The Road Warrior / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1982)

All roads lead to excitement for Mel Gibson's Mad Max! In a world destroyed by the ravages of nuclear war gasoline is a currency of the realm. Enter Max champion of underdog survivors living in a fuel-depot camp. Make way for him and The Road Warrior [Side A] the Apocalypse on wheels that put Gibson on the Hollywood map for keeps and ranks as one of the most mind-blowing stunt movies ever made. Our hero returns for more astonishing adventures in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [Side B]. This time Max defends the future - a group of abandoned children - and enters the gladiatorial maces-and-chainsaws combat inside Thunderdome arena. Awesome!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 012569767591 Manufacturer No: 76759 Product Description

Great Movies, ignore some reviews...

Of course it's Full Screen - it only stated it - I do not know why everyone else was surprised. The movies are absolutely great! My boyfriend recommended these (80s fan) and I was absolutely thrilled by them. Forget some of the reviews...they must have been having a bad day - it only says it's full screen and well if you've seen the movie it's a great deal to get both of the movies at a great price.
(Review by Fabiola Valadez - Rafael's Sister) August 9, 2008

hoppediz

I am a fan of those 2 dvd packs. They can be purchased at attractive prices and are space saving at home, for those who like to collect films.
Mad Max 2 and 3 -both - show that a movie does not need Asian fight techniques, kick boxing and kung fu fighting to be interesting, fast and thrilling. It is a solid end time theme with no modern fight inputs and also rarely nowadays: No blood is floating through the films and you don't even miss it. I also like the modern horror and action thriller, but if you see too many of them at a time I think that the way they are made is quite enervating sometimes. That's why I think that Mad Max is a nice vacation from the usual twenty first century standards where blood spills all over, people stay in the air kicking for hours and all you can hear is the f... word. Brilliant young Mel Gibson guarantees that the spectator has a real great time. Fine!
June 28, 2008

Double Feature Release

Yes, it is true Warner Bros. botched this dvd by releasing it in full screen format. The Road Warrior is a classic, and these films probably deserve the sort of attention MGM gave to Mad Max 1. I think we can all agree the studios have no friggin' clue what the fans want.
However, I bought this double feature for under ten dollars. So what if it's junk? It's under ten bucks! No skin off my back.
Also, may I be so bold to say that a part of me believes these films to be, dare I say, even better in this sloppy, scratchy full screen format. I mean, regardless of their legendary cult status, and despite my own personal love for the post-apocalypse, these are schlock films. That doesn't mean they aren't great, because they are, but perhaps they are best viewed in circumstances and formats that are less than stellar. I think of these films as zooted up B-Movies, sort of the way John Carpenter was making some of his films in the late 70's and early 80's. Or maybe even Spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. When I bought my special editions of those great Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns, I found that they had added footage I didn't give a damn about, disrupting the flow of the film, and additional new and improved sound effects. I don't want new sound effects! I want the old sound effects. The ones that sound terrible and completely unreal with all their echoing and ricocheting sounds. That is what makes them what they are-- superbly unpolished, and vintage. I would actually hate to see them do this with the Mad Max series, though I think it may be inevitable now that I see a 4th film is in the works.
Perhaps, someday, Warner Bros. will get it right and release a decent box set collection for these films, complete with bonus features galore. Until that time, this set will do. Remember, after all, it is cheap. You pay for what you get. And that ain't bad. April 26, 2008

The road warrior

sequal to madmax loved it ever since i saw it for the first time. I watch it every other week or so cause its so exciting but still believable ITS A EXCELLENT MOVIE February 13, 2008

Fantastic

I had alot of fun watching.Considering that I'm in Iraq it mad me feel like I was at home. November 3, 2007

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