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Mad Max

ActionThrillerScience Fiction

Directed by George Miller

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. From TMDB

378 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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Mad Max is a 1979 action thriller science fiction film, directed by George Miller, starring Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel and Hugh Keays-Byrne.

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Mad Max grossed A$5,355,490 at the box office in Australia and over US$100 million worldwide. Given its small production budget, it was the most profitable film ever made at the time and held the Guinness World Record for the highest box-office-to-budget ratio of any motion picture until the release of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Upon its release, the film polarised critics. In a 1979 review, the Australian social commentator and film producer Phillip Adams condemned Mad Max, suggesting it would promote violence, saying that it had "all the emotional uplift of Mein Kampf" and would be "a special favourite of rapists, sadists, child murderers and incipient Mansons". After its United…

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  • Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Mad Max movie where he stumbles into a guy named Bruce who just has Solar on his house and an EV and he's basically fine.

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  • Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    You can clip any 30 seconds from MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, and it's certfiably the most sensational, breathtaking 30 seconds of any movie made in the last 2 decades. As primal as cinema gets. The 5-Cut Square Edit at the button of this particular sequence of shots is a GOD-TIER piece of editing

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  • Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2025

    I am watching Mad Max: Fury Road for the first time and it confuses me how more people did not die while making this movie

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2024

    Friend and I were picking out a movie to watch and I mentioned Mad Max Fury Road and she asked if the plot was good and I legitimately didn’t know how to answer because it was basically like asking about the plot to a porn movie, I just have never even thought about it

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    I just simply cannot imagine anyone saying this and not being the bad guy in a Mad Max movie

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Mar 17, 2025

    Village Roadshow has filed for bankruptcy after fallout from a financial dispute with Warner Bros over ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ They were the production company behind ‘The Matrix, ‘Joker’, ‘The LEGO Movie’, ‘Zoolander’, ‘I Am Legend’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Happy Feet’

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  • Geonn Cannon @geonncannon.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    "Any movie you love, directed by a man, edited by a woman. Which means a woman directed it." (Patton Oswalt) George Miller shot something like 400 hours of film for Mad Max Fury Road, which he handed to Margaret Sixel to find the story. And that's why she got the Oscar. 😉

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  • Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    Art by Noriyoshi Ohrai for the movie program sold at Japanese screenings of Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior), 1982.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    George Miller is looking to develop a final ‘MAD MAX’ movie and a TV series. Amazon, Universal and Sony are interested in acquiring the rights. (Source: puck.news/newsletter_c...)

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  • Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2025

    Clayton South. A very short Mad Max movie.

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  • Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2024

    In 1985 I talked to George Miller for Time Out to tie in with the UK release of MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME. Have long since lost the interview (which was spiked at the 11th hour when Orson Welles died & they needed the space for tributes) but this is the transcript. multiglom.com/2015/05/12/g...

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  • dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.comBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    When I took Husb to see Mad Max: Fury Road by dragging him to the last theatre playing it in London just after he got off the Eurostar. When the film pans over the entire War Party, Husb turned to me and whispered "this film is awesome!" I said "just wait!" Then the guitar flamethrower happened.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2024

    I hope George Miller is the only person allowed to make Mad Max movies. It’d be rough to see a Brett Ratner Mad Max movie starring The Rock and Kathryn Heigl

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  • Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    The next Mad Max movie has a cybertruck graveyard in it, doesn’t it? All rusted and shit.

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  • Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2024

    Wow plunged right into the brutality of a society in mid-collapse without even the mercy of a backstory or explanation, gonna have to read more about this new movie as soon as I finish watching Mad Max (1979)

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  • The Handlen, The Zack, And The Crypt @zhandlen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2024

    re-watching MAD MAX, and the fact that no one’s died making a George Miller movie makes him a genius -and- a saint.

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  • Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    One of the more amazing things about Mad Max: Fury Road is the way it men and women communicate. Max is reduced to grunts for half the film. The war boys mostly only scream catchphrases. The worse their situation, the less men talk. At their best, they mostly bluster and communicate little.

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  • Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    Just started watching Mad Max: Fury Road and wow this is already a great movie

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  • Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.comBluesky · May 17, 2024

    Dubya started two wars for no reason, turned New Orleans into a fucking Mad Max movie, and then destroyed the entire economy

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  • Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2023

    Pretty sure Elon Musk’s kids are the bad guys in a Mad Max movie.

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2024

    I feel like the original MAD MAX gets grossly underrated in these run-the-series pieces. The amount of world-building and resourcefulness and style under budgetary limitations is incredible. Absolute top-tier exploitation movie.

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  • Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phdBluesky · May 15, 2025

    no one can top the whiplash of this three movie run from George Miller: 'Happy Feet' (2006) 'Happy Feet Two' (2011) 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) 📽️

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · May 14, 2025

    MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was released 10 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great action movies of the century, and the 4th film in George Miller’s dystopian sci fi series, the behind-the-scenes story will make you wonder how everyone made it through in one piece… 1/52

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    This one took me a long time to think about and write. A lot to say about this movie, good and bad. My ★★★★ review of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) on Letterboxd: boxd.it/9MiMtP

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  • Gee @geewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    Mad Max: Fury Road movie frame studies from 2022 ^^

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Directed by George Miller

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  • schipelblorp @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 14, 2026

    Made for the civilized streets of Europe, not the kill-or-be-killed Mad Max hellscape of the the automotive United States. Edit: Are we making an exception for Rome?

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  • Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2024

    New blog post: thoughts on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a film that is missing its final act, that has a great gaping hole at its center, and which is nevertheless an exhilarating and entirely satisfying action extravaganza, and a worthy companion to Fury Road.

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  • Tim Donnelly @timdonnelly.comBluesky · May 15, 2025

    today is the 10 year anniversary of Mad Max: Fury Road, the last true Cool movie, so it's time to reshare Steven Soderbergh's thoughts on it

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  • Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    Showing my Film History class THE GENERAL (1926) followed by MAD MAX FURY ROAD (2017).

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  • Lady Becky, Baroness of Bunzy, Bestie of Kim, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @beckybunzy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a Christmas movie.

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  • Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    Mad Max, famously a movie about driving safely

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  • Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    I’m watching Furiosa: A Mad Max saga for perhaps the third time since buying it. It’s an exceptional movie

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  • Mike B @madhominem.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Movie trivia: although it was disguised somewhat by CGI, the entirety of Mad Max: Fury Road was filmed inside a Kroger the day before Thanksgiving

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  • Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Hotdog Seagull Pin. Seagulls are such lawless creatures. They live every day like they're in a Mad Max movie. Stealing from the weak. Soaring as fast as possible. Pecking Tom Hardy. collabs.shop/i3sfhw

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) By Paul Mann

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Raiders of the Lost Ark 90s - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 00s - City of God 10s - Mad Max: Fury Road 20s - Sinners

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  • Gee @geewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    Movie Frame Study for Sciurus Vulgari ^^ Ref frame is from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

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  • Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Oh wait, it's not movies produced *by* other countries, but movies produced in non-US film locations. So every Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, James Bond, Mad Max, and Indiana Jones movie.

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  • Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    Elon Musk: At long last, we have created the Mad Max from the classic sci-fi movie Don't Create The Mad Max

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  • Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    George isn’t gonna get to make the last Mad Max movie so he’s trying to make the Wasteland happen for real

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  • merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.comBluesky · Feb 19, 2024

    Mad Max bought his wife a puppy this is such a pleasant movie

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  • Kill James Bond! @killjamesbond.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    FURY ROAD - it’s a movie about women, also this Mad Max guy is here? Idk who he is killjamesbondpod.podbean.com/e/s4e415-mad...

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  • Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    Movie night with pals - Mad Max: Fury Road, a film I love more every time. For all its operatic bombast, it’s the little moments that get me. Understatement. Eye acting. Silent looks of earned trust, understanding, empathy. The unspoken connection of humanity, amid such overwhelming inhumanity.

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  • Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    If my comfort movie wasn't Silence of the Lambs, it'd probably be Mad Max: Fury Road

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2025

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Directed by George Miller

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  • Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zoneBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    dude really went to the barber and went “I want to look like a Nazi in a Mad Max movie”

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  • Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    Any fans of the 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road movie?

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  • Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2024

    Furiosa rules. Every Mad Max movie is like an advertisement for Movies.

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  • Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2026

    i guess you've never seen that famous movie about Australia, Mad Max Fury Road

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  • Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.comBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Watching my comfort movie (Mad Max: Fury Road).

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  • Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2024

    I literally wrote the book on Mad Max. Here's my review of Furiosa - a beast of a movie, scattered and a little out of control but wildly and enjoyably so

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  • Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    Oh, come on, you know my theory on this: every Mad Max film is the same story but told by a different generation further removed by time from the original events. It's post-apocalyptic folklore.

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  • emmaskyeward @emmaskyeward.comBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    Look Mad Max Fury Road is my favorite movie and I will not shut up about Aetherdrift

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  • Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2024

    Soderbergh on Mad Max: Fury Road still one of the best movie industry quotes: “I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.”

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  • BOO-lie @MCM G-05 @bailierosenlund.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    I finally watched Road Warrior since it’s the only Mad Max movie I haven’t seen and YALL!!! SPECTACULAR

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  • Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2024

    Old Mad Max: Fury Road fanarts. Just thinking about that movie the other day.

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  • "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2026

    So the rules are self-interested and self-dealing but also probably the only system of rules which keeps the world's oceans from resembling a somewhat wetter version of a Mad Max film.

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  • Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    For me it's Mad Max Fury Road (but that's just the best movie, period)

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  • Dai Wolf @daiwolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    it's right up there with Crocodile Dundee, Stone, Mad Max, and Round the Twist as "extremely australian film and tv"

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