Can we discuss the original Mad Max (1979)

It’s a pretty terrible movie

Yeah I don’t disagree with this at all.


Also, this should be added to the what movie would you show someone from 100 years ago thread

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the original Mad Max (1979)

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Least liked of the Gibson Mad Max movies.

I just want to add that the original was a "B Movie" shown in drive-in theatres. The same theatres where films like Vanishing Point and the original Gone In 60 Seconds played. I saw all three at the Do on Metairie Road. This was its audience and it was never intended to be Citizen Kane.

It wasn't that it was a great movie at all but that it was a lot of fun. I'll admit it's my least favorite of the Mad Max films but without it we wouldn't have had Road Warrior and without Road Warrior we wouldn't have had Beyond Thunderdome which ultimately led to Fury Road.

It's set in a bleak post-apocalyptic world where death could be waiting around the next corner. Resources are scarce, scratching and scrounging out a subsistence living is the new way of life for people. Meanwhile predators lurk everywhere and authorities are virtually powerless to stop them. It created an entirely new genre of dystopian future movies but I could see how the slow dread of waiting for relentless death to catch up with the protagonist might be a little boring to a younger generation. It's not of your time and place.

Cool cars and the Toe Cutter !!

Care to guess what year the movie was at in???



2021. So tighten up your chinstraps.

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Well that’s not really true for the first movie

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Lol, really? Look up descriptions for Mad Max. Almost all of them are similar to what I wrote. Dystopic, post-apocalyptic, wasteland, bleak, etc. What I wrote was accurate.

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It looks like Australia grassland, and looks nothing like road warrior or thunder dome. The family takes a vacation, stops at businesses. There is still a government that enforces the law. Our idea of post-apocalyptic isn't really visually present in the first movie.

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Your complaint is there's grass in a world that is collapsing into dystopia? What is "our idea" of post-apocalyptic? We're talking about George Miller's idea of post-apocalyptic. You know, the guy who invented the genre with this movie.

Here's some quick notes from IMDB:

In a self-destructing world...

Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. After some grisly events at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge.

Against the backdrop of a perpetual energy crisis in a post-apocalyptic Australia of the near future, only fragments of law, civilisation, and order remain, as the Night Rider's marauding motorcycle gang of brutal outlaws terrorise the remaining outback communities.

In a dystopic future Australia...

The film is set in the near future of a bleak, dystopian and impoverished Australia that is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread oil shortages.

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Look the descriptions can say what they want I just watched the movie last night. Other than the beginning saying “in the near distant future” and the motorcycle gang clearly not caring about the law and stealing gas, there is nothing else to really suggest it’s “post apocalyptic”. They live in houses, there are restaurants, law enforcement, farms, businesses etc... it’s clearly a small town but I don’t think anyone watches that movie and thinks “post apocalypse”

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Take your objections up with George Miller. I'm sure he'll agree with your complaint that the first movie in his dystopian Mad Max series doesn't look like the other movies in his dystopian Mad Max series.