Die or I’ll Kill You.

I watched Mad Max last night.. I haven’t seen it since I was so young, its possible I’ve never seen it at all. I could only really remember the scene at the end with the hand cuffs.

I’m probably going to get some film lovers (especially the pretentious, band-wagon-jumping ones) angry about this next sentence but hey ho… It’s not actually that good is it?

Because it was the first time I’ve watched it with an adult brain, capable of understanding a plot, I was sat there thinking, “okay it’ll get going in a minute.. Wait a second, some gay bikers have come along and started kissing now a Gay police chief called Fifi is watering plants in leather trousers. What the fuck”?

I know it was made in 1979 but its made using 1950’s production rules. There’s so many dodgy editing and acting bits in it. And what’s with the weird dialogue audio layer that looks badly lip-synced in post production. If some media studies rat-faced cunt tells me its an “intentional throw back because the main character sympathises with Angels With Dirty Faces because he’s like an Angel and has a dirty Australian Face and the low-angled shots in the scene introducing the anti-hero would give this away to anyone familiar with the media studies film theory of ‘Búll-Shít’”.

It’s just an alright film. Surprised to learn that George Miller directed Happy Feet though. I wonder if it’s got a large police polar bear in chaps or maybe some evil emperor (penguins) wanking each other off?