Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FINALLY back, Cutting hits way through the saccharine fallout-ridden movies of a Steven Spielberg summer, Mad Max has adventure and wry humor that puts Indiana Jones in the back seat. He is truly a welcome respite in these dog days of moviedom, when the only other adventurer on the screen is the barely articulate, militantly mad Stallone...
...Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the third movie in the series featuring Mel Gibson as the ever-infuriated Max, pursuing his private vendetta against the forces of evil in the Australian outback. It is the second film in the series that portrays the post-apocalyptic world. Evil, like everything else, has needed time to recover. In The Road Warrior punk-styled roadsters with homicidal tendencies had organized into tribes. In Beyond Thunderdome, evil graduates to cities...
...more relaxed. Apparently he has gotten over the death of his family (which was killed by bikers in the original Mad Max) and has become the model of well adjustment for the post-nuclear generation...
FANS OF CULT MOVIES will find much that has been borrowed, including the most famous line from Buckaroo Banzai. Indeed, though the Mad Max films have been elevated to popular status, Mad Max III has retained much of what makes some cult films, "cult classics." The bizarre side of life and death are captured better in the wonderfully absurd characters of this film--e.g. the hunchbacked gameshow host-executioner--than they could possibly be in a "serious" film. In other words, Mad Max films, though violent and bizarre...
Though Back to the Future is not strictly a comedy, laughs are plenty and hearty. And while the film starts slowly--with a typically Spielbergesque beginning that pictures the mad doctor's vast home-timer system that does everything from turn on the radio to feed the dog--it moves quickly along and years pass like minutes...