peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2015 05 17 MadMax2 TheRoadWarrior

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Sun, May 17, 2015./noise/movies | Link

All the early-80s tropes: the kid, the dog, the lack of dialogue, the pointlessness of it all. Certainly superior to the original. How many dreams died on that road to Broken Hill? Most of the getups look like they're straight out of Mardi Gras. Again the stunts are awesome, but go by too fast. Arkie Whiteley is in there somewhere.