The only rule is “two men enter, one man leaves.” There are crowds who chant this and lustily watch the violence, but it’s not just gladiators to them, it’s The People’s Court. It’s a cage where Max fights Blaster while suspended from ropes, they swing around and can grab different weapons from the dome. You know, it’s like that one Tupac video. This of course leads to the famous Thunderdome of the title. And he goes undercover as a pig shit shoveler to scope out the target, a giant named Blaster who works in conjunction with a dwarf named Master who runs the pig shit factory and therefore thinks he’s the cock of the walk. (Not one of the better vocations, in my opinion.) They won’t let Max in to get his car because he has nothing to barter, but then they find out he’s a badass so Auntie hires him to off somebody. Tina Turner is the boss (actually, the “Auntie”), she lives in an elevated house, and the place is run on methane that comes from pig shit shoveled by slaves in a subterranean pig farm. This part sort of reminds me of STAR WARS in the way it shows you this fully inhabited world. It’s an incredibly detailed society full of crazy individuals with mowhawks and feathered headdresses and armor made out of junk. This is like the city where Lord Humungus would go to bars if he was into that type of thing. Max follows his vehicle and monkey into a gated post-apocalyptic community called Barter Town. And he’s gonna stay that way until the climax.Īlso Max has a pet monkey. So we’re just a couple shots into the new movie and Mad Max is a pedestrian. Before we even know it’s him though a pilot (Bruce Spence, not playing the gyro pilot from ROAD WARRIOR as far as I can tell, that’s just what pilots always look like in the desert) flies down low, knocks him off the car, then jumps in and steals it from him. Max lost his Interceptor in part 2 but you know he’s gotta get himself a new ride, right? In the opening scene he is traveling through the desert but either his engine doesn’t work or he’s out of gas because his customized truck is being pulled by camels. When you think of Mad Max you think of fast cars. Seeing it again – well, okay, it’s my third favorite, and there is a section in the middle that I had a problem with, but it needs to be said that this is a great fucking movie. I thought it wasn’t as good as the other two but that it got a bum rap. I just remembered planes and pig shit and that song by Tina Turner. In fact, I was thinking there weren’t even cars in this one. I haven’t seen this movie in years and I actually remembered it being more different than it really is. Instead he expanded on the universe, he took the story in another entirely new direction and alot of people still aren’t ready to follow. So if Miller just rehashed it but added a new Joe Pesci character or something then everybody probaly woulda been happy. Everybody loves ROAD WARRIOR, on account of it being one of the best movies everybody has ever seen. BEYOND THUNDERDOME has always been the red-headed stepchild of the MAD MAX series.
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