[topcat]

I'd have to say that The Road Warrior is THE classic and Mad Max provides the background. Max is one of my heros.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('topcat', 'I')'d have to say that The Road Warrior is THE classic and Mad Max provides the background. Max is one of my heros.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('topcat', 'I')'d have to say that The Road Warrior is THE classic and Mad Max provides the background. Max is one of my heros.

[mmasters]

The second and third one are better IMO.

[Choon]

Mad Max 2 > Mad Max 1.

the third one was the worst ever. Too many comedic/over-the-top moments for me to consider it a real doomer movie or take it seriously.

[pea-jay]

MM3 Beyond thunderdome wasnt that bad, though it was one of those movies I am glad I paid nothing to watch (Free HBO preview many years ago) and had nothing better to do.

Wouldnt make it a point to try and rent any of these flicks, personally.

[worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')oo many comedic/over-the-top moments for me to consider it a real doomer movie or take it seriously

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narco', 'S')o I finally saw Mad Max

[Choon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')oo many comedic/over-the-top moments for me to consider it a real doomer movie or take it seriousl

[katkinkate]

It's a trilogy. You have to see all three to get the whole story.
Mad Max 1 showed the start of the collapse and society starting to crack around the edges.
Mad Max 2 showed when the society totally collapsed, how people reacted. Some retreated to orderly settlements around resources and others formed roving bands of raiders trying to take the resources for themselves.
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (Max goes to Hollywood), although a totally different style than the first 2 and very "American" (from an Australian perspective), still managed to contribute by showing the beginning of a new society rising out of the ashes of the old. The raiders eventually get killed off or settle down to fleece the people in comfort. There was also the seeds of another culture in the kids.

[Newsseeker]

I liked Mad Max more as a little kid than I do now.

[TheDude]

They are definitely iconic movies, say what you will about their worth as films per se. I think even someone as sober as Montequest alludes to "Mad Max scenarios" posting here, and everyone knows what he means right off the bat. No one mentions "Canticle of Leibowitz" scenarios, although that likely will come to pass as well.
The second film was also groundbreaking for its stuntwork. And now that you've seen the first one you know why there's a member here named "Toecutter."
Light me, Johnny!

[Cynus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('topcat', 'I')'d have to say that The Road Warrior is THE classic and Mad Max provides the background. Max is one of my heros.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', ' ')Mormon?

[ohanian]

Everybody say We don't need another Hero
photo
Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the children
the last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under the fear till nothing else remains

We don't need another Hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is another life beyond the ThunderBoom

Looking for something we can rely on
There's got to be something better out there
Love and compassion, their day is coming
All else are castles built in the air
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under the fear till nothing else remains
All the children say

We don't need another Hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is another life beyond the ThunderBoom

[The_Toecutter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ight me, Johnny!

[BigTex]

Just because a movie doesn't age well doesn't mean it's not a classic. Take the Exorcist, for example, watching it today for me is pretty boring, but when it came out it was terrifying and countless horror films have borrowed from it since.
There were parts of Mad Max that are pretty cool no matter how many times I see it, like when the biker's hand got ripped off and when the Goose got cooked.
Road Warrior is definitely a better film. As I think about it, another film with a similar feel to it is Escape From New York--Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken is a lot like Max with an eye patch.
On the TV front, there are many classic shows that have not aged well at all, but I still enjoy thinking about how entertaining they were when I was a kid:

Dukes of Hazzard (taught me about exploding arrows, later perfected by Rambo)
The A Team (improvised munitions and showcase for the wimpy Mini-14)
S.W.A.T. (the coolest show ever to be on for only one season--they were like Ninja cops)
C.H.I.P.S. (anyone remember the one where Ponch delivered the baby on the dance floor of the disco?)
Salvage One (Andy Griffith and Co. build a rocket out of junk and go to the moon--later episodes have them towing icebergs to the equator and other crazy stuff--another one season show)
The Day After (TV movie about nuclear war, most people have seen it--I haven't seen it in a while, but it scared the crap out of me when I was a kid)

"That THING in there--that's not the Goose, no way."