Hello and welcome back to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
Since this week's theme is deserts, both hot and cold qualifies, and people usually are pretty lonely in deserts, like in America's Horse with no name, so I went theme within a theme with the original Mad Max trilogy. Because you don't want to be alone when you meet him. Please, pretend I never said that.
Mad Max (1979)
When his wife and child are killed by a motorcycle gang, Max sets outs in the Australian wastelands in search of revenge. I didn't like this one. The pacing is too fast, especially in the action sequences. It's quite tedious mostly because nothing happens until the last thirty minutes.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
After taking his revenge, Max is now a lone wanderer who cares only for himself. But things are about to change when he meet a small group of honest people. This is my favourite. Although the story is simple and Max's character suffers a little as he becomes more of an ideology than a character, the action is great and the new characters are interesting and pretty unique.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
After stumbling upon the wrong people, Max is forced to fight like a gladiator, he is later banished and decides to rebel against those people with the help of a group of abandoned children. Well, I don't think I need to say more. Not even the action is good in this one.
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