Entertainment Weekly ranked Mad Max 2 at 41st on their All-Time 100 Greatest Films and the character Mad Max as 11th on their list of The All Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture.The Road Warrior (aka, Mad Max 2) (George Miller, 1981)īad-ass leather-clad mad-man Max (Mel Gibson) is back (though with his last name as far as I remember never mentioned again past the first “Max” outing), a figure of now even fewer words, in the great action hero tradition (and even shortened moniker with his last name of Rockatansky, I believe, dropped, like a memory from his tragic past, forever more after the first film). Similarly, The New York Times placed the film on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list. Mad Max 2 was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.
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The ban in Sweden was removed in 2005 and it has been shown on TV and is also in video stores. It was later shown in New Zealand in 1983 after the success of the sequel, with an 18 certificate. It mirrored an incident with a real gang shortly before the film’s release. New Zealand and Sweden banned the original film, the former due to the scene where Goose is burned alive inside his vehicle.
The Road Warrior) in 1981 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. The first film in the series, Mad Max, spawned sequels Mad Max 2 (a.k.a.
It became a top-grossing Australian film, holding the Guinness record for most profitable film for decades and has been credited for further opening up the global market to Australian New Wave films. Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and starring Mel Gibson. GET READY TO GO MAD! Before the release of Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy as Max, releases on May 14, I ♥ RETRO celebrates the original and most celebrated two films in the franchise.