Quickie post before bed:
Watched Mad Max tonight–very disappointed, even though I know it was made on a shoestring budget. The dialogue, the music, the pacing, the camera work; it was all just wrong and disjointed. Like those movies from the thirties and forties, when directors were still kind of figuring out how to adapt stage pacing and dialogue to the big screen. It just felt off. Corinne didn’t even bother finishing it.
Anyway, the plot of the movie is familiar: Upright, respectable man loses loved ones to thugs, gets a steely glint in his eye, and goes on a rampage.
It’s a common plot arc for action movies, to be sure, but the funny thing about it w/r/t Mad Max is that it’s the same plot as all of Mel Gibson’s other blockbuster action films. Let’s face it, Braveheart and The Patriot were the same movie, and both of them follow the exact formula of Gibson’s first big hit.
Wonder how many millions he’s made off of making the same movie thrice…
