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Originally Posted by demonrail666

 

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

This has always been the weak link in the franchise. There's just something fundamentally wrong about it: from the misjudged casting of Tina Turner through the silly child-tribe subplot to the fact you don't see a single car driven in anger till the very end. The fight in Thunderdome itself is pretty cool, and easily the highpoint in the film, but the fact it takes place so early in the movie means everything that happens afterwards (literally beyond Thunderdome) ends up feeling a bit flat. And Max never once getting to drive his V8 Interceptor is obviously the biggest wrong of them all.

 

Master/Blaster were cool, but not V8 Interceptor cool

 

i agree with you on “plot”. i think the first one was great, the second one was even better, and thunderdome dropped the ball... HOWEVER

thunderdome has the most iconic and memorable characters. auntie’s look is GREAT. master/blaster is MYTHICAL, more even than rockatansky himself, something primal about that combo. TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES was the catchiest most memorable fucking phrase of the whole franchise until WITNESS ME entered the picture recently (i was just saying it yesterday lolol).

but anyway, yeah, whenever they bring in children a movie usually becomes shit. except maybe for NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, which was awesome. and there may be a couple of others but not many.