who repaired the rail lines in the desert? 2 weeks without maintenance, let alone a nuclear war, and they would not be usable, especially at speed.
why did they repair them? Nothing ran on them...
Logic dear friends, logic. A story must be internally consistent. You encounter it in SciFi all the time. It is known as ' on Tuesday it rained on Mongo' where things are simplified to stupidity. Audiences have gotten much smarter and expect a logical, coherent, consistent story.
Top Ten reasons why Thunderdome went wrong
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Only one reason why BT went wrong and that was cause it was not Australian enough like the first two.
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other main reason : 1985 ! (Haircuts are way too 80's !)
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When I first saw the trilogy, my brother and I watched all 3 over the course of a weekend. 1 was amazing, 2 blew our young minds, 3 was a disappointment. The reason we watched these films was not because of word of mouth it was because when we saw the movie channel advertising they were showing all three back to back, we saw the cool looking cars. I was about 11 and my brother was probably 15. So understandably what drew us to watch them in the first place and then seeing BYT was very dry and lack of action in places we always would just watch the first 2 and ignore Thunderdome completely. Infact whenever people were discussing poor sequels and saying Batman and Robin is the worst, the Matrix sequels were a disappointment, Terminator 3 or Jaws 4 I would always say MM:BYT. I think in the day it probably did well in the VHS rental market and maybe even OK at the box office but I did not watch it for 20 years until late 2009.
I have to say when I watched it I loved it this time around. I knew it did not have so much action but I thought I don't remember anything about it really so I'll give it a watch. I felt that despite the action where it sat in the grand mythology it was really good - showing how society albeit a bit confused with what constitutes dress sense is trying to find its feet again. It shows that even though we would say sure lets do away with the need to work and earn a living, we would rather live to survive and be done with the rat race - man's wickedness still comes to the fore with elite's trying to screw over the common man. Who was Aunty before TD? She was no-one, I love it at the end when she talks about it and how things were turned on their head. Maybe it is the climate of the world these days with financial meltdowns, all of us have thought I wonder if it would get Mad Max bad and probably think we have an edge on others because these movies are so beloved by us, I know I have. Every post-apocalyptic movie I see - I see the influence of MM, they are highly plausible pieces of art. So maybe the reality of things going on in the real world has made me appreciate Beyond Thunderdome.
I've walked around my estate and if the methane hits the fan and it all goes barter town - I have ear marked which cars I would 'borrow' from my neighbors weighing up speed, fuel consumption and cargo space. Where Fury Road/Furiosa go from here I am not sure, I know I would prefer a more action orientated affair and see Thunderdome as the conclusion. The start when he loses his caravan still makes me gutted for him.
I have to say when I watched it I loved it this time around. I knew it did not have so much action but I thought I don't remember anything about it really so I'll give it a watch. I felt that despite the action where it sat in the grand mythology it was really good - showing how society albeit a bit confused with what constitutes dress sense is trying to find its feet again. It shows that even though we would say sure lets do away with the need to work and earn a living, we would rather live to survive and be done with the rat race - man's wickedness still comes to the fore with elite's trying to screw over the common man. Who was Aunty before TD? She was no-one, I love it at the end when she talks about it and how things were turned on their head. Maybe it is the climate of the world these days with financial meltdowns, all of us have thought I wonder if it would get Mad Max bad and probably think we have an edge on others because these movies are so beloved by us, I know I have. Every post-apocalyptic movie I see - I see the influence of MM, they are highly plausible pieces of art. So maybe the reality of things going on in the real world has made me appreciate Beyond Thunderdome.
I've walked around my estate and if the methane hits the fan and it all goes barter town - I have ear marked which cars I would 'borrow' from my neighbors weighing up speed, fuel consumption and cargo space. Where Fury Road/Furiosa go from here I am not sure, I know I would prefer a more action orientated affair and see Thunderdome as the conclusion. The start when he loses his caravan still makes me gutted for him.