MAD MAX (1979) Retrospective / Review
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- MAD MAX (1979) Retrospective / Review
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The fact that Miller's first movie is basically a B movie but is still absolutely a relevant and good film to watch says a lot about Miller's talent as a director
He's very good.
To me it’s the “Godfather of B movies”
Definitely a B movie but definitely good.
"B movie" is an elitist gatekeeper's word anyway.
The stunt man that got hit by the motorcycle tire probably got payed an extra six pack.
no they didnt' Watch MAD MAX EXPOSED OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER #1 & #2 and all will be explained
God protects the fools
alex chalakee that impact actually killed him
@@michaeldawson7618 No it didn't. Dale Bensch is alive & well & living in Victoria.
@@michaeldawson7618 No movie misinformation 😑
"Max's house was located near the coast of Australia"
That's specific for an island continent.
...with about 90% of the entire population density living near the coast
@@marcino457 610 Great Ocean Road Victoria.
@@rhettcorbett3346 Incorrect, 310 Great Ocean Road, Fairhaven, Victoria. I don't know where you got your information.
@@nickfatsis9607 I just made a mistake. Sorry. Don't get your knickers in a knot.
@@rhettcorbett3346 No knickers were in a knot, just correcting you, now you know better. :)
The best Mad Max in my opinion. His black interceptor was the coolest car in the history of automobiles!
I was 10 when my Dad introduced me to Mad Max. Didn't see Road Warrior until about a year later and I nearly bawled my eyes out when I saw the state of it in the opening scene...
...so were the cops' cars
Agreed across the board
MM2 is better in almost 12 -14 ways!
Hold my Kit...
I don't care what anyone says, Mad Max is one of the greatest films ever made, certainly in the action genre, but in my opinion overall as well. Everything comes together so well. The acting is raw and real. The stunts and cinematography incredible considering the low budget, and the fact it was a 1979 movie. And I really get a kick out of the Aussie slang. Give 'em the bejeezus! LOL. And of course, well done again, Oliver.
Totally agree man.....And thanks for being someone else in the world who can see this.......This movie has always been complete magic on so many levels; original, emotive, raw, dramatic.....And few films ever made imo can ever touch its greatness.....I would venture to say it is one of the most underrated films ever......A total and badass masterpiece.
Max still trying to chase down the thugs after getting shot in the leg is still a bad ass moment.
look at that 40c petrol. those were the days.
It's dropped down to 80c on the gold coast just now which is surreal.
Mad Max is a film that probably couldn't be made today with the current state of independent filmmaking, and certainly couldn't be made in America period under the conditions they had to work under, since now most indies believe that everything has to be done exactly how a Hollywood studio would operate.
You are the very best when it comes to movie reviews/retrospective on youtube.
GamerForLife He really is. How in-depth, detailed, well researched , and informative his videos are is amazing. He deserves a huge audience.
Absolutely.
Agree.
I love the trailers you put together at the start of each review. They really psych me up to watch the actual movie.
yes, great montage there
The one he did for Wrath of Khan is my favorite
He's one of the only reviewers that takes the time to encode all that footage. It takes a long time and effort.
Watched this when I was 4 for the first time with my dad. To this day I love this movie and have lost count of all the times I have watched it. I even went location finding and visited where the film was shot about 6 years ago.
cool
WOW, thats incredible...btw..they cant film in those desserts anymore because the area has become a lush landscape...I say MAdmax 5 should be set in a land of some kind of recovery, after all this desert madness starts subsiding....
@gutz1981 Where did you go to visit the filming locations?
There's a video on TH-cam made by a bloke that's gone to pretty much every location. It's fantastic.
It's a B-Movie with some A-level talent who where still willing to work at a low budget because they weren't famous yet. The other ones are much more professional, but this is the most brutal and dark one of them all, really shows Max's decent to madness.
Saw this film at the cinema in 1980 with Friday 13th as a double bill, we were into bikes then so loved the leather (errr vinyls) bikes, cars and chases/crashes. It was a great film and I even remember that my CB radio handle being Toecutter, ahhh those were the days.
Off road bike here, had leathers though... And also has a DS Hornet 2 CB.. and my handle? "CQ (seek you) CQ, Anyone got a copy on Mad Matt, cmon" ;)
And def days many kids today wont ever understand... We have their experiences in a modern world, but theyll never have ours...
"See you on the road , Scags!"
I agree 100% about what you said with Mel’s physical acting. I don’t think I’ve seen a better “wound” scene than when max gets shot in the leg and how he struggles and limps back to the car.
Watched it last night and had this exact thought!
It was a bit weird how he held his leg out straight like that, but given I've never been shot in the knee I don't know if it's weird or not. Given Miller was a medical doctor maybe he told Mel to do it that way for a reason.
Mel was always a great physical actor, look at the lethal weapon series
Click on the video, instantly click like and sit back to enjoy. Olivers retrospectives are never bad.
Funny thing about the Max Max series was that I watch the film in reverse too. But im glad that I watched the first film last. The guerilla style filmmaking techniques are outstanding and at the time i had no idea that Mad Max 1 was shot around parts of Melbourne since I still live here for more than 30 years. I think Mad Max is the best ozplotation ever produced in Australia.
Anyone interested in any other ozplotation films check out the doco Not Quite Hollywood. The Man from Hong Kong, Patrick, Turkey Shoot, The Long Weekend, Dead end Drive in, Road games and Razorback are also worth checking out too.
I like how the rebel spirit seems to have returned to Melbourne recently.
This is great. You got so many of the details right. Especially reffering to the Black XB as a Pursuit Special, and not an Interceptor as it was called in Mad Max 2. Mel's suit was in fact Vinyl as in two scenes, the knees of his pants split as it did with all the cast save Goose, who was the only one who had the real leather suit, which made sense as his character was shown riding a motorcycle and needed it more. Well done.
I heard it was Mel who had the only real leather jacket .🤔🤔🤔
Don't they call it the last of the V8 Interceptors when he first sees it in the garage
Mel Gibson really is an outstanding actor. One of my favs.
Also great director!
Love MM1. It's more emotive and tragic with amazing real action (not common today). A normal man, trying to take his family and escape the craziness of a mad mad world. His family was killed (DOA, and essentially dead), not badly injured. One comment. The music score over the "irrelevant" dialogue with the sheriff, the hand, etc. I've always thought was purposeful. It's meant to be like that, reminding us that the event is "trivial" in the view of the law (of course, in our world it would be significant but it's glossed over here). This is similar to Max getting the dog. We don't really need dialogue of a meaningless event. Obviously Kennedy was the genius behind the films.
MM1: A
MM2: A+
MM3: B-/C+
MM4: C/D
Think you missed the mark. No way is mm4 that low
@@mylifeisalie6781 MM4 is nothing but "Fast and Furious." It's incoherent, doesn't fit in the story, is not very original, and fairly silly with cartoon violence, too much CGI, and a lot of story, acting, and plot problems. It jumped the shark.
@@leadcounsel4869 There isn’t really that much CGI in Mad Max Fury Road. 99% of the stunts were practical. The only thing that was CGI was the sandstorm. Everything else is done for real. Also, the movie did have a coherent story, it was just in the screen, like The Road Warrior. I would say Beyond Thunderdome was incoherent because it doesn’t fit the story because it switches from the environment of Bartertown to suddenly focus on the kids. And then, there’s a huge climatic car chase at the end out of nowhere. It all feels rushed and forced, so I think that Fury Road is weaker than Thunderdome. But, hey if you find Fury Road the weakest, that’s fine. I'm not trying to knock you for your opinion, I was just saying that Fury Road has more of a strong and clear vision for a movie that got scored that low. I would say that Fury Road gets an A++, Road Warrior gets an A+, Mad Max gets a B, and Thunderdome gets a C-.
Nah man MM4 (Fury Road btw) is definitely A/A+! While I appreciate the first film I definitely prefer the later films
The film is a classic. One of the greatest science fiction action movies ever made. In late 2016, I could sleep because I was really upset and I felt mad and so I put on my DVD of the original Mad Max.
This isn’t sci-fi….at all
@@-MrFozzy- Post Apocalyptic.
Oliver harper you are the best youtube has to offer and made for even greater things! sir i love the fact you dont waste your or our time makeing these videos and really talk about what we want to hear in a retrospective or review on films
Thank you very much for your feedback Sandy!
I remember watching this film on video when I was 10. Seeing Goose's arm all burned up really gave me a fright. I particularly like the ending with Johnny the Boy and Max giving him that hellish choice.
Interestingly both Mad Max and its sequel were called "gothic horrors" on the back of the video boxes and I've always seen that aspect in the films. As someone who still plays tabletop RPGs Mad Max has definitely left a lasting impression when it comes to how I view post-apocalyptic society.
This is actually my favourite Max film.
Someone on another youtube channel figured out when these movies take place, as the prop plac shown at the front of the Main Force Patrol entrance said it was established in 1983, and the events of this film happened two years after MFP was established as they were the last line of local defence that arrived two years before the fall of society, making it set in 1985. The events in Mad Max 2 are said in the novel to have taken place 5 years after the first film's events, placing it in 1990. Beyond Thunderdome is 15-18 years after that, setting it at around 2005. Though George has stated otherwise.
I have seen Mad Max at least 10 times since the early 80s. The great thing about Oliver’s Retrospectives is that he highlights things never appreciated or understood.. Thank you Oliver you do excellent work.
George had considered casting an American in the lead...and ended up casting an American in the lead role!😀
Technically, you're correct. Mel and his family had been living in Aus. since he was 12. You might notice there were still some flecks of the American accent in his lines. Instead of 'talk' it would sound like 'tark'.
Yeah they just emigrated to AUS because his dad is a psycho tax dodger. That doesn't really make him 'local' talent.
His Dad is a religious conspiracy theorist and probably slightly mad. He is, after all, 99 years old and the brain may not be what it was. However, coming to Australia to dodge tax may have been the wrong move. Paul Hogan left Australia for that very reason to live in America. Our Government collects tax like our waste disposal management services collect garbage; on time, every week and lots of it.
@@Scottie_S Mel did a superb job as Max. It got him noticed. If George Miller wanted an American, he could have got Kurt Russell but then again, he probably wouldn't have been able to play Snake Plissken.
Nice review sir. I suspect, if you'd seen them in the correct order, Mad Max would be your favourite. As an Aussie, it's absolutely quintessential for me, so redolent of the times. The others don't exist without it. Perhaps it will grow on you in time. It's certainly a lot better than Thunderdome
The original is still my favourite to this day. I saw them in order and I pretty much like them all equally. I can understand how people find Mad Max inferior to Road Warrior (even if I disagree), but saying it's inferior to Thunderdome is just ridiculous.
AGENT BLACK agree.
Yep first one has the most substance overall.
Hamish
Mad Max is better than Thunderdome. As a kid, I saw Thunderdome first, then Mad Max, then Road Warrior. I think Road Warrior is my favorite from the original trilogy. It's so unique, and the characters are so colorful. George Miller is a genius. With Fury Road I feel he's proven he is one of the greatest directors of epic action films. I compare every post-apocalyptic film to Miller's Mad Max movies. They are the best apocalyptic movies, imo
@@cruddddddddddddddd I saw them in that order, too.
I'm glad I did!
one of my favorite movies ever!
In Mad Max there's never a mention of a War or even social collapse, but it gives you the impression there's something wrong purely through the atmosphere and character's behaviours. Crime is clearly out of control and as the opening crawl states, the film's set: "A FEW YEARS FROM NOW"
This is owed to the genius of Miller's
Read the paperback, it explains what happened to the world.
When it comes to these reviews Ollie you are nothing more than a class act, superb stuff as per normal.
I love it when you talk about seeing films in the video store as a kid and imagining what they are like.
takes me back to my child hood.
The things you described about filming on the roads reminds me of what I heard about Gone in 60 Seconds (1974). Supposedly the drivers in that didn't get permits and were going over 100mph on city streets. Stuff like that is what makes these movies look so real, because they really did it.
"The Yellow Interceptors could barely push 60mph" (circa 9:07) ... the smallest engine was a 200ci with 130bhp, the most common was 250ci with 155-170bhp. (302ci and 351ci were also available) These were not fast cars by current standards, but none of the XA/XB Falcons struggled to exceed 60mph. 🤷♂️
It wasn’t the “distant” future. The road sign at the beginning says “Main Force Patrol established 1984.”
The whole review is plagued with errors like the vinyl jecket for everyone but Mel. It was actually Goose the one who had the real one. Or the fact the blue van was George Miller's one. It was, in the first shot, then when the impact happens he cuts to a scrapyard one
Also I had seen the two Gibson sequels before the original. The stunts are wild and the experience feels like several unfinished sketches thrown together. The love scenes are tender and it was fulfilling to get a sense of the civilised, less hardened Max. We witness the tragic events which create the cagey, survivalist loner we meet later on.
Awesome video Ollie I hope you will do beyond thunderdome I think it's very underrated
YOU JUST KEEP HITTIN' THE *FUCKIN* HOME RUNS HARPER!
This is a great review.
Billy Boid HOME RUN HARPER! 👍👍👍
Finally the original Mad Max!
These retrospectives are the kind of videos similar to the AVGN ones where year by year I can keep coming back and rewatching them
I do like how a lot of people say this movie looks post apocoliptic but to me it looks quite recognisable. I live in Australia and a lot of the places and towns look like country towns I've seen since I was a kid. I first saw this film when I was 12 when it came on TV and I already knew it was made for pennies and the fact George Miller worked as a Doctor before this movie. It just made me laugh when I recognised all the locations as looking similar to places I'd visit as a kid.
It doesn't look post apocalyptic AT ALL tbh
I kept wondering why this film was set in the so called "future"
I am so glad you did the retro. You always make me love my favorite films all over again
I love this dude and his reviews
Great review. I could never really get into the first movie. I have seen it 3 or 4 times, but while it is interesting to watch, it never grabs me emotionally. I have a strange relation with the series anyway. I saw Thunderdome and Fury Road before I watched Road Warrior, which I only did a few months ago. Like many others I liked Road Warrior the most, which I really didn't expect.
Hey Oliver any chance we'll see a Retrospective on Lethal Weapon?
LinkMarioSamus Yes please!
Great review as always. I've got some recommendations that I think will make great reviews with your style: Apocalypse Now, Sleepwalkers, Leon The Professional, Blind Fury, Razorback, The Warriors, Christine and The Black Hole.
Mad Max weaker than Beyond Thunderdome.... surely you jest.
Yeah i thought that too haha. Thunderdome is surely the worst.
Thunderdome is my 2nd favourite.
Beyond Thunderdome is the weakest of the three - but it’s not a bad film. The other two are just that good.
Thunder dome was a steaming pile of dog shite. In no way comparable to the first two.
Thunderdome is crap.
My favorite Mel Gibson movie.
Great review, Oliver. I enjoyed the behind the scenes documentary for this film when I got the DVD boxset. It's quite astounding that they managed to shoot the scenes they did.
The scene with Max's family still gets me every time. I know the outcome, but am desperately hoping it ends differently.
Should watch the documentary Not Quite Hollywood. It's the story of Ozsploitation films which mentions a lot of the stunt work in Mad Max and other films of its kind.
Dave Rubin's Disappointed Dad Not really sure. I remember it being on TH-cam, just not sure if it still is.
Grant Page.... What a legend .... Im sure his had more Brocken bones than Trumps life of lies. Thats alot.
Dude, Oliver, you never cease to amaze the youtube clan. Masterpiece.
One of my three favorite low budget classic movies of all time! The other two being “texas chainsaw massacre” and “alice sweet alice”
You're not mistaken in your assessment of "Mad Max." I saw the trilogy in chronological order. I saw the first film on HBO around 1980 or 1981 (likely with the American dub). I thought the story was weak and felt like the whole film was just an excuse to tear up a bunch of vehicles and body parts. I went to see "The Road Warrior" in 1982 in the cinema. I did not know it was a sequel to "Mad Max" until they started showing scenes from the first film. I was thinking, "Oh, no! I hated that movie! Why did I come here?" But I was beyond blown away by the story, structure and stunts. I loved it! It helped me to think better of the first film when I went back to see it again years later (in the cinema and with the Australian soundtrack).
I have not seen Fury Road, but mad MAx is my favorite of the series. The austere settings and dialouge are great. The sense of world dissolving is wonderful. The sense of atmosphere in this film is superb.
Just something about Mad Max, it’s just timeless to me. I know it made an impression on my dad at the time who bought a Kawasaki Z1000 after watching this and Stone, the high speed goose riding section before he comes off just feels right, as a motorcyclist it gets it right, doesn’t feel fake. Mad Max is a petrol heads dream.
We need more films like the mad max movies
Nicely done, sir. i always look forward to your retrospectives.
To this day I thought it was Queen's Brian May, Thanks Oliver.
The days when Mel had an Australian accent.
Great review as always! Thank you very much!
The actor playing toecutter was also in an earlier mid 70s Aussie biker movie called Stone which has a cool opening when a biker on a Z900 is beheaded after pulling a wheelie up the road. It also includes a race between a Z900 and a Norton Commando which is well shot for its time.
Stone isn’t widely known and can be hard to track down but I think it has a small following among those who are into biker movies.
It’s worth watching imo.
I remember seeing the 2nd film first and then the first one and at the time thought the first film was like a b movie but grew to appreciate the stunts in the first film and understood it was low, low budget and I think that's why as soon as they made money from the first film the second film was always going to be a lot better in a story telling and filming and acting way and with the nutty stunts in it like the first, mad Max 2 will always be the best one out of the original 3 even the new one is nowhere near as good but was ok I think it's more of a remake than a sequel with a great mix of cgi and real stunts to take the movie into the 21st century but mad Max 2 was the film that really got the story we know today with the oil crisis and these road warriors that will kill anything in there way.
This channel deserves more subscribers. How come with all this nice content is still below 100k?
i love how honest you are about seeing the second and third film after the first. thats the order i saw them too :3
Great review man, I like your point about how many of us saw Mad Max after seeing Mad Max 2 and it feels a little bit out of sync, but the way you described it as a chase film makes me appreciate it more.
I had no idea Walton Goggins was Australian and didn't age
Who?
I like the soundtrack, but a friend of mine pointed out that parts of it sound like West Side Story, which makes sense.
Great review I remember watching this on VHS as a youngster blown away by the action also of the most thought provoking films of that time . The Director was ahead of his time and Mel Gibson was fantastic . Fury Road is still the same intensity of the rest and I hope George Miler makes another one with Tom Hardy
I love first Mad Max movie, I cant stop watching it again, again and again. It's so nostalgic for me, when i saw the movie 2020, it was soo good.
Saw this when I was a bit to young. The part with maxs family getting killed frightened the crap outta me.. Excellent work as always Oliver
The best time to see movies like this are when you're slightly too young. The impact and messaging ends up being more effective.
I saw Predator and Mad Max around the same time, 1988, when I was 8 years old. Theoretically way too young, however, they impacted me in such a way that I was fully involved in what the films were trying to convey to the audience.
2:26 Cool guys don’t look at explosions.
Super chargers can be engaged or not engaged on the driver will with am agnectic clutch just as the A/C system uses
Great as always, I must've said that everytime I comment on your reviews. To be honest, I almost avoided watching this review, because I saw footage of the fourth "Mad Max" movie and felt there could've been spoilers, glad there wasn't, since I haven't watched that one yet. I first saw bits of this movie on Television, I didn't see the whole movie until I watched it on one of "Encore" channels. I thought the movie was really good, I wound up buying on DVD fro my local "Big Lots" sometime later, but never took the time to re-watch it. Should sometime and probably check out the other three.
Saw Mad Max as a ten year old when cable tv first arrived to the suberbs of NYC in the early 80’s. It was one of those rated R movies you snuck to watch when your parents weren’t looking.
Star Wars was great with special effects but Mad Max was unique. It’s premise and atmosphere coupled with literally death defying stunts made it stand out even without ground breaking special effects.
Mad Max, along with Escape From New York, Rollerball, Logan’s Run and evening Omega Man laid the foundation for my love of science Fiction. Add the works of Robert Heiein and Philip K Dick into the mix.
Mad Max was the beginning and Fury Road feels like a renaissance of the genre that will perpetuate the Mad Max world hopefully for another 40 years.
Awesome mate!
It always made me laugh how the night rider was bigging himself up, then he totally capitulated and started crying.
The first time I watched this movie I really didn't like it but watching the others after it really added some nice background to it and it made the later movies "sadder" to me. Seeing the beginning of the deterioration of society in the first, and then later seeing how it continued to decline to Fury Road was so cool.
I was living at Laverton when this was filmed.When the movie came out I went to the cinemas three or four times to watch it.We would drive around the sites and pick them out,wish I'd taken photos,but who knew it would turn out so big a deal.We drove over the skull painted on the road not long after when we were out near Calder Park for the drags.
Leakes road?
Can't remember where exactly,too long ago.Didn't think much of the skull sign until the movie came out but we didn't go back and find that bit.
Underrated gem and neat feature the villain for this then plays the villain Immortal Joe in the last Max film Fury road. I thought that was kind of neat when I learned that.
RIP Hugh Keays-Burne
I think no one who didn't grow up in melbourne in the late 70's is never going to get it.
Great work as always Oliver!
I read somewhere that the original idea for Mad Max wasn't post-apocalyptic at all, but it got that vibe from being shot in Australia and in very sparsely populated areas/buildings due to the low budget.
Last year I bought a bluray set of all four Mad Max films and watched through them all, including behind the scenes features and commentaries, over the course of a week. Before that, I'd only seen one of them before (Road Warrior). My personal ranking of them is as follows:
1) Thunderdome
2) Road Warrior
3) the original
4) Fury Road
Oliver, I love your work! Have you thought about doing To Live And Die In L.A.? It's one of my favorite movies and I can never find any quality reviews of it and it barely gets any recognition besides the car chase scene. Which is incredible, but it's sad to see such a great film slide under the radar.
City of Industry I feel has the same rap.
Keep it up man your making TH-cam worth watching.
Okay, I’m 17, and I don’t know if I didn’t really.. understand entirely, but it seemed very odd.
Maybe because I’ve been watching too much modern media or something, I dunno. So many weird things happened out of nowhere, like the guy waving the red flag in front of the black car towards the beginning.
I understand the cuts and the weird jumps for the time, but I dunno. I liked it, sure, but the movie shows the colors of its time, I guess? That’s not a bad thing. But that’s just my take, sorry I’m not old enough to appreciate it. 😔 Still loved it tho, even if I was confused during 10% of it.
I love the first two films. I also remember going to the video rental shop with my mum, when i was a kid, and my eyes would also always be drawn to the cover of Mad Max. Being around 9-10 though, obviously i was never aloud to get it.
I love the fact that Hugh Keays-Byrne plays the main villian in this movie and in Fury Road.
It's a shame that Gibson wasn't in Fury Road. I'd love to one day see Mel Gibson direct a Mad Max film after George Miller makes Mad Max The Wasteland.
My friend ran into gorge miller before he started making it and Mel was in the frame for it, but then all that jewish ranty shit happened.
George is still working on Mad Max The Wasteland which is currently in development and George is also working on the first Mad Max spin-off movie about Furiousa.
Litshttam There is speculation, that Tom Hardy's Max is actually 'The Feral Kid' from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; he's grown-up and inherited Max's leather jacket and V8 Interceptor. And there's definitely plenty of evidence to support this reading:
Rockatansky gives The Feral Kid a wind-up music box, which is similar to the one we see Hardy's Max have in his possession (it's found by one of Immortan Joe's wives as she pokes about the War Rig).Hardy's Max doesn't identify himself until the very end of the move, and even then, his introduction - "Max. My name is Max. That's my name." - feels off, strange, as if it's the first time he's uttered those words Max is for the majority of Fury Road a dumb character, uttering very few words and mainly communicating through grunts.
So we put the theory to Miller, and here's what the Mad Max creator and director had to say:
"That’s great… No, unfortunately but that’s a great idea. Only because at the end of Mad Max 2, it turns out the narrator is the Feral Kid as an old man, and he says, ‘He only lives now in my memories.’”
At this point we informed Miller the theory ingeniously factors in the end of Mad Max 2, since the events of Fury Road take place on the Feral Kid's journey to becoming a tribal leader and the narrator of Mad Max 2.
It just wasn't the same for me without Mel.
with the popularity of the first 2 "Mad Max" movies, the video game company IdSoftware got the inspiration from them when making the 2011 game titled "RAGE"
push me, shove you, OH YEAH? SAYS WHO?
Was a hit song,...... The OZ version of The Village people... "The Pillage People"
Great informative video......Feel that this first film in the series though is totally the best one.....And a masterpiece. The Road Warrior is a great film, but I'll take the original Mad Max over it almost every time.......Mad Max 1 is absolutely wired, emotive, raw, unhinged, and dramatic filmmaking that few movies have ever touched.
I don't think you have a single bad video. Please never stop doing these.
I've been fanatical about this film ever since I saw it as a youngster in the 80s. The Road Warrior also.
I can't drum up any enthusiasm for any of Mel Gibsons later films, somehow.
I was tempted to avoid Fury Road as I thought it may vandalise the series. I was wrong- it was bloody fantastic.
Hey Oliver! Still waiting on The warriors review. I love watching all your content, and sometimes I binge watching them. I would just love a warriors one to be thrown in the mix.
Fantastic review as always Oliver! One of my favourite action films of all time although I do prefer the other 3 Max films more.
Very good retrospective, Mad max, for me is second only to Mad Max 2,. It just had real grit. Thunderdome and fury road for me headed into overblown theatre land and didn't have the same emotional resonance
absolutely amazing review. believe me, I seen quite a few of this film. like your style 🎥🎬📽
How could you put Thunderdome in front of this, the dialogue in this makes it better than 2 as well imo
Totally agree the first film is much better
I look at the comment section and i see that the action in mad max 1 is phenomenal. However, for me i think the action is the least phenomenal part in this movie. I think the character study of max is the most compelling part of the movie.
so glad I watched these in order, I think his grief is key to his character
I remember the Nintendo Video Game for this being really hard to play.
Well done...love the channel