Ten Movies I Wish I’d Never Seen: Mad Max (#9)

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Greetings from my dinner table somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Actually, I’m in Tennessee, enjoying my trip. I’ll get into the details in future discussions, but for now it’s time for another one of those “great” movies that I saw and wish I hadn’t. Here’s today’s film. #9: Mad Max I was already tired of vigilante movies by the time this thing came along. That’s basically all we have here: Born Losers with Mel Gibson instead of Billy Jack. Oh, I’m vicious, aren’t I? No more vicious than most of the characters in this movie, from the gang-raping motorcycle gang (who also think nothing of running over Max’s wife and baby) to Max taking almost sadistic pleasure in offing these clods. As I said, the “good guy” such as he is, wins and the bad guys “get what they deserve,” but by the end of the decade I was sick of people trying to give us Dirty Harry without Dirty Harry. Maybe if Gibson had said, “Well, do you, punk?” I might have liked this movie. Mad Max Directed by George Miller Released in 1979 Here’s the main theme, by NOT THE QUEEN GUY Brian May: