of Sauron Lord of the Rings, the trainman Matrix Revolutions and many others I can't think of. Oh wait he was the red striped alien in Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. The red mohawk guy is in Weird Science. as he appears in this movie. The first film was $350,000 budget. Mad Max 2 I'm seeing mixed results of 2 million 3 million wiki states 4.5 Aussie dollars.
This came out a year before FT13 pt3 when Jason got his mask This Max is not the Fury Road Max, Notice the music Box? Fury Road Max might be Feral Kid all grown up
Thunder dome is after mad max 2 then comes fury rd it was supposed to be shot in Australia however in the part of the outback were it was going to be shot it had rained for the 1st time in a very longtime so it was moved to Africa in Gambia. You should brush up on what your watching before you put a video out just imo,
Now hawk guy was in weird science,,,, him and the bald guy from the hills have eyes were the guys at the. End of weird science that the guys pulled guns on and made the big hero speech and shot the chandelier
19:06 - nope, Jason Vorhees was inspired by THE ROAD WARRIOR, not the other way around. Jason didn't wear the hockey mask until FRIDAY THE 13th PART 3D which was more than a year later. This film is the OG of 80's horror aesthetic and 80's post-apocalyptic aesthetic and 80's movie bad guys based off punks and bikers aesthetic. And while the budget for THE ROAD WARRIOR was more than 4 times that of the original MAD MAX, it's still an independent Australian film. Warner Brothers only distributed it, they didn't originate the film. Warner Brothers didn't directly invest their money into the series until the third film, MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME which is a movie that - some people argue - has the "low brow stink" of American tastes all over it because its way, way, way less violent, a lot less bleak and a lot more silly than any of the other entries of the series.
Oh I'm sorry the little girl in this is his nightmare in Fury Road Dutch's Daughter in the nightmare that he keeps on having sorry about that continue with the movie😊 Ops the guy on the bike that screams and ferret boy kills his boyfriend he was also in Commando was also took on a Schwarzenegger's daughter Melissa yeah to have a fight and now you know
They clearly do have fuel as scarce as it is and you know people used to travel between continents with these things called boats using simply the winds, currents, and oars. If you're gonna insult someone's intelligence at least be right lol Literally in this movie people are WASTING fuel left and right just to showboat and come Fury Road they are still getting by with fleets of vehicles. If there was no fuel, there'd be no cars driving around in these movies.
You mentioned Fury Road a few times, makes me think you have seen it,. Mad Max, Mad Max 2 & Beyond Thunder Dome are Australian made set in Australia, Fury Road is American set in America
19:38 - yeah, that's not really surprising. MAD MAX was made in a time when almost NOBODY made films like that and the film was made specifically for Australian audiences and was about Australia as a country, a culture and a society. It was trying to bring a bit of Hollywood to Australia, but it was never trying to win over America's JAWS or STAR WARS demographic. The fact that the film was a gigantic hit internationally anyways and made its makers a tonne of cash was totally unexpected and it's what convinced them to make this film: an attempt at actually making a Hollywood style action western epic, but set in post-apocalyptic Australia (and yes they're all set in Australia, even FURY ROAD, though how American accents creep into the universe is never fully explained). MAD MAX wasn't trying to be a rollercoaster blockbuster for American audiences, let alone THE definitive post-apocalypse sci-fi epic. THE ROAD WARRIOR actually is trying to do that (and succeeding).
Yes Fury road was meant to be in Australia..funny thing is they couldn't film it in Australia that time..coz of the flooding...it was filmed somewhere else..ya Goofy m8te from Australia
