As theAV Club accurately noted:
In fact, everything Max does in Thunderdome, he does at the behest of women: first Tina Turner, then the female leader of the lost children.
Honestly, Max was never the star of the Mad Max films. The cars were. Max was always pretty much a blank slate, like the player character in an FPS.
I like the idea of the story not being about Max. I prefer going along for the ride and seeing the world through Max’s eyes as he gets dragged into a world of mayhem, chaos, and violence of other people’s problems.
The original MadMax is his origin story and the rest are other stories of the wasteland where Max is destined to wander.
Sorry, George Miller, but if I wanted to immerse myself in a pitiless landscape devoid of human feeling, a barren wasteland indifferent to civilization’s simple solaces, I can just visit my eHarmony account.
Oooh,* snap*!
So very cool and sadly- true.
you can’t expect too much from internet dipshits. Just pat them on the head and sadly walk away.
To be fair though, Mel Gibson is an American. He was born in America and moved Down Under when he was 12.
And hell yes, Babe: Pig In The City is a modern masterpiece! Gene Siskel agreed with me, so there!
Saw it. It’s frickin’ awesome. It is clear that this movie has been brewing in Miller’s mind for several decades. It’s stuffed with tiny little details, really inventive use of hardware (great use of a sandplow) and the chase. Is. AWESOME.
Just saw it. It was awesome, better than I could have hoped.
I know this was my first time viewing it, and I’ve seen the others many times; but right now, I think it’s the best of the series.
Saw it this afternoon. Max is not an afterthought, so I’m cool with it.
My only beef is that this movie is almost all chase scene. Now I love Mad Max chase scenes, and these chase scenes are truly spectacular, but I equally enjoy exploring other aspects of this future world. We just don’t get very much of that here.
But that’s just nit-picking. Great flick.
Query: Why does Charlize Theron’s character have an American accent?
Just saw it. One of the most awesome movies I’ve ever seen. Loved loved LOVED the guitar truck – I cracked up every time it came on screen. Just amazing visuals and incredibly true to itself, if that makes sense. I imagine this stuff was rolling around in George Miller’s head for decades and he finally got the money he needed and went balls out to put every damn detail he could think of.
Just an incredible action movie!
All around an incredible film. The movie starts with a bang and never lets down until the very end. Fury Road knows that insane car chases are what make the series great and uses that to great effect.
On the contrary, Spoke, I felt that the amount of chase scenes resulted in seeing an incredible amount of the wasteland, and I felt this movie was a lot more immerse than the previous ones. In both The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, a lot of time was spent in a single location, like the oil well or Bartertown. Not so here.
And for what it’s worth, I don’t know Furiosa’s accent, but the way she pronounces “gasoline” (0:40) is definitely not American.
I only watched the once, and I was a bit drunk, but the pronunciation I kept hearing from everyone was “guzzle-ine” as a slang or misnomer like “aqua cola” or “shows” were.
Yeah, “guzzle-line” appears to be a bit of future slang.
And Furiosa definitely has an American accent, which makes no sense in the context of the story (she is a native of the wasteland in the story), nor, for that matter, in real life (Charlize Theron is South African). So what gives?
I wasn’t really paying attention to the character’s accents, but did the
many mothers have American accents? Because that would explain it.
No, they were Australian, which just made it all the more puzzling.
Haven’t decided yet if it was good but it certainly was visually mesmerizing and an adrenaline rush from end to end.
Accents were a bit all over the place. But then so was everything else so not bothered by that. Anything in the movie explicitly still place it in Australia? From the credits it looks like it was filmed in Australia and South Africa.
And if they expect to drive 165 days across the salt (with just the fuel in their motorcycles and the food in their bags?) that feels like something bigger than Australia.
One question:
[spoiler]What was in the tanker Furiosa was driving? I know the second little bubble in the back was fuel she was to trade for safe passage.
But if she was supposed to have been going to get gasoline, why was there anything in the tank? And were the contents water or mothers’ milk? Seemed to be milk when Max washed blood off his face but water when they needed to cool the engines and it was pierced by the harpoons.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]The tanker appears to be carrying both water and mother’s milk. They make multi-chambered gasoline tankers to carry different grades of gasoline, so I assume that’s what the setup was.
I am also assuming, but I’d suppose the Bullet Farm and Gastown would value both water or mother’s milk in trade. [/spoiler]
Australia? There is very little about Fury Road that would place it on “Planet Earth”.
Given that the 'pocy-lypse happened within Max’s lifetime, I think it would have been nice to see more of the carcass of the old civilization to pick through. We don’t even see roads lined with old wrecks anymore.
As someone pointed out somewhere, for a society in which guzzoline is in such short supply, they’re pretty damn profligate with it. But who’m I kidding–movie was incredible. Better than I hoped, and I was drooling since I first saw the trailer. Personal favorite tiny comedic moment: Max’s constant “That’s mine!” whenever he spots his car. 
Well, gas can be in short supply for a civilization, yet in endless supply for a thousand dune-buggy savages.
The US used 136 billion gallons of gas last year. If there is only a few million gallons left for a thousand weirdos in the desert they can use that for awhile. Also, the war party was a special event. It’s not like they do that every day.