One of my favorite Theories for MAD MAX is that Max's irradiation caused his cells to reach near perfect Homeostasis making him Biologically Immortal letting him be 80, 90, or even a Hundred Years old by the time of Furry Road and I absolutely love it, it gives him FAR more time to fester on his anger and hate, letting him be far more insane or MAD then one would be from such relatively short times in the Wastes.

DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO TIMELINE RECAPS-FOR IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU, AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE

Miller said there is no timeline. He wanted max to be a legend, a folk tale you tell around a fire. Those stories never have a time line just a tale that captures the imagination.

Mannnnn this is the first time I’m truly learning the lore of the mad max saga. This is a brilliant world building rich with theology, sociology, and psychology. Wow wow wow

“The chain on those cuffs is made of high tensile steel, it’ll take ya 10 minutes to hack through it with this,” holds up hacksaw; “now if you’re lucky you can hack through your ankle in 5 minutes.” James Wan credits this as the inspiration for the iconic scene in Saw.

The Road Warrior, an early 80's movie with a villain (Wez) having a twink boyfriend, was ahead of its time.

Not to be an ass, but you left out the most important part of The Road Warrior (MM2) - the people didn't follow the tanker. Only a fighting force. The rest of the people went the other way ... with a bus ... which is where they hid the actual gasoline. The tanker was loaded with sand. It was a decoy. Edit: the video still was great - I gave it a thumbs up.

There was a theory that Hardy's Max was the Feral Child, I believe -- who simply took on the name & 'mission' of someone he looked up to, who was already semi-legendary when the Child was young- I wasn't too sure how that stacked up against what would come with Fury Road, & now the semi-prequel of Furiosa...

What a day. What a lovely day... for a new OneTake video!

i always assumed that the nuclear war took place between the 1st, and 2nd film. So, by the time we meet Max, the Gryo Captain, Papagllo, the global conflict, had already occurred. In the Road Warrior, there are a few oblique references to this. Humongous says, we all lost someone we loved, which I took to be a reference to the global war and its effects. No one in the refinery for example, ever mentions any kind of organized, civil government or society that might still exist or be functioning either in Aus, or anywhere else. In the RW, we can we safely assume that what gov't that still existed in Mad Max falls between the events of MM and the RW and AS a result, of either a limited, or full nuclear war. In Beyond Thunderdome we see fallout from that event is still easily detectable in groundwater. The timeline could look like any of these: M.Max > Road Warrior > Global Nuclear War > Thunderdome or M.Max > Limited Nuclear War > Road Warrior > Global Nuclear War > Thunderdome or M.Max > Global Nuclear War > Road Warrior > Thunderdome

I figured in the mad max story line movie was someone else's point of view of max like the helicopter pilot or bardertown master even the lost boy kids. I say that only because max never ends his own story its always someone else remembering him.

So cool they can keep all those high performance cars running in the apocalypse

Very good video, but I miss the Mad Max game (2015) which is not just a good Mad Max product, it's one of the best open-world games of all time. I am so sad it never got the recognition it deserves. It needs a sequel! I would play it anyday!

Just watching this to help me mentally prepare for the coming bad times.

The Max in Fury Road is the feral boy in Mad max 2. It's indicated by the music box, boomerang, and his lack of speech and more grunts. I'm assuming he named himself after his hero

OMG. I actually thought to comment on the Planet of the Apes video to suggest a Mad Max recap. Now here it is!! 🎉

Great video! Loved the way you incorporated the movies and comics. I watched the movies recently but still found the overview very helpful.

Well done 👏 Gil you got it nailed down. Under 1 hour and hit all the story beats!

Keep it up and keep them coming man. Your channel and these types of videos are absolute gold

this was so captivating to watch dude. excellent work! Cant wait to watch your other stuff now

Speaking of the conclusion part of the video (39:35) The world fell over 30 years ago. That doesn't mean that they aren't counting days before Mad Max 1. If anything the world fell years before the original Mad Max and that part of the world with Max and the MFP were the only ones hanging on to some semblance of the old world. For all we know the entire world was already a war torn wasteland during the events of the first film. Or, they are counting the days since a single event happened that caused the world to go to shit, that could have happened 10 or even 20 years before Mad Max.

Thank you so much for putting it all together! I watched all the MM from before but did not understand Fury Road and had not read the comics. Now I get it. Awesome work!! And I hope to see the Interceptor once again in the dystopian future.

I always thought that Johnny Boy ended being the Lord Humungus. Great Video dude. Thank you

Great tone and pace. Well done!

Thank you for all your efforts.... you've put this all in in a good relative perspective… its been a long time since walking out of that plaza cinema in 1980 as a freshman in high school and loving every adrenaline moment of that original film, Mad Max. Thanks again. ;)

They can bring in who ever they want,but without that car you don't have a mad max movie.

A BIG TAHNK YOU for AMAZING JOB you did to put all this together!

There's a fan theory that the radiation slowed Max's aging so it's the same Max, he's just been warped by the wasteland.

Please never stop doing this ❤

Beyond Thunderdome was my favorite of them all. I don't understand how it had bad reviews but I loved that film as a kid. Fury Road is another one and I can't wait for the sequel.

Loved your planet of the apes timeline, so I am bingeing and subscribed

Thunderdome takes place 20 years after Mad Max according to the novelization of Thunder Dome

The timeline is even more wacky with Furiosa. The first trailer for the movie states that young Furiosa was kidnapped 45 years after the fall. Which means there’s probably another 20+ years until Fury Road. So Tom Hardy can’t be Max Rockatansky because he’d be in his 80s or 90s. Which lends credence to the theory that this Max is the feral kid from The Road Warrior. Or you could go with the theory that these are all just folk tales passed down which get murkier and murkier with every retelling.

Well done, man. Thank you.

I literally was looking for this timeline 2 days ago and was so pissed no one had 1 on KZfaq.

I never knew how these all connected and now I do! Thanks for the breakdown and explaination!

Well done. Great pacing and great visuals. 👍

What about the game? Some Reporters said that the new Furiosa Movie referenced the game, so its kinda canon, I dont remember the source but it has sense as we battle Scrotus, Inmortal Joe son, and its mentioned he killed Dr. Dementus, the villain of this new film.

Great recap, thanks so much! 👍

Fantastic video, the movies are brilliant and never get old

For some reason I always thought Blaster was Benno from the first movie. And because Max recognized Benno again, he spared his life.

Thank you for the video really enjoyed it

I was first watching the mad max movies as a kid and i was confused as hell that the gyro capt from the road warrior and the pilot from thunder dome werent the same person even though bith played by Bruce Spence and both were pilots. The first time i saw thunder dome in the beginning i was like WTF why is he robbing Max. He saved his life in road warrior. It still drives me crazy

Not to be an ass, but you left out the most important part of The Road Warrior (MM2) - the people didn't follow the tanker. Only a fighting force. The rest of the people went the other way ... with a bus ... which is where they hid the actual gasoline. The tanker was loaded with sand.

Hot damn 👍🏾 great job retelling the series

max was so fueled with madness after his family, it permanently changed his dna to fully embody madness, itself becoming madness incarnate, living forever in a never ending release of rage that will never end, cursed to roam the earth taking it out on the harsh fury road. Naw im high as hell right now 😂

We'll See you on the Road Skag!! We'll See you like we saw Knightrider!! That part still gets me amped. 😤

This is a good video, the comic helps to tie in the story together leading up to the Fury Road

Huge thanks Gil. 🙏🏻

just perfect, no pot holes left!!!

Holy fuck. You're brilliant mate. Hope you have much success.

Dope I just finished the ape video which was a good recap so this one will, be a good video

this was great

It was awsome, thank you.

Well for a start.. Max is NOT a hero, it’s a good hearted guy, caught in the dissolving society , a guy trying to survive and failing to save many people that he loved. I think on the last movie they summarise this very well, he is just reduce to a simple instinct now.. to survive

Thanks for sharing 👍🏾

i always thought the bush pilot was the pilot guy in thunderdome (same actor but same character) and the kid was the feral boy as a regular kid now lol

Fate brought me here. Was talking to a friend about Mad Max and got curious if anyone had done a video essay on them all and hell. This was uploaded yesterday

Very well done.

greatest timeline explanation there is

I was expecting things to be messier that's more cohesive than I thought. I love a good timeline breakdown.

Thanks for this.

Love this video

nicely done cheers

The first movie was the best!

Very good summation mate. I love the raw, low budget grittiness of the first 2 movies. The 3rd one was quite a bit more Hollywood but they still managed to keep most of the original raw tone. Fury Road was full Hollywood and it looks like Furiosa is too. I know Fury Road has high scores and seems to be well liked but I would've loved if they kept that raw, realistic tone with the Mad Max universe. I know they tried but Hollywood doesn't know how to do that

Good video 👍👍

You sound like adam corrola haha Keep up the good work!

Mel Gibson is MadMax, the Road Warrior, Raggaty Man

What about the 2015 video game?!

"Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche."

Just watched Furiosa. Really sad at the beginning. Enjoyed the movie Furiosa today. Worth the $8.75 a ticket.

That's very thorough

Compared to the last one this one looks like a CGI nightmare, please don’t disappoint

can't wait for Furiosa one more week

The newest entry in the series, absent from this video is the best one of all!!!!

I love how max sets up a full on saw trap

I also read a fan-based theory that Emil Minty's Feral Kid was Hardy's Max. Many clues in Fury Road hint at Minty beginning as an adult version of Max, and before he returns to become the leader of the Great Northern Tribe, he has many adventures. Gibson's Max may have become some Apocalpyptic knight or Samurai, roaming the wasteland while battling many evil foes. Thus, many "adapt" his look (the Bronze leather uniforms or pieces, including surviving look-alike V8 Interceptors). I know Miller has rejected this idea, but this fan-based concept tightens things up for the MM timeline.

I watched this whole video thinking the voice was AI, mostly because of how he pronounced semi as "Sem-me". But nope, actual dude. Well done old bean. Have a sub.

I need more mad max stories 100% fury road was so well done we definitely need more especially tom hardy's Mad Max ❤

you woud need to include the furiosa story line in here, good job :)

Max actually got over to the US, working on a caravan that was trekking to The Hub on the west coast of America via the exposed seabed and is seen going into the Scumm Bar in Junktown, southern California, along with his dog.

Super, thank you

13:48 Ahh, yes tempt Max with the coast, a region he left after the first movie, probably for reasons. But also similar to in Fury Road when he knows there's nothing but sand wastlands in one direction, salt flats in another (seems the sea-level dropped, possibly the salt flats, at least based on the game)

I like how the captain wears a tie while watering his plants

I thought the whole thing was just multiple people having similar adventures, all get mixed together in the chaos of time.

34:07 Best line in the entire franchise

We are not worthy of this brilliant series!🙌

Thank you

subbed thank you sir yes sir

You cant talk about MAX without talking about the great Mel Gibson

Do you think it's possible that the number that was tattooed on him was referencing Max's age? Since it would have been 30ish years prior, that could be how they are thinking about age in general, not just the days since the fall.

The wildchild with long hair in thunderdome has taken the monica of max in fury road

Kind of wish you’d include the video game… but this was great!! Thank you 😁

One of my favourite head cannons is that Max in Fury Road is the child from Mad Max 2, the timeline would line up better (still not perfect), Fury Road Max only calls himself Max not Max Rockatansky

It got to my mind the idea to write an epic poem about the legendary mythology of Mad Max lore, something reminiscing the ancient civilization of Australia, maybe how some marine gods enraged by the greed of humans on oil took all the seas away from them leaving only sands and dunes. Narrating of the tales of the gods, the heroes (like Max) and the humans like Homer or Ossian

Max had a brief appearance in Furiosa 😊

The first Mad Max is badass.

Looking forward to Furiosa. She will be a hero.

i have always thought of max from fury road and the kid from 2 with the boomerang, the fact it says there they never met again yet helicopter guy and him are in beyond the thunderdome means its all a little fluid, and also, if you take the story as 10 years between each one, then that might put the young lad at the approximate correct age, leading to a now immortal Max that is multiple people wandering different parts of australia, would also explain his hesitnce to tell anyone his name, as he wasnt quite ready to put on the mantle of the road warrior