10 Things You Didn't Know About MadMax3

[@joshuagibson2520]

Tina Turner had the legs of a goddess and the face (and age) to protect them.

[@skyden24195]

performing in a 120lb metal dress... yes, she's a sexy badass.

[@johnready630]

Still has the legs I think . Always felt they should be in the Smithsonian :D

[@joshuagibson2520]

When I was a kid in the 80s she did leggs panty hose commercials. Pretty sure that was the first time I saw them legs.

[@skyden24195]

@@joshuagibson2520 I can remember the commercials a bit. Since they were for selling pantyhose I didn't pay that close attention.

[@jamescrowley8598]

This comment thread is epic

[@kryptych]

I've always felt that Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was not a "wake" after the destruction of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, as you put it, but the reconstruction, the resurrection, the rebuilding. As Auntie Entity points out, "where there was once despair, now there is hope... civilization; I'll do anything to protect it." The first two movies dealt with living in a sadistic and violent world... now, after 15 years, the remnants of that world are left to figure out the path forward, how to rebuild... and while I know a lot of people don't like the movie once the kids show up, I always felt it was two sides of the same coin... the future. One side - Bartertown - picks up the pieces, trying to learn from the past, but ultimately still realizing that one has to accept that brutality and violence are part of the world. This is why in the end, Auntie ultimately lets Max go. She could've easily killed him, or taken him back to Bartertown to be propped up as an example or crucified or something... she doesn't. Despite her calling for "no mercy" at the start of the chase, she understands the need for it lest she and the rest of the world once again fall into chaos and destruction. The other side - the kids - also picking up the pieces, but with less knowledge and more of a clean slate. Children ARE that, aren't they? A clean start, fresh and unspoiled by the sins of the past. I always loved that sequence when they're flying over the ruins of Sydney, and the feeling of mourning reflected in their faces (and in the excellent music) as they see what once was, how those who came before them had something so beautiful and then allowed themselves to destroy it... why? And then "the tell," and how it comes full circle with a little more knowledge of what once was, but still knowing only their community, the understanding that all they have - all we have - is each other. At least, that's how I always saw it. George Miller's grief and ultimate disinterest aside, I do think he was telling an interesting story that does complete the cycle for a character like Max, which that nightmare sequence would've added to. He has become no better than a violent marauder like the ones who took his family, the ones he's been fighting... and for what? To end up alone? Scavenging? Just like Pappagallo said in Mad Max 2, "You think you're the only one who's lost something? We all have, but we haven't given up." The whole trilogy is a hero's journey, and perhaps had there been a movie or a story in between The Road Warrior and Thunderdome - something to lead more gradually into the changes in the world, then maybe Thunderdome would've made even more sense. But now with Fury Road, Max's world is not really a "linear" one - I don't think we need "canon" or a chronology to be able to tell good stories about a character in a world... the details need not match up if they service the kind of story one is trying to tell. I see the first three as a trilogy, and Fury Road as a new cycle... same character, same world, different cycle...

[@casinodelonge]

great post.

[@rainer1980]

Well Aunty Entity might have been a student of Kant's philosophy with the idea that killing a few people is justified if it prevents a lot of people from being killed in the premise of Thunderdome, and how that maintains law, and order. Of course they're trying to rebuild the world, but their biased by their knowledge of the old world. In the end, it's more of an oligarchy in that only a few hoard the knowledge, and resources to produce methane as the power source of Bartertown. One wonders too what happens to their civilization if the midget with all the brains dies, or is kidnapped? There doesn't seem to be any heir to his technical expertise. They just push him around to operate the methane plant after Blaster was killed, yet they never try to coerce him to pass down his knowledge to anyone. On the other side of it, the children who survived the plane crash have less knowledge, and yearn for more of it, but for much less sinister reasons. They're a smaller group. And, they're in many ways the morally superior group to rebuild society because any anthropologist would tell you that tribes are the simplest forms of democracy because the smaller the society is, the more egalitarian, and fair it is. Bartertown is a much larger society. Thus, it is less democratic because of the more complicated rules it has to maintain law, and order. The kids probably wouldn't figure out how to rebuild civilization in the ruins of Sydney as quickly as the Bartertown society. But, maybe their children, or grandchildren might piece some lost knowledge back together in a few generations time. They're only foolish action in the end is lighting fires at night for anyone in the wasteland to follow to the city ruins. Which means that inevitably they could have attracted anyone out there, some who might not have the same morals as Max or Aunty Entity. So, they may still doom their aspirations.

[@gringopines3476]

@@casinodelonge SIMPLE, BUT EFFECTIVE. OUTSTANDING REPLY... PEACE...

[@ammagnolia]

For reals. And if that's the case, that town is USA and the spot In Fury Road is middle east

[@djmaciiii]

Thunderdome was my favorite of all of them. Tina was epic.

[@Presley3]

I am not your Captain Walker. I'm the man that keeps Mr. Death in his pocket.

[@mikegrossberg8624]

Actually, it was "Mr Dead"

[@charlottesdad3327]

News flash for Minty...for a lot of us in the U.S., Beyond Thunderdome was the first Mad Max movie we had seen. It played incessantly on HBO back in the day, and I was in my 20's before I even knew the other two movies existed.

[@MurderMostFowl]

Minty mentioned this in his Mad Max 2 ( Road Warrior ) review, but yeah... me too. I didn’t know for years the first movie existed. I saw the VHS tape in a video store and thought it was a knock off 😂

[@CONSOLETRUTH2]

I gotta ask...how old are ya?

[@kachmi]

All three originals stand on their own, and they can be watched separately without the need for each other. Watching all three takes us on a journey through a post apocalyptic world that descends into chaos, and then tries to claw its way back towards civilization with the help of our hero.

[@holdencawffle626]

Very true Go max!

[@chadhOneAtl]

That was the beauty of it. Kind of the only trilogy where that is possible.

[@unclejohn4528]

Happy new year all, and God bless to anyone reading this. May you all have a better year than the last one. We are all living history and will all be part of this shit storm in the books. Be safe and keep your loved ones close....

[@herbertholland924]

I loved beyond Thunderdome. It was the first one that I saw, and was what inspired me to watch the first two.

[@Nathillien]

The best of all Mad Max movies; story, music, characters, ambience, production... all great.

[@eXistenZ1864]

Wait, Fury Road was rated "R", not PG-13.

[@ericthuemmel5275]

In the USA, at least. I don't think PG-13 is used in other countries either.

[@eXistenZ1864]

@@ericthuemmel5275 ohhh, okay. That makes sense.

[@evilraskel5569]

Yep rated r

[@nbkguy4203]

@@ericthuemmel5275 IDK about other countries but in the UK we have 12A which is pretty much the same thing

[@gulf_coast_gypsy]

I loved this movie. This one is up there with Road Warrior for me. Completely different feel with these two movies but both so good!!!!

[@NullStaticVoid]

I really wanted to like Beyond Thunderdome. I was in high school when it came out. My friends and I cut school to go watch it the week it came out. Imagine being a teenager, giddy from playing hooky and watching Mad Max at a movie theatre? I think we may have even smuggled beer in! We probably looked so pathetic as we slunk out at the end. It wasn't so much bad, as just boring. The worst part were the pop songs. They kind of sucked the life out of it. With the previous movies you could imagine Mad Max as this post apocalyptic punk rock world. But Mad Max 3 was apocalyptic VH1. It's Mad Max, with my PARENTS music! Thank god Fury Road redeemed the franchise.

[@holdencawffle626]

I disagree

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

​@@holdencawffle626 I on the other hand fully agree.

[@sw-gs]

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is one of those movies that when watched even today it still holds up due to atmosphere.

[@bbqchickenwingsofredemptio449]

It's the most memorable out the three for me, as well most parodied, like California love, those post apocalyptic kids (south park), the thunderdome scene (rick and morty, baby blues, etc).

[@troyhyland1678]

Dude, I love the videos and you definitely helped through 2020. Great entertainment when I wasn't working during the shit show we all call 2020!

[@AnonymousAccount514]

that’s the thing about 80s movies....most of them were inadvertently geared towards kids...even the R-Rated ones had this silliness to them that i wouldn’t have liked if i was an adult back then

[@roddmatsui3554]

Just rewatched this film after not seeing much of it over the years. I did see it in theatres, when I was sixteen or so! I think it’s held up very well, it makes sense, and it’s well acted all around.

[@v8matey]

Minty could pass as a road warrior. He just needs a Mohawk and a black leather motorcycle suit with football shoulder and knee pads.

[@wallywest5804]

And a chainsaw or hook or sawed off shotgun 😁

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Minty even has that unnerving down under lilt in his wordspeak.

[@stainless1175able]

Don't forget the codpiece.

[@Chronostream]

I remember enjoying it when I was little. Didn't get to see the first two until much later so I have those rose tinted lenses for this, Masters of the Universe, and Beastmaster.

[@zamoragera13]

Ladies and gentlemen ,boys and girls dying time here

[@wstine79]

Bust a deal, then face the wheel.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

Who run Bartertown?

[@RoverIAC]

until now I always though he said "dine time is here" and I saw this at the cinema a number of times. But I just checked it and your right he says "dyin' time is here"... I wish I new that before because it's a much better line.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

@@RoverIAC Mishearing things is the best! It's a great line, but "dine time" is hysterical. Given the sheer volume of speech impediments in Beyond "Funderdome" it was a reasonable guess. XD

[@RoverIAC]

@@Psychol-Snooper what you call "speech impediment" is my native language, 'Austraylyan'.

[@themercer4972]

I still remember the surprise I had when I first saw the music vid for We dont need another Hero. I had no idea there were making another Mad Max movie at the time. I simply thought; this should be a film.

[@boyscout7277]

I totally enjoyed this movie back in the day. Well made I thought. Wasn’t as much action but it was cool to see Max again

[@michaelsullivan007]

Happy New Year. Have a good one , Minty.

[@jasonbowser5754]

I love this film. I loved the humanity he gains (much more than the 2nd), the music, and how the end shows how this is what he will always be because it’s the only thing he’s good at.

[@connorshaw2618]

Me and my pal all loved Thunderdome. Its the one we quote and like the most

[@tubewatcher97]

all the reasons Minty said people complained about is what makes it great. You cant live on car chases alone . Well , you can but as a lover of post apocalyptic films it was nice to see something with a little more depth

[@brandonpage7087]

Another interesting fact, not mentioned here, is that Dusty Rhodes got the idea for the Fall Brawl:War games PPV & match, after seeing this movie, in theaters.

[@marcoslaureano5562]

George Miller needs to be handed a Star Wars script ASAP. Dude is such an underrated legend.

[@brentwilbur]

Maybe the gyrocaptain and the pilot are related in the Mad Max universe - brothers, separated just before the apocalypse, and both having previously had flight training.

[@magusxxx]

The two pilots are twins. "It's never twins." - Sherlock

[@cyntogia]

Or cousins.

[@AntonXul]

Or twin cousins!

[@georgeheilman885]

12:40 Fury Road was rated R. It was almost PG-13 but test audiences preferred the harder version. I was disappointed that the last Blu-ray box set had no features for Beyond Thunderdome. You'd think the separate disc they had for Road Warrior, which didn't have much, could've shared a mini-doc or something as there's plenty to talk about. Oh well.

[@dongeraci8599]

As a kid, I had no idea there were other MM movies. Just this. When I did finally watch the original, it was a bit of a shock. Like going from Fast and Furious 8, back to 1, which looks quaint in comparison. Thunderdome is my favorite because nostalgia, but there's no debate that the first 2 are superior films.

[@matthewalker]

I remember going out to Kurnell to view the crashed plane set.

[@adaptabledisease]

As an 80's kid, this was the iconic Mad Max movie. The Road Warrior was pretty awesome but Thunderdome was the place of legends!

[@edwhiting5335]

Minty, Fury Road was rated R in the US

[@mikesummer65]

Jepp, No. 2 is the best of the Series. But Thunderdome wasn't that bad. And Tina was a hell of a 'Villian' ;-)

[@lieutenant_dan27lt.d45]

This is my fav Mad Max actually

[@leonthewhitewolf3995]

Thunderdome is an ok movie , but for my it's sad that we never get a conclusion to Mel Gibson's Max ,a movie that would give him peace. Road Warrior was a conclusion great ,making him human again ,but i dont understand what Thunderdome wanted to do with him. Maybe ,Mel's Max finally finds his peace ,my big respect for the Max from the first 2 movie ,Best story for Max

[@MikeAdelic1207]

I saw Mad Max: Fury Road when it came out in theaters. How it got an Oscar is beyond me. I for one thought the story was over once "Thunderdome" ended.

[@falcosk8]

I never knew it wasn’t liked as much as the others. It’s one of my favs!!

[@RelleK41]

I hope you continue with the series and do a Top 10 on Mad Max: Fury Road

[@Spiritdingo]

Fantastic flick

[@deraldgroth5719]

Beyond Thunderdome on its own was great with both Mel and Tina as the main protagonist/antagonist. My favorite character in this release is IronBar... All four movies are really good, not one of them needing to build on the others, but thanks to the Mad Max character, allows us all to imagine them in the same universe in our own way.

[@0MohawkWarrior0]

Beyond Thunderdome was always, and still is, my favorite in the series.

[@ltGargoyle]

I was 11/12 when I saw this movie. I loved them all. What I enjoyed was I saw more of the world. At a certain point resources run out. No factories produce no cars. resources would go into basic needs and simple pleasure. it made sense to me. I have always been a fan of post-apocalyptic books and movies. and I would have in-depth conversations with my father and uncles about this stuff. this series was what motivated me into writing and blacksmithing.

[@Dingomush]

Honestly, Thunderdome should come after Fury Road. It would explain why Max doesn’t have his interceptor, why one of the kids looks like a war boy and another one knows how to make a buzzard kite. Oh, and does anyone else wonder about the rest of the kids that are still at the oasis???……

[@johnchristopherrobert1839]

Thunder dome was my favorite Mad Max movie.

[@splawnrobert]

I went to see THUNDERDOME 6 times in the theater! That car chase was amazing. Now I own it on D\/D.

[@WRX2001]

The plane scenes where shot at the sand dunes at Kurnell.

[@Licotus007]

Well I thought Tina Turner look super-hot in that movie and that was when I was a kid now that I look back on it she's still super hot in that movie. Before there was Beyonce before there was Whitney Houston there was the Great the one and only Tina Turner.

[@mermaid_at_heart213]

In the 80's, it was Tina Turner and Grace Jones at the top of my list! They were gorgeous, badass, and could sing/act.

[@suemommie]

Tina Turner played the Acid Queen in the Rock Opera ‘Tommy’.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

TT renounced her 🇺🇸 citizenship, she lives in Europe now. F her. Shes nothing to me now....

[@dannykarlsland9618]

I ALSO FEEL THE CHANGE OF MUSIC WITH THIS MOVIE AS WELL AS YOU

[@johnw8578]

Netflix should definitely do a Mad Max series or some other streaming platform. HBO!

[@lieutenant_dan27lt.d45]

Me and my kids new trampoline with safety cage: "2 kids entah, 1 kid leaves"

[@briancarr4607]

Love it

[@lucyfuir6386]

Beyond thunderdome was the 1st mad Max movie I saw. I saw it as a kid. I knew nothing of the other movies. I always liked beyond thunderdome. But I could never get into the road Warrior or mad Max until I was in my thirties.

[@amynewport235]

My favorite one. I can watch it over and over.

[@walterivanfairview]

Best 80's movie! It's on Roger Ebert Top 10 movies of 1985.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

13:38 anyone else disappointed that Mel never got to direct that big screen *The Prisoner* movie with Patrick McGoohan?

[@shoftim]

Perhaps it is that I have an 80's nostalgia thing, but I loved this movie from my youth. Those who liked this movie, may want to read Riddley Walker.

[@ArchitectGang]

Anyone ever see the Thunderdome at Burning Man? They faithfully recreated it so people can crawl on it watching the people fight with foam swords bouncing on bungee cords. I never been to Burning Man but once in a while they had pre-burner fundraising parties in San Francisco

[@juanmarte3298]

HAPPY NEW YEAR MINTY

[@michealthomas4331]

Holy shit, Bruce Campbell would have been a GREAT max!

[@DiecastDreamCustoms]

Challenge accepted, Minty. When I win, I'm taking the Falcon. Just... walk away.

[@InsidiousDr9]

Thunderdome is the 'Super Mario Bros. 2' of the series. RIP: Hugh Keays-Byrne / Toe-Cutter & Immortan Joe

[@thekaniack]

It's also possible that Max's efforts in the first two movies resulted in a less brutal future...

[@wwewrestlingfiguretoyhunt5190]

Great video. Really enjoyed its content and your presentation. Top stuff Minty 👍

[@ToadenK]

in the US it is the first movie that many see as the "boring" one and out of place. Could also just do with my age and that the second 2 were always on tv. So we see the first one out of order and first doesn't seem like it is in the same world

[@jamesmoss3424]

It's still a brilliant sequel and Tina Turner is also brilliant. 😀👍

[@skyden24195]

One of my favorite parts is the when the kids put on a staged performance of their version of Star Wars. Still makes me laugh,

[@GrinderCB]

I like MMBT. I know it was more of a thinking post-apocalyptic film than an action movie, but it was never represented as anything other than the next chapter in Mad Max's life. Also, I'd read somewhere years ago that Max was originally supposed to meet Auntie as she was coming out of a shower, using some very valuable fresh water to illustrate her power and wealth in Bartertown, and that Tina Turner was willing to be nude in that scene. However, concerns about the movie getting an R rating caused them to just have her offer Max some fresh fruit, also a valuable commodity in Bartertown.

[@TheFrogfeeder]

“He’s just a raggedy man”

[@jeffcroweii4095]

This one is my favorite. I saw it at the theater.

[@llewkamiamos6864]

Something tells me that a Mad Max TV series would work right now.

[@stephenaelkinsactor]

Fan Theory: Jedidiah and the Gyro Captain. Identical twin brothers?

[@rocky-o]

this was always my favorite entry in the series...go figure.....peace...rocky

[@MrChuckGrape]

I assumed road warrior had American backing. It seemed like it had a bigger budget.

[@TheRatsCast]

I; myself, never saw the original Road Warrior, only Mad Max 2 and Beyond Thunderdome. I for one; actually liked this movie, and had seen it many times. I looked the more insightful look into this world, and with an older Max, you get a get different story anyways.

[@adrianb3636]

Plz minty make a fury road video. P.S. i love the rick and morty parody of thunderdome

[@davidreinholdii3304]

I felt it was a more moral challenge to Max. I love all of the films btw. Furiouanot so much.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

Confession-time; this one is my favorite! I mean hey, a movie that inspired one of Tupac Shakur's most iconic songs/music-videos can't be all bad! =) #California!

[@joseescobar76]

Absolutely loved the third one. Awesome flick

[@johncu7007]

Hey Minty, WHEN you gonna do a video on the Speed Racer Movie? (Not the cartoon, but the live action). (please, Please, PLEASE,🙏🙏🙏!!!)

[@supersparksbros]

Love them all. Thunderdome holds up. Love it

[@caihah.1404]

I dunno, I think the first movie is the thinker's Mad Max. There's a lot going on, they're just not spelling it out for you.

[@matthewronson5218]

"Mad Max 3: the Tina Turner vehicle where Mad Max shows up.

[@TechnoKid_]

Now would be the right time to see what Max has been up to after Beyond Thunderdome - Mel Gibson is the right age too.

[@MikeSmith-rh5gc]

It was the Return of the Jedi, Godfather 3, of the Mad Max trilogy.

[@mrsmissy2669]

Thunderdome was the best of the three Mad Max movies, imo!

[@brphillips3]

Still hoping you do a 10 things about Rad. It's now on Amazon and is a great 80s movie.

[@jrussellcase]

Tina Turner in this movie helped get a lot of young guys thru puberty. 👍

[@nicedog1]

I saw it in the cinema whilst nursing a hangover but I thought it was a great film. It seemed to carry a message that I couldn’t quite understand.

[@GregoryDeese]

I never got the entire back story on what happens to civilization. In the original Mad Max, there is still law, but lots of crime and the big problem is a lengthy 1973 style fuel shortage. Then in later movies, it's a full blown apocalypse a nuclear war happens and that continues to Fury Road, with an entire break down in normal society. Thunderdome just added to the confusion. Here was this city where apparently all the older people forgot how things work. Like a mass amnesia. I mean the first thing I would try to rebuild other than power would be a water supply, agriculture and a shower. The entire child lost tribe doesn't make any sense, the pilot dies but the extremely young children survive and no other adults were on the plane. There are no problems with radioactive fallout and somehow they still get enough to eat in the middle of the desert. The one scene where the kids are using the bolt action Mauser as a staff, then Max finds a bullet, loads the Mauser and fires it at the 13 year old alpha teenage girl. I watched in the theaters when it was released, I fell asleep and snored half way through it. Until management woke me up, but people were already mocking the movie out loud, and me snoring made it more funnier, at that point and most just wanted to see Tina sing. Someone told me that the video of "We don't need another hero" played before the actual movie played. People were expecting a non-stop adrenaline ride and they kids telling stories with a stick frame about the tele being gone and the pocky lypse.,

[@jwouter]

This movie was better then the first and on par with the second, Tina turner killed it in her role and her two songs are now pop classics that when heard immediately take you back to the movie.

[@gambit8912]

Can you Do X-Men From 2000 With Hugh jackman ?

[@eduardoalegriarampante639]

I adore it, and quote it constantly, but can understand that it is seen as lesser.

[@Vates104]

Beyond Thunderdome is my favorite of the three.

[@unkipunkie1]

Love the rage tshirt!

[@kendisdai23]

Bruce SPENCE! Do you even look at the IMDB?

[@limojag]

I don't think anyone realizes that "blaster" is Max's cousin from the first movie, they are the same person

[@MoteofLobross]

Thunderdome was my fave till Fury Road.

[@galogiha]

the script, at times, feel like a mad max rip-off that somehow made it into a mad max film. still fun, though.