Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790734552 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790734559 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 28, 1998 Running Time: 107 minutes Sales Rank: 32070 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 10, 1985
Amazon.com: Although Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third part of George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Max trilogy, is certainly the least of the bunch (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is the undisputed masterpiece, and maybe the best action movie ever made), it has still got a good share of imaginative industrial-wasteland-pastiche imagery. And casting Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, the queen of Bartertown, was a masterstroke. Mel Gibson's character Max is pitted in a battle to the death against the bizarre Master Blaster in the Thunderdome, flying around on rubbery straps inside a sort of gigantic overturned colander with bloodthirsty spectators clinging to the outside. Miller's producing partner, Byron Kennedy, was killed in a helicopter crash while scouting locations for this film. Miller was devastated, only agreeing to direct the action sequences--and, somehow, you feel his heart wasn't entirely in it. --Jim Emerson
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Rating: - silly movie but great for a school project
I used this movie as a project for my comparative government class (no kidding!) -- for eg., Bartertown can be examined and compared with other (real) governments for its political institutions, leadership, economy, etc. The kids love it. Otherwise, I thought the characters were shallow and simplistic, and the plot very predictable. But the movie does not pretend to be anything more, so you get what you probably expected.
Rating: - The Finale of a Great Triligy Falls Short
This time Max gets caught up in a power struggle between the two ruling parties of Bartertown, claimed by Tina Turner to be civilization rebuilt. On one hand we have MasterBlaster, a midget and creator of the methane gas power derived from pig feces and on the other we have Tina Turner, the figurehead of law and order. Master, considered to be vastly intelligent, speaks childlike English and rides on a big steel-helmeted man. Their relationship is, complicated, to say the least.
The first half of the movie revolves around Bartertown's Thunderdome and the nauseating repetition of the line, "Two men enter, one man leaves." Max must fight for his life in the Thunderdome to win his property back. The town is sometimes portrayed with a jazzy saxophone and trumpet score giving the leather clad dominatrix tribesmen a noir detective feel. This pairing of music and image is simply nonsensical.
Rating: - ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE
As someone who enjoyed the other MadMax movies this is one is just terrible. The others were raw, edgy. This is a bloated, pathetic movie. A bunch of screaming/annoying kids acting like warriors, Tina Turner should have stuck to music, and Gibson's character is watered down. You can't even begin to compare this movie to MadMax or the Road Warrior. It's just horrible.
Rating: - No future in feudalism and slavery
The motor vehicles are going to be there, even a plane. The desert is going to be there too. But the whole world has regressed for a reason we don't know - but do we care? - losing all its technology and its energy. But Mel Gibson takes the orientation that humanity will not regress in inventiveness nor even in intelligence, which means it will reinvent some kind of civilization by developing new sources of energy, this time the energy that can be produced by pig slime, the gas that comes out of it that can be used in plenty of machines and for might. Thus they reinvent a civilization based on pig slime (and that is a Pauline element that must not be neglected: it is neither Jewish, nor Moslem) as the source of energy of their society. That's the positive point. But there is another side that is less positive. The necessity to establish some protective body and some protection against the outside world and outsiders ... Read More
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- ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE
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