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Mad Max
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Mad Max 2
Directed by George Miller
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape. From TMDB
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Mad Max 2 is a 1981 action thriller science fiction film, directed by George Miller, starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence and Michael Preston.
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60 of 177 · most liked firstAlternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) By Paul Mann
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) 🎬🖤 (Poster by Angora)
neutral · AI labelView post →A fine example of a game losing the movie license (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) it was constructed around but soldiers on anyway under a new name. 📺: Outlander, Mindscape, 1992 (Mega Drive)
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched 'MAD MAX 2' on the biggest screen I've ever seen in my life last Saturday evening, with a long Q+A beforehand with the legend himself Vernon Wells! 🤩 Humble, genuine and very funny! Loved hearing about his time working on the movie! He's a great fella for sure 💪🏻🙌🏻🖤
positive · AI labelView post →Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior |1981 www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694 #NowWatching #filmsky ·in the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits·
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #291 "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" (George Miller/1981) Balls to the wall vehicular carnage in this high speed action classic. I still have to pick up the 4K set, as I think these deserve the upgrade. Check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →Allow me to be bitchy for one moment... Reading thru friend reviews for ROAD WARRIOR (MAD MAX 2) on Letterboxd has me miffed. So reductive. This 1981 classic was wildly impactful & influential, much more than just a "blueprint" for FURY ROAD decades later. Give the movie its due on its own merit.
positive · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior directed by George Miller released December 24, 1981. Cast: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps, Vernon Wells, Kjell Nilsson, Emil Minty, Virginia Hey, William Zappa, Arkie Whiteley. #ScienceFiction #SciFi
neutral · AI labelView post →now it's mostly thought of as "oh yeah i remember that movie" but then it turns out you haven't seen it and were probably thinking of Mad Max 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Day off, cold outside. So it's a movie day, of course. So far, MAD MAX 2 and MEMPHIS BELLE.
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a great time watching Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior at Regal Cinemas! Thank you Regal Cinemas and Pepsi for making it all possible! Here I am enjoying Pepsi's refreshing product while standing a few feet away from movie theater urinals. Thank you for enjoying this sponsored post #Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →I want to say Naked but I don't think that's accurate to how Leigh's process (which which I am honestly mostly unfamiliar) works. But it's Naked anyway, a movie that uses words the way Mad Max 2 uses trucks.
neutral · AI labelView post →For years & years I couldn't understand why younger friends were not even remotely impressed by MAD MAX 2. Finally realised they'd only ever seen it on TV, probably panned and scanned. Imagine, if you will, this moment - at 2:45 - in 70 mm 6-Track.
positive · AI labelView post →Australians did the Seppo Nuclear Apocalypse first. That was the whole premise behind MadMax 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →There are five perfect sequels in movie history: Godfather II, Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
positive · AI labelView post →Now seated for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →To me, the OG Blue Heeler was the dog from The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2). Side note, that dog was so loved on the set that the stunt coordinator adopted him and took him home after the movie wrapped filming.
neutral · AI labelView post →In Mad Max 2, the dog in the movie whose real name is dog was rescued from an animal shelter where he was supposed to be put down the next day, he was used in the film and adopted by one of the crew and went on to live a long and happy life, that just put a smile on my face
neutral · AI labelView post →1 Uneven, but fascinating. Fred Astaire invents Mad Max! 2 Boiler plate Anderson. Kinks = ❤️ 3 Kaiju movie for people who normally dislike kaijus (Me!) 4 Dreyfuss' plot hasn't aged well, but Truffaut & the Tones remains one of my all-time favourite moments in cinema #Lastfourwatched #Letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battlemaster Robes are a cross between the half-naked look of Lord Humongous from the 1981 film 'Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior' and the shirtless-with-robes look of Darth Sion from the 2004 videogame 'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2'.
neutral · AI labelView post →Summer 1982. Cambridge Footlights tour. Audiences adored Tony, as they have done ever since. A few weeks before, in the middle of his Finals, he popped in to see me. Was he busy revising? No, he’d been to the cinema 8 times that week. For the same film. Mad Max 2. The exams went fine... 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Today I learned that the first trailer ever on which Don LaFontaine said “In a world…” was Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior. youtu.be/wtuvNaZL9uc?...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s #letterboxdfriday! 1. Bad, Boring, absurd neo #slasher. What a mess. 2. Fun Italian Mad Max 2 rip off. boy with a bionic arm is a plus. 3. Small humans vs Lonely scientist. Imaginative B movie with a social conscience 4. Best of the French comedy-noir cycle #filmnoir #horrorsky #letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a BOSS time at the movie theater in 1981 where you could choose between seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark or Escape from New York! There was also Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, which I won't bring into the discussion. That's not because the movie is bad (it owns), but because fuck Mel Gibson.
positive · AI labelView post →Next up Mad Max 2 or as I know and love it The Road Warrior. Just a perfect film. Absolutely flawless. One of if not the greatest action films of all time. Truly iconic, mythic, just a towering achievement. That last 18 minutes! One of the greatest action sequences of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →Now playing: Escape from New York To think that you could have gone to a movie theater in 1981 and have the choice of seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (with the necessary disclaimer of "fuck Mel Gibson"), and/or Escape from New York. Anywho, GAAAAAAAAAH. So damn metal! 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →1961: 101 Dalmatians. The 1st movie I remember watching! (Not sure if it was an official reissue in the 80s or an independent screening.) 1971: Harold & Maude just edging out The French Connection. 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Could've been Mad Max 2, but screw Mel Gibson.) 1991: Delicatessen.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hardy met with Gibson to discuss the role and get some advice. Gibson later said “I like him, he’s a good choice.” The jacket worn by Hardy is a replica of the one worn by Gibson in Mad Max 2. And Hardy’s max has a total of 52 lines in this film. 9/52
neutral · AI labelView post →Hardy met with Gibson to discuss the role and get some advice. Gibson later said “I like him, he’s a good choice.” The jacket worn by Hardy is a replica of the one worn by Gibson in Mad Max 2. And Hardy’s max has a total of 52 lines in this film. 9/52
neutral · AI labelView post →On this night (20th February) in 1987, the Scala Cinema was showing Can’t Stop The Music, Mad Max 2 and Entertaining Mr. Sloane as part of an all-night benefit for Terrence Higgins Trust with DJs between films.
neutral · AI labelView post →22. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Marsh Madness) is really cool and good and impressive but for over half of the movie i kept thinking "man this isnt as good as fury road" he's like columbo, that max guy 1/10
negative · AI labelView post →Currently watching Road Warrior aka Mad Max 2! Do the road pirates ever go on smoko?
neutral · AI labelView post →Just rewatched Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. It looks so tame, so small next to Fury Road, I fear it may be impossible to get across to the Youngs just how bad-ass & influential it was at the time. Still a good movie though.
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching The Road Warrior, aka Mad Max 2: Max Madder #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981). Director: George Miller. Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence. Alternately titled MAD MAX 2, this cautionary tale shows what happens when greedy assholes control the gas. Oh shit... That sounds like 2026. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Just tell me it is Mad Max 2. Don't beat around the bush. Don't toy with my emotions. Just tell me in the headline. Stop being clickbaity
neutral · AI labelView post →It's okay. Oh, and also, WHAT? 😂 "The Road Warrior" (a.k.a. "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior") is by far the best! Knocked me over when I first saw it. "Mad Max," the original is a hard-edged action movie, with one of the most incredible car chases ever at the beginning. #FrightClub
positive · AI labelView post →One of the greatest sequels ever made, Mad Max 2 (1981) is still as relentlessly thrilling as ever, boasting some of the best car action and stunts ever filmed. A masterpiece. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/m...
positive · AI labelView post →Mad Max 2 is the finest action film of the 80s in my book, despite a strong field. But then I also first saw it in a cinema.
positive · AI labelView post →I recommend the Blank Check miniseries on George Miller, which puts Happy Feet within the context of his career. e.g. Babe (1995) is a George Miller passion project that he wrote and produced. He'd also been mulling over an Antarctica movie since Mad Max 2, then the Happy Feet script came along.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981, 900th rewatch) Unbelievably cool movie on every level that inspired literally everything that's happened ever since
positive · AI labelView post →i love that every movie embodies this by letting the different societies display a different concept of beauty. in Mad Max 2, the two groups are separated by their art: are you into white shawls and matching football pads, or do you think tom of finland didn't go far enough? its beautiful
positive · AI labelView post →Film time with @babbittybabbitt.bsky.social #NowWatching Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior.
neutral · AI labelView post →What is the greatest chase scene in TV or Film? As much as I love FURY ROAD and FURIOSA, the final chase scene from MAD MAX 2 aka THE ROAD WARRIOR might just be the best in a series full of incredible chase scenes
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Fist of the North Star live-action movie (the '95 with Gary Daniels) and my God. It is baffling how bad it is. For nearly 15 years everybody tried to do Mad Max 2 and they all fell on their faces.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just discovered that both Mad Max 2 and Furiosa were filmed in or near Broken Hill, also known as 'The Yabba' in Wake In Fright (FAO @starkholborn.bsky.social ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzzC...
neutral · AI labelView post →If I had to rank the Mad Max-films: 1. Furiosa AND Fury Road (Yeah, it is one film to me now.) 2. Mad Max 2 3. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 4. Mad Max Watching Furiosa before Fury Road makes the already perfect Fury Road even better. #Filmsky #MadMax #FuryRoad #Furiosa
positive · AI labelView post →My friends came back from a first-run showing of “Mad Max: The Road Warrior”* (2nd film) convinced real people had been killed in their stunts. That’s how good that movie was. I saw it the next day. *”Mad Max 2” was released as simply, “The Road Warrior” in the US for its first run.
positive · AI labelView post →Noted extremely heterosexual film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
neutral · AI labelView post →Mad Max 2 doesn't want for praise but can we get a like and subscribe for the detail work you glimpse when you randomly pause the movie for any reason? like look at this. this is considered, people worked together on it.
positive · AI labelView post →3. I sleep with my Squishmallow, Cupcake the Valloween Dragon! 💖🎃🐲 4. My fav junk food is powdered sugar mini donuts! 5. Dr. Pepper is my drug of choice! 6. Mad Max 2 is my fav action movie! 7. Revoke my nerd card, I haven’t read comics/manga since middle school. Fav back then was Trinity Blood!
positive · AI labelView post →What are your top 5 movie genres? - “Jesus, Diane, I’m a COP” v Serial Killer - Nicholas Cage has paid his tax bill with the previous movie - Colin Farrell reads a weird script and thinks, “Fuck it, why not?” - The 2nd movie in any franchise (Mad Max 2; Bad Boys 2, etc.) - 42% on Rotten Tomatoes
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm jumping in with my October 3 answer #writinglifempnthly I'll spare you the mess that is my space, lots of crap on the right of the laptopto But here's my writing/gaming buddy, the Lord Humungus from Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior Yes, huge fan #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
neutral · AI labelView post →youtu.be/pgSYZnkBpOw Latest movie recap is up, films discussed: Mad Max 2 Collateral Amadeus Mission Impossible 2 Instrumentals are by Marcus Pinn and can be purchased here: 5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/album/night-... #filmsky #tomcruise #moviereview #filmcommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →The 14 year old and I watched (Mad Max 2) The Road Warrior tonight. It does indeed hold up as the most comic book film not based on a comic book. I remember seeing an ad for it in Starlog. "A scifi trucker film? Oh, that's gonna be crap!"
positive · AI labelView post →Courtesy of Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive, a very odd TV spot for Mad Max 2/The Roadwarrior with a very cheery Jacki Weaver pitching the film to female viewers. www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/c...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. My Blu ray had an option for an intro by Leonard Martin so I watched that. He mentioned that the first movie was originally released as dubbed in the States. Now I'm curious as to how wonky that sounds.
neutral · AI labelView post →Broken Hill and Silverton NSW Mad Max 2 museum The Palace Hotel, from the movie Priscilla Queen of the desert. Movie madness in the outback Definitely worth a visit.
neutral · AI labelView post →It definitely has some trademark Ho-isms. Stolen MAD MAX 2 music, ninjas in dark rooms pretending to be part of another movie, massive continuity errors and the print being 80% out of focus.
negative · AI labelView post →For some reason we’re watching Mad Max 2. A film about a post-apocalyptic nightmare where men kill each other over petrol m, starring a man renowned for his anti-semitic and misogynist views and his support for a mad rapist President.
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