I suppose, but if anyone was tough enough to survive a head-on with a semi at 100 mph he would be the guy.
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Haha same here! I think Miller has also said these are meant to be seen as stories told much later through an oral tradition and not necessarily consecutively, like Homeric poems. So since those things changed with the telling, I’m going with our views in my later bardic renditions.
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1 is my least favorite- but only because all the post-apocalyptic everything isn’t there yet and that’s more my deal. There was so much rich story building in that post-apocalyptic environment with everything laying around telling the story that it just gave a lot more depth to me.
Please please understand though I am a Mad Max fanatic and I love the first movie a ton! That movie inspired me for the rest of my life- especially with how he turns the Weiland blower on with a pull cable- though that’s not at all how an actual supercharger works.
If all the movies ever written were ranked by placing them up the slopes of Mount Everest, Mad Max stuff is the last few feat to the peak, and everything else is at best several thousand feet below.
The Mad Max series is sanctified with me.
Other personal favorite movies (too many to list, but…) Waterworld, Hugo, City Of Lost Children, Brazil, Highlander 1, Laputa, anything with mechanical automata or well executed steampunk worlds.
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I rewatched this scene last night and there’s another shot after where he looks, well, pretty darn dead. But I still say he’s Joe.
I always assumed the same thing.
In actuality, after Max, I love the gyrocaptain, only because I was always fascinated growing up that you could have a little helicopter that actually worked and I’ve always wanted one because of that movie.
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Next Miller will announce that the lead character in each movie is supposed to be a different former police officer named “Max” who just happens to drive the same kind of car and has no relation to any of the characters in the other films.
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Yeah, I was kinda wondering about that timeline when it comes to Fury Road.. At the time of filming the actor for Max was only about 38 years old, and two years younger than the actress for Furiosa, so it’s really unclear how he’s supposed to even be old enough to remember the pre-apocalypse time, let alone be old enough to be a former cop. (As the opening voiceover confirms that he was) But that’s cool! It’s still an awesome movie that we would do well not to pick it apart too much.
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The movie itself was amazing but the only thing that upset me was that they did not get continuity of Max.
I really wish they could have gotten Gibson for the role even though he’s a piece of shit at this point and him handing off some sort of legacy to a new Max or something would have gone a long way and it could have created a dynasty kind of like Star Wars except I pray to gods that Lucas shit wouldn’t happen again.
I imagine finding Max or his skeleton or something and his diary and he basically has little role but the gravity of that small rule shows who he was and allows some sort of story to end and another to begin
Nobody wants HIS blood.
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That’s what I wanted originally too, but if you think about the movies the way Miller apparently does (part of some much later oral tradition) then it works better to have a new younger Max so you can (1) pull a James Bond when needed and (2) have the character go through all kinds of roughly simultaneous adventures like Odysseus or Aeneas.
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Autogyros aren’t helicopters, just to be super-duper pedantic for a moment. 
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you are absolutely correct and I still want one by the way.
I think the only thing that beats it is those ducted fan things that work with a parachute so you can just shoot yourself into the sky. The only problem is you can’t actually escape the police fast enough in that…
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This is what I want. Seems like it would fit well in the Mad Max universe if the chute was just a little less colorful.
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It’s 2020 my friend — we are in the jet pack era!
(Wasn’t that Kundalini? Bubba’s famous last words were “I know what I’m doing.”)
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Seems like it didn’t end so well for the gyro captain either.
This thread is giving me flashbacks of that far off time in '16 when we had a brief discussion about the mythology of the Max character and i still maintain Max is by far the least interesting aspect of all the films and probably only exists as a cypher for the survivors to tell their stories through.
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God damn, you’re right. I am ashamed of myself for getting that wrong.
I think my punishment is going to be watching the first Mad Max tonight for the millionth time for some reason Bubba Zanetti’s name always stuck in my head better than Kundalini.
Does it help that Coober Pedy has always been on my bucket list to visit?
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Seen this?
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Well in all these years, that’s the first time I’ve heard the original dialogue in the first film. (I’m in the US.) I’d seen it on TV about 35 years ago, and I have the DVD (from about 20 years ago), and (almost) all of the voices are dubbed with American accents. Max sounds a bit like Casey Kasem.
(I haven’t yet seen Fury Road, and speaking of favorite films from my youth, I’ve yet to see the Blade Runner sequel.)
No I haven’t. Seems weird. Not quite what I mentioned, interesting though.
