21st December, 2018.
I think I can say I’ve cracked one small thing.
Granted: I’ve not got a green office partition, nor green dye, spare bedsheets and a frame … ?
I have been able to turn a slide in
Keynote into a bit of animation.
That bit of animation at the start of the video … ?
Yeah …
Never mind …
~≈§≈~
At any rate, I’m job-hunting, at the moment.
You get my point.
I’m the same with TV shows: most recently?
I’m the same with TV shows: most recently?
Most recently, I’ve caught El Ministerio del Tiempo: which is riveting stuff.
But, given I’ve been having something of a film thing going on … ?
Given that last night, I saw the original Mad Max, last night?
Specifically to see the sequel*?
To see … Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior.
Given that last night, I saw the original Mad Max, last night?
Specifically to see the sequel*?
To see … Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior.
Now … am I right?
Is this where Mad Max, started?
~≈§≈~
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior opens with a series of with a series of flashbacks to the original Mad Max: told by an unnamed narrator.
The action … ?
Then widens.
Shows us the familiar face of Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), a man wondering the waste of post-apocalypse Australia, searching for ammunition, petrol … and dog food for Dog, the one creature he has to care for.
During that opening?
The film shows us Max being ambushed by a biker gang: one that’s easily fended off, and looted of fuel.
It’s only after this happens?
Max finds a seemingly abandoned gyrocopter …
Max finds a seemingly abandoned gyrocopter …
And manages to not loot that.
The gyro’s pilot is still very alive, VERY touchy about people nicking his fuel, and very handy with poisonous snakes …
~≈§≈~
Now …
Was Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior good, I hear you ask?
Was it … ?
Oh, Lordy, yes.
Whilst the original Mad Max is a great watch, it was George Miller’s first attempt at a film.
And, while the original is both entertaining, and watchable?
Miller has — with the help of experience and a better budget — managed to knock out a non-stop action film that serves as the model for the rest of the films in the series, and — with its mix of spikes, leather and lord knows what else — influence the look of many an apocalypse to come†.
AND managed to make a sequel that’s one heck of an improvement on a slow moving original.
Personally?
I think when people say Mad Max, Mad Max 2 is what they’re talking about.
Go watch!
Go watch!
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
★★★☆
* Friend, and Old Peculiar regular, Debbi Mack, had mentioned, whilst we were talking about The Babadook.
† In other words, the villains have wondered out of a BDSM meeting and decided to look really butch!
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