Hi Cred Forums, total Mad Max newb here

OMG keep going. The Road Warrior is much better than fury road, and you will agree when you see it.

OP here, another question- can I expect any more jazz saxophone in the series

I like Mad Max more and more each time I see it. There's a lot of great stuff going on and even though sometimes the family vacation stuff drags and gets a little silly it's still an important part of the film. I like to think of it as a man trying to protect his family from an insane world but eventually failing and embracing the violence around him completely.

Road Warrior is the best and one of my favorite films of all time. Its wasteland actually means something. That's how Max views the world, regardless of how or when the apocalypse happened. To him, the world might as well have never been any different. His world ended the day his family died, and to a greater extent the day he was born into a life that allowed him to become like he is. Even if society was still normal he would behave in exactly the same way. Plus insane stunts that actually feel dangerous and excellent, non-manufactured production design.

Thunderdome is great in the first half. Maybe less "deep" than the first 2 but still a cool gritty adventure type film with a good story and iconic imagery. The second half becomes way too family friendly and feels like they were going for Spielberg "humor" stuff, doesn't really work but there are still some nice moments (although the final action sequence is just like a kids version rehash of Road Warrior)

Fury Road in my opinion might as well just be a generic fantasy film. I don't care much for it at all, especially as a Mad Max movie. It's like Miller totally forgot the point of his own character. The stunts, though they are impressive, just feel way too safe and slick, not to mention the production design where they clearly made every item specifically and aged it themselves instead of just using what junk they could find. I also think the acting and writing are really lame, but more to the point is that nothing in FR means anything. It's just a simple showcase of action with no depth at all. A very hollow film that I doubt I'll ever watch again.

Actually yeah, for whatever reason the sax is an important symbol to Miller. It reappears in Thunderdome but I don't exactly recall any sax in RW

I view Thunderdome as like an anti-Temple of Doom type film. Temple is a lot different than the other Indy movies by embracing darkness and brutality (which is thrown off by childish humor and whatnot) whereas Thunderdome is different because it embraces childlike humor and spectacle which drowns out the otherwise dark, gritty atmosphere of the Mad Max series

They're both interesting films but the bad mix of tone really ruins any coherence they have, bringing down the quality of both considerably. I'd still say that at their most successful they are even 7/10s though, depends on the viewing for me

Yes, thunderdome
And music boxes are in all 4 films

Yeah the story of fury road was clearly mechanized to go from set piece to set piece. Still, I really liked the style of the movie, and I think the effort really showed. I loved all the props and the technical work. I admit it's a little silly to like how the movie was made more than the content of the movie, but I walked away from Fury Road admiring its craft. I know that's silly, it's like caring about an artist's personality more than their art, or caring about something peripheral to a thing's essence. I'm probably just autistic.
fuck yes more sax! I hope you're not trolling me

1=2>Fury Road>3
Fury Road was seriously the best movie of last year by the way. Revenant was good but FR was just so fucking awesome.

If Thunderdome were launched in any year of the past decade except 2009 and 2015, it would have been the best action movie of that year.

Mad Max is a 70s exploitation thriller that shows society starting to crumble, The Road Warrior is a post-apocalypse action film, Beyond Thunderdome is a bizarre mix of post-apocalypse action and Spielbergian kid friendly adventure, Fury Road is pretty much a bigger version of The Road Warrior. If you liked Fury Road then you'll definitely like The Road Warrior.

You're actually wrong about Fury Road. The truth is much more terrible. The movie DOES have a point and clear direction. Unfortunately, the point is to promote feminism, liberalism, to show men as dogs and women as angels.

The true problem is that Miller went to Hollywood to make the film, just like Thunderdome. He sold out and lets them jackhammer their communist/zionist themes into his films.

>to show men as dogs and women as angels.
I'm sick and tired of retards like you spewing this shit. Fury Road promotes true equality, not "men are shit and women are perfect" third wave feminist bullshit. Max saved Furiosa many times, Nux saved everyone by sealing off the canyon, The Many Mothers' matriarchy was a miserable failure.

>uhhh why is movie from 2015 not like movie from 1979?????

Ah, the liberal recoils when it feels the heat! That's the whole point of the feminist/communist theme. The men literally just throw themselves in front of cars and risk their necks to save the endlessly wise and all-knowing league of extraordinary women.

Remember when it showed mothers as "fat cows" being milked by machines? Remember when the 1 pregnant girl got run over by a truck and her BABY WAS ABORTED??!?!

His last name was McAffee

Fury Road carried a lot of meaning to me. The Moby Dick references, the thread of fate, the forces of nature. The warboys were also lampooning rave culture. I thought it was a really balanced thematically and cinematically.

JUST WALK AWAY

The way Max's world transitions from Mad Max to what we later see in the later films has always stirred up some interesting headcanon for me.

Road Warrior is the shit and Thunderdome is a little goofy but still awesome

>liberal
I hate liberals, you retard. You've spent too much time on the internet and have deluded yourself into thinking everyone who disagrees with you is a liberal.
>endlessly wise and all-knowing league of extraordinary women.
It's like you didn't watch the movie. Furiosa is just a hardass, the wives are never portrayed as particularly smart, The Many Mothers are failures. The women would've never gotten anywhere without Max.
>Remember when it showed mothers as "fat cows" being milked by machines?
So?
>Remember when the 1 pregnant girl got run over by a truck and her BABY WAS ABORTED??!?!
I don't get your point. Are you accusing the movie of glorifying abortion?

> and it just looks real. it could be real.

One of of the stunt accidents broke an actor's legs and nearly killed him. But they kept the shot in the final film: youtube.com/watch?v=1CoLFf6BtlI

I'm simply pointing out that they covered each "talking point" of the whole gamergate/feminism scene.

>gamergate
Wew lad, now I'm starting to think you're baiting. What does gamergate have to do with this conversation?

>fury road was about gamergate
I think you're projecting a wee bit lad

Needing to have Mad Max in the next Mad Max movie would be like a fish needing a bicycle. If you get my drift.