Comments on: Film Junk Premium Podcast #39: Mad Max Trilogy + Waterworld

By: filmstache

filmstache — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:06:00 +0000

Just like there are two George Millers, I’m glad I didn’t drop money on The Neverending Story part II before I figured that out

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 18 May 2015 09:07:00 +0000

Well it is true. The whole trilogy was banned from being shown in public until 2005, but you could rent them and they have been shown on tv.

By: Boz

Boz — Mon, 18 May 2015 03:48:00 +0000

Mad Max..brilliant. Mad Max 2….very good. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome..terrible.
harhar Lord…cut them some slack, they need to watch our flix with subtitles.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 17 May 2015 15:22:00 +0000

I thought that seemed a bit crazy. But it’s on Wikipedia so it must be true!

By: Stefan Mitander

Stefan Mitander — Sun, 17 May 2015 14:13:00 +0000

Great premium as always! Thanx!
It must be mentioned however, that there is no thruth to the claim that Mad Max was banned in Sweden until 2005. Sweden has been keen to censor and ban stuff, especially in the 80s, but I don’t think Mad Max was ever banned. It was no problem renting it on VHS in the mid 80:s anyway =)

By: Kenneth Serenyi

Kenneth Serenyi — Sun, 17 May 2015 12:05:00 +0000

The Box Office for ‘The Road Warrior’ could have been impacted by the vastly superior (in my opinion) ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ in the same year. Raiders has a better executed truck chase sequence and of course a fantastic score by John Williams.

By: Kenneth Serenyi

Kenneth Serenyi — Sat, 16 May 2015 02:12:00 +0000

I think we *don’t* see the collision involving Max’s kid twice – once in Mad Max, and again in the beginning flashback of the Road Warrior (at least on my HDDVD). I seem to remember part of the delay and higher costs of Waterworld were because Costner tried to go back to some of his scenes and CG his hairline.

By: pcch7

pcch7 — Fri, 15 May 2015 05:26:00 +0000

Lol, I tend to agree though

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:36:00 +0000

Totally different movies though. The action in Mad Max is the focus and makes up for everything. Prometheus is trying to be deep and philosophical but it leaves out half of the details.

By: Kyle Grimes

Kyle Grimes — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:31:00 +0000

Congrats on winning hypocrite of the year Sean. Everything you bashed Prometheus for you gave a pass for in Mad Max! (Unanswered questions, plot gaps, confusion, etc.)

By: LordAwesome

LordAwesome — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:58:00 +0000

You have to be a special kind of idiot to find Mad Max confusing. Christ on a bike Frank!

By: schizopolis

schizopolis — Thu, 14 May 2015 13:41:00 +0000

I got so used to the American dubbed version of Mad Max as a kid on cable. Except for the voice actor for Max, all the other voices were so over the top and cartoonish. Didn’t see the original Aussie track until the mid 90s in some dingy underground theater in nyc that showed an old print. After the DVD, I think it took me another 10+ years to get the American dub voices out of my head. It’s still distracts me sometimes when I’m watching.