12 Things You Didn’t Know About Mad Max

18 responses to “12 Things You Didn’t Know About Mad Max”

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   jimu

   May 11, 2015 at 9:39 am

   There’s many more than 12 things I don’t know, having managed to have never seen it :-/

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   janexo

   May 11, 2015 at 10:17 am

   Aww man, please actually list them, rather than just cross-post the article 🙁

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      poita

      May 11, 2015 at 11:55 am

      It is actually a bit too long and involved to post here/

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   darren

   May 11, 2015 at 10:21 am

   I watched the first one a long time ago and thought it was pretty bad. Are 2 and 3 better?

   I was pretty young then so maybe I would appreciate it better. Thoughts?

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      mad_danny

      May 11, 2015 at 10:36 am

      I finally got around to watching them since they’ve been on TV these past few weeks – they haven’t aged particularly well, but you can definitely see why they were so influential – especially the second one. The third one is also interesting because it’s a decent piece until the Thunderdome, but the whole ‘Beyond Thunderdome’ aspect that is the title byline kinda makes it like Hancock; first half is an interesting lead-in to a solid character-driven action movie, second half goes off on weird tangents that tend to derail it all.

      Basically watch the second one more as a film study to better appreciate the likes of Borderlands, but don’t worry too much about the others.

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         weresmurf

         May 11, 2015 at 11:07 am

         You can definitely see the American influence in the third one, especially when they get to Bartertown.

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            mad_danny

            May 11, 2015 at 11:10 am

            So. Many. Guns.

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         deathcake

         May 11, 2015 at 2:53 pm

         And also from MM2, notice aussie chick actor who later went on to be Blue Mushroom Chick from Farscape 😉

         edit; Virginia Hey = Zhaan, for those curious

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      evilmonkey

      May 11, 2015 at 11:15 am

      I’ve only ever seen the first one and bits of 2, but I bought the trilogy on the weekend, so I’ll be spending the next few nights catching up before watching Fury Road on Thursday.

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      kato

      May 11, 2015 at 2:44 pm

      Watch them all. I’m not sure why people say they haven’t aged well. Given that the first one was made on a shoe string budget in the 1970’s and so uses cars of the time, the rest of the film really does make up its own world and language which continues into the sequels and so really doesn’t place it anywhere as far as a time goes. Viewed as a trilogy they really show an evolution – of a leading actor, director, storyline, and even of the Australian film industry (including the inevitable influence of Hollywood when the franchise got big enough). Of course that assumes you have an interest in those things.

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   mushaconvoy

   May 11, 2015 at 10:42 am

   How about awesome facts like, americans couldn’t understand australian accents so they dubbed over the first film with american actors.

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      darren

      May 11, 2015 at 11:02 am

      Hahaha, that’s pretty funny.

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   smokey61

   May 11, 2015 at 10:48 am

   So many of those ‘facts’ in the article were just plain wrong. Very poorly researched.

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   misterbung

   May 11, 2015 at 11:51 am

   Aw yeah nah gonna jump on me bike an head down the shops for a chicko roll and solo hey

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