Talk:Mad Max 2

message: This is directed at the recent edit by MarnetteD regarding the ambiguity of the ending, and that Mad Max may have been aware that the tanker was filled with sand. Can you clarify this, I haven't seen the Special Ed, but IMO it seems plain from his expression that he was as surpised by this as the gang members. ---Jackel 15:43, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article states 'Additionally, the fuel shortage that drives the plot is reflective of similar social conditions in Australia during the 1970s. Petroleum scarcity during that time led to violence amongst the car culture of that nation.'
Do we have a citation for this? I'll leave it in for now; I'll admit I've never been to Australia, but this seems like a pretty huge statement.
Yes during the 1970s fuel shortages in Australia led to a number of violent incidents...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.122.146 (talk) 11:32, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gas-hungry car culture? 

message: In the plot summary the name Humungus is also spelled Humumgous. I think this should be fixed. Agreed?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.9.248 (talk) 04:41, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't need to ask about correcting a spelling error...just do it. magnius (talk) 09:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Humungus spelling

message: Either merge the Pappagello article with Mad Max 2 or throw it out. It's not really all that interesting IMHO. - Heileman
:I kindof agree .. but then what about the others such as Humungus? Keeping in mind the 'wealth' of subarticles on gaming and buffy characters etc I am more than happy with character articles for this important movie. --maxrspct in the mud  08:39, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pappagello

message: The article mentions Max's wife being incapacitated, but apparently surviving the motorcycle gang attack in the first movie. However, in the opening of this film, right after showing the attack, they show Max standing by two crosses. Both the narration and this scene seems to strongly suggest that both the wife and child died, at least to me anyway. If so, this is a retcon from the first film, where the doctor does say she's going to live. This probably why this article says incapacitated. But what other two graves would Max be standing over, especially right after the scene showing the attack? BTW, if you look close, Max is wearing his leg brace in the scene too.
:I'm sure I've read somewhere that the scene in the prologue featuring Max standing at the graves of Jessie and Sprog was a deleted scene from the first film. Confirmation? 86.29.92.251 17:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The doctor says that she is "salvagable," which means, in this case, that they can use her organs. Madmaxmarchhare (talk) 05:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Max's wife and child

message: It may well say 'Mad Max 2', but that photo used for the sleeve has been taken from 'Beyond Thunderdome'. I suggest it be replaced by something taken from 'The Road Warrior' itself. 86.29.92.251 17:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Video/DvD Sleeve

message: I Agree. Mad Max 2 is in no way connected to the first film. Humungous and the others are different characters.
Content in this section should be integrated into other appropriate areas of the article or removed, and the trivia section removed.
Why? One of my favorite features of Wikipedia's articles is the Trivia section.
rowley 23:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia isn't designed to be useful.  It's designed to follow a set of predefined rules.  If something is helpful to someone, the rules can be modified to forbid it, and useful articles can be deleted, but many would consider the Wikipedia project to be a failure if it ever became trustworthy enough for actual serious use.  It's much more fun to create a source that you can't rely on or cite, owing to the arbitrary edits of capricious-deleters.--71.203.125.108 (talk) 13:34, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Trivia Section

message: Mention is made of some of the cars used in this film, and Ford Landau is one of them. I agree a Ford Landau was used, and it was an Australian designed and built Ford Landau, but when you click on 'Ford Landau' in the story you are taken to another page with pictures and information about a Brazilian Ford Landau. The only similarity between a Brazilian and Australian Ford Landau is the name - they are totally different vehicles. If you google 'Ford Australia Landau' you will get pictures and info of a very different car, to the one in the link.
I know because I owned an Australian Ford Landau.
To fix the article the live link to the brazilian vehicle needs to be removed.
121.210.193.218 09:02, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ford Landau link in this article 

message: The plot summary states that Max "slays one rapist-biker."  While Max does strike a biker with a large set of bolt-cutters after the scene described, it is not clear that the biker is killed.  After watching several later sequences in the film, it appears that this biker may have merely been knocked unconscious.  At about 21 minutes into the movie, this character is seen attacking one of the gas-fortress' inhabitants, through the binoculars the Gyro Captain is using.  If one looks carefully, one can make out the tattoo on his arm.  Later, after Max strikes the tattooed, mowhawked biker, Max charges through the bikers' camp in the truck, he pulls away the tent of a couple in coitus.  The male in this couple appears to be the same tattooed, mowhawked biker.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CLSwiki (talk • contribs) 10:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot section 

message: Mad Max 2 strongly resembles another post-apocolyptic style film A Boy and His Dog (1975) and in this review the writer quotes George Miller as saying MM2 was bascially a remake of it.
Shouldn't that be included?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.71.69.110 (talk) 10:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Boy and His Dog 

message: At the end of the plot summary, there is the final line...
:but remembered by the narrator who is in fact the adult Feral Kid
as if the feral kid has been mentioned earlier. The only refs I can find are further down the article, where the feral kid gets a paragraph in the Themes. Surely something's gone wonky in the editing? -- PaulxSA (talk) 13:10, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What feral kid? 

message: Surely it is just Mad Max 2?  It was released under this title worldwide except for America where the first Mad Max was almost unknown. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior I saw first when a DVD release was announced.  I would like to change the title to the original one, namely Mad Max 2.
Any objections? Bigar (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now renamed it Bigar (talk) 16:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I object, because Mad Max 2 is not the most commonly used title across all English-speaking countries, and the Mad Max films are well known in all English-speaking countries. WP:EN. Film Fan (talk) 22:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original title of the movie 

message: Was wondering if there was any discussion on this...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.92.44.113 (talk) 17:20, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Humungus was supposed to be Goose originally, before the idea was dropped from the script.--Leigh Burne (talk) 07:54, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Humungus = Goose? 

message: Am I the only person who realises that Mad Max and The Road Warrior seem to be different plots?  If you watch the first movie, you'll notice that the land is all normal.  There is no indication of a nuclear war.  Then in the second movie, the entire area is a wasteland.  Did the war happen between the movies or what?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Canadian Reject (talk • contribs) 17:11, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A search around the novels and other fansites show that a nuclear war happened between The Road Warrior and Thunderdome. General dystopia had set in by the first film, so Max goes into the interior deserts of Australia (the Forbidden Zone), which are unpoliced. Between that time and the third film, nuclear war breaks out. Madmaxmarchhare (talk) 17:44, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See the comment in the above section regarding the modes of dress for the Marauders. The whole point is that the film is a heightened and mythologized dramatization of events from the narrator's past, now an old man and painting his story in intentionally broad strokes. The desert outback is regarded in an archetypal fashion as The Wasteland, which ties into the above, and so on and so on.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.89.160.252 (talk) 03:52, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

text: It seems to have been answered, if you read above.  The look is different because they take place in different locales.--71.203.125.108 (talk) 13:53, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

text: The nukes fell after the second film. There had been a general war over oil before the first film. Again, read the novels for information about this. The only time radiation is a factor is in the third film. So, again, as I've posted above, the nuclear war happens between the second and third film. Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 01:46, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There are repeated images of mushroom clouds in the opening sequence, shown over a reference to two great tribes going to war. There are definite indications of nuclear exchange between the 1st and 2nd movies, otherwise why is the small group able to found the 'Great Northern tribe?' Then in the 3rd movie the nuclkear winter/desolation of the world intensifies. Mdw0 (talk) 08:10, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Watch again, they're not nuclear fireballs, they're just standard explosions. Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 17:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to see a reliable source on this.  The New York Times review states MMII is post-nuclear holocaust, and the bomb blasts depicted would support that.  Is there some official source you can post otherwise? I had not seen any novels before.  If there are any, are they canon and do you have a link? MartinezMD (talk) 19:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is definitely a war before films I and II, but the explosions seen at the beginning of MM2 are clearly _not_ nuclear fireballs. If they would have wanted nuclear explosions, they would have culled from the many, many public domain nuclear explosion films available from the US government. There was a war between "two great warrior tribes," and wars have explosions and those are depicted in the opening montage of MM2. Certainly a NYT article wouldn't be authoritative since they're just quoting the oft-misunderstood nature of the film. I can't find it anymore, but someone already did a timeline on the web that was culled from the books, which I would think are more canonical than a NYT article. Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 01:04, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

text: I am open whichever it ends up being.  I just want it to be accurate.  Ideally some type of interview or story from the original writer/producers would be ideal.  Novelizations of movies after the fact aren't typically written by the same people.MartinezMD (talk) 01:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

text: The phrase 'touched off a blaze' is used in the opening narration which would seem to imply there was indeed a nuclear war (although its placement, IIRC, suggests the blaze happened before the first film). 'Great Northern Tribe' may well refer to the Northern hemisphere as a whole as opposed to an individual group. Assuming I'm not misremembering, there weren't any viable targets in the Southern hemisphere (i.e. Australia, New Zealand, etc.) during the Cold War.  92.25.222.173 (talk) 08:34, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

text: http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/roadwarrior/images/3/37/DSC02207.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140421082533 Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 02:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Full cite: Danny Peary. _Omni's Screen Flights, Screen Fantasies: The Future According to the Cinema_. New York: Doubleday, 1984. Cheers. Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 03:04, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poxyclipse 

message: not moved. --regentspark (comment) 01:21, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: I just realized that the article does not have a production section. I am thinking about including it in the article, but we need to find some sources on that as well. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:48, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No production section? 

message: I've nver said this before, anywhere on Wikipedia, but this article is unusually well written and linked. It has a charm and a taste, from the beginning.
Maybe it could merit top badge and front page citation for quality? Decoy (talk) 21:50, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top of the line? 

message: Those who follow Humungus are nameless and to prescribe the name 'Maurauders' to them (7 times in the plot summary!) is erroneous. Its akin to calling them The Bandits or The Raiders, it is a generic word used to describe them and has no basis as being their name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.185.82 (talk) 04:45, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot: Gang name "Marauder"