3 is a dumpster fire, but some people like it and that’s okay(but I do not and will not).

Fury Road is tied with 1, but is so different a movie it’s silly to compare.

I have not seen Furiosa.

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    30 days ago

    That is a hot take, but I’ll allow it because they’re quite different movies.

    I’ve written at least three essays here over the years about how the depiction of disability in Mad Max is way better than most contemporary movies and most modern movies. I’m saying this because I almost launched in to another one and I have a meeting in five minutes and I need to stop!

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    Naw Mad Max 1 sucked. 2 and 3 were decent. Fury Road is GOAT and Furiosa wasn’t bad.

    I only saw the original trilogy after Fury Road, so obviously I’m correct since I don’t have nostalgia glasses on.

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    1 is basically a product of it’s time. The story is there but it’s very early 80s. I think Road Warrior gets more love just because it’s when we really get to see Miller’s vision of the wasteland. I’d like to see these both remade with the love of Fury Road and Furiosa but it will never happen.

    I think Thunderdome is ok. It used to be my favorite but after doing a huge deep dive, I can see where people are coming from. You get this great aesthetic with Bartertown, then they had to add kids to the mix. I read that there was a push in the mid and late 80s to add more kid stuff to movies and that this is probably why. I’d like to see a soft reboot of Thunderdome though.

    Furiosa(the movie) is basically the character’s coming of age story. If you like that idea and also the same set pieces and more of Fury Road you’ll dig it. I have a hard time deciding which I like more but also they work well as essentiall6 one long movie.

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    Eh, I think 1 is kind of scattered and has some pacing issues. Watching it feels like they wanted to dress up like hooligans and drive around too fast. The charm of 3 is that it’s fuckin’ weird, in the same way Fallout is.

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      Its set during the pre-apocalypse. The decline is starting, and eventually it leads to a nuclear exchange.

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        I’m curious how much of that was intentional. I think Miller just wanted to make a cool action movie, and the whole idea it was the apocalypse came while he was working on 2. When I watch the first one it just feel like it was an exaggeration of what life in rural Australia was like in the 70s, in that everything was run down, cops were more blatantly psycho than they are now, and gangs could get away with some crazy BS. Less like there is an actual looming apocalypse.