Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!peora!joel From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" Message-ID: <1299@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 10:58:13 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1299 Posted: Mon Jul 15 10:58:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:10:59 EDT References: <6299@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.movies:7052 net.sf-lovers:8698 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.