Product: Mad Max (1979)
Rating: 4.0
typical chick flick
What you're looking at here -- or at least, the product I think I'm writing this review for -- is the very first "Mad Max," the one that put a young Mel Gibson on the map. The later one, though, "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" is the one everybody knows.This one is low-budget filmmaking at its best.Two points:1. For some absurd reason those who put out this DVD decided to dub the original "Australian" into American English. What an insult. Really, how dumb do they think we are?2. Interesting that while in the popular imagination the Mad Max paradigm has come to mean post-Apocalyptic chaos, in this first one, the world is more or less as normal as the Apocalypse hasn't occurred yet.3. How'd they get that music? Wow. That was an impressively well-done score.4. Film was crying out for aerial shots! Too bad they apparently couldn't afford a crane or helicopter.