Mad Max 2
The world was always about to end in the 80's. I was certain we'd be nuked by The Warsaw Pact* and was very bitter because I'd never had sex. Thankfully, such unpleasantness was avoided. (The nuclear holocaust, cheeky.)
In "Mad Max" Mel Gibson is a lone vigilante who emerges after such a holocaust to go after an Australian motorbike gang (the same as a regular motorbike gang, only more of them have appeared in "Neighbours").
In MM2 he comes across an oil refinery under siege by the remnants of Sigue Sigue Sputnik who are led by a chap in a hockey mask called "The Humongous". (Humongous What is never made clear, but he's awfully popular.)
Max helps the oil refinery dudes by leading a convoy to escape, hotly pursued by maniacal hordes on trucks, cars, motorbikes, pogo sticks, a milk float and a man playing the Benny Hill Chase music on a trombone.
Actually, I made that up but the chase is edge of the seat stuff as the baddies launch themselves at Max's Big Rig which is kitted out like a mobile fortress.
Up there with "The Terminator" in terms of influence, this hasn't dated at all badly. 7/10.
* For those too young to remember, "The Warsaw Pact" were a synthesiser band who had hits with "We Are Motionless Germans", "We Are Still Motionless Germans" and "Actually I Think That One At the End Might Be Dead".
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