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#4521487 - 05/19/20 05:20 PM Re: Movies you are confident will never be exceeded [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
The Road Warrior. Both sequels do not come close to it.

Disagree. Mad Max 2 was awesome. The Road Warrior can't decide whether it's a post-apocalyptic drama, or a cop movie. It was still revolutionary in the uncompromising way it utilized car stunts, but only Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Fury Road turned up car stunts to 11. Mad Max 2 is great because all the fights are chaotic, nothing works, it's not the kind of highly artificial dance choreography that is passed as a "fight scene" these days.


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#4521497 - 05/19/20 05:51 PM Re: Movies you are confident will never be exceeded [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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When you say Mad Max 2, you are talking about The Road Warrior and not Mad Max (3) Beyond Thunderdome. The Road Warrior is Mad Max 2.


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I think what NoFlyBoy meant by "both sequels" are the two films that came after "The Road Warrior". So hence, "Beyond Thunderdome" and "Fury Road".


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#4521535 - 05/19/20 10:21 PM Re: Movies you are confident will never be exceeded [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Okay... but I still think that PM should go and watch Fury Road. It's dialling Mad Max 2 up to eleven. It may not offer a better story, but then again Mad Max 2 isn't about a profound story either.
In fact, I pity you for not having it seen in cinema with a giant monster screen and sound system. Some films are just made to fill your entire field of view. Fury Road is one of them.

My critique was about the original Mad Max.

#4521598 - 05/20/20 12:28 PM Re: Movies you are confident will never be exceeded [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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but at the time, it's all there was so it was important.



Bingo. Music back then was much more important in selling a movie since there was no internet and no social media. It also helps explain why movies with very memorable soundtracks are much less common today than they were in the past.

I seem to remember a documentary or some such, stating that it is actually a trend started more or less with The Graduate from 1967 with Dustin Hoffman, and the soundtrack using some Simon & Garfunkel songs. Speaking of non-musical themed movies using air-played songs, so excluding all the Elvis, "Singin' in the rain" etc. movies made to promote the musician/band....

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