so painful
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usafa93 — 10 years ago(May 08, 2015 07:03 PM)
To the OP, Crazynocrazy
I know it's too late, but apparently you knew the entire story and wanted to see that one part of the movie. (Not even the best scene, in my opinion).
Why put yourself through the pain, as you call it?
Fast forward to what you want to see. Personally, I think it's less gratifying, because you don't get to understand how depraved the biker gang is. Anyway, to each their own, but there was a simple solution to your issue. -
speccy1 — 10 years ago(June 30, 2015 05:49 PM)
I know! I actually really felt for Max, even though we're supposed to, and felt quite depressed after watching it. The revenge end scenes were brilliant and satisfying but the overly melodramatic music just dug the knife in and made you feel worse. Realistic helpless scenario just like the attack scene in the first Deathwish, scary! Made me paranoid!
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rindercella — 10 years ago(June 30, 2015 08:53 PM)
I didn't mean that it was bad, I love that movie. I meant that it was surprisingly heart wrenching.
Yes it was. He loved his wife, Goose, and baby.
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Guys like you don't die on toilets
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Tsavo — 10 years ago(January 15, 2016 06:08 AM)
Honestly, that was one of the two biggest things that greatly irritated me about the film. The setting is so ambiguous that you really cannot call it "post-apocalyptic", and there is no real resolution, it just mentions that his wife is in bad condition, shows a few minutes of revenge, then just cut off. It is not until "The Road Warrior" (which I very much DID enjoy), that there is any explanation of the setting and what happened.
"Aw Crap!" - Hellboy -
Kruleworld — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 01:53 AM)
The setting is so ambiguous that you really cannot call it "post-apocalyptic"
ah, because it's NOT. the opening scene just says 'a few years from now'. there's nothing about an apocalypse (war, plague, zombies, alien invasion). The idea is it's our world, just things are running downhill. there's still police, courts and trains running.
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danixdefcon5 — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 09:55 PM)
The setting is so ambiguous that you really cannot call it "post-apocalyptic"
The thing about the Mad Max franchise is that it was made popular in most of the world by the
second
movie, as the first one had only a limited release outside Australia. Thus most people assume the entire series takes place in a post-nuclear apocalypse world.
The first movie takes place in "a few years from now"; the bombs haven't fallen yet but society is breaking down due to an unspecified energy crisis similar to the 1973 oil crisis. It's stated in either the second or the third movie that the bombs dropped sometime between the first and the second movie. -
danixdefcon5 — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 09:49 PM)
It's how movies were made back then. From the 40s up until the early 80s, the buildup was incredibly slow and boring compared to modern standards. But I'd have to point out that Mad Max is pretty fast compared to older movies. Try watching classic movies like Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia or The Ten Commandments to see what I'm talking about. They're not bad movies, they're just boringly slow.
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doubl3 — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 05:07 AM)
I watched it for the first time a day or two ago and I thought it was so dumb that they didn't even make clear if the woman or baby died! How stupid to just show her in the hospital and never say a word about her again. And the whole first 80% of the movie was boring and then got a bit better towards the end. Those people didn't even seem menacing or tough and everything was so slow paced.
edit: plus I thought it was dumb that the last character max does something to. is not one of the worst ones. they kept making out one guy to be so bad, yet the climax of the movie involves someone else.