Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Viper Moglord First ''post-apocalyptic'' movie I've ever seen. I wasn't interested in this genre so much but this movie is really cool. Movie presents a world in which oil resources have been nearly exhausted. This has resulted in constant energy shortages and a breakdown of law and order, society has crumbled & cops are struggling with violent motorcycle gangs. Our protagonist, Max, is a notorious police officer in taking care of road-bums. Later on, after some events, he claims he's slowly being dragged to the madness that he's been fighting against & if he keeps doing this job, he will be one of this maniacs.Movie has a really low budget ($350,000) but it holds up with it's original story (Yes, this was 1979 so it's pretty original) & nice cinematography. Acting? Ehh... I think Mel Gibson's acting was pretty good & if we consider that Max is the main focus of the movie, I wouldn't complain about the acting skills of the supporting actors.Quite good & enjoyable. Just don't expect this movie to give you a meaning for your life.9/10

sol- Targeted by a motorcycle gang after killing their leader during a dangerous highway pursuit, an Australian police officer finds himself torn between taking down the gang and simply running away in this popular action thriller. While set in the "near future", 'Mad Max' oddly does little to capitalise on this with 1970s cars, technology and clothes the whole way through. The middle section also tends to sag with too much time dedicated to Max and his wife and too little time spent on the antagonists of the tale. The opening chase sequence is excellent though, especially with the way we are only slowly introduced to Max with scattered shots of various body parts before we finally see him full-on. The final twenty minutes or so are very powerful too, with the near complete absence of dialogue in these last few scenes rendering them all the more memorable. The lack of dialogue acutely captures how Max has become reduced to acting on animal-like instincts and impulses, unquestionably scarred by his experiences, and the (mostly one-sided) final conversation really resonates. And yet, while beginning and ending on strong notes, it is hard to overlook the inferiority of the film's middle section. It is entirely understandable why George Miller and his writing team would want to flesh out Max's marriage, self-doubting and ruminations about leaving the police force, but they are never half as interesting as where they all lead: namely to a character so twisted with hurt, pain and anguish that doubt looms as to how heroic he actually is.

Tweekums Set in a not too distant future where law and order is breaking down and murderous biker gangs roam the roads of rural Australia in the search for thrills and fuel. Standing against them are the men of the Main Patrol Force. After 'Mad' Max Rockansky chases a gang member until he has a fatal crash the MPF find themselves targeted by the gang; they leave his partner, and best friend, horrifically burned and Max decides he has had enough. He heads off with his wife and child but their troubles are far from over; they run into the gang again with tragic consequences. With nothing left to lose Max hunts down the gang.The fact that this was a low budget film is pretty obvious although it works well with what it has. The motorcycle gang is suitably unpleasant although at times they play up their 'madness' just a bit too much. Mel Gibson does a solid job in the role that launched him as a major Hollywood action star and the rest of the cast are decent enough. No one will be too surprised at the general ways it ends but Max's final confrontation with one of the gang is one of the most memorable in any film and has been copied more than once. There is a degree of nastiness of course; the gang are cruel and the way Max treats that gang member is fairly sadistic… even if few viewers will have any sympathy for him. Overall a solid revenge movie; just don't expect the large scale of the big budget sequels.

slightlymad22 It is easy to forget, not that long ago Gibson was one of the kings of Hollywood.  He was so loved that even if he made a poor movie, his hoards of fans always came out in force, and it wouldn't flop. Then came the meltdowns. His fans and seemingly most of his friends deserted him (a few publicly said positive things about him) Hollywood blackballed him, and his career was seemingly over as many casual movie fans can't look at the man anymore without seeing a totally vile, despicable human being. Yet somehow, he could be looking an Oscar nomination for best director soon. So I thought I would look back at Mel Gibson's roller-coaster career. Starting with Mad Max Plot In A Paragraph: As society crumbles around him, a vengeful police officer (Gibson) attempts to stop a vicious motorcycle gang.I outright do not like this movie, I love the final scene, and the preceding 20 minutes are OK, but getting there is not worth the effort. Watching this now, I never would have believed Gibson would grow old in the business.