On Friday, we watched Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and since this is the first time I have watched any of the Mad Max films, I did not have much to work with in terms of expectations. Posted in 24/March/2017 - Flora's Film - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Two Men Enter One Man Leaves Even if these are just movies, I hope the thought of a fallout of this magnitude would deter the majority from allowing nuclear destruction to occur in the modern era. It is not perfect and in many places it is far below ideal, but at least we don’t have a universal terror. It also makes you appreciate the society we have formed. I like to believe that they are a gross exaggeration of how humans would react, and that we would instead begin rebuilding rather than turn into savages. These post-apocalyptic movies always make me think about how people can change so quickly. He instead brings them to Bartertown and works to overthrow the people in charge so that it is no longer a dog eat dog environment. Max has to take it upon himself to break the news to these children that the world they have been waiting to return to no longer exists. In this film, he meets with a group of hopeful children searching for a captain to pilot their salvaged plane and bring them back to the world before. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is the the third film in the Mad Max series, so it has already been established that the world is post-apocalyptic. Posted in 24/March/2017 - Flora's Film - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome After the Apocalypse My one complaint is the complete lack of common sense that the children show is designed to propel the plot rather than result from their naivete. All of them serves to humanize the characters in a way: the reveal that Master Blaster’s symbiosis was intended for survival rather than domination shows off a merciful side in the thug who was presented as a secondary villain to Auntie Max turns out not to be a callous protagonist in that he grows to care for the stranded children. In spite of the problems that often occur in movies and TV shows that focus on children in what in clearly a world for adults, Beyond Thunderdome pulled off the parent and kid dynamic. Ultimately, I enjoyed Beyond Thunderdome as a return to an older era from the cliches of modern cinema. I also appreciated how the film didn’t seem “overproduced” in spite of the many action sequences, with the multitude of stunts serving as a contrast to the CGI-rich action movies of today. I’m not one who is overly familiar with the lore of the world of Mad Max, but this movie served as a standalone without too many references to the larger franchise.
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