The second movie is my favorite.

the guy who plays toecutter is the same actor that plays Immortal joe in fury road

The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) MUST be your next movie. MUST. 🙂

This movie is just before it all goes to lawlessness and dystopia.

Ya gotta watch this one first, but The Road Warrior is where its at. Get the crew for that one!

Watch Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. That movie was what brought Mel to America, and many American people's first exposure to Mad Max.

This is what made Max mad. I think it's a more gradual collapse, economic or something, rather than an event, but if the Mad Max movies are anything to go by we are not far away from living in Road Warrior style times. The movies don't all progress in a lineal way, ones a prequel.

Mad Max's Interceptor is an Australian 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe. The yellow cars are mostly sedan versions. The coupe was basically Australia Ford's version of the Mustang.

The most Australian part of this movie: the extras were paid in beer. Yes, protecting your family is toxic masculinity now.

A lot of the bikers in the movie were actual bikers hired to play themselves and brought their own bikes, paid in beer, mostly. Miller was an ER doctor for a while and used his paycheck to pay for the movie and brought his experiences from real car accidents to the movie. The actor who played Toecutter, Hugh Keys-Burne, also played Immortan Joe in Fury Road. He died in 2020. :(

In some versions of Mad Max they dubbed over Mel Gibson's voice because they thought non-Australians wouldn't understand him.

I think this type of setting is under utilized, where civilization is still clinging on by its fingernails but hasn't fully collapsed yet. I'd kinda like to see a movie in this era get the Fury Road treatment.

Mad Max 2 : Road Warrior stunts are off the hook and got to be your next watch.

Soilent Green and Barbarella are both worth watching on your own.

This is every day commuting in Australia. True to life.

Yesterday at a stop light I saw a black van with a psychedelic mural (in progress) painted across about 2/3 of the side of the van. I assume it was somebody's "van-life" home or project. I loved the murals on the vans in the '70s. I really love Max's little red car!

Mel Gibson was born in New York. His dad moved their family to Australia to keep his sons from being drafted to fight in Vietnam. Mel Gibson was on an Australian TV show and got the attention of Miller. He almost lost the role because he got into a bar fight the night before his audition. Mad Max takes place about the same time as the Apocalyse in the rest of the world as society broke down. Miller has explained that he had to retcon the time frame for future movies, saying that Mad Max was a Wasteland legend, a hero of stories told around the campfire being shared generation after generation.

I saw The Road Warrior, the second film of the franchise, in the mid '80s on my university campus. That was enough to prompt me to see this "origin story" for Max. I love how the world-building develops from this point forward, a world on the brink of apocalypse and road gangs pushing it over the edge.

Fury Road takes place muuuch later, after complete societal breakdown. Same goes for the other sequels. This was a low-budget B movie made to get George Miller into the industry. It just happened to rock so much that he suddenly had incentive to make more, and with each one he went further into the dystopian madness.

This film takes place before the apocalypse.

There is no other Mad Max movie! Road Warrior is the one! It hits on every cylinder!! Story, action, execution, editing, it’s perfection! I saw RW before seeing the first n found the first tame by comparison.

Try watching Death Race 2000 sometime, David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone 😂

The stuntman who crashed on the bike. And was hit in the head, was either hurt really bad or even died from that later in a hospital.

Mad Max movies are supposedly in chronological order. The first movie was on a shoe string budget, some of the extras were paid in beer, the of it like the first evil dead movie

Probably the best description of the setting for this movie is... 'on the edge of dystopia' This is the 'last breath' of humanity leading up to the final (world) nuclear war. The bikers.. to a one, have various and serious mental ailments.

there is a Film called "Not Quite Hollywood" that covers some the films that where made in 'Australia 70's exploitation' then again it has many clips from old movies that could be spoilers?

No Mel Brooks was not a cop but he was in the army and served as a combat engineer. LOL

After you finish the Mad Max series, you should add "Zardoz" to your list. It's the same kind of post-apocalyptic settings starring Sean Connery. It's...different than the other movies. It might be a fun one for the rest of the crew as well. LOL

From memory the motorcycle crash was a world record for a while

The Road Warrior absolutely has to be on your list to watch now

The guy who played the sleazy mechanic co-wrote Fury Road & Furiosa with George

The third movie has a great soundtrack with Tina Turner too. The sad part is the big mentally challenged guy. Returns in part III. You don't know it's him until the near end of the movie.

Just fyi, Mel Gibson is not from Australia. He's from New York. But his family moved to Australia when he was pretty young

I always took this movie to take place a few years after the 3rd world war. All the major cities are gone around the world but a few pockets of smaller communities in less affected countries like Australia are still trying to keep going. At the end of this movie we see Max heading into the wastelands which is the area of Australia that was most affected by the war.

Awe yes Soylent Green is a must for futuristic 70's flicks, followed by another with legend actor Charlton Heston, is Omega Man. If you've seen "I am Legend" with Will(slappy)Smith, you'll like the original. Other Charlton rabbit hole movies with epic issues, The 10 Commandments, and Ben Herr. Some other classic early 70's what if's.......Silent Running was my fav as a young tweenster.

7:45 They never come out and say, but my theory is he was cranked up on speed and his drugs wore off.

We think the Main Force Patrol became the Gayboy Berserkers by the time of the second film. There were some guys in MFP cars and MFP uniforms in the Lord Humungous' combined forces, along with the Smegma Crazies and the Mohawk Riders. So, yeah, looks like the MFP became just another faction.

I was 18 when this came out. Mel Gibson's break out movie role. At least in the US, the movie poster rocked too.

You gotta say "Road Warrior" with an Australian accent! Always.

Mad Max was Mel Gibson's second movie, first that made it big. His first movie was one called Summer City.

Welcome to one of the most fascinatingly disjointed franchises ever made. Really helps to not think too hard trying to connect the different films. Because they don't really connect.

Mad Max is a great flick. Mad Max 2, "The Road Warrior," is the biggest...and BEST...of the original films! Do yourself a favor and be sure to check that one out!

For a very similar dystopian world setting, check out the 1975 obscure classic “A Boy and his Dog”

You gotta watch Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior. This film is really good. Road Warrior is amazing!

No mad max film can ever live up to this one because of Mel Gibson's character having a unique story that opens this saga. Road Warrior is the best, Thunderdome is a vital sequel. A good B film like this one is 'Driving Force'

Def not a Camaro, behold the awesomeness of Ford Australia's Falcon with some body mods.

Honestly, I preferred this movie over the second and third movies. This one was more grounded and felt real. Mad Max 2 and 3 were more "cartoony" and the dystopian society in depicted in them was already a cliché even before those movies came out. Having said that, I absolutely loved Fury Road. I haven't seen Furiosa yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Great movie, but the world building hasn’t been fully fleshed out yet, partly due to budget, partly the newness of the concept, but within the world it’s explained as we are much earlier into the descent into dystopianism. There are still vestiges of civilization.

Mel is really an American by birth. He was born in the US then their family moved to Australia soon after. He has an aussie accent because he grew up there, not Australian though.

Close it was some kind of falcon. Like Hawks and Eagles, raptors but the eye area gives away falcons. Falcons are more often trained for hunting of the three so likely easier to get. Mel Gibson and Paul Hogan two great icons out of the outback down under. Think this movie was done in a manner that you got some bikers and drivers together and added a camera for a movie. Little in line of effects other than some stunts. You literally could film something like this in a week with less of a budget than most TV shows. Imagine if the crew and actors all signed up for even a fraction of a percent. It follows a lot of WWIII films and books with Europe, North America and China wiped out. The few countries that might last after are almost all 3rd world minus perhaps the Aussies due to being remote.

The new Mad Max franchise is much more like a video game or something out of Heavy Metal than the original.

NOT a Camaro, Ford Falcon. One of the cars Australia got that America missed out on.

Fury Road has really nothing to do with the Mel Gibson movies, besides being dystopian. It's a whole nother universe. I have to say these films had a distinct Australian 'look' about them that I always like. Aussie exploitation cinema in the 70s and 80s just has a unique feel period.

I'm not a big fan of the original movie, but without it we wouldn't have the next ones!

Dude it didn't make 8 million that's just in the US it made 100 million worldwide back then in 1979 , crazy for a 300.000 buck movie!

You got it Ray, at this point where we pick up Max, Goose & the other officers of the MFP society is in decline. These guys are barely holding on. There's enough of a civil government where the attorney gets the kid off on a technicality... which is an insult to Goose (& the rest). The prototype car Max gets is a Ford Falcon GT & so dang cool, especially as a kid who loves cars! Time to watch the next one; "The Road Warrior". 😎👍 (Oh, one other point ..you see at the beginning the other officers are in "Pursuit"...Max is an "Interceptor", cue to his driving skills)

This is the real Mad Max, now you have to watch Mad Max2. The prolog explains what happened to the world.

The Pursuit Special, also referred to as the Last of the V8 Interceptors, is the iconic black GT Falcon muscle car featuring a distinctive supercharger driven by the title character Mad Max. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_Special

Quite the series. One just mustn't think TOO much about the "historical" continuity - the first movie seems to take place around - probably shortly before - society and nature decided to go bye bye in Australia, but the following movies seem much further away from it. It feels like there's at least one or two generations between each one, if I had to take a guess, judging from the mess everything is in getting deeper and deeper. The director/author came up with an explanation that ... actually isn't all that bad: We're not witnessing the actual "Mad Max" in real life (perhaps with the exception of the first movie), but tales the folks in the badland tell of him. Long after he lived and long after written history went down the crapper. Like Vikings told each other stories of heroes like Beowulf, the Greek of Heracles (which the Romans stole and turned into Herkules) and so forth. Mad Max - in that far away future - is the stuff of legends. So, of course, everything is even grander and more fantastic than it probably was - half of it might be made up in the first place (INSIDE the world of the movies) and people only know war rigs and cars from stories...

Order: Mad Max, Road Warrior, Thunderdome. All the same Max over a decade or so.. Then Fury road and Furiosa are a generation or more later

After watching this you really owe it to yourself to at least watch the next one "The Road Warrior" very dystopia and amazing stunts.

This is set in a futuristic australia and is on the verge of society collapsing.

crows and ravens will feed on dead bodies. it is an Australian Ford Falcon (think Mach Mustang)

Please watch them all ❤

Some of the sickest cars you've seen? That's because Australian Muscle cars are Awesome!

Dude this story was like pre-dystopian times everything after this went to crap . Mel Gibson's break out international role to super stardom afterwards . Mad Max II The Road Warrior is next and the best one of the bunch IMHO !

Great classic!!!

Death Race 2000 might be a movie for you.

Too bad Soylent green didn't win.

A classic... Made Mel Gibson a star !!!!😊 Next, The Road Warrior !!!!

Van culture was a thing.

Yes, the beginning of the end. Exactly right. There is an energy crisis and an economic depression that defunds police departments. The world only gets worse, though partly for other reasons.