🎥 Mad Max (1979): ⭐️⭐️
I don’t remember how long ago I last watched this, but it’s interesting watching this now, particularly with the more recent two (Fury Road and Furiosa) much more in my mind. Those are so woman-focused and nonstop, that going back to where it started, where very little happens for much of the film and women exist almost entirely as victims, is rather jarring. It’s most interesting to me as kind of a prologue to the rest of the Mad Max stories — in today’s franchises, it would be the origin story that no-one really asked for but the studio felt compelled to make, only in this case, it was actually the first one made. I can’t really say I like it, even, but I can see the impact it had and respect its place in kicking off a franchise that has just kept improving over time.