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06 Aug, 2018
you either like mad max films or you dont, right?
A 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. 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. (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...)
Max himself survives the dubbing okay, sounding quite similar to Mel Gibson's own American accent. 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 idiosyncratic performance even more disconcerting. So for the full Madmax binge experience, it may be necessary to invest in the proper version.
All three of these movies are of course rip-roaring, grungy fun. Personally i'd say that for sheer trashy energy the first, tiny-budget film stands up best. The colours are vivid, the stunts are reckless, and when a man sees his death, his eyes literally pop out of his head!
As 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!)
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... (see circus Archaos, '80s hippie convoy, Mutoid waste company, Tank Girl, 2000AD, burning man festival...)
One caveat for the woke modern viewer: the first two films both feature fairly blase scenes of men doing bad things to women. (Its hard to describe without using words which automatically raise flags and stop this review being posted, but you know what i mean. Offensive scenes of assault.) Granted, its the villains doing it, but in what are essentially (bloodshed not withstanding) childish action films; it does grate a bit.
By the time we get to the third film, however, we're firmly into cert 15 territory, and even that's only because of the swearing. Oddly, MM3: 'Thunderdome' is more like a sort of post-nuke 'Goonies' than a vision of Armageddon- violence dialled way down, none of the nasty stuff from before, and a strong female baddie in the person of Tina Turner's haughty 'Auntie Entity', foreshadowing the mighty warrior women of MM4: 'Fury road'.
In summary: I recommend you all buy this box set and, like me, find yourself daydreaming about being a ferocious, haunted road warrior as you pootle off on the school run at 20mph.
GO! WE GO!
29 Jun, 2021
if i could sum up films in a few words, i'd be making good money as a copywriter.
A strange thing, this film, but I found it most engaging. A whole bunch of stars are involved, but for the aficionado, the draw is a rare screen role for the great street performer (And piano juggler) Leo Bassi.
He's just one in a glittery ensemble but adds the tang of authentic circus chutzpah the movie needs.
Its meandering, its theatrical, but so what? I like it. And its got a really romantic closing line.
04 Jul, 2012
several happy hours may bespent escaping reality with this classic daftness
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Escape from the colorful horrors of modern life into a world of lo budget monochrome adventure.
In a way this is the best plot twist in the entire history of doctor who- in fact, its the point where he ceases to be a 'who' at all and we find out his identity. Like us all, the Doctor must finally face his fate, and be tried for his crimes by a judiciary of unreasonable omnipotent beings. There's a great sense of nightmarish doom as he the forces of time-lord justice close in, and real despair as he faces the terrible fate of being forced to become jon pertwee.
Along the way, there are some fantastic villains, apparently from a race of hypnotic opticians. That guy who used to play Mister Meeker in Rentaghost makes a great, shiny haired renegade timelord- of the morally ambiguous stripe- he wants to bring galactic peace but never tires of saying the word CRUSH!
Meanwhile the hilarious yet chilly Philip Madoc provides a more clear cut death merchant, all snide smiles and cruel detachment. And there's a few other nifty turns in there, too- watch out for the evil voice-changing man, he's a good one.
Of course the script is in no way tight or economical and some of the acting is pure wood- this is irrelevant.
What you have here is a type of fantasy we will never see again- thrown together from string and cardboard and shot in realtime with the all thrilling adrenaline of an amateur pantomime. And yet, weaved throughout there are these fabulous ideas- about the nature of death and time and inevitability, memory and rebirth and the burden of free will. There's trippy op-art settings, wonderful sound effects, and its all shot through with that slightly subversive, hallucinatory quality, which has all but vanished from 21st century television.