I Watched Every Mad Max Movie and Ate 12 Tacos | Renegade Cut

[@kamikazilucas]

the original mad max is much like first blood in the way thats its nothing like what people think mad max or rambo films are like

[@n3croticism]

It was so low budget that a lot of extras were paid in beer!

[@kevlopz3374]

It's crazy to think the main reason these films are post-apocalyptic is they could only afford to shoot on lonely roads and abandoned towns/buildings.

[@christopherschneider2968]

But unlike first blood i can appreciate the depature of the mad max movies. Road warrior had this undertone of desperate scarcity that i really enjoyed ( think of Max's shotgun shells, scarce and failing) that also built upon the Original like Terminator 2 did. First blood 2 was correcting the crime of critizing the US Military by taking the conspiracy of missing Vietnam POW and turning it into Death Wish movie.

[@ingibingi2000]

It is also weird in the sense this is post apocalypse? They go out and buy ice cream

[@RADIOSUlClDl0]

It naturally evokes a distopian atmosphere from a deep australian sense of lawlessness and cultural obsession with cars

[@wblakekimber]

Digging Leon's "Not giving a fuck" arc.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

That is the least words any video essayist has ever dedicated to Fury Road

[@CaptainMorganThe3rd]

Also, as a quick aside, I always enjoyed your political content, but I have sincerely loved your return to film and media analysis with your newfound zeal and zaniness. The slight political tilt works well, too. It all works. You’re great, this video is great, and this whole channel is great. Keep doing whatever you want to do. I always know it’s going to be worthwhile.

[@linchen008]

Thanks mate, that is exactly what I wanted to say as well!

[@picvegita]

Ditto, he used to teach me so much then the world broke and now he makes me smile while dropping bits of knowledge. Hell of a mind and I'm thankful he shares it with us.

[@mooncalf191]

Seconded. Couldn't have said it better.

[@muddlewait8844]

This channel feels like when the quiet but secure friend in the group, the one who rarely says anything and usually just watches amused from the sidelines, finally is comfortable enough with you to be the last one to leave the monthly Friday night get-together at your house. Then they stick around on your couch with a drink in their hand, dryly sharing this incredibly insightful funny set of observations until 3 am, and you wish they’d stay longer.

[@Vinny_Havoc]

seconded

[@fedos]

A few weeks ago I watched a reaction video of an Australian watching Mad Max for the first time. She went in blind and never realized that it was set in the near future at the start of civilizational collapse until it was over and she started reading the DVD box.

[@redgreen2453]

I think the idea behind the “biker gangs in a fuel-scarcity apocalypse” thing is that fuel shortages led to fuel hoarding which led to having vast fuel reserves to power your extravagant cars being a cultural signifier and we can see by Fury Road cars have basically become a religion to some people. Plus Max likes cars and the movies follow him primarily, we can see from the holedwellers and wordburgers from Furiosa that there are plenty of wastelanders leading non car related lifestyles, so for all we know the road warriors could be a very small percentage of the population that Max disproportionally deals with.

[@likecrazyhorse]

This channel is the Gremlins 2 of KZbin. The director has full control and the audience is in for a ride. You get Brainy Gremlin, Goofball Gremlin, Batman symbols, Count Dooku waiting for his rabies, Slayer soundtrack, Phoebe Cates recounting the worst Lincoln's Birthday ever.

[@matthewpaul6904]

Tacos AND George Miller? Oh what a day. What a lovely day.

[@euansmith3699]

Mad Max Taco Warrior Who Stuffed The :

[@jordanpanning3659]

Unironically, Babe may be Miller's best film. If you can watch that movie and not cheer for Babe while letting the tears of complete and unadulterated joy flow, then you're a monster. James Cromwell saying, "that'll do pig" is iconic. I still use that phrase today to express admiration.

[@auldthymer]

I love Babe: Pig in the City and I frequently say "Thank the Pig."

[@odiealegodediego]

The Babe films, Babeverse if you will, are so underrated. I think it's because most movies with talking animals are kinda simple, but the Babeverse is full of heart.

[@kev_whatev]

Fun fact: when Demolition Man came out, we didn’t have a Taco Bell anywhere within reasonable driving distance. So it really did feel like the food of the future

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

Taco Bell was so far away from us that they dubbed the film over with new dialogue and superimposed a Pizza Hut logo onto everything. 😂

[@jackdubois1512]

My personal head canon is that, in the mad max world, most everyone is doing ok but Australia just decided to go all in

[@MaYstruction]

"Except astronauts..." I lost it there

[@Poopymancer]

Got me too, so good

[@LieutenantSteel]

It was "He died; his eyes bulging ... I ate a taco in his honour" for me.

[@mikecompton5418]

Astronauts in low earth orbit travel about 17500 mph and experience time slower than ppl on earth by fractions of a second.

[@QuintonMurdock]

Time moves slightly slower for astronauts. There are videos about it

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

The little jokes like that, that's what keeps me hooked

[@kdisley]

I can't speak to the Aussie variety, but Cockney rhyming slang was a reaction to "poverty tourism" (I believe in the 17th century, but I haven't researched to that degree). The idle rich used to enjoy slumming it in the poor areas of the East End of London, looking down their noses at the uneducated working class and treating them as simpletons for not understanding the fancy erudite words they would use to ask for directions. In response, the Cockneys (working-class denizens of the East End - traditionally, anyone born within earshot of the bells of Bow Church) decided to make up their own lexicon of words and phrases which they understood but the rich tourists couldn't in order to make _them_ look stupid. The idea was to use common elements of working-class life which the toffs couldn't relate to, with the key to the cipher being that it rhymed with a more sensible statement in context, so that anyone with the relevant life experience would understand the joke and run with it. So when a gentleman found himself turned around in the rabbit warren of tenements and warehouses and asked a passerby for directions back to "civilization" they might be told, *_"Yeah, just 'ead down the frog an' toad, round the jolly 'orner, past the rub-a-dub-dub an' up the apples an' pears, and Bob's yer uncle!"_* And when they tried to cover their ignorance and find someone else to give them directions, they would receive the _same directions as before_ because all the locals knew the cipher, and would look like fools for not being able to understand. It was a way of getting back at the landed gentry for treating their disadvantaged lives as some sort of sideshow, and proving that they were just as smart as the upper class even if they hadn't had the education to learn the expensive words. But this isn't a political video, so I'll shut up... lol

[@kdisley]

If anyone's interested in a translation of the above... Frog and Toad = Road Round the Jolly Horner = Around the Corner Rub-a-Dub-Dub = Public House (pub) Apples and Pears = Stairs Bob's yer Uncle... well, that's not rhyming slang...

[@MrGW95]

You watched all the Mad Max movies and only crushed one taco twelve pack? Absolutely Haram.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Harem

[@theonlymegumegu]

1:31 "i am here to eat tacos" i can't tell you how much i wanted to be followed up by something like "and I'm all out of babe" XD

[@TheCommunistGamerTV]

Might be my favorite line from any media anywhere: "What do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?" "You do what you can." Top tier, video. Ne well.

[@Jamick98Geass]

This is one of your best videos. I’m not even being sarcastic or ironic. This is peak.

[@cwash5415]

AGREED! It's just great seeing him have fun again finally

[@PaulHerbig]

Somehow it reminds me of the best Seinfeld episodes, where all the random things all end up relating and contributing in non-random ways. He brought it all together. I agree, this is peak.

[@thetommymontejano4998]

Should of added the crunch of the tacos but i digress

[@Rev-bb9ej]

"Who killed the world?" more like "Who killed their digestive tract?", the answer? Renegade eating 12 tacos.

[@Stratmanable]

5 cool movies and 12 tacos. Sounds like a day well-spent.

[@Owesomasaurus]

I've always been partial to the interpretation that the films are depictions of an oral mythology, making Max a culture hero that bounces from adventure to adventure like Maui or Hercules. This smoothes over things like the economics of nomadic hot-rod leather daddies: it doesn't have to make sense, its a legend of the before times illustrating our values and imparting wisdom to our children.

[@DergonQuert]

That's not really an interpretation, that's from George Miller himself. He "sees Mad Max as a series of legends about the titular character." That's why so many of the films have narrators. I really appreciated the details of the historians in Furiosa.

[@KingOfMadCows]

It's funny how the Mad Max movies have so little dialogue but when they do speak, their lines are very memorable/quotable. "I am the Nightrider. I am fuel injected suicide machine." "The Ayatollah of Rocknrolla!" "Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror." "Who run Bartertown?" "Two men enter, one man leaves!" "Bust a deal! Face the wheel!" "Witness me!" "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water!" "Mediocre!"

[@MrPooleish]

Controversial Headcannon: With each Mad Max movie getting further and further away from the end of the world with no visible aging from Max, I convinced myself that Max isn't a man but a Ghost Rider esque Spirit of Vengeance and High Octane that possesses people and forces them to walk with a limp and be a reluctant hero. Edit: I came to this conclusion while playing the 2015 Mad Max game.

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

I like the idea that any sufficiently angry man who isn’t a complete bastard could be dubbed the new ‘Max’

[@finnpendleton4615]

You're head cannon is now my head cannon.

[@VMonkies]

I like the RLM theory that Max isn't a guy anymore, it's series of wasteland fables people tell and they're just all attributed to him because he was such a legendary figure at one point in time so everything legendary is attributed to him whether true or not.

[@kamikazilucas]

fury road is obviously a reboot with a different timeline

[@kateslate3228]

@@kamikazilucas You're missing the point.

[@michaeltonus3888]

I know for sure that I definitely saw Babe 2: Pig in The City when I was a kid but from the plot summary I guess I remembered absolutely nothing.

[@cedaremberr]

I think I watched half of it in Spanish in my middle school Spanish class. Also don't recall the plot lol

[@aachhu1112]

Leon, I haven’t laughed so much in a very long time. Please know the joy is as important to me as everything else you've provided over the years.

[@dannymirjanovic8453]

Road warrior and thunderdome are some of my childhood favourites. Then i saw fury road and my mind never recovered from being completely blown. Truly one of my favourite movies

[@dylane234]

You gotta go see furiosa if you haven’t it’s incredible

[@SAUglaz]

You gotta respect anyone who commits to leather fetish esthetic in Australia. Especially post-apocapypse.

[@Lia-zw1ls7tz7o]

OMG, I literally just watched Mad Max: Fury Road because I love the cinematography and the color grading and the practical action effects. Never saw the first three films so I'm interested to see what you have to say about them.

[@Molly-ml1wn]

I'm not even 5 minutes in and I've bellylaughed like 6 times

[@trashpanda6885]

"That'll do pig" I said at the cops funeral.

[@hamwise1792]

That'll do Renegade Cut dude, that'll do.

[@TomMinnow]

Leon is under Big Taco's thumb. It's the only explanation for my irresistible urge to consume them tonight. They should give you a raise.

[@peterbedford449]

Big taco 👀

[@christophergreen6595]

I grew up on Mad Max. Always loved it, it felt my sorrow.

[@KynaTiona]

The lesson I took from this video is that there's a Babe sequel I missed as a child and a Fury Road sequel I missed as an adult, both of which I need to go watch. Like, now.

[@SamwiseOutdoors]

The fact that you tied the MST3K Beyond Thunderdome riff into the video reinforces why you're my favoritest bestest.

[@picvegita]

Thank you for the joy this brought me, I remember watching Thunder dome with my mom while growing up. Best wishes to kind people❤

[@AlRoderick]

Where Cockney people were going with most things was usually jail. Or rather gaol.

[@radiofreeacab]

I'm peeing in a wine bottle as i watch the intro to this work of art, let's go 🎉

[@mikepj67]

you know the song “piss bottle man” ?

[@Stratmanable]

You and John Frusciante.

[@TheCompleteJeff]

“I ate a taco in his honor” should become a catchphrase of the channel

[@brettdaisley2224]

PS there was a novelisation of the 1st mad Max movie, not sure if it's still in circulation. As an 18 year old Aussie it was a great read.

[@NarcissistAU]

Miller made me the person I am today. I joined Greenpeace and drive a supercharged V8 because of him. God bless you George. ♥️

[@dongeraci8599]

I always thought Mad Max being nomadic was a metaphor for him running from the memories of his past.

[@KennyFrierson]

Calling it Babe 1 Pig in the Country is hilarious and accurate

[@jekolman13]

Turbo Kid is a great indie movie that is very much in the spirit of the Mad Max movies. It is also a chef’s kiss to elder millennial nostalgia

[@rallymodeller]

Even more troubling in the post-apocalyptic world of The Road Warrior and beyond is the apparently limitless supply of welding consumables. MIG and TIG wire, welding rods, shield gas, electricity, acetylene and oxygen... there is no way those hot rods were stitched together with a battery and some coat hanger wire. Otherwise they'd explode into a shower of parts the first bump they hit. Then there's the fact that sunlight is murder for tire and belt rubber, and the dubious availability of coolant, transmission fluid and brake fluid, brake pads, lubricating oil... yeah.

[@dionturner4279]

As an Aussie I have to say that was a great run of Cheese & Cuties (movies)

[@pizzaguy552]

I mean, 3D printed cheese would be a pretty great innovation by a nameless taco company

[@TPaz117]

Sounds like you had fun. I also watched Furiosa, The Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome this week. I also jumped back into my save file for the 2015 Mad Max videogame for a few minutes. It’s a great adaptation.

[@Sailortwilight]

Makes me want to do a 12 taco movie binge challenge as well. I'm so glad you are making content that makes you happy Renegade Cut! 🙂

[@ladyhoratia1709]

I love these movies and I love this video. Made me want to watch them all again. I just hope George miller is able to make more mad max films

[@tanjredshirt]

I really enjoy your inflections and cadence in your narration. That might be the weirdest thing I ever typed on KZbin.

[@CasieMod]

Glorious taco eating.... witnessed.

[@oldchaptruc7010]

It seems you are happier than usual, it also makes me happy.

[@gwoolham]

Full chaos configuration RC is here and I am LOVING it

[@kyleeames8229]

2:15 I 100% agree with you there! I also love telling my brother I’m “skittling” when I eat skittles during our watchStuff Ritual. It’s just so much fun to say.

[@allthepeas]

This is the art i'm here for!

[@iamjustkiwi]

I really love your stuff like this! Also your other stuff... Honestly i just think you make really great videos!

[@rhumal]

I too enjoy Mad Max, tacos, and words of praise from James Cromwell

[@jabberw0k812]

Now when people ask if I've seen Fury Road yet, I can say no but I have watched Babe

[@ComradeQuagsire]

Finally someone puts some respect on Babe's name

[@Kalmera6238]

I'm really enjoying these new videos.

[@c-r]

Before I watch I'm predicting the tacos were not consumed during the watching of the movies, but at the end, all at once. Possibly over the sink.

[@c-r]

Ok so no, but he didn't explicitly state that he didn't eat them over the sink.

[@etownsend82]

😂So relatable 😭

[@hive_indicator318]

Leon, this is genius. Hilarious and way more fact packed than I thought it'd be.

[@RandyBurgertime]

Someone else already said this is one of your best. Agree to the max.

[@Unquestionable]

Having grown up with a moderately healthy appreciation of the original trilogy, along with endlessly being teased about "sequels in development" for well over a decade, this was a nice refreshing overview of why I love the series. It's never been about Max, or the wasteland, or any of the superficial elements; to me it's just a wonderful excuse to indulge in mindless mayhem. When I watch a Mad Max film all I care about is explosions, fights involving cars, and a villain being delightfully over the top.

[@theplacebeyondspacetime]

You made my day a lot better with this. Thank you.😊

[@nicoleseraphita7613]

Good use of that old MST3K gag

[@Dayman667]

Love the title of this video, great work as always and I'm glad you're making videos!

[@kelpc1461]

this chanell has gotten even better.

[@artfacekillah]

Great video! I have enjoyed your more serious content in the past but this was a very nice change up.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I liked Leon's old work very much. I'm deeply digging this era of Leon. I love this so much.

[@jimhaverlock9784]

Art. Full stop. Thank you

[@thelovewizard8954]

Man knows how to have a good time

[@wcjerky]

RIP the unattended grilled cheese sandwich and Leon's gastrointestinal tract.

[@mrmeglomania]

I give this video 12 out of 12 tacos.

[@stevencampbell2018]

This is sincerely one of your best videos

[@ZachariahJ]

In a lot of the world, people join together in a crisis - even in dirt poor countries, you can see everyone forming chains to move rubble and rescue victims after an earthquake. In the USA, after Hurricane Katrina, people from towns surrounding New Orleans stood on bridges waving guns around, telling refugees to fuck off somewhere else. That made a huge impression on me at the time - it seemed inconceivable that such a country could hold together for long.

[@azertyQ]

This era of RC is strange, and I like it.

[@BenjaminGlatt]

Fam, that sounds like an excellent weekend.

[@NjailaRhee]

Every video more delightful than the last.

[@nickmcgrew9149]

This video was funny as shit. I used to watch your videos and I liked them and agreed with them most of the time but this one was great

[@UndeadMozelle]

I went to Canada to meet some friends a few years ago and they took me to a double feature of Babe and Mad Max. I had no idea about the movies' shared lineage and thought it was just a weird double feature for weird people.

[@aspinninggreycube1270]

Fanstastic... I guess I should maybe watch Babe 1&2 for the first time.

[@computer_toucher]

Now that's a good video title to see from you after the past couple years, Leon. If I can call you that, I'm not that parasocial really. Anyways, keep these coming Mr. Cut! Good juxtaposition of script vs Miller's used blue van getting wrecked.

[@tomfinn8076]

Babe was my favorite kids movie. I got into the Mad Max series years later and loved it. I had no idea the 2 were connected until again, years later

[@therealjohngalaxy]

Fantastic video! ❤

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

The taco countdown added a very fun deranged structure to this.

[@Cannabonsai]

Loved this!! Humor on point

[@colinloughran7216]

My experience of Fury Road was so pure I'm reluctant to watch it again, like ever. Some part of me wants it to percolate forever in my imagination as the one perfect example of the form. You might tell me I'm idealizing it, but that's the point. It's probably not perfect. It probably could be better. I was probably just caught up in the moment and missed some of its glaring faults--plot holes, awkward CGI, etc. But I don't want to know that.

[@russellcheck]

That is the perfect amount of words that any essayist ever dedicated to Fury Road

[@Churono]

Is there a sadder statement in this world than '0 Tacos Remain'?

[@johnnysasaki]

-1 Tacos Remaining. Can you imagine that...

[@ThePappawheelie]

Outstanding, young man! Bravo!

[@MulberryDays]

listen i don't even particularly like mad max and this might be my favorite Renegade Cut video ever. i loved the early media literacy ones, and the later political praxis ones, and i *especially* enjoyed the overlap period of longform media literacy with a political lens. all great stuff! but i am one THOUSAND percent here for an era of unhinged, taco-fueled Leon rambles about cheese-based rhyming slang and Babe 2: Pig in the City. (which i am going to watch immediately after this, for the first time in....decades?) more like this pls.

[@theunkownape445]

"All the Mad Max Movies?" the audience asked in awe, "That´s right" said Leon "12 Tacos!"

[@CagedInSilence]

18:15 - Max is just going out for a pack of cigarettes. He'll be back.

[@Cats_Are_Scary]

“I reckon you got a bargain.”

[@RussellCHall]

Achievement unlocked: Max Tacotanski! 🏆🥇🎖️

[@leedouglass4106]

You deserve to be happy

[@fernaoverde]

Dude, this video is a masterpiece.

[@tysonasaurus6392]

14:53 yeah it's interesting to think about for myself, I would've been in the womb when 9/11 happened, the 2008 market crash happened when I was just starting kindergarten, just a year prior to that the iPhone and iPod were released Edit: also my graduating class was 2020, I was still working at my first job when lockdown happened, I went to multiple George Floyd protests and almost got squished by a riot van at one of them, was also the first year I could vote so yeah it was pretty rough

[@dirtydish6642]

Did I hear a clip from MST3K in there?!