{"id":11190,"date":"2016-07-04T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2016-06-27T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:30:38","slug":"mad-max-3-beyond-thunderdome-1985-miller-ogilvie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11190","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome (1985, Miller & Ogilvie)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I was a cop, a driver.”<\/p>\n

That settles it: the even-numbered<\/a> Mad Max<\/em> movies are brilliant and the odd-numbered<\/a> are just alright. This was mostly a time-wasting attempt to turn Mad Max<\/em> into a trilogy. I had pretty decent memories of this from watching it on cable in the 1980’s, back when I didn’t know the rules of franchises and licensed properties and believed that all crossovers were possible, imagining Indiana Jones: Beyond Thunderdome<\/em>, or Care Bears: Beyond Thunderdome<\/em>. Two bears enter, one bear leaves.<\/p>\n

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Max is introduced as The Man With No Name, tying him to Eastwood’s trilogy about a loner character who keeps getting in the middle of other groups’ fights. The gyrocaptain returns, making him the only character (not the only actor<\/a>) besides Max to appear in multiple movies. Over the closing credits I thought “We Don’t Need Another Hero” wasn’t as great a song as I remembered, but then it got stuck in my head for days.<\/p>\n

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The language is great anyway, with references to the pocky-clipse. But the movie’s a mess – it’s the one in this series where I least understood the characters and the stakes. Bartertown ruler Tina Turner and thunderdome champ Master Blaster are villains… or are they? I liked Master Blaster – The Mighty as a warrior. The tiny Master was Angelo Rossitto (in movies since the 1920’s) and Blaster was Paul Larsson (billed just under John Larroquette in Altered States<\/em>). The action scenes were still believable, and very well filmed.<\/p>\n

Thunderdome MC spinning the wheel of fate:<\/em>
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Max’s death sentence, before being rescued by the tribe of children:<\/em>
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If true, IMDB trivia comes in handy for once:<\/p>\n

George Miller lost interest in the project after his friend and producer Byron Kennedy was killed in a helicopter crash while location scouting. That may explain why Miller only handled the action scenes while George Ogilvie handled the rest. The film is dedicated to Byron Kennedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NxNW-reminiscent finale:<\/em>
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