...and I remember people shredding Thunderdome!

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2015)

Mad Max in its debut was a terrifying psychological horror, deeply disturbing and with a lingering hurt. You would be drawn into characters, be with them and triumph and suffer with them. The experience was pretty complete, like the whole body and soul comes along on this devastating experience. And what a hero Max was. In his very own lane he was a new prototype anti-hero as far as I could tell...pulled into madness and you knew why. You seriously felt it.
Now what's this ridiculous spectacle of flinging money around like slapping the people in the face, who are most groomed to entertain themselves at that level. I don't mean that in a degrading way, because it's not their fault. If everyone just took a tiny breather, realized that he has easily 2 hours of spare time worth to check out the classics again, they'd know, too: THIS is nothing. Would I want this as a video game, I think...yeah, I could imagine that, but what a waste of resources and phenomenal actors and beautiful people, who could put a piece of dense memory for us onto the screen, yet, it's all but some decadent, mindless, insulting orgy of rating-sensitive soft-core brutality, like one should only expect from a game, really. I'm so not hungry for gore, but when that was essentially to the intensity of a movie, it should be featured properly, like in the original. Even the sequel had countless times the heart.
Oh, yes, my summery up there...well, I remember distinctly that people voiced their hatred over Thunderdome, while I just thought it was a silly ride that still offered enough fun to be well entertained. Sure, then already all depth was long lost, but the general outrage seemed to have drowned the franchise then. Oh, how we have fallen... 8P
I'm not even gonna start thinking about ratings and why the youngest possible ages already have to get dragged into viewing people as cannon fodder, if they don't know them...including some they know, I suppose. Besides that those, who got to live in this flick, where mostly portrait as nothing but freaks, like one should wonder, if their continued existence itself is nothing but charity. Argh...ah well.