Sci-Fi Classic Review: MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- After George Miller hit the big time with his first feature length movie, Mad Max, he knew he had made mistakes. A few years later, he made a sequel that fixed them all.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I love this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in sci-fi cinema history.
In other words, please stop commenting on how my videos aren't what you consider "reviews."
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00:00 Intro
01:44 Synopsis
02:37 Production Background
05:02 Casting
06:53 Filming
08:42 Cars & Movies
12:12 Release & Legacy
13:34 My Parade is Crashed
26:07 Rebuttal
27:30 Opinion & Analysis
29:25 Outro
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Whoa! First time I've skipped over part of an Unapologetic Geek video, but what I skipped was really Jack's part of an Unapologetic Geek video. At 17:55 it was, "Enough!" and on to the 26:07 mark.
Just godawful.
Thanks for letting us "help" with a small Cars & Movies segment! Great behind the scenes review of the best Mad Max film this side of Fury Road!
I do agree with Jack that Max didn’t have much of a personality in this movie. But I would argue that he didn’t either in Fury Road or much of the other movies. I feel like Max is a throw back to pulp fiction heroes like Flash Gordon, Phantom, or Tintin whose characterisations are a collection of mostly positive adjectives and hyper competence and just a vehicle to deliver fantastical situations and colourful side characters that make up most of the flavour.
Yur Aussie can complain about cultural inconsistencies well, but his film knowledge is abysmal, rendering his criticisms neutered. The Road Warrior is from the era when theatrical films were produced with GRIT. This is truly one of the greatest action films ever made. As for the other Max movies; they are all literally stand-alones. I hated MM3 in 1985, but it had impact and was a masterpiece onto itself. There was a bizarre trend in the mid-80s to soften R-rated franchises to PG-13.
Couldn't agree more
Thanks for letting me on to say my piece mate 😁 The whole thing turned out gr8
One of the best action movies ever...one of the better & surprisingly underrated franchises. Hopefully they’ll have more coming soon!
It's been a long time since I've seen the original Mad Max movies. I think most of my experiences with them have been tv reruns. I enjoyed the 2015 version a lot. But there is something special about these, specifically The Road Warrior. I don't mind the slow build up. In post apocalyptic movies it always adds to the over all tone. Those societies are meant to be boring because, well they would be. But I also think it is part of movie making at the time, like Blade Runner, Alien, or Westworld. Atmosphere first, story/action secondary. And with the road warrior story being told from the perspective of the feral child, an argument could be made that his interpretation was intentional as the story would be passed down orally throughout generations.
I'm ready to binge the moves now! Excellent work Eric, Jack, and No Market Media!!
Thanks!
I truly skipped over Jack's section.. I felt so good to not hear his opinion about a truly groundbreaking film. I LOVE that his section has an end that I can skip easily.. You could have him return and I won't even know it..
In the Post-Apoc Sub Genre... There is Before Max & After Max! So love it or hate it, it's influence can not be understated! (That being said... I love it!) & in contrast to all the Haters, I think Jack should get another chance as guest host... don't agree with much of his take on the Flic... But I love his passion for film! (& I read somewhere the Hockey Mask motif was actually inspired by the Darth Vader Mask!
I love Jack too much to pay attention to the haters. I’m sure I’ll get him back someday, even if it’s just to force him to watch Beyond Thunderdome! 😂
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Nope, Beyond Thunderdome is a cruel and unusual punishment, so I think is contrary to your Constitution or something. As an Australian, I do not deeply agree with Jack, although I do think that Fury Road is a better film overall. But Mad Max 2 was very much a bolt from the blue when it first came out, although there were many other Aus films that had nearly the same influence on cinema in general. It deserved the worldwide success, and influence, that acrued.
The Mad Max filmography (so far) follows that of many great movie series; the first is a good film, the second is a considerable improvement, perhaps a classic, but the third is a misstep, bringing the whole thing down. Fortunately for everyone Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie, a real testament to George Miller as a filmmaker.
Classic Jack not being prepared 😂
Great video!
I enjoyed listening to your guests, nice touch. In 1980 Australia was still in transition between the Imperial and the Metric system. There is a point that "petrol" probably wouldn't work so well with an American audience, especially given Max's character. Comparing "Road Warrior" with "Fury Road" shows how a franchise can be improved given over 30 years of development. Speeding up the camera in non-vehicle scenes was not unusual. Its was often done in fight scenes. The James Bond vs Pussy Galore scene for example.
These types of videos are among my favorite on the internet and yours here are among the very best...was blown away to see this video only has 1100 views, this is top notch TH-cam right here, keep it up guy, GREAT work! So comprehensive...so great to hear stuff you've never heard before from other videos highlighting the same movies. Probably the likeliest "going to blow up" channel I've come across in some time, subscribed!
Thanks! I hope you’re right!
I appreciate your reviews. I get insight I didn't know I needed! LOL!
It won the New York Film Critics 'Best Foreign Language Film' for that year. This was the original English soundtrack with Australian accents. Maybe the NYFC were trying to use a technicality to give it an award, but George Miller must have felt slightly insulted all the same.
That’s hilarious!
& even worse... The original U.S. release, they re-dubbed the opening/closing narration with some Yank doing some feeble Little Big-Man impression! 'Iiii remember-r-r the Road War-rior-r-r!'
@@thrashpondopons2776 I didn't know that. The European VHS release of the first film was the American dialogue dub, which just sounded clumsy. I'm Irish and I always thought Australian accents sound very expressive and make even routine dialogue engaging. Dubbing them almost never works.
Fun video. (I found Jack to be hysterical, and I will be watching some of his videos. I also took a lot of his comments with a grain of salt.)
Personally, I have tended to see Max as less of a Joseph Campbell archetype than a variation on the Man With No Name Spaghetti Western character, which I don't see as being the same thing. Clearly there will be those who disagree, but I think that Jack raised a very good point with his note that Max was a character upon which a viewer could project.
I also had no idea that George Miller had been a physician.
I will be interested to see if, in the future, you cover BEYOND THUNDERDOME.
Finally, Humongous gets one of my favorite introductions, as the emcee describes him as "The Ayatollah of Rock'n'Rolla!!"
Classic action movie can't wait to pick up the 4K
Mad Max 2 helped solidify a style of movies that florished in the eighties... Blockbuster movies are the way they are today in part because of movies like these... Fury Road has a lot of money and great color grading but will fade into obscurity with little influence in cinema, the story does not relate or talk to the viewers in my opinion.
A sequel that surpasses the first and saw this on video with my 11 and 15 year old brothers at age five in 87 and one of my favorite sci-fi movies
I really enjoyed this. Ypu should do more of these 80's retrospectives. Especially fantasy movies like Highlander, Excalibur, Never-ending story among others.
I've gotten requests for all three of those. Maybe I should devote one month a year to fantasy, like I do for horror in October.
BEST. MOVIE. EVER. You have your work cut out for you trying to top this one, Geek. Cheers!
Yep Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is absolutely the greatest movie ever made!!
I was so excited to see The Road Warrior back in the early 80s as a nerdy teen. But I found it slow. I love it now, but my initial reaction was feeling a bit let down. So Jack may come around. Either way, I agree with him that Fury Road is a master class.
We need to find a sci-fi martial arts classic to talk about.
Yeah, we do! I’m on it.
So like...Star Wars 😉
We kid! Would be awesome to see another collab classic sci-fi and martial arts!
How about 'The Ultimate Warrior' Or 'Six String Samurai'???
I could always go with a Van Damme flick, like Cyborg or Universal Soldier (that won’t turn 30 until next summer). I’d have to do more research to find anything else, though if you want to go really old, I think there’s a Sonny Chiba movie from the 60’s called Terror Beneath the Sea. Might be hard to get a copy, but I haven’t really looked yet.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek how about Ice Man Cometh starring Yuen Biao? I’ve already done a review for it but I can blather on some more.
The first time that I saw The Road Warrior in theaters was a Saturday matinee. I liked it so much, I stayed and watch it again (without paying again). They didn't seem to mind if you stayed and watched movies again, as long as the theater was nearly empty. There were maybe 20 people in the theater for both showings since it was in the afternoon on a Saturday.
Great film, good video. Beardy funk pop guy from Dingo land had cringe takes.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Is a fantastic film.
My favourite film of all time forever
Fun fact: Rockatansky, Max's family name, is a reference to Carl von Rokitansky, the inventor of a dissection procedure.
BTW: Imo the first movie is pre-apocalyptic, rather than post-apocalyptic. In the first movie society is declining, but it hasn't completely collapsed yet. There's still a police force that tries to enforce law and order (not very succesfully, that's true), so I'd say the first movie is dystopian, but not post-apocalyptic.
Well, they may not say "gasoline" in Australia, but without it I would not have what's been one of my favorite random but quotable movie lines for 40 yrs (always said with a bad Australian accent, of course): "Looks like l've got myself some gasoline, eh?" -Gyro Captain
My favourite film ever
Great stuff.
The movie Citizen Kane wishes it could be!
Reading these comments, I think there are a few weekly wackadoos here!
Vid would have been much better with a James and Maso rant on MM2 Road Warrior 😜
Shh… don’t out the cult!
2:00 I don't think the pumps remove gasoline (petrol) from the Earth. They remove oil which is then refined into gasoline.
I never realized that they should have said petrol instead of gasoline and used kilometers instead of miles.
So you're saying that Mad Max got started as an educational film about road safety?! All the more reason to wear my seatbelt, I guess...
Your little Aussie friend is way off on his opinions on the movie. WAY off.
good to see your face take care
Have you done Time Bandits yet?
Not *yet*…
@@TheUnapologeticGeek If you haven't seen it in a while check it out -- the scale and effects Gilliam gets out of his limited budget is impressive. Very imaginative story.
Road Warrior > Fury Road. Sorry my Australian cousin.
The Road Warrior is always better than Fury Road always will be
Great movie 😌
The greatest movie ever made of all time
Jack seems to hold the visual aesthetic of Fury Road as its core strength when, in reality, it is its primary weakness.
On its own, fantastic. Rip off Kurosawa more, please.
As a filter through which to view a gritty, bleak dystopia, however, I find it jarringly incongruous. It gives the final chase the appearance of a music video ( complete with guitar solo) more than a desperate affair of life and death.
Fury Road is better filmmaking.
MM2 is a better, more "realistic" film.
Please please no more irritating Jack! MM2 was just an epic experience for its day, and its influence is still seen in films today. Fury Road was just a live action Whacky Races, one long boring demolition derby! So disappointing. Road warrior is still the MM film at the top of the pile.
I’ll do my best not to irritate Jack anymore, but I’m gonna have to disagree with you about Fury Road. 😁
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Its ok to agree to differ, so long as you realise that you are wrong lol
Not really a science fiction story.
They love to classify Post-Apoc Flics as Sci/Fi... as the collapse of civilization is generally brought on by a Technologically induced disaster.
I'd say The Road Warrior was science fiction, but of a sub-genre you don't see in movies very often: social science fiction. Other examples include A Clockwork Orange, Gattaca, and 1984. It's more about the effects of technological change on society than technology itself and is more common in literature than film.
@@racookster There were actually quite a few Post-Apoc Flics around this time. WWIII seemed a very likely possibility... so films dealing with the 'Post War' World had some traction! Will grant you Dystopian Literature was more common it Book than in Film!
Your Australian guest doesn't understand how to use a critical lens and see the movie objectively. He needs a crash course in critical thinking, and ease up on the caffeine.
OMG...Fury Road was utter garbage.
Road warrior is class
When it came out we still talked in miles for cars and travel. Miles per gallon for example and we still converted in our heads between mph and kph. Older cars still had mph on the speedometer. So, I think Jack is not aware of what it was like. Gasoline, well making changes for US audiences was not new. Some shows swapped the horizontal view to change the driver side for example in early seventies. Watch the original if you want to see how Max's personality developed. Great review.
Thanks for the info. Cheers!