Have you seen a MAD MAX film in the theater?

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Have you seen a MAD MAX film in the theater?

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Unfortunately I haven't, FURY ROAD will be my first. It looks like I'll be seeing it multiple times from what I see from the trailer. I was only 2 when the first came out. I became the MAD MAX fan I am now in 1990 when I first saw them on VHS, remember VHS? ;) What about you guys?
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RW and Thunderdome first run. MM at a university rerun with RW. Thanks to a $1.00 2nd run theater in my old neighborhood, I saw RW probably 10-15 times in a real theater. Usually it was a double feature with Bladerunner.
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DetritusMaximus wrote:RW and Thunderdome first run. MM at a university rerun with RW. Thanks to a $1.00 2nd run theater in my old neighborhood, I saw RW probably 10-15 times in a real theater. Usually it was a double feature with Bladerunner.
Wow, totally jealous.

I was really young when RW came out. I remember going to see ET, which was very big around that same time. I remember the poster with Max and Wez. I begged to see RW. My brother went to see it and I went into ET. He raved about RW. I saw RW a few years later when I was about 10 on VHS. Saw Mad Max probably at 12 on VHS.

Saw BTW as a teenager. It didn't have the same feeling as RW.

I wonder if the release of MM4 will cause theaters to do a limited run on MM1-3?
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Probably not, maybe in the arthouses. Or at Alamo Draughthouse. Watch for them to be endlessly run on AMC and FMC in the weeks/months prior to FR.

My initial viewing of RW was interesting. The sound was a little too loud. It actually was uncomfortable, but given the movie, it just made it better. We walked out feeling like we'd actually lived it. It was literally a visual and sonic assault.
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I've seen the original in a theater down here in Hobart.

Was about october 2003 and Bertrand cadart (Clunk) attended the screening and did a great speech before it and pointed out all these little mistakes and anecdotes i had never heard before.

Afterwards he hung around for a chat and drinks, but because it was a surprise appearance, i didn't have any time to bring in a video or poster or anything for him to sign -
He just surprised us all and was just THERE!!!
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In 1988, or 89, a movie theater near my place organized a mad max night. So I discovered the 3 movies during a night, from midning to 6 o'clock. I was around 14... :)
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5 Years ago I saw MM1 in the cinema. It was at a Belgian film festival. I also saw Not Quite Hollywood, The long weekend and Dead end drive-in. There was also an interview with Mark Hartley (maker of NQH), Richard Brennan and Brian Trenchard-Smith. Producers and directors of Aussie flicks. I also had a personal conversation with Them. And they both signed a big NQH poster for several people including me. Mine I put behind glas :D
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Morrisminor wrote:Saw Fury Road in April in Burbank…got to shake hands with George Miller after.
Holy shit. Do tell. Thumb up or thumb down?
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biolumen wrote:
Morrisminor wrote:Saw Fury Road in April in Burbank…got to shake hands with George Miller after.
Holy shit. Do tell. Thumb up or thumb down?
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