Mad Max series

Now, I am aware that there is a thread for Mad Max: Fury Road, but there is none for the original trilogy, so I'm making one for the series as a whole.

The Mad Max series from George Miller is quite the interesting film series, and a personal favorite series of mine. For those who are not familiar, it follows the tales of a man named Max, who loses his family and wanders a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with one goal: survive.

The series had 3 films before Fury Road: the original, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. This thread will be for those movies.

edited 17th Dec '17 6:38:58 PM by jameygamer

Thoughts:

1. The first movie takes place before the apocalypse and Max, horrifyingly, only survived because he was in the Outback when the nuclear war happened.

2. Immorten Joe fired Australia's nukes and helped trigger it or at least was involved in it.

3. The Feral Kid is actually Max in Fury Road, imitating his hero but not QUITE as talented.

4. The Riggers totally played Max and he didn't know they were leaving him to die.

5. I believe Max's fellow cops joined Humungous' group and are ex-cops working with the bandits.

6. Bartertown really was the basis of a new civilization and what Joe dealt with.

7. Auntie actually was one of the adults who left from the plane. It's why the kids weren't molested despite being within walking distance. She also directed Max toward their direction deliberately.

I only saw the first Mad Max, but I remember really liking it.

I saw all three. I really liked Tina Turner's acting and songs in Beyond Thunderdome. Very much the top of her career.

edited 18th Dec '17 1:56:59 PM by jameygamer

I have seen the original, Road Warrior and Fury Road. That last one was awesome.

George Miller actually got the idea for the very first film after working as a doctor in an ER and seeing the results of traffic accidents.

https://www.avclub.com/george-miller-mad-max-furiosa-official-synopsis-1849105719

I love the Mad Max series. I need to rewatch them again as they could provide some good inspiration for my Cyberpunk RED campaign. Namely, sessions to let the Nomad player really shine.

I'm very conflicted. Anya Taylor Joy's a great actress but Jodie Comer's both the best actress of her generation and she looks more like a young Charlize Theron than the former does. Plus, after how The Last Duel and Killing Eve's final season ended up, she needs the boost.

I just really hate the idea for a Furiosa prequel and would rather instead see a sequel where she carves out her power in the Citadel. I'd rather go forward and get new information, not stuff that I already inferred from the first.

Especially since a lot of Fury Road's storytelling is told non-verbally and through inference and implication so going back and explicitly defining this backstory... feels like it's missing the forest for the trees?

Just saw the trailer for Furiosa. I'll let somebody else post it though.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Nov 30th 2023 at 8:25:36 AM

There's a new one coming out?

Yeah there is. Link to the trailer here.

Remember: it’s Fury-OH-sa. Not Fury-o-SAH.

I’m sorry. I had to get it out.

Also, thumbnail:

So is Max going to be in this movie at all?

Doubtful. It’s a prequel. Long before they crossed paths.

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Dec 1st 2023 at 2:17:23 PM

Totally gonna see this in theaters. Not only because Furiosa was a badass character, but chooms I loved the worldbuilding alluded to in Fury Road and look forward to seeing more.

Oh, I see, it's a Mad Max saga thing.

As I said on the other thread, it's clearly supposed to be a canon prequel to Fury Road. They're not really playing fast and loose with continuity here. They WANT to continue the association with that film of course.

I love Mad Max but if I wanted a Furiosa sequel instead of a Mad Max sequel, which I tepidly did, it'd be with Charlize Theron.

It's a prequel. It's when she was much younger than she was in Fury Road.

Yes, which is a choice that I question the artistic value of.

But, hey, maybe it'll be fantastic.

I'm pretty much in the same boat; I don't see a ton of value or intrigue in a Furiosa prequel. I feel like we got a pretty solid understanding of her origins in the original and there's not much point to it.

She's heavily implied to be a former "wife" (rape victim) of Joe who rose to a level of power within the system despite her gender (implied to be she's "damaged" due to arm or maybe infertility?). She took the power she was given and betrayed Joe to do the right thing and return to the home she was stolen from. That's all you truly need.

Going back means we get to see all the 'ick' stuff that I don't care for compared to the catharsis of her achieving her goals. Like... what is this story going to end on???

The beauty of Fury Road is in the broadstrokes and filling in the finer details yourself.

Idk. Seeing a successful powerful Furiosa who is on top of the world defending her position and trying to be a bastion of good and just is more compelling to me than seeing her fight and struggle against a system I know she won't win against in this installment.

I trust George Miller to do a good job with it- I just think it's a flawed concept from inception.

It's not what the movie implied, but I always felt like a slightly different variant of the script might have made Furiosa Immorten Joe's daughter with one of the tribal women back before he was a complete piece of shit.

Unacceptable versus a son as heir but serving that Talia Al Ghul role before she realized it was a lost cause.