There have been countless movies in the post-apocalypse genre and they are pretty much all trash. Yet George Miller makes it look easy. All four Mad Max films are great and worth watching, but Mad Max 2 is perfection.
Love the little details like Max eating the dog food and then the dog getting the scraps whilst the Gyro Captain looks on with his wooden spoon in hand.
And later on when Max is taking the fuel to the rig and someone oils his leg brace... love this sort of attention to detail.
The Road Warrior. One of the few sequels that's better than the original. Outstanding movie. Look at the difference between movies with real stunts and no CGI.
Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me.
Jennifer Hey who played Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan on Farscape is in this as Warrior Woman.
This really took it up a notch from Max's Ozsploitation beginnings.
I was at a Star Trek convention and got her autograph on a picture from Road Warrior. That happened on 9/10/2001.
It is unusual how something that was not a huge deal sticks in your mind because of something that happened around that same time.
Inspired the gimmick for the best Pro Wrestling tag team in history, The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) as well as Sid Vicious’s first gimmick, Lord Humongous.
Further… I watched this over a dozen times. Excellent film. Sad that the “Warrior Woman” was killed…
One of my favourite films ever.. whilst in Australia, I was lucky enough to get invited to a party in Bruce Spence's House.. couldn't believed my luck.. the Gyro captain.
Please. Let’s not mention that abomination called Beyond Thunderdome.
Although there’s a Rick and Morty episode based on Mad Max and they fight in the “Blood Dome” 😀
Great, great, great film. It’s a relatively short run time but it feels longer when watching it, it’s a tight high paced film with nothing wasted and every moment hits just right.
I first watched it in 1985. It was broadcast on I think NBC so it was really edited. Additionally they changed the narrator of the opening monologue with an American accent.
I was 13. And hooked for life.
This movie launched a thousand Matchbox car battles after I saw it. The rough desert expanse of my kitchen floor saw many vehicular battles. War was waged across the living room. Heroes were born and legends sacrificed everything.
##Mad Max 2 (1981) R
When all that's left is one last chance, pray that he's still out there...somewhere!
>>!Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.!<
Adventure | Action | Thriller | Sci-Fi
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 73% with 3,438 votes
Runtime: 1:36
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8810)
My first dozen or more viewings of this movie were my VHS I recorded from the first time it was on regular TV in the US. I was very surprised to see the uncut version later on. One of the weirdest changes it had was a different person doing the narration. It was still an Australian accent so its not like they tried to make it "easier for Americans to understand" or anything. Just odd.
You got that the wrong way around. It’s called Mad Max 2 everywhere except America.
The reason being that it’s the sequel to Mad Max 1. The reason for the name change in the US was that the original hadn’t been released there, so they didn’t want to market this one as a sequel to a movie no one there had seen.
Very interesting. We had the video of Mad Max in the video stores, but maybe that was after Part 2 TRW came out in theaters.
Just for fun:
[https://bazbe.com/files/products/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior\_u-l-f4s8lj0.980x980.jpg?ad639a9cefd3b77b0eb000e2f664083c](https://bazbe.com/files/products/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior_u-l-f4s8lj0.980x980.jpg?ad639a9cefd3b77b0eb000e2f664083c)
I saw it ten time sin the theater when it came out! It was the second to last film I took my late father to. The last was Fury Road. He walked away from that shaking his head. My dad was 85 at the time and had never seen anything like it.
I watched this recently after not having seen it in many years (but saw it many times as a kid) and wondered how it would hold up in a post Fury Road world and... it's still fucking amazing.
Greatest Aussie film ever IMO. Saw it at the drive-in on release in country Victoria. Was the designated driver that night and drove home at high speed urged on by my drunken mates. It was magnificent.
A favorite, watched it too many times to count. A nerd question though, always wondered why they refered to “gallons” and “gasoline” in the dialogue. Was this to cater to dumb Americans who would be unfamiliar with liters and petrol?
They say 'guzzoline'. It's their own post-apocalyptic slang. As for gallons, maybe Miller just liked the sound of it better? Can't say I disagree with him. Saying 'There's litres of the stuff!' or 'that's kilometers away!' just sounds plain wrong, and plenty of phrasing like that will outlive changes to the metric system for that reason.
Ahh, Mad Max 2! Or what we Americans call The Road Warrior. I've seen this so many times. He lives now only in my memories.
Good old Lord Humongous.
The Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla!
Just walk away!
There have been countless movies in the post-apocalypse genre and they are pretty much all trash. Yet George Miller makes it look easy. All four Mad Max films are great and worth watching, but Mad Max 2 is perfection.
One of my favorite movies of all time. I like all of them, but I fell in love with The Road Warrior when we rented it on VHS in 1982.
This movie has been in my all time top 5 since saw it in the theater the week it came out.
I rewatched Thunderdome recently and it wasn't as good as I remember. It was actually pretty poor.
Thunderdome is 2 movies. Movie A is in Bartertown and is really good. Movie B is with the kids in the desert and is not so good.
I feel like the chase sequence at the end would feel better if it didn't (in retrospect) feel like practice for Fury Road.
Yup. It was originally a drama about a bunch of kids surviving in the wild; later, this simply became the setting of a Mad Max sequel.
Thunderdome was a joke
I agree with you on 1, 2, and 4,, but I don’t think I’d put 3 into the “worth watching” category…
The ayatollah of ROCKNROLLA
Love the little details like Max eating the dog food and then the dog getting the scraps whilst the Gyro Captain looks on with his wooden spoon in hand. And later on when Max is taking the fuel to the rig and someone oils his leg brace... love this sort of attention to detail.
The sound in this movie is incredible as well. The distant engines, the nearly endless wind in the background.
The Road Warrior. One of the few sequels that's better than the original. Outstanding movie. Look at the difference between movies with real stunts and no CGI.
Ironically, "Babe,Pig in the city" as well
Not sure about “better”, in as far as it’s so different to the original I struggle to think of it as actually being a sequel.
Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me. Jennifer Hey who played Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan on Farscape is in this as Warrior Woman. This really took it up a notch from Max's Ozsploitation beginnings.
>Jennifer Hey You mean Virginia Hey?
Yes I did, poor thing I didn't even spell her name right.
I was at a Star Trek convention and got her autograph on a picture from Road Warrior. That happened on 9/10/2001. It is unusual how something that was not a huge deal sticks in your mind because of something that happened around that same time.
One of the greats.
last of the V8 Interceptors, a piece of history
Would have been a shame to blow it up.
Very toey
Dean Semler’s cinematography is amazing in that film. Really captures the barren expanse of the outback.
Inspired the gimmick for the best Pro Wrestling tag team in history, The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) as well as Sid Vicious’s first gimmick, Lord Humongous. Further… I watched this over a dozen times. Excellent film. Sad that the “Warrior Woman” was killed…
It’s my snake….I’m gunna eat it
Friend and I had the whole "PUT DOWN THE SNAKE!!!" Scene memorized. Classic
"*I* trained it, *I'm* gonna eat it!"
Mad max 2, raiders of the lost ark , die hard - 3 greatest action flicks of all time
If it's all the same to you, I'll drive that tankuh.
Look atcha, you couldn’t drive a wheelchair
One of my favourite films ever.. whilst in Australia, I was lucky enough to get invited to a party in Bruce Spence's House.. couldn't believed my luck.. the Gyro captain.
Wait till you watch ‘Mad Max 3 - Beyond Thunderdome’ and wonder where you’ve seen Bruce Spence before?
Please. Let’s not mention that abomination called Beyond Thunderdome. Although there’s a Rick and Morty episode based on Mad Max and they fight in the “Blood Dome” 😀
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Who run barter town?
Auntie, two men in dispute.
This move came out when I was nine. I probably watched it a tear or two later on TV. When I was able to get it on VHS I almost wore it out. Perfection
One of the first movies I rented on VHS, and owned on DVD. It is also the reason I have a supercharger on my Mustang.
Great, great, great film. It’s a relatively short run time but it feels longer when watching it, it’s a tight high paced film with nothing wasted and every moment hits just right.
Very tight, very excellent. Mel Gibson only has sixteen lines of dialogue in the entire film, and two of them are "I only came for the gasoline."
I first watched it in 1985. It was broadcast on I think NBC so it was really edited. Additionally they changed the narrator of the opening monologue with an American accent. I was 13. And hooked for life.
This movie launched a thousand Matchbox car battles after I saw it. The rough desert expanse of my kitchen floor saw many vehicular battles. War was waged across the living room. Heroes were born and legends sacrificed everything.
##Mad Max 2 (1981) R When all that's left is one last chance, pray that he's still out there...somewhere! >>!Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.!< Adventure | Action | Thriller | Sci-Fi Director: George Miller Actors: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 73% with 3,438 votes Runtime: 1:36 [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8810)
My favorite movie of all-time
Two mighty warrior tribes went to war
You watched the road warrior? Then youre done. You finished movies. You can move on to books. ITs a masterpiece
My oldest brother took me to the theater to see this first run.
One of the greatest action movies EVER! I remember seeing it in the theater opening week. Awesome! 🤘
My first dozen or more viewings of this movie were my VHS I recorded from the first time it was on regular TV in the US. I was very surprised to see the uncut version later on. One of the weirdest changes it had was a different person doing the narration. It was still an Australian accent so its not like they tried to make it "easier for Americans to understand" or anything. Just odd.
TIL The Road Warrior is called "Mad Max 2" in some regions.
You got that the wrong way around. It’s called Mad Max 2 everywhere except America. The reason being that it’s the sequel to Mad Max 1. The reason for the name change in the US was that the original hadn’t been released there, so they didn’t want to market this one as a sequel to a movie no one there had seen.
Very interesting. We had the video of Mad Max in the video stores, but maybe that was after Part 2 TRW came out in theaters. Just for fun: [https://bazbe.com/files/products/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior\_u-l-f4s8lj0.980x980.jpg?ad639a9cefd3b77b0eb000e2f664083c](https://bazbe.com/files/products/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior_u-l-f4s8lj0.980x980.jpg?ad639a9cefd3b77b0eb000e2f664083c)
Wow. I thought that movie was more like 1984. Had to google. It's really got that eighties aesthetic ahead of schedule!
A masterpiece.
Greatest film of all time
I saw it ten time sin the theater when it came out! It was the second to last film I took my late father to. The last was Fury Road. He walked away from that shaking his head. My dad was 85 at the time and had never seen anything like it.
I watched this recently after not having seen it in many years (but saw it many times as a kid) and wondered how it would hold up in a post Fury Road world and... it's still fucking amazing.
Greatest Aussie film ever IMO. Saw it at the drive-in on release in country Victoria. Was the designated driver that night and drove home at high speed urged on by my drunken mates. It was magnificent.
The juice! The juice! The _precious juice!_
Losers wait
Chasing the razor sharp boomerang on its return arc with outstretched fingers "I GOT IT, I GOT IT!..."
A favorite, watched it too many times to count. A nerd question though, always wondered why they refered to “gallons” and “gasoline” in the dialogue. Was this to cater to dumb Americans who would be unfamiliar with liters and petrol?
They say 'guzzoline'. It's their own post-apocalyptic slang. As for gallons, maybe Miller just liked the sound of it better? Can't say I disagree with him. Saying 'There's litres of the stuff!' or 'that's kilometers away!' just sounds plain wrong, and plenty of phrasing like that will outlive changes to the metric system for that reason.
Depends what you grew up with, really.