Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - re:View

[@jrobson100]

I like the fan theory that these films are all stories that were passed down through the generations as humanity dragged it's self back up to some kind of civilization, and Mad Max is actually a composite of a bunch of different wandering loners who helped out at the right time. He's a folk hero basically. It explains why there's no continuity between the movies, because each story is about different people, but told and retold until the details blur.

[@Liveimprov]

Well it IS a story. Maybe Mad Max is one of these "stories that is passed down through the generations", yet during your lifetime. Mad Max is similar to other lone survivor sometimes-helpful types in westerns and other art. Where a mission is done alone by traumatized and fragile erroneous kind-of-self-sufficient figure, who is consciously trying to not negatively impact friendly folks who are struggling to survive too. They help if they can survive doing so, and are burdened with injuries from life trauma. They can't be the hero they want to be and need to be, because they're simply human. They're trying make it through the middle of someone else's war(s), hoping life is on the other side.

[@josephdevon6068]

And also he planted apple trees.

[@lookoutforchris]

That's exactly how I view Rich Evans.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

That’s the exact framing for Mad Max 2.

[@lemmypop1300]

@@ThatZenoGuy Does Robin Hood fly into space? Does Beowulf breathe fire? Does Achilles teleport around battlefield? Of course not. Stories follow rules, he's a helpful wanderer, not a god.

[@YMS]

0:59 I finally made it!

[@verylateandtired3504]

senpai finally noticed!

[@4orehead683]

nice dude

[@bdfio]

dere he [dat prick] is!!!

[@sj504]

When's the next YMS review?

[@theawesomeguy07]

Good, glad to see you getting some real recognition

[@oomguy9423]

I didn't notice until the very end when Jay said he doesn't think the Furiosa movie is going to happen that this video is from almost 8 years ago.

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

George is never going to retire and neither is Ridley Scott.

[@gr-8166]

Unfortunately Wasteland won’t be possible… :(

[@jaytosetti4053]

Same here! Just finished and went........wait a minute.....

[@GrayD_Fox]

@@gr-8166yes it is

[@WeWantBears]

Went from their newest Furiosa movie Half In The Bag, to their Fury Road one, to this Road Warrior film. Classics

[@ewwpoorpeople5684]

That guy with the snakes has a purfectly valid reason for why he throws snakes. You don't just spend six months trapping and taming snakes just to not use them

[@Novasky2007]

Snakes, natures deadly weapon.

[@TK2692]

That's an excellent point. It just makes sense when you think about it.

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

It's Australia: owning a gun is illegal, but the wildlife is more dangerous anyway and there's no law saying you can't own a snake.

[@lilmoeszyslak4810]

I never look at replies lol Yup, that’s why I got my conceal and carry dingo

[@zybch]

@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol Er, yeah, there is. Gotta be licensed and only native snakes are legal even after that.

[@SilentTree12]

It's such a shame Mike passed away at the ripe age of 84.

[@greenmanr33]

Dicks out for harambe 😞🙏🏼

[@jayxeno]

1 like 1 prayer 4 mike

[@SarahLouiseHunt]

So young

[@YourFavoriteDerp]

FOUR MIKES! The seed is strong.

[@roach9397]

It's a real tragedy, so many bad movies he didn't get to make fun of.

[@Novasky2007]

Actually i think Max's motivation for driving straight through them is - shocking as this may sound - He's quite, quite, Mad.

[@rappscallion3238]

Exactly, it's not his long lost brother, Rational Max.

[@boomanchu2]

Or...just hear me out through the gang's encampment because the gang was encamped on the only road leading away from the refinery. And Max's car isn't a Ute.

[@LilyApus]

still bother's me though, Max isn't stupid by any means and that decision "mad" or not was doomed to fail in every capacity.

[@chuckscott4661]

I think Max drove through the encampment because he could. Max knew he had the fastest car on the road. And speed was his biggest asset or defense. But unbeknownst to Max the Humungus had a secret weapon..a nitro-truck.

[@xraystudios3693]

Max at the time didn't know there was a car in the wasteland that could catch up to the interceptor. The only reason he didn't outrun Wez at the beggining of the movie is because he was low on fuel

[@lotus-prince]

Of course Immortan Joe was a more developed character than Humongous, but there is something to be said for Humongous. When Wez goes berserk and tries busting into the compound, Humongous holds him back and say "I know how you feel. I understand your pain. But we're doing this my way." That thought isn't followed up, but Humongous has had some losses. Also, when he takes out his magnum, he removes it from a box that has a black and white photo of a military family in it, so Humongous may have some history there. Finally, there's the pulsing vein on his head. God knows what that's about.

[@lotus-prince]

@DillyDyson007 Yeah, his mask probably covers that, too.

[@scanspeak00]

Imagine if they made a sequel based on Humongous. That would be epic.

[@woodsplitter3274]

Gotta love The Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla! I used to think that T S Eliot was the ruler of the Wasteland, though.

[@Imperium83]

Humongous is a multi dimensional character, much more than just a raiding marauder most make him out to be. The liberal use of bullets shows he can be calculating and even diplomatic, using force only when absolutely necessary, also represented later when he chains his lieutenant to his personal vehicle as a literal dog of war only releasing him when he has no other choice. Possibly showing he was very willing to allow them to "just walk away" instead of the alternative of resource using conflict. He's also highly educated, or at least very well read, with reciting 18th century German poetry later on in the film. These all aren't obvious, but the details are there on how such people would fit into a world lacking any real society.

[@JamesKlemm87]

@@scanspeak00 Sadly now that we live in a post Jason in hockey mask world, people would laugh at that movie and hate it.

[@aquatictoaster]

Everyone they called a prick loved it. They are literally all fans of them. Being called a prick by RLM is a massive complement.

[@argnator]

Their Jack and Jill review was the nicest series of compliments Adam Sandler has ever received ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@gr8m873]

+mikepuppetz9 wow, I didn't realize that. After hearing that I actually unsubscribed to him, what an egotistical pussy.

[@gr8m873]

mikepuppetz9 yeah, even fucking Jeremy Jahns knew it was just a joke; you have to either be a dumbass or a egomaniac to have a reaction like that.

[@Titaniumbunny24]

would you mind decoding the prick thing for me? What you tubers were they talking about in the ghostbuster episode? I didn't recognize any of them.

[@gr8m873]

Titanium Bunny Jeremy Jahns and Chris Stuckman (The leftmost guy and the rightmost guy) are movie reviewers. And the middle guy is Armoured Skeptic, I'm not that familiar with him, but he does movie discussions on his second channel that are familiar to the RLM format.

[@pvthitch]

My favorite moment: When the Gyro Captain is tied-up in the car. Dog has a bone in his mouth attached to a shotgun. A rabbit runs by. Dog sees it. The Gyro Captain looks frightened. Dog looks at him like "What? I got this."

[@VectorZero]

Best dog

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

Chris Stuckmann removed you from his favorite channel list haha. Someone can't take a joke.

[@AmbientDreamsStudio]

TheLonelyGoomba how do you watch youtube trapped between two pipes?

[@mrnobody9193]

TheLonelyGoomba where? I missed it.

[@C0wb0yBebop]

TheLonelyGoomba! Great name first of all 👍🏼Where did you hear the reference about Stuckman?

[@thetramp123]

That guy sounds like a prick.

[@howtohoboss]

Who's Chris Stuckmann? he sounds like a prick

[@ericjamieson]

Fun fact, the stuntman that nearly died in the scene referenced at 16:40 worked on Fury Road. Among other stunts, he drove the War Rig when it was destroyed.

[@actingempty3108]

If true, that man has a fucking deathwish.

[@mobilemarshall]

neat

[@vandalcreed]

The disabled mechanic actors name was Steven Spears, became a semi well known TV show writer and author. I said was as he died about 10 years ago from cancer he's was 54 if I remember correctky. I was one of the nurses who looked after him. A scholarship for amateur writers was set up in his honour.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Rip.

[@Formulka]

Isn't it a praise being called pricks by hack frauds?

[@mistergacado4400]

Too many hacks out tonight

[@mistergacado4400]

+C Trouble They called some fellow "critics" Chris Stuckman, Jeremy Jahns, Armored skeptic.

[@mistergacado4400]

+C Trouble Their fans.

[@skryreprototype1826]

It really is the equivalent of Roland Emmerich making fun of Siskel & Ebert in Godzilla. Everyone should be proud when a hack fraud calls them a prick.

[@everythingisawesome2903]

C Trouble Jahns and Skeptic took it as a joke or a compliment but Chris Stuckman retaliated by not only unsubscribing RLM, but also made a 6 minute video where he is addressing RLM and almost crying 😂

[@darksiderulz52]

Here's my theory on why Max leaves in the early morning so foolishly. You have to have watched the first movie, which has a huge boring middle. The woman with the bow, reminding him of his loss of his wife, the feral kid, reminding him of his lost son, and Papagalo reminds him of his partner Goose, and psychologically he cannot take anymore. Just a theory.

[@skorpion7132]

Or... the somewhat more simple resemblance of them living in a sort of society, together. A life he either no longer wants, or believes he cannot have nor reconcile himself with. Max not only leaves as he said and planned, but he keeps them all at arms length.

[@curtisburga943]

Emil Minty’s take on his character was that he was on a camping trip with his family when the disaster happened, and his family died. He had to fend for himself, and that’s how he became feral. It was his interpretation that got him the role.

[@leonardotavaresdardenne9955]

wait the kid came up with all that? damn

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Just like Joe Dirt

[@curtisburga943]

@@MrRyan-wu4jx THAT"S why Joe Dirt looked so familiar!

[@tommc3622]

Interestingly, many of the actors seem to have been encouraged to develop their characters backstories. Vernon Wells, who plays Wez, has elaborated on the story of his relationship with "Golden Boy," his companion who receives a cranial boomerang; Contrary to their attire, he was an orphan that Wez took under his wing, and NOT a sexual partner.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Good to know.

[@snorry84]

I appreciate the fact that you mentioned the casualness by which the "heroes" in the film die, I think that is one of the best characteristics and strengths of The Road Warrior.

[@clausdemwohnzimmer]

Yeah. It's like they're ... casualties. 🙊

[@williampoole1742]

And something that's absolutely lacking in Fury Road. Every single death is this grandiose, thematic skit with its own soundtrack.

[@kallehalvarsson5808]

@@williampoole1742 I disagree with this... from what i remember (haven't seen it since it released), the old ladies were offed quite unceremoniously by being kicked off the truck or taking a shotgun blast to the face. I do agree though that the hopelessness of seeing the heroes die came through more in Road Warrior, though Fury Road is still a great film.

[@DamoBloggs]

17:53 This is so stupid. The closing dialogue at end of Mad Max 2 makes it clear enough: "And so began the journey north to safety, to our place in the sun. Among us we found a new leader: the man who came from the sky, the Gyro Captain. And just as Pappagallo had planned, we travelled far beyond the reach of men on machines. The juice, the precious juice was hidden in the vehicles. [fade to shot of the Feral Kid] As for me, I grew to manhood and in the fullness of time I became the leader, the Chief of the Great Northern Tribe. And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories."

[@ZarajBlackblade]

Clear enough? How does that explain that Fury Road Mad Max is the feral kid? It merely explains that the narrator in Road Warrior is the feral kid, no? Or do you mean that it is clear enough that it ISN'T Max?

[@teraset686]

@@ZarajBlackblade ISN'T Max

[@madmaniac2552]

P

[@PabloYaos]

Yeah but the point is that the Gyro Captain is in Mad Max 3. Same actor, same gimmicks (fly in a gyrocopter) but different character : Jay emphasises that they don't care about how it's stupid and they just wanted the same kind of character in that movie and it doesn't really make any sense

[@ronaldspies3876]

Every time I watch RW,tears build up in my eyes when this ending dialogue comes on,maybe combined with the music and that camera shot of Mad Max standing there alone on the road, yes it really gets to me, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

[@ronaldspies3876]

Every time I watch The Road Warrior I think to myself what a lucky guy I am I just saw one of the best movies of the 80s

[@82SSchultz]

The best thing about Road Warrior is the unceremonious way characters can die in it. A character who played a relatively major role can just randomly get shot with arrows. No build up or "boss" fight. Just boom, dead. So much better since it is not only realistic but creates more tension, you don't see death coming from a mile away like you do in other movies (including Fury Road, as much as I like it).

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

I have to confess, that was one thing about Fury Road that I really disliked - there were a few scenes where it was heavily foreshadowed that someone was going to die (a good example was the bit where Angharad fell off the truck). It took all the tension that had been building during those great actions scenes and killed it off in a flash.

[@madnero5508]

The Road Warrior is so much better than Fury Road not sure what they are going on about. Please tell me a single memorable scene from Fury Road.

[@82SSchultz]

@@madnero5508 Personally, I find the Buzzard fight, sandstorm, dirtbike, and polecat fights memorable. However, that is just it, Fury Road's strength is the spectacle. Artistically it is superior and the fight scenes are well choreographed. However, Road Warrior has a gritty realism and emotional weight that makes it a better overall story.

[@jameslandis8126]

@@madnero5508 WITNESS ME!!!

[@Batchall_Accepted]

@@madnero5508 the first chase when max almost escapes through a fucking tool video, the warboys and imortan Joe in general, the giant lift operated by humans on giant wheels, the war rig, the first time you see one of the warboys sacrificing himself and figuring out why. Satisfyed? I still haven't left the first 40 mins.

[@coolryanfilms7396]

The original Mad Max trilogy kind of reminds me of the Man With no Name trilogy in that it’s three movies loosely connected only by the protagonist, it’s set in the desert, it’s about an antihero loner parading around by himself and getting involved in conflicts, and an actor from the second movie comes back as a different character in the third one

[@moviemetalhead]

You could say the same for the El Mariachi trilogy, adding to your point both trilogies third entries sucked compared to the first two.

[@JamesKlemm87]

@@moviemetalhead Did you really just say the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sucked? That movie is a masterpiece.

[@moviemetalhead]

@@JamesKlemm87 No, I said Mad Max's third entry and The El Mariachi trilogy's third entry sucked. I love the Man with No Name trilogy front to back. Brush up on your reading comprehension.

[@nicholasstokes8739]

Pretty sure Max was largely inspired by Eastwood in the Dollars Trilogy, so seeing a connection is hardly surprising

[@stuartmorris6299]

@@moviemetalhead are you a 3rd entry?

[@DC-fi4xs]

The Road Warrior is actually much more morally ambiguous than you say. The "good" people end up using and betraying him.

[@jigenstoklasa7737]

@Ralph's Place He seems extremely suprised to me. He curiously holds his hand out to the sand and grasps it in disbelief. Gyro comes around, raises his eyebrows at Max in a joking manner and Max half smiles, realizing he was sort of played.

[@kidkangaroo5213]

@@jigenstoklasa7737 I don't think Max is the type to half smile when he finds out he's been manipulated and almost died multiple times just to serve as a decoy.

[@jigenstoklasa7737]

@@kidkangaroo5213 Either way, the guy showed clear signs of confusion at the sight of sand in the tanker. So I guess he was the type to smile when duped.

[@souljastation5463]

@@kidkangaroo5213 Max is not the Punisher, he's rugged but not always angry.

[@zarreff]

He wasnt betrayed, he was merely kept in the dark. Keep in mind that the planmaker Papagallo followed alongside Max as a convoy. The mechanic was atop the tanker with molotovs, the sexy warrior woman was atop armed with crossbow, another warrior was sitting in the bucket welded to the tankers tail. They didnt send Max off on a suicide mission, they accompanied him!!! Now the question becomes this...was Papagallo the only one who knew? Im guessing the mechanic knew because he would have emptied the tanker and helped find other storage tanks. Also the people driving the bus and vans would know because they made it a point to uncover the blanket covering the small tanks inside the van. Maybe the only ones who knew the full plan were people who absolutely needed to know? The warrior woman and warrior in the bucket may have been in the dark as much as Max? If they survived the onslaught Im sure Max would have been told the truth and compensated. Because all those who were convoy to Max understood the danger but same time I dont think they were straight up sacrificing themselves (even though they considered it possible they wouldnt make it).

[@vikingchad44]

Road Warrior (And Mad Max 1979) taught me about action editing more than any other movies from my childhood. Amazing use of cutaways. Brilliant.

[@zgledanje]

Both movies are great in their own way. Fury Road is the movie that George wanted to make and now he finally had the money and technology to do it. It's a lot more fairy tale-ish and the gorgeus visuals really accentuate that. The Road Warrior is a lot more drab and gritty and depressing and I love it.

[@zgledanje]

funkoxen HA! :D Scumbag, broken autocorrect

[@JimShadyUK]

"The movie George wanted to make" - I've heard that description about another movie and it didn't end well...

@@JimShadyUK hehehehehehe good 1

[@liquidsnake3544]

JimShadyUK oof

[@christopherwall2121]

@@JimShadyUK _Happy Feet_ ? I dunno, I thought that was pretty alright.

[@TomTasker]

and now 7 years later Furiosa is in theaters today!

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

And the Road Warrior is still my favorite.

[@turbochargedfilms]

​@@Woozlewuzzleable "everything that The Road Warrior does great, Fury Road does betterer"

[@prettycool_guy3516]

except not looking like a post processed videogame ​@@turbochargedfilms

[@Lucky-sh1dm]

⁠@@turbochargedfilmsyes but the grit and vibe of the road warrior is unmatched.

[@jeffphillips1832]

Here's a fun fact. Lord Humongous wore a goalie mask on the big screen before Jason Vorhees ever did.

[@shaunenwright7872]

Giuseppe Shmo god damn I love how brutal old school hockey was

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

It's funny cuase theres no ice in Australia so why would they have that?

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

@Giuseppe Shmo ya but they had to go to a colder country to race. I'm pretty sure that Australia has a lack of ice rinks on the continent. But I've never been there so who knows.

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

@@ericbilly true but how meny actually play sports on them. I mean outside just skating around for fun.

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

@@ericbilly oh ok that makes sense. I heard hockey's picking up in some Asian countries now so mybe its expanding. Unless humongous mask was for another sport? Like cricket or something?

[@plutoniclabchannel]

Mad Max #1 was filmed about 20min from where I live. MM2 is one of my all time favorites. I ditched school to see it when it came out

[@plutoniclabchannel]

oh and Fury road better?? NO

[@thekcsugethe_kc_suge7930]

Lord Humongous is one of the best villain character names ever.

[@gyromurphy]

Yarna Joshi is very very offended by that name.

[@russ254]

the Warrior of the Wasteland

[@andrewholliday1094]

Big McLargehuge

[@RaymLovesEggs]

The Road Warrior just feels more real.

[@MegaZeta]

Maybe, but that doesn't make a movie better or worse

[@VTCharley13]

While I enjoyed it, I cannot suspend disbelief with Fury Road and I have no desire to watch it again. Yet, I’ve seen Road Warrior at least 40 times.

[@JimmyMon666]

@@VTCharley13 That's the thing. Fury Road just seems like it could never happen ever. Where as Road Warrior you can see happening under the right conditions of societal decay. I couldn't get into Fury Road, and am upset they didn't have Mel Gibson on in some way. Road Warrior will always be the best. The real stunts and car crashes are still impressive to this day.

[@Ilikemusic101]

I always loved Road warrior, watched it on G4tv movies that dont suck. I saw the trailer for Fury Road and it looked awful. Was surprised when it was actually a great film. Road warrior is my favorite and I agree completely, it feels real. Fury road is bombastic, but still a great movie and you could argue each one is the better one.

[@murrayroodbaard207]

@@MegaZeta Fury Road is Road Warrior with all the great stunts and practical shots replaced by CGI. As far as i'm concerned that's not art. It's no surprise i have only seen Fury Road once and Road Warrior at least a dozen time, including at least once since seeing Fury Road.

[@Oddball_E8]

I remember a friend of mine telling the story of how he went to the US with his parents and saw Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior in cinemas there. And then when he came back, none of his friends believed him because the Swedish release wasn't until 6 months later, so there wasn't even a hint that the sequel would be out.

[@MessaIstra]

So nice to come back to this video after watching Furiosa, which absolutely ripped, and think about the ways Miller beautifully spliced together the elements that made Road Warrior and Fury Road great.

[@duckmcf]

Nice review, but I do have a couple of comments. I'm an old bugger who saw these movies in the order of their release here in Australia and my favorite by a very big margin is Mad Max. I get what you're saying that every single frame in Fury Road is beautiful but there's a purity of story about Mad Max that's difficult to explain. Perhaps the authenticity comes from the fact that George Miller was a trauma doctor in a local emergency ward and had the idea for Mad Mad as he dealt with numerous road traffic accident victims. I've always liked that It's a movie about a man's decent into madness like its contemporary film, Apocalypse Now. My understanding is that when Mad Max was eventually released in the US it was dubbed with American accents and even if you saw it with the original Australian accents perhaps some of the expressions weren't known to you as it was never made with an American audience in mind. Mad Mad 2 on the other hand was clearly made for an international audience as it used words like "Gasoline" which is almost never used here; we call it Petrol. Finally, you may or may not know that Mad Max held the record for the highest ratio of 'income generated' vs. 'cost to produce' until the Blair Witch project beat it. A useless factoid, but interesting none the less Anyway, so long as the paperwork's clean, you boys can do what you like out there.....

[@planetdisco4821]

I’ve seen the American dubbed version of it in a cinema in India in 1992. It exist! I was so outraged I threw my pappadams at the screen lol

[@chucklebutt4470]

@@planetdisco4821 Had to look up what pappadams are and they sound awesome.

[@sideburnsandwich1119]

【Chucklebutt】 ʘ‿ʘ Which distant realm have you traversed the cosmos from to not know what a pappadam is? Side note - I’m English so Indian takeaway is essentially our national dish.

[@chucklebutt4470]

@@sideburnsandwich1119 Ah! I'm from a little place called Alaska. It's pretty isolated here!

[@VectorZero]

@@chucklebutt4470 someone should make an Alaska mad max

[@GangStalker17]

Is this replacing my dead father?

[@bryangutierrez6679]

Only your devotion to jesus.

[@francrann113]

You still have Daddy Derek

[@tommyegan8111]

He's not dead, he just doesn't love you

[@christopherdavid3503]

lol

[@admiralpiett7611]

He never died. He just left you.

[@roninmusashi]

My vote is for Mad Max 2. When you consider when it was made and the budget it was groundbreaking. Fury Road is great, but it got to stand on MM2's shoulders.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

I agree.

[@JoelCraike]

Fury Road is nothing compared to The Road Warrior

[@andybyrd4107]

Pretty sure I’m the only person in the world with this opinion, but I think Beyond Thunderdome is the best one.

[@evs2k]

@@andybyrd4107 seek professional help

[@itsmereaver]

"Preferably not a Jew though" Cracked me up.

[@bryanquesada2327]

Mad Max 2 make me the man i am now, i remember being an 7 year old kid when my brother came home with The road warrior and Predator

[@sandrobot809]

as long as predator didn't also turn you into a predator.

[@vdr3846]

that's a one-two punch.

[@bk138gt6]

The Road Warrior is punk rock. Fury Road is symphonic black metal

[@jetydosa1]

and Beyond Thunderdome is Insane CLown Posse. But somehow they're all awesome

[@daustin8888]

@@jetydosa1 What is the first one

[@andyz1118]

@@daustin8888 Proto-punk. Still rock 'n roll, but a bit more dangerous.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Nah

[@FFSixtyFour]

1. Cool! 2. Eww.

[@tomlion0116]

The kid in the movie is the Narrator in the begining and at the end!!!

[@moffant4916]

How did they not figure that out?

[@jigenstoklasa7737]

Did they say it wasn't?

[@ManuelVF79]

@@jigenstoklasa7737 they said it clear... They just didnt get it... And they don't care .... well, when they said that fury road is better than road warrior, I stop giving credit to their opinion 😙...

[@FFSixtyFour]

​@@ManuelVF79Thank you! Love these guys but sometimes they're so off base. Mad Max 2 is the best action movie ever made in my opinion. And Fury Road is just a great action movie by 21st century standards.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

@@FFSixtyFoureveryone a critic. 🤷‍♀️ Ba dummm tsss!!!

[@keepj8523]

speaking of army of darkness...RLM should review that movie

[@MckaysProductions]

I would love a commentary track for it, more time so they could talk aboutall the movies and maybe even the tv show if they have seen it.

[@seanryan3020]

I remember when Mad Max came out. I only knew about it because I was home sick from school in 3rd grade, and it was the one day both my parents were gone. I was watching channel 2, and every commercial break had an ad for that movie. I never saw it because a. our town (and it's sole one-screen theater) was too small for what was then considered a "niche" movie and b. my parents wouldn't allow me to see R-rated movies. A couple years later, "The Road Warrior" came out. Got to see it on HBO eventually with my friends. In 1985, the original Mad Max came to TV (American dubbed version), so I finally got to see that. Saw "Thunderdome" with my Dad in the theater. Didn't know Road Warrior had a different title or see the original Aussie accent Mad Max until 2007 in Indonesia. Road Warrior is still my favorite one. I feel a bit weird that I seem to be the only one that doesn't like "Fury Road" better. I like it as a movie, but I have to pretend that it's not a Mad Max movie to enjoy it at all. For me, it just doesn't fit well into the franchise.

[@shanosummesteros9563]

Many of us from Australia grew up with the first Mad Max and still consider that the best.

[@MaximumCarter]

"I'm a fuel injected suicide machine"

[@Aeon2Flux]

Dont write off the Goose til ya see the box go into the grAHound!

[@theguardian8317]

Yeah but in Australia the first Mad Max is a documentary

[@spagbowlsparmacheese629]

Maybe it’s colloquial.. Mad Max is the best of them all but you have to be from Australia to understand the humour, the country roads and what a ford XC coupe is. Same era as Running on empty.

[@alexsilva28]

@@tverdislavrolensky3597 Nice

[@EldritchAugur]

I still think Road Warrior is worth watching because Mel Gibson is a much, much better Mad Max than Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy is alright but he is unfortunately pretty bland and doesn't carry the same charisma as Gibson. He's the worst and most inconsequential character in Fury Road and that's kind of a shame. Mel Gibson is a fucking psycho and all but as an actor he's fantastic. It's a shame hollywood won't cast him anymore.

[@chriswyble143]

saw a trailer for his new one the other day! it looks pretty badass

[@georgemorley1029]

This. Fury Road wasn't a Mad Max film. It should have been a Furiosa film with a Max cameo. And he wasn't even mad in it. More like mentally unwell. Hardy is not my favourite actor.

[@benspruce8930]

Ahhh, it's not just what he said tho... Mel Gibson's dad is a very famous Holocaust deny-er, so much so that he is even banned from entering Germany and Austria, and possibly other countries too. So it's kind of an accumulation of bad sentiment towards them both. Up until his rant, Mel Gibson had plenty of public support, despite the family connection... now not so much, lol.

[@armand4116]

Agree.

[@feral_rapist1206]

+George Morley they address your stupid bullshit comment in the video above. Did you even watch the video or any other mad max films for that matter?

[@83Anduril]

What do Australia and a post-apocalyptic hellscape have in common? Trick question. They're the same thing.

[@Yo_Soy_Andres]

Is Mel Gibson replacing Tom Hardy?

[@masonjames7769]

mel brooks is

[@NMahon]

+Mason Nekola I would watch that mad max film

[@Olysk8er]

+Niall Mahon Mad Max Brooks

[@NMahon]

+Leee Mel Gibson wouldn't even need a script or direction, The credits would read Mel Gibson- Himself They'd film him acting insane in a desert wearing leather trousers, he probably does that in his spare time anyway

[@NMahon]

+ThePainTrain the Jews run Hollywood, and Mel hates Jews, also fuck him he's a horrible person who is homophobic, racist and antisemitic, I like his films but man is he a dick

[@Icecreamforcrowtoo]

The Road Warrior is still more enjoyable to me than Fury Road. And I liked Fury Road.

[@TDQ_Gaming]

I even like Thunderdome more than Fury Road for the reason they stated, it's just one long chase scene. Thunderdome is much more interesting movie and world unless you're just looking for an action fix.

[@paulconway384]

Fury Road sucked with CGI and that Theron gender bender.

[@stuv1996]

@@paulconway384 CGI? Do more research dummy.

[@OffandOn13]

Reasonable.

[@GRAFFDEMON]

@@paulconway384 Man nearly all of Fury Road was practical. The only CGI used was to enhance the landscape. All of the stunts and action were done for real. You are talking out of your ass.

[@joekane622]

So weird to here people say the Mad Max series doesn't care about continuity when it has the best kept continuity in any trilogy I've ever seen. Injuries effect him unlike other heroes in movies so much so that when he gets fucked up it stays with him, like his limp at the end of the first movie. Same clothes throughout, drives the same car in the second, and they point out his character arc which we get to see in great detail explaining why he's so fucking miserable in Road Warrior. Just saying, seems odd.

[@gorazdvahen492]

Agreed. People get confused because MM has cops and grass and ice cream, RW is set after the non-nuclear apocalypse and BTD after a nuclear one. MM is "a few years into the future" seventies low-budget violent action flick, post-apoc was never considered. Max rides aimlessly into the night, fade to black. RW is post-apoc because George Miller thought it would be an interesting setting, more than seeing Max just driving through rural Australia on the roads he patrolled just weeks ago. By the time BTD was being considered, the idea of a post-apoc world was different than before. We now have fallout and evaporated oceans.. (where has the water gone?) So in my view the "Inconsistency theory" arose from the facts that the nature of the WW3 is different in RW and BTD, and the fact that people just repeat other's words instead of watching the films and paying attention. And Bruce Spence appearing in BTD in another role.

[@crsmyth4428]

And that pilot character is obviously the same guy. At the end of this one he hook sup with a cute blonde lady and in the next he has a son. But what really seals it is that the instant Max sees him he instantly recognizes him and knows he can fly a plane. But Red Letter Media get stuff wrong all the damn time. I cant count how many reviews I have seen where they say such and such was never explained and I clearly remember it being addressed. Maybe they just dont pay enough attention when they watch movies? Maybe Rich just laughs and squeels too damn loud for them to hear the movie? Maybe its all the alcohol they consume during movies? Probably quite a few reasons why....

[@MegaZeta]

Who the fuck cares though

[@MegaZeta]

@@crsmyth4428 Shut up

[@crsmyth4428]

@@MegaZeta lol if you dont care why are u reading comments? Lol moron

[@wingitprod]

Road Warrior is the best simply for the fact it had grit.

[@MegaZeta]

yes, things are always the best because of [vague gibberish catchphrase]

[@JamesKlemm87]

@@oh-not-the-bees7872 No he's not douchebag. Grit is literally a word dumbass hockey coaches use when they have no idea what they are doing and shouldn't be coaching in the NHL. I mean JFC Edge is using that word in pro wrestling right now because that's literally the only world where it even makes sense to use it in anymore.

[@WhiskeyShred]

This film is still a classic 40 years on. I wonder if Fury Road is still their pick 4 years later.

[@hanshotfirststudios]

jay is aging like fine wine no homo

[@suddenwall]

With floral hints of oak, cherry, and twink.

[@majorkatzmann2240]

They're not ageing, they're getting bigger because someone has to compensate for how small Jay is.

[@bul13ts]

+suddenwall He'd have to shave his beard first, but... yeah I could see that.

[@kylebowen7177]

7 years later, looks the exact same almost

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Trust me. I noticed

[@mikey777799]

The blonde guy telling max he's living off the scraps of the old world looks like a combination of Mick Jagger, Lex Luger and Billy Idol.

[@daabthegreat1528]

"There's talk of doing, like, a standalone Furiosa movie and I don't think that's happening now." 7 years later and, well, here we are...

[@daabthegreat1528]

@@fritzthecat8158 I did. I went to go see it and loved it.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

​@@fritzthecat8158 yeah, and post apocalyptic movies can be successful, so that reasoning doesn't hold water for me.

[@aliboy]

Where is the alcoholic one ?

[@admiralpiett7611]

Which one?

[@theJellyjoker]

Passed out in a pool of his own vomit.

[@verylateandtired3504]

+FORTRAN_EXTREME the white, opinionated one

[@admiralpiett7611]

Tanner Lathe That doesn't help.

[@Ellcoupit]

can only hope he fell down some stairs

[@rnc7468]

Around 11:40 they are discussing how the Wez has a boyfriend and that is not really ever commented. Mates, did you even watch the movie? The bikers are even called gayboy-berserkers and smegma-crazies, that should give you a hint about what's going on there.

[@voilvelev6775]

I think they meant its never really comented on by people in the real world :D

[@1SaG]

@@somercet1 Exactly. That line is pretty damn hard to hear or understand. I only "discovered" it after I read about it on imdb years and years ago and *then* watched the movie with subtitles on. OTOH, even without anyone commenting on it, I think it was pretty clear what the blond dude was to Wez ... I watched the movie for the first time when I was 14 or so and even back then did I understand what was going on. Just added to the weirdness of it all, I guess?

[@brockmeeks1695]

We should live in a smegma free world. I never understood why the women in the UK and Australia don’t have their sons circumcised. **sudder** a lot of uncut guys don’t keep themselves clean. Even the gay ones. It’s fucking gross.

[@cowboycurtis4944]

@@brockmeeks1695 Smegma is a non-issue for anyone who bathes daily. You must associate with either a bunch of 13 year olds or a bunch of man children if you think smegma is a real problem.

[@brockmeeks1695]

Cowboy Curtis I’m just going by my experience visiting family in Perth. Even in Australia it’s hit-or-miss. If a guy wants to meet up for diner after a day of work and a game of footy that’s fine but that’s all it’s gonna be. Smart guys keep clean. Still, could all be solved with a little cut in infancy 🤷🏻‍♂️ my real point was that the mad max world is smegma-heavy. Uncut guys, very little water, heat, desert....smegma.

[@deviantan021]

Can't believe you didn't mention the scene with the kid reaching for the shotgun shell on the hood of the truck, that was so awesome

[@BloodiedNinja101]

There is one guy who likes Mad Max 3 the best: the Nostalgia Critic. One of his worst reviews ever...

[@redlightmax]

+BloodiedNinja101 You can see him at 0:59.

[@BloodiedNinja101]

McGarnagle Yeah I know, I'm ashamed enough already. To be fair though, I think his early reviews without the skits were pretty decent, especially his the room review

[@BloodiedNinja101]

redlightmax Thanks, glad they didn't censor him, the world needs to know!

[@LoN3wOlF5tudi0s]

+Kotow Boy Yeah, wtf is with him? He calls Beyond Thunderdome, an abomination against humanity, the BEST Mad Max film (just like Roger Ebert and I think Gene Siskel did too). He likes the "Amazing" Spider-Man films more than the Raimi ones even though they're garbage. He thinks Tim Burton's first Batman movie (which was alright, but don't even get me started on the next 3...) was better than the incredible 'The Dark Knight'. He called the new Ghostbusters good, yet didn't like the new Jungle Book. I could go on, so many of his opinions shock me.

[@davidalkhed3368]

Kotow Boy To be fair, in his review of Matrix 2 he did say that he changed his mind and thought it was bad.

[@wblake1]

Actually, Mad Max 1 makes more sense, because it has a more plausible world. There is a semblance of civilization needed to sustain all those car chases. It's kind of difficult to imagine the world of Road Warrior, where there's no steady supply of petroleum, and yet people drive muscle cars at full throttle.

[@frequencydecline5250]

Yeah but those movies were a response to heights of people's obsessions with their cars during the time when Miller grew up. ...so yeah...in a theoretically logical think of the future it doesn't make sense, but it is how it is because it doesn't make sense. Like, I'm going to keep this v8 running above any and all other priorities. Its like, you are eating corn flakes for lunch and have $72,000 worth of televisions and speakers in your car.

[@wblake1]

I hope that one day people will come to realize that it is the first Mad Max that deserves most praise. Not the Road Warrior, nor the Fury Road, but the first, original Mad Max: it makes most sense, it has best developed characters, particularly the villains, and it makes you care the most and understand the motives of the protagonist; it's simply a perfect, stripped-down, impressive work of art.

[@Henskelion]

Well, there is a steady supply of fuel in the movies - the refinery in Road Warrior, Gastown in Fury Road, and the piggies to make methane in Thunderdome. It's not really that unrealistic, anyway. Gasoline is actually really easy to make, you just boil crude oil into a vapor, and then the vapor settles into liquid gasoline. There's actually videos you could find of impoverished Syrians making it this way using basic materials. The only reason modern civilization requires massive refineries and an elaborate logistics chain is because we're making gas for millions of cars and trucks, whereas in the world of Mad Max, you'd only be making enough gas for a few dozen vehicles at most.

[@lookoutforchris]

Henskelion I’d love to see a video of you trying fractional distillation of crude oil. I’m saying this because I’m imaging you being on fire during part of the video and the end product being something that would destroy your car. It’s super easy bro, go try it 😂

[@wblake1]

​@@lookoutforchrisI am a bit late, but yes, totally agree. And all these refineriea, citadels and pig farms they put in the sequels were just plot devices and mcguffins. Well, at least in Fury Road they used the three resource centers (food, fuel , ammo) as a commentary on the real-world global economy, but still.

[@meleemastermaa1449]

I love how this movie ends. Max didn't know he was just a diversion, that's why the leader guy tells the kid that they had "already won" even though the chase was still taking place. When I saw that scene I got confused for what he meant, but then I pieced it together when there was only sand on the tanker.

[@Princescyther]

In college I sat in front of a guy who told me that Mad Max didnt deserve to win any awards at the Oscars and atleast Terminator Genesys had a story you could follow. I was stunned, I really didnt know where to start so I just sat there in stunned silence.

[@lunch2102]

Terminator Genesis threw the whole story out the window 🤦🏻

[@plissken2156]

And yet, the Terminator movies are just getting worse and worse while the Mad Max movies improve with each one.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

That guy has to be trolling surely. That terminator film's story is a big mess.

[@derlich09]

Between 2:19 and 2:20, the poster of Mad Max becomes R.OT.O.R. for just an instant. Sorry if this was posted already, but it bears repeating.

[@white-dragon4424]

I'm not sure if Rich Evans knows this, but Max's Interceptor is a customised Ford Falcon, basically the Aussie version of the Ford Mustang.

[@charliebrown4624]

A few more facts for you. The stuntman who spun through the air in MMII was not almost killed. As a matter of fact he was back at work within only a day or two. He was the guy with the bear claw through the back window in the final scene. He was sitting on a box with his broken leg up. Also you flashed the movie "BATTLE TRUCK" up as a copy of MMII. That is incorrect. Battle truck was shot in New Zealand in 1980, a year before MMII. Though MMII is a much better film, it is the copy and Battle Truck the original.

[@andrewashmore8000]

Thanks for great info.

[@magnusengeseth5060]

You can be almost killed in ways that don't put you into hospital for weeks. If a bullet graces your skull, would you not say that you were almost killed by it?

[@charliebrown4624]

@@magnusengeseth5060 But a bullet didn't graze his skull. He broke his leg.

[@magnusengeseth5060]

@@charliebrown4624 Yes, after spinning in the air at a high speed without a helmet. Do you seriously doubt that he could have died if he had rotated a bit more/less and broken the fall with his skull? Or is it the terminology you don't agree with? Would you agree that he was involved in an accident that could easily have killed or maimed him, but he was lucky enough to only break a leg?

[@charliebrown4624]

@@magnusengeseth5060 I was there, sitting on a rock only metres away, his legs spun through the air, not his head. He then landed on a large pile of boxes, and no. I don't agree that he came close to being killed. He was conscious and back at work the next day. The leg he broke still had a metal pin in it from a previous accident.

[@nm-com]

i favor the first mad max. society slowly transforming into anarchy. no other movie ever showed this. roadwarrior gave birth to the genre called postapocalyptic. but the genre of mad max(1) never got out of the womb.

[@deckofcards87]

Underrated comment. You actually get it.

[@tommc3622]

Check out "Dead End Drive-In"... if you can find it. Also Australian, and not implicitly stated, but seems to exist in the same universe as MM1. An interesting, quirky flick.

[@Jdsteele96]

nm-8 .com I respect the love for MM1 but it’s by far not the first post-apocalyptic movie 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ThisAintNickelodeon]

The new Planet of the Apes Trilogy does a good job of this.

[@jigenstoklasa7737]

@@Jdsteele96 He said that the first movie WASN'T post apocalyptic while the second was. That's true. Him saying the second movie is the birth of the post apocalyptic is the part That's off.

[@jasonvoorheesthethird]

Fury Road is amazing, but Mad Max 2 is by far the better movie imo, everything is absolutely perfect in It! And the atmosphere in Mad Max 2 is absolutely perfect, it sucks me in every single time i watch it, which is something that is missing from Fury Road imo...but Fury Road is still second best in the Mad Max movies

[@Pauly421]

Probably no point commenting after 3 years lol. But man I was bored and confused in turns during fury road. It looked great, but it made zero fucking sense and the script was garbage.

[@DerekEklund]

Agreed. I actually think the prettiness and cinematography undermines the movie. Can't beat the grittiness of 80s action films.

[@midnightcharlieman6669]

@@Pauly421 Yes.. I've seen Fury Road a few times. I've tried to like it.. I wanted to like it.. But.. I think it's Awful in terms of script/dialogue. The action sequences are tremendous but the story is Awful. Not to mention the worst thing they did was put a big mask on Hugh Keays Byrne.. I thought that was a travesty. When I saw it at the cinema.. I thought it was amazing.. Then I saw it a second time at home and paid much more attention to it and realized.. Ohh There's problems here and third viewing onward realized how terrible the script story was.

[@midnightcharlieman6669]

Fury Road is not "amazing" Far from it. It's not perfect at all. The atmosphere in Mad Max 2 is not perfect.. But there is atmosphere.. Most definitely. It's far from being perfect though. I've seen Mad Max 2 about 45 times over the years.. The last watch was about 2 weeks ago on blu ray. Everytime I see it now I think.. This will be the last time I watch it. As now for the most part it just brings me a sadness..Although.. Although.. I'm still entertained by it.. But now it's more a study of observance.. As I've seen it so many times. I am now able to look for things I've never seen in it before. I see the faults.. And by that I mean.. Mistakes in it.. Little things.. They don't bother me as such.. They are curious to me. I see all the things in it.. Moments where it's like.. Oh.. That's rough.. That's out of joint. It's almost frustrating in a sense this movie as I almost want more from every scene. What other takes were there. Though happy to analyze each scene.. Which I can't help but do that when I see it. There is a sadness that goes with it.. A Melancholy.. Certain lines that could have been said differently. A terrific movie still. Far from perfect. Ohhhh Forgot to mention.. I've been to Silverton.. I went out there a few years back. Found the locations.. But not all the locations as my sense of direction and finding things can be Off at the best of times.. And the majority of locations are difficult to find and I did not find them.. But at least I saw the area/the location. It's somewhat foreboding out there.. Stark. Though it's interesting to see the location. I stood on the spot where Mel Gibson gets out of the interceptor next to the tanker in the first scene.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

@@midnightcharlieman6669 Similar to John Wick, the story in Fury Road is secondary to the action. They allegedly had a cut of Fury Road with no dialogue at all which underlines that.

[@StuntmanJake]

Awesome Re: View. On thing I must say, I still think "Road Warrior" is very much relevant. Yes, "Fury Road" was more spectacular, but "Road Warrior" has a story that is amazingly tight. It is a ton of fun to watch to this very day. I love "Road Warrior," and I always have since I was a kid. If Miller wants to make another movie, I will be the first one in line to go watch it.

[@Oreland32]

I'm pausing this right at the 3:12 mark to say that Mad Max 1 is my favorite Max movie. Road Warrior's probably more fun to watch, but 1 is still my favorite.

[@souljastation5463]

It depends of what you mean by "fun": sure in Road Warrior there's comedy but the non-road scenes are sometimes boring. While Mad Max is serious and gritty, but never boring.

[@RHawkins6]

Fury Road is like the Star Wars prequels if they were done right, taking what people loved, keeping it true to that original concept but amping it up with CG and money. All the things they couldn't do in the original version, not trying to reimagine a dream but bringing more of it, to the audience so they can share it with you.

[@shugaroony]

Well said, and whilst its fine, it doesn't touch MM2.

[@JG-tr8ph]

You like The Road Warrior: Michael Bay edition. Okay then!

[@skonenblades]

I watched all the films in preparation for Fury Road when it came out and man all the films are SO different from one another. It's so fascinating. Road Warrior was this perfect blend of outsider film status with a good amount of money and distribution whereas Mad Max 1 was filmed for like 0 dollars and succeeded in spite of it's obvious low budget. And then Beyond Thunderdome was WAAY overproduced and too polished and while Tina Turner did a good job, celebrity cameos sort of ruined the immersion. Plus when I was rewatching it, I had forgotten all about the kids in the desert. And that's like half the film! Such a great journey. I'm with you on one more Mad Max movie. Miller can hit it and quit it as far as I'm concerned. He knocked it out of the effing park with Fury Road and I don't need a lukewarm continuation.

[@DSDMovies]

Road Warrior is better than Fury Road because Mel Gibson's hair is better than Tom Hardy's.

[@lookoutforchris]

Solid DD.

[@Teabagsforlife]

100%

[@Cybeldar]

The Road Warrior is the superior movie.

[@juntistik]

I'm looking forward to Mikes re:View of Waterworld. Mad max on water.

[@deviantan021]

What a terrible movie!

[@MrHendrix17]

@@deviantan021 so what you're saying is Mike must love it

[@ralphthemoviemaker]

I want to be a giant fucking prick! Love me!!!

[@BillyNunez2]

TURKISH AIRLINES

[@AaronAaron247]

Fuck off back to your job at Turkish Airlines you hack!

[@cesararanda7714]

#makeralphaprick

[@matt5415]

I met Vernon Wells at a convention two years ago. I was 48 years old at the time and I still geeked out. I stammered, "I've seen the Road Warrior 50 times!" Wells looked back and forth and said, "This guy's crazy." He still looked pretty tough for his age.

[@AuralStimulations]

Sweet! I was needing a serious RLM fix today

[@AuralStimulations]

Thanks man!

[@AuralStimulations]

mazdaplz Oh you know it

[@DIEGhostfish]

Also I do believe there was a nuclear war over the remaining oil, and Australia is already a desert.

[@Gilarack]

Hey Rich and Jay from 7 years ago. George Miller actually WILL make that Furiosa movie and you guys will review it and it's pretty awesome!

[@F1138-4EB]

I think Rich is wrong about it NOT being a post nuclear world, explain the geiger counter in thunderdome and water salesman commenting about the fallout. I also believe gyro captain and jebodiah to be the same person. He left with cute blondie from road warrior had the kid from thunderdome. her not being there suggests shes been killed, stolen. He is hardly likey to go round calling himself gyro captain with his new girl and son. When Jebodiah see's max in bartertown he recognises him! Then later max sees jeb and points and says YOU, you have a plane! How did he know he was a pilot?

[@HarryBuddhaPalm]

The kids also talk about the Pox Eclipse. Oh, and isn't it "The Road Warrior" that has the narration about two great warrior tribes attacking each other?

[@Arandomfigure]

Thunderdome takes place after a nuclear apocalypse but Road Warrior doesn't, because the apocalypse takes place between the two movies because of the oil crisis. I think George Miller has even explicitly said this.

[@Nineteen1900Hundred]

Mad Max 1 and 2 are before nuclear war in my view. But well after the world changed and became lawless.

[@kebsis]

Yeah, Road Warrior is after the oil runs out, but before the nuclear war (which happens before Thunderdome).

[@Nineteen1900Hundred]

***** The first movie? Err yeah of course. So what?

[@GrayD_Fox]

For a world with out oil, they sure do love driving.

[@thedumbdog1964]

Hahahahaha fuck

[@kahnu893]

They have oil an oil refinery is literally the setting of the road warrior and "Gas Town" from Fury road is also a refinery. Rich said the world wasn't a nuclear holocaust and they didn't have gas and hes wrong.

[@JamesKlemm87]

@@kahnu893 Civilization didn't have enough gas to continue to function which is what caused the oil wars. Obviously there is still gas but it's a very limited and precious resource now. It's one of the biggest problems with RW because Humungous' gang wastes so much gas needlessly which makes you question why they even care about one oil drill since clearly they aren't hurting for fuel.

[@GrayD_Fox]

@@kahnu893 When hasnt Rich been wrong

[@colkbassad]

I love the end of this when they say George doesn't have to make another movie and then the man drops a masterpiece

[@mollymillions5438]

Regarding the feral kid, we have a lot of introduced feral animals in Australia such as cats, dogs, goats, pigs and camels so a feral kid is, and was, very relatable (hell, my own kids are pretty feral but that's not unusual here).

[@BrettJones27]

Mad Max 2 > Fury Road... but they're different movies, from different times. And Mad Max 2, from an Aussie point of view, is beyond iconic for a certain age group. It was a hard R (18+) on release in Australia, and was almost a rite of passage for younger teens to sneak into the theatre, or source a copy when the VHS came out.

[@nastrael]

The guy who played the Gyrocopter pilot also played The Mouth of Sauron in the extended edition of Return of the King.

[@warhammerguy]

Anyone else came here after the Furiosa review?

[@albinalligator5772]

Road Warrior is still the best.

[@darkstar932]

@John Smith Oh my god, that's f**king hilarious. FANBOY WHINING FOR THE WIN!

[@darkstar932]

@John Smith Preferring the Road Warrior is completely understandable. But calling Fury Road a piece of crap is a comically hyperbolic dismissal of incredible film making.

[@darkstar932]

@John Smith Cool bro. Any movie can be called crap, Fury Road being one caught me off guard so much I laughed out loud, so I commented. Makes me glad I can enjoy both.

[@The_Antiquary]

@@darkstar932 desperate, the 'I can enjoy both so I'm superior' is primitive. Even these guys can only come up with 'it looks better, but yeah it's silly'. Max is useless for most of the film and it's meant to be a post-apocalyptic world, not a series of perfume commercials - Fury Road is a pos.

[@darkstar932]

@@The_Antiquary I'm dying here man. You guys gotta stop being so funny. I CAN'T TAKE IT.

[@tiaangerber4248]

Yeah, Road Warrior is still my fav Mad Max, then its Fury Road, Road Warrior felt more grounded and I really liked the plot with the tanker and having to train and build up the camp to fight and survive against the marauders. Fury Raod was an amazing spectacle with great choreography, which I appreciate for different reasons.

[@juggernaught79]

Max was the hero/antihero in the Mel Gibson movies. Max in Fury Road was just along for the ride and the one badass thing he did wasn’t shown(dark mucky people on stilts place). Fury Road was amazing though.

[@nicoevergreen3885]

Looking at the Mad Max films as though they're interpretations of an oral tradition kinda makes the most sense. I mean, after all, there's no reason why the Mad Max in Fury Road has to be the same Mad Max from the original film, but rather he's another story that was adopted by the grander mythos. I like that, good job, Rich.

[@bikepacker9850]

It's obvious Max didn't know the truck was full of sand. The point is he finally cared for someone or something and they fucked him over.

[@C0wb0yBebop]

We absolutely cannot wait for George Miller to come back for another Mad Max ride show Hollywood how it’s done!

[@DecoySanchez]

I love this Rich Evans guy, you should have him on more often

[@BlueButtonFly]

This is one of the best openings you guys ever did.

[@ABT212]

Not to take anything away from Fury Road (It was fantastic), but The Road Warrior is still my favorite. To be sure, Fury Road looks like a movie with an unlimited stunt budget. Incredible.

[@OperatorOscillation]

Watch Fury Road on the small screen. Your vote for which Mad Max movie is the best will go back to Road Warrior.

[@OperatorOscillation]

Lurdiak If he still thinks it's the best...

[@Talesfromtheshelf]

Nothing more exciting than watching a movie on the re:view playlist for the first time and then watching the re:view right after

[@Vaultboy101]

George Miller is the only person who could make travelling across the same piece of desert twice the most exciting thing ever. Lawrence of Arabia leaves a lot to be desired.

[@Pimsleurable]

*"Buckle up, Buckaroo!"* Caitlyn Jenner, 1976

[@Clayton_Graul]

The kid, serves the biggest portion of the film: The entire story is told from his pointy of view through his memory.

[@brandonbell8726]

I got here so early that I don't have any comments to respond "That's right, Jay!" to. So I'll just say it to myself

[@brandonbell8726]

That's right, Jay!

[@admiralpiett7611]

That's right, Mike!

[@theemperor2491]

+Emperor Palpatine GET OUT OF HERE YOU HACK FRAUD

[@admiralpiett7611]

the Emperor FUCK YOU

[@galrjkldd]

answer to Rich at 8:25 it's a wasteland because it's australia.

[@Liveimprov]

Ya. The first film has a civilization going through a lot of problems, which happens to be in australia. In 2 3 and 4, the australian desert shooting locations (deserted areas) can tell a story that includes the health of an environment. This translates in fantasy and fiction genres, the desert as an environment can have a lot packed in. So the sequels seem to utilize that more than 1.

[@Molotov_Milkshake]

The world wasn't a desert in The Road Warrior, it was just set in Australia.

[@matthewoshea7224]

“There’s talks of him doing a stand alone ‘Furiosa’ movie but I don’t think that’s happening anymore now…” Oh man, past-Jay do I have news for you!

[@sokolum]

so... the majority took the prick joke seriously... that is even more funnier then the prick joke itself :)))