| DevilRising said: The original trilogy is great, and I really don't know why people think Thunderdome is "bad". It isn't. It's a fun movie, and it's important, because it shows Max reconnecting to his humanity again. He's an antihero in MM2, but he's still distant/separate from humanity after the death of his family, for the most part. |
Because it's dumb, cheesy, boring, tonally-inconsistent (it's like they tried to mesh two different movies together and it doesn't work at all) and filled with plot holes (killing Blaster WAS part of the deal, Down Syndrome or no). There's only one chase in the whole movie that we don't get until the end and even when it finally comes, there's no stakes. It's not just what they didn't show, literally everything was dumbed down to appeal to kids, and it completely drags the film down. When you have kids cutting down a pole with a hanging Guard in a Mad Max movie, you know something's wrong. Even the exploding car shot during the chase scene was cheesily dumbed down for kids.
And of course, it was dragged down even further by the ridiculously stupid ending, which was, in and of itself a gaping plot hole. Why the fuck didn't they kill Max after chasing him through the desert and losing many Guards in the process?
It's not just a bad Mad Max movie, but bad movie, period.
Last edited by KManX89 - on 29 November 2020
