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Mad Max [1979] [DVD]

DVD ~ Mel Gibson
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns
  • Directors: George Miller
  • Writers: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, James McCausland
  • Producers: Bill Miller, Byron Kennedy
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Jun 2006
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005MHN8
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,596 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised between our industrialised world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an overcharged cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society they take everything dear to Max, who then has to exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films. --Alan E Rapp, Amazon.com


DVD Description

DVD Special Features:

Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Languages in Dolby Digital 1.0 : English, French, Italian
Bonus Audio (1.0*): Original Australian Theatrical Audio Track
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian
Hearing Impaired: English, Italian

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, Mad Max On DVD With The Australian Sound Track..., 5 Dec 2001
By A Customer
What a joke that original US DVD release of Mad Max was, American english only and poor picture quality.
I've just recieved this recently released UK version and I'm very happy. You can select the original Australian sound track and the Picture and sound quality is very good ( I zoomed the picture 2x with my Toshiba DVD Player and the Picture Quality still stayed very good ). The Picture format on this DVD is Widescreen 2.35:1.
This UK release of Mad Max on DVD is worth buying...
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One Of My Favorites, 16 April 2002
I love this film, post apocolyptic(probably spelt wrong) movies is one of my favourite genres, and this fits the bill nicely. This movie shows a world where petrol is running out and society is breaking down. Bike gangs are running wild and the cops are powerless to stop them due to human rights laws whenever they do make an arrest.
I won`t reveal what happens but the ending is not full of amazing CGI graphics or vast amount of people but more centralised on characters.
I have to mention the music as well which makes the atmosphere so you really get caught up in the story, especially towards the end.
Just one dissapointment - there are no extras!!! Only reason for 4-stars, i do not consider different languages "extras" but essential for DVD`S. I usually don`t buy DVD`s without extras but my collection wouldent be complete without this film - a must buy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Aussie Classic from the late 70s, 8 Mar 2007
By Je Hoare "Joseph1980" (Gravesend, Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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Watching George Miller's directorial breakthrough again confirms one thing among many others: that this is a filmmaker with not only an excellent spatial sense but also a nice appreciation of landscapes.
This should have been as exciting a cinematic decut for the watching film world as Spielberg's or Tarantino's - whether they actually did herald Miller's arrival in the way he deserved I am too young to tell.
But what a great movie. A Fantastic marriage of cop flick and low-budget exploitationer, Miller's movie is to this genre (whatever the hell that is) what The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is to American horror.
Taking Einstein's assertion that World War IV would be fought with bows and arrows as his cue, Miller sets his movie in (we assume) a future Australia inhabited by gangs
of barbaric bikers who wage high-speed war on the country roads.
When one of their clan, the Knightrider, is killed in a high-speed prison break, his peers, led by the psychotic Toecutter, vow revenge on Max Kotanski, the one they hold responsible.
What sets Mad Max Apart from similar films is its many pleasing quirks: the bikers - like the even more primitive barbarians in part 2 - are a shrewd mix of pre-civilisation warrior and punkish, androgynous psycho.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, Great price
A good film, at a superb price, in it's original widescreen format, and with English and Australian soundtracks.
Published 3 months ago by J. Rusbridge

3.0 out of 5 stars Nowhere near as good as Mad Max 2
...Well, it isn't. This may be where the Mad Max trilogy started, but it's a long way from being as good as 2. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Grev

5.0 out of 5 stars High speed road movie that changed cinema
High speed chases, open endless roads and nomad bikers in a post-apocalyptic vision of the future. Mel Gibson is Max, a police/highway patrolman who is determined to live his life... Read more
Published 20 months ago by redmanshouts

2.0 out of 5 stars Road Kill
This is a very slow movie which seems like the script wasnt quite finished..maby i need to see the trilogy to appreciate it..but i was not impressed not very mad I say. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Lan

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Law in a World Gone Out Of Control!!!
All I can say about this cult classic is buy it as it's one of the best road movie\apocalyptic science fiction movies you will ever see and is a must in any DVD collection. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Darkstar

4.0 out of 5 stars Superbly simple
Mad Max 2 is the better film, for sure: it's bigger, grislier, and more exciting. But the original is very good not just because it explains why Max is perturbed, but because it... Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2007 by R. J. Harvey

5.0 out of 5 stars That's when a myth started of a crazy rider
The first film of the Mad Max trilogy is not a great film at all. But it is the birth certificate of a cult character, Mad Max himself. Read more
Published on 30 Jul 2007 by Jacques COULARDEAU

3.0 out of 5 stars More first draft than genuine classic
It's not altogether surprising that Mad Max got such short shrift when it came out Stateside with an unfortunate dubbing job to eliminate the `Strine accents so American... Read more
Published on 29 April 2007 by Trevor Willsmer

3.0 out of 5 stars Not mad enough
This is an interesting film, which if occasionally a bit wooden, virtually created its own genre overnight, and made Mel Gibson a star. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2006 by S J Buck

4.0 out of 5 stars Not post apocalyptic!
This film is actually set in the "near" future - almost certainly the past now :-)

It is not post apocalyptic - that refers to its sequel - but a commentary on the... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2006 by Mr. N. J. Ellis

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