My point of view about Mad Max

[seriz]

at least, I found this article ! (And 150 more eh eh)

[Stef-Man]

Interesting article. It amazes me each time that I read a negative review of Mad Max 2 Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mad Max 2 is pure cinema. I really don't understand how a decent moviegoer can dislike it.

[seriz]

Yes but in France, for Mad Max 2, most of the reviews are good. Some critiques disliked the movie of course but nothing like the first one. For Mad Max 1, quite everybody hated the movie and some reviews are so fucking funny !

Like this one :
« Peut-être la situation est-elle effectivement plus détériorée en Australie, terre d’alcool, d’ennui et d’inculture » (quotidien de Paris 18/01/1982)
translation : " Maybe the situation is effectively more damaged in Australia, land of alcohol, boredom and lack of education "

[toecutter]

any chance of a translation into english ?

[Bubba Fat]

Well, would have been funny to translate this crap into english, but the critics apparently here had different points of view about the film. More funny: the words they're using to picture what they saw. But don't forget, it's stuff from France back in 82. A time were no one there had any notion what Australia or post apocalyptic things are.

[seriz]

There's one thing that fascinate me, it's all those critics who just saw the movie once when they wrote their article, and talk about things doesn't exists in the movie. One critic saw the head of Sprog was rolling on the road (instead of the ball), another said he was knocked out by the bikes and the sound of the machine guns ! Some other saw blood everywhere... It's interesting, because even if the critics doesn't like what they saw, they didn't undrestood, at the time, that they were under the power of the movie... like Laurent Bouzereau said in his book (Violent Movies) : « I remember people talking about the death of the baby, saying that they actually saw the infant being ripped apart by the Bikers. Of course, none of this was show in the released prints, but the power of the film and horrifying situations depicted in it led the audience to believe they sew more than they did”
With the same idea, Jean Pierre Putters, from Mad Movies, compared Mad Max to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. People saw more than what on the screen, and many disliked what they thank they saw, and blamed the movie for that. Only clever movies can do that, I think it was exactly the same for Alien.

Another funny critic from France :
"These apocalypses for comic strip can effectively impress the leather amateurs, the mildly retarded persons and the madmen of the violent. These interesting social categories still constitute, Thank God, only a minority from our place" D.J. Quotidien de Paris. January 1982

[P.F.]

Some critics of the left wing press said that MAD MAX was a fascist movie. Too stupid for understanding that the "fascists" in the movie are not the policemen but the bikers.

[seriz]

Yes some said so, linking the movie to self defense movies, and to vigilantism. But for me it's definitely not a vigilant movie, more a rape & revenge movie... Max doesn't want to save society, he just want revenge, Max isn't sick about society, like some french critic said "he's not the policeman at the service of social hygiena"... But other critics were upset because they thought the movie present a justified ultraviolence, saying that it's killing and tortures for the "good cause".

Sorry, it's not very easy for me to write in english, i'm a little rusty.

[P.F.]

Like someone said on this forum, "If I kill nazis, I commit murders, so I am like them, so we don't have to kill nazis".

In France, some critics had the same problem with THE HILLS HAVE EYES. Killing the man who wanted to eat your baby, what a shame!

These morons, I call them : "les collabos du politiquement correct".

[Bubba Fat]

As I showed the movie to a friend who is a real car nut, he interpreted Mad Max as a film about a cop in a car who wants to take revenge against an evil biker gang. Another friend of mine who is a biker, curiously saw the same film as the story about a silly biker gang that gets punished for its crimes. Can't get it!