Mad Max
1979 Directed by George Miller
Synopsis
The Maximum Force Of The Future
In a dystopic future Australia, a vicious biker gang murder a cop's family and make his fight with them personal.
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"People don't believe in heroes any more...well we're gonna give 'em back their heroes"
It's been a few years since I last watched this, I'd forgotten that my DVD automatically plays the crappy American dubbed version first and that you have to select the original Australian!
It's generally regarded that The Road Warrior, the first sequel, is by far the better film and I have always absolutely agreed with that, but that doesn't stop Mad Max from being a rollicking piece of pure Ozploitation and more, one of the best looking action films ever made. Locations - with Australia looking like the perfect futuristic post apocalyptic wasteland - cinematography, editing and the use of speeded up film, and of course…
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If you don't like this movie I probably don't like you.
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Not as great as the sequel really. Sure, Mel Gibson is badass, the car chases are awesome and the rest of the action can be summed up with the sentence 'late 70s Australian just-before-the-apocalypse movie', but it just felt like it was missing something. Doesn't mean it's bad though. Car chases through the desert are always enjoyable.
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Awesome car stunts, great action, strong acting, and a great setting. Only real complaint is that the ending comes out of nowhere.
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As the years have progressed, Mad Max 2 has widely become regarded as a superior film to the original. It's actually, perhaps, not all that fair a comparison - after all, the sequel had about 40 times the budget and, more importantly, had the kid with the killer boomerang.
The original, however, is a fine film in its own right and actually has not dated nearly as much as I was expecting it to have. Mel Gibson is a highway patrolman in a future energy-deprived Australia where gangs are increasingly ruling the roost, who quits the force when his best friend is burnt alive by the gang he attempted to arrest the young prodigy from. Next they turn their attentions…
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I'm pretty sure nothing happened in this movie, at all. If you asked me to tell you the plot I would say "Some people on motorbikes stole a man's wife and baby and they all lived happily ever after." I promise I was paying attention, but if anything more did happen then it completely blew over my head. I didn't even realise it was a post-apocalyptic future until I read the poster. It was funny to see a young, Australian Mel Gibson though, but he wasn't very mad...
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I didn't expect it to take over an hour until the actual plot unfolds, but this was still quite enjoyable. The atmosphere, the scenery and the action are great, but some parts here and there feel a bit dated.
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A scruffy, exciting little film that makes me look forward to the sequels. Clearly influential in the action genre, both visually and plot-wise.
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The best of the three films in an outstanding, original series.
Tons of humanity, emotion and action all blended together at high speed. -
This movie is all over the place. No real story just action. This is what Bay wants to always make.
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badass as fuck
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fun
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Produzido em 1989, esse filme de George Miller, promete mais do que cumpre. Com roteiro lento, a ação só engrena com mais de uma hora de película. No entanto, seus trinta minutos finais valem o que promete... A trilha é de um suspense forte. Ansioso por ver os vol. 2 e 3.
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Despite their cult following, I somehow never got round to watching the Mad Max films, after watching this first one I don't feel like I was missing out.
I don't like a film to lead me by the hand at every step of the way, I don't like having things spelt out to me in their simplest terms but if someone asked me to sum up Mad Max in as much detail as possible, I don't think I could get much further than "A bad guy escapes jail, he dies while being persued by Mel Gibson. His gang then half heartedly try and get revenge on Mel Gibson. They kill his wife and kid. Mel Gibson half heartedly goes about getting revenge for the revenge."
I've heard the second film is the best of the series, up against this it doesn't have much competition.
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Lai gan filmā dažas ainas ir neveiklas, tas nemaina iespaidu. Kvalitatīvs action, sci-fi, kura trumpji ir dinamiskais stāsts (vairāk uz filmas beigām) un tehniskais izpildījums: operatora darbs un tam laikam (iespējams arī šim laikam) realistiskie efekti. Starp citu, šī ir Mela Gibsona izlaušanās filma.