![]() Max (Gibson) is introduced with flowing locks and is no longer the fuel powered speed demon of old. Yup, it was nuclear war (not shocking that we WERE in the height of the cold war) and the world had been destroyed forever. ![]() No one knows what caused the socio-economic collapse that created the dystopian future, but here they blatantly spell it out for you. The first two films were sort of vague about what happened. The movie DID turn a profit in 1985, but it has forever been named as a cult “bomb” in the series by fans and one of the few films that they only watch just to complete the trilogy (now quadrilogy). No one knows for sure, but in the commentary from the DVD I remember Miller and Terry Hayes stating that they figured they couldn’t do the same thing 3 times in a row, so they decided to mix things up and take a gamble with a completely different direction. Some people blame the change of pace to studio involvement, overs on Gibson’s head himself, and even more just figure George Miller wanted to go go mainstream and lose his “Osploitation” vibe that he had build in the previous two films. And of course Mel Gibson losing his Aussie accent nearly completely in his shift over to Hollywood central in the mid 80s, and Tina Turner hamming it up to level 11. Beyond Thunderdome decided to deviate from the car chase theme of the original 2 films, instead going for a more cloistered form of combat, immortalizing the horrible catch phrase “Two men enter, one man leaves!” for all time. ![]() Effectively killing the franchise until an aging Miller decided to revitalize the series with Fury Road. If Mad Max was the El Mariachi of the series, and The Road Warrior was The Empire Strikes Back, then Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was the Godfather Part III of the series, going full Hollywood and diving straight off a cliff.
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