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Summary: Mad Max Needs to Pay the Rent this Month.
Review: Wow, are you kidding? Words don't express my dissatisfaction with this pile of dung. Mad Max was fantastic, Road Warrior was wonderful. This bomb should have been used as a directors training film on how to mess up a sure thing. I guess it's just too easy to foul up a sequel when you can't figure out why the audience liked the originals and your star isn't really interested in the project. Sorry Mel, but even you can't save this one.
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Summary: Mel Gibson the best american (australian) actor
Review: Mel Gibson is far the best actor in those ... Hollywoodgang. America should be proud of him. See all the Mad Max movies theyare great fun, but if yo want to see biggest Gibson movies than seethe ... series and the .... Go on Mr. Gibson ! Theworld is watching you!
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Summary: Mel Gibson, go back to Austrailia!
Review: What the hell was the screenwriter guy smoking (cause I need some of it) when he wrote this? Why would they burn pigs for fuel and how can they randomly find a big valley full of water in the middle of a nuclear desert? And also, how would there be a group mass of children sitting there saying, "Our prophecy's fulfilled. We are going to fly back to the city."? Mel Gibson has got to be the worst actor they could find for this movie because he was trying to get rid of his Austrailian accent while adopting an American one, so it comes out sounding like a preadolescent monkey! All the copies of this movie deserve to be burn, the screenwriters should hang their heads in shame, and all affiliated with the production should hide out in the boonies. Gibson should go back to his native tribe, the Aborigines. You're not welcome in America anymore!
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Summary: Mad Max Lite
Review: I think the biggest problem I have with 'Thunder Dome' is that there really is no need for it in terms of the Mad Max character. By the ending of 'Road Warrior', Max has come full circle. He's moved beyond being a wandering survivor on the vast expanses of desert roads which comprise the future. He's rediscovered some small touch of humanity, and rescues the community from death and becomes a hero to the child (the "Feral Kid") who follows him throughout that movie. He remains a stoic loner whose life was destroyed long ago, though he's no longer just a piece of road trash, a killer on the highway. Since his development is out the window, George Miller contents himself with doing something different - dwelling on the degenerating futuristic world surrounding Max. But unlike the adult/dark nature of Road Warrior, this one goes for a much more 'pulp comic' type of approach. The weakest part of the film would have to be when Max is left to the dessert to die and he comes upon a community of children living in some garden oasis. This is the wrong turn the film takes, since this idyllic paradise feels out of place in the gritty, futuristic world of Mad Max. Furthermore, it places Max in the exact same predicament as in the previous film, saving a community from their destruction. It leads to a hyperkinetic car chase at the end, which, while entertaining and fulfilling, feels recycled. The film does have a great pace and far superior production values over the first two films, but the obvious attempt to make sure this film had the coveted PG-13 rating resulted in a much watered down Mad Max. 'Mad Max Lite', if you will. The DVD: The Letterboxed transfer is very satisfying and restores most of the film's 2.35:1 theatrical framing. The action sequences are glorious in wide screen, and cannot really be appreciated any other way. Colors are quite vivid on the Letterboxed transfer, and the image is nicely detailed throughout. The interactive menus include production notes, cast and director biographies/filmographies and access to the theatrical trailer.
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Summary: A big SURPRISE - A new classic
Review: Frankly,Thunderdome is the most interesting of the Max Rockatansky's series,and not for the fact it was big-budgeted. It's an european-style mixture of post-nuke fashion,action stunts,romanticism,great settings and good performances.Before i bought this one i thought it was a simple "sequel",and like "sequel" surely inferior .The truth : Beyond thunderdome is better than "The Road warrior" . Finally,Max's journey ends with an excellent parable.Without this third installment,the first two movies are unfocused adventures.For example,i feel the first one,"Mad Max" like a weak prologue of the sequels. Beyond Thunderdome is the most analyzed movie produced in Australia(see it in the net),and the most engrossing in the trilogy. If "Mad Max" and "Road Warrior" are considered like "classics",surely Beyond Thunderdome is a "new classic"...
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Summary: A journey in the madness
Review: Baroque,incoherent,frightening,beautiful,phsichedelic,cerebr, simple,impressive,big-budgeted,small-budgeted,great movie,funny movie,weird movie.In a line : Mad Max beyond Thunderdome.
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Summary: A REAL CLASSIC
Review: Ehi,this flick rules ! I suppose it's a good example: How the third chapters could be ingegnous in every trilogy Industry creates.Mad max beyond Thunderdome is brilliant,and it was very successful,coming back to 1985.Max is no more the spagheti western sagoma of the second one,but finally an human being.Those kids are funny -oh yes,boring - but very amusing too. The final chase is a good and right citation of "Road warrior" but the vehicles -the Junkmobiles- are unforgettable.The end : Max versus the australian sunset,a new reinassance for the mankind.A real classic.Buy it !
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Summary: Mel Gibson's most underrated film
Review: I'm probably one out of only a handful of people that thinks Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is just as good as The Road Warrior, and for different reasons, too. The Road Warrior was a spectacle of frenetically paced action sequences and it would feel like a complete retread if Beyond Thunderdome tried to do the same thing again. Instead, they added new elements, and the result is a very entertaining and imaginitive action/adventure. Max (Mel Gibson) has just been robbed of all his belongings in the middle of nowhere in Australia. He searches for the thief and this leads to Bartertown, a unique society built upon methane energy dependent on pig manure, no less. Max's search leads him to Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), Bartertown's lawmaker, who strikes a deal with him. All Max has to do is kill a certain somebody in Thunderdome arena and he'll get provisions in return. Not everything goes according to plan and Max is banished to the desert where he is rescued by a small group of lost children. For those expecting the action of The Road Warrior you might be disappointed. While there is a good bit of action in Beyond Thunderdome, it's not as much as its predecessor and doesn't have as much energy. However, Beyond Thunderdome should be noted for having what is perhaps one of the best action sequences in American film history with the gladiator fight in Thunderdome arena between Max and the gigantic Blaster. The sequence is undeniably inventive and clever; it involves the two men tied to bungee cords that allow them to spring and leap throughout the arena and grab any weapons placed all around such as a mace, chainsaw, spear, etc. What makes the film so good, though, are its successful attempts at creating complex societies. Bartertown is a sight to behold and is made all the more interesting by the rituals the "citizens" perform and the laws they obey. As for the performances, Mel Gibson excels and gives a fine performance as usual. Tina Turner is a real surprise as the villainess; she certainly knows how to act and delivers a fairly good performance. Most of the supporting cast do a decent job with the material they're given. Angry Anderson, in particular, is quite humorous as the henchmen who rarely talks and mostly grunts, screams, and yells in exaggerated tones. After Brian May's exciting score in The Road Warrior, Maurice Jarre takes over the job and composes a score that is quite poetic and, at times, lush and beautiful. As with all the final scenes in the Mad Max films, this one ends perfectly. This time, we get the feeling that humanity has hope so long as men like Max are around.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: What a disappointment! The first 2 mad max films are classic, but this one is not nearly as good! The car chase at the end was terrible.
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Summary: ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIE-THE BEST OF THE SERIES
Review: This is one of the GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL THE TIMES ! . A must-see,a true classic (Just like "Road Warrior") .This flick was contested by some MAD MAX purists and reviewers that obviously wanted a pale retread of the previous movie...The point is that they're two movies extremely different."Mad Max beyond thunderdome" is pure poetry mixed with conceptual violence and a lot of geniality.Sorry,but "Mad Max 2" is not so complete,and the first one is nothing more than a very good movie. In this third movie,we can see the ascension of the character and his real changing.Mel Gibson is wonderful.Tina Turner is unforgettable.The setting shows what's happened to Australia after that Nuclear exchange occurred a little BEFORE of "Road Warrior".Forgive "Star Wars",this is the sole real TRILOGY ! The fight into the Thunderdome is the best action fightin' sequence i ever seen ! . The tribe of lost children is the masterstroke of this third chapter.The end is chatartic,awesome,incredible,pure poetry... This is the best of series.It was a great box-office hit and...no other words.RENT IT ! BUY IT!
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