Line #24 YMMV/MadMax


1	* ''YMMV/MadMax1''
2	* ''YMMV/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''
3	* ''YMMV/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''
4	* ''YMMV/MadMaxFuryRoad''
5	* ''YMMV/MadMax2015'' (videogame)
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8	!!The entire series:
9	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: This fan video of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlXCl_jQcc One Of the Living]]" [[CanonWelding ties all four films together]].
10	* CriticalDissonance: While many fans like the third film the least, critics like Creator/RogerEbert have declared it the best of the original trilogy.
11	* EpilepticTrees: The series' unusually elastic continuity, complete with WordOfGod from George Miller that it doesn't really matter whether the films are all about the same guy, has spawned plenty of theories about how they tie together, with two especially popular ones:
12	** The original film is what really happened to Max, with the sequels showing the increasingly grandiose legends about him that evolved in future generations.
13	** Max had a complete psychotic break after his family's murder, and from then on is just comatose in a psych ward imagining getting revenge for it and then more increasingly ludicrous adventures. One bit of support for this is that by the time of ''Fury Road'', his new antagonist looks just like the Toecutter.
14	* FanonDiscontinuity: While the sequels are much better known outside of Australia than the original, most fans consider the third film the weakest of the original trilogy. ''Beyond Thunderdome'' does, on the other hand, skew toward being a GuiltyPleasure emblematic of mid-1980s science fiction, and it's the one that's generated the most well-known pop-cultural phrases.
15	* GenreTurningPoint: The first two films together rewrote the rulebook for post-apocalyptic fiction, especially with [[TheApunkalypse its aesthetic]] of desert wastelands, big V8 muscle cars, and biker gangs.
16	* HilariousInHindsight:
17	** Creator/MelGibson playing ''[[Film/LethalWeapon a burnt out cop whose wife was murdered]]''.
18	** George Miller would go on to make an animated kids' movie about penguins. That would be hilarious in itself, but the title of the movie? ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''.
19	* MemeticMutation: ''Mad Max'' takes place in modern day, this is just what the Australian outback is like.
20	* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: While the 2015 video game adaptation [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames goes on the other page]], the same cannot be said about the 1990 UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem video game adaptation. Scavenger levels are hampered by low fuel, which serves as a time limit and the overworld is huge. Arena levels are rife with ArtificialStupidity, where enemies tend to drive into bottomless pits. Your reward for beating this game? You get AWinnerIsYou ending.
21	* SpecialEffectFailure: [[spoiler: When Toecutter crashes into the truck you can clearly see that the front of the truck is just a painted sheet of metal. As the truck goes by you can clearly see it in front of the truck as well. Justified though given the shoestring budget as otherwise the truck would’ve received major damage.]]
22	* SpiritualAdaptation: The Mad Max franchise as a whole is arguably the closest we will ever get to a live action adaptation of ''Manga/ViolenceJack''.
23	** Fun fact, Creator/GoNagai, who created Manga/ViolenceJack, actually [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/40/0e/29/400e29ecf77d8c944d2ed2f93c8a8ed2.jpg drew a poster for the first Mad Max film]].
24	* StarTrekMovieCurse: While the first and third films are popular in their own right, they're a bit more contested compared to ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', which are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. A joke among fans is "if the Pursuit Special appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film."

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