Mad Max Trilogy

First up, getting all three movies at once it's just a bonus so hooray for that. Also, to have not already seen all three of these in their entirety is almost a sin.Mad Max - Old movie, very much in the style of thrillers of its age using a lot of musical cues. By current standards it was a bit corny but it still had a certain raw feel that more modern films don't pull off. Then of course, the development of the character of Max as being slightly off in the head as a result of certain events. I can dig it.The Road Warrior - Very yes. The cars, the bikes, the action, the absurd everything is made of leather outfits, the mediocre dialogue, this is post apocalyptic inspiration at its finest.Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - Too far. Just, too far. Reeks of cheese. The third movie in the series tried to follow in the footsteps of Road Warrior but failed. Sorry kids with a prophecy, it didn't work.Overall - As a big fan of the post-apocalypse genre, I feel obligated to own these movies largely because of what has been inspired over the years as a result of the imagery present in them. Mad Max and The Road Warrior in particular stand out as movies that have largely defined what a gang of futuristic raiders looks like today. On their own merits I'd be inclined to give this set three stars. Thank you Thunderdome for screwing up the quality of the overall set. Knowing what I do of how these films have inspired the things I enjoy so much today it gets a bonus star.

I am a really big Mel Gibson fan, and the Mad Max movies are a very unique trilogy. Without giving anything about the movies away, it's basically an apocalyptic world and Max is a character just trying to survive in it all.The first movie plays out very differently then the second two, but it's a great film in that it sets the plot as to why Max is the way he is in the following films. It shows that he is a cop, and the best one on at that. Then you move on into the other 2 movies, and it shows how things just get worse and worse for the people of the world, and how people try and survive based on shaky agreements, with no one really able to trust anyone. It's all very good stuff.These movies are nothing like modern day action movies, which is why they are such a great catch. In modern movies your action hero is invincible who almost never loses and can't be stopped. With Max that's not the case, he's not a superhero, he's just a cool guy that your watching go through the world. Sometimes he gets screwed over, sometimes he loses a fight, sometimes he gets beat up really bad. It makes for a much more interesting set of events, since your not sitting there thinking he's going to just beat everyone. Rather it plays out a bit more like real life, which is much more fun.I'd say check it out, I personally am a big fan of Mad Max, and with the new one coming out next year it's good to catch up on the source material so you know what the story behind Max is.

I realized I did not have any of the Mad Max movies and needed to resolve that issue. With the new Mad Max Fury Road now in theaters, my son David and I needed to watch all the old ones before we went to the movies to see the new one. That is a ritual in our house. When a new addition to the series comes out, we do a movie marathon and watch all the old ones first.It had been at least a decade since I have watched any of these movies. I have fond memories of them as they came out when I was much younger. Its amazing how time changes your recollections of the movie. I had completely forgotten how low budget the first Mad Max movie actually was! Don't get me wrong, its still one of my favorites, but it was nice seeing it again.The quality of the DVDs was good, as was the sound quality. Not fantastic sound, but not too bad for a movie made in 1979. The box set comes nicely packed.

I enjoy the original Mad Max and am in love with Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior. Road Warrior broke the mold and still remains to this day one of the all-time greatest action movies EVER MADE. It almost single-handedly started the post-nuke cinema craze and inspired the copycat crazy Italians with the source material that kept them cranking out their low buck crazy fun rip-offs for nearly 20+ years afterwards.These films look absolutely gorgeous on Bluray. It was like watching them all for the first time. It was worth the price alone just for The Road Warrior. Mad Max was great to hear uncut instead of the silly dubbed version. As for Tina Turner does Thunder Dome, I can take it or leave it. Anyhow, to get the other 2 films in the trilogy along with Warrior was just icing on the cake. Lots of great extras are included as well, spread across the three films, which sweetens the deal even further. Watch them on a good quality high-def big screen TV with a good sound system for best results. Prepare yourself... you will be blown away! Viewing The Road Warrior on my 60" with the sound cranked up was a near-religious experience! LOL!

Blu-ray arrived quickly and in great condition. Thanks bookman exchange. I've been waiting for a reasonably priced set. Trilogy has separate hubs for each disk. "Mad Max", widescreen, 93+ min., English, French and Spanish subtitles, some bonus features. "Roadwarrior", widescreen, 95+ min., more than 2 dozen subtitles, bonus features and my favorite, "Beyond Thunderdome", widescreen, 106+ min., more than 2 dozen subtitles, trailer, I still have hope for a sequel to "Thunderdome", best of the three, in my opinion. Great pack of entertainment, well worth it.

The first two films are the best by far with Thunderdome a bit too 80’s glossy with a lull in the middle (tho’ with the addition of Fury Road, the story now doesn’t have to end with Tina Turner!).It’s the rawness of the earlier films that makes them so endearing, and that’s regardless of the some of the acting, low budgets, sped (speeded?) up FX, continuity errors etc. The stunts etc are amazing in all the films with Mad Max the early 80’s “rite of passage” video that school-age teenagers ‘had’ to see. But, for my money, it’s the second film that’s head and shoulders above in this collection.The U.S dubbed versions do have better sound but why would you watch them like that? Select the original language and just turn up the volume.

Got these films a while back from Amazon. This package is tremendous value for money. The films themselves are basically a redemption cycle.We are introduced to Max in the first film as a family man who fears that as a law enforcement officer he is in danger of crossing a line and becoming just like those who are terrorising the highways. When asked why he's thinking of resigning to reply is " I'm starting to enjoy it". In the course of the film we learn that society is breaking down as no one cares any more and when Max's wife and child are killed it drives him to vengeance. People often call this an exploitation film, but rather interestingly does raise a major question. When there is no law what might a moral man to do? There's an economy to the way this film is made (quite literally it cost about half $1 million) but it delivers a simple but well told story with believable characters and some fantastic action sequences.The second film picks up about 2 1/2 years later after a nuclear war and the introduction tells us that Max is 'a burnt out shell of a man'. It continues the premise of the first films with the gangs terrorising any and all they can find for a tankful of gas. Max falls in with a community that is trying to flee the chaos. At first he only has mercenary motives. He will help them if they supply him with much needed fuel. However, as the film continues and he's rescued by someone he formally captured for his own means, but later set free when those means had been accomplish, Max's humanity, which had been buried deep within him, partially surfaces. He helps the community escape, but he himself is not ready to fully embraces humanity and disappears into the wasteland once again. This is a great action packed story with fantastic stuntsThe third movie is often considered the weakest, but it is in some ways it is the most interesting. Max gets involved with Auntie Entity, the female dictator of Barter town. Once again it is for mercenary motives, he needs a vehicle and fuel to continue his lone existence, she needs someone discretely killed so she can maintain a ruthless grip over her subjects. However, discovering all is not as he's been told Max's humanity surfaces and he breaks his deal and is banished into the wasteland. Here he is discovered on the verge of death by a group of children who are the survivors and descendants of a plane crash who have built up 'Cargo Cult' based on the captain of an expedition that went looking for rescue returning. Mistaking Max for their saviour they beg him to take them back to civilisation. Max's humanity really surfaces as he warns that the civilisation they long for is gone. At best, or worst as Max sees it, they will be swallowed up by Barter town. Here Max starts to take responsibility for them, urging them that what they got is by far what is best for them. Max's surfacing humanity is again confirmed when he is involved in the rescue mission for those who disbelieve his claims and set out looking for civilisation. In the end we have the requisite chase sequence after he has once again crossed swords with Auntie Enmity. Max's humanity is confirmed with a selfless act that enables others to escape and him facing an uncertain, and later a solitary future! The redemption cycle is complete.These films made Mel Gibson a star and it's easy to see why. He gives the character real humanity (both good and bad) and is effortlessly charismatic even when he has minimal dialogue. Tina Turner makes an appearance in the third film and is really good value for money as the duplicitous Auntie Enmity, a nasty piece of work who may be through Max's sacrifice at the end of the film regains some humanity Excellent films which remind you what it was like before CGI ruled blockbusters!

I'm a pretty big fan of the original Mad Max trilogy - the lowish rating is more for the quality of the release rather than the films themselves. The first film Mad Max looks ok but the original australian audio track is of low quality with dialogue being drowned out at times and just generally sounding pretty weak - I will be replacing this with the original USA Blu Ray which is supposed to have a better quality audio representation of the original audio. Mad Max 2 - This looks and sounds good however the colour timing is very different from the version I grew up with in the 80s - the post apocalyptic desert red look has been replaced by a more naturalistic colour scheme but it still works well and this is a good disk. Thunderdome for me I was not able to watch this as the colour scheme is so drastically different from the version I grew up with on video & DVD - the look is far too harsh with a lot of clipped whites. There are scenes which used to have blue skies which are now white - I used to like the mellow look of this film but this doesn't reproduce that feeling at all. Also much as I used to love it, skipping through the disk made me realise how much the film has dated - much more so that the first 2 in the series. This webpage gives you a good comparison of the differences in the thunderdome colourscheme - http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/multi_comparison.php?disc1=2449&disc2=2450&hd_multiID=472#auswahl

I love this Gasoline tin. Released through WB It's slightly different to the one used for Reservoir Dogs and you only get a regular skinny American Blu-ray case to house the discs and not a nice gate-fold or anything.Mad Max looks great, very clean and colourful. The fact there is an English Dubbed mix is thanks to our friends in the States which is the only DTS-HD MASTER track on this disc. It's only mono too. The original Australian mix is only 5.1 Dolby Digital which I think is either an authoring mistake or its a policy for WB to give the Territory Language the HD preference. I used the Australian mix when I watched it. Having just had a quick look on Blu-Ray.com the Australian release has the original mix as DTS-HD MASTER and so does the American release for the film. The review on the website mentions the American dub but says the default audio is the original mix in DTS-HD MASTER. To me that says a mistake was made by the Authoring house or at WB themselves. I will likely track down an Australian version as it's region B so I can swap my discs.Mad Max Road Warrior thankfully sports the original audio in English DTS-HD MASTER with all other languages in Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 mono or 1.0 mono. The picture is crisp and all the detail is there. The colours are stunning. There is plenty of depth too. My only gripe with the picture is with Overscan turned off (sometimes known as Full Pixel or Dot by Dot on some TVs) the picture doesn't quite meet the left or right of the screen. This is an authoring error but one they felt didn't need fixing or was missed in Quality Control.If you are wondering what overscan is it allows you to see the full 1920x1080 resolution. With it on you lose about 1 inch of picture all round the frame. That's a lot of pixels you are not seeing so have a look and see if you can turn it off on your TV. If watching something in standard definition you might see things round the edge previously hidden which is why TVs overscaned the picture in the first place.Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome has the same video issue and Road Worrier with the small mask down either side of the picture. Thankfully though the original audio Is DTS-HD MASTER and the rest of the languages range from Dolby Digital 2.0 surround, 1.0 mono or 5.1. The picture is stunning again with ample depth, detail and colour.The story starts to wayen as the trilogy goes on and I hate it when one of the films has to appeal to a wider audience moving away from the darkness of the original but it's still a great trilogy and I'm glad I have this tin version.

honestly, I was interested in Mad Max because I was wanted to hear a film in australian english, and this film was the only one that had come up to me fulfilling this need.that's the best part of this triple collection: for reasons unknown (to me), the first movie was dubbed in American English, and this was the version that became wider spread. In this Box, with the first film, there is also the original australian audio version included.The first and the second film are both awsome, though produced on a very low budget. Shot in New South Wales in the south-east of australia, you often don't know by instant where the story takes place.It's a very dark dystopian vision of the future, showing a tumbling-down civilisation with gangs and madmen looting the highways.Max (the young, good-looking and still unspoiled Mel Gibson), a highway police officer (which in this movie is called "Main Force Patrol") and his collegues are desperatly trying to push thru law and order. Incidently, they kill an escaped mnurderer, "the nightrider", whose friends try now to avenge his death by killing policemen. Max' s happy-go-lucky friend Goose dies, which encourages Max to quit his job. However, when going on vacation, Max's wife Jessie and his son Sprog run into the same gang, and both get killed in front of Max's eyes. He, now having lost everything dear to him, plans revenge on them. He steals a police car ("one of the last V8s") and now hunts the gang members thru the australian outback, murdering one after another brutally.Mel Gibson's performance is great, very authentic, often described as "underplaying his role" by other critics. Him playing this burned-out man seems almost terrifyingly close to reality, and he also adds depth to Max's character. That's being portraied when he gives his reason for quitting the job "I'm afraid, this violence out there, day after day, I'm beginning to enjoy it. That's no more me, and only my police badge identifies me as the good one." However, though trying to escape from it, he can't escape his destiny.The second Mad Max movie, "The Road Warrior" ist far less complex. Taking place about 3 years after the first plot, there is almost no civilisation left. The whole country is deserted, everything is destroied and burned down. There is almost no more gasoline (odd, australians don't say petrol?) left, finding (and fighting for) it is the reason of everyone's existing. Max, travelling thru the country with his strange V8-police car and his dog called "Dog" searches for fuel. It is mysterious to my what else he 's doing beside of that, maybe he distracts himself from his pain by going on busy. He runs into an autogyro pilot, who tells him of a place, a refinery where there would be tons of fuel. He takes the pilot with him, and finds the place, only discovering that a huge gang is also trying to get into the refinery. Being smart, Max succeeds and gets in there, making deal: they would give him as much fuel as he could carry, if he gets them a truck that could pull the tank trailer containing the fuel. In the end, they manage all manage to escape (after a very bad fight).The second film is less complex than the first one, but still very good. It perfectly displays this post-apocalyptic atmosphere, being so close to reality that it was giving me goose-bumples.