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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
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Subject: Re: "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 10:58:13 EDT
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        While I didn't like 'Beyond Thunderdome' as much as 'The  Road
        Warrior'  that  is apparently not a universal reaction.  I was
        watching Siskel and Ebert last night and they were  very  high
        on  the picture.  They actually liked it better than 'The Road
        Warrior'.  They liked they way Miller brought some  new  ideas
        to the picture instead of making a straight sequel.

        That last chase sequence struck me as being too much like  the
        one in 'The Road Warrior'.

	I was bothered by a couple of things in the picture:

        1.   Didn't  the  earlier  pictures  say   that   civilization
        collapsed  because  of  an  energy shortage, with perhaps some
	help by fighting over the  remaining  energy  resources?  This
        movie  says  that  it was because of Nuclear Warfare.  I don't
        remember any point being made of latent radioactivity  in  the
        earlier pictures.  The only thing I can think of is that there
        were some isolated bombing during the spasms of civilization's
        collapse  and  that  Max has wandered into an area near one of
        them.

        2.  The children that find Max in the desert are too young.  I
        would  think  that  the  collapse  of civilization happened at
        least 10 and maybe 20 years ago,  but  some  of  the  children
        Can't  be  older  than 5 or 6.  And unless I missed something,
        all of them were born before the collapse.  The Feral  Kid  of
        the  Road  Warrior  was older than them and I'm pretty sure he
        was born not long the collapse.