(see circus Archaos, '80s hippie convoy, Mutoid waste company, Tank Girl, 2000AD, burning man festival.) Of course its the wonderfully scuzzy design for which the Max-iverse is most famous, influencing a generation to get funny haircuts and drive around in demented custom vehicles, ultimately resulting in that remarkable feedback loop of MM4 being able to reabsorb imagery stolen from the series imitators. The colours are vivid, the stunts are reckless, and when a man sees his death, his eyes literally pop out of his head!Īs the budgets increase, monochrome griminess sets in, and MM2 presents a vision of a post WW3 world which is gritty, violent- and actually rather optimistic (for a race dying of radiation poisoning, everyone looks pretty energetic!) Personally i'd say that for sheer trashy energy the first, tiny-budget film stands up best. ![]() So for the full Madmax binge experience, it may be necessary to invest in the proper version.Īll three of these movies are of course rip-roaring, grungy fun. However Hugh Keyes Byrne's 'Toecutter' loses some of his eccentric edge-if i remember rightly, in the original movie he puts on a different voice for every scene, making an already idiosync ratic performance even more disconcerting. Max himself survives the dubbing okay, sounding quite similar to Mel Gibson's own American accent. (Mind you, fans of MM four may already be wondering how Imperator Furiosa got her American accent when she was born in post-nuke Australia.but maybe I'm looking too deeply.) ![]() Presumably we're meant to believe the story takes place in rural USA, which then inexplicably turns into Oz for the rest of the series. You either like mad max films or you dont, right?Ī note of caution to the purist, though: this edition features the dubbed version of MM1 with all the aussie accents re-voiced by Americans, robbing the film of some of its unique Aussie flavour.
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