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* MemeticMutation: ''Mad Max'' takes place in modern day, this is just what the Australian outback is like.
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** ''Mad Max'' takes place in modern day, this is just what the Australian outback islike.like.
** Any situation that looks like TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (from actual doomsday scenarios to soccer hooligan riots) inevitably has someone compare it to "something out of ''Mad Max''".
** ''Mad Max'' takes place in modern day, this is just what the Australian outback is
** Any situation that looks like TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (from actual doomsday scenarios to soccer hooligan riots) inevitably has someone compare it to "something out of ''Mad Max''".
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The ''Mad Max'' franchise is hugely popular in the United States, with many people latching on to Max's badass lone wolf persona, as well as thoroughly enjoying the fast-paced car chases and gunfights. George Miller himself [[https://screenrant.com/mad-max-franchise-success-george-miller-response/ has noted]] that other countries such as Japan, France and Scandinavia also see a lot of appeal in the ''Mad Max'' franchise, much to his pleasant surpise.
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: While the first and third films are popular in their own right, they're a bit more contested compared to ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', which are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. A joke among fans is "if the Pursuit Special appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film."
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: While the first and third films are popular in their own right, they're a bit more contested compared to ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', which are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. A joke among fans is "if the Pursuit Special appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film.""
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Many would argue that Mad Max is pretty much ComicBook/ThePunisher meets Manga/ViolenceJack, but with more car racing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Many would argue that Mad Max is pretty much ComicBook/ThePunisher meets Manga/ViolenceJack, but with more car racing.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: [[spoiler: When Toecutter crashes into the truck you can clearly see that the front of the truck is just a painted sheet of metal. As the truck goes by you can clearly see it in front of the truck as well. Justified though given the shoestring budget as otherwise the truck would’ve received major damage.]]
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* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: While the 2015 video game adaptation [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames goes on the other page]], the same cannot be said about the 1990 UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem video game adaptation. Scavenger levels are hampered by low fuel, which serves as a time limit and the overworld is huge. Arena levels are rife with ArtificialStupidity, where enemies tend to drive into bottomless pits. Your reward for beating this game? You get AWinnerIsYou ending.
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* GenreTurningPoint: The first two films together rewrote the rulebook for post-apocalyptic fiction, especially with [[TheApunkalypse its aesthetic]] of desert wastelands, big V8 muscle cars, and biker gangs.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: This fan video of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlXCl_jQcc One Of the Living]]" [[CanonWelding ties all four films together]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MelGibson playing ''[[Film/LethalWeapon a burnt out cop whose wife was murdered]]''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/MelGibson playing ''[[Film/LethalWeapon a burnt out cop whose wife wasmurdered]]''.murdered]]''.
** George Miller would go on to make an animated kids' movie about penguins. That would be hilarious in itself, but the title of the movie? ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''.
** Creator/MelGibson playing ''[[Film/LethalWeapon a burnt out cop whose wife was
** George Miller would go on to make an animated kids' movie about penguins. That would be hilarious in itself, but the title of the movie? ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''.
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: While the first and third films are popular in their own right, they're a bit more contested compared to ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', which are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. A joke among fans is "if the Interceptor appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film."
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: While the first and third films are popular in their own right, they're a bit more contested compared to ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', which are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. A joke among fans is "if the Interceptor Pursuit Special appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film."
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: Downplayed, as all of the movies are generally well-liked. However, the even numbered entries, ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. The odd numbered entries are a bit more contested. The general rule seems to be if the Interceptor appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film.
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: Downplayed, as all of While the movies first and third films are generally well-liked. However, the even numbered entries, popular in their own right, they're a bit more contested compared to ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', which are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. The odd numbered entries are a bit more contested. The general rule seems to be if A joke among fans is "if the Interceptor appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film."
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** Fun fact, Creator/GoNagai, who created Manga/ViolenceJack, actually [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/40/0e/29/400e29ecf77d8c944d2ed2f93c8a8ed2.jpg drew a poster for the first Mad Max film]].
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* SpiritualAdaptation: The Mad Max franchise as a whole is arguably the closest we will ever get to a live action adaptation of ''Manga/ViolenceJack''.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[https://youtu.be/kvOM6di2_Zk?t=51s Weeellllll...]] As [[Creator/BobChipman Moviebob]] puts it;
-->...well, it’s the future, we’ve almost run out of oil but instead of being in any way responsible about that we’ve basically let the entire planet go to shit except for all the gas-guzzling jacked-up cars on which we now rely more than ever and… egh, look, back in the 80s this sounded like ca-raaazy Science Fiction instead of an eventuality potentially only ONE more Bush Administration away.
* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MelGibson playing [[Film/LethalWeapon a burnt out cop whose wife was murdered]].
-->...well, it’s the future, we’ve almost run out of oil but instead of being in any way responsible about that we’ve basically let the entire planet go to shit except for all the gas-guzzling jacked-up cars on which we now rely more than ever and… egh, look, back in the 80s this sounded like ca-raaazy Science Fiction instead of an eventuality potentially only ONE more Bush Administration away.
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* EpilepticTrees: The series' unusually elastic continuity, complete with WordOfGod from George Miller that it doesn't really matter whether the films are all about the same guy, has spawned plenty of theories about how they tie together, with two especially popular ones:
** The original film is what really happened to Max, with the sequels showing the increasingly grandiose legends about him that evolved in future generations.
** Max had a complete psychotic break after his family's murder, and from then on is just comatose in a psych ward imagining getting revenge for it and then more increasingly ludicrous adventures. One bit of support for this is that by the time of ''Fury Road'', his new antagonist looks just like the Toecutter.
** The original film is what really happened to Max, with the sequels showing the increasingly grandiose legends about him that evolved in future generations.
** Max had a complete psychotic break after his family's murder, and from then on is just comatose in a psych ward imagining getting revenge for it and then more increasingly ludicrous adventures. One bit of support for this is that by the time of ''Fury Road'', his new antagonist looks just like the Toecutter.
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* HolyShitQuotient: The chase scenes in the sequel movies up the ante on automotive chaos. ''Fury Road'' in particular is almost nothing but a chase scene that keeps on building in intensity for the entire film.
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* CompleteMonster: [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]]. See that page for details.
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* BrokenBase: While many fans like the third film the least, critics like Creator/RogerEbert have declared it the best of the original trilogy.
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* BrokenBase: CriticalDissonance: While many fans like the third film the least, critics like Creator/RogerEbert have declared it the best of the original trilogy.
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* ''YMMV/MadMax1''
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: Downplayed, as all of the movies are generally well-liked. However, the even numbered entries, ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. The odd numbered entries are a bit more contested. The general rule seems to be if the Interceptor appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film.
!!The first film:
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While most viewers take it for granted that Max's wife is mortally wounded in the end of the first film, it's actually not certain. The doctor states that she's "salvageable" in spite of her catastrophic injuries. This puts Max's RoaringRampageOfRevenge in a different light, given that he might actually have a critically injured wife still alive and counting on him to survive. The sequels wipe this away by making Max's entire family unambiguously dead, giving him truly nothing to lose. And of course the fact that the bikers who killed his family were complete scum.
* AntiClimaxBoss: The Toecutter, as all it takes to finish him off is chase him down until he gets run over by a truck.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The film was meant to show the dangers of reckless driving.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Max suffering a nervous breakdown from the tragedy in his life becomes harder to watch in light of Mel Gibson's own real life personal problems.
** Plus his speech about how worried he is about becoming just as bad as the criminals he fights.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** "Nightrider" was probably a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very scary name]] before [[Series/KnightRider 1982]].
** TheLancer is called [[Film/TopGun Goose]], who is similarly doomed.
* HoYay: Mudguts and Cundalini are introduced waltzing together in the street, are rarely seen apart, and Mudguts keeps Cundalini protectively close after the latter loses his hand.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: Zig-zagged. While it has a typical 90 minute run time, a common criticism of the first movie is that the good stuff doesn't really start until the very end. [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]] described it as "a feature-length act 1."
* MisaimedFandom: While it was meant to show [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing the dangers of reckless driving]], the hoons and rev-heads who saw it felt that their lifestyles had been validated.
* ParanoiaFuel: Max goes on vacation to take a break from the criminals who are slowly causing him to lose his sanity. And they ''follow him.''
* VindicatedByHistory: With the success of its sequels, ''Mad Max'' has been hailed as a sci-fi classic and a major example of what can be done on a low budget if the film crew is talented enough.
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!!The first film:
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While most viewers take it for granted that Max's wife is mortally wounded in the end of the first film, it's actually not certain. The doctor states that she's "salvageable" in spite of her catastrophic injuries. This puts Max's RoaringRampageOfRevenge in a different light, given that he might actually have a critically injured wife still alive and counting on him to survive. The sequels wipe this away by making Max's entire family unambiguously dead, giving him truly nothing to lose. And of course the fact that the bikers who killed his family were complete scum.
* AntiClimaxBoss: The Toecutter, as all it takes to finish him off is chase him down until he gets run over by a truck.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The film was meant to show the dangers of reckless driving.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Max suffering a nervous breakdown from the tragedy in his life becomes harder to watch in light of Mel Gibson's own real life personal problems.
** Plus his speech about how worried he is about becoming just as bad as the criminals he fights.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** "Nightrider" was probably a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very scary name]] before [[Series/KnightRider 1982]].
** TheLancer is called [[Film/TopGun Goose]], who is similarly doomed.
* HoYay: Mudguts and Cundalini are introduced waltzing together in the street, are rarely seen apart, and Mudguts keeps Cundalini protectively close after the latter loses his hand.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: Zig-zagged. While it has a typical 90 minute run time, a common criticism of the first movie is that the good stuff doesn't really start until the very end. [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]] described it as "a feature-length act 1."
* MisaimedFandom: While it was meant to show [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing the dangers of reckless driving]], the hoons and rev-heads who saw it felt that their lifestyles had been validated.
* ParanoiaFuel: Max goes on vacation to take a break from the criminals who are slowly causing him to lose his sanity. And they ''follow him.''
* VindicatedByHistory: With the success of its sequels, ''Mad Max'' has been hailed as a sci-fi classic and a major example of what can be done on a low budget if the film crew is talented enough.
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* StarTrekMovieCurse: Downplayed, as all of the movies are generally well-liked. However, the even numbered entries, ''[[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior Road Warrior]]'' and ''[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury Road]]'', are widely regarded as masterpieces and classics of the action genre. The odd numbered entries are a bit more contested. The general rule seems to be if the Interceptor appears, it's a good film. If it's destroyed, it's an awesome film.
!!The first film:
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While most viewers take it for granted that Max's wife is mortally wounded in the end of the first film, it's actually not certain. The doctor states that she's "salvageable" in spite of her catastrophic injuries. This puts Max's RoaringRampageOfRevenge in a different light, given that he might actually have a critically injured wife still alive and counting on him to survive. The sequels wipe this away by making Max's entire family unambiguously dead, giving him truly nothing to lose. And of course the fact that the bikers who killed his family were complete scum.
* AntiClimaxBoss: The Toecutter, as all it takes to finish him off is chase him down until he gets run over by a truck.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The film was meant to show the dangers of reckless driving.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Max suffering a nervous breakdown from the tragedy in his life becomes harder to watch in light of Mel Gibson's own real life personal problems.
** Plus his speech about how worried he is about becoming just as bad as the criminals he fights.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** "Nightrider" was probably a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very scary name]] before [[Series/KnightRider 1982]].
** TheLancer is called [[Film/TopGun Goose]], who is similarly doomed.
* HoYay: Mudguts and Cundalini are introduced waltzing together in the street, are rarely seen apart, and Mudguts keeps Cundalini protectively close after the latter loses his hand.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: Zig-zagged. While it has a typical 90 minute run time, a common criticism of the first movie is that the good stuff doesn't really start until the very end. [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]] described it as "a feature-length act 1."
* MisaimedFandom: While it was meant to show [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing the dangers of reckless driving]], the hoons and rev-heads who saw it felt that their lifestyles had been validated.
* ParanoiaFuel: Max goes on vacation to take a break from the criminals who are slowly causing him to lose his sanity. And they ''follow him.''
* VindicatedByHistory: With the success of its sequels, ''Mad Max'' has been hailed as a sci-fi classic and a major example of what can be done on a low budget if the film crew is talented enough.
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!!The first film:
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While most viewers take it for granted that Max's wife is mortally wounded in the end of the first film, it's actually not certain. The doctor states that she's "salvageable" in spite of her catastrophic injuries. This puts Max's RoaringRampageOfRevenge in a different light, given that he might actually have a critically injured wife still alive and counting on him to survive. The sequels wipe this away by making Max's entire family unambiguously dead, giving him truly nothing to lose. And of course the fact that the bikers who killed his family were complete scum.
* AntiClimaxBoss: The Toecutter, as all it takes to finish him off is chase him down until he gets run over by a truck.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The film was meant to show the dangers of reckless driving.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Max suffering a nervous breakdown from the tragedy in his life becomes harder to watch in light of Mel Gibson's own real life personal problems.
** Plus his speech about how worried he is about becoming just as bad as the criminals he fights.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** "Nightrider" was probably a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast very scary name]] before [[Series/KnightRider 1982]].
** TheLancer is called [[Film/TopGun Goose]], who is similarly doomed.
* HoYay: Mudguts and Cundalini are introduced waltzing together in the street, are rarely seen apart, and Mudguts keeps Cundalini protectively close after the latter loses his hand.
* ItsShortSoItSucks: Zig-zagged. While it has a typical 90 minute run time, a common criticism of the first movie is that the good stuff doesn't really start until the very end. [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]] described it as "a feature-length act 1."
* MisaimedFandom: While it was meant to show [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing the dangers of reckless driving]], the hoons and rev-heads who saw it felt that their lifestyles had been validated.
* ParanoiaFuel: Max goes on vacation to take a break from the criminals who are slowly causing him to lose his sanity. And they ''follow him.''
* VindicatedByHistory: With the success of its sequels, ''Mad Max'' has been hailed as a sci-fi classic and a major example of what can be done on a low budget if the film crew is talented enough.
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* FollowTheLeader: Responsible for a slew of low-grade post-apocalypse sci-fi movies during TheEighties.
* FountainOfMemes: As the films basically codified the post-apocalyptic genre, it naturally inspired loads of pop-culture catchphrases.
* GenrePopularizer: For the ScavengerWorld genre.
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