TMR 029 – Mad Max (1979)

Total Movie Recall

Mad Max (1979)

d. George Miller

Starring: Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky Joanne Samuel as Jesse Rockatansky Hugh Keays-Byrne as Toecutter Steve Bisley as Jim Goose Tim Burns as Johnny the Boy Roger Ward as Fifi Geoff Parry as Bubba Zanetta The Interceptor, a modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT coupe

The second season of Total Movie Recall comes roaring back with a V8 engine and a newly discovered kink. Why does this film have such iconic bondage, S&M, and homoerotic wardrobe and imagery? Who cares? It looks great! Chief Fifi can be this show’s leather daddy anytime, because we watched the stone cold classic Mad Max — a film about a world on the brink of the apocalypse that has no relevance to our present circumstances whatsoever.

Absolutely none…

In a not-too-distant dystopian future, when man’s most precious resource — oil — has been depleted and the world plunged into war, famine and financial chaos, the last vestiges of the law in Australia attempt to restrain a vicious biker gang. Max (Mel Gibson), an officer with the Main Force Patrol, launches a personal vendetta against the gang when his wife (Joanne Samuel) and son are hunted down and murdered, leaving him with nothing but the instincts for survival and retribution.

Things discussed in the show: Anarchist collectives Tiger King (2020, Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin) The Last Dance (2020 documentary (Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, David Aldridge, Dennis Rodman, Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls, Dream Team) 30 for 30 documentaries Apollo 11 (2019 documentary, Todd Douglas Miller, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin) Freudian therapy Starred Up (2013 British prison crime drama film directed by David Mackenzie) Post Prison YouTube channels: Lockdown 23and1, GP- Penitentiary Life Wes Watson, Fresh Out Contagion (2011, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law) My Left Foot (1989, Daniel Day-Lewis) Doctor Sleep (2019, Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd) Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton) Happy Death Day (2017) & Happy Death Day 2U (2019) Top Gun: Maverick (2020, Joseph Kosinski, Jennifer Connelly, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer) Heist (2001, David Mamet, Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Danny DeVito) Playing Dungeons & Dragons through the Covid-19 pandemic Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase) Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland) Virtual Reality porn Nailed It (Nicole Byer, Jacques Torres) The Great British Bake Off The Platform (2019, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia) Accounting (VR game by Justin Roiland) Red Dead Redemption 2 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981, George Miller, Terry Hayes, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Lord Humungus) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985, George Miller, Terry Hayes, George Ogilvie, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence) Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult) Los Angeles high speed police chases and the militarization of American police forces Leather daddies The Passion of the Christ (2004, Mel Gibson, Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern) Apocalypto (2006, Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández) Can you separate the artist from the art? Woody Allen & Kevin Spacey Tim (1979, Piper Laurie, Mel Gibson, Alwyn Kurts) Facets in Chicago Mad Max in it’s original Australian dialog A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates) The Punisher (1989, Mark Goldblatt, Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé) The Punisher (2004, Jonathan Hensleigh, Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Samantha Mathis) Captain America (1990, Albert Pyun, Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty)

Next week: Suspiria (1977)