March MADness continues on into the third week. Some call it the best. Some call it the worst, but what will Film Seizure think? It’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome!
Three old friends get together to talk about movies.
Three old friends get together to talk about movies.
March MADness continues on into the third week. Some call it the best. Some call it the worst, but what will Film Seizure think? It’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome!
Film Seizure Podcast 
This is the one I’m most int’rested in hearing. It’s the crab rangoon of Mad Max pictures; I always want to really like Thunderdome, and always just kind of like it. I certainly have no issue with their shooting for a PG-13, I always think that complaint is silly. I don’t love the opening third as much as many did, but it’s fine. Tina Turner is not amazing, but she is really good. I don’t hate the kids, but that middle is a little dull, and the final chase feels like a really well done version of something less interesting to do than what we’ve seen before, sort of like the asteroid field sequence in Attack of the Clones coming after the one in Empire. It’s not bad at all, but also not super exciting.It took me a long time to realize that it was co-directed, so I wonder if that, along with Miller’s being in a real grief at the time, is why it’s the low man on the Mad Max totem for me. Mad Max (1) stands out for being such a World Of The Film outlier, but Thunderdome is for me more the series outlier for being just as well produced in all ways, and checking most of the boxes, but just not engaging as well as all of the other three do so well.I look forward to the discussion.
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