11/3/2023 0 Comments Mad max beyond thunderdome blu rayIts slogan “Two men enter, one man leaves” is one that EVERYONE knows and makes wisecracks about where ever it could fit into conversation. The word “Thunderdome” has also been used to describe epic battles and matches. She also provided two songs for the soundtrack of the film. Turner is quite enjoyable here in the role and I find her look to be pretty iconic in that of the realm of science fiction/cult movies. The film starred pop icon Tina Turner as Aunty Entity. If The Road Warrior was the one that inspired film and creators, then Beyond Thunderdome was the Mad Max film that had the biggest pop culture impact. While this is a tighter more concise bout, it still works and has all the enjoyment of any good chase in this series. And how crazy is it when Blaster is revealed to have Down’s Syndrome or something of that ilk? All this ends up being a slow build (in disguise) to getting to that sweet sweet desert road car chase that this series is all about. The fight between Max and Blaster is also rather awesome. The design of Bartertown is quite good and something I feel would provide plenty of inspiration for other films in years to come. The film has some nice unique action and characters to it, filling its own identity. What matters more is if they did well going in that direction. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, its just a direction they chose. Its got that feel like a Goonies or Gremlins type of Amblin adventure. Okay, if not Spielberg-directed, maybe more like a Spielberg-produced film. Its a more whimsical adventure type of film as well, involving children as an important part of the plot. Once the story gets away from Bartertown, it becomes much more obvious that the film is trying its best to make a more “all audiences” version of our favorite drifter. The film steps down from the R rating of the first two, to a more friendly PG-13. No, Spielberg was never on the docket for a film in the post apocalyptic desert wasteland, but I feel like there’s some inspiration from his work on display here. I’ve always saw Beyond Thunderdome as the closest thing to a Steven Spielberg-helmed Mad Max movie as we’d get. We get new environments and types of people, but its done in a simplistic manner and never feels like they are trying to cram in too much on the viewer. As a follow up though, this one does a terrific job of continuing to open up the doors to this wasteland world. Its fifteen years following it and aside from the character of Max Rockatansky, there’s no references or integral plot points hanging over from the last film. Like The Road Warrior, you can go into Thunderdome pretty much clean and find yourself enjoying it throughly. While the third film definitely feels very much a part of the world given to us in the previous film, it really sets itself apart and is its own wholly unique story. All three films in this series are more than worth anyone’s time and its hard to find (At least back in the day) three films in a series that bolster such a good quality to them. Its good and importantly pretty highly entertaining as well. Because of such a tradition, I feel by being constantly put in last place, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome has earned itself a little bit of a bad rap over the years. No matter if there’s twenty films or just two, there’s always a bottom. And since its last its sometimes unfairly labeled “worst” instead of kinder terms like “least favorite”. Fun fact: When a Why So Blu writer refuses a Blu-ray title, Brian White then says angrily “Who run Blu-raytown? WHO run Blu-raytown?”Įvery time you have a series of films serial or maybe just a director’s filmography, us geeks have to put things in some sort of descending order of quality. We’ve now come to the infamous THUNDERDOME portion of the retrospective. Those familiar know I do this kind of thing for my Naptown Nerd blog, but I thought since this one started over here at Why So Blu that I would just see the whole thing out here. We started with Mad Max and will go on through Mad Max: Fury Road and at the end rank the films (Where you can tell me how wrong, stupid, unqualified or dumb I am). This will just be a piece minus all the tech specs and recommendation. No, this won’t be a review of the Blu-ray that has been out forever (Fun Fact: It was the fifth Blu-ray to be put in my collection). With my recent review of the Blu-ray for Mad Max from Scream Factory and its relatively convenient timing, I’ve had the itch to keep going writing about the series over here on Why So Blu.
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