Do I skip this?


To get to Fury Road? Or should I watch this film and then Fury Road?

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I didn't like Beyond Thunderdome so my recommendation is to skip it. I don't think there are any references to Beyond Thunderdome in Fury Road, so you won't miss out on anything if you skip Beyond Thunderdome.

There's really no reason to watch any Mad Max film before Fury Road. Tom Hardy's Max doesn't really resemble Gibson's Max. I like both versions of the character. I heard Thunderdome was pretty bad but I wanted to see the last Mad Max film with Gibson so I forced myself to watch it.

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This movie is pretty dumb.

Just watch road warrior.

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I've read a theory that they're not the same character, that Tom Hardy's Max is the Feral Kid from Road Warrior

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That is wrong, Hardy plays Max but make another take on the charcater than Gibson and its a soft reboot of the saga with a new Max and a new trioligy...these old movies got nothing to do with the new ones.

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I think it's a bad idea to tell someone to not watch a movie - why not let them make up their own mind :/

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From my point of view Max,on Fury Road, was a secondary character in this film and Furiosa and Nux were the main characters more or less. As for beyond thunderdome it is the weakest of the original trilogy. Though not bad, it isn't the first Mad Max or the Road Warrior.

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It's still decent.

I'd recommend doing the whole trilogy, but i like the whole series.

Mad Max 7⃣
Mad Max 2 7⃣
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome 6⃣
Mad Max: Fury Road 8⃣



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Skipped Thunderdome and watched Fury Road. Thought it was amazing- neck and neck with Road Warrior but this one won slightly.

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Rating Fury Road 8 and Mad Max 2 7 will never stop being funny.

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No give it a chance, it's actually pretty good. The first half of this film and the last 20 minutes or so are excellent, it feels like what a mad max film should be. the part with the kids is when the film totally slows down its pace, it lasts about 30 minutes until it picks back up again. It really isn't that bad though because it offers some interesting ideas. I actually think you can skip the 1st mad max the most out of all of them. The 2nd one recaps the events of the first one at the beginning of the film quite well. Hope this helped.

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I think Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a totally awesome movie, and in my opinion Mad Max just got better 1 thru 3

Most the people I hear who had gripes with this 3rd movie hated the Ewoks in Return of The Jedi and hated Predator 2 - I will never truly understand having watched them as a kid without judgement

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Threads like this are incredibly dumb. You're going to base your opinion whether to watch a film based on what somebody writes on IMDb?

I loved 'Fury Road' so I watched all three of the Mel Gibson ones because I wanted to. Then I made up my own mind about how I liked them.

'Thunderdome' is at least better than the first 'Mad Max', no doubt in my mind about that.

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@Mississipi20
The only reason I posted this thread was because I originally thought I had to watch all three Mad Max films in order to get Fury Road. When I got to Thunderdome I was reluctant to watch it because of the rating given. I know that it's better to determine on our own whether we want to watch it the movie or not but at the same time there's nothing wrong with coming to a decision based on someone else's rating/review, I mean that's what IMDB offers- user ratings and reviews.

The thread's not necessary now because I've already watched Fury Road but I will have a go at Thunderdome, if anything, it should be a fun flick so thanks to all the posters (Herreken, Nacho-Libre, Dr-Dave-Bowman, Donuts10 and Mississipi20) ^_^

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I also like this film actually. I haven't seen any of these films since I was very young and despite adults hating on this, I quite liked it actually.

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IMO Thunderdome was the best of the Mad Max movies.

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I saw the original MM about 20 years ago & MM2 I've seen a few times. Recently bought the Quadrilogy on blu ray to see Fury Road & I'm working my way through them. I've just watched MMBT for the first time. Skip it; it's terrible.

So far:

MM 6
MM2: 7.5
MMBT: 3

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I'll update my scores since watching Fury Road...

MM: 6
MM II: 7.5
MMBT: 3
MM Fury Rd: 9

I thought it was brilliant; stunning visuals, awesome audio, the foot rarely comes off the gas & some of the action sequences are stupendous. I like Hardy's MM too, and CT is always a great watch.

Bring on Part 5!

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Don't skip this. It's great. About on par with Road Warrior, and still better than the first.

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Agree Fury Road is just *beep* awesomw

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I thought so too, and if you don't like it and are trying to put people off seeing it or care what some gorehound boo hoo'd about ~ you aren't a real Mad Max fan

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I recommend just skipping it entirely. I had decided to do so a few years ago after watching the first two Mad Max movies, then somehow forgot my decision and watched THUNDERDOME tonight and regret it.

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to get to fury road, no you don't need to take this... path.

i'd recommend seeing it just for completeness. it's a better film from a technical point of view, it's just not as intense as MM2.

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No skip Fury Road instead.

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That would also be my advice.

Fury Road is the least interesting of the lot... 1, 2, and 3 really created and populated a universe, giving it shape and form, going more and more silly over time. I also like the fact Max actually knew the old world and how he interacts with some people based on that knowledge.

Fury Road? A gigantic action scene, masterfully crafted and stuff, but close to zero world building. A few jokes about McDonald feasts and a few chrome spray and that's basically it. I seriously was bored to death and almost howled in despair in the theaters when they decide to do something that basically invalidates all the movie just before things get interesting.
Heck, the last 30 minutes or so of Thunderdome are just the same as the whole of Fury Road, only they had, back then, the good taste of not making it drag endlessly.

Mad Max 2 and 3 and the angular stones of the "tribal post-apocalyptic universe", which are and will be referenced for years and years. 1 is a weird OVNI, but I loved it a lot. Fury Road is visually nice, and that's about it. Skippable.

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Shrugn....Fury Road is the first movie of a new saga with a new take on Max so when we have 2 more movies and the new trioligy, we will have a new Mad Max world as well...these old movies doesnt even connect with Fury Road...its a reboot and Miller will for certain flesh out a new world with two more Mad Max movies.

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Exactly. Fury Road isn't even a real Mad Max film. There's just this dodgy imposter who sounds South African who is hardly in it and is a helpless pussy.
The real Mad Max: 1, 2 ... and 3 ! Mel Gibson IS Max.
For those unbiased by this internet meme age of bandwagon jumping ( listening to twats who watched the film 25 years + after they were made and have no clue of the exciting 80's zeitgeist ) or who weren't butthurt by the 3rd movie being less gory ...Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was totally different and unique.
To me it is like a long Heavy Metal Magazine story

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