I can see why Mad Max 1 & 2 fans hate this, but I like it anyway

So many people have fits about how terrible they think this movie is on here, finding all kinds of flaws in it and reasons to hate it, subjecting it to scrutiny and criticism they'd never give the first two movies. It's pretty much always people who loved the action and chases and adrenaline factor that comes with the first two movies and especially with this new Mad Max movie.

I can see why they hate Thunderdome. There really isn't anything much of the first two movies in this one, besides a somewhat watered down homage to the car chases from The Road Warrior at the very end. The rest is mostly an exploration of the bigger implications of the post-apocalyptic world they only narrowly explored in TRW. How do people survive? What remains of the world that was lost? What kind of future could the survivors of post nuclear destruction ever be able to make for themselves? In those respects, I've always found this movie a fascinating exploration.

I saw this movie before the first two back in the 80s, so maybe that makes me a little biased in its favor. As a kid, living in Reagan's Cold War America, the possibility of growing up in a nuclear wasteland like the kids do in this movie, seemed pretty relevant to me. All the hate getting spewed toward this movie nowadays seems like folks not getting the point. Miller and company decided to do something very different with this one, but unfortunately for them it didn't register with the fans of the other movies in the franchise. I still enjoy it though.