Saturday, July 9, 2016

Even Tina Turner Couldn't Save "Beyond Thunderdome"

The category is movies as awfully awful as "World War Z" and the only other movie to reach that nadir in cinematic assaults to the sensibilities has been "The Running Man" but now "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" joins that elite class of movies so astoundingly horrible they're even worse than any movie which will ever be made in the future.

Except for a fairly killer opening song from "Tina Turner," the movie went almost immediately into the toilet and it went there so deliberately it earned the prize on that basis.  While primitive Chinese people invented gunpowder for energy and gave the world fireworks, Mad Max invented pig shit for methane and made it a Hollywood star.

Well ...

The movie even rolled out a Wild West train hijacking in which the desperadoes often tried to run down the gold train with their horses.  Yep, if it was good enough for a Western then it's good enough for Mad Max to use it.  We suppose that's no cheesier than having sword fights in "Star Wars," tho.


Tina Turner gets the killin' line.  In one of the few parts of the movie which did not aggressively suck, she stands over him, holding the power to easily kill Mad Max, but she says, "Ain't we a pair, Raggedy Man."

Then she laughs and walks off.  Now that was clah-ssy.

There's a wee touch of wistful in another hopeless effort to save the movie and one of the children remarks regarding the ruined city, "Maybe they will see the lights and come back home."

Frankly, we don't think they will find their way home even if the way is painted with glow-in-the-dark neon signs.  It ain't goin' happen, Johnny Appleseed.


These movies don't consider the underground bunkers the suits used for the nuke war.  They're under the mountains in Colorado and who knows where else so the suits can wait it out until they need laborers for something or they want something to eat and maybe then they will come out again.

It seems to us here at the Rockhouse, the first responsibility on Mad Max, if he really is all that Mad, is to find those bunkers ... and flood those bitches with water until the bubbles stop coming up.

The suits are the ones who started the nuke war, right?  We didn't do it.  So don't let them back out again.

H.G. Wells told that tell a hundred years ago but he didn't get how the Morlocks got that way.

But Mad Max does.

(Mad Max:  is it ok to drown them in pig shit?)

Yes, Mad Max.  Under this circumstance, we fully endorse the cinematic exercise of drowning the suits in pig shit.

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