watching this right now...

LOL, 

I think it's so personal, it's like you are there. Something about it..I felt the same way about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's odd, but dang it's a great film, no doubt about it.

Should be HIGH in the top 250. Forever it was 100% on Rottentomatoes, until a few years ago when someone gave it bad. UGH.


"Guys like you don't die on toilets." Mel Gibson-Riggs, Lethal Weapon

Everything, my friend, everything.

From the sound of the totally badass engines to the sparse dialogue, I personally believe TRW to be as near to a perfect film as possible. Yeah, I'm probably gonna take a beating for that comment. HA!!!

Pardon the pun, but it fires on all cylinders. For all the problems Miller and company had, the planets were in alignment and it all just came together so well.

The sense of desperation is one of the leading factors to it being so impressive. The phrase "less is more" is used to maximum effect in TRW.

For example, there aren't even ten shots fired in TRW, as opposed to who the hell knows how many in Fury Road. So rare, that when they do occur it is quite significant to the story.

When Max FINALLY uses his shotgun, and empties both barrels into that a-hole driver's face, it is simply incredible. The ensuing chaos from just that one shot is a complete and total payoff from previous scenes where it is used.

And the subtext? Ohhh the subtext...

Cinematography, story, setting, memorable characters..

I'm watching this right now too .. This movie is awesome and for me its especially awesome because I've never freakin seen a Mad Max movie.. well I did in the late 80s/early 90s my dad used to like these movies and play them on VHS but I was so young I don't remember... Also I'm a big fan of the Fallout series of video games and I'm only like 30 mins into the movie and I've already noticed little things that fallout obviously took from these movies (like the dog..etc)

Anyway awesome movie.. I'm going to watch this then beyond thunderdome next.. although i heard that one kinda sucks lol then I'm going to see this new one that came out last year...

Peace

I must have watched this film a hundred times, literally. I think it appeals to me as a demolition derby driver; a world where cars are used as weapons is a world I can identify with!

"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

A combination of great cinematography, stunts, a realistic grim and dirty feel to everything, and a vivid vision of a post apocalyptic world that isn't too far removed from what we know. Has probably one of the coolest and most haunting endings of any movie I've seen.

And then there's Max, an anti hero who actually gets horribly injured, has a pretty realistic outlook on his situation, and who winds up being used but surviving rather than triumphing over everyone like some generic action hero dude. He survives as much by luck and resourcefulness as anything else, giving the movie the feel you just watched something that could actually happen. And at the end of it all Max chooses his fate on the road, to continue to on to loneliness and madness probably. When I first saw this movie as a kid, it was simultaneously awesome and disturbing, and it stayed with me ever since.

I like it as it reminds me of the old computer game Carmageddon. Some of the bad guys' cars/buggies look so much like something Auto Scum would drive.

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