Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior (1981) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!! Feat. TimotheeReacts
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- Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior (1981)
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www.therpf.com/forums/threads/mad-max-interceptor.94594/ The remains of Max`s car in 2006 including the red 4x4 from part 2....
Interesting fact... the supercharger never worked in part 1 it was an electric motor hooked up to a battery just off screen...
That thing is a gyrocopter. Yes they are pretty dangerous.
don't get too excited about the 3rd movie, although I see you have already watched it by the time I am writing this
I have some movie suggestions you may enjoy that other reactors have NOT done ......
"Gangs of New York" (drama based on true events)
"From Dusk Till Dawn" (horror/comedy w/Quentin Tarantino)
"Basketball Diaries" (drama w/ DiCaprio)
"Natural Born Killers" (drama w/ Woody Harrelson. Screenplay - Tarantino. Director - Oliver Stone)
"Steel Magnolias" (drama/comedy w/ all star female cast)
"The Sting" (Redford & Newman)
"The Untouchables" (drama w/ Sean Connery & Kevin Costner & Robert DeNiro)
"Fargo" (film not tv show. Dark comedy and true story)
"Mildred Pierce" (classic Joan Crawford)
"All About Eve" (classic Bette Davis)
"Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" (classic Crawford & Davis together)
Fun fact : The film crew actually went to a dog pound to find a dog for the movie. This little healer was so smart he was able to learn his scenes on the fly during the filming.
He was saved from being euthanized, starred in the most expensive movie ever in Australia at the time and was then adopted by one of the film crew workers.
Now there's a happy ending.
@@barreloffun10 - And what pound did they go to to get the feral kid? Did anyone adopt him afterwards?
@@Mr.Ekshin Haha. The child actor, Emil Minty, is now a jeweler in Sydney.
Fun fact: This movie wasn't set after an apocalyptic event, it was just a prediction of Australian societies natural progress as time goes on. The rest of the world is suppose to be totally normal as all this happens.
@@gwildordipkin6504 Incorrect. Thunderdome shows the whole origin story. Nuclear Apocalypse. Whether it was meant to or not, it is cannon now.
This movie became the blueprint for the post apocalyptic genre. And the amazing thing is that Max is only passing through this main stories, almost like a legend type character. I love this movie, and the simplicity of it!
Their is also a good amount of Cyberpunk in here as well (specifically Nomads). This is one of the reference movies listed in the Cyberpunk 2020 world book.
@@Heegaherger there's literally no cyberpunk elements in there
R. Talsorian Games Inc. (the creators of Cyberpunk 2020) would disagree, both this movie and Mad Max. As I said, it focuses on Nomads and tone. Citation: Cyberpunk 2020, 2nd ed. (1990) pg. 188
Mad Max is the hero of legend who wanders in and out of other people's tales. It's what makes him a legend. He's like Eastwood's man with no name.
Correct, i love that angle of this franchise.
Most Post-Apocalypse movies are Westerns at their core. Wanderers searching for salvation in a bleak land of violence and adventure.
Max is broken man. A loner, who can't move on, from his loss. It also makes him mad. But he is still hero, since he does In the end right thing.
Nobody gonna talk about those stunt men? No tricks, no generated scenes just a few dummy bodies for death scenes and some people with the biggest balls in cinema history.
That guy at 20:25 got seriously injured doing that stunt, but it's damn amazing to watch!
@@dwaneanderson8039 Almost died, that flipping part wasn't meant to be.
@@dwaneanderson8039 he was alright in the end (after smashing his leg)- i think he played Furiosa's wingman in Fury Road.
These kids don't know what they're seeing anyway. I'd rather they just stick to their own era's horseshit to be honest.
Yeah, they're too dumb to appreciate the greatness of this movie.
“I’ll talk to this humongous , he seems like a reasonable fella”
That is funny
As Humongous sits outside, wearing a hockey mask, with two of his guys strapped to the front of one of his autos...
Open to negotiation!
Open to negotiations
Nah..the best thing you can do is just ..Walk Away!
With 200+ comments so far, I'm sure someone has brought this up already, but just in case... the best way to interpret the Mad Max movies are not as a single linear storyline, but as individual legends about a man named Max roaming the post-apocalypse, told to the audience from the viewpoints of different narrators. Think of him as more myth than man.
Perfect. Max is never the main character in any of the films; just a myth that wandered out of the sands for a time then vanished again once his part was played.
@@peterbrazukas7771 Well, the first film he is the main character. And it is not narrated by someone who met him. So, it is like "Here is his origin" for the first film, then the rest of the films are others telling about their encounter with him. Which would still fit the mold, in my opinion.
Thank you!!!
That idea is nonsense, it is not the story of Furiosa or Lord Humungous or Goose or any other, it is the story of Max Rockatansky the road warrior, the angel of combustion or universal donor, these movies are to watch their evolution, how he lost his wife and his son, how he adapted to the circumstances and lost his dog with the interceptor, otherwise the film would be called something else, Max is the envoy of destiny that is why he cannot die
Factoid: Humongous, the antagonist leader wearing the hockey mask... this was a year or two before Jason got his hockey mask in Friday the 13th. Also... Motley Crue said they patterned their look after Road Warrior... football shoulder pads, torn clothing, etc. These movies had a massive impact on how the 80s turned out!
WWF Road Warriors, obviously, too. Uber obviously.
correct, it started a new fashion thunderdome sent it into overdrive
Of course the dog at the beginning was unfazed and well-trained, he's a blue heeler (Australian Cattle Dog).
Smart, tough and loyal.
My favorite breed.
Mel Gibson has only 16 lines of dialogue in the entire film. For me excellent sequel.
He originally had 120 lines of dialogue but they were all about Jews and had to be cut.
@@spackle9999 Beat me to it.
@@spackle9999 lol
Lol... One long rant in the second act..
@@spackle9999 They should've kept the lines in, Gibson is right.
Max's entire character is literally a Legend.
We never know what happened to him after the end of Every movie and that let us believe that he maybe be Dead or he still continues around the world as the Road Warrior.
The entire 3rd movie explains the device of how Max's figure works as a hero... in fact, it explains very well how myths in general work.
The 3rd and 4th movies are about how human groups need ideas and myths to work as a society and break prejudices and so on...
The first 2 explains the process of how society and what it makes it work falls
Yes it's the legend of travelling hero.
@@markiv2942 yeah.
@@JulioLeonFandinho yeah.
www.therpf.com/forums/threads/mad-max-interceptor.94594/ The remains of Max`s car in 2006 including the red 4x4 from part 2....
2:48, Vernon Wells, plays Wez and also played Bennett in Commando, and reprised Wez in the teen Sci-fi comedy, Weird Science.
he was Mr. Igoe in Innerspace also!
Also the main bad guy in Power Rangers TimeForce. Got to meet him at a con years back and he's a pretty cool guy. Autographed my Blu Ray of Commando too.
@@alucard624 I met him at Comicon, and found out later that year that we have a mutual friend. Pretty awesome and down to earth guy!
Also popped up as a baddie in an episode of Hunter (Fred Dryer?). Still had his Commando chain mail shirt, too.
The way I figure it, each Mad Max story is the retelling of legendary stories by surviving future tribes recalling a person, Max, and how he affected their history, but they may have mythologized some of the recollections. Kind of like Daniel Boone or Hercules. That must be how he kept coming back with the Interceptor freshly rebuilt.
The stunt work in this film is amazing...still has me in awe 39 years later.
Agreed. I am awed by the bad buy who goes sailing through the air at one point during the chase. How could he have survived?
@@hanoc101 that was NOT planned and almost killed the stuntman. His legs were not supposed to hit the car causing him to flip like that. It looked so good they kept it in the film. It broke his legs.
*Had a lot of fun watching this, thanks for having me! Had a blast looking at the whole trilogy with you guys. You can click here to check out the Mad Max Playlist for the entire trilogy of reactions:* th-cam.com/play/PLr-YTHdnHmatBXhll-y17p8iy7ILE6NX1.html (MAD MAX FURY ROAD up on my channel next Thursday!)
I love that y'all do these team-ups. I don't know if it's better when it's with someone I know, or someone new, but it'a always a blast.
been watching both these channels for a while now and I am SO SO happy with these colabs. please do more in the future my 3 favorite YTers all in one video i could watch a million of these
One of the best sequel ever made.👍
"I was not expecting a boomerang..." Actually, boomerangs were first designed as weapons for the purpose of killing.
The 'helicopter' is an autogyro - the rotors that provide lift are only powered by the forward motion through the air. Cool tech once upon a time!
The actor who played the pilot was Bruce Spence, who was in quite a number of movies, including a now-forgotten one co-starring the wonderful Rosanna Arquette.
It still is simple cool tech! You can build one yourself with much more reliable engines today. It seems hard to find old easy plans though. The rotor-shaft gearing and blades are the only complex parts.
@@Seele2015au Which one is that, Desperately Seeking Susan?
God, I'd have trepidation enough to fly in a chopppaaah by itself (see Kobe), but I wouldn't even sit in an autogyro.
@@nonplayerzealot4 The 1990 Australian production "Wendy Cracked A Walnut", renamed for the US as ".... Almost".
The original Mad Max will always be a sentimental favorite for me, but this film clearly raises the franchise to a truly mythic level. You should be interested to see where it goes from here. Best. Leo.
First movie had a lot of emotional weight behind it which I loved and every movie since then is amazing in its own ways!
Two very interesting things:
1. Max's clothes imply his injuries at the end of the 1st movie (braces for the shot knee and they would rip his sleeve to look at his arm they drove over).
2. Lord Humongous was originally meant to be Goose. He hides his burned face and the bad guys use police equipment.
Humungus resembles Captain Fifi Macaffee more than Goose... that would have been a better direction to go... one has to ask, 'what if'..?
I wonder if the Humungous persona had anything to do with Schwarzenegger becoming a celebrity phenomenon around the same time (right down to the Austrian 'Arnold' accent, which otherwise makes no sense)
@@GK-yi4xv Also a year before they gave Jason his iconic hockey mask in the 3rd Friday the 13th movie.
Dave Bautista would be a great Lord Humongous or Tom Hardy
If Goose was meant to be Humungous he must have really hit the gym hard after he was burned in that truck.
Virginia Hey, of Farscape fame, played the white-clad Amazonian archer. Best. Leo.
@@tsogobauggi8721 See what stress can do to you. Best. Leo.
Wow, I never knew that. I absolutely love Farscape.
beautiful blue bitch - Rygel
Bruce Spence, who played the gyrocopter pilot, was also in at least one episode of Farscape.
@@vor78 Spence's merits as an actor aside, the Australian/New Zealand citizen goes a long way towards filling productions' responsibility to cast natives. Best. Leo.
"Hopefully there are some car chases"
Welcome to one of the greatest chase scenes in movie history
Interesting story (as told by the actor): The main biker was played by Vernon Wells, who also played the Freddy Mercury-looking bad guy in Commando. When he was offered the role, he wasn't interested, but finally went for it to quiet his agent. When he got there, he kept telling George Miller (the director) he wasn't interested. Miller sends him to wardrobe and makeup despite his protests. He comes out in the biker costume and Miller has him turn around to judge the fit. As he turns around, Wells sees himself in the mirror and his eyes bug out. Miller sees the expression and says "Perfect. You're hired." When he gets on set, though, he quickly changed his mind.
I see now! And I was thinking that I saw him somewhere else. The bad guy from Commando of course!
Nice guy in person. Met him at Pensacon I.
End of Weird Science, too.
Well, good thing he "stuck around", then.
@@Blackferret66 I see what you did there. Well Played sir.
The actor playing as the guy with the red mohawk haircut Wez is Vernon Wells. After this movie a few years he makes a cameo in Weird Science as pretty much the same type of character named Lord General!
This movie have one of the best cinematography i ever see. Dean Semler was the camerman for the movie and they use Panavision camera.
Hey, if you all ever wonder what this would look like on the ocean, instead of the desert, you might like watching "Waterworld."
Critics hated it. I liked it though.
@@terryv2006 critics always hate everything. unless it's a theatrical musical.
Water world was a horrible movie!
@@r.g.o3879 Inside every critic is a frustrated artist.
Max is the only constant character in the movies. You'll see a familiar face in the next movie, but it isn't the same character, just the same actor.
The dog was found in an animal shelter. It was scheduled to be killed days before the movie saved it. He was adopted by one of the crew members after filming. Really great story.
Don't you love how, in a post-apocalyptic world where people are scavenging for food and fuel, there is no shortage of hair product?
Priorities haha!
Everyone gotta get that leather and dress like sex pistol fans
Fuel, food, even clothes... all eventually degrade. Hair products? Shelf life of a million years, just like twinkies.
@@TBRSchmitt i would like to see you guys react to Jim Carrey movies like Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber etc
"Road Warrior" (which is what everyone called it) was part of the Denver International Film Festival in 1981. I was 31. It was an AMAZING experience. Packed theater of Mad Max fans. And we had NO idea what were about to see. The film hadn't opened yet. Still one of my favorite movie memories.
Sounds like an awesome experience!
@@TBRSchmitt Indeed it was!
It was only called “The Road Warrior” in America
I'm not sure it's possible to overstate the impact of MAD MAX2 - the cinematography (especially a film print,) the music, the editing : there had *_never_* been a movie made with such brutal simplicity before. Those of us who saw it when released can't ever forget that feeling of having one's eyes open...
Lucky dog! I was too young to see it in the theatres.
The Mad Max movies are all in chronological order the first movie was literally on a shoe string budget some of the extras were supposedly paid in beer
(If/I/understand/correctly...)The/original/film's/editing/was/done/in/somebody's/basement!--The/bikes/were/donated/from/generous/Japanese/manufacturers....and,yeah!Everybody/worked/real/cheap!:-).Kind/of/cool/of/them/to/create/such/a/strongly-loved/cult-film/classic!:-)
@@chivalryalive - Very weird, but I'll take a guess.... your keyboard's spacebar doesn't work?
"we all lost someone we love. but we do it my way" - lord humongous
Max is sort of like a mythological figure for these stories. Stories where this larger than life person named ‘Max’ enters to be a force of change.
Max's dog, unfazed by RABBIT!, competently standing guard with the shotgun is reason enough to love George Miller. Best. Leo.
They filmed the movie on location in the Australian Outback.
Yep, around Broken Hill in South Australia (my state.)
Broken Hill and Silverton, in far western New South Wales.
Wow, first time I've ever seen a reaction to The Road Warrior. Most of us in the early 80's saw this first and then saw Mad Max I
At first I thought this was some guy reacting.... to them reacting to a movie. React-ception!
Hahaha the next evolution of reactions!
Haha!
Have you guys ever seen The Crow with Brandon Lee? It’s a great movie.
No we have not! Thanks for the suggestion!
No problem, it’s sad that he died during the filming of it though
Yeah, The Crow is legend.
Yes, you need to watch the Crow. You will love it
The Crow is a great movie it's has Bruce Lee Son
This is the best of all the Mad Max Movies.
Mad max fury road was just as good or better
Totally.
@@pulsare.m.6719 r u fuckin kiddin me they are good but fury road tops them all
@@BigBrianBruceI don’t know fury road could never top this one or the first one
@@swstopmotions4390 are you fuckin me it did top it off this one is still a classic but fury road beat this one
Very good reactions, folks.
I first saw Road Warrior when it was new, on one of Montreal's largest movie screens. It was part of a double bill, the other flick also being a post-apocalypse adventure called A Boy and His Dog, with a very young Don Johnson doing an excellent acting job. What an amazing double feature!
This is so cool when TH-cam channels cross over to each other, I love both of your Movie Reaction channels!
thank you
Hey, this is a nice surprise. Always liked this movie as a kid
One of my all-time favorite movies. Mindless, senseless violence. And I love it.
Bruce Spence, who played the gyro captain, played one of the sharks in Finding Nemo and the Mouth of Sauron in Return of the King.
He was also the Train Man in Matrix Reloaded.
Personally, I feel that while Fury Road is stunning to look at, That's kind of all it has going for it, Max's personality in that one is, very wooden, like in this one he only has something like 16 lines of dialogue, but in those few lines they establish his character well, what he's about, what he wants, etc. In fury road he grunts a lot of the time instead of just saying words, which when watching it makes you say, " Just tell them, use your words and this can be resolved instantly" in quite a few parts. In this I feel he's a man of little words until something important needs to be done or said, in Fury Road it's almost like he doesn't use his words just for the sake of seeming more "Feral". Still a good movie, just not Mad Max as I know him.
Fun Fact: In Oz it is just Mad Max 2, when released in the U.S, they added The Road Warrior.
It was released as just The Road Warrior in theatres here. We hadn't heard of Mad Max until the home video era took off soon after.
@@SRG1966 Ahhhhhh... ok, thanks mate did not know that
@@SRG1966 I vaguely remember seeing adverts of the new "Mad Max 2" movie in the local newspaper in South Australia in the early 80s.
One of my favorite lines ever, "That's dishonest...LOW!!!" hahahaha
Yes! The old gyrocopter. Such a cool vehicle.
Back in the good old days of the Eighties, there was a whole genre of a post apocalyptic future. Movies, TV shows, music, MTV videos.
There was even a fashion trend with clothing styled after the theme.
As a measure of Mel's acting ability and flexibility, there's a movie called Tim. It was released only months apart from Mad Max in 1979.
He lives now, only in my memories
The Interceptor and the dog get the award for best supporting actors. Watch the documentary on the whole movie, and you will understand the movie better.
The motorcyclist that flips head over foot after colliding with a wrecked car actually broke both legs during that stunt. It was a rookie error. He didn't jump high enough and caught his legs on the car body. George then politely asked the stunt man if he could use the footage.
I've always wondered how anyone could survive that stunt. It never ceases to amaze me!
There's few movies as relentlessly entertaining as Mad Max 2. There's a real energy to it.
This is the best one I've seen. The wife's reaction was by far the must animated and intense. As an Aussie I'm gratified.
The warrior woman was played by Virginia Hey. She was Zhaan in Farscape. And she was also the woman in the tube in the Buggles' video for "Video Killed The Radio Star".
Another trivia bit is that WWIII hadn't gone nuclear yet at this point in the setting. This was just societal collapse and no fuel.
This movie came out of no where and blew everyone away in 1982. Best summer of movies ever, look it up if you don’t believe me.
God I love this movie, the score is sublime, I always rewind that first time they're chasing him, music is so epic.
Time for ThunderDome. “Two men enter, One man leaves”
This is an all timer guys. Best movie of the series!
one of the best (and most understated) twist endings ever. And closing narration (for this and for Mad Max 3) surprisingly moving. Happy to see people still reacting to this film - thanks for posting.
I'm not sure how this slipped by me for so long. I love watching you two react and I love TimotheeReacts as well so it was fun to watch this. 🐾🐾🍻
Back in 1981 i was in year 7 and I think there was a teachers strike or something so there were no classes. We all got marched down to the local cinema to watch Mad Max2……..aah Australia in the eighties, you’d never getaway with it now. Best school day ever!!!
Being Australian myself there’s a lot of pride that Aussies feel about the legend of the Mad Max series. It’s a film that’s just so endeared by the average Aussie. It’s a movie that’s just so..Australian. No other country could have produced it.
Random fact: originally The Humongus was supposed to be Goose, having gone mad from the burning in the first movie. Max was supposed to find that out by opening the stuff Humungus keeps fiddling with and finding a picture.
One of the great action adventure Scifi films of all time. Best in the bunch.
One of the greatest action films of all time. Doesn't age (except for the prologue)
Probably the best 'final shot' ever (Max fading into the distance, 'never to be seen again').
The kid is literally called 'The Feral Kid' in the credits. Once civilized, now reverted to wild.
I believe the refinery explosion held the record for biggest in a movie for a while. There was behind the scenes footage with more angles floating around the net a few years back.
The Australian army demolition sappers did that refinery blast 💥
Thanks for reacting to this! My favourite one of the franchise.
Crazy movie and lots of fun, also, the gyrocopter guy played the Mouth of Sauron in the LotRs extended edition movie
Yup, Bruce Spence. LEGENDARY Aussie/"Kiwi"(New Zealand) character actor. Was also in the Legend Of The Seeker TV series as well as the third Matrix movie (as the "Train Man", lol). Always thought of him as the poor man's Christopher Lloyd...
;-D
And a different gyrocopter guy in Beyond Thunderdome.
WooHoo, my two, (three) favorite movie reactors!!! Great team up...thank you guys!
The guy with the mohawk is Bennett in Commando!! And tell me that Bane wasn't modelled after, Humongous!!
Beautiful movie, great vídeo ! Congrats from São Paulo , Brazil 👏 !
Max is a legend.. His stories are those that are told around campfires throughout the ages.. Passed from one generation to the next.. That's why his backstory and his look is different from time to time.. Story to story.. Like what you guys saw in Fury Road.. Max is the archetypal anti-hero.. The "reluctant adventurer".. The hero we end up with because there's no one else or no one else who can do it..
This is great film brutal as the world no glory at all just a memory in the mind of a few ...the memory of a man ...a legend... lost to the darkness of time ...one of the infinite forgotten heros of this cruel world ..... he was the road warrior
Mad Max movies are basically legends that the people in that world tell of this mythical warrior.
When this movie was first out in theaters it played at a mall a short walk near my home. I went to see it just about every other day, hiding in the bathroom between showings, often staying through 3 runs. The staff knew I was there but as long as I bought another pop corn and soda every show they didn't say anything. I'd seen it around 2 dozen times and still enjoyed every minute of it, so I figured the VHS was totally worth buying. And later the DVD. And I still love it to this day on DVD and iTunes. Along with the American dub of Mad Max of course.
Mad Max part one was the origin of Max. After his vengeance against the outlaws became legendary, part two made him a mythical hero; hence the story was told as a wise old tale from the child’s perspective. From here, Max and his world devolved from the beginning of the apocalypse into the midst of the dystopian future.
10 times bigger?! It was a low budget affair as well. Saw this at the movies back in the day. I told the old man it was a cross between SHANE and HONDO and went and saw it again that same day😂
The actress who played the woman that you'd thought was the potential love interest for Max
The actress' name is Virginia Hey, she'd go on to co-star with Ben Browder and Claudia Black in the TV series "Farscape" playing the role of Zhaan
Farscape had muppets.
@@KEVMAN7987 yup, pilot and rigell being the most notable
But, Zhaan was played by a flesh and blood person
I just loooooove the guy communicating the info back and forwards regarding the truck repair.
I remember seeing this in the theater. For some reason my father really wanted to see it, because we went to a somewhat nasty theater in a seedy part of town in order to see it the week it opened. I was only 12 at the time, and I was blown away by what i saw on the screen. I must have watched this at least a 100 times since then.
There's a Mad Max inspired post-apocalyptic festival called 'Wasteland Weekend' that's held (I believe) once a year in the California Mojave desert. There are some videos here on youtube showing what it's all about. It seems like a pretty wild festival, kind of like mad max meets burning-man. The vehicles some people show up with are insane!
One of my absolute favorite scenes is when the mechanic was telling them what it would take to fix the truck, and the other two were relaying the info. :D
So, the 1st movie was a slowly decaying society, they still had police and gas stations and bars. And the Mad Max 2 intro talks about a war that happened, but it's not really explicit that there was a nuclear war which turned the world into a wasteland. The Wasteland is used more like a location "Max went into the Wasteland." And the images they show are from WW2. So, theoretically that war could've been just WW2 or a conventional war that caused the slow decay later.
Here it was released first as The Road Warrior, because pretty much nobody in America had ever seen or even heard of the first film.
Great review and yet another 80s classic yous got to enjoy...as a kid growin up in that decade it is my fav mad Max movie in the franchise...
Please react to escape from new Yor..... another classic..!.best wishes from Ireland..👍
Awesome collaboration
The character of Humongous was originally supposed to be Max's friend from the first movie Jim Goose. Everyone assumes that he died or would be in a vegetative state for the remainder of his life. They never make it clear who Humongous was prior to the apocalypse. It does however make for a great backstory for the character.
When The Road Warrior came out, I think it was Rolling Stone that describe it as "Apocalypse POW!". And it didn't disappoint!
'Unphased'. A classic trait of the Blue Heeler, one which makes them great working dogs. There's a good video on YT about Dog. He was rescued, about to be put down. They had to give him a crash course before shooting, and utilise clever tricks, like in the shotgun scene. Initially they wanted to cast a three legged Australian Cattle Dog, and put the search out. However, they soon realised this was not a good idea as people may start amputating dogs legs to get it in the film. It's funny, because my last dog was a three legged Blue Heeler named Bluey. I miss you mate.
I love when all my favorite reactors team up!
Actually, the dog food can is an australian joke, "Dinki-di" means "genuine" - as in "genuine dog". It's dog meat.
So you guys are the first who have a reaction to Mad Max 2. Hope more will follow suit, because it's such a brilliant film with so many iconic characters. The Feral Kid, Lord Humungous, Wez, the Gyro Captain, all made such an impression on me as a kid. And Mel Gibson just kills it as the Road Warrior.
This may have already been mentioned in other comments but the trend is that Max is never really the main character.
Max just travels from adventure to adventure helping others (often unwillingly) as he goes along. Fury road continued that trend.
6:48, there's a theory going around that the Feral Kid in the movie is supposed to be Tom Hardy in Fury Road, and after Max had died, he took his name, his identity, basically, his entire backstory, so that his legacy would live on.
Interesting theory! I hope George Miller can keep pumping out movies in the Mad Max Universe for awhile!
@@TBRSchmitt Miller did say that the amount of actual time between films is amount of time passed on their world. Which would make Max 60 years old when the movie came out, but you can see he isn't that old, which makes the Feral kid theory the most possible reason for the age difference, next is how little "max" speaks in Fury Road, then there is that he has the music box, plus it wasn't till the end of Fury road when he finally said his name was Max, like he didn't feel he earned that name yet, but by the end of the story he had.
I like that theory a lot.
It's just a (desperate) attempt to shoehorn post-millennial CGI cash grab that had nothing to do with Mad Max into the continuity of a legendary franchise. You like Fury Road nonsense. Ok. Stick with it. There's no need to make it into something that it isn't,
Miller has said that theory was interesting but isn't what he had in mind.
Now that I realize it, the image of the man and the dog is very iconic. It is the same used, in a different tone, in John Wick, who is also a loner.
The last of the V8's. Simple iconic powerful.
I seem to remember that, at the time, this was the most expensive movie Australia had ever done. I really loved all the old school car chases, crashes and so forth and so on. Amazing stuntmen with no digital anything.
This Max film has the most exhilarating chase seen of the original trilogy. Fury Road has some equally exciting chases complete with a mobile heavy metal band.
I've seen this movie several times but this is the first time I was awed by the stunt work. Damn, those guys came close to death too many times. No CGI back then.