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welcome to vintage video where we'll be

reviewing every major film release of

the 1980s in real time

i'm patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless

and i'm richard wells and today marks

the 40th anniversary of the release of

mad max on february 15 1980.

the story was written by george miller

and byron kennedy adapted to screenplay

by george miller and james mccosland

and directed by george miller and

released by roadshow film distributors

um although it's at the beginning of the

movie here it has

american international or something like

that yeah i i did not recognize the logo

when it came up

yeah it's it's the company that bought

the the international distribution

rights for it

um it was shot for 350 000

over the course of 12 weeks and made 100

million dollars in the us box office

alone

which is the best turnaround until the

blair witch project

in terms of ratio which which uh which

cost like 60 000 i can't even believe it

cost that much

well apparently it cost 60 000 but it

made 248 million

yeah that's crazy insane um george

miller was a medical doctor

who literally doctored out of a car do

you know where to raise money

to make this movie do you know what

holds the the number one spot now

paranormal activity

yeah is it yeah which is insane because

because that was

sick about 60 000 too right 15 000.

oh was it really literally shot it like

in his house

on his own like that's funny yeah

fifteen thousand dollars made 193

million

isn't that crazy respond how many

sequels

like how many residual checks at least

four sequels yeah i was gonna say

there's been four

and they were in the second one right or

were they not in anything

oh they they were in a cameo in the

second yeah yeah they they made a small

appearance

yeah i'm not a big fan of the second one

it's a good franchise you know the

director of

third or fourth one i think it's third

and fourth one

he edited the the first one though right

wasn't he an editor on the

the second one what's his name greg yeah

greg plotkin

yeah yeah he was an editor with

in your editorial office for the backup

plan correct

yes wonderful jlo vehicle

that was when jlo laughed at your joke

oh at the wrap party yeah

yeah i'm funny um

so yeah he uh george miller literally

raised money by by doing house calls

driving around with his friends i think

that's really weird like

yeah can you just be a like

traveling physician like is that

something you could just do the future

of american healthcare it's going to be

like uber

you got like you're going to have like

jim dale and pete's dragon just going

from town to town

yeah uber uber red and they just call an

ambulance to your house well but

work on it but he saw so much like

carnage when he was yeah a lot of the

specific accidents that

resulted from the script let's write

these terrible things into a movie

that'll be really delightful

or it was like a nightcrawler situation

and he was just filming accidents as he

arrived on the scene as a dancer

and then started causing them eventually

because he was addicted well his

original plan was to have it be like

a reporter or something like that right

but

you know he couldn't figure out why a

reporter would like

be in all these places and have their

family killed and all this stuff

well apparently the germ of the the

story idea came from an australian gas

shortage

uh because george miller and uh byron

kennedy who he was writing it with

um were noticing the violent lengths

that people were going to to keep their

cars mobile like

someone would try and cut off a line at

a gas station and people would threaten

to beat the crap out right

and if this is what happens when people

are out of gas for a short period of

time

like that were totally civil a day or

two ago like

what are we going to do if there's a

legitimate long-term gas station

well like the trigger effect yeah

um apparently judy davis accompanied her

classmates

uh mel gibson and uh bisley who plays

goose um to their auditions for the

movie

right and you'll remember judy davis

from

from our first my brilliant career is

that our first review

uh not our first review i think it was

our third review but it was our first

australian review

this is our first this is our it was our

first good movie yes

this one seems a lot more dangerous in

terms of the stunt work

than the sequels because i i know that

george miller kind of

at this point is has been priding

himself on how safe the set was for

fury road uh george miller has gone on

to direct

every installment of this franchise

that's far and happy feet

yeah and happy feet and baby pig in the

city

yeah just like he's got a style yeah

it's all post-apocalyptic

um but yeah this first one it just seems

like

they're being a little bit less secure

about everything and obviously

it was super low budget so none of the

roads were officially closed

yeah it was just it was like gorilla

filmmaking and there's a lot of like

camera people hanging off of motorcycles

going like over 100 miles an hour

yeah well all of the crashes were

apparently done in a single tape

like yeah i'm sure they didn't they

didn't have you

cars or motorcycles so it's just one

take one and done

yeah apparently the woman who played

max's wife ended up being recast after

a bike accident um i don't know i don't

think that happened on set i think

because there's no scenes where his wife

is

in a vehicle or in a motorcycle anyway

well not anymore maybe they kind of

maybe they get that well yeah maybe i

don't know well and plus

it's one of those situations i think

just if you're on set

and there's an accident on set and it's

then it's the liability of the producers

and the filmmakers

uh the soundtrack was produced by brian

may not that brian may

yeah brian may i was really excited for

this it was

much less freddie mercury than i

expected

well

sorry that got me that tickled me just

right

no brian may uh because he did another

australian film that i really like uh

music for

uh the quest with henry thomas so what's

the other title for that

uh the frog dreaming or also the go kids

that has a lot of titles yeah just

international titles or

um yeah i think yeah i think in

australia it was released under the frog

dreaming

okay uh but uh he also did another henry

thomas movie cloak and dagger cloak and

dagger

oh cool and i was so i was like oh my

gosh because i was listening brian may

did that one yeah oh cool

was that actually based on a comic book

cloak and dagger yeah um there is a

comic book called cloak and dagger but i

think it's totally

this one it's just a it's like a cold

war

buy stuff yeah oh okay it's what it's

the movie that the band cold war kids

was based on

that's not true but uh i i i fans aren't

based on movies

who knows no none of them i guess blink

182 is a reference to how many times

tony montana says the f word in the

movie scarface

and uh and you have fallout boys

like 182 wasn't how many times ben half

like blinked per minute

in phantoms no that's that's also it

works for both

uh what i was gonna say is uh i

was just listening to the music for this

movie i

got this familiar tone to it sure yeah

and i was like i wonder if

what other movies i've heard this type

of music in and that's what led me to

the quest in cloak and dagger i just

think it's funny that both of them were

henry thomas

uh vehicles that is cool for his

performance in this movie because he

wasn't a huge actor at the time mel

gibson was paid ten thousand dollars

and the interceptor that he drives at

the end of the film cost thirty five

thousand dollars to make

so three times his budget for the movie

oh yeah a lot of the cars were

actual cars that had just been heavily

modified right like stuff's thrown on

them

which obviously they expanded on in the

sequence that blue van at the beginning

like it's like all smashed up it's

just george miller's band right well it

was

it's the same as the van that he had it

wasn't his actual van

oh i thought it was his van but that

that van the one that they used for that

shot was

like the shell of a car like it didn't

have an engine it had no internal parts

so that there was nothing to like

completely damage the car that they were

crashing into it with

and they literally had two people just

push it into the street before they hit

it with the car so that

it would look like it was at least in

motion oh that's funny um

we opened with a credit that says a few

years from now which was added in post

when they realized like

everywhere that we shot looks kind of

crappy and empty and cheap

let's just pretend that this takes place

in like some terrible future

yeah which like terrible australia right

like thank god that they did that

because it just spurred like all of the

rest of this crazy

yeah because people think it's about

that type of world yeah

people think mad max it like the whole

franchise has always been that way and

it's like

no they shot the entire first movie

before they decided like

maybe this takes place in the future

maybe that's why everything looks so

gross well i was super confused about

the whole timeline because i hadn't

i had never actually seen this one i

didn't realize that that i had started

the franchise

with road warrior and so i didn't know

and like i started watching this movie

and i'm like

wait i know that i know this franchise

it's all post-apocalyptic and this

really isn't that like he has a regular

house and a regular family and a regular

job there's a few things that like

are otherworldly or like kind of set you

off a little bit like

the cars that the cops are driving the

fact that the point of these pursuits is

to cause a fatal accident

for the most part um you hear some stuff

going on over the radio in the

background

yeah uh they talk about like curfews and

things like that

and you and i think there's even stuff

about like

like uh they talk about supplies and

whatnot

rationing and things like that and

there's also a sign over one of the

roads at the beginning that says

this is a high fatality road 57 deaths

this year

so it's like it's at least a hyper

violent version of

the world that we know and they have a

prohibited like zone

like areas areas that you just don't

even go to because it's either

too toxic or there's no protection for

you there

um and we start the scene in a high

speed chase

uh with knight rider not not that

a guy who calls himself a knight rider i

was very confused how this woman was

driving the car

australia richard i was like she's just

crazy she's not even holding onto the

steering wheel

and that guy's holding on to that weird

steering wheel on the passenger side

um but he's uh he's shouting as he

drives he seems like he's like

intoxicated in some way and he's saying

do you see me toe cutter do you see me

man well he just escaped

from uh custody right but him saying do

you see me

reminds me of in fury road how that kind

of evolved into the witnesses

um but yeah so uh

he's driving around uh he's basically

baiting these cops into chasing him

very nearly misses a kid that wanders

into the road yeah

um and uh just totally destroys that

blue van

that got pushed out in front of him

while he's being chased um

one of the other police cars that's

chasing him drives through like a

trailer

and the guy i think it's the guy in the

passenger seat

literally like his throat gets slit on

right

bull that was in the trailer he's like

oh he cut his neck on a saucer we're

going to need a meat wagon or something

like that

but he lives and then throughout the

rest of the movie he's got like one of

those little voice

microphones like i didn't realize that

was the same guy

um yeah i have to say that this opening

chase as exciting as it was

ends really anticlimactic yeah like most

of the chases

yeah it's funny like i remember this

movie as being like

it's extremely violent i feel like the

whole franchise has that reputation of

being extremely violent

but i honestly felt like there's a lot

of pulled punches over the course of the

film yeah

um that seems budgetary though yeah sure

but i also think that george miller

himself made the point that it's like

people think of this as a super violent

movie but there's honestly like 180

frames of

like actual violence happening the rest

of it is implied or happens off camera

yeah i i would even pose like this is

like one of my notes here

i think mad max himself only actually

kills

two people everyone else survives that

or suicides yeah or suicides uh

but like by his own hand he only shoots

one guy

well are yeah you but you're so you're

saying he didn't kill knight rider

no i'd rather kill himself well knight

rider wasn't trying to die though

he said he was a suicide machine well

yeah

he did say that but yeah he he clearly

was surprised

at the moment of death his eyes were

bulging out of his head

wait which two people are you

considering he killed the ones that he

shot

well the one the one that he shot and

the one that he blew up the one that he

blew up yeah

otherwise everyone else died as a result

of either being stupid

or not paying just narrowly avoiding his

car

well but like if he chases them into

their own death like i feel like he's

got some responsibility

i agree that there is some

responsibility but richard's only going

to convict him on the direct

manslaughter but yeah so

and we get this shot well i don't know

if it's the exact same bulging eyes but

we get this shot twice of

a person's eyes bulging out of their

head right before the moment of impact

yeah i don't know they must have just

found an actor that could like do that

crazy thing because

that is insane looking uh he uses the

same thing

in uh the terror at uh thirty thousand

feet

segment of the twilight zone movie oh

did you direct this section of that

yeah that's why it's so great uh

but yeah he uses the same eye bulging

thing and i think it's a prosthetic

in that movie yeah i think it is here

too but it it

is clearly based on those people that

can push their eyes out of their head

but there's more going on than just the

eye it's like

weird like red veins and blood and stuff

uh it kind of looks like the dude in a

big trouble in a little channel and his

head is about to explode

oh see i was i was going to go i was

going to go to a recall

i was going to go

yeah is that a robot

face the total recall one i don't know

if rob button

boutin right we decided he's a

canadian delicacy i can't remember if he

did total recall it seems

it seems up his alley yeah um

but yeah so mad max i would say kills

this guy by chasing him into his own

death even

even though you make a fair argument he

did claim to be a suicide machine

and a properly functioning suicide

machine would

kill itself um then we go

so we show max at his house and he's

sort of playing with his kid on the

counter and we hear this like saxophone

like bluesy saxophone music and you just

think it's like

like oh he's like a single dad and he's

taking care of his kid and it's like

hard life and then it pans across the

room and his wife is actually playing

the saxophone

that you're here

but uh it's very funny and he puts on

this like mask

yeah like and it's supposed to be like

some kind of like bonding thing because

he

he's clutching it later in the movie

like yeah it's so important

this horrific stupid mask and i was like

this is what you have to remember

yeah uh but uh yeah

it's it's a really nice house

comparatively to everything else like

even the police

that's the nicest building in the whole

movie yeah and

because later on they go on vacation

it's like why

why did you leave because they hadn't

invented staycations yet

so um he's going off to leave because he

got a call from goose saying i got

something to show you

um and he tells his wife oh goose wants

me down at the station early today

so i gotta go and she's like no don't go

and she follows him out of the building

and then she does this weird hand

gesture where she like points at her

head and then points it two fingers on

the side of her hand and then points at

him

and he's like what does that mean and

she's like i'm crazy about you

he's like oh and he gets in his car and

leaves this is not sign language it's

not

yeah it's not any versatility it's just

actually crazy i don't know

if the if it's just supposed to be like

a joke that she

makes up signals and then tells him what

they mean like no it's

crazy like cuckoo but she's like richard

is uh swinging his uh finger around his

ear

and then he did the gesture it's like

cut it out

but she didn't say she didn't go one two

three four and count off four fingers

she pointed at two of them and then

pointed to the side of her hand and then

points at him

and then he says i'm crazy about you so

it's not even like don't try and make

sense of this

she was just being weird no i wanted a

movie i want richard to

continue to do gestures that people

can't see over a podcast this is the

language that only richard and this

actress speak

um but yeah so he goes to the station

and finds out that what goose wanted to

show him was this really cool car

the last of the v8 interceptors yes they

they've souped up this vehicle with

with basically parts that they stripped

from other vehicles

um and this is the car that's the 35 000

budget car

well except it wasn't like an actual

engine like the part of the engine that

sticks out of the car that's supposed to

be all like fancy and stuff like that

like was just a prop where they would

like

turn on and off the belt so there's

scenes in the in the film where you can

see it like

not running when it ought to be running

oh i didn't even see that

that's funny but uh yeah they rev it up

a lot but he doesn't actually take it

out for a spin here in this scene

they're just showing it to them and then

they they all get to work

um the bikers this gang of bikers

led by this guy named tow cutter are

harassing this

small town which you pointed out looks a

lot like the town from um

oh yeah it's um it's obviously this is

australia so it wouldn't be the same

town but the the town from two wong fu

thanks for everything julian

yeah yeah that movie it looks exactly

the same but you know i looked up the

shooting locations that was shot

completely in the u.s yeah

so it wasn't that town but at first you

were like was this the

town from priscilla queen in the desert

because that was shot in australia and

it's also about a bunch of drugs

and my brain confused the two babies

because you know

but uh but it did look like that town um

but so they're there to pick up the

remains of the knight rider who died in

the explosion

um i don't think i mean they know that

he died in a chase with the police but

they don't know that it was

max rockatowski or rokatansky

specifically

right so they're never after him

specifically

for the whole movie in fact no it's

always it's like about his wife

that's the only they're well they're

they're trying to kill all of the people

that he works with

and his wife and child but they don't

even know he exists like they're like

the scarlet witch

of their thanos situation like they

didn't even know that he was around

and the whole time he's just been

killing everyone that they

that max cares about like he they the

the toe cutter guy doesn't even see mad

max until the very end of the movie

yeah that's the first time they meet

yeah but um

but so they're there to pick up his

remains which i guess are small parts

because they're in like a child-sized

coffin

right but but also who who paid for the

coffin

yeah who tucked all these limbs lovingly

into a small box

and shipped them to a gang of bikers

yeah like they're they're

nomadic bikers like all the pieces from

that the

shelf and cruising so they just have all

the arms and legs that the miscellaneous

file

now we have enough here for a full body

oh man we can bury a person today

another frankenstein monster for the pit

um but the guy in the town is like oh

yeah

i got your friend here uh and they're

like

picking on this old man because he's not

he's not taking

the situation seriously enough um

and then what as they're harassing him

a a nearby couple that are like making

out in their car see what's going on and

they're like

oh this is like a problem these people

are super violent we got to get out of

here

yeah this is what i i don't understand

what

i was worried that i missed something i

was like what what sparked this chase

other than i think it was just that they

were scared

yeah yeah but if they hadn't left they

probably would have been fine or if they

left quietly

but instead the kid gets in the car and

like skids around in a circle and drives

off down a dirt road right

basically inviting all these people to

chase him down and so they do

and and it's just one of those

situations like where you're in a car

surrounded by motorcycles and you don't

hit your brake

you don't try to swerve into them you

just continue to drive

straight yeah the whole time i was just

like just knock them off the road

yeah they're right next to you just hit

your brakes and then

you they're gonna go past you and you go

forward and i don't know

well aren't you guys good at evading

motorcycle mobs

don't worry we'll we'll figure it out

we'll be okay

my note for this is what do the guy in

the card do

yeah why are they gonna kill no they're

just crazy they're just crazy people who

who like a challenge it's like if you

run away from a cat and the cat's like

oh we're playing a game

i'm gonna eat you cats do that they eat

people big cats do

that's true um so yeah they uh

they basically get this car disabled and

attack these people on the side of the

road

and then uh max and goose pull up and

they see

the the guy that was driving the car

running through a field completely naked

yeah with and his ass is bright red yes

uh i was just like oh man he's bleeding

out of it

yeah it's a mess and they get up to the

car

and the girl is surprisingly like not

stripped or murdered like she's

she's just well she's chained yeah she's

chained to the car and the top

thing yeah the whole top has been

chopped off but then one of the bikers

got like left behind

right because he was like too high to

ride i guess yeah so everybody left him

there

and so then goose flips out on the guy

and and they try to help the girl

and uh they yeah that moment really

bothered me

like goose is standing there like ready

to help the girl but he's like tugging

on her

chain that's like attached to her i'm

like dude this is not

how you react to a victim of you know

this brutal you know rape or whatever

whatever just happened yeah um so

he helps her up and they get in the car

and they have this other guy

well do they they don't all get in the

car right

like you're not gonna make this girl sit

in the back seat of a car with the guy

that was left behind with her but there

was only one car there that worked

yeah so they must have put the two of

them in the back seat with each other

unless the guy went in the trunk yeah or

yeah or or just put them in the right

car as they tow it

yeah maybe but uh because it's in the

because it's in the police impound

right they take him to the precinct so

maybe that is what they did

no one arrives to testify against this

guy right because the dude that ran off

just so apparently people have to

like implement that i mean like like

like implicate them in this

thing in order to move so i mean someone

has to charge someone has to you know

say that the crime was committed yeah

because they didn't see him do anything

they just saw the aftermath so they

would need at least a testimony of one

of the victims

and for that person to be pressing

charges because otherwise

it's just like i don't know what he did

to these people nobody said anything

and nobody comes forward to talk to them

so the bikers come to basically

pick up their buddy and they threaten

goose goose freaks out yeah a lot

it's a it almost reminded me of the they

put on the glasses

scene yeah or it's like okay this

fight's over now no no no

he's back into it again yeah and i i

thought goose was just gonna kill this

guy in the parking lot but the guy ends

up getting away i mean he gets roughed

up real good

but he ends up getting away but then the

next day

because of him roughing up the guy and

catching him in the first place

goose is like he's attacked on the road

i'm i wasn't really clear on how they

booby-trapped this road so that he would

just

fly up into the air and off the side of

it i i i'm assuming it's slick with oil

or something

uh when he's on the motorcycle i mean

yeah i don't know if it was because

his leg was injured and he couldn't like

couldn't apply the both brakes or

something like that yeah

what because usually a motorcycle has

you have the hand brake

but you i think you still also have an

actual pedal brake

but they control different wheels uh or

they

apply power maybe they did something to

the bike i don't know if they did

something to the bike

but because the the different the

different brakes applied pressure to the

different wheels at different rates so

it's not it's like it's not like

100 50 50. it's like it's like it's like

70 30. um and if he couldn't get the one

break and he had to use the other one it

could have

could have caused him to lose control

but i just feel like it does it's not

it doesn't seem like it's supposed to be

his fault that he crashed i thought the

implication was that either the road or

the bike are booby-trapped but

goose goes flying off the side of the

road and knocked unconscious

and he wakes up later which seems like a

really weird choice

because like he brings back this this

tow truck or whatever to like

throw his bike into and

like they waited for him to be uncon

they waited while he was unconscious in

this field for a ridiculously long time

to wake up and then like

go get his bike and a tow truck and all

this stuff and then they attacked him

again

see that's why i think that the

motorcycle but it was just an accident

it was he was angry and he was blowing

off steam so he was going too fast

and oh okay maybe um

then then that would explain why they

didn't do anything while he was

unconscious because they didn't even

know he was there

because that wasn't part of their so it

was just he just got in an accident

like oh hey look there's that dude that

we hate yeah

or there's there's some people to attack

yeah that's true you mean like even

though they like

they these guys are responsible for

their you know night riders death and

you know like yeah they're just like oh

goodness another another random act of

violence

yeah so they flipped the tow truck off

the side of the road

but goose is strapped into it so he's

stuck hanging upside down

and then toe cutter goes and dumps

gasoline all over it

and then he gives the match too what's

the other johnny the boy johnny the boy

who doesn't want to do it right he and i

don't break across this bridge

does he do it eventually um i think they

they're they're they're kind of like

scuffling in the back and then they

drive

yeah because it seemed like even in the

end he didn't actually do it

um but they torched this car with goose

in it so he's dead

or not no he's not dead he's not dead

like i always in my head think that he's

dead but he's not dead oh

this is a very important moment right

um so max uh

goes to visit him in the hospital after

he hears what happened

and he's he's not goose anymore he's

his goose is cooked

so uh max baby nope

goose is just an unlucky name it's like

top gun yeah i was just thinking that

and that was after this he's just

ripping off george miller

come on toys i can kill goose too oh

wait

you're not around anymore that's crazy

tony scott wrong kid died

yeah so he quits his job max quits his

job or he tries to quit well

yeah because this incident just kind of

puts him over the edge and like he

he can't do it anymore he's like you

know like i don't want to become

what i see out there on the road yeah

and he yells in the chief's face and the

chief like you pointed out he looks a

lot like the guy from uh

the indiana jones yeah that gets hit by

the propeller

yeah um but he's just shouting in his

face and he's like no no we need you max

we gotta keep you out there

if if if the cowboy bebop movie was made

at this time this guy would play

jet black for sure that would be like he

was because he's already like watering

plants as

shirtless yeah he's this huge

muscle-bound guy but he's wearing like a

tie

his name is fifi is it really that's

great uh

but so does he talk him out of quitting

because he does leave the office yeah he

tells them to take a vacation

instead like go take a vacation just

like blow off some steam and then before

you decide like

right so he goes home and he's like this

is the nicest house in all of australia

let's leave it for a week and go on the

road

um so he packs up his wife and kids and

leaves um and the kids name

what what is the kid's name sprog frog

sprog yeah i had to look that one up

because i'm like what the heck is she

shouting right now

obviously at the time uh mr gibson had a

very thick australian accent so i was

miss hearing this every time he said it

but sprog that's wonderful

and in this movie like i can't tell you

the number of times i was like

who is watching their child where is

their kid like there are so many scenes

where you're like okay the kid was just

with them like

a minute ago i know he's just gone and

now like he's nowhere to be

i mean i know it was probably like a

restriction of their shooting ability

with the kid because shooting with kids

is just

you know ridiculous there's also 1980

people didn't watch their kids in like

two years but it just seems really weird

that

like there's no like there's so little

recognition

of i should be watching my child right

now and it's not even she goes to the

attention

right yeah she goes to the beach and

then when she comes back looking for the

kid who like left it on a blanket it's

like

where's she she fell asleep on the beach

and like while she fell asleep on the

beach her dog ran away

like it was like she went to the beach

and fell asleep

and max was like working on the car the

the last time we saw the kitty was just

in the middle of a field playing with

toys and she just walked away from well

i think they she

she finds the dog in the woods right

well

yeah yeah exactly so uh the first thing

that happens they have some car

trouble they get a flat tire or their

spare needs fixing

yeah like they i guess they they had a

flat and they changed it out but now

they want to get the spare

replace so that they have it for the

next time

um so they pull over to this mechanic

and he says oh you know there's an ice

cream shop right over there

a bunch of murderous spikers just went

over there

[Laughter]

and so they're like oh cool my kid loves

ice cream what do you say about bikers

and he said anyway what you need a spare

tire

um so she goes to the ice cream shop

while max is like

hashing out the deal with this guy um

they come out of the ice cream store

eating their ice cream presumably

unfazed by the

certainly dead staff of this ice cream

well

like they just scooped it up themselves

because they were like are you guys

you guys alive no all right what do you

want butterscotch

as the exit there is a very creepy like

meowing and

buying happening yeah they're they're

making weird sounds as they're following

her

they're just a crew of animals and uh

she immediately gets picks up the kid

and starts hightailing it out as fast as

she can

um she gets to the car and starts it up

and as she's driving away one of the

guys

decides here's what i'm going to do i'm

going to tie a chain around my hand

and i'm going to whip it around the back

of the car so that if i catch onto the

car

she can't possibly get away from me but

she's driving fast enough at this point

that it just tears his hand completely

off which is a great reveal

yeah so you just see him throw this

chain and it whips around the car and it

connects but it looks like oh he just

let go of the chain yeah

but then when she pulls up next to max

she's like you got to get in the car

right now

and he's like well i didn't finish

paying this guy and he's like get in the

car and they leave

and then the bikers come out and they're

like which way do they go and the

mechanics like i think they were going

north somewhere

so that's how they figure out where to

go but what i love is she loads the kid

in the back of the car

and then does like a full-on like drift

in the parking lot yeah and the kid's

not in a seat

he's just sitting rolling around in the

back yeah

it's 1980. yeah that's sprog for you

but then they continue on like nothing

happened i'm assuming she must have told

him

that oh yeah there was oh the reason

that i freaked out back there yeah

a bunch of bikers tried to murder me and

your son yeah and it's like

but don't worry mad max they're a leader

i'm so

mad that they call me mad max but i'm

not gonna turn around and do anything

about that

that's okay that people tried to murder

you let's let that ruin our vacation

where we just fixed this car over and

over again

so they pull up to some ranch that i

guess they know the people there

yeah um and

max decides to finish the work that the

mechanic started by doing something to

the car

and she decides she's gonna go down to

the beach and just go to sleep

who knows where baby sprog is yeah and

the beach is like four miles away or

something yeah she has to walk like

through a forest and down a hill

and and then she just lays down in the

middle of the beach and goes to sleep

and we see the dog like lured off

somewhere

but by the time she wakes up she's like

huh my dog ran away

oh well it's not like uh well he knows

his way around and it's like oh wait

we've never been here

but um so she walks back up to the car

but on her way through the woods

suddenly she gets hit in the face with

the dog's remains

yeah hanging from a tree um

and that's when she realizes that things

are bad i

i love i love that every time she looks

back they're just

going behind some trees yeah so you just

always catch a glimpse of them

just going into hiring which is how i

hide from the kids whenever we're

playing games i like wait until they

start to look at me and then i move

behind something

it's a fun way to terrify people but

then she encounters

uh the property owner's uh

mentally handicapped son right uh

which is also a kind of kind of a common

theme in a lot of these mad max

movies that there's always like a mama's

boy

brute yeah yeah uh

and uh and so but she's creeped out i

think

because i think she just wasn't

expecting or she doesn't know if he's

responsible

for what's going on yeah but uh so she

continues from runs gets back to the

house but she's now alive and the old

woman is like oh no he's just

this is my son he's he's very kind and

he's he's just a baby

well something terrible happened and we

need to go now i need to find max where

is my son where's my son

and starts freaking out so another

instance of like i guess

child neglect so like you know they

they like take off like this woman is

starting to protect

like you know uh the woman that lives at

the range of the woman yeah the older

woman that lives at the ranch is like

protecting her

and and sprog and they like take off

but like no regard for this mentally

handicapped boy who clearly had nothing

to do with this that

right they leave him behind with a bunch

of murderous bites you left him behind

with these murderous guys

well and max yeah they left max

um but before they even leave max and

and the big boy um they

find the kid with the bikers

um because they they pick the kid up off

of his blanket and

we're holding him oh right around the

corner and the older woman pulls a gun

on them

and tells them to like back off into the

room and let go of the kid and we're

gonna get out of here

so they push everyone into a building

close the door

take the kid in the truck and then drive

off right but

again the car breaks down not far down

the road

and the bikers like it doesn't even seem

like they're trying to do anything other

than just

kill this woman like they they don't

like she need

she need toe cutter in the balls right

yeah and she ripped a guy's hand off

that's true

um but as soon as she gets out of the

car

because it broke down she just starts

running down the middle of the road

mm-hmm

and then serpentine get off the road and

they just hit her with their bikes which

we don't really see happen we see

shoes go forward yeah shoes go flying

and then max catches up with them on

foot

and just runs up to this pile in the

road and we just assume what happened

and that's when he switches to like full

berserker john wick mode

but the the the the child 100 percent

is dead but she's still alive

i don't know why they bothered with that

yeah

both goose and her should have just been

dead like yeah

it's a much simpler story um but yeah

that

he's like in the hospital listening to

two nurses talk and they say

well they lost the kid and the woman's

brain dead but she's still alive so just

tell him she's alive don't tell him that

she's brain dead he's just standing

right there

yeah i guess maybe this is just just

mimics

like the reality of what was happening

in these

accidents that he was seeing yeah it's

like people aren't necessarily dying but

their lives are being destroyed

yeah and apparently uh his last name

rocketansky on the script is

he's actually named after a procedure

developed by a dr rocketansky for

removing organs

after an autopsy is performed because

enough of those were performed

in the uh in the wake of these

automobile accidents

um but yeah so um

he here's what happened and then he

decides okay well i'm gonna go get that

really cool interceptor

and i'm going to intercept some stuff

and uh he chases down the bikers

yeah and and just causes them to jump

into water

or fall off their motorcycle yeah the

the first

the first um yes this first plane of

attack doesn't work out so well yeah

he he pulls up on the side of the road

and they're like

in the in the grass all around him uh

you know like a

revolutionary war style like oh dumb

british taking the road

and uh they shoot through his leg well

i wanted to cover before this oh sure uh

because he he lures these guys onto the

bridge and then drives them off the

bridge oh that was that happened first

that happens first oh okay uh but

because what was crazy is like this one

stunt man

comes falling off his motorcycle and

he's sliding across the ground and he

gets hit with the other plane he gets

hit by the other one

he's getting down the head with a tire

bad yeah he really did get hit

like that was legit accident yeah

i remember that stunt now i didn't think

about it again until you said that

um so now that all that's left of this

gang now is just

three yeah it's toe cutter and these two

other guys yeah uh

uh bubba

and then johnny the boy yeah um and so

one of them shoots him through the leg

and he's limping across

the road to his sawed-off shotgun and

probably my favorite shot of the movie

just this like semi-fisheye lens

following him as he's like limping

across the road to get to his gun

and then right as the guy is just about

to hit him with his bike he lifts up the

gun and fires and

knocks him off the bike and that's bubba

yeah um so now

that's just toe cutter and johnny the

boy johnny the boy makes a run for it

yeah

because he's he's only like half

committed to this group anyway and now

that

now that it seems like they're

overpowered he's like nope no loyalty

i'm out

um and uh so him

uh mad max and toe cutter get in a chase

yeah and as soon as he leaves the scene

where they

that this scene where it just happened

where bubba's body is on the ground

there's already a bird of like eating

the carcass yeah it lands like

right next to them as soon as he leaves

so i was like man

and we should talk about like some of

the sounds of the birds the crows

yeah the the crows are like this audio

cue that these guys are nearby

yeah because you just hear like these

like and they're not like american crows

they're not like that it's not like a

car yeah it's like

huh huh yeah it's almost like they're

laughing yeah and he he reused

these effects in fury road a lot oh okay

but

uh i guess maybe that's just how crows

sound in australia that's their

australian accent that's that's

crowist i don't know what that means

grossest

criticist but yeah so now he's chasing

uh toe cutter who's on the defensive 100

and uh they keep flipping ues and trying

to trick each other

but eventually max drives him over at

the top of a hill where he has

kind of low visibility and uh the bike

just slams

straight head-on into the front of a

18-wheeler that's running over the hill

which you can tell just has like a big

metal board on the front of it false

fronts

painted to look like the front of the

truck because the guy didn't want to

wreck his truck that was don't want to

ruin this real truck so

um i'm sure it wasn't great for the

vehicle anyway yeah motorcycle full

speed and then roll over it

yeah but um but apparently that was

enough to get it in the movie

um and and we get that glimpse of his

eyes bulging out of his head

yeah right before he hits the front of

the car so now it's just johnny the boy

who not only ran off but is so

short-term memory that he doesn't

recognize

max in the next scene yeah so uh i think

he's by like the site of just a

completely new crash

where a car has driven off the side of

the road and there's a body there

and he's like digging stuff out of the

car and taking stuff off of the corpse

and mad max walks up and he's like oh no

he was dead when i got here i'm just

taking stuff like you understand like

you would do the same thing if you or me

and uh and he's like okay no

he handcuffs him to the car and then

dumps gasoline everywhere

and then he starts pulling it in the

headlamp

yeah he's making like a time delay

switch but i forget

what's actually causing the time he left

a a cigarette lighter

oh okay and so well yeah once it fills

up it's gonna pour out of this broken

headlight that it's filling up and when

it pours out it'll hit the

the match and light everything up and he

turns to

johnny the boy and he throws him like a

hacksaw and he says

the chain in those handcuffs it's high

tensile steel

it'll take you ten minutes to hack

through it with this

now if you're lucky you can hack through

your ankle

in five minutes go and then he leaves

yeah and we get sort of like a montage

of him driving away to

show that five or ten minutes has passed

and then the explosion happens

yeah and we assume that he's dead right

i hope that that five-minute hacksaw

comment was also based in reality like

based on his experience as a medical

doctor

yeah he knows for a fact how long it

takes to get an ankle off i can't

imagine it takes a whole five minutes if

you're trying

like i feel like once you've committed

to it it's like this is gonna take

one minute because i'm gonna do this as

fast

as i can so i don't have to spend five

minutes of my life doing this

he cuts to the ankle ha ha two minutes

wrong foot

that would be so great oh my god

then he starts cutting his hand off wait

a minute

so this whole thing is very obviously

reminiscent of

the saw movies right which is probably

inspired by this

it actually is james juan said that he

credited the finale of this film for

inspiring

right because he's trapped he's

australian right yeah is he

yeah oh i didn't know that yeah

interesting

um but yeah and that's the end of the

film

for this installment we'll get through

all of them eventually yeah gonna be a

long time before we hit fury road

you know who's not australian who's that

mel gibson

is he not he was born in new york he

didn't go to australia until he was 12.

oh that's australian well maybe no

australian

i mean i don't know what citizenships he

technically has but like he was born in

new york

that's interesting i always thought he

was born there no he didn't go there

until he was 12. i mean he went to

college there and

you know acting school and all that

stuff yeah

um director george miller uh as we said

obviously he did he did all the

mad max movies he was 70 when he

directed fury road

which is insane that's amazing it's so

so great just

best film of that year should have won

best picture hands down best film of

that year uh

and we like we said babe in the uh babe

pig in the city and happy feet he also

apparently i didn't realize this did

witches of eastwick and lorenzo's oil

yeah uh i i remember when lorenzo's oil

came out a long time ago

uh but again like he doesn't have like a

genre that he fits into

yeah which is eastwick is great though

yeah

that's the uh jack nicholson one with

the [ __ ]

that's a good one um screenplay writer

james mccosland

uh has a cameo in the film has a bearded

man wearing an apron outside of fat

nancy's restaurant at the beginning

yeah um mel gibson obviously

braveheart lethal weapon passion of the

christ uh

an upcoming waldo movie

uh this is the premise of the upcoming

waldo movie a disgraced

ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the

woods but his quiet life comes to an end

when a private eye recruits him to

investigate a murder

so they're doing a dark turn on the

character of where's waldo yeah okay

that's not really based on wealth world

though right you're joking

i'm assuming it's much okay

because i'm pretty sure that dreamworks

holds the rights right i'm pretty sure

that's why

because we just released an animated

series about it for kids

maybe they own the animated rights and

this is oh maybe oh maybe somebody else

owns the live action rights are there

live-action rights to waldow

i guess if there was it would not be mel

gibson would not be the choice it would

be what

john oliver or somebody i just i just

hope the movie

he just wears that red cap yeah and

there's nothing else related to

he's just naked except for the cat

that'd be perfect i agree richard uh

the toe cutter is played by hugh

keysburn

who of course came back to the franchise

for fury road as immorton joe

yeah amazing so cool i'm so glad that

that's

a thing that happened which makes me

want them to get um

vernon wells to come back for the next

movie however they can

um roger ward played fifi

he was also brophy and quigly down under

probably my my

favorite australian film um really

i think so i really like quickly down

under more than fury road

i guess that's technically are you

talking about are you just talking about

movies that take place

movies about australia okay um

but you're right fury road is probably

just barely above quickly down under

in terms of well yeah i'm trying to

think of where i would put rescuers down

under now

this is so hard this is so hard people

we make it look easy

uh david brax played mud guts

he is also in crocodile dundee as burt

um there's the

the underground mechanic character was

played by david cameron but not the uk

prime minister

we have so many of these so many not

that

prime ministers um a different prime

minister

and then you had jerry day playing ziggy

who

apparently has done like cameron

electric crew on lost world austin

powers big lebowski so he moved behind

the camera for

the rest of his career um

yeah what do you guys think up or down

well you didn't mention

so all the the gang like the gang were

just

they were all extras who were actually

people from a motorcycle gang

right they were paid in like beer to be

in the movie they were paid in slabs of

beer

okay but but i loved their relationship

like that they would just start like

dancing with each other

yeah or like they were like laying with

each other and they were

they had a like i guess it's the same

kind of bond

that all the bad guys have in all the

mad max

right yeah where they just like it's

kind of a family family yeah

they feel like the uh the family from

texas chainsaw massacre

it's just a ragtag group of hooligans

that murder people but that's about

everything right

i mean other than obviously the the huge

franchise we talked about that it

started yeah

um there will be more to go into in this

in the mythology of this whole series

i i think like jesse i think road

warrior was my introduction

into math and it's also probably the

most celebrated of the whole batch like

it's the biggest cult film

i know fury road is popular now because

it came out recently but i think road

warrior is still

the movie from this franchise that gets

talked about the most because it's it's

the one that took

the inkling of this idea of this world

and made it

much more extreme right they go deep

into the post-apocalyptic yeah way more

leather

but also than like thunder road just or

not thunder

um thunder dome takes a couple of weird

turns yeah well

thunderdome i think goes even farther

into like that

oh you thought road warrior was weird

compared to mad max like

i think they took it like exactly as far

to get to be on thunderdome where

they're like i guess

oh it's even crazier now and there's all

this ridiculous stuff happening with

mutants and

like thunderdome reminds me very much of

the super mario brothers movie

this is like this is this weird society

yeah and there's just like gasoline and

flame jets happening all over it's just

like that oh yeah i mean

mario brothers one of the dimensions is

post-apocalyptic yeah

really um but yeah

it's a great franchise and i'm i'm

excited to dig into more of it i think

it's a while before road warrior what

year is that

that'd be like 84 81

oh 81. okay so we get to it sooner than

i thought

not bad um so yeah

up or down on this i think i know the

answer but what are we what do you say

this is what's up

it's it's a definite should watch where

does this go on your letterbox to rank

jess

so uh this is pretty darn high actually

because

my current top of the list is uh my

brilliant career and uh

this comes right after that which is

just above the fog australia fan are you

apparently yeah uh once again i will i

will follow jesse's lead

right below my rowing career right below

my brilliant and right above the fog

oh so close to you guys it's actually

the best one so far

it's actually on the top of the list

which for me means it's right above the

fog

which was right above we all put it

right above the fog yeah we all agree on

something

this movie makes the fog look like dog

[ __ ]

no that's not true i love you john

carpenter um

all right i think that's everything for

this one um

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review saturn 3

which i decided on imdb's summary this

time

two lovers stationed at a remote base in

the asteroid fields of saturn are

intruded upon

by a retentive technocrat from earth and

his charge

a malevolent eight-foot robot farrah

fawcett harvey keitel and kirk douglas

star

we leave you now with the trailer for

saturn 3.

in an isolated sector of our solar

system

suspended in orbit around the sixth

planet from our sun

lies a distant outpost a technologically

perfect world where mistakes are

impossible

because the impossible is unthinkable

it is called saturn 3.

each year for 22 days a solar eclipse

plunges this outpost into

shadow lock

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total darkness all communication

is terminated

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this year the inhabitants of saturn 3

are about to experience the unthinkable

a nightmare so perfect it could only

have been made by man

captain major this is my partner

there are only four inhabitants on

saturn three

one of them is not human

[Music]

no don't let him touch your be still

[Music]

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