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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) George Miller, George Ogilvie.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

To keep a series going, you’ve got to innovate. That’s exactly what Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome does. I know some fans of The Road Warrior will be disappointed by the emphasis on world-building and characters rather than non-stop vehicular carnage, but this memorable film still features plenty of action.

Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) finds himself in buzzing “Barter Town”. Looking for supplies and a vehicle, he strikes a deal with its leader, Aunt Entity (Tina Turner, who has a lot of fun with the role and provides some great tunes for the soundtrack). She wants the engineer who keeps the town's electricity flowing put back in his place. Master Blaster is their name. The diminutive Master is the brain (played by Angelo Rossitto). The hulking Blaster is the muscle (Paul Larsson. They might live beneath the city, but there is little doubt as to who really runs Barter Town.

With a bigger budget, the film looks and feels less gritty and more Hollywood, particularly when Max meets a group of children living by the crashed remains of a Boeing 747. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. More dollaridoos allowed Miller to give us Fury Road - one of the greatest action films ever made. Between the fights and chases, we get time to explore the two worlds that have emerged since our civilization has collapsed. In one, the survivors grapple for power and the downtrodden have risen up to become oppressors themselves. In another, there’s a blissful ignorance that can only survive in an isolated pocket. A balance is needed and Max is to become the bridge that will connect the two.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Mad Max series, is its mytholgical quality. You’ll notice that Max is never actually named in Beyond Thunderdome and that Bruce Spence, who play the Gyro captain in Mad Max 2 returns… but in a different part. I submit the idea that all the Mad Max stories are being told to us second hand. There may have been many wandering former police officers who booby-trapped their vehicles and eventually, reluctantly, came to aid the weak. Or maybe they were all the same man. And in this tale, there was a person who – you’ll never believe this, but I swear it's true – could fly! "Really? I heard of one as well." "It must be the same person… how could there be TWO people with working aeroplanes?"

The series is filled with larger-than-life characters who feel at home in legends, which is what makes the series so exciting. It taps into a primordial desire. You would never want to live in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland, but seeing it here, it satisfies. That battle in the titular Thunderdome? It’s tense, original and memorable. This whole world teems with life and personality. I know it’s a bit of a letdown not to see the same amount of vehicular destruction as we did before, but what we get instead is still good, and, if you want to see things crash and burn, you get some of that here too. Just wait.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a great film, it’s just not as good as The Road Warrior. When we examine it on its own, and as a sequel that expands the world, we recognize what it does well. It’s got the action you want, along with many unforgettable scenes. (On Blu-ray, September 28, 2018)

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) dir. George Miller, George Ogilvie. 7.4/10

I wouldn't recommend this movie to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this movie.

It's amazing to see what civilization could be if not the one we live in right now.

The children/teen society is fun. It feels very Peter Pan. I'm enjoying their language.

omg noo at the boy we lost to the sand.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome has the strobe of welding flames in the background of one scene, and flickering fire in another.

All of the camera work in this film is either stationary or very smooth. There is some brief flight.

Flashing Lights: 4/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: Mel Gibson plays the lead role in this film. Children are shown in situations of peril.

ADMIN NOTE: Our evaluation of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is now available on our Patreon page at Patreon.com/MovieHealth, including a video-form review of the film. These will both be available on this page on Tuesday, May 28.

Image ID: A promotional poster for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

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More than an arm around this shoulder, more like a light along the way, this flower that bloomed in late october, the only colour amongst the grey, how i wish that it could have remained this way...

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Illinois Governor DILFs

Jim Edgar, Otto Kerner Jr., James R. Thompson, George Ryan, Louis Lincoln Emmerson, William Ryan, Samuel Shapiro, Len Small, Rod Blagojevich, Dwight H. Green, J.B. Pritzker, Henry Horner, Adlai Stevenson II, Richard B. Ogilvie, Pat Quinn, Bruce Rauner, Dan Walker, Frank Orren Lowden

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THE SORCERERS

UK

1967

Directed by Michael Reeves

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1977 The Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with other members of the royal family on the balcony, celebrating 25 years of her reign.

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looking in my laptop’s music folder is pretty funny. I downloaded all of this in high school and college, there’s an ungodly amount of Undertale remixes and fansongs in here, I don’t remember what half of these songs are, no I don’t know where the Garden of AVALON FSN album came from, I have illegal downloads of MahoYaku stage play songs. Two of my favorite songs in here don’t exist on the internet anymore. There’s recordings of a Welsh poem in here. Don’t get me started on the flash drive with a massive folder of seasonal anime music from 2014-2016 when I had negative standards and watched anything.

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The Sorcerers (1967) Michael Reeves

February 5th 2023

[psalmsofpsychosis]

Maybe it's simple Maybe it's quiet Maybe your soft self acceptance Is a rebellious riot

Maybe it's time Who'll one day be your friend Maybe it's temperance Who'll love you most in the end

Maybe your heartbreak Doesn't mean that it's over Maybe your empty bottle Doesn't mean you need to get sober

Maybe one day you will listen To the small voice in your head Not the one that berates you But the one who calls you friend

Maybe you'll go to a movie Maybe you'll go to a show And maybe your resurgence Is the greatest triumph that you'll know

Maybe you'll be special Even just in your own eyes And maybe when you're dying Is when you'll feel most alive

Broken isn't over And empty's not alone Breaking is for people Who want to meet their soul

Maybe you'll be different Even just this time around And maybe you'll feel better Maybe you'll be found

Maybe it's all over Maybe it ended long ago Maybe the seconds that you're counting Are the greatest living show

Maybe your voice is playing In some far off galaxy Oh my God you are spectacular I wish that you could see

Maybe it's alright That you didn't pass the test That you're some unusual creature Some mangled beast at best

But maybe you are perfect And the earth loves you still Maybe you're her greatest achievement Her greatest attraction on the bill

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THE SORCERERS (1967) Reviews of Boris Karloff flick - free to watch online

The Sorcerers is a 1967 British science fiction horror film directed by Michael Reeves (She Beast, Witchfinder General), starring Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey (The Shadow of the Cat), Ian Ogilvy (— And Now the Screaming Starts!; From Beyond the Grave), and Susan George (Die Screaming Marianne, Fright). The original story and screenplay was conceived and written by John Burke. Reeves and his…

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"Comrade Ogilvy"

Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact. It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) dir. George Miller & George Ogilvie

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What is becoming of the two of us?

I’m turning back time just to rise above

As if we had never been here before

Never been here before

Praying on a better ending

Oh, just something so we’ll stop pretending

As if we had never been here before

Song: October by George Ogilvie