Travel back to the 1980s...

[seawasp]

... as today's On My Shelves reviews Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, one of the most iconic fims of the era!

Comments

[kjn]

Brings me back to 1986-87 I think, when a few friends and I rented all the Mad Max movies and had a marathon session with a friend who had a VCR player at home.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

Probably the worst thing that I can say about "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" is that it's too Hollywood. Certainly, low budget films from any quarter lack the polish that Hollywood studios can afford, but they have a charm about them that Hollywood production values can't replicate. Another franchise that underwent a similar transformation is Robert Rodriguez' Mexico trilogy, starting with "El Mariachi" and ending with the thoroughly over the top "Once Upon a Time in Mexico". Not that "Mexico" is a bad film; it isn't. It simply lacks the charm of the first film.

[seawasp]

Eh; I found more charm in Thunderdome than in the earlier films. The others lacked Tina Turner, for instance, which is a whole lotta charm all by herself.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

That's not charm. It's presence. :)

[rasmusb.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts -- it's weird -- I never saw the first movie until it hit cable when I was in my 20's & I really didn't like it as much as the Mad Max I was familiar with (#2).

So are you looking forward to the reboot? It'll be starring the actor who was Bane in the recent Batman & (um?) Eames (the forger) from Inception?

[seawasp]

Not particularly; Mel Gibson MADE that character. Anyone else as Max is going to be a harder sell for me than someone other than Reeve wearing Superman's red and blue, and that was a pretty hard sell.